Strikes or Lockouts Are Not Forbidden in Ml to Supplement Adamson Law HARRISBURG Wmmß TELEGRAPH LXXXVI — No. 23 20 PAGES . ACCUSES WILSON OF CRIBBING HIS LAST PEACE TALK British Writer Shows Peculiar Parallel Between It and Civil War Summons SOME TERMS IDENTICAL Unpublished Document to Lin coln Shows, a Big He- semblance London. Jan. 26. A hitherto un published summons to peace, address ed to President Lincoln during the Civil War by Emperor Pedro, of Bra zil, and closely paralleling President ■Wilson's speech before the Senate is published in the Morning Post by Frederic Harrison, founder of the Positivist Society. Xlr. Harrison says that he had had access to unpublished documents in the archives of the United States and found among them the Brazilian emperor's communica tion. The Post heads the article: "President Wilson's Pose." and gives it the subeading, "An Interesting Par allel." Mr. Harrison says: "The language used by His Majesty so closely resembles the rescript of the Senate just delivered by President Wilson that one thinks that the Pres ident recently looked up the emper or's mandate and its words were etched In his mind." Mr. Harrison then quotes the following passages from the Brazilian document: "1 speak in the name of humanity and the neutrals of South America, whose industry and commerce are ser iously affected by this most unaccount able war between the States of North America. The Confederate States as sure me they are quite ready to dis cuss terms of peace. * * * When the aggressive Federals can show the same attitude peace will be made. It Is inconceivable that the mighty State of which I am emperor should have no part in that enterprise." y After demanding "to have a voice determining the conditions on which such a peace shall be made perma nent," because a peace which did not include Brazil cotfld not prevent re newal of the war the emperor con tinued, "there must be peace. I say. without victory. • • • Both of you want the same object and neither of you can get all your want. The foundation of peace is the equality of States, whether they are slave-holding or not, and equality implies freedom." After defending slave-holding, the emperor concluded: W "I speak for the friends of humanity in every nation. My voice is that of true liberty throughout the world. These are Brazilian principles, Brazil lan policies and they are the sacred principles of mankind." Mr. Harrison adds that President Lincoln did not reply to the em peror and is reported to have said to his secretary: "Take no notice of this hypocritical swaggerer. The devil might as well preach a sermon that the only godly peace was to give men and nations free play to break the dead decalogue." Walks Miles Barefooted on Ice to See Mother Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Jan. 26. De termined to be with his mother, if | only for a few minutes. John Lally, aged 14, escaped from Kis Lyn, the ; county home for boys, and without 1 hat, coat or shoes, started over the | ice and snow-covered mountains on a • 14-mile jaunt to his home here. Although the ice cut his bare feet ■and the cold chilled him to the bone. ' he set his teeth and determined to brave all this to be with "mother" just for a little while. While his courage was that of a hero, his frail little body | failed to stand the rigors of winter and ■ after ten miles of weary traveling he ; fell exhausted at the farm house of j Gustave Welch on the Ashley moun- J tains. The boy was later sent back to 1 Kis Lyn Home. Schwab Promises No One Will Lose Job After War Baltimore, Md., Jan. 26. Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, inspected his steel plant and shipyards at Sparrows Point to day, and stated that there would \ie no curtailment, as has been rumored, in his original plan of making the plant here the largest on the Atlantic seaboard, at a cost of $40,000,000. He further said he wished to deny that any men here or at his other plants would be laid off after the war, but that the contrary would be true and that more would be needed. THE WEATHER I'or lliirrlnbtirK nnd vicinity: Fair nnd colder to-night. with lOWCfI tcmper.iture nhout 15 decree*; >nt ll rduy parity cloudy, probublr followed Ly MIOU Ly >Aurduy II lit. for Lantern I'ennnylvnnla: Fair and *mewlint colder to-niht; Satur day, lin renMliifc eloudiiie**, prob ably followed by NHOIV by Satur day nlftbt; freNlt north went wind*. Tlie Susquehanna river nnd all It* lirnnche* **lll full ■lowly. A Mntse of about lI.U feet I* Indicated (or Hnrrlnhitric Saturday morning. (ienernl Condition* So riominalliiK area of either high or low pressure appear* on the map thin morning. Three areaa ot high and >hree of low pres sure, eaeh InfluenrlnK the weather over comparatively limited urea*, are enusing nnmcwhat unsettled condition* generall>. Knin has fallen In the la*t twenty-four hours In the South Atlantic State* nnd light no halt occurred In the Yllddle Atlnntle and Sicw Kng land Mute*. In the Ohio and St. I.nwrenee valley* anil loeally In the Went and Northntst. Temperature! S a. m., aw. Sum ltl*ea, 7:111 u. m. Moon i Kirt <|uurter, .Innuary s:01 ii. in. Illver Stnuet 7.- feet above low it ater mark. Veaterday'* Wentlier Highest te m pern lure, 3*l. I.oweat temperature. Ilenn temperature. M. iNorninl tempernture, Us. BOLD BAD MEN ; FULL OF WHISKEY SHOOTS THINGS UP Fishing Creek Youths Injure C. E. Hoover of Rockville, AHer Pegging Lights POUR SHOTS IN COTTAGE Emulation of Westerners Lands Them in Toils; Held For Court Too much bad whisky and a result ing: desire for theatrical gunplay fur nished much excitement for the sub urbanites at Rockville. Ahnost proved serious tor one of them, also. Two young men from Fishing Creek Valley, Frank Eckman and Edward Hoover, both under 21, ob tained too much liquor for their capa city and then started the big time. They had no candles to shoot out, as all bad men do in movies so pro ceeded to put out the electric glim mers in the vicinity of Rockville bridge. After a time this proved a little too tame for their fiery temperaments and they started to look for a wider field of entertainment. Using the cottage of F. H. Davis as a background they began a little fancy target work against the weatherboardlng. C. K. Hoover Shot C. E. Hoover, who lives nearby, awakened by the unusual uproar F Continued on Pago 16] Expect American Capital to Invest in Plan to Build Hotel Chain in War Areas New York. Jan. 26. ln anticipa tion that after the war ends there will be an enormous influx of tourists to France to visit the invaded dis tricts and scenic points, beside those who go there as representatives of foreign industrial and commercial houses, plans are being made to spend $100.01)0,000 in the construction and enlargement of hotels. This is set forth in the fourth instalment, made public to-day, of the report of the American industrial commission sent to France by the American Manufac turers Export Association. A campaign of publicity has been begun through various national bodies, supported by the French government, it is claimed, to acquaint the world with the movement to inaugurate a first clnso hotel system in France and to Invite capital to take part In it. The hope has been repeatedly express ed. says the report, that a consider able proportion of this capital might come from America. Alas! Prisoner Breaks "Pen" Guards' Slumber With His Ventriloquism I.eavenworth, Kan.. Jan. 26. A ventroloquist among the convicts of the Federal prisoners here, who ap parently lias at his command all the tricks of the profession, is causing the guards to spend much time trying to evolve a plan for his detection and silence. The large cell rooms are accousticall.v perfect for the exercise of the convict's art. and nightly the guards and inmates are aroused by wails of distress, laughter, dog barks and dialogues between a man and a woman which eventually end with a fight. So far the practical joker is enjoy ing his art undisturbed but unless the guards obtain results within a few days, they declared to-day, they will offer a reward among the convicts for the disturber of their peace. 1,149 Merchantmen of 2,082,683 Tonnage Are Sunk in Last Year Washington. Jan. 26. l„oss to the world's merchant shipping in 1916 through war causes ' exceeded the total tonnage constructed, according to estimates prepared to-day by the Federal Bureau of Navigation. Ves sels sunk are put at 1149 of 2.082,683 tonnage and those built at 2.r>06. of 1.899.94:1 tons. The net reduction was about 200,000 tons, or one and one half per cent of the world's total. The figures were gathered from many un official sources, but are declared to be approximately correct. Great Britain led in shipbuilding! with ."10 vessels of 619,000 tons. The; United States was second with 1.213! vessels of 360.000 tons. Ships built i by all other countries are given as TB2 in number, of 720,368 tons. Commonwealth Trust Takes Over Independent; Wilmer Crow in Charge William Jennings, president of thej Commonwealth Trust Company, an nounced late yesterday afternoon that the institution had taken over the! Star-Independent and that Wilmer Crow, a former business manager of j the paper had been placed in charge, j He also indicated that there would be ! J no present change in the conduct of! j the evening contemporary. Hunger Striker Will Soon Be Given Food by Force | New York, Jan. 26. : Mrs. Kthel I Byrne's hunger strike in the work [ house on Blackwell's Island, has at tracted so much attention that the > Department of Correction will issue hereafter semi-daily bulletins on her | condition. Mrs. Byrne, who began a thirty-day sentence on Monday as a j penalty for circulating birth control propaganda, showed slsns of weakness to-day and preparations were made 1 to feed her by force if her condition became serious. j Advocates of birth control declared that Mrs*. Byrne's hunxer strike is uc ] compllf.liinK all thut she intended by | giving prominence to their crusade. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1917 COUNCIL'S LEARNING ITS A-B-C'S /H ' HE? GETTING |\ / ISL I SMARTER- EVERY I PRESIDENT PLANS CONFERENCE ON NEXT PEACE STEP I TRAFFIC QUESTION AFTER NEW DRIVE TO BE HELD SOON Washington Believes Ground Work Has Been Laid For Constructive Effort Washington. D. C., Jan. 26.—1t is the official sentiment of Washington that a great spring offensive will prove to be the turning point in international peace maneuvers. The President anil liis very few close advisers, who are conferring with him on all his moves toward peace, still re main as secretive as ever, but in the minds of other high officials who Know the minds of these few the belief is that the President himself believes one more great effort will be made by one or both sides before the actual step toward a real peace goal is first taken. And, regardless of responses—direct or otherwise —from belligerent govern ments on President Wilson's remark able address to the Senate Monday, many diplomats here agree in the be lief that the goal of peace will not be in sight until after the gigantic effort sure to come in the spring. They say news from the front shows preliminary plans for such a drive now are in full sway. Within six weeks all details for this campaign will be completed. Belief is tlrm here that entente na- [Continued on Page 11] Taft Indorses Wilson Speech as Epoch in History Bangor, Maine, Jan. 26.—Speaking at the annual convocation of Bangor Theological Seminary last night, cx- President Taft indorsed President Wil son's peace speech in the Senate in these words: "I cannot close without referring to the eloquent and notable address of President Wilson to the Senate on Monday last. We who favor a league rejoice sincerely that the President has so strongly expressed his convic tion of the high duty of the United States to help organize the world's power to suppress national lawlessness and enforce due procedure for the faithful settlement of international differences. "His speech is an epoch in the his tory of our foreign policy." Wilson's Peace Plans Are Approved at Labor Meeting Manchester, Eng., Jan. 26. The labor conference in session here unanimously adopted to-day a resolu tion urging that "all the British rep resentatives at the peace conference should work for the formation of an international league to enforce the maintenance of peace on the plan advocated by the President of the United States and approved by the British foreign secretary. POPE MKES SPEECH Rome, Jan. 23. via Paris. Jan. 26. —Pope Benedict characterized Presi dent Wilson's speech as the "most courageous document that has ap peared since the beginning of the war." RECEIVE LICENSE TAGS Uicense tags for hucksters, junk dealers and other wholesale and retail vendors were received to-day at the City Treasurer's office and will be dis tributed April 1. 930.000 PIKE Glassboro. N. J., Jan. 26. Fire to-day destroyed the Glassboro Audi torium containing a theater. lodge rooms, two stores and a restaurant. The loss is estimated at $30,000. Crowded Conditions in Square to be Considered; Valley Terminal Suggested Arrangements are being made for another conference of railway execu tives, city officials, member's of the City Planning Commission and the Municipal League to discuss traltte conditions in Market Square. The merits of circular traffic which were [Continued on Page 18] Senate Votes $25,000 For Inauguration After Hotels Are Scored For High Rates Washington. D. C., Jan. 26. —The Senate voted favorably to-day on the $25,000 appropriation to pay for the inauguration expenses at the Capitol, but not until there had been some lively talk about how Washington hotel keepers "rob" visitors and some ob servations that the inaugural cere monies have come to resemble a coro nation pageant. When Senator Overman brought the resolution from the appropriations committee Senator MeCumber. Repub lican, suggested that it should include provisions to prevent hotel keepers from raising their rates. lie said he had been informed by one hotel that a room for inauguration week would cost S2OO. Senator Thomas. Democrat, ex pressed himself in accord with Sen ators MeCumber and Works and de clared; "Old Spanish buccaneers who sailed the Spanish Main flying the black flag of piracy and taking their lives in their hands to rob merchant ships must turn over in their graves when they see the lavish successes of modern hotel proprietors on occa sions of this kind and the immunitv from punishment they enjoy in prose cuting their business of plunder." Girl Dies at Home of Grandmother While Aged Woman Is in Hospital Miss Mary Golden, 21 years old, died Wednesday at the home of her grandmother. Mrs. Mary McDonald, 307 South Fifteenth street. The grandmother is in the Poly clinic Hospital with a broken leg. Miss Golden is survived by her grand mother. an aunt. Miss "Mary McDon ald, and an uncle, John Golden. Fu neral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home. The Rev. George MtfCandless, of Philadelphia, will have charge of the services. Burial will be made in the Paxtang Cemetery. Factory Owner Sent to Sing Sing For Deaths in Fire New York. Jan. 26. Asserting that a sentence In prison should teach a far-reaching lesson to factory owners and tenants who fail to provide proper fire exits. Supreme Court Justice Kap per to-day sent Samuel Barkln to Sing Sing for from two and a half to five and a half years. Barkin is partner in a shirtmaking company housed in a Brooklyn build ing where nine women and four men lost their lives in a tire because the trapdoor between their place of work and Barkin's floor was locked. Barkin's partner. Samuel Simon, and the building's owners, Mr. and Mrs. Kdward I* Diamond, proprietors of a candy company in the structure. TEN MURDER CASES ON TRIAL WEEK OF FEB. 5 Six of Defendants, Five Men and One Woman, Colored; Two Foreigners Ten murder cases will be listed for trial during the special session of criminal court, beginning February 5. Six of the defendants, five men and one woman, are colored, and two others are foreigners. All were brought into court this morning and motion granted for con tinuing their cases until next month. The defendants are A'lada Yovanovitcli, charged with Killing a companion in an argument in Stcelton; John Misko, accused of a murder in Williamstown; John O. Christ ley. held for shooting his wife; Frederick Richcreek, charg ed with killing a .iunk dealer; James White, indicted with Klwood Wilson on a charge of shooting Officer Lewis C. Hippie; Mary Washington, Warren Gladen, John Robinson, James Frazer and Eddie Marshall, alias Monroe. in suspended sentence court this morning President Judge George Kunkel severely censured Newton A. Swails, charged with assault and bat tery, for not paying part of a fine of $73 and costs totaling SSO, imposed on him. The court finally continued the case until the March sessions, after declar ing that Swails didn't appreciate the leniency that had been extended be fore. Widow of Sitting Bull Dies From Burns Received When She Rescues Shawl Fargo, X. D.. Jan. 26. Small Wo man. former wife of Sitting Bull, noted Indian chief, whose band anni hilated Custer and his command on the Little Big Horn in 1876. and who was killed fifteen years later at the battle of Wounded Knee, died last night at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, of bums suffered when fire destroyed her shack at Lucky Mound. Small Woman escaped from her burning cabin uninjured, but returned to rescue an old shawl which she prized highly and her clothing took lire. She was a native Mandan and was 80 years old. At the time of her death she was the wife of a United States Indian scout. Military Training Will Not Make For Militarism Washington, Jan. 26. Universal military training in the United States will not make for militarism. Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, chaplain of the famous Iron Brigade of the Civil War. told the Senate Committee considering universal training legis lation. "We never can be and never will be a military nation," said Bishop Fal lows. "The test of that came at the close of the Civil War when 2,000,000 men were mustered out, flushed with victory and under the command of a man who became President of the i United State*." PItOBATK DKWEY'S WII.I, Washington, Jan. 2l>. Admiral Dewey's will, dated December 17, 1915, was filed to-day fon probate. It bequeaths a life annuity of SSOO to 'his sister. Mrs. Mary P. Greeley, and directs that a suitable stone be placed over his grave in Arlington National Cemetery. The remaining estate, of which no estimate is made. Is left to the widow and son. George Dewe>. Jr.. who are named as executors with out bond. R.R. STRIKES ARE NOT FORBIDDEN IN NEW MEASURE I Bill to Supplement Adamson Law Would Fine Pickets in Time of Trouble MAKE ROADS AVAILABLE In I ime of War, Threatened War or Insurrection, Presi- dent Can Seize Lines Washington. Jan. 2(5. Railroad strikes and lockouts are not forbid den by tlie terms of a bill to sup plant the Adamson law which the Sen ate Interstate Commerce committee, virtually had completed to-day. Pres ident Wilson had suggested that a provision be included to prevent strikes or lockout paneling investiga tion of differences. The new bill, however, would make it a criminal offense, punishable by heavy fine tor a railroad employe who has quit work to trespass on railroad property with a view to preventing by vioicnce, intimation or threats the operations of trains. Another important provision of the bill would authorise the President to take over and "such part of" a railroad or its equipment as is neces sary to move troops or munitions in war time, threatened war, or insurrec tion. 545 Civilians Are Killed 652 Wounded by 60,000 Bombs Dropped on Rheims New York. Jan. 211. Sixty thou sand bombs have fallen on Kheinis. France, since the beginning of the war, .">45 civilians have bee, killed and 652 wounded, according to a statement prepared by Whitney Warren, the ar chitect. Air. Warren returned from Fiance yesterday with muterial for a supplementary report to the French institute on the present condition of the Kheims Cathedral. Ot" the number killed. S6 were chil dren and 192 were women. Mr. War ren said. The cathedral, he added, has received 100 bombs and all the quarter that surrounds it is absolutely demolished. < onitsses to murder A. Danes and Private Charles Liter this . f' '.■■••' l a si,/ e l (.nfession fror.. Evan Mailevic, the ; rretted for the murder of George Savage, of Dune it Marlevu, who was arrested at Perdix bv Rail road O Robert Deck orr the evening of the murder, ex oriera' the other men arrested from all implication in the crime. He declared George Savage accosted him as he pass* ed reet, rem* ved an old ai Marie* vie i • life and cut Savage several timc.>, slashing him, first i:: ' throat. Three other foreigners, all wanted on crimi: < -jes, have also been arrested by the State Pulic participated in the fight earlier in the evening and v ting ready to leave the vicinity when arrested. LXICANV RELEASE BISHOP Vas: - ton, Jan. ,?6. - On representations by the United ; Bishop Dc La Mora, of Zacatecas, condemn ed 1 vithout jppurt unity for defense on a charge of aid u > la, has been released and is on his way to the United Stat-s, Jot j" " :cr, of Enola,- died this morning at the Harris bur; ho;-; I He was admitted January 4, suffering with typhoid. W: i :r 'on, Jan. 26. —Private telegrams -received to day a ■ is'e of Representatives announced the death Qf Rep:;' ' David E Finley, of South Carolina. He was tn a he pital at Charlotte, N. C- The nr t stolen from S. W. Shoemaker, IMS North Sixth :' vs is recovered late this afternoon in Reading Tv.v men ho stole the cat escaped before the Head* in,;., .- i:d capture them. v Nor r>-\, Wash., Jan, 20.—" S. O. S." calls sent out b• • ' . ht and pa-ienger,steamer Prince John statin;; w> rc on Wrangril Island, off the southwestern co h- A' 1 were picked up by the ladio station here to* day. I El Paso, Jan. 2f>.~ Forces of Francisco Villa have oc cupied El Valle, Chihuahua, abandoned by General Persh* ing's outposts, according to apparently reliable information received ti army circles. MARRIAGE LICENSES Charlca I-Jdnln Woland, llarrlMbnrg, and Mabel Mae Shoop, Ellsafceth vllle. Anion Jasper (Mummer and Kthel Irene Cooper, llnrrinhurK. UcorKC J. Judy, HnrrUburg, and Katharine It. Hon man, Mlddletown. Single Copy, 2 Cents POSTSCRIPT GERMANS ENTER FRENCH TRENCHES BEFORE VERDUN Make Four Attacks Over Front of Mile and Capture 500 Prisoners GAIN IN HIC.A KEG ION Teutons Striking Steadily Northward; Russians Offer ing Strong Resistance In wlmt appears to have been the most important offensive movement undertaken 011 the Franco-Belgian front In several weeks French trenches 011 u'front of approximately a mile In the region of Hill 304. northwest of Verdun, werf stormed by German troops yesterday, the Berlin war office announces. A counter attack delivered at night by the French failed to drive out the Germans, who during the op eration captured about 500 prisoners and ten machine guns. The Paris account of the German offensive reports it launched along a rather wide front, the attacks being delivered at four points between A.vo court wood, on the extreme left of the French lines about Verdun, and Dead Man Ilill, a distance ol" more than three and a half miles. The at tacks were repulsed, the French state [Continued on l'agc 10] WKEKMES HARD lIIT | Country Papers Say Tlicy Will Soon Advance Prices Woodbury, X. .1., Jan. -0. Bike the big dailies, the country weeklies ! are tinding that it is impossible to put lout their papers at the present prices, : and say they will soon be compelled to i increase the yearly subscription. Some Jof these publishers have been giving a year's subscription at from $1 to $2, but find at these rates they can barely stand it any longer. One publisher in this city states that paper that a year ago cost S6O per ton. now costs $l6O. Other printing papers have advanced accordingly, and job work must advance in price to keep the' plants going. Even at the Increas ed prices some plants have made, there never was a period when job printing plants were as rushed witl. work as at the present time.
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