Fear Overt Act Which Will P esiion o - , HARRISBURG (owta TELEGRAPH LXXXVI — No. 34 16 PAGES OVERT ACT MERELY QUESTION OF TIME WASHINGTON FEARS WAR WILL FOLLOW LOSS OF AMERICAN LIFE IN ATTACKS Reports Received on Destruction of California and Other Ships So Far Has Not Constituted Act Which Would Immediately Precipitate Conflict; Officials Believe It Is Sure to Come in Few Hours NO ACTION BY PRESIDENT UNTIL UNDISPUTED EVIDENCE IS SECURED Government Will Not Be Hurried Into Battle Until Sure International Law Is Being Violated; All Hope That Kaiser Would Modify Campaign Abandoned; Pre parations Are Hastened in U. S. Washington, Feb. 8. —On the basis of reports received on the destruction of the California and other ships so far it is stated au thoritatively that none of the cases constitutes the overt act which will lead to war with Germany. Officials openly express the belief, however, that the overt act is merely a question of time. While regarding the destruction of the California as plain evi dence that Germany has fully abandoned the pledges to the United States, it was stated that the government will not be hurried into war until there is undisputed evidence of violation of American rights by destruction of American ships or loss of American lives, in violation of international law. All hope, if any ever existed, that Germany might modify her campaign of ruthlessness has vanished and there is no doubt here that it will be only a matter of hours or days before an American ship is sunk or American lives are sacrificed. The only effect so far as the destruction of the California has been to quicken the preparations the government is making for the expected eventualities. [ Continued on I'age ll] FATE OF WHITE, HIPPLE'S SLAYER. IN JURY'S HANDS Commonwealth Holds Out For First Degree During Four Day Fight The fate of James White, colored, held with Elwood Wilson, for shoot ing Officer Lewis C. Hippie, last June, was turned over this afternoon to the jury. For four days White has been fight ing for his life, always in the shadow of the electric chair. Yesterday Dis trict Attorney Michael E. Stroiip de clined to consider a pie* of guilty of murder in the second degree, and the Commonwealth continued its fight for a first degree verdict. Attorney J. R. Bennett summed up [ConUnucd on Page 10] THE WEATHER! I'or llnrrloburK and vicinity: In willed weather, probably miow mid much colder to-night find Friday; lowfut temperature to il Ik tit about 20 degree*. For lOaMtern I'ennayli aalus I'rob ably MIOW and much colder to night and Fridays cold wave in northern portion; frexb to xtrong next to northtvext wind*. Hlver An Important change* will occur In rlter Hinge* or Ice condition* in the Siixqueliaii tin ri\er and Ita trlhutarlex within the next few day*. A xtage of nhout 0.3 feet la Indicated for llarrlnliurit Friday morning. (ieneral Conditions The center of the rilxturbunee that wa* over Ontario, Wcdnexday mornlnK. ha* moved rapidly enxt ward to the St. I.awrence Valler. It cauxed light miow generally In northern district* from the Kocky Mountain* eastward to n Hng land. The allicht disturbance In the South la now central over the Middle tiulf coaNti it hn* canned IlKht rnlu* In the Middle tiulf State* and Tenne*xee In the Inxt twenty-four hourx. There lin* liaa been a general rise of i! to -0 degree* In temperature eaxt of the tirent l.akrs, Month and enxt of the Ohio river and In Okla homa, Kanxas and Northern Colo rado and Wyoming. Temperature: 8 n. m., 34 degree* above aero. Suns Hlxex, 710<1 n. m. Moon i Rlaea, 7:1- p. m. niver Stages 0.4 feet above low water mark. Yeaterdaya Weather Highext temperature, 41. I.oweat temperature, in. Mean temperature, 30. Koruial temperature, 20. GERARD, CONSULS AND AMERICAN SAILORS HELD Germans Keeping Them as Hostages Until Bernstorff As surances Arc Received London. Feb. 8. The German gov ernment will require guarantees that Count Yon Bernstorff, former German ambassador at Washington and the men on German ships in American ports will be permitted to leave the United States before allowing Ambas sador Gerard and other Americans in Germany to depart from that country, according to the Copenhagen Politiken as quoted in a Keuter dispatch from that city. This information, the Politiken says, ; is contained in a telegram sent by Am ■ t'assador Gerard to the American lega i tion at Copenhagen. All Americans 1 in Germany, including those captured I by the German raider in the South j Atlantic and taken to Germany on the [Continued on Page ll] Charges U. S. With Break of Treaty of 1799 in Detaining Germans Berlin, Feb. 7, via Ix>ndon, Feb. 8. — Tn a prominently displayed leader the l.okal Anzeiger this afternoon charges the United States with a breach of treaty obligations in "compulsorily de taining" in America German subjects who. under the treaty of 1799, are en titled even in the case of an actual outbreak of war, to pursue their avo cations unmolested. Recalling the charges of the violation of treaties and the law of nations made against Ger many in the earlier days of the war, the Anzeiger continues: "The breach of diplomatic relations with the United States will probably be made agalri the occasion for level ing against us charges of breaking treaties and international law in order to mobilize the indignation of the whole world against our shameful acts. It is therefore not at all an act of supererogation to point out now, while the deed is still fresh, that the United States, simultaneously with the breach of relations, has been guilty of an unjustified breach of treaty in con fiscating German property contrary to treaties between them and Germany and condemning German subjects "whose profession, in the words of clause 23 of the treaty of 1799, 'serves the sustenance of the general weal of humanity', to compulsory detention. This in site of the fact that the cited article prohibits any molestations of German subjects in the United States i even in the case of war." HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY S, 1917. 1 1 61 SHIPS OF 200,000 TONS IS fj II TOLL OF RUTHLESS j| ;! New \ork, Feb. B.—Sixty-one ships have been sunk by ijj ]! German submarines or mines, according to a compilation made |[j I! here from cable reports since the German blockade order took Jli ; | effect on February 1. Fourteen vessels of 29,997 tonnage re- !>i ]! ported as lost yesterday and last night and two to-day bring the j;; !j total tonnage of the victims of the German navy up to 200,000 I; tons. ' :! j ]! Thirty-four or more than half of this number, were British ;[| !; vessels; five carried the flags of other entente belligerents; one j! j j| was an American and twenty-one were owned in other neutral !>' ;; countries. The only American ship thus far lost in the sub- jjl |! marine war zone is the Ilousatonic, owned by the llousatonic ;I j !; Steamship Company. She was sunk by a submarine off the !>! ;! Scillv Islands on February 3. The British liner, California, j|| j! 8,662 tons, is the largest of "the vessels thus far reported sunk. || j To-day's Toll— \\ Queenslown, F.-o. B.—The British Lloyd's reports the sinking of the !; fu^ e rlnT Urln t ° le h r aS c?ew n &en "eamship Hollinside, 2.682 j, j; land**. Tfi< Turino was last report- tons gross. The crew left the ves- <i (I ed at NGI. Ik whence she sailed on set in boats. The captain has been L> ] January ls for Liverpool. landed. ij 41 MISSING FROM CALIFORNIA SUNK WITHOUT WARNING Washington, Feb. S.—The latest report on the destruction of the California, received this morning, at the State Department from Consul rrost at Queenstown, puts the number of survivors at 162, and the missmff at 41. It says the ship apparently was torpedoed about IU o clock Wednesday morning. „ . Other reports to-day from Consul Frost on the sinking of the British ship, Eavestonc, say that she also was destroyed without warning. I his point had not been, cleared up in previous advices. New York, Feb. 8. Official cable advices that the British steamship California was torpedoed without warning were received here to-day by the Anchor Line. The names of 13 peVsons listed as missing were received as follows: Second.Cabin Mrs. E. Smith, Edna Smith and Mrs. Kidd. Calgary, Alberta. J. YV. Aldcrson and son, Van couver, B. C. (Mrs. Alderson was saved.) KITTY SPENDS NIGHT MOVIES AFTER LOOK AT "QUEEN" Slips in Exit Door lo See the Show and Gels Locked Up When Lights Are Darkened; Eats Half Can of Salmon Just to Show Catastrophe Hasn't Affected Her Appetite' When the chap sprang t ,_ t old one about "even the cat" bein„ permitted "to look at the queen" he. probably didn't have a "movie queen" in mind. But a cat yclept "Toodles," fond pet of Mrs. David Attig, 1315 Market street, has proved that the queen of the screen is most assuredly included in the category. Mrs. Attig missed "Toodles" last night. "Kitty, Kitty," she called. "Meow! meow!" wailed Kitty. But "Toodles" couldn't be located |j Practically 97% of Telegraph's Circulation Retained Following Necessary Increase in Price On January 15th last, due to the excessive cost of j | newsprint paper and other materials entering into news j! paper production, the price of the Harrisburg Tele graph was raised to 10 cents a week. In comparing the average net paid circulation for the !| fifteen days immediately following with the daily aver |j age net paid circulation for the year 1916, it is gratifying |\ to note that 96.7 per cent, of its circulation has been re \ | lained. A still further source of gratification is the daily re ceipt of renewals from many of those comprising the 3 j| per cent.' who at first thou(/ht it necessary to tempo j; rarily discontinue their subscriptions. It is a remarkable showing, and the publishers of this |! newspaper may be pardoned for taking pride therein. i! To them it is an evidence of the public's appreciation of j j their efforts to produce a clean, bright, modern newspa !| per in keeping with the high standards of American jour |; nalism, and one that first, last and always will be de- i it voted to the civic and commercial advancement of the ; community. ! Mrs. W. C. O'DonncH and two children of Philadelphia. (Three O'DonncH children appear on the ship's passenger list). Neil Gillies, New York City. Miss Madge Roberts, Toronto. Steerage Mrs. Margaret Little and one child, New York Clt.v. (Three [Continued on Page 14] even though search behind boxes, a nearby stable and other favorite cat haunts was made lons and diligently. This morning Mrs. Attig renewed the search and "Toodles' " yells were finally traced to the moving picture theater of J. M. l.onney, near by. "Toodles" had slipped into the theater to see the "movies" through the exit door in the rear. When rescued she calmly ate a half can of salmon, drank A pint of 8-cents a-quart milk and curled up for a bit of a nap. YOU CAN'T PIN BADGE ON MAN AND YELL'COP!' Must Take Police Out of Poli tics For Efficiency. De clares Expert SCHOOL FOR OFFICERS Driscoll 'I ells Businessmen "Influence" Should Have No Place in Force "Take .vour police system out or politics and establish civil service." With these words C. J. Driscoll, of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, who is making a survey of llarrisburg a Police Department un der the direction of the Civic Com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce, summed up before the noonday luncheon of the Chamber what in ef fect his report on conditions here will contain. 'The one vicious thins in police cir cles throughout the country is the policy ol law enforcement," said Mr. Driscoll. "There arc too many com missioners, too many administrative tieaus, too much pontics and too little Se , n . U ' stuuj " lou cull <- take a man on tl.c strevus, shuttle 111111 into a blue uniform, pin a badge 011 liis chest and whist! lie's a cop! there snoula DO a school for the prospective policeman, a uetinite pro cedure lor disciplining the men and a condition under winch no power 011 earth can remove a man trom the 10, T^i_ except llis own overt act. Then, and then only, will a community have an effective police force \uut a proper enforcement of the law Change Lpon Change J he army ot eleven thousand bluc- in New Vork City was described l by the speaker, who is laniiliar with' the police conditions not only through out the United States but in Europe also. There generalship is required, but the army is under the guukiuce of and subject to the varied opinions ot successive police commissioners, ot whom there have been eleven in thirteen years. Under each successive administration the policy ot law en forcement changes, until now an otii cer scarcely knows how lie is to act. "t.nder the conditions which permit statutes to remain on the books with out enforcement," said Air. Drlscoll, "a policeman may say that he has as much right to permit a peanut ven dor to conduct Ills business 011 a street ; corner contrary to ordinance as his, mayor has to permit prostitution and vice; the only difference being that the policeman grafts two dollars while the mayor seeks re-election. "A police force is 110 better than the people of the community would have It. This places the matter squarely up to the people for decision. Men of physical and moral courage are needed to wear the uniform, but present unsatisfactory conditions will continue so long as politics are per mitted to control the situation," and this expert in police emphasized by clear and unmistakable examples just exactly what ho meant. The I weakness is not in the individual, but in the system, and the situation will not be changed until a city rises to the fullness of its citizenship and wipes out the evil by eliminating poli tics and establishing civil service. A. Carson Stamm, president of the school board, introduced Mr. Driscoll. Ralph I. Deihl to Be Cashier of Hummelstown National Bank, March 1 Ralph I. Deihl, paying teller of the East End Hank, has been elected cashier of the Hummelstown National Bank and will take his new position March 1. Mr. Deihl is a resident of Paxtang. Mr. Deihl has been with the East End Bank since it opened on May 6, 1903, and for the. past seven years lias been paying teller there. He is a graduate of the Central high school, class of 1899, and is well known in building association and business cir cles, especially in the Allison Hill dis trict. For the present his family will reside in Paxtang, but a little later will remove to Hiimmelstown. Friend of Molly Pitcher, Dies at Carlisle, Aged 104 Carlisle, Pa., Feb. B.—Mrj. Samuel Sipe, 104 years, oldest woman in Cum berland county and a personal friend of Molly Pitcher, died here last night. She was born in Switzerland, October 5, 1812, and had resided in Carlisle for nearly a century. She came to this country with her parents when very young. She is survived by four chil dren, Marion P. Sipe, Clarissa Sipe, Dr. J. E. Sipe and Kate Sipe, all residents of Carlisle. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 2 o'clock. ENDORSE BREAK ■Washington, Feb. 8. By- a vote of 78 to 5 the United States Senate late yesterday formally endorsed the President's action in severing diplo matic relations with Germany. The vote was taken on a resolution intro duced by Senator Stone, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. | Two Democrats, Klrby, of Arkansas, and Vardaman, of Mississippi, Joined with threo Republicans, Oronna, of North Dakota: LaFollette, of Wiscon sin, and Works of California, in op posing the resolution. TA)WEK ODKO TAX Washington, D. C., Feb. B.—To open the market to oleomargarine, the Sen ate finance -committee to-day accepted as an amendment to the revenue bill a proposal by Senator Underwood to tax the product 2 cents a pound, to We paid by the maniTfacturcr, in place of the practically y>rohibitive present tax I of 10 cents a pound. SIGNS $1,000,000 HIM, Albany. N. Y„ Feb. 2.—The bill I appropriating $1,000,000 for military, preparedness purposes was signed by | Governor Whitman to-day. . MAYOR MEALS IMPROVES On advice of his physician. Mayor E. ' S. Meals is resting up in bed. His con- , rittin*. tn.Aav was m ifh Imnriivid. i AMERICANIZATION OF FOREIGNERS IS DUTY OF SCHOOLS Directors ioid They Should' Educate Old as Well as Young ALIEN PAPERS BANE Should Establish Social Cen ters iu Districts Populated by Illiterates Americanization and education of foreign-born citizens, old as well as young—is the duty of the men who have charge of the public schools in this State. This is the keynote of addresses made to-day at the opening session I of the twenty-second annual conven tion of the directors' department of the Pennsylvania State Kducational Association in the Technical Iligh School. Urges Social Centers "Mobilizing for Community Wel [Continued on I'IIRC 9] Dedicate Steele Memorial Building Monday Afternoon The School Board announced this! morning that the William S. Steele memorial public school building. Fifth and Mahantongo streets, will be dedi cated on Monday afternoon, February 12, at 2 o'clock. A. C. Stamm. president of the School Board, will preside. The mu- j sical program will be In charge of Edward G. Rose and George W. Upde-1 grove, directors of vocal and instru- . mental music. Pupils of the schools and the Technical High School or- I ehestra will furnish the music. The Rev. Alvin S. Williams, of thel Camp Curtin Memorial M. E. Church, will deliver the dedicatory address, i Other addresses will bo made by I Thomas L. Montgomery, State Li brarian and Dr. .1. George Becht, Sec retary of tiie State Board of Educa tion. s The flag presentation will be made by Dr. William N. Yates. Miss Annie Burd, a pupil of the Steele school, will sing several numbers. The Rev. Joseph Daugherty, of the Sixth Street United Brethren Church, will open the services with prayer and benediction will be pronounced by the Rev. E. E. Snyder, of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. AMERICAN NEGRO KILLED BV U-BOAT j LONDON, FEB. 8-AN AMERICAN NEGRO, FIRE | MAI THE 'JUKINO. GEORGE \ ASHINGTON, | A.V ' J.VCEIV- j I ED BY '. AMERICAN EMBASSY ONE OF THE SURVIVORS IS CALVIN BAY, AN AMERICAN CITL ' I MORE, UTAH. I j J j| way of the East Bear Ridge colliery at Mdl . v Plane, this j j | TWO MORE STEAMERS SU |t l j[ the Binking of the British steamship Boyne Castle, 245 tons ! I gross and the Swedish steamship Varing, 2,296 tons. This j . 'i|- to f J I FLETCHER AND PRESIDENT CONFER j 'Washington, Feb. 8. Henry P. Fletcher, American ambassador ,to Mexico, conferred with President Wilson to. i day before leaving for his post J , ,< JSIDE* r HEARS OF KILLING Washington, 8. —President W the exc* < cutivc offices when the news of the submarine attack on i * . • o c.'.u ;! municated'to him. He immediately issued instructions I t . . possible |! Afterward: he went tot the State, War and Navy Building. ! SIXTH MURDER CASE ON ij -i. Aii n:.;rd r . . thv week mi || ed thit . rnooh when ji Mary E. W shiugton ed on trial fot her life. The || f John Robinson, held tu; jhoo tin jj . , . . iretary of the Am rtcan Federation jj <A Labor th innouneeu that ui jmendment to ! the Clark Act will be presented to the L gislaWe in 0r near future. The amendment provides that in case oUa va- l cancy the defeated candidate for mayot or >uncil, who had ! the hi; >cr oi votes at the election preceding shall il b-: t ' lie '• iCdIUv j j „ ———! MARRIAGE LICENSES, William Alfred Cunrnd nnd Carrie Kllxalieth Ilrnt, Harrlaburg. Victor Harlacher, Steelton, nnd Olive Ellaubeth Yon nit, Hiirrlxburff. j | Single Copy, 2 Cents VALLEY RAILWAYS AWAITS APPROVAL OF NEW TERMINAL Action of Erection of Building Will Be Taken Soon as Plans Arc O K'd NEW BRIDGE LIKELY Structure in Keeping With Beaulification of River Front in the Near Future Action on the erection of the pro posed terminal in Walnut street for Valley Railways cars will be take'i at a meeting ot' the board of directors ns soon as tentative plans for this bis improvement have been agreed upon by the City Planning Commission, Mu nicipal League and city officials. * Spencer C. Gilbert, one of the di rectors of the Valley Railways, so | stated this morning In discussing the .proposed plan for double tracking Walnut street and erecting the ter minal at Walnut and River streets on property now owned by the company. The move is the result of a con ference of Municipal League officers, | city officials and Valley Railways I officials yesterday at which the ter minal plan was suggested, and all 1 present joined in a resolution asking ! the City Planning Commission to ap prove. The discussion was amicable, the railway officials expressing readi ness to co-operate in every way, but wanted to be sure they were moving along lines that would be pleasing to the Planning Commission. The con ference was marked by good feeling land the conclusion reached had the full concurrence of all present. At the conference it was brought I tives of the llarrlsburg and Valley i out that the only way to solve traffic [Continued on Pnsc 16] CONSULS lIKPOKT TO QI ARTON P.erlin, Feb. 7, via London, Feb. B. All American consuls-general and con suls have been ordered by Washington to report to Vice-Consul-General Har old B. Quart on, who'is in charge in Berlin in the absence of Consul- General Julius G. Day. Mr. Quarton has been ordered to Rotterdam, as has also Vice-Consul Robert Lee Gray, Jr.. of Hanover. Vice-Consul Riley, at Warsaw, goes to Stockholm; Vice- Consul Eugene C. Harter, at Bruns wick, to Copenhagen, and Vlce-Consu Harold G. Walters, at Berlin, returns to Washington. . POSTSCRIPT
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