I . •" ■■ ■ 1 Allied A I'm ics Continue Unchecked to Hammer Way Through German Lines HARRISBURG fiSHi TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 154 PRESIDENT WILL ACCEPT PROPOSAL OFGEN.CARRANZA Wilson to Meet Suggestion That Differences Be Settled by Direct Negotiations REPLY WILL GO SOON No Change in Policy Is Now Contemplated; Will Not Withdraw By Associated I'ws.r Washington, D. C., July 6.—Formal acceptance of General Carranza's pro posal that differences between the United States and the de facto govern ment of Mexico be settled by direct negotiations will be dispatched soon to Mexico City. This was decided by President Wilson to-day at a confer ence with Secretary Lansing. The Mexican note delivered yester day said the <ie facto government had accepted in principle offers of mediation, but was awaiting information as to whether the United States believed the desired results would be accomplished by direct ex changes between the two governments. Secretary Lansing will leave to-mor row for a month's vacation. It was not stated to-day whether he would prepare the reply to Mexico before his departure, but indications are that it will go forward within a day or two at most. The Secretary will be in direct touch by telegraph and telephone with the White House and State Department during liis absence, but informal con versations with Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador designate, which it is hoped will develop a solution of the difficulties along the Mexican bor [Continucd on Pago fl] Field Headquarters Are Compact and Prepared By Associated Press Field Headquarters, Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, June 29, via army motor truck to Columbus, N. M., July 6. Compact, prepared and unostentatious is the American field headquarters camp in Mexico. A walk through it showed no evi dence of the hurry, the curt commands of. military stiffness, sometimes asso ciated with an army ready for action. Instead there was ease about men and animals sprawling around canip with the comfort of perfect health, each man knowing his duties so well that half an hour's warning would be suffi cient to empty the great camp and change it into an army on the march. In the heart of the camp, rows of huge gray motor trucks were parked. About them, men crouched .in the shade of the big bodies, their olive drab clothing stained beyond washing, with road dust. On the steering wheels hung brilliant red, green and blue handkerchiefs, just washed and drying. These were the head sear of the truck drivers, who have learned tljat they cannot hope to protect more than their head and their mouths from the dust clouds. Orderly lines marked the camp of the pack and wagon trains. The driv ers were giving the animals the most careful attention, for they realize that frequently upon the training and mus cle of such mules may depend the lives of soldiers in campaigns, especially as here in Mexico, where supplies have been outrun by the fighting columns. THE WEATHER For HarrUburg and vicinity: Fnlr to-night unci Friday; somewhat warmer Friday. FOP Eastern Feiuiny Ivuniu: Fair to night mid Friday) slight ly warmer Friday; gentle shifting Winds. B Iver The Susquehanna river and prob ably all Us brunches Mill con tinue to full slowly. V stage of nbout 4.1 feet is Indicuted for HarriMliurg Friday morning. Generiil Conditions The tropical storm is now central near the month of the Mississippi river and IN apparently moving slowly northwaril with decreas ing energy. The storm was severe Wednesday oil the Alabama and " est Florida coasts, where ex cessive rains anil winds of hurri cane velocity occurred. Kaln has occurred generally in the South Atlantic and East tiulf States, and there were showers In New Jersey nnd Eastern Xew York. Elsewhere fair weather prevailed, except In Northwest Texas, Mon tiinn nnd Hrltlsh Columbia, w here light showers fell. Temperatures were high in the southwest, Wedncnday afternoon, with mn\inium readings exceed ing 100 degrees in Southern \ri aonn. and the majority or stations report rises of 2 to 14 degrees in the Inst twenty-four hours. Tempernturei N n. m., OS. Sun: Rises, 4:311 a. III.; sets, 7:83 p. m. Moon: First <|unrter, .Itilv 8, tli.tn n. m. Klvcr stage: 4.2 feet above low water ranrk. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 70. I.owest temperature. 02. Mean temperature, OR. Normal temperature, 74. At the Seashore or up in the mountains, no matter where you go to spend your vacation, the HarriMburg Telegraph will be sure to reach yon every day. Your vacation will not be complete un less your favorite newspaper spends the time with you. Drop a postal or call the Circu lation Dept. HV CARRIERS (t CENTS A WEEK. SI>TiLE COIMES 2 CEXTS. WANT TO GO TO MEXICO? EIGHTH NEEDS 200 MEN Colonel Finney Appeals For Recruits Through Columns of Telegraph EXAMS MAKE BIG HOLES Ranks of Companies Depleted by Failure of Many to Pass Examinations Through the columns of tlio Telegraph Colonel Maurice E. Kin ney, commander of Uie Kighth Pennsyl\aniu Infantry, appeals to the joung men of the city and surrounding district who wish to enlist for Mexican service to re port to the recruiting oilleers at Mount Gretna nt once. Some 200 vacancies are to be tilled. If you had sought to-day for the most keenly disappointed man in all Harrisburg you might have found him this morning: lingering about the tem porary recruiting office in the City Grays armory. He was the slender, bronze-faced young fellow who was always mightily I eager to discuss the Mexican possi bilities; he carried his right arm in bandages, splint and a sling. And if you inquired as to the reason for his evident dose of the "blues" he would probably have quietly held up his bandaged arm. "Turned me down—broken arm!" would have been his quiet answer. The story behind that simple story is one of many little tales that some eight or nine men of Company I and [Continued on Page 6] Saturday Half-Holiday Proposed by Merchants An important conference at which j all the merchants and other business j men of the city will be welcome will | be held at the offices of the Chamber j of Commerce in the Kunkel building j at 12:30 o'clock Friday to consider a proposition to change from Friday to 1 Saturday as the weekly half-holiday j during the summer months. It is proposed in this change to j keep the stores open Friday evening and until one o'clock Saturday, the j thought being that the half-holiday! 'Saturday will be more desirable for, the employes of the stores and busl- j ; ness places than the Friday half-holi- j | day as lias been the custom hereto- ; j fore. Many prominent merchants have j already agreed to the change from Friday to Saturday. High School Survey Expert Here Monday Expert survey of Harrisburg's high school problem will begin Monday with the arrival of Dr. John H. Van Sickle, who has been selected by the school board for the work. Dr. Sickle will devote several weeks to careful study of the conditions and | will embody his findings and recom ; mendntions in a comprehensive report jto the board before A ust 1. With | this data in hand the .iirectors will | prepare the campaign lor floating a j loan in the Fall. AUTO CRASHES OVER BANK ON WALNUT STREET BRTDC : W. Scott Coble, sor. of Justice of the ! j Peace, P. C. Coble, of Wormleysburg, ! ! miraculously escaped serious injury I last evening when the auto which he 1 j was driving skidded on the Walnut i street bridge at Island park and ' crashed down a 20-foot embankment. | The car was only slightly damaged. ! Mr. Coble, who is a member of the Hershey band, was on his way to that I place. He returned to Wormleysburg i ! and taking his father's machine again ! j started. Tho justice of the peace I with several other men brought his ! son's car to Wormleysburg. JOBLESS MEN, HERE'S WORK Washington. July ti. The Depart- I | nient of Labor is being deluged with | requests for hands to harvest wheat in j Western States. The division of infor- | I mation, which is the government em-! ployment agency, is engaged in tabu- ! Mating the requests, and will issue ai statement to all branch ottices advising 'liem of the Macedonian cry from the! Western wheat fields. Efforts will bet made to get the wheat growers to pay! ilhe transportation of harvesters. Many of then) already have announced their willingness to do so. CHEAPER GASOLINE EXPECTED Washington, July 6. Final report of the Federal Trade Commission on its investigation into the oil situation in the United States probably will be i completed within two weeks, Commis-' sioner Harris said yesterday. He pre- I dieted a reduction in the price of gas-' joline. The investigation is credited 1 among government officials with a 1 large saving to the United States on! : motor fuel oil. Three months ago the Standard Oil Company ottered oil at 31% cents a gallon, but tho bid was rejected. A contract has just been closed at 23% cents a gallon. BIG EIRE AT PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, July 6.—Fire in the j downtown business district early to day destroyed a number of small buildings with a loss of $200,000. In cluded in the structures burned was a theatrical storehouse. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1916. WRITING TO THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM It's the sweetest part of the Guardsman's life at Mount Gretna —writing to the girl back home. BURGLARS GET RICH HAUL IN CAMP HILL JOB Take Silver Wedding Gifts, Mileage, Valuable Violin, Watch and Money Two robberies in Camp Hill ap parently by experienced burglars have been added to the long list of places entered in Harrisburg and vicinity within the last few days. Local sleuths however, believe that a different gang of thieves made the raidn in the West Shore town, than is working in this city, because of the big difference in tactics and the value of the goods taken. The Camp Hill homes entered were those of Raymond M. Staley, Market street, veterinary surgeon with the State Livestock Sanitary Board and Janie: C. Patterson, Market street, assistant superintendent of Public Giounds and Buildings at the Capitol. At the Staley residence, entrance was gained through a cellar window after which the burglars picked the lock to the door leading to the kitchen. Sterling silver wedding gifts valued at SIOO were taken together with a mile age book. Plated silverware was left untouched. At the Patterson home, a valuable violin, a watch and a small sum of money were included in the haul. En trance was sained through a window on the first floor. According to city detectives no new thefts or attempted robberies have been reported in the city during the last twenty-four hours. Investigations of the score of robberies of the last week, are being continyed without ap parent results. 174 BABIES DIE DURING EPIDEMIC Infantile Paralysis Continues to Reap Toll of One an Hour; Fear Spread By Associated Press New York, July fi.—The health de- I partment announces to-day that in ! complete figures show that during the | twenty-four hours preceding 9 o'clock | this morning 21 children died of infan ! tile paralysis in the greater city. This brings the toll of lives lost since ! the disease became an epidemic ten > days ago to 174. Of the deaths since j yesterday 21 occurred in Brooklyn. [Continued on I*age 10] Dr. Raunick Warns of Infantile Paralysis Dangers "Kill the flies and mosquitoes, and screen your homes," said Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, local health officer this after noon. when asked how an epidemic of infantile paralysis may be prevented. Reference was made to the present epi demic of this disease in New York, and Dr. Raunick was asked how it could be carried from city to city. He said: "Flies and mosquitoes are the pests that carry disease. Keep them out of the homes, and there will be no danger of infantile paralysis or any other dis ease. spreading over the city. Kill the llie« and mosquitoes. I do not think Harrisburg is close enough to New York to fear the spread of the disease to this city It will not hurt to take the necessary precaution, how ever." Administration's Ship Bill Is in Bad Way Washington, ul.v 6. The adminis tration ship purchase bill, which pass ed the House and is now in Senate committee, is in a bad wayi The It£- publlcan Senators backed by a strong Democratic support have served no tice on the friends of the bill that; efforts to pass it at this session will! probahly prolong the session "until j snow flies." The situation IK SO desperate from the viewpoint of the friends of the bill in the Senate that it led to the calling of two party caucuses or conferences of Senators. EACH MONDAY TO BE "DOLLAR DAY" Watch the Telegraph Each Saturday Night For Bargains Merchants Will Offer Monday of this week was the first of a series of Dollar Day Mondays in which a number of local merchants are interested. Many of them have joined in the movement inaugurated by the Harrisburg Telegraph to set aside one day of the week during which dollar bargains will be the keynote. This plan of merchandising has been successfully used In other cities and there is no reason why it cannot be just as successfully employed here. The movement was started last week and many of the merchants who were not ready at that time have signified their intention of joining this week. The list of Items advertised in the Telegraph last Saturday night gives a pretty fair conception of what the array will be when all of the merchants who intend to join in the movement offer their goods also on Dollar "J>a.y. Next Monday will Bit another dav of dollar bargains, which will be adver tised in Saturday's Telegraph. GERMAN SAVINGS GROW By Associated Press The Hague, via London, July 6. According to the Sparkasse, the organ of the German Savings Bank, new sav ings accounts during the second year of the war have increased in Germany as never before during times of peace. Statistics from the big cities and the industrial regions alone indicate an in crease of 288,000 accounts and a total of 6,280,000 accounts. The excess of i deposits over withdrawals is 2,500,- I 000,000 marks. FEAR CALAMITY AFTER HURRICANE Loss of Life Believed Heavy; I Coast Towns Cut Off; Ships Torn Loose by Gale Jacksonville, Fla., July fi. Fears that the terrific hurricane which for 72 hours swept the Gulf of Mexico and j then drove inland over the Alabama J and Florida coast had caused a great | catastrophe, grew hourly 10-day. Efforts to get into communication | [Continued on Page 10] ASSERTS KAISER WEEPS Paris, July 6.—The Kaiser has burst | into tears several times recently, says I the Petit Parisian. Intrigues showing that things are not going well in Ger many are one cause of his grief, the newspaper asserts, and another is that the big men of the Empire are showing a disposition to abandon him. "The story is not a mere sensational invention," adds the newspaper. "The tears would naturally be produced by Germany's unfavorable situation." EIGHT FOURTH OF JULY DEATHS THROUGHOUT U. S. Chicago, July ti. Eight deaths and 190 injuries from Fourth of July cele brations throughout the country is the toll of the Fourth, according to figures compiled by the Chicago Tribune. Last year there were nineteen persons killed and 903 injured. Chicago's toll was four injured, none seriously. SEABOARD SHOP lIURNS By Associated Press Norfolk, Va., July fi.—Fire starting) in the coach shed of the Seaboard Air Line's shops here early to-day de stroyed the shed and ten new passen ger coaches. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. For a time the entire plant was threatened. CURSED FLAG, HIT AND JAILED Lancaster, Pa., July 6.—Harvey Shelley and John Wellsbrook were ar raigned in the city police court yes terday for fighting in the street. The testimony showed that, during an ar gument, Wellsbrook, of German de scent, cursed the American, flag and Shelley hit him. Magistrate Spurrier discharged, Shelley and committed Wellsbrook for 10 days. CAVE-IN CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE KILLS 300 MEN Violent Tremors in Sicily Trap Miners When Three Sulphur Shafts Crumble By Associated Press London, July 6. —A violent earth quake at Caltanlssetta, Sicily, causing the deaths of nearly 300 persons, is re ported in an Exchange Telegraph dis patch from Rome. It is said the vic tims were in three sulphur mines which the earth shock caused to cave in. There have been several reports re cently of seismic disturbances in Italy. The volcano of Stromboli, on an island off the north coast, of Sicily, has been in eruption for several days, causing the inhabitants of adjoining districts to flee on relief ships sent from Mes sina. Earth shocks occurred Tuesday at Ancona, Remi, Belvedere, Mar .timmo ami in other Adriatic districts, but heretofore no loss of life has been reported. There have been a number of dis astrous earthquakes in Italy, the last serious one having occurred in 1908. Most of the coast towns on both sides of the straits of Messina were wholly or partially destroyed with a loss of life estimated at 75,000. faltanissetta, capital of the Sicilian province of that name, is a city of more than 30,000 inhabitants. WILL CONFER ON DRAINAGE PLANS Method by Which Water Hushes From Cemetery to Playgrounds in Dispute The plan by which the water from I flic western slopes of the Harris burg I Cemetery is permitted to drain upon j the Twelfth street playgrounds may ? eventually have to he settled in the i Dauphin county courts. The drainage, diverted as it now is ! by a system of walled-ln pipes, seri ously menaces the recreation ground, and the burial ground officials, it is understood, have refused thus far to change the method. The nearest approach to an agree rContinued on Pago 10] Methodist Papers Are Forced to Raise Price A call has gone out to local commit j tees of Methodists in New York, Cincinnati and Chicago to meet Meth odist Book Concern publishing agents | in Chicago and take up the matter of prices of Christian Advocates and j books, the former now published at financial loss, and tho latter likely to be because of the big advance in the , prices of paper. The New York agent. Dr. E. R. Graham, satd: j .'I do not see how it is going to be | posslbe to avoid advance in subscrip tion prices of our Christian Advocates I and some of our books. In the case |of the Advocates the advance may j make losses even greater than they are i now. I cannot tell. The judgment is that some changes must be made." The American Bible Society reports I increasing difficulties in getting Bibles from the British a<nd Foreign Society of London, especially those published in languages other than English. It I is admitted that unless things improv- i ed tne society will be seriously ham- 1 pered in its work. The society also reports itself un able to procure paper at any price in quantities needed. BREAKS BACK IN FALL York, Pa., July 6. .While assisting i her husbar 1 In the harvest Held yes terday, Mrs. rharles Hoover, 4 5 f e n j from a load of hay and received a broken back. Mr. Hoover pitched the hay while his wife arranged It on the waeon. 16 PAGES ALLIES THREATEN CRUCIAL POSITIONS IN GERMAN DEFENSE French Strongly Fortify Line of Captured Trenches While British Pound Their Way Forward in Vicinity of Thiepval; Peronne in Imminent Danger of Capture 76 CANNON AND SEVERAL HUNDRED MACHINE GUNS TAKEN IN OFFENSIVE Russians Scoring Important Successes Against Austrians; Cut Railway Leading South From Delatyn; Moving Towards Korosmezo, Hungary; Control Main Line of Austro-Hungarian Retreat; Route Force on Dniester After capturing second line German positions along a six-mile front south of the Somme in Northern France and making notable advances north of that stream, the French last night temporarily halted the offensive operations of their infantry. Hard fighting continued along the line of the British attack and a slight advance was scored by General Haig's forces in the vicinitA of Thiepval. The French push to the south of the river now threaten Barleux and Villers-Carbonnel, crucial positions in the Gerinai defense of the railway center at Peronne. On the other bank of the river the French are striking east c the village of Hem, which they captured yesterday. Local engage ments are reported in this region, wooded districts changing hands, but no substantial progress being reported on either side. Paris announces the capture by the French in their offensive o : seventy-six cannon and several hundred machine guns. The situ ation before Verdun was comparatively quiet, no infantry attack occurring during the night. In Galicia the Russians continue to score marked sikcesse> After cutting the railway leading south from Delatyn they hav< advanced down the line towards Korosmezo, Hungary, and hav. taken the village of Mikoupchine, a half way point on the route fron Delatyn. This road is a main line of retreat to Hungary for th Austro-Hungarian forces in this region. [Continued on Papr «] —«ww—_/" I * John Rupp, who resides near Rockville, was fined J $5 this afternodn at police court for speeding his automo- I J » bile on North Front street. |F s , GENERAL HUTCHISON WORSE | J I Chambersburg, Pa.. July 6.—The condition of General f Joseph B. Hutchison, who is ill at the home of a relative f , | in this place, was reported to-day as very grave. : FOOD RIOTS IN MEXICO $ I ! •; i Field Haedquarters, Mexico, July 5, via Radio to Co- rtj lumbus, N. M., July 6.—Starving Mexican women shouting J "viva Gringoes" have stormed the government palace at * San Luis Potosi, according to reports received to-day by J General Pershing. Food riots, the reports to the American 1 > ( 9 commander said arc occurring in all the larger Mexican ? cities. I | I El Paso, July 6.—Persons arriving here to-day sa l iu j k ! , they had heard that Villa was in command of the force | I which defeated the Carranza troops at Corral, and that ■ ► ( moving on to Jiminez, he had captured the city. 1 > ( * tr: *■ ■ 1 \ CAVALRY MOVES TO-NIGHT < 1 Mt. Gretna, Pa.. July 6.—The cavalry will move toward ' : the border to-night, probably by way of Philadelphia, with ; ! I » the Governor's Troop occupying the third or fourth train. ' * An order may change the route by way of Harrisburg, but it is not likely. The troop has 97 men and three officers. • * J I They were mustered in today by Captain Castleman, U. S. > A. Company D has 102 men and three officers, and Com- f • | pany I 92 men and three officers. York, Lewistown and Bedford are away below minimum. Only two Eighth Regi- | , ment bandmen were rejected. f : » ' DISCHARGE GUARDSMEN WITII DEPENDENTS .1 { New York July 6.—Applications for discharge by Na- { S < tional Guardsmen who have dependent relatives will be <S ! granted, according to orders received from the War De- X < ' c « partment 'to-day by Major General Leonard Wood, com- V mander of the Department of the East, U. S. A. The [ i order also enjoins department commanders to instruct re- / cruiting officers to avoid acceptance of recruits who have £ < ) relatives dependent upon them for support. MARRIAGE U| J CieorKo Lyn BaruN and Allna Imif Wallett, lokMburc. I (, * or »« \%lllli» Hartman and Fanny Catherine LlvlnßNton, city. L CITY EDITION
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