French in Violent All Night Fighting Force Germans Back From Verdon HARRISBURG ®Sl§l!i TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 126 GERMAN HIGH SEA FLEET MEETS BRITISH IN GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE OF HISTORY Kaiser's High Sea Force Meets English in North Sea and Sinks One of Their Lat est Dreadnoughts, Two Battle Cruisers, Two Ar mored Cruisers and Numer ous Smaller Craft, While a Large Number of British Battleships Are Damaged by Gunfire and Torpedo BATTLE RAGES FOR ENTIRE DAY AND NIGHT Craft of Great Britain Sent to Bottom Are the Battleship Warspite, Battle Cruisers Queen Mary and Indefatig able and Smaller Cruisers of Achilles Type; Germans Lost Battleship, Pommern, Cruiser Fraienlob and Several Torpedoboats Berlin, June 2. Germany's high sea fleet met the .main part nf the British fleet in battle in the Northeastern section of the North Sea on May 31. Tn the heavy" engagement which followed the German fleet, ac cording to a report issued by the German Admiralty sank the British battleship W arspite. the British battle cruisers Queen Mary and Indefatigable, two armored cruisers, believed In be of the Achilles type, and a large number of warships of smaller tonnage. Several other British battleships are reported to have been damaged, including the bat tleship Marlborough, which was struck by a torpedo. Ihe German losses are an nounced as the battleship Pom mern, sunk by a torpedo; the cruiser Wiesbaden, sent to the bottom by gunfire; the protected cruiser Frauenlob reported miss ing and several torpedoboats which did not return to port. London, June 2.—The British Admiralty announced to-day that a battle had occurred in the North Sea between the British and Ger man fleets, in the course of which a number of German warships were sunk. The British battle cruisers Queen Mary and Indefatigable and the battlecruiser Invincible were sunk. The cruisers Defense and I THE WEATHER For Ilarrishiirg mill vicinity I Part ly cloudy weather to-night mid Saturday, probably thuiidermhow er«| warmer to-night. For Knutern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy to-night and Saturitny, probably thundershowera; warmer to-night { fresh to strong south winds. River The Sicxiuehanna river and prob ably all Its branches will fall slowly or reiaaln nearly atatlon ary. A stage of about 4.« feet In Indicated for Hurrlsli'irs Satur day morning. fieneral Conditions The renter of the Wenteru ilisltirh ancr ha* moved from Kansas to W iM'onalii during the Inst twenty four hours, enuslng ahowera and thunderntorms In the Lake Re gion. Mlsnnurl and Upper Missis sippi valleya and scattered show era In Utah, Wyoming anil Wash ington. Temperature: K a. m., IU. Sunt Rises, 4i,lH a. M.i sets. 7:28 p. m. Moon: First quarter, January K, •s:.">n p. m. River stage: 4.9 feet above low water mark. Ve*terday's Weather Highest temperature, 75. I.owest temperature. SO. Mean temperature, Wi. Normal temnerature. H7. )■ " j Have the Harrisburg Telegraph Follow You If you are leaving the city, if only for a day, do not fail to have the Harrisburg Telegraph follow you. It is the only way you can keep informed about home affairs. The Telegraph mailed to any address in ♦he United States or Canada is the same as when de livered to your home, six cents a week. Address may be changed as often as desired. BY CARRIRR <1 CENTS A WEEK. SINfiI.E COPIES 2 CENTS. WEMBEBS OP OiiPBT JUW O/VK SER.V/CG. The tedious work of selecting a jury to try W.H.Orpet fo rtlie murder of Marian Lambert is progressing slowly. This photograph shows selected members and court attendants amusing themselves by playing cards and listening to a phonograph while waiting for the additional members to be named. Black Prince also were sunk, and the cruiser Warrior was disabled. The German losses arc described as serious. The announcement says two German battle cruisers were sunk and two German light cruisers were disabled and probably sunk. Battle Was Not Fought to Determine Mastery of Seas From the advices thus fur received, it would appear that the greatest na val battle of history has taken place. Never before have two naval tones of such magnitude a? the British and German high sea ileets engaged in combat. Bui apparently the battle was not fought out to a point to deter mine mastery of the seas, for the losses, serious as they are reported to have been, will not impair the strength of either fleet to a vital extent. The scene of battle was in the east ern waters of the North Sea. It is probable that the German fleet was on one of the excursions into the North Sea which it has taken from time to time during the war and met, whether or not by design, with the British fleet. One Hundred Mile- From Base Skagerrak is an arm of the North j Sea between Norway and Denmark. The point referred to in the official J German statement as Horn Riff prob- I ably Is thp reef off the horn on the I southwestern extremity of Denmark. ! From the reef to Helgoland, the main German naval base in the North Sea, is about 100 miles. News of the engagement was held i back by the British authorities, pos i sibly pending the return home of the j fleet, and the first word received of the j ba'ttle came by wireless from Berlin, by which means the Germans are able to escape the censorship over cable lines. British l,osl Dreadnaught According to Berlin, the sea fight resulted disastrously for the British, who lost one of their latest dread i naughts, two battle cruisers, two ar mored cruisers and numerous smaller craft, while a large number of British I battleships were damaged. The Germans admit only the loss of one battleship and a small cruiser, while the fate of one cruiser and of some torpedo boats is unknown. The British dreadnalight sunk was the Warspiie, of the Queen Elizabeth class, a 27,000-ton vessel. The battle cruisers were the Queen Mary and Indefatigable. The British battleship Marlborough is reported to have been hit by a torpedo. German warships rescued parts of the crews of the sunken British sea fighters. It is declared that only two of the crew of the battle cruiser Inde fatigable were saved. The German battleship lost was the Pom mem, a 13,000-ton vessel, and the cruiser the fate of which is uncertain is the Frauenlob, of 2.G72 tons. The small cruiser sunk was the Wiesbaden. The British destroyers Tipperary. ;Turbulent, Fortune, Sparrowhawk and i Ardent were lost and six others have 1 not yet been accounted for. The Ad miralty announcement says no British battleships or light cruisers were sunk. German Admiralty Gives Oat Statement on Fight Py Associated rress Berlin. June 2. (By Wireless) —The (triman Admiralty an nounced to-day t-liaat the German high sea fleet on May 31 had en countered a British fighting fleet. T.hc engagement whieli developed, the admiralty says, was favorable to the Germans. The battle con tinued all night. The (ii'rnwn Admiralty an nounces that the large British battleship Warspitc, the battle cruisers Queen Mary and Inde fatigable and two armored cruisers were destroyed. It Is also reported that a small British cruiser, a number of tor pedolxmt destroyers and torpedo boats were sunk. Suffer From Gunfire The German Admiralty statement .adds that by observation It was es- j (Continued on Page l&J HARRISBURG, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1916. ORPET JURY KILLING TIME IN SLOW TRIAL TORNADO BLOWS TRAIN OFF TRACK Two Women Killed and Ten Persons Injured in Another Railway Accident Bloomlngton. 111., June 2. A tornado blew the Chicago-St. Louis fust mail train on the Wabash rail road from the tracks near Saunemln, Ills., early to-day, injurying 18 persons ont probably fatally. The accident oc curred in a deep cut which kept the cars from overturning and probably prevented heavy loss of life. The combination baggage and smoking car and four coaches were blown from the track. A Pullman sleeper crashed through the smoking car, tearing it to pieces. It was in the smoking car that the most In juries to passengers occurred. KIUOGE COLLAPSES Packard. la., June 2. Two women were killed and ten persons were in jured as the result of the collapse of the bridge over Coldwater creek near here early to-day under the weight of a northbound passenger trairf on the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In addition to the two dead, seven persons are missing and ate believed to be dead, either by drowning or as the result of their in juries. PRINCE OF \V \I,KS TO WEI) ITALIAN PRINCESS REPORT Paris, June 1. - The engagement of Edward, Prince of Wales, heir-appar ent to the British throne, and Princess Jolander, eldest i aughter of the King of Italy, is shortly to be announced, reports from Rome declare. The Prince of Wales recently visited Rome and went to the Italian front as a guest of King Victor Emmanuel. On his return, it is said that the King summoned the Princess, with her mother, to army headquarters to ex tend his congratulations. Returning from this trip, the Queen and the Princess were in peril when Austrian aviators attacked the royal train. Prince Edward is 22 years old. Princess Jolanda, already noted for her beauty, was 15 years old to-day. DENVER IS DONE WITH COMMISSION New Form of Government Fails; Spcer Re-elected Myyor Dispatches from Denver state that Robert W. Speer has again been chosen to lead the constructive forces of that city as mayor. Four years ago he retired as head of the Denver gov ernment and barely escaped being elected United States Senator while traveling with the Boston Chamber of Commerce party through Europe. They wanted to give him a great re ception on his return from abroad, but, modest man that he Is, he de clined this expression of good will and popular appreciation. Mayor Speer is not unknown in Har risburg, where he has some warm [Continued on Page 11] GET SECOND RAISE Py Associated Press Allentown, Pa., June 2.—Following closely on the heels of an increase in wages, ihe Lehigh Valley Transit Com pany has posted notices that another raise of a cent an hour became effect ive yesterday. Four hundred and fifty motormen and conductors are affected. The rate gives tlrst-year men 25 cents per hour, with 28 cents for fifteen year men. ROOSEVELT AND HUGHES IN LEAD Looks Like Fight to Finish Be tween Them on Floor of Convention By Associated i'tcsj Chicago. June 2. Republican leaders from all parts of the country arc arriving in Chicago on every train ami the crowds of politicians in hotel lobbies are increasing proportionately as the time for the Republican na tional convention approaches. While the managers of the different "favorite son' presidential candidates insist that if they are able to keep their delegates in line one of their number may win, they are beginning to admit that the final contest may de velop into a light to a finish between Roosevelt and Hughes on the floor of the convention. An informal poll of a number of the States which have candidates indi cate. that after the first few ballots have been taken and the "favorite sons" begin to drop out of the contest m&ny of the instructed delegates will [Continued on Pago 15] Jury in Orpet Trial Is No Nearer Completion Ry Associated Press Waukecgan, 111., June 2.—The open ing of court to-day found the jury in the trial of W. H. Orpet for mur der was no nearer completion than it was at the end of last week when eight jurors had been sworn for serv ice. The trial has been in progress for sixteen days, during which time more than 800 prospective jurors have been examined. A further panel of fifty men has been summoned. MURDERERS EIjECTROCUTKD By Associated Press Ossining, N. Y., June 2.—Two mur derers, Hoy Champlin and John Supe. I were put to death this morning in the electric chair at the State prison. ' ELECT FIVE NEW WILSON TALKS ON SCHOOL TEACHERS RESPONSIBILITIES Successors Named For Miss Evans and Professor Strawinski Professors L. B. Nye, W. A. JtcCune I and Roscoe Bowman were recoru i mended for election as teachers In Technical High School by the teach ers' committee of the city school board late this afternoon, and Miss Dorothy Fahnestock and Mary Boyd Robinson as teachers at Central High School. It Is understood that Miss Robinson will succeed Miss J.orena G. Evans as teacher of, German at the institution, Miss Evans having resigned. Other items in the report include Miss Mil dred Williams to he elected as a regu lar teacher instead of substitute. Prof. Bowman will succeed Prof. Strawinski who also resigned this year. Substi tute teachers for re-election follow: Edna Mutzabaugh, Sara Hannan, Ruth Holbert, Katharine Aldlnger. [Continued 011 Page IS] STKAIj CHCRCH'K AUTO City police are looking for the per sons who stole an automobile owned by the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. The niA.ehme was taken last night while standing in front of the church. Two men were seen getting in the car and hurrying away with It. SEEK ALLIANCE WITH FAIRBANKS Bull Moose to Hold Club Over Republicans by Delaying Nomination Chicago, 111., .June 2.—Terms on which the Roosevelt managers are ready to dicker with the Old Line Re publicans, predicated on Roosevelt's nomination for President, were put out along convention row to-day. The tentative slate is: For President—Theodore Roosevelt. For Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks. For Secretary of State—Ellhu Root. For Secretary of the Treasury— Theodore E. Burton. To bring the Progressives into line, [Continued on Page 4] Lynch Confers With Wilson on Convention Chairman Ry Associated Press Washington, June 2. Selection of the permanent chairman of the Demo cratic national convention at St. Louis was expected late to-day at a con ference between President Wilson and Fred B. Lynch, chairman of the executive committee of the national organization. Senator James is said to be most prominently considered for the per manent chairmanship. Senator Kern of Indiana, and Senator Stone of Missouri, are under consideration. HIGH ICS NOT REPRESENTED Ry Associated Press Washington. D. C., June 2. When inquiry was made of Justice Hughes to-day whether Frank H. Hitchcock was representing him at Chicago, the justice's secretary, Lawrence H. Green made the following authorized state ment: "It 's perfectly well understood that Justice Hughes has no repre sentative." Tells Graduating Class at An napolis They Saw Him "Get Into Trouble" Annapolis, Md„ June 2. —President Wilson unexpectedly made an address to the Naval Academy graduates at | the commencement exercises here to [Continued on Page 20] Harrisburg Man at Cornell Sued For $5,000 By Associated Press Ithaca. N. Y.. June 2. W. k. Pat j terson, a sophomore In the college of | mechanical engineering at Cornell Uni versity. has been sued for $5,000 dam ages here by Michael Gosh, father of Mary Uosh, aged 8, who was run down and seriously injured by Pattersons motorcycle in this city May 20. The action will be tried here in September In the Supreme Court. Patterson has retained counsel here to defend. The little Klrl is In the Ithaca Hospital | suffering from a fractured leg and i other injuries, which, the plaintiff claims, will be permanent. Following the uccident Patterson was arrested on a charge of exceeding the speed limit but was discharged In court jesterdav afternoon. Patterson Is 20 vears old and the son of H. R. Patterson. 208 South Thirteenth street, Harrtabur*. 22 PAGES CROWN PRINCE IS PRESSING NEARER FRENCH FORTRESS Delivering What May Prove Decisive Stroke Against Main Defenses of Verdun V IOLEXT FIGHTING Weight and Power of Tremen dous German Force Directed i Against French With all the weight and power of , tremendous masses of men and metal ' (he Germans have been delivering} what may prove to be their decisive 1 stroke against the main defenses of Verdun. The German attack of yesterday northeast of the fortress which gained | them first line French trenches In the J crucial sector between Fort Douaumont | and Vaux has been followed by fight- ! Ing of extreme violence. This after noon's official bulletin from Paris re ports the continuance of the struggle throughout the night but fails to re cord the outcome, the implication be ing that the result so far is indecisive. French Heat Them Rack The Crown Prince's drive is being pressed along a front little more than two miles in width between the Thlaumont farm and Vaux. German progress here has been slight since the early days of the fighting. The recent pushing back of the French lines on the west bank of the Em use, however, is claimed to have stopped the French flanking fire from that bank which hitherto had handicapped German at tempts to advance on the opposite of the river. West of the Meuse, the French have been endeavoring to regain some of the ground recently lost on (he south ward drive of the Germans there and they claim to have made progress last [Continued on Page 15] BAT NELSON UNDER KNIFE By Associated Press Detroit, Mich., June 2. Battling Xeleon, former lightweight champion, was operated on for appendicitis at a local hospital yesterday. It. was an nounced that Nelson was recovering. London, June 2, 7.10 P. M.—The text of the Admiralty | ■' announcement on the sea fight follows; "On the afternoon I & ol Wednesday, the 31st of May, a naval engagement took ( J '■ the of Jutland. The British ships t £ the brunt of the fighting fell were the battle cruiser fleet < ; and some cruisers and light cruisers, supported by four fast j Among t The ( * man battle fleet, aided by low visibility, avoided a prolonged j * action with our main forces. As soon as they appeared on I the scene the enemy returned to port, though not before ! receiving severe damage from our battleships. I * ® "The battle cruisers Queen Mary, Indefatigable and In- I vincible and the cruisers Defence and Black Prince were : j " sunk. The Warrior was disabled and after being towed for ' I some time had to be abandoned by he'- crew. It is also j I known that the destroyers Tipperary, Turbulent, Fortune, * ; Sparrowhawk and Ardent were lost and six others are not * ; yet 'accounted for. No British battleships or light cruisers ® ! were sunk. , <» ] ' The enemy's losses were serious. At least one battle • j I < rui : was destroyed and one was severely damaged. One ; ( battleship is reported to have been sunk by our destroyers. | j I During the night atack two light cruisers were disabled and probably sunk. The exact number of enemy destroyers tdi«,p>j..cd of during the action cannot be ascertained with any certainty but must have been large." New York, June 2.—The joint conference of railroad ( managers and heads of the four great railroad labor organi-1 zations late to-day took up consideration of the demand | of the employes for an eight-hour basis of pay. I 1 Washington, June 2. —Final voting on the naval bill ly in the House with the adoption by a vote ofj < ® 235 to 136 of an amendment proposed in committee of the ' ! whole to appropriate $11,000,000 for a government armor I plate plant. WERE THROWN IN THE RIVER I John Smith and Edward Roberts were thrown into the* Susquehanna shortly after 4 oclock, when their canoe upset. They swam ashore. < , MARRIAGE UUNSbS Samuel Smith Hoffman. Philadelphia, and Cornell Wallcrr, cl«y. Iloliert llurnlelinh and Prance* IMnlon, Mlddletnwa. U"rank D. Bryan aAd Carrie E. Tltua, Mlddletown. 1 ■MI ii ii WII ml CITY EDITION JOHNSTOWN MAN MADE SECRETARY OF PENN HIGHWAY Melville H. James Named; Will Have Headquarters in This City IS NEWSPAPERMA N Will Hcgin Work Soon to Push Project to Its Com pletion Melville H. James, of Ebensfiurg—o! the staff of the Johnstown Democrat — has been appointed permanent secre tary of the William Penn Highway As sociation by William Jennings, of thr Commonwealth Trust Company of thi., city, president of the association. He will have neadquarters in Har risljuiff and will come here next. Wed nesday to assume his duties. Mr. James will sever his connection with the Johnstown Democrat and will de vote his entire time to his new duties He will not bring his family to Harris burg until September 1. 1 Mr. James has been very active in the promotion of the William Penn Highway and his appointment as sec [Contlnucd on Pact; 4] U-mm! 300,000,000 Quarts of Strawberries in Country fiy Associated Press New York, June 2. This year's strawberry crop will be worth S2O. 0.i0.000 to the growers, exceeding all previous records, It is estimated in M summary of the crop's condition pub lished to-dny by the educational de partment of the National City Bank The crop will contain some 300,000 000 quarts. The value of the 1915 crop was esti mated at $18,000,000. The total an nual fruit production of the country timounts. to about $230,000,000 an nually, the summary says. RKIF TECH HONOR MAN The name of J. Fulnier Reif, Jr . .ifii'i Woodbine street, a member of tlv graduating clas of sthe Technical HigJ< School, was inadvertedly omitted fron. the list of honor men announced yes - terday. Reif is a student In the Col ; lege Preparatory department of tlr i school and will enter college next Fall. He Is pianist of the Tech orchestra.
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