Congress Concludes Record-Breaking Session HARRISBURG ifSSflg. TELEGRAPH T YYYW \T rt OAQ BY CAKRIEH9 n CESXTS A WEEK. ■LA. A. A. V IN.O. ~UO SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. CONGRESS QUITS AFTER SMASHING p ALL MARKS FOR EXTRAVAGANCE Adjourns After Passing Ap propriations and Other Au thorizations For the Future Running Well Into Two Billion Dollars CITES "HELPFUL AND HUMANE LEGISLATION" Wilson in Statement After Close of Session Regrets Additional Railroad Legis lation Was Not Passed; Signs Many Bills By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. B.—Con gress adjourned sine die this morning at 10 o'clock, concluding a session, record breaking in many respects, with appropriations and- other authoriza tions fo: the future running well to ward two billion dollars. In a statement issued following the adjournment of Congress, President Wilson called attention to the "help ful and humane legislation" passed and declared that while he regretted additonal legislation dealing with the recent dispute between the railroads and their employes had not been com pleted, he had every reason to believe the question would be taken up imme diately after Congress reassembled. Called Remarkable Session The President's statement follows: "A very remarkable session of Con gress has just closed, full, as all re cent sessions of the Congress have been, of helpful and humane legisla tion which constitutes contributions of capital importance to the defense, the economic progress, and the wholesale life of the country. "It is to be regretted that the ses sion should not have continued long enough to complete the program re cently projected with regard to the ac commodation of labor disputes be tween the railways and the employes, but it was not feasible in the circum stances to continue the session any longer and therefore only the most Immediately pressing parts of the pro gram could be completed. "The rest. It is agreed, has merely been postponed until it can be more maturely deliberated and perfected. I have every reason to believe that it is the purpose of the leaders of the two houses immediately upon the reassem bling of Congress to undertake this additional legislation. It is evident that the country should be relieved of the anxiety which must have been created by recent events with regard to the future accommodation of such disputes." Most Extravagant "The sixty-mourth Congress has been superlative in several ways," said Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, min ority leader of the Senate. "It has been the most extravagant and the most wasteful Congress in the nation's history. It is doubtful whether any Congress of the past can compare to it In volume of useless and harmful leg islation placed on the statute books. No previous congress, perhaps, has ever been so servile to the executive will. Joseph G. Cannon, former Republi can speaker of the House: "In the language of the Book of Common Prayer: 'lt has done those things it ought not to have done; and left un done those things which it ought to have done.' " Only a small proportion of mem [Continued on Page 6] (Other Congressional News Page 4) STORM STOPS GAME TO-DAY: DOUBLE-HEADER TO-MORROW The storm this afternoon put a crimp in the baseball game between Harrisburg and Syracuse. There will be a double-header to-morrow. The first game will start at 2 o'clock and Ehmke will pitch for the Stars. The second game is scheduled to start at 4 o'clock with Friel on the mound for the visitors. This is by re quest of friends of Friel from Renovo who are coming to Harrisburg to-mor row. Local shopmen of the Pennsyl vania Railroad will also give Friel who is a brother of the local Motive Power manager, a big send-off. THE WEATHER For Harrisburg and vicinity: Thun der.sliower* this afternoon or to night; .Saturday fair; cooler to il I K lit and Saturday. For Eastern l'cnnhyl var la: Thun dornlioivcrj tlilti afternoon or to night, followed by fair Saturdavi cooler; moderate south, shifting to went winds, with squalls. River The Susquehanna river and some, possibly all. of its tributaries will rise. A stage of about 3.4 feet la indicated for Hurrisburg Saturday morning. f.eneral Conditions The disturbance tbat wan central over Northern Michigan, on Thursday morning, baa moved northeastward und is passing down the St. Lawrence river. It has caused showers in the last twenty-four hours generaliv over the Lnke Region and In the Lower Missouri, Middle Mississippi, Ohio and St. Lawrence valleys, and scattered showers in the Susque hanna Valley and In New Eng land. Scattered showers have fal len also over the southern portion of the Florida Peninsula and in Virginia. There has been a further rise of 2 to 12 degrees in temperature generally through out the Atlantic States and the Upper Ohio Valley, and It Is con siderably warmer in the Xorth weit. Temperature■ 8 a. m., 72. Sunt Rises, 5:30 a. m.; sets, 0:27 p. m. Mooni Full moon, September 11, at 3:31 p. m. River stao-e: 3.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday'* Weather Highest temperature, Sfl. Lowest tempernture. 70. Mean temperature, 78. (Normal temperature, 67. GROSS STILL HAS RIPRAP PROBLEM IN MIND, HE SAYS Park Commissioner Has Been Promised Lynch and Bowman Support in Budget TO COXFEB WITH SEITZ ! Awaiting Legal and "Other Ad vice" Before Deciding on Per . manent Improvement Whether or not the proposed rip rapping and permanent treatment of the river front sloped north of Hard picrabble will be started before cold weather sets in is another municipal improvement problem that City Com missioner E. Z. Gross, park superin tendent, is still "turning over in his mind." The Commissioner said to-day he is undecided as to whether he could or would use a portion of the $6,000 bal ance remaining in the park loan fund for the purpose or whether he will let the whole job slide until next year and then take up the financial end of it in the 1917 budget. Incidentally, he doesn't know when he'll decide about it; he said he must [Continued on Page 13] Hot and Dry Weather in August Causes Loss of Millions in All Crops By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. B.—Hot and dry weather during August caused a loss of 67,000,000 bushels in the prospective production of corn, 43,000,000 bushels in spring wheat crop, 43,000,000 bushels in the oats crop and 40,000,000 bush els in potatoes. Tobacco produc tion prospec ts increased 27,000,000 pounds. Production of the principal farm crops was forecast to-day by the De partment of Agriculture from their September 1 condition, or at time of harvest, as follows (figures in millions of bushels): Spring wheat, 156; all wheat, 611; corn, 2,170; oats, 1,231; barley, 184; buckwheat. 15.8; white potatoes, 318; sweet potatoes. 69.3; tobacco (pounds), 1,224; flax, 14.9; Rice, 32.8; Hay (tons) 86.2; apples (barrels), C 7.7; peaches, 36.9; sugar beets (tons), 7.66; kafflr, 74.7. Other details of the report follow: Spring wheat, condition 48.6 per cent of a normal; acre yield, 8.8 bushels; all wheat, acre yield, 12; corn, con dition 71.3; acre yield, 24.9; oats, con dition 78; acre yield, 30.3; barley, con dition 74.6; acre yield, 23.8: buck wheat, condition 78.5; acre yield, 19.3; white potatoes, condition 67.4; acre yield, 87.7; sweet potatoes, condition 82.7; acre yield, 94.2; tobacco, con dition 85.5; acre yield, 875; flax, con dition 84.8; acre yield, 9.4; rice, con dition 91.2; acre yield, 36; hay, acre yield, 1.64; sugar beets, condition 88.7; acre yield, 10. Prominent Educators Will Address Annual Teachers' Institute This Evening The twenty-first annual Teachers Institute for Harrisburg teachers will be held in the Central High school 1 building to-night and to-morrow 1 morning. Dr. O. L. Warren, of El [ mira and Dr. A. L. Suhrie, Depart ; ment of Education, University of Pennsylvania, will be the instructors. ' Professor F. E. Downes will preside at the institute. The program: Even ing Sessions—7.4s, Music, Prof. E. G. i Rose, Director; Devotional Exercises, | Rev. Georve F. Schaum; 8.15, Sources I of Professional Literature for Teach j ers, Dr. Suhrie; 9.00, The Spelling Problem. Dr. Warren. Morning Ses sion to-morrow—9.3o, Music, Prof. E. G. Rose, Director; 9.50, Rational Elimination, Dr. Suhrie; 10.35, Re cess; 10.45, Music; 11.00, How Shall I Secure Interest, Dr. Warren; 11.45, Announcements; Adjournment Missionary Sees Blonde Eskimos Found in Arctic by Murdered Explorer Saskatoon, Sask., Sept. 8. The tribe of blonde Eskimos which Harry V. Radford, of New York, the mur dered explorer, reported he had found on Coronation Bluff, far in the Arctic zone, have again been visited by a white man. In a letter received to day from the Rev. H. Girling, of Em manuel College by the Rev. Dr. Car penter, principal of the college, the missionary announced he reached the dwellers of the Arctic on October 10, 1915. He asserts that he is the first white man tc dwell among the new found people, who since their discovery have constituted an ethnological mys tery and formed the goal of unsuc cessful expeditions. The letter was dated last December from "Camp Necessity," ten miles from the blonde tribe, the first of whom, the missionary said, he found about ten miles east of Cochburn Point. Referring to the education of the new people, Mr. Girling said that a great deal already had been accom plished in the direction of vocabulary and grammar, the fair-skinned race having only a dialectic difference from the Mackenzie river Eskimos. Sixty-Seven of Largest Railroads Earned Net Revenue of $545 Per Mile Washington, Sept. 8. Sixty-seven J of the largest steam railways earned a net revenue of $545 per mile during last July, an Increase of $43 a mile over July, 1915. A summary made public to-day by the Interstate Commerce Commission shows net revenues totalled $41,355,- 921 compared with $36,328,588 In July, 1915. The largest gains were made in the East. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Charles Fetterhoflf, who was taken from the Polyclinio hospital to the Dauphin county Jail several days ago, in a demented condition, was taken to the State hospital for the insane .yesterday. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916. SNOW-COVERED ITALIAN FORT IN ALPS MAKES BEAUTIFUL SCENE L " SNOW COVERED FORT OH MOUfc'r"ADAMEbLO. * ' A subject to delight the heart of an artist is presented by this picture of a snow-covered Italian fort on Mount Adamello, high up in the Alps. J. It is in this region, that the most picturesque campaign of the European conflict is being waged between the Austrian and Italian forces amid the Alpine snows. CAN FEED FAMILY OF SEVEN AT DAILY COST OF 15 CENTS EACH Social Worker Demonstrates That Youths Will Fatten Pound a Week on Five Cent Meals Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. B.—As the result of an experiment Miss Margaret Foster, of the Court of Domestic Re lations, has proved that a family of se\ en can be fed at a daily cost of 15 cents a head, or 5 cents for each meal. At the request of the Associated Charities. Miss Foster tried out her plan in a typical Cincinnati tenement during her vacation period. For the past three weeks she has lived the life of the tenement, eating, sleeping and working in a crowded "third floor rear" home. Results of her experiment show that a family can keep Its living cost within estimates furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture. Here is a sample menu: Lreakfast — Cents Stewed peaches 12.00 Mush and milk 12.33 PROGRAM READY FOR CONVENTION Sunday School Workers to Meet in Reformed Salem Church Next Week The complete program for the twenty-ninth annual convention of Sunday Schools of Dauphin county was announced to-day. The sessions will make the one hundredth anni versary of the organization of a Sun day School in the county. The convention will open on Thurs day afternoon, September 14, at 1 o'clock in the Reformed Salem Church with an Informal reception. The Rev. Dr. Ellis N. Kremer will lead the de votional exercises and will speak on "The Word in the Home." Paul A. Kunkel will make the address of wel come, and after the response, reports will be submitted by the president, recording secretary, financial secre tary, treasurer and distfict presidents. Other addresses will be made by Mrs. Maud J. Baldwin and W. D. Reel, after which committees will be appointed. In the evening. Colonel H. C. Dem ming will speak on "Harrisburg's First Sunday School," and W. G. Landes, on "Sunday Schools. Yesterday, To day and To-morrow." Friday morning, addresses will be made by Mr. Reed and Mrs. Baldwin and in the afternoon, James W. Barker, teacher training superinten dent, will submit his report. Talks will be made on Sunday School work, and these will be followed by a busi ness session with committee reports. A. K. Morrison, temperance depart ment superintendent, will submit his report on Friday evening, and after passing resolutions the convention will close. At least 500 delegates from all parts of the county are expected to be pres ent. POSTAL MEN TO MEET NEXT WEEK Postmaster Sites Announces Program For State Convention Postmaster Frank C. Sites to-day announced plans complete for the SMte convention of postmasters to be held In Harrisburg next week. The program as given out will undergo a [Continued on Page 13] BROADER PAPER INQUIRY Washington, D. C., Sept. B.— A reso lution broadening the scope of the Federal Trade Commission inquiry into the cost of news print paper to Include paper used by the Government Printing Office was Adopted last night by the Senate on motion of Senator 1 Fletcher. He said the cost of paper for government documents had risen more than 100 per cent, in the last year. < Toast and oleomargarine ...... 5.00 Total 29.33 Lunch— Apples 5.00 Bread and syrup 3.50 Cocoa 11.80 Toast and oleo 5.00 Milk 5.00 Total 30.30 Dinner— Beef stew with vegetables 2 8.50 Rice, sugar, milk 12.75 Bread with oleo 7.00 Total 48.25 The family was a typical one, con sisting of Miss Foster, the mother, who was a bread winner, a boy of working age with a "man's size" appetite, and four children from 3 to 11. The chil dren each gained a pound a week. SLAYS CHILD WIFE TO SAVE HER SOUL Murderer Confesses "Spiritual" Promptings Caused Him to Commit Crime By Associated Press Chicago, Sept. 8. Details of the "spiritual" promptings which caused him to slay his child wife to "save her soul" are contained in a confession said to have been obtained from J. Maurice Pettit, the former Cedar Rapids, lowa, bank cashier, in jail here to-day. The confession was made public by the State's attorney's office late last night. The murder of Mrs. Pettit occurred on August 31, and Pettit was subse j quently captured nead Detroit. He is accused of having killed his wife with ! a razor. Lived on Spiritual Plane In the confession Pettit is quoted j as saying that when he was married in the early part or the year, he ex pected to live with his wife on a "spiritual plane" but that his mother in-law later had hinted to him that if he continued on that theory his wife might seek other company. From that j time on, the confession read, though | his wife was a "pure wopian" he had "attacks" or jealous fits, in one of which hte cut the throat of his wife, j and left her lying dead while he fled j the house. ! According to the confession Pettit , sought to kill himself on the farm near Detroit, where he was captured and that he yet hopes to end his life so he could join his wife "spiritually." SUGAR PRICES DROP Harrisburg grocers expect the price of sugar to drop at least a half-cent ,a pound within a short time, following i announcement made yesterday that the sugar refineries had reduced the | wholesale price 75 cents a hundred Ipourds. 1 ASSERT STRIKE IN N. Y. BROKEN Traction Officials Claim Vic tory; Shots Fired in Disorders By Associated Press New York, Sept. B.—With subway; and elevated trains being operated ap- 1 parently on normal schedule, tracton i officials insisted to-day that New York's strike has been broken. Fifty per cent, of the "green cars" of the New York Railways Company's sur face system were running, the com pany announced, and police depart ment reports indicated that the walk out was not having a widespread ef fect. Unon leaders claimed at noon that 3,500 men were on strike on the sub way and elevated roads and 4,000 men on the "green car" system. Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Inter borough announced all of the men {Continued on Page 13] , WHOLE WEEK TO TRY MURDERERS Six Already in Cells Awaiting Trial For Highest Crime Against State | One whole week in November may : be set aside for a special term of crimi | nal court to try the unusual number of murder cases on the calendar for | September quarter sessions, in the j opinion of Courthouse and county at taches. Tlie muraer list is the largest | in Dauphin county's history. Ju« what would be done with refer ! ence to a special "red" week of crimi ; nal court could not be learned at the I office of the district attorney owing to the- absence of District Attorney Stroup, who was in Hummelstown on the automobile killing investigation. [Continued on Page 13] CONVENTIONS ARE COMING TO CITY Harrisburg's Advantages as ; Meeting Place Recognized by Many Organizations Harrisburg's importance as a con vention city is illustrated by the fact that there will be three large gath- I erings here next week. Each rneet- I ing will bring over a hundred visitors 1 from out of the city. The Chamber of Commerce is co t operating in the entertainment of all j of these meetings and in some cases i is serving as the only host, j On Tuesday -evening 125 members [Continued on Page IS] Union Miners Go to Work Under Guard ol State Constabulary Details of the State Police are guarding members of the United Mine j Workers from attacks by I. W. W. agents who are trying to drive the men out of the union and into the ranks of the Workers of the World at various points in Luzerne county. The United Mine Workers have been antagonistic to the State Police for years but now they are going to work and returning from the mines under State Constabulary protection and are glad enough to get It. The State Po lice working on the attempts to shoot several boys, the threats against the life of the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre and the dynamiting of a union miner's home yesterday expect to make arrests in a few days. I. W. W. agents are charged with the Gisorders. The au thorities here have instructed the offi cers to protect the union miners at all hazards. 'EXPLORERS STAY IN GREENLAND MacMillan Relief Expedition Reaches Labrador, but Scien tists Renldiii Behind Battle Harbor, Labrador, Sept. 8. i The Grenfell mission schooner, George | B. Cluett, which went to the relief of the Donald B. MacMillan Arctic expe dition In July, 1915, has returned here. Only Captain H. C. Pickles and the [Continued on Page 13] QT'EEX TAKES U-BOAT RIDE By Associated Press Amsterdam, Sept. 7.—Queen WU- 1 helmtna of Holland has enjoyed the I experience of a plunge under water in ) a submarine. The queen was present at the naval maneuvers yesterday, ac coiding to the Nleuws Van Den Dag, aboard a submarine, which dived twice while her majesty was a passenger. CHARGE LEBANON MOTORIST WITH FARMER'S DEATH Police Declare Driver Sped Away After Bunning Down Farm Hand TO ABBEST AXOTHEB Witnesses Assert Machine Baced Along So Fast Number Couldn't Be Bead Herman A. Ansbaugh, of Lebanon, whom county authorities claim is the owner of the automobile which ran down and almost Instantly killed George Donohue, Zarker street, this city, near Hummelsiown last night, was arrested in Lebanon early to-day at the order of Coroner Jacob Eck inger. Two men and two women were in the machine which ran down Dono :hue, according to witnesses, but Ans baugh declared to-day that he can prove an alibi. County Detective Walters and Cor oner Eckinger went to Lebanon to day to arrest Clarence Bates, an em ploye of Ansbaugh's, who it is alleged was also in the auto which killed [Continued on Page 13] Three Hurt, One Fatally, in Explosion at DuPont's By Associated Press Wilmington. Del., Sept. 8. —Three men were injured, one perhaps fatally in an explosion at the Carney's Point plant of the DuPont Powder Company early this morning. The men were James Gilmore. married, 2206 South Bucknell street, Philadelphia, lacer ated back and burns upon arms, head and hands; James Dunn, Second and Pine streets, Philadelphia, single, burned on arms and back; C. Maguire, single, this city, burns on back and shoulders. All the victims were brought here and are now in the Delaware Hospital. Gilmore is in a serious condition, as it is feared he inhaled flame. The explosion occurred in the smokeless powder finishing depart ment, on what is known as a finishing barrel, a machine in which graphite is mixed with the smokeless to give it its glaze. The cause is unknown. i FIGHT FROM DANUBE TO BLACK SEA J London, Sept. B.—The beginning of . attle in £ southeastern Rumania where the Russians have taken the offensive against the Bulgarians and Germanr,, is reported ! ji )atch given out by the Wireless Press. The ' i struggle is now under way over the whole front between the Danube ant; ". .:k sea. ' T MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING UPTOWN \ afternoon were stiJl iuves- I f tigating a report that a night watchman in the West End J l around | W front porcheo in North Second street. It was 'earned that # i«! off it er had shot at two men, who escaped. t S ECKINGER 'RELEASES ANSPAUGH ' * I Harrisbiirg. Coroner Eckinger, by long distance i phone, from Lebanon late this afternoon, Har- ' * J risbui non, I !who was at • S Hummelstowp last night. 1 <! SHERMANS VALLEY WILL OPERATE j: Harrisburg.—The Newport and Shermans Valley Rail- ) road Company has decided not to abandon servic? on more I than eight miles of its line between Newport, Perry county, < , and the Public Service Commission was informed to-day. 1 * The protest filed by Newport citizens against the abandon ment will not be acted upon so long as the road is operated. 1 1 It was contended that the operation of the line is necessary 1 to the prosperity of the district covered. I J TEUTONS' CAPTURE RUMANIAN FORT | London, Sept. B.—An undated official Bulgarian report | received here says the Bulgarian and German forces which t a*e invading eastern Rumania have captured the fortress t i of Dobric and the seaports of Baltjik, Kavarna and Kali Akr. j PROGRESSING ON BORDER SETTLEMENT * New London, Conn., Sept. 8. The Mexican-Afncric | | < r joint - commission to-d?.y made what was described as ! ; l 1 definite progress toward the formulation of an agreement ® ► j I which would cover future military operations along the ! ' I international border. Details were not given. I !M(W V.' M ARRIAC E UCENSE3 ' Benjamin LeKoy Knutm and Alenn Kdltli Ilncliitian, Steflton. Norman L Sharlser, interline, and Hints Snyder, larnonville, i Vl"' V(l ii Vfrji ii >Tj" >iin CITY EDrriON 18 PAGES GERMANS FAIL IN EFFORT TO GET BACK GROUND Launch Fierce Counter Attacks Along Sommc and at Verdun Without Avail BRITISH ARE INACTIVE Big Guns Quiet, but Trench Raiding Parties Inflict Heavy Losses German troops along the Sorame front last night made repeated ef forts to take back ground won by the French in their latest advance south of the river. The struggle over the ground between Berny and Chaulnes was marked with unusual violence. Paris announces officially that the as saults of the Germans availed them nothing and the French everywhere held their ground. On the Vedun front also French troops were subjected to a counter attack, the object of which was to reconquer German Qrst line positions over a front of nearly a mile northeast of Verdun which the French took yesterfJay. These ffforts were unsuc cessful the official French report says. British troops on the Somme front were comparatively inactive. Further north, near Guinchy, the. British raid ed German trenches and London says inflicted severe losses on the occu pants. An official Bulgarian statement of September 4 dealing with the earlier phases of the invasion of eastern Ru mania, of the defeat of the Rumanians in two engagements and reports a suc cessful Bulgarian advance along the Rumanian Black Sea coast. STUDENT AVIATORS FALL By Associated Press New Vork, Sept. 8. —Flying at a height of between 600 and 700 feet over Governor's Island to-day, a bi plane containing J. Walter Struthers and Charles D. Wiman, student avia tors in training for the aero reserve corps authorized recently by Presi dent Wilson, became unmanageable and fell to the ground after a series of short spirals. Struthers was pilot ing the machine. Each aviator had a leg broken and received cuts and | possibly internal inuries. Both are expected to recover.
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