Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, September 02, 1916, Image 1
Menace of General Paralysis of Country's HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T YYYV . XT/-. 9A2 BV CARRIKHS (I C KVTS A WEEK* LAAA V I\o. SIXGLE COPIES 2 CKXTS. SENATE EXPECTED ACCEPT STRIKE BILL /IS IT PASSED Administration Leaders Firmly Believe Adamson Measure, Approved by Wilson and Formally Accepted by the Brotherhood Heads as Meeting Their Demands, Will Go Through Upper Chamber Without Any Delay in Conferences VOTE TO BE TAKEN AT 6 O'CLOCK TONIGHT; WILL RUSH 1 TO WILSON FOR SIGNATURE Chiefs Have Code Messages Ready to Send Broadcast to Re voke Order Which Would Have Paralyzed Country's Transportation Systems Monday Morning; All Dan ger or Strike Is About Over Washington, Sept. 2. —The enact ment Into law of enough of President Wilson's program to prevent the rail way strike seemed assured when the Senate reassembled this morning at 10 o'clock with a program which calls for a vote not later than 6 o'clock this evening. It was the belief of administration leaders that the Adamson bill as it passed the House late yesterday, ap proved by President Wilson and form ally accepted by the labor leaders as meeting their demands, would event ually be accepted by the Senate, thus obviating a delay in conference to reconcile differences with the House. As soon as the perfected bill finally Is passed a special messenger will carry it to the summer Whte House at Shadow Lawn so the President may sign it at once and end the menace of a general paralysis of the country's t ransporation lines at 7 o'clock Mon day morning. Amendments Proposed The first amendment proposed to day came from Senator Shafroth, Democrat. He proposed to fix Senator Underwood's amendment empowering the Interstate Commerce Commission to make wage schedules so that no employe would be compelled to work lor the rate prescribed. Senator Hard Wick, Democrat, de claring Congress was being held up by the railroad employes, spoke for the adoption of the Underwood amendment. "We will not measure up to what is required of us," he said, "unless we not only bridge over the crisis but also provide that there never can arise again in this country an oppor tunity for any man or set of men, railroad managers or workers, to seize this government by the throat as is now being done. If we do not do this, I, for one, will feel that we have made a sorry trade as well as a sorry spectacle of ourselves." Senator Thomas also proposed an amendment to make it a misdemeanor for any person to delay or obstruct the operation of trains punishable by a tine of not more than SSOO or im prisonment for not more than one year or botii. House to Take Final Action When the House convened. Demo cratic leaders had arranged a program to insure final disposition of the eight hour railroad hill by to-night if the Senate acts. "We are first taking up some private hils, and will then recess until we get the eight-hour bill back from the Sen ate," said Democratic deader Kitchin. The brotherhood leaders still de cline to say whether they will send the code word meaning "satisfactory settlement" to the general chairmen immediately upon passage of the bill or hold it off until it is signed by the President. It is generally believed, however, that the message calling off the strike will go out as soon as both Houses have acted. They have no fear that the President will not sign the bill if it takes the form now indi cated. I THE WEATHER, For Harrishurg and vicinity: Fair and cooler to-night; Sunday fair, continued cool. For Knstern Pennsylvania: Fair to night and Sunday; cooler to night; moderate north "est Minds. River The Susquehanna river and nil It* tributaries will remain nearlr stationary. A Mage of about feet is indicated for Harrishurg Sunday morning. General Conditions The depression that was over the northern portion of the Lake Re gion. Friday morning, has moved to the Xorth Atlantic coast aad a high pressure area is moving down over tile Upper Mississippi Valley and the l.ake Region. Showers have fallen mrr the east ern and southern portions of the l.ake Region, In the l.otver Mis souri. Middle Mississippi, Ohio, Potomar and Susquehanna val leys and In Tennessee ana Florida and at a few other places, the amounts helng mostly tight, except In the Lower Ohio"Valley, where the rnln wns hea\.v, Louis ville reporting li.WI inches. It Is slightly warmer in Xew Kngland. the Middle Atlantic States and Z to 14 degrees cooler in northern districts from Xew York west ward to Montana. Over tlie re mainder of the country tempera ture changes have heen somen hat Irregular, liut not decided. Temperature: S a. in., 70. Sum Rises, 5:33 a. m.; sets. B:3« p. m. Moon i First quarter, September I, 11 I'M p. m. River stngei U feet above low water mark. Veaterday'a Weather Highest temperature, S|. Lowest temperature. US, Mean temperature, 74. Normal temperature, 60, | Sherman Assails Brotherhood Senator Sherman. Republican, as sailed the efforts of the brotherhoods and of other labor organizations to lirevent a compulsory arbitration law. "It is the Senate that is to be put I under involuntary servitude." said he. "I have been sought to be put under | involuntary servitude. If legislation has I fallen to so low a degree, if we are i ready so servilely to abandon our duty. [ then American politics have reached j the point where the few and not the many govern." Petty Political Bargain Senator Sherman charged President Wilson with making "a petty political" bargain oil the eve of election and I read a telegram from an actors' union I in Chicago, opposing compulsory arbi tration. "So next," he continued, "it is the - white rats that are to be legislated for. If we legislate for the engineers, | the firemen and the brakemen we [Continued on Page 7] New Order Made in $12,000,000 Will Suit Special to the I'ctcgraph Lebanon, Pa., Sept. 2. Because the German government does not permit the taking of testimony before foreign consular officials in Germany, | Judge Henry to-day made a supple j mental order in the suit of Dr. Guido Hinkel, of Freiburg, Germany, to break the will of his mother, Rosalie Parant Coleman, of Paris, who disin herited him on account of the war, in [ which he elected to serve the Kaiser. ! The original order, made August 3, to have Doctor Hinkel's aged» father, Prince Guido Henckel von Donners mark, of Berlin, to testify before the | American Consul General there as to the identity of the contestant, is changed to conform to the German government's ruling and Prince Don nersmark is to testify in the German court instead on October 20. Return of the testimony is to be i made in the Lebanon court on Decem ber 4. The supplemental order was made on the petition of Attorney Wil liam J. Turner, of Philadelphia, coun sel for Doctor Hinkel, presented in j court by Attorney Warren G. Light, of this city. Control of a $12,000,000 estate is the issue. Boy and 4 Men Injured in Auto Crash Along River I A bov was seriously injured, and j four men badly hurt early last even ing at Front and Woodbine streets, when W. N. Hurst, 2825 Herr street, ! Penbrook, driving a large touring car, | crashed into a smaller auto in which i the five were driving. The injured were taken to the Har risburg hospital. They are: Norman Pugh, aged 12, 412 Harri son street, Pottsville: probable frac tured skull, body contusions: may die. Edward Pugli, aged 51. same ad dress, lacerations and bruises. John W. Ycstadt, aged 53. 458 North | Second street, Steelton, head injuries which may prove serious. Fred Yestadt, 2219 Penn street, city, lacerations of scalp. Charles Yestadt. aged 25, 458 North Second street, Steelton, contusions and lacerations of face and body. Hursh after the accident gave him self up to the police, and was held un der $1,500 bail pending an investiga tion. He will be represented by Earl 10. Renn and Harry B. Saussaman, at torneys. A dispatch from Williamsport this afternoon says that Mr. Baker and son, William, received broken arms in the accident, and Mrs. Baker and the other children left the hospital. The body of the girl is being held pending an investigation of the condition of the road where the accident occurred The Lycoming Automobile Associa tion had asked the State Highway De partment to protect the road follow ing a similar accident two months ago when one life was lost. t I Dr. Dixon Wants All Children Kept Home Dr. S»mu»i G. Dixon, State Com missioner of Health, in announcing last night that cases of Infantile paralysis had been reported from thirty-one of the sixty-seven coun ties in Pennsylvania, (oniniented on the wide spread of the disease u, this way: Notwithstanding the fact that we are keeping cases of infantile paralysis from coming Into the State, we may get mi epidemic from those we already have un less the peonle stop traveling with their < hlidren to and from points within our borders w hern the disease exists. Thev rim unnecensarv risks of pb kins un the Infection HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916. FIRST KIPONA ISN'T GOING TO BE WITHOUT ITS THRILLS ; ■, -* ■ "-r ~ \ • : ' »V• *&*> * v> If you think th* first annual Kipona, the his regatta planned for Labor Dav bv the "Greater Harrisburg Navy." isn t going to be without its thrills—and mighty pretty thrills, at that—jOst read this. And then glance up' j Girl aqua-planing lias been added to the specialty feature of the program and the Telegraph herewith introduces the aqua-planers—from their rather precarious positions afloat: Mi«K June KrouKe, daughter of President Charles C. Krouse, of the Williamsport Board of Trade, noted i High school basketball and all round athlete. MKH Relta Wliltemnn, special chum of Miss Krouse, and who helped the latter win the doubles event in the eirls' aqua-planing race at the recent regatta held by the Williamsport canoeists. Both girls will come here Monday with Mr. Krouse to give a demonstration, arrangements having been com pleted to that effect last evening by long distance telephone between V. Grant Forrer, secretary of the Navy e\e j cutive committee and President Krouse. AWARD PRIZES TO GARDENERS Seven Families Winners; Yates Presents Trophies; Good Work Done Award of prizes for the most pro dvetive lots in the series of three workers' gardens provided for the use of working families by the Harrisburg Benevolent Association was made this afternoon, seven families being on the list of winners. The winners are: Garden No. I—First prize, Mrs. Sue May well, 1051 South Ninth street; second, Mrs. George Grove, 1110 South Cameron street; third, Washington Bender, 11 Sheridan street, and Mrs. C. Hippensteel, 1076 South Cameron street. Garden No. 2—First prize, Robert Courts, 11 Iff'KPfflT • film'e'rort' street; [Continued on Page 11] WILSON REVIEWS ACHIEVEMENTS At Shadow Lawn Notification Recounts Legislative Record and Defends Policies Shadow Dawn, N, J., Sept. 2. President Wilson was officially notified this afternoon of his renomination for the Presidency by the national Demo i cratic convention. I Thousands looked on and applauded j as the President accepted the nomina- I tion in a striking speech. While rain threatened to fall all ! morning the skies cleared in the aft -1 ernoon and the weather conditions were ideal. Conspicuous by their absence, for [Continued on Pa-gc 3] Wilkes-Barre Lawyer Is Suspended From Bar Following Stough Suit By .Associated Press : Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 2.—Attor ney Paul Sherwood, of this city, was to-day suspended from the bar here by an order of the court. He was adjudged guilty of having reflected on the fairness of the five local judges in the course of an argument before ! United States District Judge Witmer at Scranton for a transfer of a case tin which Henry W. Stough, the evan gelist, was defendant. Sherwood said at that time that the c ondition in reference to the connec tion of some of the judges here and the liquor interests "did not smell so sweet." He intimated that certain judges were under obligation to County Assessor Max Friedlander, of Hazleton, who was one of the plaintiffs in the case against the evangelist. TO IDENTIFY BEHEADED MAN? I At the request of County Detective James T. Walters and Private Detec tive Harry White, of the White De tective Agency, the body of the be headed man found in YioUert's moun tain, August 13. was exhumed to-day and the clothing removed in an effort to identify it. The clothing was fumigated to-day and on Monday the friends and relatives of a man who disappeared several weeks before the body was found, will attempt to es tablish the dead man's identitfy. RUNAWAY CARS CAUSE WRECK Special to the Telegraph Lafayette, lnd., Sept. 2.—A coupling in a freight train on a steep grade at Altamont broke to-day, releasing 15 cars which rushed down the Incline and crashed into the rear of a Big Four passenger train standing In front of the local passenger station. No one was killed. William Krueger and Roy Stinger of Hock Island, 111., were injured slightly. The two last coaches on the passenger train were empty. The wreckage was piled high about the station. AUDITION FOI< STKEIi PI-ANT [tending. Pa., Sept. 2.— Contracts for i a new machine shop and open hearth ! annex to rost $150,000 was awarded! by the Carpenter Steel Compan> to | i.rov Ide for Increased business duo to the iron and steel boom. I WORK ON KIPONA FLOATS IN GLOW OF GIANT LIGHTS Electricians Test Jovian Display as Basin Is Turned From Darkness to Daylight While four giant 1,000-candlepower electric floodlights turned portions of the Susquehanna basin from darkness into daylight, a corps of wiring, con struction and steam heat experts and a portion of the fleet of the Harris burg Light and Power Company and Master Mechanic George Cobaugh, of the cjty water department, worked busily until late last night adding finishing touches and making tests of the wonderful display that lias been [Continued on Page. 11] FIREWORKS BIG KIPONA FEATURE Plans Completed For Combina tion Electrical and Pyro tcchnical Display Electricity and gunpowder will vie with each other in a wonderful display on the Susquehanna river "basin" when the electrically lighted floats and the il lumination effects planned by the Jovian League and the pyrotechnical display combine to give thousands of spectators what the committees in ' charge say will be the "most surprising effects Harrisburg will have ever seen.'* Felix M. Davis and P. H. Bailey, rep- I resenting the fireworks committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Jo vian League, respectively, this after noon completed the program for the il lumination. The electrical part of the program is due to begin about 7:30 and at 8:30 this will be switched off as the pyrotechni cal display begins. Immediately after ward the electrical surprises will be switched on again. And in the mean time the decorated boat parade will be under way. Music, too. will be a feature. The Municipal band will play on the float that will lead the decorated boat pa rade. Later this band will plav on tliw float opposite Pine street. Opposite South street the Aeolian Quartet wilt [Continued on Page 3] Can Not Hold Congress in I Session After Strike Laws By Associated Press Washington, D. C.. Sept. 2.—Demo cratic leaders of both houses said to day that Congress could not be held in session after settlement of the rail road crisis longer than necessary to dispose of the revenue and general deficiency appropriation bills. These, they thought, could be passed by r,cxt Wednesday. It was generally agreed that efforts in the Senate to force action on the corrupt practices and immigration bills would be blocked by majority votes and that un exodus of members bound for the national campaign would be on before the end of next week. TROOPS ON WAY HOME San Antonio. Tex.. Sept. 2. Part of the Louslana troops in the Browns ville district entrained this morning. Two battalions of the Fourth Mary land infantry passed through her# from Ragle Pass about noon, north ward bound, and the third is expected to-night. All three of the New York regiments recalled will leave the Brownsville district on Monday or Tuesday. Three Ohio and threi* Kentucky regiments now enroute are expected to reach El Paso early next week. MORE GEMM COMING IN By. Associated Press New York, Sept. 2. lmportations of diamonds, pearls and other precious stones to the aggregate valuo of 555.714 at this port during August show where some of the war profits are going and establNhes a new re< ord. Thus far this year the Importa tions of Bents total nearly fs.ooo 6i>o In excen of the total In IMS. It |s estimated that this j car'# total will ex ceed 150.000,000. SHOTGUN BLOCKS LOVE OF 78 AND 92 Elopement of Maid and Lochin var Spoiled by Father, Aged 96 Special to the Telegraph Beaver Falls, Pa., Sept. 2.—Love's young dream was shattered yesterday by an irate father with a shotgun, when Caleb Smith, 96 years old, chased Roman Williams, 92 years old. into the County Recorder's office and fired both barrels, loaded with salt at Williams, who had eloped with Caleb's daughter, Cynthia, 78 years old. As Williams Was attacked by the angry nonogenarian the coy maiden fainted. Her father was thoroughly wrapped up in his job, however, and he rained blows on the lover and paid no attention to his daughter's plight. [Continued on Page 11] HARRISBURG GIRL KILLED MOTORING Baker Family Hurled Over 40 Foot Bank; Daughter Meets Death; Five Are Injured Williamsport, Pa., Sept. 2.—While on the way to Bodines, to visit friends, James L. Baker and family, of 268 Herr street, Harrisburg, went over a 40-foot bank, their motor car lodged against a tree twenty feet below. One was killed and five injured. The dead: Veronica Baker, aged 19 years. The injured: • James L. Baker, father of the dead girl, broken shoulder and injured in ternally. Mrs. Mary Baker, wife of James L. Baker, severe bruises and shock. William Baker, aged 15 years, brok en shoulder and badly bruised. James Baker, 18 years, bruises. Adrian Baker, aged 7 years, bruises. Mr. Baker is the manager of the Aughinbaugh Press, at Harrisburg. He was running north on the State road at a point about a half mile south of Bodines, where the road has a decided crown and runs along a 40-foot bank. The rain of the afternoon made the road slippery and the machine skidded over the bank. Veronica Baker jump ed from the machine, which rolled over her and killed her instantly. Mr. 1 Baker and Williams Baker were brought to tre Williamsport hospital. The Bakers left their home, 26 8 Herr street, yesterday morning for Williamsport, to bring home their daughter, Frances, who had been vis iting relatives there for some time'. Shortly after 4 o'clock the party start ed for home. The son, James, was driving the car at the time of the ac cident. Mr. Baker is superintendent of the i Aughinbaugh Press of this city, and the son, James, is a drug clerk. Mrs. Baker. James and Adrian and Miss Francis, arrived in the city this after noon. PERSHIXG REVIEWS GI'ARD By Associated Press Columbia. N. M„ Sept. 2. General J. J. Pershing, commander of the I American punitive expeditions, is here I to-day from field headquarters in Mex- I 100 to review the regulars stationed at rhis point and to inspect the new camp j site of the Massachusetts National Guard. While enroute he inspected ! troops nf Ojo Foderico and Vado Fti si'las. The general expects to remain at Columbus about four days. TO SHOHTKN COMMANDMENTS By Associated Press New York. Sept. 2. A proposal lo revise and shorten the first the of the ten commandments will be sub mitted to the next genera! convention of the Prot«s»t Eplicopal Church. The proposed changes aro recom- ' mended by a commission of bishop*. | clergy and laymen which has been considering the project It is proposed to eliminate portions of the first five I commandments on the ground that nr. guineriU for the observance of Divine law art- not CMKlitlul lu tliu luttu thoill- MlvM. "DON'T EAT ICE CREAM UNTIL WE COMPLETE TESTS" This Is Advice of Dr. Raunick, City Health Officer, After Typhoid Examination CLOSES FOUR PLANTS Criticises Manufacturers Who Use Department Name in Purity Advertisements "Don't eat any ice cream until «< have completed a thorough in spc < tion of the city's cream supply anil ice cream manufacturing plants," was the advice si\cn this morning by Dr. ,1. M. J. Rauni< k. city health officer, who lias adopted stringent measures to' check the typhoid fever epidemic. Four ice cream plants were ordered to suspend operations today tempo rarily and the entire equipment used must be thoroughly sterilized because of the infection found by city health authorities. For the next week or ten days all cream coming into the city to he used for ice cream, regardless to whom it is consigned, will be tested by the health authorities in the city labora tory, according to Dr. Raunick. In [Continued on Page 7] CONFEREES REACH NEW YORK By Associated Press New York, Sept. 2. lgnacio Bon illas and Albert J. Pani, members of the Mexican Commission, appointed to confer with representatives of the United States to settle the differences between the two countries,arrived here early to-day, accompanied bv mem bers of their families and a retinue of secretaries and servants. Luis Cabra ra, minister of finance in the Carranza cabinet and head of the Mexican com mission, is expected to arrive in time for the first meeting of the two com missions on Monday. LEANS OCT FACTORY WINDOW, ELEVATOR RIPS OFF FACE Lancaster, Pa.. Sept. 2.—While Wil liam Phelan. a machinist, was looking from a window of the Armstrong lino leum factory yesterday afternoon a descending elevator weight, operating on the outside of the wall, struck him on the forehead. It ripped off his face and probably fractured his skull. His recovery is doubtful. I js | 2. —FOR GOVER-Jg 2s ' NNYPACI HIS 11 I HOME AT SCHWENKSVILLE, NEAR IIHRE, AT 3 |! i O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. f '■ T { WAR DECLARATION; KILLS SELF , > 9 London, Sept. 1. Reports have been received in ' i J Atastei iie{ of the teral L ■ in de- \' I daring war on Rumania. T & FAY ARRESTED IN MISSISSIPPI , * i Corinth, Miss. Robert Fay, the German bomb plot- I I ter, who recently escaped from the Federal prison in At- , | lanta, v d here to-day. ' ' j VILLA NEAR CHIHUAHUA CITY V Chihuahua City, Mcx., Sept. 2. Francisco Villa with^ f his main band is reported near the Mexico Northwestern ? railway west of here. It is generally be-® ► * lieved he is attempting to make his way to coaches of am- ! ' m munition in the Galeana district. I J 1 REVOLUTION COVERS HALF OF GREECE 1 * I Rom?, Sept. 2. lnformation reached here to-day that | ► the revolution in Greece is spreading and that martial law i < has been proclait and several other ( ( | cities. The uprising is ex;ending in Thessaly and Epirut ; * which, together with Greek Macedonia, in v.hich the move ' | ment was inaugurated, constitute the northern half of ' * 1 Greece. The condition of King Constantine is leported to I —hr u'i i,- * ► «* MARRIAGi LICENSES I (homiii < IrmrnN Kimrlfdrr nn«l ilnrlf *ahlna I'elfer, city. I [ I 1 Kmilrk, 1.r1f.% Hliuru nnil \niilr I nhn, \ ork. < J liil%\ar«l I lirwtluu \rtil*num. mill Mirnli Annie NflilfM, Drfulrr. lion aril Otlerlielii lloiitlii nnil Kfimr Mac \llnliic. Hrmhey. I .I«»»h \%. fclmnl iinil \Kurii Nciuiiulc, *trellon. I \ I hiaii> (•form* I bfhicri NMllluiiialonii mill Helen Mmp (iroif, Toner- l ■ k i u i J i > 1 * iinrlc* Inflemnkrr nnil I.UIe *u*l e '/. I miner man, city. 14 PAGES CITY EDITION TEUTONS CHECK RUMANIAN DRIVE NEAR IRON GATES Make Desperate Efforts to Protect Communications Be tween Turkey and Bulgaria ABANDON HERMANNSTADT Russians Inaugurate New Of fensive on Wide Front; Revo lutionists Enrolling in Greece The Rumanian advance in Lowfe» Ti ansylvania has been checked by the Teutonic forces, an official statement from Vienna reports. This announce ment relates the repulse of the Ru manians near the iron gates of tha Danube in the vicinity of Orsova. It is probable the Rumanians are en countering more severe resistance In this region than farther north, for an important advance from this point would threaten the communications of tha central powers with Bulgaria and Turkey. The Teutons' plans for short ening the front apparently contem plates holding the Orsova region and resisting there the southern llank of the new line. Austrian* Flee Hcrmannstadt Farther north the Austrian evacua tion of Transylvania territory is being carried out without serious righting. [Continued on Page 7] Holds Moderate Betting on Baseball Not Gambling By Associated Press New Orleans, La., Sept. 2. —Judge V. J. Stentz, of the city court, in a derision on file to-day holds that mod erate. betting on baseball games does not constitute gambling. "Baseball is not in any sense a gam bling game," he said. "It is primarily a game of science, physical skill and tiained endurance. The court believes baseball a model form of physical de velopment and exercise which tends to promote skill in the use of the arms, and a bet thereon, if not excessive, id reco\ erable." Judge Stentz accordingly ruled that, a plaintiff in a case before him was entilled to recover a SSO bet, ignoring the defendant's plea that it was a gam bling transaction and Illegal.