te Conveying Proposal For Pen*? by Central HARRISBURG WmmmTELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 290 ?0 PAGES GOVERNOR ASKS RESIGNATION OF I A. NEVIN POMEROY! Neither Rrumbaugh Nor Su perintendent of Printing Will Discuss the Matter OTHER CHANGES RUMORED 'Chambcrsburg Publisher Savs He May Have Statement to Make Tomorrow i Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh to- i day asked Superintendent of ■ Printing and Binding A. Nevin Pome- ! roy to resign. Mr. Pomeroy said he j would consider the matter and will j make a statement to-morrow. ! The Governor's action in asking the! retirement of the Chambersburg pub- j lisher is the first move in the. way of, a drastic campaign to secure the se-l lection of Representative Edwin R.! Cox, of Philadelphia, as the Republi- j can candidate for speaker. For days > there have been rumors that the Gov-j ernor contemplated either asking. some of the officials for their resigna- j tions or making removals as object ! lessons to those lukewarm in support of the Cox candidacy or who have been j classed as "disloyal" by the State ad-1 ministration men who are active in I promoting Cox's boom. The Governor j lias been urged to this course by a 1 number of his advisers, including At-, torney General Brown, who has de sired a campaign to a finish and lias | had the problem under consideration j lor days. The names of half a dozen! officials have been mentioned as likely to go, but the Governor always refused j to talk. Neither Will Talk During the morning he sent for Mr.' Pomeroy and saw him shortly before j 1 o'clock in the executive offices. The; Governor was asked as he was leav-1 ing the Capitol to take a train fori Washington to attend the White | llouso dinner, whether he had asked i Mr. Pomeroy to resign. "I have nothing to say," replied thej Governor. Mr. Pomeroy. when asked if the re port that he had been asked to resign j was true, replied: "I have been asked : by the Governor to resign; but I have nothing'to say now." "What are you going to do?" "I am going to consult my friends.! I will have nothing to say to-day. 1 : may say something to-morrow. I will by that time have determined upon my course." "What reason did the Governor give I for asking your resignation " "Now, that is for the Governor to j say. See him." "But he won't talk." "Neither will I now." No Fault With Efficiency It is intimated about the Capitol ; that the Governor found no fault with the efficiency of Pomeroy's department : or with the way he had performed his duties, which have been enor- \ mously increased through the print ing requirements under the acts of last year, but that he put it on the 1 ground of "political disloyalty." For months it lias been rumored that Pomeroy would be asked to resign because administration men have con- j tended that he was not for the Brum- j baugh delegates in the Seventeenth Congressional district, but for the men < [Continued on Page 7] THE WEATHER 11 For HarriMburg; and vlelnltyi Fair, : continued cold wltll loueat temperature about 13 de *reei Friday Incrcnftliiu eluudl neNN, followed by MHMV. For Faatern FettnnyJ van In : Fair, continued eold to-uli&htt Friday InereaalnK eloudiueM*, followed by unow In ufMtern portions moder ate went wind* becoming; vari able. Temperature: 8 a. m., 188. Sun: Rlaen, 7:20 a. m.| seta, 4:40 p. m. Moon: Rlwea, 10:28 p. m. River Stage: 4.1 teet above low water mark. Yeterday*M Weather Highest temperature, 33. I.oweat temperature, 23. Mean temperature, 28. Normal temperature, 33. 11 1 H£2 Burn a ! ■ I Candle in the j Window on Christmas Eve In the old legend a Candle burning from the windows on Christmas Eve signifies Good Will and Welcome and Honor to the Christ Child, MUTINY STORIES ARE ROT SAYS CAPTAIN SCHELL Quartermaster of Bth Brands > Stories Degrading Regiment | as False I GREW OUT OF LARK j i Several Men Who Carried Fun Too Far Confined to Guardhouse 1 j rapt. Ed. H. Schell, quartermaster i of the Eighth regiment, returned from | , the border yesterday on a 30 days' > leave of absence, looking five years ! younger than when he responded to j I ttjo call to arms, and bringing a let- i | ter from Colonel Finney, commander I of the Eighth, to the editor of The | •Telegraph, setting forth conditions at' j Camp Stewart, El Paso. Captain Schcll said the men and of- | ! fleers of the Eighth regiment were j i greatly disturbed by the wild stories | j of "mutiny" sent out. by irresponsible j ' correspondents in Texas, j "The report of wholesale distur bances in tile Eighth is absolutely [Continued on Page 9] Archduke Charles of Austria Is Named Regent of Poland j Warsaw, Dec. 14.—Archduke Charles J Stephen, of Austria, has been selected i to be regent, of Poland, with the pros | pect of election as King later. The state council, composed of the j j leading personalities of the general ! government of Poland, probably will be | convoked before Christmas. The Ba-! I varian state councilor. Count Lerchen- \ j feldv will act as German commissioner, | with District Councilor Zychlinski as i I his representative. | Archduke Charles Stephen is com • mander of the Austrian navy and flfty | six years old. It has been reported sev [ eral times in the last two years that j he had been selected for the throne of j the new kingdom ti) be established in ' th'* Polish territory from Russia. I He Is a cousin of the Austrian Em peror and a brother of Queen Mother I Marie Christine, of Spain, and of Arch : duke Eugene, commander-in- chief of I the Austro-Hungarian armies. All the | j members of the Austrian imperial fam- I ily are descendants, through the wife I of Emperor Ferdinand I. of the ancient | Jagelionian kings of Poland. Wilson Approves Jail For Guard "Slacker"; 10,000 Men Affected Washington, Dec. 14. President Wilson yesterday approved the action ; of an army court-martial in serttenc i ing Lewis O. Gardner, of the New ; Mexico militia, to dishonorable dls • charge and a year in prison at hard labor for failure to obey the federal i call for border duty last June, but J remitted the prison sentence because 1 the case had been pressed as a test. War department officials regard the i decision as important because of the | warning it gives to more than 10,000 j enrolled members of the national i guard who have not appeared for fed eral service. i Poor of Mexican Town i Dying at Rate of 70 Per Day El Paso, Dec. 14.—The poor of I Guanajuato, one of the large mining cities of Central Mexico, are dying at j the rate of about 70 persons a day, ae- I cording to information made by an I American mining man who has ar rived here. The affidavit, which was ! forwarded by government officials to , Washington to-day, confirms also that i women teachers in the parochial i schools had been mistreated by sol | diers and that church properties were | turned into ball rings and barracks. The document goes on to say that I the poor were wearing native grasses for clothing and eating roots, and that corn sent by the American Red Cross to relieve suffering was seized by offi cials and sold at $3.."0 gold a bushel. Seven-and-a-Half Minute Service to 19th and Berryhill ' Residents of Rorryhill street to Nine teenth are to have seven and a half minute trolley service as soon as a siding can be placed hetweent Fif ' t.eenth and Sixteenth streets in Berry - ! hill. ; President Frank B. Musser made jthls announcement to-day. For some | time city and traction company offl j eials have been figuring on a way to !do this without, an additional siding I but after numerous surveys It was | found the siding will be necessary. GEORGE HORWTTZ DIES j Philadelphia. Dec. 14. (Jeorge i Quintard Horwltz, a leading lawyef - | of this city died at his home her.e to- I day after an illness of only three days. He was the son of the late Pinas J. 1 Horwltz. formerly surgeon general of j the United States Navy. Mr. Hor i witz was a founder and a director of the alumni association of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania. He was 48 years j old and was born in Washington. CONGRESS TO RECESS I Washington, D. C., Dec. 14.—Con gress will recess over the Christmas i holidays from December 22 to January 2, Democratic Leader Kit<-hln an nounced to-day, Speaker Clark who favored a shorter recess, will not ob ject to the resolution which Kitchln will offer for such a recess and Senate leaders have agreed to adopt it, IT,OOO TONS OF COAL SUNK Amsterdam, Dec. 14—Via London, j—A Berlin dispatch says that German submarines between November 28 and December 8 sank off the French At lantic coast, among other vessels, steamships carrying coal cargoes amounting to 17,000 tons which were on the way to France, and also an | English steamer with 6,000 tons of | war material which was proceeding I from New York to France, IIARRISBURjG, PA.,THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14.1916 SANTA CLAUS SENDS HIS FIRST V , It you don't believe in Sinta Claus. just look at this. Tlie jolly old fellow has just shipped a big consignment i pines and spruces from the forests of the northland to Harrisburg. And here they are! There are 2322 trees on the oar to make glad the hearts of good children in just 2322 homes. FIGHTING RAGES ON DESPITE ALL PEACE MOVES Von Mackensen Drives For ward in Rumania; Walla cilia Evacuated CLEARED OF FORCES Teutons Are Nearing Buzeu; Allies Have Not Yet Es tablished Line i While the warring nations are! | awaiting definite developments from' | the presentation of peace proposals byj | Germany and her allies the operations ] I on the various lighting fronts are pro- j 1 feeding as usual. The immediate fu- t ture, so far as the peace proffers are concerned, is indicated as likely to be taken up by consultations among I the entente powers preliminary to the I sending of a joint reply. Interest in military developments. ] still centers upon Rumania, where the j j armies of Field Marshal Von Maeken- i i sen are fighting their way forward de- j ! spite the difficulties of transport caits -1 ed by the bad condition of the roadß in a Rumanian winter. \Vhether the Rumanians have sue- I ceeded in establishing themselves! | along the line of the Buzeu, near the southern Moldavian border is not yet i i apparent. Berlin's last specific men- j I tion in this connecvon was made in j j last night's communication in which ' I the Teutonic forces were reported to ' i be nearing the Buzeu. In any event, it appears that the Rumanian evacuation j of southern Wallacia is virtually com plete as the German war otflce an | nounces that Great Wallachia, south of tho Buchnrcst-Tchcrnavoda rail ! way, has been cleared of hostile forces. | Beyond the German report of the ■ i repulse of a French attack in the Ar- ' gonne, on the western front, and of Serbian assaults on Bulgarian posi- ( tions in Macedonia tho war news pre- j I sents little else of interest. Regular Aeroplane Mail . Service Between N. Y. and Chicago; Station in Pa. Washington, Dec. 14. Regular' aeroplane mail service between New j York and Chicago is being considered i by the Post Office Department. An nouncement was made to-day that Ihe ! plan is regarded as practicable and | might be established with part of the | proposed SIOO,OOO postal appropria tion for eperimental aerial service. Department officials estimate the ! flight of 720 miles coul dbe made in i from six to fourteen hours, with an i j average time of eight hours, and a ] load of 500 to 1,000 pounds of mail j I Flying will be at night, a plane leav ! ing each city at G p. m.. alighting at ! i three regular stations in the vicinities! ;of 'Wllliamsport, Pa.; Nlles, and Na- | ! poleon, Ohio, where extra machines, : fuel and equlpjnent parts would be 1 j piaintained. Road Hog Genuine Porker Brings Gloom to Autoists Pittsburgh, Pa.. Dec. 14. Tlmlr pass ings blocked by a hog, four autoists early l this morning alighted from their car, , drugged the porker Into a nearby brew |ery and slaughtered It. They cut the I hog up and started on their way home, jbut en route quarrelled, two claiming i the division had not been equal, as the I I hind quarters were worth more than j the fore. j They fought for possession of the ; j choicest parts and during their scuffle, i I the automobile ran wild, crashed Into ! | a fence and was wrecked. A patrolman [gathered them In and Magistrate Dillon, at the Allegheny station held them over, ! ponding an Investigation. They gave ! their names as Peter Muth, J. A. Kulsh. | Herman Volta and Paul Schmidt. Auto Truck Crashes Through Stove Store Window Wlion 8 front Rxle broke this morn lng on an auto truck belonging to Contractors Cranford & Stephenson, of Penbrook, tho WK truck, loaded with sand, crashed through the plate glass window at the stove store of -Morris Skonllk, 1211 North Sixth street. No one was Injured, FULL TEXT OF PEACE'OFFER IN WILSON'S HANDS Absolutely No Change in Mean ing From Version Already Printed I'. S. MAY MAKE COMMENT, Message Will Co Forward to Belligerents at Once Washington. Dec. 14. The jiote conveying: the proposal for peace by the central powers which the United | States is to transmit to the entente i belligerents arrived during the night | and was being prepared for President! Wilson early to-day. The document was said to be sub stantially the same as published in the unofficial dispatch from Berlin in the report of the Overseas News | Agency. Accompanying it was a con- I fldential report from American Charge \ Grew, understood to be an outline of affairs which led up to the German ! Chancellor's speech in the Reichstag and the sending of the peace pro- I posals. As soon as President Wilson has 1 seen the note it will be forwarded to | Minister Whitloek in Belgium, Am j bassadors Sharp, Page, Guthrie and I Francis in France, England, Japan, | Russia and to the legations at the Ser ] bian and Rumanian government. May .Make Comment The actual transmittal of the peace proffer now brings up the important question of whether President Wilson j will ilecide to act merely as an inter j medinry or whether he will accom [Continued oil Page 13] Liner Beached After Crash With Tanker in Chesapeake; Four Hurt Norfolk, Va., Dec. 14. The Brit- I ish oil tanker Tc-lena was the ship ' which crashed into the Merchants and I Miners liner Powhattan in lower Chesapeake Bay last night. Badly damaged about the bow the | Telena came into the shipyard here I early to-day for repairs. So far as | could be learned none of her crew were hurt. Beached on Thimble shoals to keep her from sinking, the Powhattan lay in shallow water to-day with a great hole ripped in her side by the Telena's bow and exploding boilers. Four negroes of her crew had been injured by falling beams from the impact of jt he collision. All her passengers, bound from Baltimore to Boston had | been safely taken otT during the night by other ships. Kansas Mines to Be Closed Until Funerals of 20 Killed Are Held i PiMsbiirg. Knns., Dec. 14.—Nearly nil the coal mines In the Pittsburg ; district were Idle to-day and owrfers have nnnounred that operations would not be resumed until funerals were held for the 20 men killed yesterday In an explosion In the Ryan and Reedy coal mine nt Stone City. Seven men I survived the blast and were rescued. | The majority of the dead and I wounded were foreigners. The accl ; dent rendered at least 40 children fatherless and in some cases the en tire male portions of families were wiped out. K. It. MAIIi CASKS IP Washington, Dec. 14. Claims of more than eight hundred railroads against the federal government Involv ing between $27,000,00 and $35,000,000 for extra compensation on mall trans portation were reviewed to-day bv the Supreme Court. The hearing was in the so-called railway pay "divisor" cases argued first before the court in April, 1915, WANAMAK KR'S YACHT BURNED New Yor*. Dec.'l4.—Rodman Wana maker's steam yacht, the Nirvana, was almost totally destroyed by lire early to-day in her winter berth at Bath Beach. Several other craft own ed by prominent yachtmen were tow ed away Just in time to escupo the fire. 4 MILLION POUND WAR CREDIT IS MOVED BY LAW British Chancellor Discusses Financial Side of War Only * ! PEACE DEBATE UNLIKELY Conflict Has Cost England Gi gantic Sum of 3,532,- 000,000 Pounds London, Dec. 14.—1n moving a vole of credit of 400,000,000 pounds in the House of Commons to-day, A. Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, de j cided to confine his speech entirely to j the financial side of the war and in i the absence of Premier Lloyd George and former Premier Asquith, owing to I Illness, It was expected the debate iWoud be merey aong this ine. How lever, this will not prevent members of the small group of peace advocates i from asking questions in an effort to I draw out the government in regard to Germany's peace proposal, although it was regarded as unlikely that they would succeed. 5,710,000 Pounds Daily Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the daily average expenditure of Great Birtaln in the war had risen to 5,710,000 pounds. Mr. Bonar Law said the actual expenditure had exceeded thf estimate owing to the increase in munitions and additional loans to rContinucd on Page 7] Total Prohibition of All Alcoholic Drinks in France Decided On Paris. Dec. 14. Total prohibition throughout France of the consumption of such alcoholic beverages as whisky, brandies and liquors have been decided on by the government. This is shown by the text in the Journal Offlcel to day of Premier Briand's declaration yesterday before the Chamber of Deputies on the subject. The premier said: "The government will ask you to give it the faculty of solving by de crees all questions of interest in re gard to the national defense which the laws are too slow to regulate. A particularly grave question which can be regulated only in war time, the solution of which involves the life of the country and its salvation, is the total suppression of the consumption of alcohol." The premier's remarks were greeted with loud applause from many of the benches. Deputy Mayeras interject ed: "In the army also?" "Yes, In the entire country," said the premier. The use of the term alcohol in this connection is understood in France to include such beverages as absinthe, which already has been suppressed; whiskies, brandies and liquors, but not wines or beer. > ——— White Christmas, Predicts Forecaster The cold wave which settled over Harrlsburg and vicinity on Tuesday will last for several days. The mercury to-night will drop to 13 degrees; a snowstorm is expected to reach here late to-morrow; and from present Indications there will be no thaw until after Christmas. Last night, the lowest tempera ture was 19 degrees in Harrisburg. Many of the smaller streams and Wildwood Lake are covered with ice, with the big drop in tempera ture predicted for to-night and continued cold, it is believed that the Ice will be thick enough for skating within the next forty-eight hours. The river may close If tho cold wave continues a bit longer. Fore raster Demain predicted this morning. Slightly warmer weath er may reach here early next week, hut It is not expected to melt all of the snow after tihe storm to morrow, and from present indica tions prospects arc good for a white Christmas. ROTARIANS AND JOVIANS TO GIVE MUNICIPAL TREE Frank B. Musser Appointed Chairman of Committee ! by President Fry OFF TO REILY CABIN Light Company to Furnish! Power Free; Municipal Band to Play The Harrlsburg Rotary Club, as sisted by members of the Jovian League, will carry the municipal Christmas tree idea through alone this year. This morning President Howard |c. Fry appointed Frank 13. Musser, of 1 1he Harrlsburg Railways Company, [chairman of the municipal Christmas i tree committee, and Samuel P. Eby i and George Whitney as tlie other members. I Chairman Musser, for the Harris j burg Railways Company, at once an nounced that he will provide the tree land accompanied by L. L. Ferree and [other officers of the Harrisburg Ught & Power Company, tlie Rotary com ndttee left this afternoon to meet John IW. Relly at his cabin in the mountains above Roclcville. Mr. Reily had volun teered to help the committee select the tree and the trolley company will provide transportation to the city and set it up in Market Square, near Front. [Continued on Page 15] Forcible Deportation of Lithuanians Reported to Have Started Revolts London. Dec. 14. —The Wireless | Press gives out the following under ;date of Berne: j "Forcible deportation of Lithuanian I peasants to work in Germany lias pro j voiced several revolts in Lithuania. There was a formidable rising in the J Samogitian province of Suwalki. ; Peasants armed with hatchets at tacked the German military commis sion sent there to enroll workmen, i "In other districts many peasants I are hiding in the forest and marsh. In j many parts of Lithuania bands of : peasants have destroyed railways | bridges and telegraph lines." r - - ■ ■ —-—■■ w -*" ■ "'ip-ia THE BKUMBAUGHS GO TO WAS IIIN-GTON | a rrior and Mrs. Brumbaugh left early this lfterrtooi ■ ■ hre they will attend the conference of th V < I elect and attend the dinner to b ■ ■ m • I % i) | ! : • • governors in the history of the country. . . ?k.\ Cal., Dec. 14.—United-States submarine H- co ;u!cd I" y Lieutenant Commander H. R. Bogusch, wet • as rolling heavily this morning at an angle of' j degrees but watchers ashore heard her whistle three blast I "all safe." m I Every few minutes, the submarine's air whistle wa II mveying the message that the crew 1 1 :lieved that with the hatches batted down, the i t were using their submefting equipment air i j •• • as an air upply and that conditions were substantial! - • 1 , ■ 4 I ; PUBLIC HEARINGS ON R. R. LAWS J 1 • i leh & Wilson's recommendations for railroad legislatoin to be- - f i I rmmed upon to-day by thi ' 1 ite Interstate Commerce Commission. New York, Dec. 14.—Panicky condition virtually pre 1 1 iled in the stock market's final hour to-day, prices showing ] • extreme net losses of 5 to 12 points. There was no appre- I ciable support, except in rails. Total sales at -3 o'clock at ! v. hich lime the ticker, had not caught up with the trading. I i approximated 2,300,000 shares.- 1 Philadelphia, Dec. 14.—Methods to combat the high cos t were recommended in the report of the Agriculture ( iff submitted to-day 'to the Pennsylvania Stat- annual convention here. Increased productiot I o ilone sufficient to solve the problem, the report said e • farmers to form a sound business organisatioi , 1 uffh ienß financial backing to market their crops them f they cannot evolve a system which will elimina 4 * ?the middlemen and bring the railroads to terms 1 , MARRIAGE LICENSES < Mfiftnlno Mnuro ami Mnrla I-nvn, Steel ton. I "<•• Reuben Koon.i mill Mnrj Rllen >Mnrtfr, I*enlrook. Willie Harrln anil Clara CJlnnder*, C Saiuuel Dorey and (ieurgla \ Irglntn Sprls;ff* city. " \ lift If i" II iftlTi—Iftlftf ifrtiiininiiPinftiiiritinftMMiiinrtllia —if Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT HEALTH BOARD ORDERS PROPER . ASH RECEIVERS Residents Musi Provide Proper ly Covered Cans For Con tractor's Convenience FINES FOR VIOLATIONS SSO Penalty Will Be Imposed; Effective After January j ; l, 1917 Emphatic orders to the household ers of Ilarrlsburg to provide the re quired type of metal receptacles for ashes and rubbish in accordance with the city health bureau regulations were issue dto-day by Dr. J. M. J. Rau nick, chief of the bureau of health. The action was taken by the health authorities at a meeting yesterday and the health officer's instructions were back up by his departmental chief. City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, superintendent of public safety. ' In connection with the health bu reau's orders," said Mr. Bowman, "you can say that if, upon investiga tion of complaints of any resident as to the failure of the garbage con tractor to make collections, it be found that the contracting company has re fused to collect the ashes, etc.-, from proper receptacles, the company will be lined SSO for each violation. "If, on the other hand, it is found that the citizen hasn't complied with the regulations by providing the proper cans, he will bfe subject to prosecution." The new order, which becomes ef fective January 1, 1917, is as follows: "On account of the large number of varied receptacles used as ash con tainers. by many of our people, too much time Is lost and the ash col lectors cannot cover their scheduled routes. "As a result of this unsatisfactory condition of affairs, this bureau is forced to require ail householders to provide themselves with regulation covered metal ash cans, as specified in the contract. "Beginning January 1, 1917, the contractor will refuse to collect ashes, and other rubbish, unless same is placed in metal cans of not less than one. nor more than two, bushels ca pacity. "Ashes and other rubbish will be removed from the ground floor only I in apartment houses, if placed in reg lulation cans."
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