French Take First Line German Trenches o HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T YVYV Vn *>H7 BY CARRIERS « lE\T* A WEEK. 'V-A—Y V a\o. -U/ SIXGLE COPIES 2 CEXTS. TO AWARD NAVY CUP MONDAY TO k TECH HIGH CREW /* Harrisburg's River Enthusiasts to Discuss Permanent De velopment Program RECOGNITION IN BUDGET 2s"eed of Bathing Beaches to Be Urged; Kipona Prizes Awarded Formal presentation of the Navy Cup to Technical High school, winner of the "war canoe" race in the rirst anriJil Kipona, is scheduled for Monday even ing's meeting of the Greater Harris burg Navy. Following this ceremony the Navy will discuss plans and map out its pro gram of permanent development for the Susquehanna basin for whi:h Coun cil will be asked to make financial provision in the 1917 budget. W Bathing beaches, bathhouses, properly dredged, blasted and marked boat chan nels—these are only a few of the more necessary and important improvements which Harrisburg's great organized body of canoeists, motorboatmen and other river enthusiasts will incorpo rate in the permanent development pro gram. For Bathlnf; Reaches Proper provision for the construction and maintenance of bathing beaches will be emphatically demanded, how ever, and special stress will be laid upon the necessity for making appro priation for this feature of the pro feram in time to establish the bath house and bathing beaches before the thousands of Harrisburg folks take to the water next year. That the award of the Navy trophy should be made Monday was definitely decided last evening by the executive committee following the presentation of the gold, silver and bro lze medals and the tennis rackets, canoe cushion-, 'boxes of cigars, paddles, fountain pens, sleeve links, bathing caps, and the sore or more of other articles of merchan dise to the winners in the Kipona games. Bowman and Company, which had been awarded the prize for the Lbest exhibit in the decorated boat pa- Irade withdrew and the prize was lawarded to George Kinzler. the diver. Thanks to Everybody I Harrisburg's merchants who Anated [prizes, those who entered floats, the thamber of Commerce for its fireworks liisplav, the telephone and electric light companies and the Jovian League for Iheir spendid aid in helping to light [up and adorn the basin during the night, were heartily thanked by a unanimous vote of thanks. For a couple of hours the commit tee discussed final details . incident to the celebration, considered tentative plan; for some sort of a winter carni val, and then agreed to get down tr> business as soon as possible with a view to getting through the permanent development program. The >'eeds Committees will likely be appointed Monday evening to take up the various phases of the problem for bathing beaches, bathhouses, boathouses and so on. While it is generally understood that the Navy "war canoe'* trophy will be contested for each year by the Central, Technical. Steelton High schools and the Harrisburg Academy, the committee decided last evening to urge the school athletic associations to do their share toward insuring the permanency of the event by providing equipment, ap plying the same scholastic standard for the crews as for the football, baseball, basketball and track teams. The Navy Cup is on exhibition in the display windows of P. G. Diener's jewelry store. Miners May Call Strike in Panther Creek Valley Tamaqua, Pa.. Sept. 7. The dis pute over setting of timber by contract miners which caused a strike at the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com pany's No. 10 colliery, as a result of which SOO have been idle two weeks, will reach a climax Friday evening. The mine workers in the Panther creek valley collieries will hold a raassmeeting then to decide whether the men shall go back to work under the old conditions or a general strike shall be ordered. The latter would affect 9000 employes and close all operations in the valley. THE WEATHER, For Harrisburg and vicinity: In settled, probably showers to night and Friday; not much chance in temperature. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Over* ©•at, Hllh probably showers to niKht and Friday; not much chance In temperature; moder ate, variable nlnili, mostly aouth. River The Susquehanna river and lta tributaries will probably remain nearly stationary. A stage ot about 3.3 tcet Is Indicated tor Harrisburg Friday morning. General Conditions •The Atlantic roast disturbance has moved northward to .New Jersey without any material change In energy. It has caused shoneri In the Atlantic States from .North Carolina to Maine in the last twenty-four hours. Another dis turbance froiu the 'West is now central over the Lake Superior Region. It has caused general show era in the Missouri and Up per Mississippi Valleys, the west ern portion of the l.ake Region and the Northern Rockr Moun tains, and local showers in the Ohio Valley. Temperatures are still generally above normal, anu have risen slightly over nearly all the eastern half of the country It la 2 to 14 degrees cooler genJ erally west of the Mississippi i river. Temperature: 8 a. m.. 70. k Son: Rises, 5:3S a. m.; seta, 6:20 p. m. KMo«bi Fall moon, September 11. p. m. ■ >er Stage: 3-3 feet above low ■plater mark. Yeaterday'a Weather temperature, S3. temperature. 09. 1 Mean temperature, 70. ■\ormal temperature. 68. Vid you register to-day f if not Here la attll time at your polling place. FRENCH CAPTURE MILE OF TRENCHES FROM GERMANS Take First Line on Verdun Front; British Repel Counter Attacks RUSS WINNING IN EAST Bombarding Halicz; Town in Flames; Hold Trunk Line Railroad to Lemberg The capture of German first line trenches over a front of one mile be fore Verdun was announced to-day by the French War Office. The ground was won in the long contested sector east of the Meuse between the Vaux- Chapitre region and the town of Che nois. It is in this sector, where the Germans most nearly approached a definite breach in the defenses of the city, that the heaviest fighting has been in progress recently. On the Somme front the principal activity of last night was on the ini tiative of the Germans. ' ho made a determined effort to reca <ure from the British the small secti n of ground along the Guillemont-Ci nbles high way known as Leuze wooa. The Ger man counter attack led to one of the fiercest one man hand to hand strug gle with hand grenades and bayonets which have characterized recent fight ing along the Somme. London re ports officially that in the end the Germans were beaten back. May Drop Drive An intimation that the Somme of fensive may soon be dropped for the winter is contained in a dispatch from the British front. A staff officer is quoted as saying that if the British wait until Spring before making furth er great efforts there will be available four times the present great quantity of artillery and correspondingly vast stores of ammunition. An important Russian victory in eastern Galicia is indicated by to day's official announcement from Pet rograd. It says the city of Halicz. 60 miles southeast of Lemberg. is under Russian bombardment and in flames. The capture oT railroad lines in this vicinity also is reported. Since the opening of the new Rus [Continued on Page 12] Advocates Elimination of Five Cent Loaf of Bread By Associated Press Chicago. Sept. 7, Elimination of the five cent loaf of bread was ad vocated by S. F. Mixonold. of Mem phis, Tenn., president of the National Association of Master Bakers, in an address before the executive commit tee of the association here to-day. This step is necessary, he said, be cause of the advanced price of ma terials. especially flour. Exclusive sale of a ten cent loaf of bread is favored. Bakers face a loss of one cent in manufacturing a five cent loaf, he said. Jones Continues to Be Golf Tourney Sensation By Associated Press Philadelphia, Sept. 7. Robert T. Jones, Jr.. of Atlanta, continued to day to be the sensation of the national amateur golf tournament at the Mer ion Cricket Club course. At the end of his morning round with Robert A. Gardner, the title holder. Jones was one up. Jesse Guilford. Boston, led Gardiner White. of Flushing by 2 up. Guilford played superb golf, 37 out and the same in for a 7.4. Chick Evans, Jr.. the open cham pion, had a commanding lead of six up at the end of the first eighteen holes with John Anderson. Evans took 75 to 84 medal for Anderson. Standing in national golf tourna ment end of first 18 holes third round: R. T. Jones, Jr.. Atlanta. 1 up on Robert A. Gardner. Chicago. Jesse Guilford, Boston, 2 up on Gardiner White, New York. Charles Evans. Jr., Chicago, six up on John G. Anderson, New York. D. C. Corkran. Baltimore, 2 up on C. B. Buxton. Philadelphia. Guardsmen Returned From Border Mustered Out By Associated Press Washington. Sept. 7. The fifteen thousand guardsmen returned from the border by the recent order of the ar Department were to-day ordered mustered out of the Federal service. The guardsmen remaining on the bor der stay there for the present. The troops affected are three regi ments from New York, two from New Jersey, one from Maryland, two from Illinois, two from Missouri, one from California, one from Oregon, one from "Washington and one from Louisiana. McLaughlin Compensation Claim Is Continued Referee E. K. Saylor of the Work men's Compensation board, continued the hearing of the claim of Hugh L McLaughlin, against the Harrisburg Railways Company, until next Mon day at noon. Both claimant and de fendant asked permission to bring ad ditional witnesses to testify in the case. Yesterday when the hearing opened the Railways Company, through Wolfe and Bailey, claimed that no official report had been made to the company of the accident which occurred on June 12. until July 5. An attempt was made also to show that the injury sustained on June 12. was aggravated on June 13 when a base ball struck McLaughlin on the leg while he was playing the game at Mt. Gretna. Compensation is asked for the time from June 12 to July 19. XF.W YORK PL,\OCF SPREADS By Associated Press New York, Sept. 7.—The health au thorities to-day reported another slight increase in the infantile paralysis epi demic. There were CI new cases, an increase of 8 over yesterday, and 2 8 deaths, a rise of ti HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1916. RETURNING FROM "NO-MAN'S LAND" WITH TROPHIES TOMMIES RETURNING JSirLCS This picture shows several British Tommies, returning to their trenches with captured rifles, after a trip to "No Man s Land." the narrow strip of dangerous ground, between their trenches and those of the enemy. I DIDN'T SHOOT MAMMA! POP DID! DAUGHTER'S CRY John O. Christley, Pale and Haggard, Heard on Mur der Charge John O. Christley. the postal clerk who shot and killed his wife. Mrs. Annie Christley. on the afternoon of July 11. and then attempted suicide was held without bail for court on a charge of murder at a preliminary hearing before Alderman James B. DeShong this morning. During the entire hearing Christley, pale and haggard, after weeks of sick ness. sat with a fixed gaze, staring at the floor. He showed no Interest in the witnesses testifying against him and giving evidence which may sead him to the electric chair. When officers Balthaser and Demma testified that Evelyn, the ten-year-old daughter of Christley, exclaimed when she saw them: "I didn't shoot mamma: pop did it," Christley look ed up but said nothing. The shooting occurred in the kitchen of the homo of John O. Hugher, 347 South Thir teenth street, in the presence of Mrs. Hughes, her daughter and mother, and Christley's little girl. Mrs. Hughes testified how Christley entered the kitchen and deliberately fired at his wife, then put the revolver to his own head and pulled the trigger. Only three witnesses were called the two officers and Mrs. Hughes. Christley only spoke a few words to his attorney after the hearing, and with a dull expressionless face, fol lowed the officers to the patrol wagon and was again taken to jail to await a court trial. STRIKE SLIGHTLY i AFFECTS NEW YORK J - ! 9,000 Men Out, but Subway, Surface and Elevated Lines Maintain Schedules By Associated Press j New Tork, Sept. 7. A strike was ~ inaugurated on the subway and elevat ed lines and several surface systems •>f the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to-day, but up to noon the | city appeared only slightly affected. Union leaders, who demand abro gation by the company of the so- ' • called "master and servant" contracts , binding the employes not to ask wage ! increases for two years claimed that I 9,000 men had walked out, including | 4.000 on the subway and elevated sys tems. Tractions officials asserted no more than 2,000 men had quit and j that with the aid of strikebreakers the ! company was maintaining normal j . schedules on subway and "L." The [Continued on Page 12] Overhead Poles and Wires Gradually Disappearing Preparation for the removal of ad- j ditional poles from the streets is be- i ing made. The Harrisburg Light and ' Power Company has been engaged re cently in placing underground ducts at different points between Marked j street and Yerbeke street which are intended to relieve the streets of poles I and wires as required by the "merger" ordinance. The Western Union Telegraph com- I pany is also prepared to place the ' cables in the underground conduits of| the Cumberland Valley Telephone I , company as per the permission recent | ly granted by Council. This change when completed should j result in removing some of the most objectionable poles in the city and' from the most undesirable locations. I The only poles on Third street now I belong to this company." They are all | ' large and unsightly and the Improve- ! j ment when made should show a de- , j cided change in the appearance of | that thoroughfare, i These changes will also eliminate, 1 it is understood, many overhead wires and poles in and around Federal i ; Square. Did you register to-dny f If not , i there U atlll time at rour pulling place. MAY UNITE TO CAPTURE VILLA Funston Suggests Pershing's and Carranza's Forces May Join in Hunt By Associated Press San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 7. lf Francisco Villa gets within striking distance of the American expedition ary force. General Pershing's soldiers may join troops of the de facto gov ernment in an offensive campaign to exterminate the bandit and his follow ers. This was the statement of Gen eral Funston. There has been no agreement be tween Mexican and American military men for a concerted movement against Villa. General Francisco Gonzales. jCarranja commander in northern Chi huahua, already has sent a force against the bandit, last reported In the Santa Clara canyon, and If the oc casion arises, the American com mander might take part in the pur suit. "That is up to General Pershing." said General Funston. Army men pointed out that General Pershing entered Mexico to capture i Villa and that his object had not been accomplished. A long code message went forward late yesterday afternoon from General Funston to General Pershing. TO UNVEIL LEE MONUMENT I By Associated Press I Richmond. Va_, Sept. 7.—Governor Stuart announces that the monument to General Robert E. Lee on the Get tysburg battlefield will be unveiled in May. 1917, during the annual reunion I of the Cnited Confederate Veterans in Washington. REGISTRATION ON ! FIRST DAY LIGHT I Chairman Oves Says Number Will Increase Toward Evening While registration generally through- ! out the city was comparatively light, ; the showing to-day—the first of the three days set apart for the presiden- i tial election preparation—will be well I above the average, according to both j Harry F. Oves and Frederick L. Mor (ganthaler, chairmen respectively of j the city Republican committee and! the county Democratic organization. \ In one or two precincts some of the ■ registrars didn't get to the booths on j time and in a few other instances there ' j were slight delays owing to changes in the registration board personnels, but • these little details were quickly j 1 straightened out by the respective chairmen. In every precinct. Chairman Oves had a worker busily getting out the | registration and byjioon he had pretty FContinued on Page 12] Complete Cross-State Tour of Penn Highway Tomorrow The inspection tour of the William Penn Highway, which began Monday ! with Secretary M. M. James in charge of the party of newspapermen and representatives of the highway and automobile association, will be con cluded to-morrow, when the machines carrying the party will pass through Harrisburg on the return trip from ! Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. The road 1 inspectors reached Pittsburgh yester- ' day and started home this morning. | They will-spend the night at Lewls ' town and take up the last leg of the i journey in the morning. Work has been started on a new I road along the Penn route just west | of Murraysville. to be composed solely : ,of hard brick. The new road, which i will be fifteen miles long, will be com- ] j pleted in the early Spring. It is said ] . that In order to do away with the ] hilly 0 ads which run from New Alexandria almost to Wilkinsburg, the i Highway Association will probably re- 1 route this section. " i Two Reo six-cylinder seven-pass- t enger cars are being used for the; cross-State tour and were supplied by the Harrisburg Auto Company 11 CHIEF WETZEL WILL CLEAN UP GAMBLING HOLES New Head of Police Force Says City Is Overrun With Crooks Chief of Police J. Edward Wetzel, this morning issued a statement to the effect that he has completed plans for a general clean-up of crooks and all other undesirables making this city their headquarters and that some startling disclosures may follow with in the next two weeks. That there are a number of crooks, pool "sharks" and professional gam blers In the city is the claim of the new police chief, who said this morn ing that he has personal knowledge and facts which caused him to decide on the clean-up. i That it is up to him to make good. I was the opinion expressed to-day and I Chief Wetzel declared that there will Ibe no more statements, but action, j The entire department, detectives : and uniformed officers are to work in 1 harmony. Chief Wetzel said that gambling Is permitted in some of the city pool | rooms and that professional crooks are coming into this city and menacing the safety of the public. SIGNS SHIPPING BILL By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. 7.—Presi -1 dent Wilson to-day signed the shipping I hill. It authorizes government organ ization of a corporation or corporations with capitalization of not more than j $..0,000,000 to buy or lease ships and j put them in trade if they cannot be lfcased for operation to private capital. STATE POLICE IN FIGHT WITH I.W.W. Women Lead Mobs in Attacks ; in Upper Luzerne; Trooper Badly Bitten By Associated Press Wilkcs-Barre, Pa., Sept. 7. The homes of two union miners, ! one at Pittston and the other at Yatesville, about three miles dis tant, were dynamited and part ially destroyed early this morn ing. The outrages followed the activity of the I. W. W. in that section and the State Police sus l>eot members of that organiza tion. Several clues are expected to lead to arrests during the day. By Associated Press Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Sept. 7. Law lessness was rampant in the upper part of Luzerne county yesterday when I. [Continued on Page 12] See Pre-Election Flourish in Wilson's Revenue Bill By Associated Press London, Sept. 7. Commenting on the amendment to the revenue bill ! passed by the United States Senate, Tuesday night, empowering the Presi- I dent to retaliate against interference 1 with American commerce, the "Man- 1 Chester Guardian" says that although those who see in it no more than a flourish having a special virtue on the eve of election may be right, "never theless we should do well to note two things. "First These reprisals are direct ed against the allies and primarily against ourselves; second they are popular in America." INCREASED PENSIONS By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept 7.—A bill givins to widows of officers or enlisted men who served in the Civil or Mexi can Wars or the War of 1812 and who have reached the age of seventy years pensions of S2O a month instead' of the present sl2 a month was j assed to dfcy by the Senate. It already has passed the House. Widows of Civil j War soldiers dropped because of mar- ' riape to another person are restored i to the roll by the bill. Did you nxlatrr to-day f If not tkere Is •till time at your polling place. [ P.R.R.TOSPEND $40,000,000 TO GET IN DETROIT Announce Plans For Reaching Every Manufacturing Plant of Western City TO BUILD BELT ROAD Own Line Will Be Extended From Toledo; Terminal Track Will Circle Town By Associate J Press Pittsburgh. Sept. 7. —Authorized an nouncement was made here to-day by the Pennsylvania Railroad lines west of Pittsburgh of their plan to enter Detroit with an estimated expenditure of $40,000,0011 to reach freight and passenger terminals there. The Pennsylvania lines will be ex tended from Toiedo to a point near the Detroit city line where connection will be made with the Pere Marquette rr.ilroad and that road's rails will be used to reach the Fort street station. The greater part of the millions to be expended will be used to build u bell road for freight purposes which will parallel the fifty-mile line of the De troit terminal railroad owned jointly by the New York Central system and the Grand Trunk. Use of the termi nal road has been denied the Pennsyl vania. it is said, so the latter will con struct one of its own reaching every large manufacturing plant in Detroit. ii. \ . Somerville, one of the leading engineers of the Pennsylvania's south west system, with headquarters here, has been sent to Detroit as resident engineer and in direct charge there. \ committee of three of the higher offi cials of the Pennsylvania lines west will have general supervision of the improvements. SIXK BRITISH STK.VMER By Associated Press Plymouth, Sept. 7. The British steamship Torridge, of 5.036 tons gross, has been sunk. Nineteen mem bers of the crew have been landed. No news has been received of the ot'aer sailors making up the crew. The Torridge was 39 2 feet long with a beam of 52 feet. She vas bui]t at Sunderland in 1912 and was owned by the Tatem Stpam Navigation Com pany, of Cardiff. Did you resistor to-dayf If not there in mill time at your polling place. w »wW{fcw T HEAVY ASSESSMENT LIST f 1 Harrisburg.—ln many of the precincts of the city un- I I usually large increases in the assessment yesterday J T were reported and this big increase was attributed by City l * this A i " i s" § I Is the 1 M additional number was fro::; 200 to 3<" Second Ward \ I for instance there were COO. Many of these Mr. Oves I £ thinks are duplications. 9 1 BAR ORGANIZATIONS NOT IN HARMONY I I Atlantic City, N. J.. Sept. 7.—The National American i J Woman Suffrage Association convention to-day changed its | 3 constitution so as to bar from membership a 1! organizations * | not in harmony with the policy and constitution of the as- 1 1 sociation. A report that this action ws*> aimed at organi- A * zations affiliated with fhe Congressional Suffrage Union or I I the Woman's Party was Jenied, but it was admitted that L & f !t affects such organizations, thought not specifically aimed | I at them. § 1 SQUEEZED TO DEATH I i Joseph Tyler, colored, aged 39, of 1512 Hunter street, X J was squeezed to death at the open hearth furnace of the II % Bethlehem Steel Company at Steelton, early this morning, | inge on the wheel of a truck broke at d caught J 1 him between the engine and the truck. Coroner Eckinger I T investigated the accident, and found the death was acci-^ X dental. 9 WILL NOT INFORM U. S. OF DEMAND > J Washington, Sept. 7.—Japan will not inform the United | £ States of her new demands on China unless information is I f I 4 specificially requested. Reports to-day tell of more dis- I i turbances in interior Mongolia caused by a recrudescence | t J of banditry together with an imperialist movement in con- , k i junction with the unsuccessful southern republic revolution. i TO FILE JITNEY BRIEFS ' ' f Harrisburg.—Counsel for the city and for th* petitioners ! I in the recent jitney ordinance mandamus case expect to file 1 * their briefs to-morrow morning so that the Dauphin county ' I rniirts ran hnH Hnwn a flrrininn in th* r.rr ir futliTT 7 f * fIU RRIA CE UCEXSES J Frliiby Jone* Tlioiiip»oa uud I»t*arl Kolllus, city. C S Uy 1 "«d Marisaret I ucretta Schnrr, I.onioynf. t... "VA Ll,ucr uUuuvuu UUI), UU«I Mary Jaue liornmuu, New X M*.llooii»nt*l«l. I Robert JLooiitm, I'hlludelplifn, and May llroun, Richmond, Vn. I T ll /". 11 . 1 ® 14 *'rmiklli* Aval, Jr., Ame*, lo«a, nad Dorothy (.ladyi Rentier ifa f Philadelphia. 14 PAGES CITY EDfTION M'ADOO IS REAL CHAIRMAN; HOUSE HIS ASSISTANT Put McCormick on Stage to At tract Progressives; Has Little Power DEMOCRATS ARE UXEAS Harrisburger Loyal to Presi dent Declines to Discuss His Grievances By Associated Press New York. Sept. 7. Friction exists in the organization of the Democratic campaign committee. Secretary or the Treasury McAdoo, the president's son-in-law. aided by the potent but, mysterious influence of Colonel Housei of Texas, is known to be assuming di-l rection of all important campaigns work, and Chairman Vance C. McCor mick is being rapidly reduced to a position where he has only to carry out the directions of McAdoo and House. The statement is now made that Mc- Cormick was chosen chairman of the committee because of his known/ standing as a progressive in the hopa that he would attract Progressive party support for the President. The president and those about him, it is declared, never intended that Mc- Cormick should be more than the titular he,vl of the national commit tee. and that the real plans of the campaign should be framed in Wash ington by the small group of advisers [Continued on Page 2.] Hughes in Boston on His Way to Maine Field By Associated Press Boston. Sept. 7. Charles E. Hughes, Republican nominee for President, arrived here to-day for a brief stop on his way to Maine. Speeches are scheduled for to-day at Hampton Beach and Portsmouth, N. H., and at York Harbor, Maine, with an address at Portland to-night. Mr. Hughes will oe in Maine on Friday and Saturday, visiting several cities. He plans to return to Boston Sunday. A brief step was arranged for this forenoon at Beverly, whera business was to be suspended while the nominee speaks from the train platform.
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