Britkk Going Ahead on Huge Scale For " .ter Offensive Early in Spring HARRISBURG Q&B6& TELEGRAPH LXXXVI— No. 13 14 PAGES TROOP C W REACH HOME BEFORE TOMORROW EVENING Harrisbarg Guardsmen in FoarthSectionCarrying Pennsyl vania Cavalrymen Back to Keystone State; Will Reach Columbus, Ohio, This Evening About 6 O'clock, Says Railroad Officials SNOWSTORM MAY HOLD UP TRAINS FOR SEVERAL HOURS FROM LATE INDICATIONS Will Be Five Hoars' Layover in Pittsburgh For Exercising of Horses; City Health Officer Warns Men Against Exposure to Northern Climate The Governor's Troop is expected to reach Harrisburg sometime to-morrow evening. Ihis announcement came from the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce to-day, after word was re ceived that the lirst section bringing the First Pennsylvania cavalrymen north, had only reached Columbus, Ohio, at 8.30 this morning. Troop C is on the fourth section. Division Passenger Agent of the Pennsylvania railroad A. B. Buchanan is in close touch with the movement of the trot pers, and will notify the local committee as soon as the train is near Pittsburgh. It was stated that the regular schedule time be tween Columbus and Pittsburgh is five hours and I'orty-tive minutes. The troop trains are running on a slower schedule and will require seven hours. The sections are running about three hours apart and with the Gov vernor's Troop in the fourth section according to reports from Memphis, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky., the local guardsmen will not reach Columbus until about 6 o'clock this evening. Five hours will be required for wat ering horses at Pittsburgh. The Governor's Troop should reach Pitts burgh sometime after midnight. It is at least six hours and a half run A from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg. The snowstorm may hold the troopers up for hours from indications late this afternoon. Captain George C. Jack, chief marshal of the escort parade issued his general orders late Saturday night along with the appointment of aids. He said to-day there would be no changes, and that his forces were waiting the signal that the troopers had reached Altoona. Captain George C. Jack, chief mar shal, issued the following orders for the welcoming home of the Gover nor's Troop: "The parade will form promptly two hours from the time signal is given from the various engine house bells and from whistles on the railroad and the various industrial plants. On ac count of the uncertainty of the ar rival of the troop it is imperative that all organizations will report promptly at their place of formation within the two hours from the given signal, as no time dare be lost from the time of formation until the arrival of the parade at the Union station. "All organizations are requested to march in columns of fours. On the arrival of the train the reception com mittee and the Governor's troop will take the left of line, the line of march being Market to Front, to State, to Second, to North, to Filbert, to State, to where the right of line will halt at the armory; the column will then open ranks and present arms as the recep tion committee and the Troop march through the line into their armory. "It is requested that as many aids as possible furnish mounts and "report promptly to the chief of the staff Francis H. Hoy. Jr., at Third and State streets. "Chief Marshal—Captain George C. Jack. "Chief of Staff—Francis 11. Hoy, Jr. "Aids—Captain Charles P iMeck. Captain W. F. Randall, Augustus h' Kreidler, Philip Meredith. William I. I THE WEATHER For Harrisburg nd vicinity; Prob ably Know to-night anil Tuesday; continued cold, lowest tempera ture to-night about 12 degrees. For Kantern Pennsylvania t Prob ably Know to-night and Tuesday; continued cold; fresh northeast and east winds. River The main river and the I.ower \orth Branch will rise somewhat; other tributaries) will full slowly or remain nearly stationary, ex cept Ice may cause local rises. The quantity of Ice will Increase In all ulreamn. A stage of about R. 7 feet Is Indicated for Harris burg Tuesday morning. General Conditions Pressure Is unusually high over all the country, except the extreme Southwest, w her j a storm Is cen tral. The highest barometer reading reported In 31.00 Inches at Moorhend. Minn. Conditions are unsettled throughout the Middle I Atlantic State* and the .South and light to moderate rains and snows have occurred generally over those regions and also in the IMnlns States. Temperatures have fallen 2 to 24 degrees since Inst report In the Ohio and l.ower Mississippi val leys, Middle Atlantic States, over most of the l.ake Region and In the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Fnr Northwest; In the Rocky Mountain and Plains States It la 2 to 16 degrees warmer than on Saturday morning. Temperature; 8 a. m„ 14. Sun ■ Rises, 7i28 a. m.t sets, ,"Sio4 p. m. Moon; l.nst quarter, January in, tli42 a. m.t River Stage; 11.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, as. I.owes! temperature, 20, Mean temperature, 80. Normal temperature, 20. IG^ Jpjlmßfe KliL SMHBT CAPTAIN GEORGE C. JACK Commander of Troop C (Governor's Troop) and Chief Marshal of the Escort Parade Laubenstein, Jonas K. Retst, Charles E. Covert, John S. Musser, Howard C. Fry, Albert S. Speese, William L. Jauss, C. O. Houston, Christian Nauss, W. S. Hess, Senator E. E. Beidleman, Mercer B. Tate, William B. McCaleb, Henry C. Ross and Frank B. Bosch, Charles E. Pass, Captain Leo Luting [Continued on Page 7] "Pigs Is Pigs," but Did You Ever Know Any That Could Read and Write ? "Is that the editor of the Tele graph?" "Yeh, this is the editor." "Well, this is Walter Albright, 210 l Herr street. Did yuh see a piece in the paper this morning about my rooster setting off the burglar alarm and fooling the dickens out o' me?" "Yeh, what about it?" "Well, 'Wit' Deckert, a neighbor o' mine put that in the paper to kid me, I guess.—But say, he didn't say noth ing about his trained pigs, did he?" "Not a word." "Well, l.ow'd yuh like to say some thing about i.is pigs jest to help me get even?" "Whatdayuh mean, his pigs are trained ?" "Well, they stand up and beg just like a dog." "Is that all?" "No, they grunt in chorus." "What else?" "Ah, shucks, they can do every thing—even read and write." All Personal, Immoral Inter-State Escapades Are Under White Slave Act Washington, D. C„ Jan. 15.—Inter preting the Mann white slave law, the Supreme Court to-day decided that prosecutions under tire law for trans porting women in inter-state com merce arc not limited to commercial ized vice, and include personal, im moral escapades. Conviction of F. Drew Canrinettl and Maury I. Diggs, of Sacramento, was affrmed. The court was divided. The major ity opinion was given by Justice Day. Chief Justice White and Justices Mc- Kenna and Clarke dissented. Justice Mcßeynolds took no part in considera tion of the cases. "The plain terms of the act must take precedence over the designation and the report that accompanied it to Congress," said Justice Day. "It is said it will open the door to blackmail, but that is to be considered by Con gress. We think the power of Con gress to regulate transportation of pas sengers affords ample basis to exercise authority in the case of this statute." Following interpretation of the Mann act, the court also affirmed con viction of L. T. Hays, of Alva, Okla. NO RAISE FOR V. S. CLERKS Washington, D. C., Jan. 15. —In- crease of pay for government clerks, approved by the House, was stricken from the appropriation bill to-day by the Senate Committee. It also rec ommended reducing the salaries of the members of the Farm Loan Board from SIO,OOO a year to $7,500 a year and of the cutting of the secretary from SB,OOO to $3,000. The motion in j committee by Senator Smoot, of Utah, to increase government employes' pay wan lost by a tie vote. Senator Till mun, of South Carolinn, was the only Democrat who voted for the Increase. The estimated cost of the Increases to the government Is $13,193,687 a year. IIARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1917 LdmMy \ "WOtfs 1 Signal ... FROM ftLTOOHft, TEUTON OUTPOSTS NOW WITHIN SIX MILES OF GALATZ Move Forward After Capture of Vadeni; Rest of Line Unchanged Field Marshal von Mackensen's out posts are now planted only six miles from Galatz, the important Rumanian port on the Danube end of the Sereth line, the Teutonic pressure having re sulted in another gain yesterday, when the town of Vadeni was taken. Va deni is a scant two miles south of the Sereth river itself, on the railway be tween Bralla and Galatz. Elsewhere along the Rumanian front the continuing battle, which is being waged under extremely adverse weather conditions, has resulted re cently in few modifications of the line. Petrograd's reports have indicated a virtually unchanged position, while Berlin's claims have been for the most part of isolated points of vantage won along the Moldavian frontier moun tain chain. On the northern end of the Russian front in the Ria district the ad- [Continued on Page 9] City Health Officer Shouldn't Be Ashman Declares Dr. v ßaunick Dr. J. M. .T. Raunick said this morn ing: that his annual report to Council will again contain a recommendation that ash and garbage collection b made a municipal enterprise and that the work be placed under the super vision of a separate bureau. "It is not the business of a health officer to worry about whether or not a reduction company is hauling the ashes away on schedule time," declared I)r. Raunick, "and if he busies himself with such details he cannot be serving the city's best interests in the prob lems of life and death." PROGRESSIVES TO BE RECOGNIZED G. O. P. Executive Committee Meets; Aggressive 1920 Cam paign to Start Now New York, Jan. 15.—The degree of recognition to be given the Progressives probably >vill be discussed this after noon at the meeting of the executive committee of the National Republican Committee. Six progressives were mem bers of the Republican campaign com mittee during the late presidential cam paign, and if any members of that party receive places in the executive commit tee it is expected that they will be chosen from the six. "Of course we will want the Progres sives with us," said Committeeman Al vah H. Martin. "I favor any project that will make for harmony. The re sult of the November election demon strated this need." Charles B. Warren, national commit teeman from Michigan, declared at once in favor of beginning a Progressive campaign which would place the party in the best possible position for the presidential fight In 1920. "We should seek to cooperate closely with the Re publican congressional committee," said Mr. Warner, "to insure a successful campaign in 1018." CARRAN2A REINFORCED Washington. D. C., Jan. 15.—Rein forcements from the South totaling 10,000 men, under command of Gen eral Dleguei have arrived at Torrcon, Mexico, to assist the Carranza garri son there campaigning against Villa hundlts. The movement was reported 10-day In State Department dispatches. AND STILL MORE "WATCHFUL WAITING" SOLDIERS RETURN BETTER MEN SAYS GENERAL CLEMENT More Prepared to Fight Battles of Life Declares. Pennsyl vania Division Chief ' iH Mi' MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES M. CLEMENT "Service at the Mexican Border has been successful in more ways than one. Pennsylvania soldiers will return home healthier and better men and more prepared to fight the battles of life," said Major General Charles M. Clement, commander of the Pennsyl vania division at El Paso, to-day. With [Continued on Pago 12] PLANNING FIGHT TO SAVE THAW Extradition to Now York Will Be Opposed; Mother at Bedside Philadelphia, Jan. 15. Prelimin ary plans for the defense of Harry K. Thaw, who attempted to commit suicide here last week, against the charges of kidnaping and assaulting Frederick Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, were discussed to-day by his attor neys and friends of the Thaw fam ily. No definite line of procedure, however, will be decided upon until Thaw himself is able to confer with his counsel and advise what course [Continued on Page 9] Telegraph Signs New Scale, Giving Printers Substantial Increase The Telegraph has entered into a contract with Typographical Union, No. 14. of Harrisburg, whereby the printers in the employ of this newspa per receive a substantial increase of wages beginning January 1 and other Improvements in working conditions. The negotiations between the news paper and the union wore conducted with good feeling on both sides and in an entirely friendly manner from start to finish. When Typographical Union, No. 14. was organized the Telegraph was the first newspaper in Harrisburg to recognize the union and during ail the years since that time there has never been any serious differences be tween publisher and employes. SEALER GIVES TIPS TO CIVIC CLUB ON PRICES City Weights Official Discusses Bread Problem Before Women's Organization Some of the "Inside" Information in cident to the recent effort of whole sale bakers to raise bread prices from 5 to •! cents per loaf was explained this afternoon to the Civic Club of Harrisburg by City Sealer Harry D. Reel. Mr. Reel had been asked by the. club to discuss the commodities question at that, body's monthly meeting, and while his talk dwelt particularly with the bread situation, he urged in a gen eral way the advantages of buying food products by weight rather than by numerical count. Incidentally the Civic Club consid ered the adoption of a resolution sug gesting that all grocers, bakers and other dealers in foodstuffs sell by weight rather than by the other meth ods. This action was heartily endorsed [Continued on Page <] Greek Kills Sister and Then Himself; Another Murder Adds Mystery Greenwich, Conn., Jan. 15. Tho Portchester police have been unable to solve the mystery of the double shoot ing which occurred in Portchester, N. Y., last night, when Charles Myrown, a Greek, aged 20 years, shot and killed his sister, Mabel Myrown 17, and then fatally wounded himself. He died in the United Hospital about three hours later. I.ater the body of William Cove was found in an old shed within a short distance from the Myrown home, which adds mystery to the af fair. MORE NEWSPAPERS FORCED TO RAISE High Cost of Print Paper Causes Increase in Subscrip tion Bates New York. Jan. 15.—Reports re ceived by thk American Newspaper Publishers' Association show that many more papers have been com pelled to raise their subscription prices because of the liigh cost of print paper. The newspapers of Rockford, 111., [Continued oil Page 12] Lewis' Body Exhumed at Request of Coroner Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jan. 15.—The body of Bernard M. Lewis, who killed himself In an Atlantic City hotel, January 4, as the police were about to arrest hlin In connection with the murder of Alaizle Colbert, of Philadelphia, artists' model, 'was exhumed at the Allegheny cemetery here. The body was taken to an under taking establishment,where an examina tion of It was made by Coroner's Phy sician Wadsworth, of Philadelphia, and Frank Paul, special Investigator of the coroner's office there. After examina tion the body was relnterred. As to what was discovered at the in- I vestigatlon or what conclusions their i lSpectlon of the body led them to reach, I'aul refused to say. Until a report is mad? to the Philadelphia coroner noth ing will be given out, he said. W. A. Lewis, father of Bernard Lewis, to-day said he knew nothing of the investi gation and that it was not mad at the request of the Lewis family. BRITISH PREPARE FOR GREAT DRIVE EARLY IN SPRING; Turning Out Every 48 Hours More Ammunition Than Dur ing Entire First Year of War CONTINUE IMPORTATIONS Will Not Stop Getting Arms From U. S.; Big Guns Keep Pace Willi Explosives London, Jan. 10.—(Correspondence of the Associated Press) Knglish munition factories arc now turning out every 48 hours more heavy gun ammunition than they manufactured in the entire first year of the war, and the production is still increasing week by week in preparation for the great offensive on the western front which 1 British military critics believe will | come next spring. | Although ligurcs of the actual pro- I duction of guns and munitions arc j jealously guarded, and tl.ere is no i avowal on the part of the ministry of | munitions of any intention to discon tinue the importations from America, there is an evident feeling of optimism [Continued on Page 9] U-Boat Moving Westward; May Be Deutschland New York, Jan. 15. News that an unidentified submarine was moving westward in the Atlantic as late as last Thursday morning was brought to port here to-day by the British freight steamship Clematis, in from Bordeaux. France. Persons on the | freighter thought the underseaboat I might be the German submarine mer i chantman Deutschland, on a third j ocean voyage to America. ! The stranger made 110 move to at | tack the Clematis, which was at the II iine approximately 800 miles east of Newport, R. 1. DUTCH INTKRX U-BOAT I.ondon, Jan. 15. A Flushing dis patch to Iteuter's says that a Dutch warship brought into Flushing last night a German submarine which was found in Dutch waters. The submar ine will be interned. n ADMIKAL DEWEY DYING , Washington, Jan. 15. Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila bay, is dying at his home here. Late this afternoon he was 1 unconscious and his physicians said his chances for living another 36 hours were remote. A general breakdown with ' arterial sclerosis is the cause. LAWSON IMPLICATES WHITE • Washington, Jan. 15. Thomas W. Lawson at the "Leak" inquiry said that the banker who told him he knew < another banker who dominated a cabinet officer in Washing ton was Archibald S. White, of White and Company, Bos- ton. The committee immediately issued a subpoena for White. t CENTRAL CONSTRUCTION CHARTERED Harrisburg.—Charter for the Central Construction Cor poration, which takes over the Central Construction and 1 Supply Company, was issued on Saturday, the capital stock * being $5,000, which is*to be increased within a week or two. Ch?rlep Covert and George R. Tripp arc among the in- i corporators. TROOI'S ON WAY TO PITTSBURGH * Pittsburgh. Jan. 15. 2.30 P. M.—Word was received here that the First Pennsylvania Cavalry was enroute east 1 from Columbus, Ohio. The first section is due at 5 o'clock this evening; second, at 8 o'clock, and third, at 11 o'clock. 1 The fourth section on which Troop C, (Governor's Troop), of Harrisburg, is traveling, has not been reported. Each I section will be detained here for frvc hours to permit the watering of horses. t JERSEY BREEDERS REORGANIZE Harrisburg The State Jersey Breeders' Association ' reorganized here to-day by electing Thomas Twadell, Dela ware Co., as president. I NO REQUEST FOR THAW Harrisburg.—Up to a late hour to-day no request for < the extradition of Harry K. Thaw had been received, but counsel for Thaw bad filed notification of his intent to pro- test if a request for Thaw's removal is sought. MARRIAGE LICENSES *j I'rnnel* I.owl* Snyder, Philadelphia, imd Rtault Marie Burnt. IV. J. J Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT SNOWSTORM TO CONTINUE FOR 24 HOURS FORECAST, Temperature to Fall to 12 De grees Tonight; Brisk Winds lo File Up Drifts j TRAFFIC DELAYS LIKELY | Conditions Unsettled Through Middle Atlantic Stales Says Deniain "Snow for twenty-four hours. This is the bright promise held out for Harrisburg to-day In the forecast issued at noon by E. R. Demain, head of the United States Weather Bureau. The snow will cover the ice now tricking struggling, slipping, cussing I humanity with a blanket at least eight inches deep and perhaps ten. Fresh northeast to east winds are likely to start the light snow to drift ing in the rural districts, and the probabilities are that traffic on the suburban trolley lines and the rail roads will be delayed or held up. From present indications the snow will continue at least throughout to night and part of to-morrow in East ern Pennsylvania. Pressure Is un usually high over all parts of the United States except the extreme I southwest, where a s'orm is now cen | tral. Conditions throughout the Mid [ Continued on Page 12] Broker's Clerk Confesses Murder of Girl in Hotel Columbus, 0., Jan. 15. Weldon H. Wells, former Kansas City broker's clerk, last night confessed to County Prosecutor R. P. Duncan that he shot and killed Mona Byron Simon in a room in a hotel here last Thursday night. 11 is statement according to the I authorities, says he killed the girl in self defense. Wells, who was arrested in llunting i ton, lnd., early Saturday morning, ar ! lived here to-night in the custody of a local police. KAHMKIt HOST TO liUit TRAMPS Reading, Pa., Jan. 15.—Henry Heft, a farmer living near Adamstown, last year gave sleeping accomodations to 622 tramps. They occupied good and warm quarters in an outbuilding, and some were given a "handout."