HARRISBURG £££& TELEGRAPH f LXXXV— No. 268 24 PAGES DEUTSCHLAND LIMPS • BACK TO PORT AFTER RAMMING INTO TUG Five Lives Lost When Undersea Merchantman on Return Trip to Germany Hits Conveying Vessel When It Swings Across Her Coarse and Sends It to the Bottom BOW PLATES BENT AND RIVETS LOOSENED BY FORCE OF IMPACT Submarine Is Not Seriously Damaged; Only One Is Saved From Tug; He Said Boilers Exploded After Little Ship Was Lifted High in Air and Nose Shoved Under Sea by U-Boat New London, Conn., Nov. 17.—Five lives were lost when the German submarine Deutschland, which left port early to-day for Bremen, rammed and sent to the bottom with its crew of five the tug T. A. Scott, Jr., one of its two convoying tugs*. After the acci dent the Deutschland returned to port. The Dead Captain John Gurney. William A. Caton, engineer. Kdward Stone, fireman. Clarence B. Davison, Cook. Eugene Duzant, deck hand. I toilers Exploded The collision occurred about a mile inside the Race and according to a member of the Deutschland's crew, came "all in a minute." The tug. he said, got unexpectedly in front of the Deutschland, the distance being so slight between them the submersible had no chance of. avoiding the acci dent. Her nose struck the tug near the stern, lifting it well out of the water and sending the Scott's nose under. Almost immediately afterward the boilers on the. tug exploded and the vessel sank with all on board. Deutschland Slightly Hurt Captain Fred Hinsch, of the intern ed German steamer Neckar, who was on the tug grasped a guy rope and was drawn down with the tug. When he rose to the surface he managed to grasp a life preserver which had been thrown out by the Deutschland and was taken on board the vessel, by which he was brought back to New London. The Deutschland was not seriously damaged. It was stated, and would probably be ready to sail in a few days when repairs had been made. Several of the bow plates were bent and the rivets loosened, but the interior of the submarine was not damaged. The repairs will be made by members of the crew. Eddy Caused Accident An "eddy" caused the accident, ac ' cording to Captain Harry Baker, of the tug Cassie, the other convoyer of the submarine. The Cassie was trav eling about half a mile astern of the Deutschland while the Scott and the submarine were moving about abreast. The sea was calm, Captain Baker said, and conditions were normal. The Scott carried the usual lights but the Deutschland had only her headlight and two side lights. The tide was running .almost full and when about seven miles west of Race Rock they struck an "eddy" which twisted them about and out of control. Shortly af terward they canie together. He heard the crash. The night was clear, he said, and there were no boats other than the two tugs and the submarine Deutschland in the vicinity, lie gave no credence to reports that a hostile motorboat was approaching the sub marine at the time of the accident. Captain Baker said that when the collision occurred he at once headed for the spot. On arriving there he saw Captain Hinsch in the water and took him on board the Cassie. Earl ier reports had it that Hlnch had been rescued by the Deutschland. Hole Being Repaired Henry G. Hilken of Baltimore, pres ident of the Eastern Forwarding Com pany, said that so far as he knew the only damage the Deutschland suf fered was a twisted stem. It was THE WEATHER For Harrisburg nnil vicinity: Fnlr to-night nnil Catiinla) I not much i*It II llK<* In temperaturei luwcnt to-night about 311 degrees. For Kantcrn I'eunsylvaiilat Overcast In south and probably SIIOM 11 llr rles in northern portion to-night; Saturday fair; not much change la temperature) freak south to Meat Minds. Iltver The Susquehanna river and all its brunches Mill remain nearly sta tionary. A ktaßc of about a.7 feet Is Indieateil for Harrisburg Satur day niornlnv. General Condition* A depression, now central over the take Region, has caused SUOM In >\ cstrrn New York, .Northern Michigan and In the Upper St. Lawrence Valleyi elscMhere throughout the territory repre sented on the map i'alr weather has prevailed during the last twenty-four hours. Temperatures have risen In all dls- V trlets except the Missouri Valley, the Northern Kooky Mountains, Manitoba,. Saskatchewan and Northern New Kngiand, where it Is a to 16 degrees colder, but they are still below the seasonal aver age In eastern districts and In iratkern districts east of the Mis sissippi river. Killing frosts oc curred this morning at Charles ton, 8. C., and Jael.sonvlllei Fla. Temperature i 8 a. m.. 30. Hum Rises, |54 a. in.; sets, 4i4 p. m. Mooa: Hlsea, lli4o p. m. River Stagei 3.7 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 30. I.owest temperature, 24. Mean temperature, 30. Normal temperature, 42, learned later, however, that the under sea boat has in her bow at least one hole about twenty inches square. A portable forge was taken down to the pier and the hole is being patched up. i Captain W. A. Pones, shore superin tendent of the Scott company in [Continued on Page 7] Fall From Ladder Fatal to Plumber's Apprentice A fall from the top of a. forty-foot ladder, late yesterday afternoon, caus ed the death of George Deeds, aged J 8, an apprentice employed by Harry Lutz, a Verbeke street plumber. Deeds, at the time of the accident, was working on a new house being erected at 1924 North Third street. Attempting to descend a ladder with tools in his hands, his foot slipped and he fell to the cement walk below. An examination of the ladder proved all the rungs to be intact, so that the fall was doubtless duo to a misstep. Coroner Eckingcr is making an in vestigation. The youth was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leeds, 207 North Fif teenth street. Funeral services for the youth will be held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home, the Rev. Dr. Clay ton A. Smuclier, pastor of Stevens Me morial Church officiating, lie is sur vived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leeds, tnd two sisters, Esther and Dorothy Deeds. Burial will bo made at Paxtang. I. W. W. to Divide Ashes of Organizer Who Was Shot Chicago. 111.. Nov. 17. The ashes of Joseph Hilstrom, an organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World, who was shot for murder in Utah a vear ago. will be distributed in tiOO parch ment packets to the delegates of the Industrial Workers of the World at its tenth annual convention, which begins her? Sunday. William D. Hay wcod. organUer of the Industrial Workers of the World, to day ordered the urn containing the ashes brought to the headquarters oi the organization. To Change Commercial Into Trust Company , Application will be made Decem ber 11 to the Secretary of the Com monwealth for a charter for the Commercial Trust Company. Back of the new company are the officials of the Commercial Bank, 1222-1224 North Third street. William M. Har gest is the attorney. The latter said to-day, that the purpose Is to change the bank Into a trust company, as it is believed the opportunities are better for serving the public, and do ing a -larger business. CODD OX BORDER ABATES Deming, N. M„ Nov. 17. The in tense cold which caused much suffer ing among the soldiers of the Fourth separate brigade on their practice march, has greatly moderated, ac cording to a report received here last. It is said that no new oases of spinal meningitis has developed ana that the sick with the column were improving. The brigade encamped last night at Fay wood, N. M. and ts expected to arrive at the Deming j camp by Saturday noon. Military authorities here say that the soldiers leaving their commands because of the cold and returning to Deming will be treated by the military courts as strayers instead of deserters. Many of these men are rejoining their corn j panics. SOCK DARNING COI RSK Marysville. Cal., Nov. 17.—"Teach ! boy? and girls something useful- have 'hem bring their fathers' socks to school and tench them to darn them," declared Miss Daura Oak. member of the faculty of the Chico State Normal School. "Strincring and unstringing beads and cutting out fnncv pictures are an outrage against childhood." FREDERICK PALMER ON LE WE New York, Nov. 17.—Frederick Pal mer, who has been representing the Associated Pres3 with the British army in France, arrived in New York to-day on the steamship Nieuw Am sterdam. He is on leave. FIFTV-FQlin AKRIAI, FIGHTS Paris, Nov. Fifty-four aerial en gagements were fought by French avia tors yesterdav in the Amiens area In the course of this fighting Lieutenant Guynemer. one of the combatants, brought down his twenty-first hostile machine, the War Office announced to day. NOTED PAIXTKU DIKS Bofton. Mass., Nov. 17. John J Kuneklnpr. the noted landscape painter' died at his honwi, In Hyde Park distric early to-day. He was 77 years old. HARRISBURG., PA.,FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1916. [ PITY THE POOR TARGET ! J I W WLL NOW BE HIGHLY ENTERTAINED ( FT LITTLF TNN 1 (WITH SOME EXPERT TARGET SHCOTING FUI 6M ——TUP WWN SUIERNN A T^T, F LOW— J j ILL JUST WE A SHOT AT J at ' J IF I HIT THAT BRO j un rut^l \ON THE WING I CAN BE > LTAP? toWc fit S Ju^-J News Note.—Ten of 25 officers from the city, Pennsylvania Railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Railway police forces in a recent revolver tournament failed to hit the target at all during the shoot. The scores of the other fifteen officers ranger from 4 to 28, with all but one of these below the 20 murk. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PLAN HERE PRAISED Dr. Hallcck, Noted Educator, Says Separation ol' Sexes Gives Better Work Dr. Reuben Post Halleck, noted lecturer and writer and principal of the boys' lrigh school al Louisville. Ky., who was one of the speakers at the county teachers' institute which closed this morning, said that he was highly in favor of the junior high school system which will be used within a short time in city school courses in Harrisburg. Dr. Halleck, known throughout the country as a noted educational leader, although unacquainted with local con ditions. declared that from his fifteen years experience as principal of the high school in Kentucky he found that boys and girls when separated in high schools do much better work. He commended the voters of the city for passing the million and a quarter loan, and said that as it will insure adequate high school facilities, it will mean a big advancement in pub lic school education in Harrisburg. Institute Ends One of the most successful county teachers' institutes held in recent years ended this morning after short business sessions. Final addresses were made by Dr. Ernest Burnham, of Kalamazoo. Mich., who spoke on "Advantages of the Rural Teacher," and by Dr. Halleck. Both speakers reviewed tho important points of their other lectures to the 400 teachers of tl\,e county. They advised the instruc tors to always keep moving and make improvements whenever possible in everything done in the schoolroom. Following the addresses the com mittee on resolutions recommended that the institute go 011 record fav oring legislation to provide a teachers' retirement fund in this State. This resolution was adopted together with expressions of regret 011 tho death of Joseph E. Lytcr. president of the Halifax school board, and Elmer Keam, president of the Middle Fax ton township board. Flan Winter Meetings Walter A. Geesey, Ilummelstown, and S. C. Beitzel, of Halifax, were elected auditors. The report of the auditing committee on the 1916 funds showed a balance of $547.54 in the treasury. County Superintendent F. E. Shambaugh was authorized to use [Continued on Page 10] Officer Brings Fleeing Prisoner to Stop in Heart of City With Shots From Gun Charles Hockley, colored, 16 Cow den street, tried to escape to-day when '"unstable Malcolm Graham was taking him Into jail, lie broke away and ran down Court, street to .Strawberry, and was heading fpr Third street when' two shots from the constable's revolver brought him to a stop. There were a number of people in the path of the fugitive and the constable fired the shots into the air. The colored man was charged with assault and battery on Viola Johnson, ISO 9 Current street. He was com mitted by Alderman Fritz Kramme of the Sixth ward. Hospital Will Get Own Private Ambulance Soon Within tho next few days William M. Condon, superintendent of the Harrisburg hospital, will complete plans for the purchaso of an up-to date ambulance, authorized recently by the board of managers of that in stitution. Superintendent Condon will report to the managers who will then buy the machine. Two years ago a Statu ap propriation was made giving the hos pital $2,000 to be used to purchase an ambulance. Public subscriptions net ted a small sum, and with other funds will bo used to buy the car. WILSON FORMALLY PROCLAIMS NOV. 30 AS THANKSGIVING In Proclamation Says "Year Has Been Rich in Bless ings For Us" Washington, Nov. 17. President Wilson to-day formally by proclama tion designated Thursday, November 30, as Thanksgiving: day. Here follows the President's procla mation : "It has long been the custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for Ills many bless ings and mercies to us and the na tion. "The year that has elapsed since wo last observed our day of thanksgiv ing has been rich in blessings to us as a people, but the whole face of the world has been darkened by war. In the midst of our peace and happiness, out thoughts dwell with painful dis quiet upon the struggles and sufferings of the nations at war and of the peo ples upon whom war has brought dis aster without choice or possibly of escape on their part. We cannot think of our own happiness without thinking of their pitiful distress. "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil- I son. President of the United States of America, do appoint Thursday, the f 30th of November, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer and urge and advise the people to resort to their several places of worship on that day ot render thanks to Almighty God for the blessings of peace and unbroken | prosperity which He has bestowed | upon our beloved country in such un , stinted measure. "And I also urge and suggest our I duty in this our day of peace and i abundance to think in deep sympathy { of the stricken peoples of the world on i whom the curse and terror of war has j so pitilessly fallen and to contribute I out of our abundant means to the re lief of their sufferings. "Our people could in no better way ; show their real attitude towards the present struggle of the nations than |by contributing out of their abun j dance to the relief of the suffering ! which war has brought in its train. "In witness whereof. I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal I of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the city of Washington , this 17tli day of November. In the year iof our I.ord 191 ti, and In the year of I independence of the United States the ! 141 st. "WOODROW WILSON, j "By the President. "Robert Lansing. "Secretary of State." Chauncey M. Depew Tells How to Insure Old Age at 82nd Birthday Celebration New York. Nov. 17. A prescrip tion to insure old age was given to 200 members of the New York Academy of Medicine last night by Chauncey M. Depew, railroad man and former United States Senator, who is in his 83rd year. The rules he laid down were : ' (Set up early in the morning no matter how late you go to bed. "Keep your mind serene and do not take your business home or to the opera or to church. "If tobacco or drink hurt you, cut them off. "Don't be a mollycoddle. "Associate with the young. 'Give liberally to charity and make yourself enjoy it." BLUE RIDGE HILLS AFIRE Cumberland, Md., Nov. 17. The Blue Ridge mountains in the vicinity of Cumberland were on fire late last night and the State Game's office liasJ sent out a call for men to tight the flAmes. The Allegheny county tuberculosis sanatorium was endangered for a time, but It is thought back-firing saved it. Men are being hired by the State to fight the fires which are cov ering the mountains in parallel strings. Much valuable timber has l>een de stroyed. OUT AGAINST PROVISIONS OF RAILROAD LAW Federation Takes Ex ception to Clause For bidding Strike Baltimore, Md., Nov. 17. The American Federation of I_Abor by a unanimous vote to-day declared against that provision of President Wilson's legislative program "making illegal any railroad strike or lockout prior to the investigation of the merits of the case." The committee report, which was adopted, recommended that the con vention "take an uneouivocal position againft compulsory institutions and in favor of the maintenance of Insti tutions and opportunities for free dom." The convention had before it that section of the executive council's re port dealing with the railroad brother hoods' threatened strike. Referring to the bill Introduced in Congress for the purpose of preventing strikes and interruptions of transportation mod eled after the Canadian compulsory Investigations act, the report says: "This effort to again subject wage earners to involuntary servitude has aroused the determined resistance of wage-earners generally. To their dec larations against involuntary servitude the proponents of the legislation have replied that although a strike would be made illegal under the proposed law and strikers criminals, yet indi [Conthiiiel on Paffc 4] New Representatives of County File Expenses David J. Bechtold and Ira E. Ulsh, Dauphin county's recently elected Re publican representatives in the Legls | lature from the second district have I filed their election expense accounts I with Protlionotary Harry F. Holler. I Bechtold spent $184.50, SIOO of which ] was contributed to the county com ! liiittee. The remainder was paid for advertising, etc. Ulsh spent $270.53, ,of which S2OO was the committee con tribution. Warren W. Wiest, treasurer of the ! Prohi ition committee also tiled his | statement. The expenses totaled ! $58.99. Advertising was the principal j items. ICx-Poor Director C. L. Boyer I got $0.73 for assisting in this work. The committee had a fund of SOO which consisted of $lO contributions from the Rev. W. S. Harris and W. C. Terry, $5 each from the Ilarrlsburg iW. C. T. U., Warren W. Wiest and | C. L. Boyer and $23 from Dr. J. W. j Ellenberger. Discuss Americanization of Styles For Spring Chicago, Nov. 17. —• Americaniza tion of Spring styles and fabrics for women is the plan up for discussion before the National Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Association which opened its annual convention here to-day. A Chicago member of the associa tion said: "It seems the lines for the coming season will be long and straight, with skirts not as short as hitherto and coats fitted easily about the waist. Stitching will be much used, in heavy loose threads, and the shades will be the most flower-like and delicate imaginable." 'TITTLE HOPK IX SIGHT FOR PUBLISHERS"—NEWSPAPER DOM i Tn a conservative and thoughtful editorial on the news-print situation, Newspaperdom, discussing the serious actuation confronting the newspapers ™f the country, says "There is little hope for publishers" as a result of the Federal Trade Commission's probing of conditions. News-print paper has soared from $2 or less per hundred iiounds to $3.50, and tn some cases to $ and $7. and the Intimation Is that the menace to the newspaper in dustry is increasing as the end of the year approaches. Single Copy, 2 Cents CITY EDITION PAY CITY LIGHT BILL FROM WATER j FUND SAYS MAYOR! Believes Municipality Could Well Ask Legislative Author- j ity if Necessary WOULD REDUCE MILEAGE Legal Bar Raised; Would Save $68,000 Year; Less Budget Appropriation Pay the city's electric light hill from the proceeds of the Water Department. That is Mayor E. S. Meals' sugges tion for helping each year to cut down Ihe municipality's tax rate. Whether any portion of the income from the Water Department can be used for this purpose until after the indebtedness of that branch of the cttv government has been liquidated }s a legal question, in the Mayor's opinion, as it has been generally understood that the money that" is earned from Ihis source should be applied only to the Water Department. He points, however, to a precedent which was es tablished during his previous adminis tration when some $4,000 was taken out of the water funds and applied to the fund for building the Mulberry [Continued on Page I"] M COU.MICK OKNIKS RUMOR Chairman Intimates 'Ho Will Not Re in Wilson's Cabinet New York, Nov. 17. Vance C. ! McCormick, Democratic national chair- I man, arrived in the city yesterdav on his way to New Haven to see the Yale football team. Mr. McCormick is chairman of the football committee of Yale and is exhibiting almost as m tic si interest in the. condition of his college team as lie did in the recent campaign. He said all the details of the Demo cratic campaign had been cleaned up with the exception of raising the #300,000 deficit in the treasury. He expressed confidence that this amount would be contributed quickly. His attention was called to the many reports that he would become a mem ber of President Wilson's Cabinet after March 4. He denied these reports with a good-natured smile. "My address for the next four years will be Harrtsburg. Pa.," he laughed. "I am going back to the simple life." Just the same, the opinion prevails j in political circles that Mr. McCormick can have a Cabinet place if he desires. I r.T'ar . i d ' M a ■ . . * ■ '• t | \ J tuius i > Ilerinepin v • to< -1 " j} plurality / r / ■om C J J ( round h to the American I j say. 1 i The capture by the B ustr< *4 S I % i the Jiul sector. ( STATEir- LAFAYETTE 4 j • Penn State, /;• Lafayette, 0. 'wenty-five Chinese wen i maesaei c; f by Villa bandits hear Santa Rosalia, Mex., a few days acco. iin, Jo . />■< mho arrived here to- ( day from Durango. The bandits have recently been mak- | ling numerous attacks on Chinese, Spaniards and Syrians, lie said. Washington, Nov. 17. At a special meeting of the J l Chamber of Commerce of the United States to-day Repre- , . sentative Adamson, author of the eight-hour railroad law , and vice-chairman of the Congressional Committee about to | I inve gi the whole >1 transportation, predicted i ogress would not'wait for the committee's report 11 fcpeedily enact legislation to make impossible such I 1 natio.iai paralysis as was threatened a few moriths ago. I London, Nov. 17.—The capture by the British of the i town of Baraki, Oil the eastern end of the Macedonia front, ' is announced officially. ft • MARRIAGE LICENSES % .Inlni Aril no ml A una May Ko.h<nour, city. , 1 I Uriijmiiiii Franklin Mailer, city, and £lxle Xlnma Horrnrr, I'aitonta. U ThumOH Ilell Charlea and Kleunor Mae Smith, rlty. J TEUTONS WREST MOUNTAIN PEAR FROM RUMANIANS Take 2,100 Prisoners and Dozen Machine Guns on Mol davian Line BRITISH RENEW DRIVtt Progress Farther Along AncreJ Entente Advance on Monas tir Is Halted The Rumanians have suffered fur ther reverses at the hands of General Von Falkenhayn's invading forces, ac cording to to-day's official announce ment by the German War Office. Taking a total of more than 2,100 prisoners and a dozen machine guns, the Teutonic forces In yesterday's op erations carried a mountain peak on the Moldavian frontier of Rumania east of Kedzivasarhely, penetrated a Rumanian position in the Predeal re gion and scored advances south of Rothenthurm pass, the statement as serts. Apparently the Russians are hold ing their own well along the northern part of the Moldavian boundary line. Berlin reports them withstanding the Austro-Gennan attacks. British Advance Further London reports a further success by i the British who last night renewed j their attacks in the extension of their t Continued on Page 7] Wife Jumps From Second Story Window During ''Little Family Quarrel" Following a "little family quarrol" In which she says her husband threat- I ened her with violence, Mrs. It. W. j Mell leaped from the second-story window of her home, 1539 North | Cit'th street. She was found later in | her nightclothes sitting In a Verbeke I street doorway. A telephone call I brought the ambulance. 1 .Mrs. Mell was removed to the Har ! risburg hospital, where it was found I her only injury was a sprained ankle. ! When her husband called for her j later, she left the hospital in his com pany on her own responsibility. They were separated several years ago and I only recently been reunited.
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