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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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j| way of the East Bear Ridge colliery at Mdl . v Plane, this
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| 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
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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
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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. .
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