J>iale-wide Good Roads Day Finds Thousands at Work on Penna. Highways HARRISBURG llsl§fßi TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 119 REPUBLICANS ASK MORE ALLOWANCES FOR U. S. NAVY Denounce $241,000,000 Naval i Appropriation Bill as Wholly j Inadequate W A N T DREADNAUGHTS Urge More Battle Cruisers; j Full Number o£ Men and Greater Speed in Building By Associated Press Washington, May 25. Republican members of the House Naval Affairs Committee in a minority report sub- J mitted to the House to-day denounced the $241,000,000 naval appropriation' bill reported by the majority as wholly i inadequate and urged more liberal al lowance to make the United States Navy second greatest in the world. The minority charged that the ma jority report ignored opinions of naval experts and recommendations of Secretary Daniels and was based on a compromise between interests which wanted no additional naval protec tion and those which wanted only a slight increase. Want More Speed The Republicans recommended that! the bill provide for two dreadnaughts; omitted by the reported measure, six | battle cruisers instead of five, fifty j coast defense submarines instead of' twenty, $3,500,000 for aircraft in stead of $2,000,000, still greater In crease in personnel, creation of a na tional defense council, and means for rushing the building program by using more than one shift of workmen 1 daily. Ask For Dreadnaughts The report suggested that the two j dreadnaughts be built according to i plans now ready for the California I and Tennessee, so that all might I>o j finished simultaneously. The bill, should provide, the report declared for the full number of men required on a peace basis, and should authorize] the President to order at his discretion enlistment of such additional men as 1 the navy might need, not to exceed the 38.7H2 recommended by the gen eral board. "We have 72 submarines built and building." said the minority report. ; "The lowest estimate of our require ments by any naval authority is 150."] The general board advised expendi ture of $7,000,000 on the aeronautical service, the report pointed out. Com- i menting on the proposal for a defense ' council, it said: "Experience in modern wars has all other great nations to establish such a council to insure unity, con-; tinuity and co-operation in art j branches of national defense." The minority declared the omission! of dreadnaughts in the reported hill : "will further increase the existing shortage of powerful fighting ships of j the dreadnaught type." Shakespeare Tercentenary to Be Celebrated at Academy The familiar Ben Greet Players on Saturday evening of this week will ' give local color to the Shakespeare ! tercentenary celebration which is be ing widely observed through the coun- i try when they present "The Taming ! of the Shrew" on the campus of the [ Harrisburg Academy. The perform ance will be in the hands of a capable j company and a special stage twenty by twenty-five feet is being erected on the steep slope which runs down from tlii-- tennis courts to the running track. ' The erection of this stage will meet; the difficulty which has heretofore existed in the way of inconvenience to j the audience, and a splendid view of j the stage will thus be given to every | spectator. Green boughs on either ,;ide i will provide a fitting background lor the atmosphere of the play. Tickets tire on sale at Gorgas' drug store. BUYS 8 MARKET SQUARE S. S. Pomeroy Sells Former Store 1 Property to David Kaufman Sale of 8 South Market Square by 1 P. S. Pomeroy, the grocer, to David Kaufman, proprietor of the Kaufman Underselling Stores, was announced to day. The consideration was withheld. Prior to the disastrous fire of more I than a year ago the first floor of No. 8 j was occupied by Mr. Pomeroy. who i owned the building. When Mr. Kauf- 1 man undertook to rebuild his store* lie leased the whole Pomeroy building after Mr. Pomeroy had removed his business directly across the Square. , The closing of the deal to-day gives ' Mr. Kaufman possession of both ' Nos. fi and 8 South Market Square. THE WEATHER For flurrl*lnirj£ nml vicinity: Fair nn(l Friday i mariner to nljrlit. For RdMtern Pfnimylvanln: Fair to nnil Ft'hlayt tvnrmer to night In fconth portion: Kentle wfiterly to Monthwesterly wlnda. River All of tlie SuMtfiielinniin river ftjrstem nre now falling nnd T*III continue to full, except the mnin river, the tipper portion of which will begin to fall thli af ternoon or to-night, nml the lower portion Friday. \ ntngc of about FL.I feet IN Indlented for Hnrrl*bnrg Friday morning. General Conditions The Southern flintnrhnnee l»n* pann ed off nenwnrd nnd the rninn have I cenned In the \oy for Wall Paper Com pany. was struck by an automobile at Front and South -streets, shortly after 7 o'clock this morning and knocked unconscious. He was hurried to the Harrisburg hospital by the driver of the machine. The youth has a prob able fracture of the skull. Hospital authorities said that they did not learn the name of the driver of the machine, and the autoist did not report to police headquarters. Al i though the police are endeavoring to I learn who was in the auto, Superin tendent of Detectives Windsor said at noon that the men would be handi capped because the hospital author ities did not obtain the information required by law in accident cases. Parents of Lambert Girl to Be Summoned For Trial By Associated Press Waukegan, 111., May 25. Counsel 'for William Orpet, on trial here under a charge of murdering Marion Lam bert, his sweetheart, announced to day that the parents of the girl had been subpenaed in the case. They are , expected to testify regarding the girl's j mental condition just before her death, when, it has been asserted she | was despondent. i | It was said the defense would at tempt to show strong presumption of I suicide Four Republican Candidates Open Chicago Headquarters Chicago, May 25. Headquarters for four candidates for the Republican ' nomination for President were opened in Chicago to-day. They are: Elihu Root, of New York; Senator John W. Weeks, Massachusetts: Charles W. ] Fairbanks, Indiana; Theodore, E. Bur | ton. ' ihio WIDOW l>l(.s \CCORDING TO ORDERS \\l> EI\I>S 5t4,000 ork. Pa.. May 25.—Mrs. William 11. Wholf, whose husband was killed three weeks ago by a Pennsylvania ! Railroad train, yesterday found $14,000 | in notes and certificates of deposit in I a paint bucket in a corner of the cel lar of the house where her husband had often told her to dig in event of his sudden death. HOLD KECK I.ESS DRIVER William B. Barton, aged .19. of j Thompsontown, a fireman on the | Pennsylvania railroad, was struck last ; night and seriously injured at Reily and Wallace streets, by an automobile (driven by Amos Mason, colored, who i has been arrested on a charge of ag jgravated assault and battery. Rarton is in the Harrisburg hospital suffering from a fractured leg and a probable | fracture of the skull. His condition is j critical. It is said Mason did not j sound his horn. MAYOR SIiKJHTI.Y BETTER ! According to attending physicians, | the condition of Mayor E. s. Meals who is seriously ill in the Harrisburg I hospital, is - slightly improved to-day j and he is resting comfortably, after .spending a quiet night. Mrs. George | B. Kunkel and Park A. Deckard, the ! Mayor's physicians, said to-day that although he is not out of danger yet, he has a good chance for recovery, if he is kept perfectly quiet, and ' not j worried. Members of the family only .were admitted again to-day to him. OIJ> OI.OItY OVER roiIRTHOITSB i Old Glory will fly regularly from the Dauphin County Courthouse each day henceforth. according to Custodian j Charles R. Peters to-day. (In holidays ; three flag* will lie displayed, one from j each of the portico windows. MAI RESTRICT i si; or f. \s London May 25. Drastic restric j tions ir. the use. of gasoline especially | for pleasure cars, are forecast in the 1 morning nswspayera to-day. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1916. GOVERNOR BRUMBA UGH ROLLS UP SLEEVES AND WO Bji^l - Bj&| -\, -- ,-A-' " : : *!:W : -- K: ; ■"," ~ '■-■■■ ■". - ; - :^- ... ■ ':- : Smj£p*'-- % ' v *t '■' '*?Z J " - . '-■■ - . ■"•* *' m? JtN! Technical High school To-night— "How to Get More Mileage Out of Your Car," Copie.-^-Advertiaeaieat, MILLERSBURG IS FULL OF FLOWERS Upriver Town Participates in Telegraph's Windowbox Campaign "Millersburg certainly is particlpat- 1 ing in the Telegraph's floral window box Campaign on a wonderful scale," declared V. <3rant Eorrer, , Assistant Park Superintendent, to-day. "•Really, I was astounded at the beau tiful display of flowers and vines in the windowhoxs while 1 was in that hust-; ling little town last evening. Business houses and residences alik.- were all abloom with the wealth of floral col oring. "Naturally I remarked about it," went on the park official. " 'Apparent- ; ly you folks read the Telegraph here,' I said to one- of the school board of- i flclals 'Surely your town has taken to the windowbox idea.' 'You're right,' [Continued on Page ll] . I ; "Will Come Back and Win Pennant," He Says; Dies 11 "I'll come back and win the pen ! nant for you," said William F. Dun bar. pitcher for Team No. 3 of the Knola Shop League who was stricken with typhoid fever a week aero. His teammates were present when he I started for the Harrisburg Hospital, I and wished their fellow plaver a I speedy .recovery. Dunbar died this I morning at that institution. All Enola is in mourning for this I young twirler. He was 19 years of I age and worked in the repair shops. Baseball at Knola has been suspended | | until after the funeral which takes i place Sunday morning. Pennsvlvania ' Railroad employes, members of the > Mutual Beneficial Association, Relief Department and P. O. 8. of A., will at- ' tend. The P. R. R. Athletic Associa tion will meet to-morrow and take action on the death of Pitcher Dun-' 1 bar. AFTER WIRE TAPPERS By Associated Press New York, May 25.—Fresh legal proceedings, both criminal and civil, were promised to-day as the outcome of the wire tapping operations. Lis- : j trict Attorney Swann said that Fred- i | crick Seymour, the attorney, had con- ! ; sented to sign a complaint which ! I would enable the puhlic prosecutor to | ask the grand jury for an indictment against William J. Burns, the de tective, for unlawfully entering Sey j mour's office. Mayor Mitchel threat ens criminal action against prominent Catholic clergymen, whom he accuses | jof conspiring to pervert Justice an;l interfere with the State investigation i j of Catholic charitable Institutions; | TO OOURT-MARTIATi GUARDSMEN I By Associate/! Press Washington. D. C„ May 2 s.—Sec retary Baker announced to-day that j the Ilfi members of the Texns N'a-i tional Guard who failed to present j themselves for muster into the Fed eral service will be brought to court | martial immediately under the present i Llaw. Executive With Highway Offi cials Inspecting Results in Three Counties; Thou- I sands on the Job Governor Brumbaugh and a par'y of highway officials arc spending "Good j Roads Day" in Dauphin, Perry and ! Cumberlflnd counties, actually work- ; ing on the roads at various places and j inspecting the work done by the sov- ' eral thousand farmers and automobile 1 enthusiasts who have responded to tho i Governor's proclamation in Central j Pennsylvania. They left Harrisburg in several big touring cars this morn- ! ing and will lunch by the roadside, j returning this evening. The Governor, attired in old clothes | and heavy shoos, was first to alight ! when his automobile reached Duck- j now, just above Harrisburg, where 'he| Motor Club of Harrisburg had a drag > at work putting North Sixth street into shape. He went over the work care - ; fully, congratulated the club on its tn- j terprise and then shot away toward I [Continued on Pago 3] LAN FROM EGYPT' BOBS UP AT TRIAL Waite Defense Seeks to Prove Dentist Was Insane When Deed Was Committed New York, May 25. The fight to save Dr. Arthur Warren Waite from the electric chair began to-day before Justice Shearn in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court. The prosecu tion closed its case yesterday, and this morning counsel for the defense mar shalled alienists and relatives of the accused man to prove that he was in sane when ho killed his wealthy fath er-in-law. John E. Peck, of Grand Ra pids, Mich., by giving his repeated doses of arsenic. It is understood that the defense will make no claim that Waite is insane at the present time. An effort will be [Continued on Pago 11] TOSTEELTONVIA SOUTH SECOND ST. Advantages, Present and Fu ture, of New Route Discussed Before Viewers The possibilities of South Second i street as the main traffic artery to Steelton and the additional advantages that would follow with the elimination | of the grade crossing at Paxton street [Continued on Parfc tl] Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Is Wed to Jack Clifford By Associated Press New York, May 25. Evelyn Nes bit Thaw, divorced by Harry k. Thaw last month and Jack Clifford, her : dancing partner, returned here last ; night after a hasty trip to Baltimore and announced that they had been ; married in Maryland. BRIICKER SHORT »7«« According to a dispatch received here from Lancaster, B. F. Davis, re venue collector of the Ninth revenue district, has refunded to the govern ment #798, shortage of William S. j Brlcker, deputy collector in this city, j who resigned last week, and according ! ; to friends is now on a farm in Frank- j i lin county to regain his health. O. J. ! Swope, of the Lancaster office, is in : charge at present in the Hajrisburg [offlQfc . j, CAN NOT ANCHOR BOATHOUSES ON CITY FRONT STEPS City Solicitor Declares "No One May Monopolize Any Portion" of Water Front TO FORMULATE RULES Livery Owners Will Likely Have to Ferry Patrons From Wall Floating boathouses cannot per manently be anchored immediately next to the River Front Wall between South and Paxton streets. City Com missioner E. Z. Gross, superintendent of parks and public property has been advised by City Solicitor D. S. Scitz. Before deciding definitely on the question of anchorage location Com missioner Gross will obtain the opin ion of Park Expert Warren H. Man ning after which regulations covering [the problem will be framed accord-' 1 ingly. As the restrictions cited by Mr. Seitz covers only the stretch between j South and Paxton the "Harris grant" the city can regulate the j [Continued on Page 3] Seek Fourth Rowdy Who Attacked County Detective County Detective James T. Walters, and John W. Sloathour, of 587 South ! Front street, were so badly injured I last night that they had to be taken j Ito the Harrisburg hospital, when the, officer attempted to arrest four men j for destroying plants in front of the! (Sloathour residence. Three of the four men were arrested and the police are now searching for the fourth. The tight occurred at the j Front street subway under the Cum ' berland Valley railroad tracks. Roth j j Detective Walters and Mr. Sloathour i have deep gashes of the head and bad cuts about the face. I.oren Wolfe, : William E. Hein and Samuel Hand -1 shaw were arrested as three of the ifour who participated in the attack on the two men, using bricks and heavy; clubs. Chief of Police J. Thomas Zeil has already instructed all officers whether !in plain clothes or uniform to keep a' , dose watch for any one who may be found destroying or taking flowers or j ! plants from yards and porches. A I | number of complaints have been re ceived during the last several days 'and arrests may follow. ? Saratoga Springs, N. Y., May 25.—The Methodist Gen- 1 I eral Conference refused to-day by a votr: of 435 to 360 to re- K 9 move from the discipline of the church the clause which pro- V 1 vides the penalty of expulsion for church members who play I £ cards, dance and attend the theater. £ T VIGOROUS NOTES IN ALLIES HANDS { 1 Washington, May 25.—Vigorous language, equaling 1 almost that employed in the last communication to Germany ! I on the submarine issue, is understood to characterize the • > T notes delivered to the British and French embassies here ' 1 yesterday protesting against interference with neutral mails i on the high seas. 1 I F. & M. TO VOTE INCREASED DEBT , i ? —Stockholders of the Harrisburg Foundry f Machine Works will meet July IS, to act on an increase ' 9 . 0,000 in the indebtedness of the company to $600,000. 1 cls this afternoon refused to give any information . ..in, rea-;o:is for the increase. ' ! <» HURLS CROCK AT WOMAN 1 j Harrisburg. Mrs. Lizzie Grundcrman, 657 Briggs I street, was badly cut about the head this afternoon by her < uncle, Jack Welsh, in a family row according to the police. Welsh hurled a crock at the woman, I ELECTRICIAN SHOCKED i Harrisburg. James B. Suavely, aged 33, Enhaut, , electrician for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was severely shocked this afternoon at Enola. Another workman was ' hurt on the same pole yesterday. f ADMITS STEALING CAR « I Harrisburg.—Followng his arrest, by Lancaster police ' on charges of stealing clothes, John J Henry confessed to-day | K to having stolen the touring car of S. B. Rutherford, Pax tang from in front of the Colonial Theater. , > STATE LEAGUE GETS ANOTHER BUMP Harrisbifrg.—A dispatch from Reading this afternoon, ( announces the withdrawal of Hank Ramsey and his team ' from the State League. Leo Groom said he had another j , team for Reading. 1 ' MARRIAGE LICENSES ~« * j i'beMtvr JS. Myern nut! EnlHot Gertrude Flrkfi, tttcelton. j. II W' »I I II All w.fS CITY EDITION 14 PAGES GERMANY WILLING FOR U. S. TO BE PEACE MEDIATOR Berlin Papers Regard Presi dent's Speech at Charlotte of Prime Importance ATTITUDE HKCEP TI V E Little. Doubt of Readiness to Consider Tender of Good Offices Rerlln, May 25. —A wireless dispatch (from the United States giving the sub stance of President Wilson's speech at Charlotte, X. in which he referred lo the possibility of American media tion in the war, is given the place of honor In the morning papers. The af ternoon editions return to the subjec' and their comments, together with th< ; wide interest shown by the German public, show how Important this new lis regarded here. ' Though definitely stated nowhere. ! there is little doubt that Germany i: ! ' willing; to consider a tender of good offices to inaugurate peace nesotia Jtions. The former attitude in the highest quarters tliut America lmd din 'qualified herself as a peace mediator on account of her shipment of muni tions to the ill lies has now licanged. If President Wilson can hold out an> tangible possibilities that peace ma! result through his mediation, German. [Continued on Page S] Assert Women Voters Will Beat Presiden. Philadelphia, May 26.—Philadelpni. •on\oys to the woman suffrage Statei lat a lun<-heon given in their hono' yesterday at the Adelphia said tha' the Demorcatic party has had an op portunity to "make a hit" with ch" suffragists of the United States, i>u' that it has failed to take advantage o' i its opportunity. Accordingly, the: said, the affections and the votes o r a majority of 4,000,000 women voter are lo be turned agninst it in the com ing presidential election. PRISONER ATTKMITS SUICIPK Howard Brown, a prisoner in th I county jail being held for court oi a charge of cruelty to animals, at > tempted suicide last night ir. his eel by drinking iodine.