Congress Works Under Pressure as Both Sides Lay Plans For Great Railroad Strike HARRISBURG tfjfgjli TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 200 BOTH SIDES HURRY PLANS FOR STRIKE; ASK POSTPONEMENT Every Effort Being Made to Have Brotherhoods Extend or Rescind Their Walkout Order Until Congress Has Had Opportunity to Act; Wilson May Make Appeal to Rail way Workers Over Heads of Leaders FEELING PERSISTS IN WASHINGTON THAT WAY WILL BE FOUND TO AVERT GREAT TIEUP Leaders Assert No Power on Earth Except Satisfactory Settlement Can Prevent Trouble and That They Can not Recall the Order; Union Pacific Conductors Re strained From Quitting ; Railroads of Nation Placing Embargo on Perishable Foodstuffs Washington, Aug. 30.—With both sides making last-hour prep arations for a great railway strike Monday morning, President Wilson to-day turned all the influence of his administration toward persuading the brotherhood leaders to postpone or rescind their strike order until Congress has had opportunity to act. There were intimations that should the labor leaders continue adamant President Wilson even might make a public appeal to the lailway workers themselves to direct their leaders to postpone it. Despite denials of the labor leaders that President Wilson or any one else had asked them to postpone the strike there were abundant evidences that such was the case, and somehow there was a feeling in Congress, in administration circles and in other places that a way would be found to avert the walkout. No one knew what it was, but the feeling prevailed. "After a conference with Secretary Wilson at the Department of Labor the brotherhood leaders reiterated that no power on earth except a satisfactory settlement would avert the strike and that they had no power to rescind the order. Nevertheless efforts were continued to bring about a postpone ment. y It was not assured that, even if measures proposed by President Wilson in his address to Congress yesterday can be passed in the five days remaining, they will be effective in forestalling the walkout. In general, brotherhood leaders intended to fight "the legislative program and railway managements expected to support it, but both sides laid plans for the strike quite as if its coming were beyond all doubt. Restrain Conductors The first legal phase of the situation developed with the temporary injunc tion issued by a local court in Ne braska restraining the conductors from calling or enforcing a strike on the Union Pacific. This brought up for the first time the effect of the much discussed Clayton anti-injunc tion act passed by Congress at the behest of labor. The brotherhood leaders unreservedly expressed the opinion that the injunction was in contravention of the law and could not stand. There were intimations that similar injunctions might be sued out in different parts of the country where the sentiment of the men is known to be against the strike. Will Tic Passenger Traffic With notices of freight embargoes and prospective delays to passenger traffic pouring in from all parts of the country, Chairman Howard Elliott of the New Haven, issued a statement on behalf of the railway executives pointing out that passenger train serv ice as well as freight will be tied up. While every effort was being made to prevent the strike both sides continued to make preparations to meet it. Consider Old I jaw The Senate Interstate Commerce (Other Strike Xens on Pages 2, r>, 10.1 THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and vicinity! Fair to-nlitht and Thursday) not muck change In tempemture, For Knstern Pennsylvania! Gener ally fair to-night nnd Thumlnyi not much change In temperature; light southwest to weat winds. River The Susquehanna river and Ita tributaries will remnln nearly stationary. A stage of about 3.3 feet Is Indicated for Harrisburic Thursday morning. General Conditions Wo disturbance of Importance ap pears on the map this morning. Pressure Is somewhat above nor mal over nearly all the country east of the Itoeky Mountains, be ing highest over the l.oner Ohio Valley and West Tennessee. Showers have fallen generally In the South Atlantic and Golf States and locally In Xehraska, Arlaona nnd Utah and along the southern border of the Ureal Lakes, the amounts being light to moderate, except on the Texas coast, vrhere 2.20 Inches fell at Corpus Chrlstl. There has been a general though slight rise In temperature over the greater part of the country, except in the Up per Mississippi Valley, the greater part of the Lake Region and over the Pacific slope, in Sooth Carolina, Georgia ana Florida, where It Is 2 to 16 de grees cooler. Temperature: 8 a. m., S6. Son i Rises, Si3o a. m.s sets, <JI4I p. m. Moont First quarter, September 4, 11i26 p. m. River Stagei 3.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 74. Lowest temperature, ,%4. Mean temperature, 64. Normal temperature, 70. BY CARRIERS <1 CENTS A WEEK* SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. Committee also considered a law passed by Congress in 1862 authoriz ing the President to take possession of railroad and telegraph lines when in his judgment public safety might re quire it. Senators remarked it was an interesting statue in the face of the existing emergency. The statue pass ed in the early part of the Civil War was designed to be in force only as long as necessary to meet war condi tions. President Wilson still hoped the brotherhood leaders now in Wash ington would find means of rescinding the strike order which they maintain has gone beyond their jurisdiction. There was no unanimity of opinion among them as to whether the sug gested measure to forbid a strike pending investigation by a public commission, if passed and made ef fective before next Monday, could ap ply validly to the present situation. Railway executives believed, however, that the legislation advocated would force a suspension of action, possibly only by the pressure of public opinion. Railroads Placing Knilmrgoes * While government machinery was humming to-day with strike plahs there poured from all sections of the country reports that railroads were declaring embargoes on perishable stuff, refusing to accept freight with guarantees of prompt delivery and warning against passenger travel ex tending past 1 a. m. Monday, the hour set for the strike. These reports gave a hint of the rigors which might be expected from a general strike. As a sequel to the conference in Speaker Clark's office at the Capitol last night between the President and Congressional leaders of both parties, these leaders planned another meet ing for early to-day to map out a course. Arrangements also were made for a meeting of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, for it was in tne upper House that strike legislation was to be threshed out first. Not Agreed on Methods Members of Congress were not fully agreed on methods, but they were rep- | * ["Continued on President in Shore Garb Sets Precedent Before Congress Washington, AUK. 30. Fashion note: When President Wilson ad dressed Congress this afternoon he wore a blue serge coat which lltted closely about his lithe form, -white flannel trousers with cuffs, white silk socks and white canvas shoes. His collar was of the turn-down variety and his four-in-hand was of some soft, shiny material which looked like silk. On all his nine public appearances before Congress President Wilson was attired in a ministerial frick coat, white waistcoat, gray striped trous ers and black shoes. Usuallv he wore a gray four-in-hand cravat. His dress to-day gave him a youthful appear ance that was not materially modified by the whitening hair and the thick reading glassfes he wore. Old-timers said that it was the first time any President of the United States had ap peared at the Capitol for a ceremonial occasion wearing any other than a formal black coat. DOES FEMININE HARRISBURG WANT A MUNICIPAL BATHING BEACH? OH, NO! If you don't think that Harrisburg's youthful feminity wants a bath ing beach, "oh, Just awfully," just slip over to the city bathhouses some day when the girls are having their plunge—that is if you can manage to get past the eagle-eyed guard long enough to take a peek. The accom panying etching conveys an idea of what you'll see. Reading from left to right the pretty bathers are: Alice Walker, Ruth Gise, Ruth Drake Helen Drake, Kathryn Bradigan, Margaret Cohn, Mabel Bradigan and Vera Walden. TO SAVE HIMSELF CYCLIST HITS TWO WOMEN; KILLS ONE Attempting to avoid being run down by a Philadelphia, and Reading train at a grade crossing near East Middle town station this morning, Uriah Sclirum, Middletown, drove his ma chine against Mrs. Sara Hoerner, aged 77, and her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Zorger, aged 59, instantly killing Mrs. Tfoerner and seriously injuring her daughter. P. & R. READY OFFICIALS SAY Pennsy May Close Enola Side and Handle Freight in Harrisburg Yards Philadelphia and Reading Railway officials to-day announced that they were ready for a strike. Plans were completed at a conference of superin tendents and heads of departments at Reading yesterday. All employes not affected by the strike order will be mustered into the transportation serv ice and assigned to special duty. Simi lar plans are announced by the Cum berland Valley Railroad and the Northern Central Railway. At Rutherford yards there is very [Continued on Page 7] Fay, Bombplotter, Escapes From Prison Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 30. —Robert Fay, former German artny officer, con victed of conspiracy against the United States in connection with munitions plots in New York, escaped from the Federal prison here late yesterday with William Knobloch, another pris oner. New York, Aug. 29. Robert Fay, German army lieutenant; Walter Scholz, his brother-in-law, and Paul Daeche were convicted here May 8 on charges of conspiring to sink steam ships carrying munitions of war to the allies by attaching bombs to them. Fay was sentenced to eight years' im prisonment, Scholz to four years and Daeche to two years. Fay came to this country under an assumed name after the outbreak of the war. He wrote to President Wil son after his conviction admitting he was a deserter from the German army, but asked that he be deported to Germany to'"rehabilitate" himself and that he might give his life to his country. DAM MARKS END OF BIG PROGRAM Finish Expenditure of Nearly Million and Half; Hard scrabble Next Problem With the completion yesterday of the (treat dam across the Susquehanna at Dock street, Harrisburg's vast pro gram of public improvements involv ing an expenditure of more than a million and a quarter dollar*, was practically concluded. Hardscrabble is still the unsolved Improvement problem although the solution, insofar as the future elimina tion of the section is concerned, is {Continued on I'«go 2.] HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1916. Both women were waiting to board the approaehing train, which was slowing down to load passengers. The motorcycle hurled both against the trucks of the engine. The older woman was dead when picked up and her daueho»r was rushed to the ofllcc or a MiddlMHn physician. S< hrrtW"drove into Middletown and surrendered to Chief or Police Cha-les Houser, who notified Coroner Jacob Eckinger, who is investigating. RUMANIANS POUR INTO HUNGARY With Russians Meet Only Light Resistance; Bombard Danube Towns By Associated Press London, Aug. 30.—Dispatches from Bucharest by way of Rome say Ru manians. in conjunction with Rus sians, have captured the principal passes of the Carpathians. For twelve hours tho Rumanians have marched uninterruptedly on Hungarian terri tory, meeting only weak resistance. London, Aug. 30.—Hungarian war correspondents as quoted in a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam, re port that the Rumanians have begun a bombardment of the Danubo towns [Continued on Page 5] "Heart-to-Heart" Dancing Frowned on by Masters Special to the Telegraph New York Aug. 30. The American Society of Professors of Dancing will hold its annual convention in the ball room of the Hotel Majestic from Tues day to Friday next week. Advance information indicates that "hi?art-to-hcart" dancing will he ta booed by a vote of the convention It I? b ,« attacked vigorously bv Louis H. Chalif. formerly of the Russian im perial ballet, who will deliver the ope" ing address The "hippopotamus hob ble and other zoological eccentricities be 'aid on the Bhe, f- and the tired businessmen will be invited to kick his heels in the athletic polka. P. & H. PRESIDENT ILL Word was received In Harrisburg to-day of the serious Illness of Presi dent A. T. Dice of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at his summer cottage at Chelsea, Atlantic City. MANY FLOATS IN KIPONA PARADE Susquehanna Will Blaze With Light Monday; State Won't Interfere Thousands of folks who will crowd the river hank and the "city's front steps" on the evening of Labor Day will be treated to the spectacle of a blaze of light that will make light out of darkness, according to the plans of the general committee In charge of darkness, according to the plans of the general committee in charge of the Kipona. ' Now that all danger of the carnival iContinued on Patfe 7] NO SCHOOL FOR PUPILS UNDER 16 UNTIL OCTOBER But Schools May Be Opened as Usual to Students Over That Age, Says Dr. Dixon ORDER IS MODIFIED Commissioner Raps Critics; Not Known What Action Will Be Taken Here No children under 16 years of age may attend any school In Pennsylva nia until after September 29. Heads of all schools are to be per mitted to decide whether or not they will open as usual, providing that none of them admit children under 16. This in brief is the effect of a modi fied infantile paralysis order made by the State Board of Health and an nounced by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Health Commissioner, in a statement to the public this afternoon. Dr. Dixon also sharply raps cnilcs who have found fault with the course of the department in its fight against Infan tile paralysis. The former order closed all schools vintil September 18, but the [Continued on Page 5] Supposed Burglars Are Really Plainclothesmen Detectives and plain clothes men on the police force who have been work ing on Allison Hill in an effort to catch the burglars who made a raid in that section have been giving the residents in the neighborhood quite a scare. The coppers have been mistaken for robbers by the people In the vicinity of Regina and Seventeenth streets and reports have been received at the police station that two white men and a col ored man, seen frequently early in the morning, are probably the ones who have been causing the trouble for the police. The two white men and the colored man were plain clothes men working In the district. Lost Fortune in Wheat; Burns Home and Kills Self Sfecial to the Telegraph Warren, Pa., Aug. 80'.'—The an-, trance of Rumania into the Kuropean conflict indirectly claimed one victim in this country yesterday afternoon, when Charles Hill, 53 years old, a wealthy miller, set fire to hi 3 home in Lottsvllle and then shot himself through the forehead with a 32-callber revolver. Hill, it Is alleged, lost heavily when wheat sold oft on the Chicago market. Neighbors rushed to the home when they heard the shot. They found Hill's body lying across the threshold with the revolver clutched in his hand; life was extinct. Dragging the body outside, they entered the home and attempt ed to save the furniture. The carpets had been soaked with kerosene before Hill set the house on fire and they could do little. Labor Parade Marshal to Name Aids and Route I Complete arrangoments for the big I Labor Day parade are being made and lat least 3,000 members of organiza | tions of the city are expected to be in I line. j The joint committee of labor organ i ization representatives met last night jat 221 Market street. Frank C. Hoff | man, chief marshal of the'parade will announce his aids in a few days, to gether with division assignments, plan of formation and the entire route. A number of bands will be In line, and all of the men in line will be uniformed. A number of organiza tions have not reported, but union men | of the city predict that the parade will be one of the biggest of its kind ever held in Harrisburg. There will be three divisions and a number of automobiles and carriages : are expected to be included in the I line. Army and Navy Bills , Are Signed by President Washington, Aug. 30. President Wilson yesterday completed the Ad ministration preparedness legislative program by signing the army and navy appropriation bills. At the same time he signed the Philippine bill and the j new uniform bill of lading law. I He was surrounded by chairmen and members of the House and Senate committees and army and navy offl i cers. oMtion picture cameras record ed the event, and when he had signd all the bills President Wilson spoke of his feelings in putting the finishing touches to the legislation. Two Missing Highspire Girls in Raleigh Jail Mary May Conrad, aged 15, and Ethel Lilly, aged 14, two Highspire girls who disappeared from their homes several weeks ago, are in jaij at Raleigh. N. C., according to a let - j ter received by the Harrisburg Police Department, from J. R. Jordan, Jail | keeper at that city. According to 1 Keeper Jordan the girls said that they I had "hoboed' their way to Raleigh from Norfolk with another woman who 1 gave her name as Mrs. Alma Smith. : She is also being held at Raleigh. EXEMPT PAYMENTS New York, Aug. 30. Payments ag gregating more than (600.000 from the estute of the late Mrs. John D. Rockefeller to the Rockefeller Foun dation and the Bureau of Social Hy giene. were exempted from the State transfer tax yesterday by a surrogate's decision. The State comptroller had asked that a gift of $425,518 to the Rockefeller Foundation be taxed, al leging that the Institution was a cor poration so organized that prtvate business might be transacted under its charter and that "it could be used by the Rockefeller family as s. sub terfuge tc evade the transfet tax laws." Y.M.C.A.HASNEW GYM DIRECTOR C. W. Miller, of Sharon, Will Assume Duties of Physical Director Next Week C. W. MILLER At a special session of the executive committee of the Young Men's Chris tian Association held this morning the committee appointed for the purpose of selecting a new physical director for the association recommended C. V/. Miller, of Sharon, Pa., for the position. The recommendation was favorably acted upon and Mr. Miller will take up his duties shortly after the first of the month. Frank and Edward Roth, the former a teacher in the Central high school and the latter a prominent high school anil Academy athlete, had been in charge of the physical department of [Continued on I'agc 4] PENXYPACKER CoSIFORTABI.E By Associated Press Philadelphia. Aug. SO.—Although his condition still is critical, former Gov ernor Samuel \V. Pennypacker was re ported to be resting comfortably to-day at his home near Schwenkville. For the first time since he suffered a sink ing spell early Sunday morning, due to uraemic poisoning. Ex-Governor Pennypacker is able to take light nour ishment. I—— Rl. MOR O' . I>t;ATlt APPARENTLY UN OUNDED 3f Hurrisburg. Newspaper offices were bombarded this W afternoon, by telephone inquiries concerning a report that A George W. Mcllhenn?, formerly treasurer of the school t board, had died suddenly. While Mr. Mcllhenny could not A be located, relatives and friends had heard nothing to con- X firm the rumor-and it is apparently unfounded. 1 WILL WATCH FOR FOOD INCREASES ? New York, Aug. 30.—1n event of a strike the police de- J partment. it was announced, will set a close watch upon the * retail grocers to prevent any unnecessary advance in prices f j of food. Any dealer attempting to jump his prices will be * •' conspiracy to injure the pul : he; Ith. f * | >mpanies of « T ° a t I border duty provisional infantry unit Ito the Jk '^ c # j' an 1 western departments. More than 10,0P0 addi- L * * '■ N • onal Guardsmen, ordered to the border recently, f I v. ill take the places of the artillery troops. ? J RAILROAD PRESIDENTS TO MEET J i Chicago, Aug. 30.—A meeting of railroid presidents, J > several of whom returner 1 from Washington this afternoon, ! ■, will be held here to-morrow to lay plans based on the , * assumption that a strike will be called September 4. 1 WILL PASS 8-HOUR DAY < 9 Washington, Aug. 30. Chairman Adamson, of the ' ' I House Interstate Commerce Committee, to-day told Sena < i tor Newlands, chairman of the Senate Committee, that ® » I legislation for the eight-hour day and for a commission ! ' | l would be enacted in all probability by both houses but that * | . nothing was feaflil td those two propositions. Mr. 1 < I Adamson said h£ did not believe compulsory arbitration | | and consideration of increase .in freight rates would pass i ! either house. . Pittsburgh, Aug. 30.—Samuel Moody, passenger man- ' \ age of the Pennsylvania lines, to-day instructed all pas senger and ticket agents to notify passengers that unless * I they can rea !i their destinations by Sunday right, Sep tember 3, thev mav he nnahV to comply inumw. * » ; ' MARRIAGI LICENSES j I Anthony Jonrph <>llardr and Clali Rurkty. city. Wtlann Clayton Stvarlz and Itutb Anna Atttck, Lower Paxton. g 12 PAGES CITY EDITION EXPLOSION ADDS TO LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED ON WRECKED CRUISER Steam Main on U. S. S. Mem phis Cast on Domingan Rocks Bursts Killing One, Seriously Wounding Seven and Slightly Hurting Sixty- Seven TWENTY ARE DROWNED; VESSEL IS TOTAL LOSS No Word From Naw Tug Which Runs Ahead of Storm; Gunboat Castine Torn From Moorings, and Steering Gear Disabled, Is Also Unheard From By Associated Prist Washington, Aug. 30. One en listed man was killed, two officers and Ave men seriously injured and sixty seven other men slightly hurt aboard the armored cruiser Memphis, in ad dition to those lost by drowning when the ship was wrecked in a storm yes terday at Son Domingo City. Rear Admiral Pond's dispatch to-day said a steam main burst causing the ad ditional casualties. Admiral Pond said all hands had been removed from the ship which he previously reported would be a total loss. To-day's message did not sum marize the total casualties, merely adding "several men missing, believ ed drowned," to the itemized casual ties of the engineroom accident which occurred while the cruiser was endea voring to make her way to sea in the face of a sudden storm. A report last night said twenty men returning to ties of the engineroom accident which th e ship In a motorboat had been lost. AU Hands Taken Off "All hands off the Memphis Cap tain Beach was the last to leave the ship. When the storm struck steam was up and the main engines working, but the main steam Una [Continued on Page 5]
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