- —■ 11 " 1 British Advance in oonwie Region as Russians -I HARRISBURG WSmBMTELEGRAPH T WW XTr* ?C\ O DV CARRIERS p. m. Moon, full moon, September 11, at 3:31 p. m. River Stagei 3.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weath-> Highest temperature, NO. Lowest temperature. 08. Mean temperature, 78. Normal temperature, 07. . MAY TIE UP ALL N. Y. IN MONSTER SYMPATHY STRIKE Industries Employing Men Af filiated With A. F. of L. May Be Closed. For Day EIGHTEEN ABBESTS MADE Minor Disorders Feature Trol ley Trouble; Bumors of Dyna mite Plots Thick New York,, Sept, .9. —Union labor leaders of national and State promi nence were called into New York's transit situation to-day with the an nouncement by local strike organizers that within 24 hours a conference would be held here, the outcome of which might be a 24-hour tieup of all j the city's industries employing men af- , filiated with the American Federation i of Labor. A telegram was sent to Samuel i Gompers, president of the latter or- j ganization, who is on a vacation in Maine, asking htm to hurry here, and the Central Federated Union an-! nounced after an all-night meeting: that a committee had been empowered ! to call a general sympathetic strike in all trades if such action was considered necessary to help the employes of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company! and the New York Railways Company ; to win their fight for annulment of the j so-called "master and servant" con- ! tracts, binding . the ipen not to ask] wage increases for two years. Eighteen Arrests Made Meanwhile, it was announced on i behalf of the Interborough that ap- j plications would be made to the courts j for injunctions to restrain labor lead-! ers from interfering with men operat- j ing the subway, surface and elevated lines. Police reports indicated that under- I ground and elevated service was nor- I mal to-day and that the situation of the surface lines affected had consid erably improved. Union leaders claimed on the other hand that the surface roads were badly, affected. Disorders of a minor character con tinued throughout the day and there were eighteen arrests. Policemen guarded all roads, examining bags and packages carried by passengers, owing to persistent reports of plots to dyna mite transit property. Refuse Coat for Traction Company At its meeting last night the Central Federated Union adopted a resolution requesting Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to come here and take charge of the I situation. John P. Riley, president of the dis trict council of the International Long shoremen's Association, said to-dav he had instructed the 1,800 members of the Tidewater Boatmen's Union not to handle barges laden with coal for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company's power houses. The order, Riley claims, which af fects coal passers, will cripple, if not entirely stop, the Interborough system, which includes the subways and ele vated roads of Manhattan and the Bronx. THREE MORE TYPHOID PATIENTS Twelve Cases in Hummelstown; 31 in Hospital Here | Three more cases of typhoid fever were reported in the city to-dav and three other patients were admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital, making a to tal of 31 cases at that institution. Ice cream and cream tests were made again to-day and the additional figures placed with other data to be presented at the special meeting of ice cream manufacturers and the Health Bureau on Monday night. The conference has been called to consider the new ordinance regulating the milk and cream supply coming into this city. Twelve cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Hummels town and the number in other nearby places in the county is slowly increas ing. SAYS SHE MARRIED IN "TRANCE" Reading, Pa., Sept. 9. Asserting she was f n a trance, caused by her husband-to-be, when she went through the ceremony at Cape May Court House, N. J., making her the third wife of Charles S. Mead, then of Stone Harbor. N. J., a year ago, Lottie Mead, of this city, brought suit for divorce. WASHINGTON DESERTED By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. 9.—Official Washington seemed a deserted city to-day. Members of Congress had Bona to their homes. President Wilson was at Shadow Lawn, his summer home, with the White House staff, most diplomatic officials had not re turned from the seashore and moun tains where they spent the summer, and many government officials were on vacations. Senate and House clerks were busy, however, clearing up the work left by adjournment. MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING Special to the Telegraph York. Pa., Sept. 9. During a storm here yesterday afternoon, Geo. Kise, seventy-four years old, was struck by lightning and killed. He sought shelter In a vacant house and his body was found several hours later. Kise was a retired farmer and Civil War veteran. SHOT BY SAYRE POLICEMAN Towanda, Pa., Sept. 9. While try ing to escape from a police officer last night, Jobie Johnson was shot through the head by Officer Griswold, of the Sayre police force. The bullet lodged at the base of the brain, Johnson, who was wanted for threatening police officers, may survive the wound. SEIZED WITH CRAMPS, DROWNS Sharon, Pa., Sept. 9. Seized with craps while swimming at Jones' dam, west of here, yesterday afternoon, William Barton, 50 years old, a brick layer, was drowned. He came here from Pittsburgh a short time ago. REQUESTS STATE POLICE Fifteen member# of the State Police will be stationed in or Just outside of Wilkes-Barre Monday mornlng.ln response to a request made by Mayor John V. Kosek, who intends to enforce the jitney ordinance at that time and fears trouble from sympa thizers of the striking car men HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1916 WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY TOVR CAR ** V-, . • >c^ ; s&&'> ^ ?" e . ~ *, he .£ ars i vhich . •"£ night completed a trip over the William Penn Highway. The trans-Pennsyl ihlrtv ™rl th e re . t J! rn trl1 ? fro ? Pittsburgh to City Hall, Philadelphia, in two days, running over a route larger towns than the westward route. The William Penn offers both routes and the longer takes in all the trin ß 'Th'e l ri?f.^ r iXt. , th f f car . shown above and George D. Proud, Philadelphia Auto Club mapper, completed the o K„,? d i^ nce c ° vered yesterday was from Lewistown. to Harrisburg, Heading and Pottstown to Philadelphia, he abo\e photograph was snapped in front of the William Penn Highway quarters in the Telegraph building. Pies thf seat with Mr. &ague aßSodatlon ' ls ln the rear seat ' and lJavili Biddle. a Philadelphia newspaperman, occu- LAFEAN LEADING FOR VACANCY York Republican Chieftain Said to Have Inside Track For Commissionership Congressman-at-large Daniel F. La fean, of York, is the most prominently mentioned man for the vacancy in the public service commissionership caused by the death of Samuel W. Pennypackor. Mr. Lafean, who was formerly Republican district congress man from the Democratic York- Adams district and elected as con gressman-at-large in 1814, is a power in Southern Pennsylvania politics. He was aligned with the Vare-Brumbaugh forces in the contest last Spring and lost out for renomination. He is a businessman of long experience, manufacturer and banker. He is a native of York. Other men mentioned are James Scarlet, of Danville, the attorney who prosecuted the Capitol cases; ex- Mayor Ira W. Stratton, of Reading; ex-Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds of Bedford; J. Banks Kurtz, of Altoona; Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton and Deputy At torney General Emerson Collins. The Governor has not indicated any slant toward any of the men spoken of. It is generally believed that he will name some one from outside of Philadelphia as Mr. Pennypacker was generally credited to Montgomery county, although a Philadelphian by long residence and associations. Dr. Brumbaugh is expected here to night or to-morrow and'wlll be at the I Capitol Monday. A number of con ferences and some appointments are in prospect. "Poor Little Rich Girl" Is on Her Honeymoon; Marries to Get Home Special to the Telegraph Los Angeles. Cal., Sept. 9.—Ramona Borden, daughter or the millionaire milkmrn, Gail Borden, is a "poor little rich girl" no longer. She is on her honeymoon with George S. Pnrkes, of Anderson. Ind., wealthy banker anC po litician, to whom she was married yes terday. Following many disputes over the girl between Gail Borden and his wife, she was placed in a sanatorium H.t Pompton Lake, N. J. That was in 1913, when she was just seventeen, and had already spent much of her time away from home because of the friction in the family. Miss Borden stayed at the sanatorium for a while, but tired of It and fled in an automobile with two women. After four dayß she was found in Boston and restored to her father. Then it was that she gave out her fa mous interview, saying: I "Daughte'rs of rich people are not always happy. I haven't had a home for years. What I wanted was just a home and a mother." Miss Borden was immediately dub bed the "Poor Little Rich Girl." Ten-Minute Service to Colonial Country Club The Harrisburg Railways Company has completed the new switch at the Colonial Country Club grounds and Superintendent Felix M. Davis is now working out the details of a new schedule between Harrisburg and this point. This switch will mean a series of ten-minute cars from Market Square to the Colonial Country Club and cer tain twenty-minute cars every hour The present terminus at the eastern end of Progress will be extended to the Colonial Country Club and all points 1 between the city and the clubhouse will be greatly benefited by this im portant change. HOLD 1.710,000.000 EGGS By Associated Press Washington, D. C., Sept. 9. Two hundred and twenty-one firms are holding nearly five million cases of eggs—about one hundred and fifty three million dozens—in cold storage, according to the latest reports to the Department of Agriculture. Great as the figures may. seem the official re port shows ten per cent, less than a month ago. LUTHERANS ELECT By Associated Press Greenville, Pa., Sept. 9. —The Board of Education of the General Council of the Lutheran Church, representing thirteen s.vnodical bodies, Is now in session at Thiel College, here. These officers have been elected: President, the Rev. A. W. Haas, president Muh lenberg College, Allentown, Pa.; vice president. the Rov. F .A. Kaehler, Buf falo, N. Y.; recording secretary, the Rev. H. D. Spasth, Wllllamsport, Pa.; corresponding secretary, the Rev. Ernst H. Pfattelcher, Philadelphia; treasurer, the Rev. F. Jacobson, Brook lyn, N. Y. SHATTERED GLASS CUTS MAN'S LEG, BUT NOT HIS TROUSERS Freak Accident Occurs in Telegraph Job Department During Electrical Storm; Wind Fells Trees During the electrical storm of yes terday afternoon, Ralph Laverty, em ployed in the job printing department of the Telegraph, was strnck on the right leg by a piece of flying glass from a windowpane, which was blown out by the wind. The glass cut'a deep gash in Laverty's leg. but .he was un able to find any trace of a cut in his trousers. MILITARY ASS'N FORMED IN CITY Young Men Organize Skeleton Begiment For Purpose of Training If you wero to pass by tho Armory at Second-and Fowter streets one of these warm evenings and hear a series of short, sharp, staccato barkings and" again some long drawn out sounds that might bo anything from a call ing of trains to a cry for help from a lost soul,you would doubtless start in amazement. Then would come to your ears the tramp of marching feet [Continued on Page 12] HUGHES FINISHES MAINE CAMPAIGN 'Outlining His Views to Voters; Ask Support For All G. O. P. Candidates Bangor, Me., Sept. 9. Charles E. Hughes left Bangor early to-day for this last day of campaigning in Maine, the most strenuous he has had since leaving Bridgchampton, N. Y., Au gust 5. Monday is election day in the State and the nominee expected to devote every minute possible to-day to out lining his views to voters and asking support not only for himself but for the Republican candidates for the House and Senate as well. The first scheduled stop on the itin erary was Augusta, the State capital. Forty-five minutes after leaving Au gusta, the Hughes special was due at Brunswick for a thirty-minute ad dress. At Bath, the next stop, Mr. Hughes was allowed thirty minutes for an address before departing for Damariscotta for the fourth speech of the day. The Rockland speech to-night will be the last Mr. Hughes will deliver in Maine. He will leave Rockland to night for Boston where he will spend Sunday and then will go to Syracuse, [Continued on Pae 11] Crime Is Cut in Half, Drunkness Three Quarters Since West Va. Went Dry Charleston, W. Va., Sept. 9.—Fred O. Blue, state tax commissioner, in a statement mads public here, claims that in the two years the state pro hibition law has been in effect there has been a reduction of 50 per cent, in crime and 75 per cent, in drunken ness in West Virginia. His claims are based on figures received in official reports from, more than fifty munici palities in the state, which show that the year before the law Into effect there were 19,567 arrests, while-during the first year after the law was passed this number was reduced to 9,956 and the year following to 3,357. SHOWERS NEXT WEEK Washington, D. C„ Sept. 9.—Weather predictions for the week beginning Sunday, issued by the Weather Bureau to-day. are: Middle Atlantic States— Generally fair, except showers are probable Thursday or Friday. Mod erate temperatures, except warmer Tuesday and Wednesday. FIRST GAME 12 3456789 RHE Syracuse, HBnnHQQEJCIBnO Harrisburg, QQCIEIEIEIBEIIS'SO flATTEßlES—Harrlaburg, HeUrlck and Blair) Sj"racu*e, Rath and Konneck, The lightning struck the chimney at the home of Ira H. Nissley. 2514 Main street, Penbrook. and tore a large hole in the cellar. A large tree opposite the rectory of the Rev. Rollin A. Sawy er, rector of the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, was blown to the ground. Sev eral signs on businesshouses were also blown to the ground by the terrific wind which preceded the rain. EXPECT 6,000 AT METHODIST MEET Program of Great Laymen's Convention and Begistration Committees Announced Methodist men of Pennsylvania aj-e planning for one of tho biggest State conventions in recent yea>-s, to be held in this city November 20, 21 and 22. There are five men appointed on each membership committee for 1,200 Churches in the State, which means a committee of 6,000 men for regis tration. The program for the convention [Continued on Page 14] BOYS ON BORDER PLEA FOR MOVIES Captain Zicgler, of Company I, Asks Dauphin County to Raise SSO Soldiers of the Eighth regiment want moving picture entertainments, just like other units at El Paso. At a recent meeting of officers of the Eighth regiment the question of pro vding moving pictures was taken up but no funds are available. An ap peal comes from Camp Stewart to the people of Dauphin county requesting that a fund be raised to purchase a machine. Capt. Frank E. Ziegler of Company I, Eighth Regiment, National Guard United States, in a letter to the Tele graph says: "This regiment Is in need of a mov ing picture machine for the entertain ment of the men of the organization. All the regular units in this vicinity are so equipped. At a meeting of officers to-night the matter was dis cussed, but funds for that purpose are not available. "Subsequent to the meeting an offi cer of one of tho Schuylkill companies of our regiment stated to me that if we would raise fifty dollars in Dau phin county they (the Schvlkill coun ty officers) would raise a like sum in that county, which would cover the cost of the machine. "Will you place this matter before our home people? A nightly enter tainment of this kind will tend to keep the men in camp. Contribu tions sent tothe chaplain of the regi ment, the Rev. Harry Nelson Basslcr, will be appreciated by every member of the two companies of infantry." George W. Kehr Chairman of National Loan Firms special to the Telegraph Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 9.—George W. Kehr. Harrisburg. head of the Co-operative Loan Company, was elected to-day as chairman of the Na tional Association of Small Loan Bank ers of the United States, which will close its annual gathering here to night. Dr. C. C. Mueller was re elected national secretary. Adoption by the various States of the Union of an act similar to the 1915 Cox law of Pennsylvania was urged by the con vention. This law provides that a maximum fee of 3 per cent, be charged for loans under SIOO and a maximum of 2 per cent, for loans over that amount. BOTH FRENCH AND BRITISH IN NIGHT DRIVE ON TEUTONS Paris Claims Capture of 7,700 Prisoners This Week; Trenches Taken BUSS STOBM BABBIEBS Get 500 Captives in Attack on Mountain Heights; Ad .vance in Bumania Both the French and British took the offensive on the Somme front last night, although their operations were confined to relatively small areas. The French War Office reports the capture of a small wood east of Belloy. It says 7,700 Germans have been cap tured since September 3 and that a great number of German dead were found on the field and in trenches after the unsuccessful counterattacks of the Germans yesterday. The at tack of the British was made in the vicinity of High wood where, London announces, a trench was captured and heavy losses were inflicted on the Ger mans. On the Verdun front the Germans renewed their counterattacks but the French War Office announces, were beaten back. Russ Storm Barriers The Russians have again instituted violent efforts to break over the moun tain barrier which separates them from the Hungarian plains. It is an nounced at Petrograd that they had stormed a series of heights in the Car pathians south of Baranoff. taking 500 prisoners and a mountain battery. In the direction of Halicz, in Galicia be low Lemberg, heavy fighting con tinues. The Russian statement says counterattacks made by Turkish and Teutonic forces were repulsed. Teutons Advance 50 Mile? Press dispatches from Berlin report that the Bulgarians and Germans are beating down all opposition in eastern Rumania and have already advanced about fifty miles north of the Bul [Continued on Page B.] KAJSER GOIXG TO BULGARIA London, Sept. 9. Emperor Wil liam plans to go to Bulgaria to confer the Order Pour Le Merite on the Bul gar and German commanders who captured the Rumanian, fortress of Turtukai, says the Exchange Tele graph's Amsterdam correspondent. I f f STUBBORN FIGHTING IN GALICIA I J Pclrograd. Sept. 9.— German and Turkish troops are ( ? engaged in stubborn fighting with Russian forces in I Galici a on the river Naraiuvka, in the direction of Halicz, • a according to the official statement issued to-day by the ' * J Russian War Department. A counter attack by the Turks ! ; L and Teutons, the statement adds, was repulsed by the Rus- 1 ' 1 sians. ' I • ADMITS WITHDRAWING BEFORE RUSS ► Berlin, Sept. 9, via London. Forces of the central . J powers in the Carpathian mountains northwest of Kapul, * T aeys to-day's official, report issued by. the German general 1 J staff, yielded yesterday .before the presirue exerted by the | I P Russians. ! J SERBIANS TAKE OFFENSIVE a > P pt. 9.—The Serbians on the Macedonian front I I too!: the c fensive hat night in the region of Lake I The War Office announced to*-dfey that after a violent en- T I gagement they captured a height west of the lake.""" I & K • .> A , EVANS 3 UP ON GARDNER , ► Philadelphia, Sept. 9. rAt the end of the first 18 holes | Evans was 3 up on Gardner in the national golf champion- ( , ship tourney. 1 , 1 AUTO BANDITS KILL MAN, GET SIO,OOO * * St. Clairsville, Ohio, Sept. 9. Automobile bandits 9 to-day held up and murdered Lee Rankin, superintendent' I of the Florence rrinr of the Youghiogheriy Coal Company, i while he was on his way to pay the miners. They escaped I f with' slo,ooo. ! WILSON AT SHADOW LAWN ; | y Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 9.—President Wilson arrived ) at the summer capital, Shadow Lawn, here to-day after an ' * [uneventful trip by motor from Atlantic City. A small crowd j greeted him on his arrival. The President plans to spend' most of his time here until the election. ) | ft 4RRIACE LICENSES I Benjamin Lefloy Knnti and Al enn Edith Bnchnian, Steflton. | Gorman L. Shartaer, interline, and Elale Snyder, Caraonvllle. _ FRI W VV" II W II V||l I IIIIIVVII imV||i 14 PAGES CITY EDITION GIRL SAYS SHE WAS IN MACHINE DRIVEN BY BATES Declares He Ran Down and Killed Local Man Racing With Car HE DENIES GUILT Represented Himself to Her as Single She Declares in Statement Lebanon, Pa., Sept. 9.—Miss Martha Gross, aged 18 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gross of Bismark, six miles south of Lebanon, this after noon made a statement to the Lebanon News in which she declares that she her father and mother and Clarence Bates, of Lebanon, were in the auto mobile which ran down and killed George Donohue of Harrisburg on the Horseshoe Pike near Hummelstown late Thursday .night. Miss Gross says the party motored to Hummelstown and that the acci dent occurred on the return journey when Bates began to race with a Hershey Transit Company trolley car. She practically corroborated the testi mony given the police by witnesses of the accident. She also states that Bates speeded away after the acci dent. In her statement to the News, Miss Gross declared Bates has been calling on her for several weeks; that he rep resented himself as a single man and was so accepted by both herself and her parents; and that he posed as the ; owner of the automobile in which he always came to Bismark. She says j that the party stopped at two hotels lin Hummelstown where they drank | beer. Bates, she has since learned, is mar ried and is the father of two children. Clarence Bates. of Lebanon, who was arrested yesterday at that place, | charged with driving the automobile [Continued oil Page B.] Gettysburg to Vote on $70,000 High School Loan Gettysburg, Pa.. Sept. 9. The Get tysburg school board last night passed a resolution submitting to the voters at the November election the question of the bonded indebtedness of the school district for the erection of a new high school building to co3t about $70,000.