French Expanding Their lines Along Somine Take Powerfully Fortified German Win* HARRISBURG liSiflll TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 177 BERLIN ADMITS NEW PUSH OF ALLIES IN WEST Both French and British Make Gains Along Somme Front QUIET IX THE , EAST Italian Airships Drop 4 Tons of Explosion on Submarine Works New advances along the Somme front in northern France have been made by both the French and the British. The French gain, the more impor tant. is admitted by Berlin. It was effected between Hem wood and Monacu farm, near the river, where a strongly-held German work was captured. The German trenches, says the Berlin report, had been com pletely demolished. The British made their progress east of Pozieres as the result of hand to-hand fighting. The Germans were on the aggressive west of High wood but were unable to get beyond the British fire barrier in an attempt to recapture lost ground. Little indications of the progress of the events on the Russian front is contained in to-day's official report frooi Petrograd which records merely rifle and artillery duels at various points and the repelling of minor at tacks on Russian positions. The Ger man war office declared that several Russian attacks in the Stokhod were beaten off. Before Verdun where the Germans have been violently attacking east of the Meuse. they have captured a height northwest of Fort SouviHe. The French admit the forcing back of their lines for a short distancfe. An Italian aerial squadron dropped four tons of high explosives on the white head torpedo and submarine works west of Fiume, in Hungary, yes terday, seriously damaging the plant. In air fighting along the Somme front, where 33 aerial engagements took place yesterday the French claim notable successes. Fifteen Ger man machines were driven out of ac tion, seriously damaged by the French airmen, according to Paris, one of these aircraft being seen to fall in flames. Middletown Telephone Co. Stock Sale Is Approved Directors of the Middletown Tele phone Company met at Middletown this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and ap proved an order for the sale of the company's stock to the Cumberland Valley Telephone Company. The sale was to have been ratified yesterday, but absence of several stockholders prevented a meeting. Negotiations for the purchase of this stock were closed yesterday morning. The Cumberland Valley Company authorized the purchase at a recent meeting. Tie Middletown line is to be a part or the improved system of the Cumberland Valley Tele phone Company now in course of con struction. AGED MINISTER IX HOSPITAL. The Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Billheirner, a retired member of the Gettysburg Luthern Theological Seminary faculty, and one of the most widely known ministers in the country, was "admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital yesterday. The aged clergyman has been ill for some time and was advised by his family physician to come to the local institution. Dr. Billheirner retired three years ago after having taught about fifteen years at the Seminary, as head of the Department of Homiletics. THE WEATHER. For Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair and warmer to-night and Thurs day. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night and Thursday; warmer to-night in north and treat por tions; warmer Thursday; light south winds. River The Susquehanna river and all Its tributaries will probably con tinue to fail slowly. A stage of about 3.8 feet is indicated for Harrisburg Thursday morning. General Conditions The high pressure area from the Lake Region has reached the At lantic coast. I'nder its Influence temperatures have fallen 2 to 14 degrees in the last twentv-four hours generally throughout the Atlantic States and from the Ohio river southward, the most decided fails occurring in the In terior of Xew York Mate. Over nenrly all the remainder of the country there has been a generui though slight rising tendency In temperatures, exefpt In I'tah'and Southern Colorado and a fen other widely separated points where slightly lower tempera tures are reported. Temperature: 8 a. m., AO. 6un: Rises, 5:05 a. m.; sets, 7:18 p. m. Moon: First quarter, August 0. 0:04 p. m. River Stage: Four feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, SO. Lowest temperature, 72. Mean temperuture, 70. -Normal temperature, 74. Getting used to strange newspapers is like breaking in a pair of new shoes—mighty uncomfortable. Order tho Harrisburg Telegraph mailed to your vacation address if you would enjoy real comfort. Six cents a week will bring the Telegraph to you no mat ter where you are. BY CARniF.nS 6 CENTS A WEEK. SI.VGI.E COPIES 2 CENTS. VIRGINIA FARMERS WHO ARE TOVRINC PENNSYLVANIA TO STUDY IMPROVED METHODS OF AGRICULTURE AND STOCK RAISING EMPLOYED IN THIS STATE v . 1 Some of the 300 Virginia farmers who with their wives are touring Pennsylvania to make a first-hand study of the agricultural methods employ ed ir this State. The photo shows part of the tourists snapped in front of tne State Capitol building where they attended a meeting yesterday afternoon to hear about Pennsylvania's good roads campaign. To-day they are touring Lancaster and York counties. Yesterday, after touring through the great fertile Cumberland Valley they motored over Reservoir Park and then wfnt to inspect the farms at Bonnymeads, Hershey and on the Masonic home land at Elizabethtown. MAYOR TO "JITS"; STRIKERS' PARADE Organizers in Town; Company Puts Old Employes on Many Cars Emphatic declaration by Mayor E. ! S. Meals that jitney drivers will not ! be permitted to overcrowd their cars, j overcharge for fares, or refuse to carry ; passengers to th«<r destination. I Arrival at the headquarters of the State Federation of Labor of J. E. Roach and Emanuel Jacobs, repre sentatives of the American Federation of Labor. Completion of plans for to-night's big parade of striking trolleymen svm- I pathizers and ether labor organiza ! tions. j Announcement by the Harrisburg I Railways Company that its restored [ service is being continued, that it op erated forty-two cars to-day with old | employes or new ones who were not iof the "strike-breaker" class; that i forty-two of the "strikers" have thus far returned ij work; that five more went back to-day. Briefly these were the high lights in to-day's story of the trolleymen's strike. The National Representatives. The arrival of the national labor representatives had been looked for ward to for some time in local union circles, ever since announcement had been made that a "whirlwind" cam- I paign to organize all forms of labor i had been made. Mr. Roach was held i up for a day or so, however, by the | wedding of his only daughter. "Had it been cne of my four boys," smilingly explained the organizer," I probably wouldn't have waited; but the only girl- -well, she wouldn't have per ! mitted her dad to leave on the eve of | her wedding, that's all there is to it. Al .Tacobs came here to-day from Al ! toona. He is an organizer for the jour i neyman tailors' union. What their ! plans will be neither could say. "We're j in the hands of our German friend, Mr. Quinn. secretary ot the State Fed eration," Mr. Roach explained. The big parade will assemble to night at 8 o'clock st Front and Mar ket streets and march over a route that will include the principal streets in the business section. Hugh L. Mc | Laughlin has the arrangements in ' charge. Company Demands Property. Cap number, badges, "punches." j packs of transfers, revenue stamps, J merchandise checks, switch-keys and other equipment were turned in by the I strikers to-day upon written demand |of the company. In some instances, the strikers said, constables presented the orders from the Railways Com pa. Ny Some quaint stories of how the "strike-breakers" are handling the company's tickets, fares, etc., were re lated by the strikers. In one instance ! a man on a Hummelstown car col lected the list of tickets to an amount : representing $2 85—and cooly sold I them to a passenger for 87 cents. Ac yesterday's meeting of the union, Roger L. Keifer applied for assistance, 1 according to Vice-President J. J. : Thorpe, and he was granted a check j for $lO to pay his rent. He imme (Otlier Personals Page 2) Nationwide Organization of Trolleymen Is Plan; New York Strike Serious New York, Aug. 2. New York State and city authorities are prepar ing to-day to deal with a strike of street railway employes which, if be sun, is expected to tie up virtually the whole street railway service of the city. Officers of the Amalgamated As sociation of Street Railway Men who are in charge of the efforts to organ ize the employes in order to enforce a demand for recognition of the union and an increase in pay, said to-day that they were nearly ready to present their demands to the New York Rail ways Company, operating most of the surface lines in the borough of Man hattan. Officers of this company are pre paring to resist the demands of the men and are establishing dormitories and are training new employes in the operation of cars to take the places of strikers. The lirst step toward organizing the 7,000 employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, was taken last night and continued to-day. Mayor Mitchel having failed to in duce the disputants to arbitrate, the Public Service Commission intervened to-day by summoning representatives of both sides to a hearing.this after noon, so as to bring out all the facts and submit them to public criticism. The threatened tie-up of every car line in Greater New York is to be only the first step in a nation-wide strike of street car men in order to win the union's dimand for the right to organize everywhere, it \vas stated to-day by Louis Frediger, counsel for the union organizers. ''This is to be a country-wide affair," Mr. Frediger declared. "The organ izing of street railway men is pro gressing rapidly. Attention is to be centered first on New York City." HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING , AUGUST 2, 1916. WILSON FIRM ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE Flatly Refuses to Change Posi tion That Question Should Be Dealt With by States By Associated Press Washington. Aug. 2. President Wil#on has not changed his position j that the woman suffrage question j should be dealt with by the States, it j was announced to-day at the White 1 House. The statement was brought j forth by the announcement yesterday of Charles E. Hughes, the Republican 1 nominee that he favored an amend ment to the Federal Constitution giv- j ing the vote to women. A delegation of suffragists saw the President yesterday and afterward in- j dicated they believed he would make a statement on the question before the j convention of the National American j Woman Suffrage Association in Sep tember. At that time the policy to be pursued in the political campaign will be determined by the National Suffrage organization. Refusal Is Final To-day Secretary Tumulty discussed the question with the President, and afterward announced that Mr. Wilson's position on the subject was unchanged. This position, as outlined several times to suffragist delegations, within the last three years is that while he favors I votes for women, he is opposed to fed- | eral action. The President voted for woman's j suffrage in New Jersey last year. It was indicated that to-day's an- I | nouncement was final. I Third and Verbeke Stores to Be Open Saturday i The stores of the district centering j ; about Third and Verbeke streets will remain open on Saturday afternoons 1 and evenings. The businessmen of j that section announce that after care- j fully considering the demands of local trade conditions, and with the desire i to serve the best interest and greatest j convenience of their customers, they i ! have decided tc continue the same < practice that has previously governed ! with regard to closing hours. Oonse- j . quently the stores of that section will j be open for business on Saturday aft- . ernoons and evening, and those stores which have been in the habit of clos ing on Friday at noon will continue , doing so during the remainder of the | season. These merchants state that they are j led to this decision through the re quests of many of their patrons who combine their week-end shopping with their Saturday afternoon and evening I marketing at the Verbeke street mar- I ket. An innovation in the vicinity men- I tioned will be the free band concert j which is to be given on Saturday evening between the hours of 7:30 and 9 at the corner of Third and Ver beke streets through the courtesy of the businessmen of the vicinity. $90,000 Market St. Real Estate Deal Completed I One of the biggest real estate deals 1 lin many months was completed this j : afternoon wnen Athens George, pro- 1 &rietor of the Victoria Theater, and K. | amawi, manager of the Crystal Hotel, i purchased the four-story brick building at 221 Market street from Mrs. Annie ! 1 Einstein for J90.000, through the Com monwealth Trust Company. The 1 . building has a frontage of twenty-five*, fet in Market street and extends back , I to Blackberry alley. Extensive im- 1 provements will be started in the near ' future which will make the Victoria : one of the largest fire-proof theaters i : in the .State. Danish Authorities Do Not Confirm Sale of Islands. By Associated Press London. Aug. 2. Messages received i here to-day from Copenhagen say the i Danish authorities have not confirmed the reports of the sale of the Danish ! West Indies to the United States. The newspaper Politiken says the Rigsdag i will hold a secret session on Friday, i when the Government will answer questions on the subject. The newspaper Koebenhavn has started a campaign against the sale of the islands. The Danish officials are all reticent and a censorship on mes sages is being maintained. SINK DUTCH SHIP By Associated Press London, Aug. 2. The South Shields Gazette says the Dutch steam ship Zeeland while on her way from a Scottish port ot a foreign port has been sunk by a German submarine after the crew had been ordered to take to the boats. The Zeeland was of 1293 tons gross 1 ' and was built In 190". She was 231 1 feet long. 34 feet beam and 14 feet J1 deep. Her home port was Rotterdam. < 'BAN MUNITIONS j FROM STORAGE As Result of Big Tom Explosion Arms May Not Be Sent Through Jersey City By Associated Press Jersey City, N. J., Aug. 2. Agents J of the city commissioners were sent to j day to the terminals of all railroads j | entering this city to put into effect the j order of the commission placing a ban | i on the storage of ammunition in cars : upon piers in this city and upon its: shipment through this city to steamers | going to Europe. This action was j taken because of the great explosion of ammunition at Black Tom Island, Sun day morning. The order becomes effective to-mor row afternoon. All the railroads hav ing terminals here have received no tice to discontinue moving the war ex plosives through this city The order directs '.hat every freight train com ing into Jersey City must be halted at the city line where the conductor will be required to show his manifest and j if this •-eveals that any of the cars con tain explosives, these cars will be ex-1 eluded. It was said to-day that the Lehigh ! Valley railroad and the Central Rail-1 ! road of New Jersey, the chief shippers i of the interdicted freight, had placed j i an embargo on further shipments of | i explosives. Otficials of some of the J i other ailroads threatened to obtain j I [Continued on Page 12] ' Harrisburg Chosen as Lutheran Headquarters On September 1 the Board of Edu cation of the General Svnod of the 1 Lutheran Church will locate the office j of its general secretary in Harrisburg. | The Rev. Charles Stelling Bauslin ' was elected general secretary of the t board on May 1 in succession to the ! Rev Frederick G. Gotwald, D. D., of i York., who is now editor-in-chief of | the Lutheran Work and Observer, the ; official organ of the General Synod of the Lutheran Church. Harrisburg was selected as the of | ficial residence'of the General Secre | tary because of its central location in ! the eastern section of the Church i and its unusual railroad facilities. The Board of Education of the Gen- I eral Synod has general direction of ; all the educational work of the body, ! and sustains close relation with insti tutions in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Germany, Guntur and India. ASQUITH TO RETIRE? By Associated Press London, Aug. 2. Some of the morning newspapers attach great im portance to the remark of Premier I Asquith in the House of Commons 1 yesterday when replying to an in | quiry regarding certain routine mat ters at the autumn session of Parlia | ment, he s^id: i "I don't know who will be respon -1 sible for the conduct of the business : at the next session—l have not the , faintest idea." "This," says the Daily Graphic, I "may be a preliminary hint that he | intends to retire." GERMANS WILL NOT MOLEST SHIPS WITH FOOD FOR ENGLAND > By Associated Press London, Aug. 2. The German i government has given a pledge to Hol land not to destroy or molest Dutch | ships carrying foodstuffs to England I according to a Copenhagen dispatch |to the Express. This decision is the ] result of a visit to Berlin of Cornelius (J. K. Van Aalst, president of the I Overseas Trust and another Dutch ' ■•commissioner. FIX I) TYPHIS CURE By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 2. A cure of eruptive typhus, the disease which made such terrible ravages in Serbia, has been discovered by Dr. Nicoili and Dr. Blaisot. It Is a serum which they found after exhaustive experiments. THOMAS H. MXGLE Funeral services for Thomas H. Lin gle, aged 59, who died yesterday after noon at his home. 1643 Fulton street will bo held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He Is survived by hins wife three daughters, one brother and one sister. Burial will be made in the Prospect Hill cemetery. BRIDE KILLED BY HUSBAND Special to the Telegraph Ktttanning, Pa., Aug. 2. Mrs. An drew Crazener, a bride or four months was shot and killed by her husband ; In their home here late yesterday fol lowing a quarrel. Crazener surrender ed to the authorities. RUSH TROOPS TO REPEL INVASION Hundred Mexicans Reported Across Border to Avenge Deaths of Cattle Thieves By .Associated Press El Paso, Tex., Aug. 2. Troops E and H, Eighth cavalry, left here hur- I riedly early to-day in a special train . for Fort Hancock. A company of in- I fantry in motor trucks and a motor cycle corps left a short time before, also_ for Fort Hancock. There had been various rumors here through the night of bandit activities in the neighborhood of Fort Hancock, One version had it that a bcyfjd of a hundred or more Mexicans crossed the line to avenge the deaths of the Mex ican cattle thieves shot down Monday night in the light with an Eighth cavalry detachment about six miles from the fort. Scour Country For Bandits Tw .° tjoops oi;, the Eighty caxftiQ' under command of Captain William 1 Jr., are scouring the gulches \ and canyons between Flnlay, Texas, ; and Fort Hancock about 70 miles east )of here in search of bandits. The ; cavalry is supported by a battalion : of the 23rd infantry rushed from El Paso to Fort Hancock early to-day in response to reports to General George Bell, Jr., commanding the El Paso military district that bandits in large numbers had crossed the Rio Grande in that vicinity. First reports to General Eell from [Continued on Page 2] Preponderant Number of "Big Four" Brotherhood Men in Favor of Strike New York, Aug. 2.—When 200,000 of the 400,000 ballotc cast by mem bers of four brotherhoods who are voting on the question of calling a general strike cn 225 railroads had been counted at noon to-day, it was announced that "a preponderant num ber of the men are in favor of a strike," The ballots counted to-day are mainly votes of the Eastern and Southern members of the "Big Four" railway brotherhoods. It is expected that the lowest number of votes cast in lavor of the btrike will come from the Eastern members. No matter what what the number of votes cast against the strike by the Eastern men, there is practically no doubt that the ma jority of them favor the strike, it was asserted. Thus far the largest number of votes in favor of the strike have been cast by the members from the South. One of the Southerners who is in | touch with the vote counting predicted to-day that the vote from that section would run approximately as follows: Engineers, 96 per cent.; trainmen, 9S per cent.; firemen, 99V4 per cent., and conductors. 94 per cent. GOLF MATCHES POSTPONED A big flag-raising event at the Lan caster Country Club will prevent the Lancaster Golf team from coming here Saturday, August 5, and the team matches scheduled for that day with the Colonial Country Club will be de ferred to a later date. In the summer handicap tourna ment which is on at the Colonial 'Coun j try Club for the beautiful Elliott | Fisher cup, points for week ending July 29 were awarded as follows; Hart v Ogelsby, 5; Owrey, 6, and M. S. Kelley, PI.AGI'E TAKES HEAVY TOM New York, Aug. 2. i-orty-ona ohit drun died and 166 were stricken in the greater city during the last twenty i tour hours in the epidemic of infantile | paralysis. The seat of the plague ! shifted to Manhattan Borough to-day | and there were more deaths and new cases reported in that borough than at any previous time since the inception |of the plague. Jersey City reported three more deaths and two cases, and • reports from other nearby cities inii | cated that the epidemic was far from j being under control. HARRISBURG WATER MARK The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce has caused to have manufac tured a writing paper for business ! purposes bearing in the center of each sheet a Harrisburg water mark. It bears the words "Harrisburg, Penna., The Heart of Distribution," and a pic ture of the Capitol. The process is new and the marking is invisible ex cept when the sheet is held to the light. WANT K. OF C. CONVENTION Davenport, la., Aug. 2. Old Point Comfort, Va.. and Buffalo, N. Y., are the strongest contenders for the privi lege of entertaining the supreme con vention of the Knights of Columbus in 1917. About 4,000 members of the order and visiting ladies had gathered for the convention to-day. 12 PAGES HUGHES TELLS WOMEN THEIR VICTORY IS SURE Anthony Amendment Should Be Submitted and Ratified, He Says . j i COMMENT OX SPEECH Republican and Moose Leaders Pronounce It "Masterly Arraignment" New York, Aug. 2. ln an address late yesterday to the Woman's Roose- j velt League for Hughes, Charles E. Hughes declared that the question of I woman suffrage "ought to be promptly j j settled," and that there was "danger ' | to our security, our unity, to our prop ! er attitude toward political questions, 1 j in deferring it." j Mr. Hughes's address in part was as j follows: I "It is an especial pleasure to meet j | you this afternoon and to recognize ]the very deep interest that you feel j lin this campaign. I am particularly ! I glad to have the support of this or- ; | ganization. It bears the name of a i I great American. It bears the name j of one who has very recently brought' the whole country to a sense of its obligations and aroused a very deep feeling with regard to some of our | I most important concerns. I welcome the support of the Roosevelt League. ! "This is a campaign in which I am ! sure women cannot fail to take a very ! profound interest. They, if there can be any comparison in such a matter, feel more keenly perhaps than any one else with respect to the national [Continued on Page 8] N. Y. Publishers Agree to Cut Down Size of Papers Special to the Telegraph New York, Aug. 2. Publishers ot daily newspapers in Greater New York at a meeting yesterday afternoon. tooK action which will result in a decrease of the number of pages in their morn- 1 ing. evening and Sunday issues of 121 pages a week. The reduction of so many pages is a step to relieve the news print paper situation,, which is regarded bv the pub lishers as very serious. Action was also taken to eliminate returns of unsold i 'copies. T ll ' 1 FEW*"DA y Governor Brumbaugh surprised people at the Capitol » f to-day by dropping into the city at 12.45 o'clock this | > ? afternoon. The Governor caine from Maine to spend a few j 1 days and will return before the end of the week. fp The Governor spent the afternoon at the mansion | J g°i n g over matters with Private Secretary Ball and saw I , b few people. He will be at the capitol. It is believed the ? 1 Governor's presence here at this time has to do with the X i filling of vacancies on the Hill. | T SUES STEEL COMPANY 1 X' Suit for i-'.OOO damages has been filed against the Penn- I T Mary Steel C. mpany, holding corporation for the Steclton J j I piant of the Bcthiehem Steel Company, by Frank Palundo < I j for injures to his arm. J Harrisburg. The New High School Committee of the S & School Board met this afternoon in executive session to ( T 1 consider the recently submitted report of rg's i. schooi needs. The report will be made public when sub- 1 4 niitted to the Boar dat its next regular meeting. ! 1 CASEMENT DIES TO-MORROW * | London, Aug. 2.—Lord Robert Cecil to-day authorizec 9 * the Associated Press to state that Roger Casement will bt f executed tomorrow. There will be no reprieve, Lord 3 1 Robert declared. J * WHEAT TAKES BIG JUMP S Chicago, Aug. 2.—Jumps of more than seven cents a I i bushel in the value of wheat took place as a result of word i tT that black rust damage in Manitoba amounted to a calamity. I I 60 CARRANZA TROOPS KILLED L ? Nogales, Ariz., Aug. 2.—The explosion of a carload of ' i # dynamite killed sixty and wounded forty Carranza soldiers 9 at Empalme. ' * i 500 DEAD IN BUSH FIRES ' » Toronto, Ont., Aug. 2.—Estimates to-day of the num , ber of dead in the bush fires in Northern Ontario, Saturday' *> and Sunday, are put at 500. i f " - ; ; ■ MARRIAGE UCENSES ' 1 0 Harry Catberman Landla and Caroline Rutfa Zieflrr, city. CITY EDITION DEUTSCHLAND FEELING WAY THROUGH CAPES Last Heard of at 6.30 This Morning Sixty Miles Up the Bay ONLY ONE WARSHIP ? Some Think U-Boat Will Seek Quiet Cove on the Inlet Fortress Monroe, Va., Aug. 2. Eighteen hours after the German mer chant submarine Deutschland sailed from Baltimore on her return voyage j to Germany, she had not been sighted i from the Virginia Capes or in Hamp j ton Roads, and nothing had been \ heard from her since 6:30 o'clock this | morning when she was reported off Tangier Sound, about sixty miles up Chesapeake Bay. Although last night she was said to be making 16 knot 3 she apparently | has been proceeding since at a much slower rate of speed. On the trip up i the bay after her arrival oft the Capes j only 17 hours was required for the run from Hampton Roads to Baltl ' more. Much surprise was occasioned here I by reports brought by passengers on ! an incoming coastwise steamer that 1 only one allied warship was on hand ' to-day off the Capes. The sailing plans of the Deutschland were a carefully guarded secret, but when she left Baltimore there was a belief that she would proceed direct to Newport News. On the other hand there was an expectation in some quar | ters that the submersible would seek a quiet cove or inlet somewhere in I lower Chesapeake Bay and there await a favorable opportunity to make a dash through the allies' blockade off the Capes. INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS Special to the Telegraph Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 2. A com parison of last month's receipts of | the Ninth Internal Revenue District with those of a year ago shows a healthy improvement in business. Last month's total receipts were $340,042.95, and from cigars alona $184,046.36. In July, 1915, the total j receipts were only $287,204.77 and I from cigars alone $159,048.69.
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