Knnsfiania Railroad Planning $400,000 ChssificaHm Yards at HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 272 20 PAGES EVANGELISM OF * FOREIGN-BORN IS CHURCH PROBLEM More Money Needed to Carry on Work Declares Mission- ary Secretary RURAL NEEDS DISCUSSED "Country Preacher" Is Proud of "Every Hayseed in His Hair" owerving from discussions and ad dresses on big, interdenominational world problems, speakers to-day at the closing sessions of the State Meth odist Men's convention in the Chest nut street auditorium told the thou sands of laymen and clergy the things in local church work in city and rural districts, and the national program which must be developed. Home and foreign missionary work, social service, surveys, rural problems, assimilation of the big foreign immi gration, religious education of the thousands of foreign residents or for eign-born people, housing conditions, the effect of the cliurcli on the com munity, the need of more work and funds, training of uneducated for eigners—these arc only a few of the many subjects that the speakers ex plained at length to-day in a program *o varied that the gathering was kept on edge, keeping trace of the mass of facts and date presented. Volley af ter volley of shot condemning conven tionalism and formality In the church, criticism of denominationallsm which is cropping out In the big interdenomi national work facing the country, at tacks on narrow- minded church lead ers in big communities who shrink from their duty in dealing with the foreign element, were a few of the features of the addresses, as one speaker after another, exploited the need in present day Christianity. Cyrus D. Foss, Jr.. of Philadelphia, presided this morning and introduced the speakers to the big audience. "Our biggest foreign and home mis sionary work," declared D. D. Forsyth, of Philadelphia, secretary of the Home Missionary society, "is the evangelism of the foreigners in America. No other force or organization will do so much for our home and foreign mis- [Continued on Page 18] Thieves Break Open Cask Registers in Candy Store Thieves entered the confectionery store of Fairlamb & Company, 208 Market street, early this morning and stole ? 10. Two cash registers were opened and $5 taken from each. The first was opened without any trouble, but the other was forced open with a screw driver. The thieves left behind 35 pennies in one drawer and 25 in the other. The police says entrance was sained with a key, as there were no jimmy marks on the door. THRONGS SEEK MISSING GIRI, Stroudsburg. Pa., Nov. 22.—Several hundred residents of Mount Pocono have been searching night and day tor a man who it is believed has either kidnaped or murdered an eighteen year-old daughter of John Desanto, a prominent resident of that villace. A Lackawanna engineer coming down the Pocono Mountain saw the young woman being forced to walk between two men. District Attorney Lebar and County Detective Gilliland are working on the case. WANT SIGNS REMOVED Cleveland, Ohio, Nav. 22. Aban donment of brewery signs on building exteriors, abolition of treating by pro prietors, removal of .screens, closer supervision of licenses and giv ing up objectionable advertising are among the recommendations to be submitted to the United States Brew ers' Association at its two days' con vention which opened here to-day. ERIE CHURCH BURNS Erie, Pa., Nov. 22. The first Ger man Baptist Church, a practically new structure, was burned early to-day. The loss is $40,000. THE WEATHER l-'or Hnrrlsburg anil vicinity i Clouily weather to-night, followed by raln Thursday! warmer; lowest temperature to-night about 35 de grees. I'or IjiKtern IVnnnj 1 vniiin: Increas ing cloudiness to-night, followed by rain on Tburitdayi warmer; moderate south winds. Hirer The Sasqtiehnnuu river mid nil it* branches will fail to-night. A stage of about S.tl feet Is indicat ed for llnrrlshurg Thursday morning. A rainstorm approach ing from the Southwest will probably cause u moderate rise In all streams of the Susquehanna s> stem beginning Thursday or Thursday night. General Conditions There has been n decided decrease in pressure over central and western districts during the last twenty-four hours. The South west disturbance has developed into n well dellned storm, with its center now located over North western l.ouisiann. It has caus ed genral rains In New Mexico, Texas. Oklahoma, Western l.ou isiann, Missouri, lowa and West ern Tennessee in the Inst Iwenly four hours. Another disturbance central oxer Saskatchewan has caused light precipitation In Northern Oregon and Hritlab Co lumbia. Temperatures have risen 2 to 12 degrees over most of the country enst of the Mississippi river, except In Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia and Western Pennsylvania, where it is slightly cooler. In the West temperature changes have been somewhat irregular. Temperaturei 8 a. m., 24. Sunt Rises, Utr>9 a. m.; seta, 4:43 p. m. Mooni New moon, Saturday, 3:50 p. m. Illver Stage: XT feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 42. I .on est temperature, 31. Mean temperature, 31. Normal temperature, -10. IMPRESSION OF THE WELFARE AND EFFICIENCY CONFERENCE AT THE CAPITOL TtRVIN(J TO FlGUflt OUT TWS 7 I ~VI j~ 7 PROBLEM SNT GREEK TO \ GREW \ / I GLOO BLUB—^ (MB n's MOOE LIKE 5 &ET OUT FROM ( 111 f\ \\\ // / L Slo0 B£(? ALL OBER I NE ACCIDENT PROBLEM A LOSS OF THE STEAM AND ELECTRIC \ f|B jJJlililllliliiiiilrW BY RifeSMCE WETBES M iSUo RAILWAYS IS SOME PROBLEM \ jM __ ' ■KtSKEHESfcP. .H ICELAND '* "INT EIAPLWER SHOULD ALWAYS PA L_ INSIST UPON SAFETY FIRST 1 TTIFWL WHETHER IT IS HEEDED 0? NOT tM [| {[feTM-i 111 I ''fSlt ——- KELa.MFOf^MAN,S^^3I^^ If THE EVILS OF V/ILL TALK ON WOW RAILROAD TPES PASSING - w.lli TO REACH THE NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING WORKMAN INDUSTRIES ARE SPENDING HUGE SUMS ON SAFETY Accident Problem of the Steel and Electric Industry Before Conference What ' safety first" means in the plants of the Bethlehem Steel Com pany and how the Cambria Steel Com pany and the Philadelphia Electric Company have organized to prevent accidents and to succor those who are hurt formed the themes of several in teresting talks at the morning session of the second day of the State Indus trial Welfare and Efficiency Confer ence at the Capitol to-day. William B. McCaleb, superintendent of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, who has given much attention to the first aid problems, pre sided in the absence of R. Boone Ab bott, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway and president of the Engi neers Society of Pennsylvania, who was unable to be present. Patrick Gtlday, chief of the State [Continued on Page 18] Deutschland Is Believed to Have Left American Waters in Safety on Dash Nantucket. R. 1.. Nov. 22.—The mer chant submarine Deutschland, returning to Germany with a valuable cargo was believed to-day to have left American waters in safety. Darkness which set in soon after she started yesterday from New London. Conn., prevented ob servation of the submerslble's progress along shore and there was no word from her since she passed Watch Hill at sun set last evening, a barely distinguish able object ten miles off shore. If she maintained her speed of ten knots an hour it was figured she would have passed Nantucket south shoals lightship In the darkness early this morning. Then with the open ahead the Deutschland could set out on the 4,000 miles course by which her com mander, Captain Koenlg, hoped again to evade the blockading vessels of the allied navies supposedly watching for her coming. Tennis on Ice Soon by Champions Is Planned New York. Nov. 22.—Tennis on ice with prominent players participating and a possible Ice championship wtthln the next year is planned by Frederick B. Alexander, Davis cup veteran and lawn tennis player of international reputation. Several years ago an ice tennis match was played In which Alexander and other well-known ten nis players took part and considerable interested was aroused. The same rules that govern lawn tennis apply to Ice tennis. The court, will be laid out In black paint on the ice surface, but because of the addi tional height skates give a player it is probable that the net will be slightly raised. It is claimed that the bail does not skid on the ice to a much more pronounced degree than it does in play on the board floors in armories and clubs. The players are able to employ all the cut known to the out door game. France to Have Two Meatless Days a Week Paris, Nov. 22. —Two meatless days a week were decided upon by the '■abinet to-day at a meeting at which the food supply question was ex haustively discussed. After consulta tion with traders Interested in the matter it was agreed that the two days should be Thursday and Friday and a decree to that effect will shortly be issued. It was also decided to prohibit alto gether the making of fresh pastry, cakes and rolls and fancy bread. The smallest loaf will he that of two pounds weight. Crackers and kindred edibles of a dry character will be the only form of cakes permitted. HARRISBURG.. PA.,WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1916. FATE OF ARMIES IN RUMANIA IS NOW IN BALANCE Fears Felt in Entente Quarters For Safety of Forces in Orsova Region The fate of the Rumanian armies In Western Wallachla appears yet to be hanging in the balance. The exact measure of the frufts gathered by the Teutonic Invaders from their capture of the important Wallachian city of Craiova, reported yesterday, is not yet apparent, but fears are expressed in entente quarters [Continued 011 Page 9] Baltimore Man Drops Dead at Union Station Charles Bentzel, aged 55. of Balti more, dropped dead in the Pennsylva nia Railroad station this morning at 10 o'clock from heart failure. He was on his way home after attending the funeral of his sister in this city yester day afternoon. Joseph Armento, pro prietor of the Capital City hotel, is a nephew. After an investigation by Coroner Eckinger, the body was put in the hands of Undertaker Charles H. Mauk. Sixth and Kelker' streets. He will ship it to his home, 127 North Kenwood avenue, Baltimore, to-mor row. GET BIG INCREASE Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 22. To aid them in combating increased cost of living laborers at nine plants of the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Mis souri. Arkansas, I.ouisiana and Texas to-day were granted a wage increase, effective December 1. The rate was not announced but it was said the ad vance would increase the annual pay roll by $250,000. HBG. TRUST CO. ADDS TO SURPLUS Stockholders Raise Sum to $600,000, Making Total Basic Capital .$1,000,000 Two hundred thousand dollars was added to thA surplus of the Ilarrlsburg Trust Company at the annual meeting yesterday, making the total surplus of the company $600,000. This surplus, with the capital of $400,000, (rives the company a basic working capital of $1,000,000. The following directors were re elected: Edward Bailey, J. William Bowman, A. Fortenbaugh, R. G. Golds borough, H. L. Hershey, E. S. Herman, A. S. Mathesoh. G. W. Relly, E. J. Stackpole, H. F. Smith and E. Z. Wallower. Seek Evidence on Report That Farmers Let Fruit Rot to Raise Prices Chicago, Nov. 22. As part of the federal Investigation of high food prices In progress here federal agents directed by United States District At torney Cline to-day sought evidence bearing on reports that produce deal ers in territory tributary to Chicago are permitting fruits and vegetables to rot In the field that prices may be in creased. Evidence obtained will be submitted to the federal grand Jury now considering the food question here. Reports that seven acres of pump kins on an Indiana farm, 28 carloads of potatoes and train loads of cab bages at other points were allowed to rot after being purchased by produce dealers, are among those under Inves tigation. PENNSY PLANS CLASSIFICATION YARDS AT SHOCK'S Additional Track Facilities at Enola Included in Improve ment Program Classification yards at Shock's Mills, on the Columbia branch, and addi tional track facilities at Enola yards are two biff Improvements said to bo planned by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the near future. The new yards, it is said, will be at a point where the low grade line crosses the Susque hanna river and will be a big factor in taking care of freight to and from tidewater in the event of the eight hour law becoming permanent. It is said that plans for the new yards have been in the hands of the officials at Philadelphia for some time awaiting approval and that the Pennsy will spend no less than $400,000 on the Shock's Mills yards . Fortune in Bituminous In order to find room for the new tracks at Enola the large supply of bituminous coal which has been stored there for a year is being removed. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is also cutting in on the soft coal supply stored at other points. Having this large supply of the bituminous product on hand at this time, it Is said, Is proving a saving of many thousands of dollars for the rail road company. Soft coal is now wortli from $5.50 to $6.75 per ton at the mines, according to grade. When the Pennsylvania Railroad Company start ed to store soft coal along the main line the price was from $1.30 to $2 per ton. The average cost to ship coal varies from $1.30 to $1.50 a ton. As the Pennsylvania company is not buy ing coal at present, and claims to have a large amount still on hand, the com pany Is saving from $3 to $4 a ton. No figures are available as to the exact amount of soft coal on hand, but it is said to be over the million-ton mark. MANY PAPERS MUST SUSPEND Increasingly Serious Situation Confronts Publishers; Price of Print Mounts Steadily If the present high prices for print paper and general newspaper supplies are to rule, says an expert authority, many newspapers will be forced to suspend, through sheer inability to raise, from their subscription and ad vertising revenue, an amount neces sary to meet the increased demands of [Continued on Pasrc 9] Diet Squad Starts in to Demonstrate Possibility of Living on 40 Cents a Day - Chicago, Nov. 22. Twelve em ployes of the Chicago Health Depart ment to-day began a two weeks' ex periment Intended to demonstrate that a person can live properly on forty cents a day. At the first meal, breakfast, served at 8:20 o'clock, Dr. John D. Robert son, health commissioner, directed tho "diet squad" to learn to eat slowly, asserting that "the faster you eat, the more you eut." Forty minutes was allowed for breakfast, the menu for which consisted of fresh apples, liver, bacon, one egg, muffins, butter and coffee. Each dieter was pledged to deny himself all nourishment except the meals prepared at the school of do mestic arts and sciences. Dr. Rob ertson announced, however, that they might drink water, chew gum and smoke, if they desired. The experiment Is attracting wide attention especially among physicians and economists, numbers of whom have asked for specimen menus and reports of the progress. Six men and six women arc making the teat. APPROPRIATIONS CHAIRMAN FAVORS FOOD EMBARGO Democratic Representative to Press Bill at Next Congress Washington, D. C.. Nov. 2:!.—Rep- | resentative Fitzgerald, Democrat, chair man of the House appropriations com- I mittee, announced to-day that ho fa- j vored an embargo on foodstuffs and tliat it was his purpose to prepare a bill and to press the subject early the coining session of Congress. "Two reasons chiefly impel me to favor embargo legislation on food stuffs," said Mr. Fitzgerald. "It is a most effective weapon in our contro versy with Great Britain over her un warranted, outrageous and Indefensible blacklist of American merchants. As our foodstuffs are needed abroad, em bargo will be more effective than weary months of diplomatic nego tiations which end in the continuance of the indefensible practices against our rights. "The embargo also should l>e im posed for purely domestic reasons. The prices of foodstuffs have reached levels that are bringing widespread distress to the country. Many hun dreds of thousands of our people are suffering from the lack of the necessi ties of life. Wholesale prices in many commodities are less abroad to-day than they were a year ago; here the retail prices have advanced alarmingly. Cut Livlns Cost "The argument that nothing should be done to interfere with the expan sion of our foreign trade does not im press me. Of what profit is it if our foreign trade is to grow with leaps and bounds while our own people are brought to the verge of starvation as a result of it? "The time is ripe for the embargo, and I hope to see legislation speedilv | enacted to impose it. Let America be t for Americans first." | It seems to be generally agreed here , that the coming session of Congress will sec a fight over the embargo pro : posal, which is backed by .monster | petitions signed hy thousands of per | sons and organizations, i President Wilson and the Cabinet j are understood to oppose it. Tell. W. C. T. U. of Value of News Articles to Locals Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 22. The 38th annual convention of the Na tional Women's Christian Temperance Union will close to-night with the an nouncement of membership awards. Invitations for the 1917 convention also will be extended to-night. The_value of news articles to the I unioiAviis explained in detail to-day at the "efficiency congress," by Mrs. | Susan McWliirter Ostrum, of Indian apolis, superintendent of the press de partment. She told the delegates that local organizations would better hold one meeting and have it reported well than four and have no reports in the papers. She also advised the delegates to tell their locals not to question the editors who "cut" the material fur ! nished. She said any news item con i cernlng the work of the union is worth more than a much larger amount of paid advertising. Addressing the convention on "Mor monism. Its Polygumv and Treason," Mrs. Lulu Lovelland Sheppard, of the National Kcform Association, asserted that Joseph Smith, head of the Mor ! mon church, defeated prohibition in | Utah in 1909 and again in 1915. i "Mormonism has grown more rapid- I ly in the last fifty years than any other church and to-day one person in every sixty is a Mormon," said Mrs. Shep pard. "The power of the Mormon church lies In its commercialism, for as a ohurch it is the richest in the world. The church to-day has $25,000,000 j hoarded up in Wall street and there Is i $200,000,000 more money In Utah." KILLS SERGEANT AND SELF Honolulu. Nov. 22.—Private E. 11. Robinson, United States Army, shot and killed Sergeant F. J. Murphy and then killed himself at Scofleld bar racks lost night. Both'wero members of headquarters company No. 3. The motive for the shooting was said to be unknown. Single Copy, 2 Cents CITY EDITION EIGHT-HOUR LAW | IS HELD ILLEGAL BY LOWER COURT Declared Unconstitutional by District Court Judge in Test Case GOES TO SUPREME BODY Directs Every Railroad in Country to Participate in Hearings Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 22. The Adamson eight-hour law was held unconstitutional here to-day by Judge William C. Hook, in the United States District Court. Judge Hook directed the receiv ers of the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, who brought the original action in this case to enjoin the law from going into effect, to assist the government in expediting the case to the Su preme Court of the United States for final decision and informed them through their attorneys to invite the representatives of every railroad in this country to parti cipate in the hearings before the United States Si irenie Court. This was requested in the govern ment's motion to dismiss the injunc tion petition of the railroad, the gov ernment desiring to avoid "prolonged, unnecessary and scattered litigation" that would be made necessary by tlie. hearing of countless similar suits tiled by every rati system in every federal district in the United States through which their lines run. It is expected that the ultimate de cision as to whether the law will go into effect January 1 will be handed down before that time. A transcript of the present case will be filed in the United States Supreme Court before it reconvenes December 4. Council Biuffs, Ia„ Nov. 22. ln a Buit asking injunction against enforce ment of the Adamson law filed, in the Federal District Court here to-day by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company injunction also is asked against the four railroad brotherhoods concerned to restrain them from inaugurating strikes should the provisions of the law be disre garded by the company. | TEUTON DIPLOMATS TO LEAVE ft | Athens Nov. 21, vi . Lot don Npy. 2J.—AH of the dip | lonv the central powers and Turkey will j* ' | leave At morning in accos I | with the < lade by Admiral Du Fournet, command- I | er of th Fournet to-day rcfus | to extend the time limit of the departure of the diplomats. ' EThe Turkish minister is is legation dismantled and J: . the furniture packed. ( || PLEDGE SUPPORT TO UNIFICATION PLAN i Harris,burg.—Resolutions were adopted at the opening 1 , of the afternoon session of the Pennsylvania Methodi.'.' Laymen's Convention pledging to the plan for uni- ' : F fication of the branches of the church as presented at the r [ ope; ,n. The resolutions were presented by Dr. i " W. F. Conner, of Pittsburgh, and seconded by Justice E. [/. f A, Walling, Erie; Dr. George E. Eckman, Scranton; I [ A-'.- ' 1 VV r, >.rker, ' ' Harri. * I SHOW INTEREST IN LAW DECISION V.. Nov. 22. Government officials were , J j. <: in j -.1-' c I : "c4; dfe'sion holding the M Adi.o ..1. jtr •'•nvi j : ' wbtle hopeful that final *■ de.' •> ;?!■: ;n emc Cou t may bf viven by Jf.nuary 1, when the law becomes effective they were not certain that j it will be possible to expedite proceedings tly to have a determination by that time. ) DISCUSS WAYS TO REACH FOREIGNERS J | Harrisbuig.—Ways to reach the ivon English speaking S work- ' . c • hoi ' • ' with our' ways and lan guage was the big theme for the Welfare conference this ! I afternoon If. 11. Wheaton, cfnt in i | Ameri(.an<:'ntiop, prtsidc-d. .. . j | | MANY AMERICANS ON BRITANNIC j New York, Nov. 22. —A majority of 200 nurses and 100 | surgeons Aboard the steamship Britannic; reported sunk to day in Ihuc Aegean ~ea, wetc Americans, it was asserted | to-day at the officer, of the British consulate here. , | I | MARRIAGE LICENSES 1 | Kurl Grant .Under nnd Rose Mary llurkey, city. FRANCIS JOSEPH, AUSTRIAN RULER, DIES SUDDENLY Emperor Was 80 Years Old and Ruled For 07 Years HAL) EVENTFUL CAREER Saw Empires Rise and Fall; Death Climax of Long List of Tragedies London, Nov. 22. Emperor Francis Joseph died last night at 9 o'clock at Schoebrunn Castle, according to a Renter dispatch from Vienna byway of Amster dam. Emperor Francis Joseph on Monday evening for the lirst time went to bed earlier than usual. The tlrst part of the night to one o'clock passed un disturbed. Then attacks of coughing began. During the day time yester day feverish symptoms .showed a threatening change for the worse and in the afternoon an aggravation set in which resulted in the death of tha aged monarch. Archduchess Marie Valerie who Itad remained constantly at her father's death bed, had gone to the western railway station shortly before 8 o'clock to meet her daughter who was return ing to Vienna from the royal chateau at Wallze. The archduchess, however, imme diately was recalled by court officials to Schoenbrunn as, after her depar ture, all hope of the emperor living through the night had disappeared and shortly after her return his ma jesty breathed his last. Despite the evening bulletin which left no doubt about the emperor's serious condition the people of Vienna still maintained their firm belief in his power of recuperation and tha news of his death published about 11 o'clock had an absolutely paralyzing effect on the public who could hardly credit it. All amusements at onco were suspended. KAISER ON WAY TO VIENNA Xjondon, Nov. 22. The German emperor and King Ferdinand of Bul garia are expected to arrive at the Austrian capitul to-morrow says a telegram from Vienna received byway of Geneva. [Continued on Page 17]
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