Germans Continue to Fall Back Before Ham Attacks
HARRISBURG SjSB&S TELEGRAPH
LXXXV — No. 179
FEDERATION OF
ALL UNIONS IS
TO BE EFFECTED
Four or Five National Organiz
ers Expected Here; Little
Change in Situation
JITNEY PETITION READY
7,000 Sign Plea; Two Strikers
Arrested on Stone-Throw
ing Charge
Organization of a Federated Trades
Council, comprising representatives of
all the labor unions in the city, is to be
completed next week according to
Charles F. Quinn, Beoreiary of the
State Federation of Labor to-day.
hTe date, according to Mr. Quinn,
has not been fixed, but it is to be the
latter part of the week, very likely.
Four or five national organizers are
expected here within the next week or
so according to Mr. Quinn, and it is
probable the formal organization of
the proposed central body will depend
to some extent upon their arrival.
One new national organizer arrived
last evening. He is James A. Ryan,
representing the carpenters" union.
He addressed a big meeting last night
at the carpenters' union quarters.
Some of the striking trolleymen also
talked.
Up until a late hour this afternoon
Governor Brumbaugh had taken no
steps to bring about an amicable ad
justment of the trolleymen's strike, ac
cording to officials of both the car
men's organization as well as the Har
rlsburg Railways Company.
Little Cliange
Little change was reported by either
side of the controversy in to-day's sit
uation. President Frank B. Musser
said that the company is operating
42 cars, all of them being manned by
the company's own men. About 20
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Will Decide Today Whether
Million Who Use N. Y. Cars
Shall Be Inconvenienced
By Associated Tress
New Tork, Aug. 4. Whether the
1,500,000 persons who daily travel in
the surface cars in the boroughs of
Manhattan and Queens are to be in
convenienced by a strike of 5,000
motormen and conductors of the New
York Railways Company and the New
York and Queens county railroad
company will be known this afternoon
or to-night. The time limit set by
the leaders of the street railway men's
union within which the officials of
the two companies are required to
answer to demands for recognition of
the union and increased pay expires
late this afternoon.
There Is no indication of any inten
tion on the part of the companies to
grant the demands. Officials re
peatedly had declared that they can
not do so.
Labor Leaders Canvassing
Phila. Railway Employes
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 4. —Labor
leaders are canvassing the street rail
way employes of this city with the
view of calling a strike if requests for
an increase in the maximum wages of
conductors and motormen from 31
cents an hour to 40 cents are not com
plied with.
Two early morning meetings were
to-day held in carbarns and are said
to have been attended by 500 men
who favored a strike 1f -necessary.
There are 4,700 men employed by the
company operating the lines. Officials
said there are two unions, most of
the men belonging to one friendly to
the company's interests, and they be
littled the possibility of a strike.
fTHE WEATHER
FOP HnrrlNhurg; nnd vlclnltyt Gen
erally fair to-tii£lit and Saturday,
not much change la temperature.
For Kantorn Pcnnwylvaiiia: MoMly
fair an«l Saturday; not
much change in temperature;
Kcntlc southwest winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and nil its
hranclieti will prohahly continue
to fall ■lowly. A stage of about
3.H feet IK indicated for Hnrris
burg Saturday morning.
General Conditions
Pressure is relatively high In the
Atlantic Stole* nnd the extreme
Northwest. It is low over the
Central West and Southwest, with
three centers of depression, one
over Southern Arizona, another
over .Northern Itali and a third
over Manitoba.
Showers have occurred In the Mis
souri nnd t'poer Mississippi val
ley*. alone the western border of
the C-reat l akes nnd In the West
ern Canadian provinces nnd there
have l/eeu local showers in L'tah
Colorado, Texas, Florida. Georgia'
and in the Lower Susquehanna
and Upper St. I.awrenec valleys
and in Michigan.
Temperature: S a. m„ «8.
Sun: Rises, 5:07 a. in.; sets, 7:15
p. m.
Moon: First quarter, 4:00 p. m
River Stage, 3.S feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 7S.
Lowest temperature, 50.
Mean temperature, as,
Normal temperature, 74.
Getting used to strange
newspupcrs is like breaking in
a pair of new shoes—mighty
uncomfortable. Order the
Harrisburg Telegraph mailed
to your vacation address it
you would enjoy real comfort.
Six cents a week will bring
the Telegraph to you uo nutt
ier where you arc.
BY CARRIERS 6 CENTS A WEEK.
SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS.
BROADER SCOPE
FOR COMMISSION
ASKED BY MEXICO
Gen. Carranza's Reply to Last
Note Accepts Suggestion
For Joint Body
NOT TRANSLATED YET
Wants Original Subjects Dis
cussed, Including Withdrawal
and Protocal
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C.. Aug. 4.—Gen
eral Carranza's seply to the last Ameri
can note accepting its suggestion for
a joint commission to adjust border
difterences. but proposing a broader
scopt for the commission's work, was
deli\ered to the State Department to
day by Eliseo Arredondo, the Mexican
ambassador-designate. It announces
the appointment of three Mexican
commissioners with instructions to de
vote their attention preferably to the
resolution of the points mentioned in
the previous note.
Thus the de facto government ap
parently rejects the proposal that the
commission consider other questions
than the military situation and limits
its discussions to the subjects origi
nally suggested by Carranza—with
drawal of American troops from Mex
ico, formulation of a protocol to cover
future operations against bandits and
investigation of interests which may
have promoted border raids. Whether
this will be satisfactory to the United
States government has not been indi
cated. The note was in Spanish and
when he went to to-day's Cabinet
meeting Acting Secretary Polk de
clined to discuss it until an official
translation could be made.
Hope for Karly Settlement
If it is accepted, the next step will
be negotiations between Mr. Polk and
Mr. Arredondo to fix the time and
place for meetings of the commission
ers. President Wilson already has
under consideration a score of names
suggested for the American member
ship.
Hope for an early solution of pend
ing difficulties was confidently ex
pressed by Mr. Arredondo after leav
ing the department. He said he ex
pected to reach an agreement with
Mr. Polk by to-morrow as to the date
and place of meeting and that there
upon he would wire the Mexican com
missioners with the expectation that
they would be here In at least ten days.
He said Asbury Park, N. J., or Old
Point Comfort, Va., probably would be
selected.
Black Tom Explosion
Caused by Plotters
Is Belief of Johnson
By Associated Press
Jersey City. N. J., Aug. 4.—The ex
plosion of munitions on Black Tom
Island last Sunday morning which
killed at least four persons and did
approximately *20,000,000 damage was
caused by "some persons with the ob
ject of doing just what was accom
plished," according to Theodore B.
Johnson, one of the four men who
were arraigned to-day charged with
manslaughter in connection with the
blast. The hearing was deferred until
August 18.
Sir. Johnson, president of Johnson
Lighterage and Towing Company, said
he would produce one of his employes
who would swear that when he first
saw the fire it was in a box car on
Black Tom Island and did not origi
nate in one of the Johnson company's
barges, as charged.
Up to noon to-day the police de
railed by city authorities to watch in
j coming trains for shipments of ex
i plosives had found none.
Rescued From Launch, Adrift
Without Food 36 Hours
Owen Sound, Ont„ Aug. 4. Seven
I men, missing since Sunday night
i when they left Detour, Chippewa
| county, Mich., in the gasoline launch
j Idler, for their homes on Drummond
Island, were rescued in Lake Huron
by the Canadian Pacific steamer Manl
| toba Tuesday. They had drifted 36
hours in the yacht which had become
disabled 10 miles out as the result of
| a breakdown of the gasoline engine.
1 The Manitoba arrived here to-day and
| reported the rescue.
The men were without food for the
I 3fi hours they were adrift, and being
[without oars or sails they were help
less in the gale that was blowing from
the north. Seaching parties from Al-
I pena and Sheboygan had given the
| men up for lost.
| HUGHES PREPARES FOR TRIP
By Associated Press
Bridgehampton, R. 1., Aug. 4.
| Charles E. Hushes spent to-day pack
| ing his trunks for his western trip.
J One of the three trunks he will take
with him will be filled with memo
randa letterfe, documents and other
data \vhich he will use in his speeches
he expects to make. Accompanied by
Mrs. Hughes, he will leave here to
morrow for New York, where the start
for the West will be made to-morrow
night.
FAIRBANKS TO TRAIL HUGHES
By Associated Press
New York, Aug. 4.—The Republican
National campaign leaders announced
to-day that Charles W. Fairbanks, of
Indiana, vice-presidential nominee on
the Republican ticket, will make a
campaign tour of the country similar
to that now planned for Charles E.
Hughes. It was said at the headquar
ters that Mr. Fairbanks will follow Mr.
Hughes over virtually the same ground
later In the campaign.
SCHOONER TORPEDOED
By Associated Press
Havre, Aug. 4. Two British
schooners were torpedoed in the Eng
lish channel on Wednesday night. The
crews were rescued and brought here
SINK ITALIAN STEAMER
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 4. The Italian
steamship citta D 1 Messina, of 2,454
tons has been sunk,according to an an
nouncement made at Lloyds' to-day.
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1916
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MRSuXARRIE CHAPMAN CATT D£L ANNA. £VIAW MRSLND2MAN D£ R. \vHirr HA. I~F
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the ablest, if not the ablest woman in the United States, president of the
National American Woman's Suffrage Association; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, former president, and Mrs. Norman
De R. Whitehouse, chairman of the New York State Wu.nan Suffrage party, were the three whose arguments did
more to cause Charles E. Hughes to announce himself for federal action on the woman suffrage question than the
work of any others.
Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Whitehouse called on Mr. Hughes In his New York headquarters July 17 and
urged him to help the women of the country in their fight for the ballot by giving an endorsement of suffrage
"without any strings to it." Mr. Hughes listened to them attentively for more than an hour, and at the conclusion
of the interview assured them that the National American Woman Suffrage Association would be satisfied with his
stand on the suffrage question. The Republican candidate's assurances were lived up to by him both in his recent
telegram to Senator Sutherland, of Utah, and his speech before the Women's Roosevelt League at the Astor Hotel
In New York City on August 1.
RIVER BASIN TO
BE IN SPOTLIGHT
Wonderful Electrical Effects
Planned by Jovians For Illu
mination Labor Day
Illumination of the Susquehanna
basin during th e cventng will be a
feature of the big Labor Day river
carnival and regatta and some extra
ordinary electrical effects will help
light up the waters if plans now being
worked out by the Jovian league
materialize.
The league, an organization com
posed solely of the electrical engineers
and others interested In the electrical
profession, was the first organization
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DEBATING CHILD LABOR
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 4. The child
labor bill, on which debate began in
the Senate yesterday was up again
to-day with Southern Senators ready
to start a fight on its constitutionality.
Senator Robinson, presenting the
measure yesterday, argued that Su
preme court rulings had shown the bill
to be constitutional because regula
tion of child labor was proposed
through prevention of Interstate ship
ment of child labor products. The
power of Congress to regulate com
merce is absolute, he contended.
The bill will be kept before the Sen
ate until passed. There Is no Republi
can opposition.
PETITION STATE
FOR RIVER FILL
City and C. I. and S. Co. Will
Ask Permission to Extend
Slopes Wednesday
Two applications for permission to
"fill" along the River Front of the city
to insure a uniformity of water line
will be heard by the State Water Sup
ply Commission Wednesday afternoon,
August 9. when the requests of the
Central Iron and Steel Company and
the city of Harrisburg to extend the
short lines are considered.
The city's application deals with the
"fill" along the river slope north
of Hardscrabble in accordance with
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Fully 60 Lost in Flood
After Tenn. Dam Breaks
By Associated Press
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 4. Fully
sixty lives were lost yesterday in a
Hood that swept down the narrow val
ley through whieh (lows Big Barren
creek in Clairborne county, Tenn.
While families were wiped out. The
' waters overwhelmed the basin when a
thirty-five foot dam gave way after
the hardest rain ever known in the
region. Weather bureau oiliciuls said
fourteen inches of water fell in tliat
part of the State.
FATHER NEARLY PROSTRATED
By Associated Press
Toledo, 0., Aug. 4. Samuel Wylle,
father of Lillie and Minnie Wylle, aged
3 and 5 years, respectively, left hero
last night on receipt of a telegram
telling him that his children had been
drowned in the cloudburst in Tennes
see. He was nearly prostrated by the
news. Wylle is a paper manufacturer.
The telegram said the children were
with their grandmother near Tazewell
when their house was swept away.
NEVIN M. WERTZ
KILLED BY TRAIN
His Automobile Cut in Two by
Cumberland Valley Express
at Mechanicsburg
[Photo by E. E. Strong]
KEVIN M. WERTZ
Special to the Telegraph
Mechanlcsburg, Pa., Aug. 4. A
passenger train on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad at 11:15 o'clock last
night cut an automobtle in two and
almost Instantly killed Kevin M.
Wertz of Shiremanstown, who was
driving it. The accident happened at
the grade crossing near Irving College,
in the eastern end of town. The train
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LET CONTRACT
FOR STATION
Philadelphia Firm to Build
Freight Depot For Pennsyl
vania Railroad
It was learned to-day at the head
quarters of the Philadelphia division
that the tlrm of Warren Moore & Co.,
of Philadelphia, has been awarded the
contract for thu erection of the new
Pennsylvania Railroad freight station
in South Second street. It Is under
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Major Everett Warren,
Drops Dead at Lake Placid
Scranton, Pa., Aug. 4. Major Ever
ett Warren, prominent among the at
torneys of Pennsylvania and a leading
corporation lawyer of this city, dropped
dead to-day at Lake Placid. N. Y„
where he was resting for a few days.
Major Warren, who was 57 vears
old. was long connected with the Penn
sylvania National Guard, being judge
advocate on the staffs of Generals
Gobin and Snowden. He was prominent
in Republican politics and was presi
dent of the State League of Republican
Clubs and also served as a Presidential
elector.
KILLED AT RUTHERFORD
Struck by a train in the Rutherford
yards, of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway Company, last night, Wil
liam Yeagley, aged 24, a brakeman of
Hummolstown, received injuries which
caused his death in the Harrisburg
hospital early this morning.
His wife visited him at the hospital
before he died. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
FTKST GAME
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Batteries—Wilkes-Barre, Kutz and Brlger; Harrisburg, Burns and
Wheat.
PLAGUE KILLS
1,000 INFANTS
Infantile Paralysis Continues
to Gain Headway; 5,000
Stricken
By Associated Press
.Jew Tork, Aug. 4. More than 1,-
000 children now have been killed by
the epidemic of infantile paralysis and
nearly 5,000 have been stricken by the
disease. The Health Department's
daily bulletin shows that the plague
still continues to gain headway. Dur
ing the twenty-four hours ending at 10
a. m. to-day, forty-flve children died
of the disease in the five boroughs of
New Vork City, and 175 new cases, the
second largest number in a single day.
were reported. Since June 2' there
have been 4,680 cases, 1,025 of whlcn
proved fatal.
PARALYSIS AT HAZLETON
tiy Associated Press
Hazleton, Pa... Aug. 4. lnfantile
paralvsis appeared in Hazleton to-day
and Dr. Charles Miner, of Wilkes-
Barre, state health officer for this sec
tion of the state, camts here this after
noon and took charge of the quaran
tine established. Two cases, widely
Feparated territorially, have been dis
covered. The lirst was at the home of
John Prete, In a suburb. The second
is at iht homo of the Rev. W. H.
Kindt, pastor of the Salem Evangelical
Church. The lirst case was that of
a 2-year-old boy and the second victim
is aged 8.
SIGN TREATY FOR
DANISH ISLANDS
Agreement For Purfchase by
U. S. For $25,000,000 Is
Drawn Up
By Associated press
Washington, Aug. 4. Acting
Secretary Polk announced to-day that
the treaty by which the United States
is to purchase the Danish West Indies
from Denmark for $25,000,000 was
signed at New Tork this morning by
Secretary Lansing and Minister Con
stantin Brun.
The treaty provides for the transfer
to the United States of three islands,
St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John,
which have been the subject of
negotiations between the United States
and Denmark for many years.
It is understood that the administra
tion will ask for ratification by the
Senate before the end of the present
session and while there may be some
objection to the price no really serious
opposition is expected.
Secretary Lansing, who has been
spending his vacation at Watertown.
N. Y., went to New York to meet
Minister Brun.
JAP AM) BRITISHER CUNK
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 4. The Japanese
steamer Kohlna Maru and the British
steamer G. C. Gradwell have been
sunk.
The Kohina Maru was a vessel of
1,16 2 tons. She was last reported sail
ing from Barry for Bizerta, Tunis, on
July 14.
DIXON SETS UP
QUARANTINE TO
! PREVENT PLAGUE
Children Under 16 Who May
Be Carriers Barred From
the State
STOP ALL EXCURSIONS
Telegrams Announcing Ox*der
Sent to New York and
New Jersey
State Commissioner of Health Sam
uel G. Dixon to-day established a quar
antine against all children under six
teen years of age entering the State
from premises in New York and New
Jersey where infantile paralysis pre
vails. This step, the most drastic yet
taken by the commissioner in his ef
fort to prevent spread of the disease,
went into effect, was announced about
noon and telegrams were sent to Com
missioners of Health Haven Emerson,
of New York, and Jacob C. Price, of
New Jersey.
For ten days or more the commis
sioner has beet, ndeavoring to step
children's excursions to New York
city and its environs and has been
aided by the railroads in many ways.
In audition to this action the com
missioner to-day, upon learning of
the seventh case of paralysis from
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No Criminal Intent, but
Accused Pastor Resigns
! The following statement was pre
pared by the committee of preliminary
i inquiry into the allegations against the
i Rev. J. G. Rosenberger of Penbrook,
arrested recently on the charge of
undue familiarity with a woman in a
downtown picture theater for insertion
in the newspapers and given out to
day:
"In the matter of allegations re
lating to the Rev. J. G. Rosenberger,
inquiry was made by a committee pro
vided by the discipline of the United
Evangelical Church. It was found
that the said alegations attributed no
criminal conduct to him, but evident
Indiscretions so Impaired his influence
as a minister that the committee ac
cepted his resignation as minister as
tendered by him before the adjourn
ment of the committee's session.
(Signed) A. E. Hangen, secretary."
IE DECLARES FOR SUFFRAGE " W
Woman Suffrage headquarters to-day gave out on be- P
half of Mrs. George B. Orlady, president of tl : ■ Jg
vatiia Suffrage Association what is stated to be "the first ft
authentic pronouncement by United States Senator Pen- i
rose concerning his views upon the suffrage question." It T
is stated thpt it was made in Philadelphia several days ago I
and is as'follows: j
"I believe that the woman suffrage amendment should
be submitted again to the voters of Pennsylvania. I con- !
sider it a moral r l a political tight. In addition I ' |
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: i 1919 sessions the Legislature I
'; id will do all I can personally toward the same end. I be- #
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J AUTO BANDITS GET $45,000 I
Detroit. Mich., Aug. 4.—Three automobile bandits held 5
I up pay clerks entering the plant of the Burroughs Adding f
4 • Machine Company here this afternoon and after shooting a
j t one of the clerks escaped with bags said to contain $45,000. i
i) i
! STRIKERS GET FIRST PAY #
J. J. Thorpe with his pockets filled with five-dollar I
bills to-day started paying the strikers their first week's f
"wages." An open-air meeting will be held by the strikers :
at Sixth and Maclay streets this evening at 8 o'clock. .
1 ?
NOT PARALYSIS
A suspected case c; infantile paralysis was reported to-'
j! day to Dr. J. M. J. Raunick when W. A. Bartolettc, Rich
j I land, Lebanon county, a postal clerk on'the Philadelphia' *
; and Reading, running between this city and New York, was
,> 9 admitted to the hospital. No diagnosis of the disease has >
I yet been made'by the local health authorities, but it has ;
I been learned that it is not paralysis. I J
MARRIAGE LICENSES ''
Vurney R. Chubb and Maude E. Hoke, Mllleraburs. .
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FRENCH DRIVE
GERMANS BACK IN
FURIOUS FIGHTS
Carry Fleury by Storm; Still
Hold Northern Portion;
Win at Other Points
RUSSIANS TAKE TOWN
Capture Village Nineteen Miles
East of Kovel; Going
Fast
Desperate fighting Is in progress
north of Verdun where the French
three days ago took the offensive and
have scored notable gains in the ef
fort to drive back the Germans who
had been hammering at the gates of
the fortress for more than five months.
After pushing to the outskirts of the
village of Fleury, three miles north
of Verdun, on Wednesday night, the
French brilliantly attacked the place
yesterday and carried it by storm.
Last night the crown prince's troops
launched furious counter attacks and
succeeded in retaking the southern
section of the village, being unable,
however, to wrest the northern por
tion of it from General Nivelle'B
forces.
British Winning
Fleury, however, is not. the only
point where the French have scored
advances. In the attack on a three
mile front east from the river Meuse
they pushed north along the river to
ward the Vacherauville wood and the
Cote du Polvre and further east at
tacked and gained possession of the
Thiaumont redoubt. They found the
Thiaumont position untenable how
ever, because of the German bombard
ment and were compelled to withdraw
from it.
Riiss Closer to Kovel
Meanwhile fighting on the Somme
front has dwindled to minor opera
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Other War New on Page 3.
ITALIAN U-BOATS I.OST
By Associated Press
Rome, Aug. 4. The loss of two
Italian submarines Is officially an
nounced. The statement says that the
undersea craft "left with others on a
mission to the enemy coast a long
time ago. As they have failed to re
turn to their base they are considered
lost."
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