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Central and Tech Students in Great PaOM to Boost High School Lean
HARRISBURG ClfisSffk TELEGRAPH
LXXXV— No. 257 16 PAGES
HUNDREDS MARCH IN
GREAT PAGEANT TO
LOOSTSCHOOL LOAN
Central and Technical Alamni and Students With Cham
ber of Commerce, Rotary Clab and Citizens March
Over City's Streets in Downpour to Convince Voters
They Should Pass $1,250,000 Measure
MARCHING, CHEERING, SINGING, THEY
CARRY MESSAGE OF EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Thousands Stand With Umbrellas Along Line of March to
Cheer Plucky Boys and Girls; Pennants, Banners and
Costumes Make Colorful Picture Against Background
of Gray
Under skies that wept all afternoon at the need for such an
appeal, 1500 stout-hearted students of Central and Technical high
schools marched over the city's streets in a great silent plea to
fathers and big brothers to vote for the $1,250,000 high school loan.
Like the famous parade of schoolchildren which celebrated the
completion of a fifteen-year improvement program a year ago, to
day's big demonstration of high school boys and girls will go down
in history of Harrisburg's splendid demonstrations.
Who cared if the heavens were gray
and lowering? Who oared If the
clouds let down a slithering, cold rain?
Who cared if the streets were wet with
Old Nature's scrubbing? It might
have been the grouch who sat com
fortably in his car and turned over in
his mind the cjuestion of whether or
not the loan means a slight increase in
tax rate. It might have been the pull
back that hesitates over the question
of proper high school facilities. Or
it might have been the fellow who
thinks the redhouse curriculum is
good enough for his sons and daugh
ters because it served his own purpose,
more or less. But surely the cheer
ful hundreds of small folks—the vot
ers and wives and mothers of voters
of the not very, very distant future—
DIDN'T mind.
Gaily they tramped along and now
and then they sang the songs that
have often echoed across football Held
and track just to show they're accus
tomed to victory—and how they after
all, can show real sportsmanship at
defeat.
True enough Harrisburg's leading
bosiness men, members of the Cham
ber of Commerce, Rotary Club, the
younger business men who comprise
the Technical high school alumni, the
presidents of the school board of
years gone by—they marched with the
youngsters of to-day.
And the bands played just the kind
of stuff that makes one eager to step
along.
And along the route thousands of
folks stood beneath dripping umbrel
las and wondered and hoped that such
eager youthful sportsmanship would
be rewarded Tuesday.
Central 1,000 Strong
Following the Rotary Club, the
Chamber of Commerce and the Board
of School Directors, who led the
pageant came the Central High stu
dents, 1,000 strong. They were led by
cheer leaders Harold Eckert, Paul Sel
sam, George Spangler, Allison Skinner,
Miss Frances Dunlap, Miss Martha
Cresswell, Miss Ruth Richards, and
Miss Helen Rote. Next in the line
came the sedate Senior boys, then the
Commonwealth band, the dignified
Junior boys, the Sophomore boys, the
irresponsible Freshmen masculine
celebrities. Then the spectator saw
the greatest thing in the parade. Cen
tral's fair sex! They were in the
same order as the young men, Seniors,
Juniors, etc.
The boys carried school pennants,
but were completely outdone by the
gay hair ribbons, coatsweaters and
colors of the girls. Along the route of
the parade Central gave school songs
and cheers, gaining much approval
THE WEATHER
For Harrlnburg and vicinity t
Threatening wtalhrr, probably
light rain tlilx afternoon or to
night; Hllglitly warmer to-night,
with loe*t temperature about 45
degree*| Sunday fair.
For Kantern Pennaylvnnla i Threat
enluK, with probably rnln unit
women hat warmer to-night ■ Sun
day fair; moderate, variable
wind*.
Hirer
The Suaquehanna river and prob
ably all It* tributaries villi (all
* lowly or remain nearly Matlon
ary. A *tnge of about 3.7 feet l
Indicated for Hnrrlaburg Sunday
morning.
General Condition*
A dl*turbunce of nllght energy, an
olTHhoot from the low prex*ure
*y*tem In the \orthwe*t, IN cen
tral over the l.ake Hrgion; It ho*
<-au*ed cloudy and unsettled
weather In the nortlieniterii por
tion of the country with light to
moderate rain* over a part of the
l.nke Ileglon and In the I'pper
Ohio Valley. Elxewhere lu the
)■ I'nlted State* the weather ha*
been fair, except In the iSorth Pa
cific Stale*. where moderately
heavy ralna have fallen. Tem
peratnre* are 4 to 12 degree*
higher than on Friday morning
In the Ohio and Middle Mlm*l*.
alppl valley* nnd over moat of the
Great token, while over nearly
al the weatern half of the coun
try there hna been • fall of 2 to
36 degrees.
Temperature: 8 a. m., 40.
Soni Rlaen, 0)30 a. m. I net* SiOO
p. m.
Mooni Full moon, November 0,
SilN p. m.
River Stngei 3.7 f%et above low
water mark.
Yenterday'* Weather
Hlghent temperature, (17.
I.oweat temperature. 4tl.
Mean temperature, .12.
hormal temperature, 40.
from the spectators. At the head of
Central's line banners were carried,
bearing slogans denoting how badly
the new high school is needed. One
of the signs read: "If it is part of
Central's equipment, it is antique."
The signs were true statements of
facts, and without a doubt all those
who saw the enormous number of
Central's students in the parade, and
who consider the small, inadequate
building they have to be crowded into,
will certainly vote for the school loan.
"Home by Electric I.ight"
All of the banners were student
made, and they showed, too, how thor
oughly the youngsters had entered
Into the spirit of the demonstration
and how hard they had worked.
"Chalk On Our Elbows!"
"Our Proposition is that You Justify
the Loan; We'll Pay for It!"
"Half A Desk Apiece!" •
"Do You Want Us to Reproach You
in After Years by Neglecting Us To
day!"
"Home After School by Electric
Light!"
The Color Scheme
These were only a few of the strik
ingly appealing banner-borne messages
that confronted the sympathetic hun
dreds who watched from the side
walks.
Nor was that parade lacking in
color, cither. If you were an unde
cided voter and you watched that long
procession, with its cheery youngsters,
the gay sweaters and pennants—with
just the right combination of eyes
and hair of sixteen to twenty femi
nine years to complete the effect—if
you watched all that and you still
I weren't convinced that you should
vote for the loan, then you're a poor
citizen.
Then fame Teeh
Following Marshal William 801 l
and his aids came the Tech delegation
over 500 strong. The Tech alumjii
with James Fltzpatrick, the president,
leading, headed the Maroon proces
sion. Oscar Sutch, Paul Bratten, Nor
man Todd, Goodell Stroup and Charles
Johnson, the Tech cheer leaders, were
next in line and led the cheering and
singing of the Walnut street students.
John Demmlg, the school's star
quarter-miler, carried the Tech ban
ner of Maroon and Gray. Victor
Snyder and Gordon Werner were the
color bearers. Proceeding Tyrall's
Military Band of 40 pieces from Leb
anon came a sedate-looking faculty of
twenty-four members. They carried
canes from which floated small Am
! erican flags, and wore Gray arm
bands with Maroon 1917 completed
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Twenty-Seven Miners
Entombed by Explosion
Are Believed Dead
j Birmingham. Ala., Nov. 4.—Eighteen
negroes and nine white men entombed
:in the Bessie mines of the Sloss
; Sheffield Steel and Iron Company,
: twenty mile?, west of here, are believed
j to have lost their lives early to-day by
un explosion, said to have been caused
by gas. Two bodies of unidentified
[negroes have been brought to the sur
face.
Rescue crews from government and
state mine bureaus are at work trying
to reach the men. Two white men and
three negroes escaped injury by work
ing their way through the debris which
th blast caused in the opening.
The explosion occurred below the
eighth level of the mine and was of
such force that the mouth was con
siderably damagrd'and a number of
cars were wrecked on the mine tipple.
ELOPED WITH WIFE'S
14-YEAR-OLD SISTER
Charles C. Wheatley, aged 2G, of
Carrollton, Ohio, was arrested Thurs
day night in Philadelphia, charged
with violating the Mann white slave
act. on information given by A. H.
White, manager of the American Civic
Reform Union, 321 Market street. Ac
cording to Manager White. Wheatlev
was married In April, but several
months later eloped from Ohio with
hlf, wife's 14-year-old sister. The
sheriff of Carroll county, Ohio, has
been notified by Manager White and
is on his way here for' requisition
papers.
STEAMER AFIRE RUNS ASHORE
London, Nov. 4. A Lloyd's dis
patch from Falmouth reports the
Rrltlsh steamer Ponus ashore and on
tiro In Falmouth bay. The steamer
Ponus was built In 1902 at Glasgow.
Her recent movements have not been
reported In the marine registers.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1916.
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F' .SCHOOL
WEST SHORE HIGH !
SCHOOL LOAN WILL;
BE PASSED TUES.
i
Will Do Much For Develop
ment of Whole West Shore,
Voters Say
The whole West Shore is stirred
over the proposed loan for the purpose
of creating a # fund with which to erect
a big Central high school for the boys
and girls of West Fairview, Wormleys
burg, Lemoyne, Camp Hill, and East
Pennsboro township, Including the
towns of Washington Heights and
Enola. The plans call for a high
; school as good as those planned for
| Harrisburg at an expense that in the
i end will be lower than the expenses
: of the schools now maintained by the
various boroughs.
When the loan was first proposed
there was much opposition to it, for
the reason that people In general sup
posed that it would mean a big in
crease in taxes that otherwise would
not have to be paid. Now, however,
the taxpayers understand that to have
a central high school will not cost
more and probably will be cheaper
in the long run and that they can
have a school equal In every way to
that proposed for Harrisburg, that
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DAUPHIN COUNTY
SURE FOR HUGHES
Republican County Chairman
Points Out Folly of Demo
cratic Forecasts
The forecast of Dauphin county for
Hughes and the whole Republican
ticket by 3,000 AT LEAST stands.
That was the word at Republican
headquarters this morning.
"We are not accustomed to talk in
s'iperlatives," fluid County Chairman
Horner. "We try to be conservative.
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Poolroom and Dwelling
Burned at Lee's Cross Roads
Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 4. A fire last
night for a time threatened the town
of Lees Cross Roads, a small village
about four miles southeast of Ship
pensburg and help was asked for from
Carlisle and Shipensburg as the town
is without fire apparatus.
The fire started In the poolroom and
store of Elmer Collins, located In a
double building occupied by the Col
lins family also as a residence. The
other half of the house was occupied
by John Moras.
The storeroom had been closed
only about half an hour when the fire
started and Mr. and Mrs. Collns es
caped from their apartments with
difficulty. Mrs. Moras was overcome
by smoke and is in a serious condttlon
to-day.
Appeals for aid were telephoned to
Shippensburg and Carlisle for fire
apparatus. The Shippensburg chem
ical engine reached the scene and
prevented the spread or the flames to
other properties, but the building the
fire started in was enttrery destroyed.
When .the Carlisle apparatus was
starting for the scene word came that
It would not be needed. A bucket
brigade also rendered good service In
extinguishing small fires in adjoining
buildings.
The property was owned by George
Williams of Newvllle. The loss will
reach about $4,000. Collins had SBOO
Insurance, but the Moras family lost
all their belongings.
FIERCE BATTLE
IS RAGING IN
GALICIANAREA
Neither Side Able lo Make Pro
nounced Gains; Quiet
on Sonime
Heavy fighting continues on the bat
tlefields of Galicia and along the Ru
manian frontier without pronounced
I gains for either side. In northern
i France the night was quiet along the
I French front.
Berlin reports French and British
attacks yesterday in the Guedecourt,
Les Gouefs and Courceletto sectors
north of the Somme which were re
pulsed.
The Austro-German forces have
made little additional progress In their
campaign against Rumania. Berlin
announces the recapture of a position
southwest of Predeal which the Ru
manians had taken November 2, but
conceded the occupation by Rumanian
troops of Rosea height southeast of
Altschanz. Petrograd reports the ad
vance of the Rumanians in the Jiul
valley is continuing.
On the Austrian front the Teutonic
armies under Prince Leopold of Ba
j varia have taken some little addition
ground from the Russians on the Nar
ayuvka southeast of Lemberg in Gali-
I cia, Berlin announces.
COST OF MAKING
PAPER IS LESS
! But Federal Commission Finds
Prices Arc Continuing
to Soar
| Washington, Nov. 4. —ln a state
j nient last night announcing virtual
I completion of its investigation of news
| print-paper prices, the Federal Trade
Commission declares that during the
I first half of this year, when prices
I were soaring to unprecedented fig
! ures, the average cost of producing
| news print puper in domestic mills
I was less than $1.65 per hundred
' pounds, or below the average cost in
the last three years.
1 The commission announces that be
fore issuing its report public hear
| lngs will be conducted and manufac
: turers, publishers and others inter
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JEWISH DAILIES CP
New York, Nov. 4.—The high cost
cf print paper and other material was
j given to-day as the basis for a decision
of the five big Jewish dailies here to
raise the price of their newspapers
I from 1 cent to 2 cents. The change
! will take cftect Wednesday. Combined
(circulation of the five dallies is said
I to be in excess of 500.000.
Bandits Swooped Down
With "Death to Americans"
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 3.—"Death to
Americans," was the cry of the Villa
bandits who charged down from the
foothills at Laguna upon the Mexican
Central passenger train Monday night,
Dr. S. Haffner, the German physician
who was a passenger on this looted
train, declared upon his arrival here
to-night from Chihuahua City.
SAYS RXftI.AND WII.L, BF,
IXOEPEJiUEJIT OF 11. S. STEEI,
T.ondon, Nov. 4.—By next March Great
Britain will be independent of American
steel, said. Dr. Christopher Addison
parliamentary secretary of munitions,
In an Interview discussing the work of
the ministry of munitions. The aug
mented munitions program for the com
ing year, said Dr. Addison, would re
quire 815.000 additional men workers
and 100,000 more women.
HUGHES ENDING
HIS CAMPAIGN IN
WHIRLWIND STYLE
Making Five Speeches in New
York; Another Big One
Tonight
I am deeply touched by my
splendid reception. I come back
home perfectly sure the light is
won.
CHARhES E. HUGHES.
New York, Nov. 4. Charles E.
Hughes finished his presidential cam
paign here to-day in whirlwind fash
ion. Instead of resting during the
day as lie had intended to do, the nom
inee faced a program which called for
five speeches during the afternoon, in
addition to the rally to-night at Madi
son Square Garden.
Republican campaign managers
have made elaborate preparations for
the Madison Square meeting and the i
parade preceding it. They plan to i
have thousands in line, redfire, uni-!
formed paraders, torchlights and what
they have characterized as a "monster I
wheel of flame" with lines of marchers
as its spokes. These spokes will come
together in Fifth avenue and will be
j reviewed by Mr. Hughes, former Pres-
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ELECT HUGHES IS
PLEA OF COLONEL
I
|G. O. P. Nominee Is Straight
Forward in Thought and
Courageous in Actions
New York, Nov. 4. Theodore
! Roosevelt, speaking at a mass meeting
! in Cooper Union here last night, de-
I nounced the policies of the Wilson ad
i ministration and urged his audience to
"put in the Presidential chair the
clean and upright Justice or the Su-
I preme Court, the fearless former Gov.
I ernor of New York, whose whole pub
lic record has been that of a man
straightforward in hip thought and
courageous in his actions, who cannot
be controlled to do what is wrong and
who will do what is right, no matter
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I Sister Ship of U-53
Is Coming to Convoy
Deutschland Back Home
New London, Conn., Nov. 4.—The
German armored submarine U-57, sis-*
ter ship of the U-53, which recently
sank live vessels off the New England
j coast, is expected to act as a convoy
for the undersea freighter Deutsch
land on her return trip to Germany,
according to a statement last night
by Captain Paul Koenlg.
Wilson Finishing Campaign
at "Old Home Day" Rally
Long Branch, N. J., Nov. 4.—Presi
dent Wilson at an "old home day"
celebration here to-day planned to
close his campaign for re-election with
an address to his fellow citizens of
New Jersey.
Special trains were engaged to bring
to Shadow Lawn residents of Jersey
City, Newark, Trenton and other sec
tions of New Jersey and the Wilson j
managers said many more Democrats
would come by automobile. To his'
friends here to-day the President ex-!
pressed confidence over the outcome'
of the election Tuesday.
MOOSE LEADERS IN!
THIS COUNTY MARE
PLEA FOR HUGHES
Tell Progressives to Pay No At
tention to Efforts of Demo
crats to Deceive
I
CAN'T STAND FOR WILSON I
Agree With Roosevelt That]
Hughes Is Nation's Hope;
Send Out Letters
Progressive leaders of Dauphin
county have sent out letters to Pro
gressive voters throughout the city
and county districts denouncing
Democrats and Democratic news
papers who have been trying to make
I Progressives believe that the party
will support Wilson at the polls next
week.
The local Progressive leaders, in
cluding Dr. J. 11. Kreider, former
county chairman; George L. Reed,
\ former member of county executive
| committee; W. W. Lenker, former
Washington party member of the
Legislature, and Walter L. Vanaman,
former secretary of the Washington
party committee, scathingly denounce
tho Wilson administration and ask
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Democrats Try to Hold
Up Postal Employes For
Benefit of Wilson Fund
"Get-the-Stutf" Gutty, acting chairman
of Democratic State committee, has
about half the Post Oftlce force of Har
lisburg wondering whether after elec
tion tliey will lose their jobs.
"Get-the-StulT" Gutty has sent to most
or the postal employes an urgent ap
peal for funds to keep President Wilson
in office. He minces no words. "Our
needs are great," he says, and then "The
one way you can be of greatest help is
financially." This is underscored. Di
rections follow as to where the mono
is to be sent.
The postal laws are construed by
most of the employes as to forbid such
levies by political parties. The Repub
licans in power never made such de
mands, and at the risk of their jobs
most of the men have torn up their let
ters and refused to give.
There never has been In the history
of the Post Office service such a bare
faced attempt to hold up the emploves
in behalf of any political party. The
Telegraph has In its possession one of
the demands for cash sent out by Guffy.
}
' Washington, D. C.. Nov. 4.—More testimony charging
' coercion of brotherhood locomtive etigii
I their organization i i have the interstate
V Commerce Commission order high-power headlights on en
■ gincs was given at to-day's hearing before Examiner Mines,
1 of the Interstate Commerce Commission. J. T. Heller, of
f tlarrisburg, a veteran engineer, expelled by the brother-
C <od, read a letter he had sent to the Interstate Commerce
L Commission protesting against the requirement of a high-
E power headlight on the ground that it was dangerous. He
( produced a letter from W. S. Stone, grand chief of the engi
£ neers warning him and other members that when they
C joined the brotherhood the took an obligation to abide by'
C all its rules and regulations and the will of the majority, and
I 1 r
C we will not hesitate to use our authority and let the next
m c iv ;ption decide it."
C BRITISH SHIP UNDER U. S. FLAG RAMS U-BOAT
C Berlin, Nov. 4.—By Wireless to the Associated Press,
m via Sayville.—The German admiralty has furnished to the
Associated Press'correspondent the details of what is char
( acterized as a second Baralong case, in which a British
& patrol ship flying American colors, it is declared, after
C iestroying submarine U-41 deliberately ran down a row
% boat with the only two survivors of the underseaboat in an
K endeavor to remove the only witnesses, and has since pre-
K vented the intended victims, who were almost miraculously
■ saved, from communicating the news to their own govern-
C xnent.
I FOOTBALL SCORES
K .Scoreo in the first periods of to-day's football games*
C are: Harvard 7, Virginia 0; Yale 0, Colgate 0; Lafayette 0,
C P< ylvania 0.
f Second period: Harvard 10, Virginia 0.
C Field Headquarters of General Pershing, Mex., Nov. <f.-
K —Cowboys from Babicora ranch, operating with home
K guards from Namiquipa, defeated a Villa force of fifty near
C Santa Ana, killing several and capturing eleven, according
C to a report received to-day at field headquarters.
I
I MARRIAGE LICENSES '
r Vnlton Snyder Hitter and l.lllian May ( ronnovfr, city,
n Klrner Blmvorth Wert*, fly. and MUHIIII Irene Hoover, New fumber.
M and.
K Earl Uarlun Huckwniter and Margaret I.ouUe Hart, Lancaster.
Single Copies, 2 Cents CITY EDITION
ONE SURVIVOR
OF 300 ABOARD
TWO STEAMERS
IN COLLISION
Passenger - Carrying Vessels
Came Together in Irish
Channel; Both Go to Bot
tom Instantly
NOT KNOWN IF THERE
WERE ANY AMERICANS
Ships Seldom Carried Salon
Travelers; Few Bodies
Washed Ashore on County
Down Coast Near Carling
ford Lough
London, Nov. 4, 1.30 P. M. —•
The London and Northvyestern
Railway Steamship Connemara,
bound from Greenore to Holy
head with passengers has collided
with another vessel and it is fear
ed the death roll is about 300.
The Connemara collided with
the steamship Retriever in the
Irish channel last night. Both
vessels were sunk. So far as is
' known there is only one survivor
from both ships.
The railway company says it is un
able to state whether any Americans
were aboard these vessels. They sel
dom carry saloon passengers.
A Lloyds dispatch from Belfast
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; CLAIMS NEW JKRSKY KOH G. O. P.
j Newark, N. J.. Nov. 4. —A claim
i that New Jersey. President Wilson's
i homo state, would be carried by the
Republicans on Tuesday by 4 5,000
votes was made here to-day by New
ton A. E. Bugbee, Republican state
chairman. Mercer county, in which
the President votes, will return a Re
publican plurality of 4,500, he pre
dicted. Mr. Bugbee said he believed.
Republicans would win ten out of
twelve congressional districts and elect
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen United Statea
senator.