15 —t* f f >* . . f —■ v"- 1 — j; — *w — r " -kh m - rolice Look on buicide of as Confession of of Model HARRISBURG WmSM TELEGRAPH No. 5 18 PAGES LXXXVI — TUMULTY LINKED WITH BARUCH IN ALLEGED "LEAK" ON PEACE NOTE Representative Wood Accuses Wilson's Secretary and "a Mr. Boiling," Brother of President's Wife, of Profit ing by Stock Transaction in Recent Flurry HAD THREE DAYS' ADVANCE INFORMATION House Rules Committee Opens Hearings on Leak of Infor mation ; Other Administra tion Officials May Be Impli cated Later Washington, Jan. 5. Smoulder ing rumors that somebody made money in the stock market with "leak" information about the sending of President Wilson's peace note, blazed up at a sensational session of the House Rules Committee to-day at its first hearing on Representative Wood's resolution for investigation. Specifically declaring he made charges against no one and was pre senting only information that had come to him. Wood brought in the names of Secretary Tumulty, "a Mr. Boiling." a brother of President Wil son's wife whom he did not further identify; Bernard Baruch, a New York stock operator; Otto H. Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb and Company; Thomp son and McKinnon, and I,amson Brothers and Company, of Chicago, brokers; E. F. Hutton and Company, New York brokers, and F. A. Con nolly and Company, a local brokerage house In which Wood said the "Mr. Boiling" he referred to was a partner. Much of his information, Wood said, came In a letter from A. Curtis, an independent New York stock operator. Wood disclaimed intending to give the impression that he believed that Mr. Tumulty or any one else, for that matter, profited by the,so-called leak; that he was merely stating what had come to him; lliat lie realized danger of making such statements In public and for that reason he had preferred [Continued on Pago lilj 2,000,000 British Troops Now Fighting in France Paris, Jan. G.—A speeiaj^Jt.{ava dis patch from the British front In'lfrcuwie say a: "General Sir Douglas Hals to-day commands the largest army Great Britain ever levied on her soil. The number of effectives in the British army in France on January 1 was nearly two million men, completely trained and ready day or night to receive orders from their commandor- In-chlef. "This figure only refers to the Brit ish forces In France and is exclusive of those employed In the defense of Great Britain, Ireland, India, SaloniUl, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Africa." SEES PEACE APPROACHING London, Jan. 5. A Rotterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company which does not specify the source of its information says that Premier Radoslavoft of Bulgaria made the following statement to a Hungar ian journalist; "Bulgaria has won the game and can afford to sign a peace treaty sat isfactory to all. Peace is nearing quickly. We are expected to make concessions, but the greatest conces sion our peace offer has already been made." SOCIALISTS SPLIT London. Jan. 5. According to the Cologne Gazette, a copy of which has been received here, the German So cialist minority and the 'Spartacus group propose to separate entirely from the Socialist party at a meeting to be held January 7. Advices re ceived from Amsterdam say that the trouble Is due to the peaco question. THE WEATHER For llnrrixhiiric nnl vlrlnityt lnln thin nfterinmii; fair to-nmht. wltil lownt I<*mperntlire about lU\ |e- Krffm Saturday fair and nun-it rolrtff. For lla.Htrrn lVnn*? I\nuiut Kain thin afternoon and probably to nliiht: .Saturday fair aad much colder t Moutlierly übiftlnj; to \vcterly icalr*. Itlver Rain and lilrli temperature t,o-da> **lll probably caue the \\ llraneh to rlne nufflelently to Mart the lee Koriie a bote \% iiilauiMporf. lee condition* In tlie North llraneh and tlie Clienuintc will probably not chnaue materially unleMM the rainfall to-day Mliould he much heavier than in nntlel patedi No Important chaatfcM are expected In tlie main river with in the next thirty-Mix bourn. A Mtajre of about 4.S feet Is indicat ed for Hnrri*ftur*s Saturday Mtralngi tieneral (otulltion* The wuthweHt Mornt hat moved rapidly northeast**ard with In- ercaftlaic *trenj*tb and now covcna practically all the caMem half of the country* with ItN center near Lake Ontario. It lift* cann ed rala itriieraly cant of the >ll*- nlMKlppl river, except ulon K the Nouth Atlaatle coast and In .New Knirland. and a Keneral rlae of J to 14 degree* In temperature from the Great l.akea and Ohio river eastward to the Atlantic. Tem|erature* have falltii 2 to 20 decreet* over nearly all the coun try went of the MlxMlaalppl river, except In California. Temperature! H n. m., 30, Hunt nine*, 7t30 a. nt.t lets, 4:53 p. m. Moon: Full moon* January 8. 'J:4Q a. m. Itlver StoKet 4.7 feet above low water mark. Veatcrday'n Weather lllßhCMt temperature, 42. l ow cMt te.nperature, It-. Mean temperature, 37. tMnorratiir*. :uv LAW DOES NOT CUT STATE ROAD ! AID FOR BOROUGHS Deputy Attorney "General Kel ler Explains Much Misunder stood Opinion on Subject CAMP HILL AND PENBROOK Up to Legislature to Provide Necessary Funds; Law Is Adequate i Replying to an editorial in the Tele graph of "Wednesday evening, en ' dorsing Governor Brumbaugh's plea for State-aid for the construction of State highways through boroughs, I William 11. Keller, deputy attorney i general, writes the Telegraph that 1 there is a wide-spread misconception of the ruling of the Attorney General's , Department on this subject. It has been generally understood that the de : partment rendered to the late Com j missioner Cunningham an opinion to the effect that the State could not ap propriate money under present laws for highway construction through boroughs. Ihis is not true, Mr. Keller . says. "This Department never advised the State Highway Department that the State could not build roads or ussist in building roads through boroughs," writes the Deputy Attorney General. "On the contrury, It has consistently advised the Highway Department that under the plain provisions of the Act of May 81, IS 11, P. L., 468, the State Highway Department may, with the consent of the several boroughs Inter ested, reconstruct at the expense of the Commonwealth, roads in boroughs which form part of State highways, and may assist in the reconstruction of such roads within boroughs as do not form part of State highways, pro vided, they are main traveled roads, if tl.e funds are available. "The trouble with regard to the paving in Camp Hill, Pen brook and other boroughs, wus not due to lack ot legislation, but to a lack of funds at the disposal of the Highway Du- (Continued on Page 13] "Left-Handed Body Both Inside and Out" Found St, Lout*. Mo„ Jan, B,—The body I of William King, which litis boon pro j served for twenty months, la described I by anatonomlsta an a "left-handed I body, both Inside and out," according to a statement made public to-day at ! the City Hospital, On May 8, 1918, King, who wus 85 i •years eld, applied at the hospital for treatment, Ho said ho was a laborer und had lived most of his life in Wis consin, He was suffering from typhoid fever. When asked who should bo notified In case of hla death King said: "Don't worry about that. Just cut me up nnd examine my body; there's something wrong with mo besides the fever." Ho died a few days later. When surgeons made an exam ination of the body they found one of the most abnormal cases in the his tory of surgery. The heart was on j the right side, the liver on the left side, the appendix was on the left side, and the spleen on the right. The | stomach was turned around com ! pletely. On the left lung were three I lobes: the right lung had but two. | The left kidney was larger and lower : than the right one. J CUXARDER TORPEDOED; 150 SOUMERS LOST Lo..don, Jan. 5. —The British trans j port Ivernla has been sunk, it was offi ; dally announced last night. One hun ! dred and fifty military officers and i men are missing. The announcement ; reads: The Ivernla was sunk by an | enemy submarine in the Mediter ranean on January 1, during bad weather and while carrying troops. At present four military officers and 148 men are missing. BRUTISH BIDS LOWEST EOR I'. S. .NAVY SHELLS Washington, Jan. 5.—A British ord ! nance manufacturing company—Had fields, Limited—was the lowest bid der yesterday for fourteen and six j teen - inch armor piercing projectiles j for the new dreadnaughts. Secretary ! Daniels took the bids under advise ; ment. i On the slxteen-lnch shells the Brit- I ish company bid $513 each for an 1 order of 3,000 shells to be delivered iin sixteen months. This was more J than S2OO lower than the best Am j erican bid. The British company also ' offers to pay the duty and'assume the | risks of transportation. MAKE CHARGES OX ARRESTS Queretaro, Jan. 5. Tho constitu \ tional assembly has adopted an article providing guarantees for persons ar rested on criminal charges. The j article abolishes the practice of hold j ir.g prisoners incommunicado, per ; mits the release on bail of prisoners : accused of offences punishable by ! less than five years imprisonment and I makes a preliminary hearing on all charges Imperative within 4 8 hours I after arrest. E. 11. SOTIIERX IMPROVED Chicago. 111., Jan. 5. —The condition j of E. H. Sothern, the actor, who is ! seriously HI with stones in the kidney, ' was slightly Improved to-day, accord- I ing to attending physicians. BALANCE IX TREASURY Halifax, Pa., Jan. 5. A meeting of the Halifax borough council was i held Wednesday evening and routine ! business transacted. Bills amounting : to $244.66 were paid, leaving a bal ance In the treasury of $17.29. PEACE EFFORTS FUTILE London, Jan. s.—Publication of Ger -1 man peace conditions would be useless | in view of the attitude of the British I and French press, according to the I Berlin I.okal Anzeiger, as quoted in an Amsterdam dispatch to Reuter's. The Anzeiger bases its opinion on the reso- I lution in the French senate that i France could make no peace with an I nnnmv who uccuuicd French territory. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1917 FAVOR LICENSE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR FISHERMEN Sportsmen's Association Will Ask Legislature to Pass Law Approved Today HITS MALES OVER 17 Women, Girls and Landowners Exempt; Shorter Game Season Agreed Upon A proposed state fishermen's license of 50 cents, plus the cost of collec tion, estimated at from 5 to 10 cents, was approved by the conference of representatives of various sportsmen's organizations of Pennsylvania and the State Fishery Commissioners to-day. The conference was a part of the two day program for discussion of game and fish legislation, the game bills having been discussed last night. The license is to be required of ail male fishermen over 17 years of age and must be displayed as are the hunters' licenses. 'Women and girls and land owners living on lands bor dering on streams are not to be re quired to pay licenses. During the discussion the repre sentatives insisted that the State au thorities pledge themselves to see that tho money is used for prevention of pollution of streams, propagation and j protection of fish, and not to agree' to any diversion of the money to other | purposes than to promote fishing. It l was also required that the licenses for [ commercial fishing tugs and nets in ! the Delaware and Lake Erie should I be made enough to pay for cost of propagation in those bodies of water, i Nonresidents of tho state will pay $2. I Discuss Fish Code The conference discussed tho pro- ! posed fish code and approved the plan j to have the Commissioner of Fisheries , classify the waters of the state for j [Continued on Page 11] Eleven Killed, Many More Fatally Hurt in Big Western Tornado Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 5. A total of eleven dead and tho Injury of a number who are oxpectod to dlo was the report to-day from tho district which was swept by a tornado yester day. All the dead were school chll-' dren ranging In age from six to eigh teen. Tho loss of life and the bulk of the property damaged occurred In the valley towns of Vlreton, Okla., 13 miles northwest of McAlester. Prep arations were being made for the noon dismissal at the country school there when tho tornado entered the valley and swooped down upon the village. The schoolhouse was carried off its foundation and screaming children and timbers w te hurled through tho air by tho furj of the wind. Bodies were picked up a hundred yords from i where the scho lhouse stood, they be ing blown aero: i a ravine and well up on the opposite hillside. Of the a pet ions within the build ing only two es fped Injury. They are believed to be fo badly Injured that they cannot ri lover. The teacher, Mtss Vera Car >r, at first believed to have been kill 3, sustained a double fracture of the tiw besides other pain ful injuries. ! le is expected to re i cover. Recorder L< ltz Nets $3,975.! 7 For County, BreuAing All Records Just $7,950.73 In excess fees, the largest sum ever netted by any keeper of Dauphin county's deeds, mortgages and other Instruments, will be divided on a fifty-fitty basis with tho county for the past year by County Recorder James E. Lontz. The nearest approach to this sum over turned over was by Mr. Lentz's predecessor and the country's share last year was Just $3,123.29. Recorder however, will turn I over $3,975.37, retaining $3,975.36 as his own share. The financial report of Recorder | Lentz's office follows: Total receipts, $16,644.97; office ex penses, Including $2,000 salary of the ' recorder, the clerks, etc., $8,694.24, I leaving excess revenue of $7,950.73. TO RESPECT SWITZERLAND Berne, Jan, S. via Paris The I Bund prints a not from the German i legation with the object of dispelling ; fears aroused in Switzerland by rum ! ors that Germany intended to strike at France and Italy through this I country. The noto says: "We may oneo more declare that, as all Swiss know, Germany is form ; ally resolved to strictly respect Switz | erland's neutrality." SI NK WITHOUT WARNING Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Jan. 4. The Xew Found land schooner Roma was sunk in the , Mediterranean sea on November 30, last, by a submarine, according to a , letter received to-day by Mrs. Thomas ' wlfo of tho master of the ves sel. The Roma was two days out from ! Xaplos In ballast when. Captain | Laurie says, the submarine fired up ion him without warning, sending j twenty shots into the vessel. At the | fifth shot the crew took to tho boats. I They rowed for 26 hours, arriving at I Arbotln, Cardlnia, In an exhausted i condition, the captain writes. The j captain and his crew who are nil New j Foundlanders, are now in England. ! MORE VIGOROUS U-BOAT WAR j London, Jan. 5. Confidence In tho I effect of Germany's submarine cam | paign is expressed by Captain Per jsius, the German naval critic, in his I review of the naval war in the Ber ■ lin Tageblatt, according to a Reuter I dispatch from Amsterdam. Captain Perslus says; "We firmly believe that the commercial shipping of our enemies will become still less active in 1917. This will be accomplished by our daily growing submarine weapon. I Our confidence for the new year is based on the expectation that our sub j marines will continue with growing success the process of wearing away INM9MMM<#£*-' of our enemies." SON AND GRANDSON OF TWO FORMER TO PLAY'ON YALE TEAM Hk HHf M CAPTAIX TAFT Legore, Taft, Garfield, Kinney names for the young and old basket ball fans to conjure with —will appear on the Chestnut street auditorium floor at 8:15 this evening when the Yale University basketball team clashes with a local quintet including half a dozen former football and bas ketball stars. Word was received here late yester day afternoon to the effect that Harry W. Legore, Walter Camp's choice for the All-American backfleld in 1915 and second choice laßt fall, had ac cepted the local management's invita tion and would appear to-night with the local team ugalnst Yale. Inas much as the game Is between Yale and a picked five, no odium is attached to Legore's playing against his own col lege. Fast Game Expected Captain "Charley" Taft's team comes to Harrisburg after a week of games in splendid condition. Captain Taft is the son of ex-President Wil GERMANS NEAR STORAGE DEPOT Von Mackensen's Forces Are Threatening Rumanian Fort of Brila on Danube The Rumanian Danube port of Braila, Important as a granary and oil storage depot, apparently is in m rninent danger from the converging attacks of Field Marshal Von Macken sen's forces on both sides of the Danube. On the westerly side of the stream, where Braila lies, the bridgehead posi tion protecting It has been pierced by the Austro-German forces, according to to-day's German army headquar ters statement. To the east, across the river in Dobrudja the German and Bulgarian forces which captured the Matcliin bridgehead are continuing their ad vance towards the town. This forward movement, moreover, threatens not only Braila but the town of Galata, 12 miles to the north, the capture of which would deprive the Russians of virtually their last hold on the shores of the Danube west of the Bessarabian boundary. Von Mackensen's attacks on the frontal line of the Sereth running northwestward from Braila, to which line the Russo-ltumanian forces have retired are progressing successfully, according to Berlin, which reports the capture of two additional towns in the Rimnik-Sarat sector. On the northern end of the front in Russia the German lines have been subjected to attacks in the Riga- Dvinsk district. The Russian offensive here, centering in the vicinity of Friedrichstadt, Is apparently of an important nature, Berlin reporting the fighting still in progress. XEW HALF-DOLLARS HERE Goddess of Liberty, Rising Sun, Eagle and E 1. U. Xew half-dollars, mintage of 1917, have reached Harrisburg. The First Xational Bunk, one of the first local instluttions to get new money, yes terday received S3OO worth of the latest silver half-dollar. On account of a limited coinage, the local supply will be short. The new half-dollar has on one side the Goddess of Liberty and the rising sun: on the reverse side is a larKe eagle with the inscription "E Pluribus Unum." DON'T SELL YOUR FURS Colder weather is forecasted for to morrow with a big drop in tempera ture, according to E. R. Demain, weather observer in the government office in this city. The moderate weather will end to-night, according to present indications and will be fol lowed by a cold wave from the Middle West Almost half an inch of rain fell during the night. jr 4 JgS JhJI Ilif "SHORTY" GARFIELD liam Howard Taft. The local team has been practicing hard for the game and consequently a fast contest is ex pected. On the Yale team also is I Newell "Shorty" Garfield, grandson of j former President Garfield; ho is six: feet, four inches in height and will | bo matched against "Pat" Reagan, the i Steelton boy who captained the Villa nova football team and was a former | member of the Harrisburg basketball | team. "Shorty" Miller, E. J. Stackpole, Jr., ! Frank G. Roth, John C. Herman, Harry "W. Legore, "Red" Atticks, and A. H. Stackpole will make up the squad from which the team to oppose Yale will be selected this evening. The N'tw Haven team's line-up will in clude Taft, Kinney, Garfield, Olsen. i Horton. Mallon, Stradella and Rhett. The Sara Lemer orchestra will play , between the halves and after the game for dancing. Tickets to the game may be purchased at the door. C. W. j Miller, physical director of the Y. M. I C. A., will officiate. WANT POWER TO BUY SCHOOL LAND Would Negotiate For Property Remaining on Technical High Block City school directors took first steps this afternoon in starting plans for improved high school conditions when the finance committee recommended that the board give the committeemen power to negotiate for the purchase of (jil the property remaining on the block on which the Technical High school Is situated. According to plans of the board, this property will be used for a senior high school for boys. Action was also taken on the ap pointment of Emit Weisbrod, of Phila delphia, to succeed Harry U. Johns, who resigned recently as an instructor in Technical High school. The salary named was SI,OOO. The teachers' committee also recommended the ac ceptance of the resignation of Miss Marie Sample, as teacher in tho Cal der building; the transfer of Miss Mil dred Williams to succeed Miss Sample, and the appointment of Miss Marguer ite Smith from the substitute list to succeed Miss Williams. Miss Kather ine Miller was named to succeed Miss May Beard, resigned. Thanks were extended to the Sun day school classes of city churches and to students and teachers of Technical High School for entertaining pupils of the open-air and special schools. Tho finance committee recommended the payment of bills totalling $4,545.99 and the use of Cumberland Valley telephones in the schools until July 1, 1917, and that $15.71 real estate tax be refunded to Andrew Szeim, the tax having been paid twice. Physicians Boost Prices; No Free Advice Over Phone Xew York, Jan. 5.—A new schedule of physicians' fees, showing consistent advances, was recommended to-day by tho Bronx County Medical Socieiy. Hereafter no free medical advice will be given over the telephone. Conver sation with a physician over the wire on nonmedical topics Is permitted, but if the question, for instance, of the baby's latest ailment is injected, a bill for $1 will be forthcoming. Under the new schedule, night calls, or emergency calls by day, will be chnrucd for at the rate of $4 each. The high price of automobile fuel Is sciven as the main reason for the ad vance in fees. DIVORCED, HE KILLS SELF Honolulu, Jan. 4.—Arthur A. Wilder, former associate Justice of the Terri torial Supreme Court here and promi nent socially and politically, was found dead In his homo here to-day. Ills wife, said to bo In San Francißco, di vorced him recently, and, according to his friends, he had been brooding over this. MM PRODUCERS SAY THEY DON'T WANT TO GOUGE President of Wholesalers Say Organization May Agree to Sliding Scale HIGHP:R WINTER RATE Would Give Retailers Fair Profits Without Raising Price Per Quart That the dairymen of Cumberland and Dauphin counties may agree to a changing scale in the wholesale price of milk which will not necessi tate an increase in retail price wits the statement made to-day by O. L. Strock. of Williams Grove, president of the Dairymen's League, which met again last night in Mechanicsburg, to discuss the proposed raise to be charged city dealers. President Strock outlined the posi tion of the producers briefly and de clared that they can produce figures which will show that to wholesale milk at 18 cents a gallon during the entire year, results in a loss instead of profit to the farmers. More than 100 attended the meet [Continued on Page 3] Two Young Girls Held on Charge of Theft Nell Christ and Gertrude Wolford, two young girls, were charged this morning by Luther Diller with having stolen forty or fifty dollars. The girls were seen coming from the Philadelphia Quick Lunch and later accosting Diller. Some time afterward Diller rushed up to Officer Carson and said that he had been robbed of the money while in a restaurant at 4 South Fourth street. The officer found the girls there and arrested them. GIRL SHOT IX T.\XICAB Brookline, Mass., Jan. s.—Miss Mil dred Melzian, who was shot while riding in a taxicab with James J. Kilo last night, was reported by physicians | at the hospital to which she was taken las resting comfortably to-day. The ! doctors said her wounds were not con ! sidered dangerous. Riley was more | severely wounded, but physicians said | to-day that there is a chance for his recovery. He is under j>olice guard. fit II Mm | WANT SUNDAY FISHING The conference on fish legislation late this afternoon determined not to include the prohibition of Sunday fishing in the proposed fish code. Instead it will be placed in a separate bill unless it is found that the code can not be pass ed without it, in which event it will be made a separate section. This action was taken after expressions of opinion that there was a demand for men to be allowed to fish on Sunday because pleasure motoring, golf and tennis are not prevented nowadays. SENATE TO CONSIDER PEACE Washington. Jan. s.—By a strict party vote 41 to 27, the Senate to-day agreed to the motion of Senator Hitchcock to proceed with formal cor .ideration of his resolution en dorsing President Wilson's peace note. FIFTEEN DEAD IN TORNADO Muskogee, Okla., Jan. s. —Death caused by the tornado in southeastern O 'homr., yesterday, were increased to fifteen by the death to-day of four more pupils of the Vire ton county school which w s blown to pieces by the wind. ► t MARRIAGE Gporgr Wanlilnston Moody, city, nntl Mary Mnitiliilrna Wnrrlek. Mnr tlnxbiirK, W. Vn. John S. Mill,-rick nnd Mary K. Hoke. Mldillrtown. Honrd 1.. Koner nnd Teresa Kilsnbetb Nrllera, city. Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT THIRD PARTY DID NOT SEE MURDER OF PRETTY MODEL POLICE BELIEVE Detective Bureau Feels Posi tive Pittsburgher's Suicide Solves Mystery Surround ing Slaying of Maizie Col bert WORE DEAD GIRL'S SHIRT WHEN HE ENDED HIS LIFE School Teachers Still Believe Him Innocent; Remark able Chain of Circumstan tial Evidence Built Around Suspected Man Philadelphia, Jan. 5. Detectives at police headquarters here announced to-day that the suicide of Bernard W. Lewis, of Pittsburgh, in Atlantic City last night when he was trapped by the authorities of that citv. solved the mystery surrounding the murder of Maizie Colbert whose body, clad in violet silk pajamas, was found in her apartment here late last Saturday night. The only thing that remains to be done, they said, was to find the | motive for the crime. "So far as the detective department | is concerned," said Captain of Detec [Contlnued on I'nge 4] THINKS lIE MAY UK ANARCHIST Chicago, Jan. 5. • The clerk ot i the United States Court in Chicago is i waiting to-day for John Burrows Col | lings-Woods, formerly of Hartlepool, England, to determine whether or not he is an anarchist. Mr. Collings-Woods expressed a desire to declare his in tention to become an American citi zen, but handed back the blank form after reading it. "I don't know whether I'm an an archist or not," he said. "I'll go home and think over the matter and if I decide I am an anarchist I'll not come back." The form supplied in such cases asks: "Are you an anarchist, a bigam ist, or a polygamist?"
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