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HARRISBURG iSIS™ TELEGRAPH
I,XXX Vl No. 90 18 PAGES
'BETHLEHEM STEEL
EMPLOYES ARE GIVEN
TEN PER CENT. RAISE
Majority of 10,000 Employes at Steelton Plant Among More
Than 50,000 Workmen of Big Corporation Affected;
Increase Effective May 1; Announcement Made By
President Grace and Manager Quincy Bent. Salaried
Employes Not Affected
A majority of the 10,000 employes of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany's plants at Steelton and Lebanon are granted a ten per cent,
increase in an announcement made simultaneously to-day by Presi
dent E. G. Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Company and Quincy Bent,
manager of the Steelton plant.
"Effective May 1, an increase approximating 10 per
cent will be granted hour, day and turn rate employes of
the company. Adjustments will also be made of certain
tonnage and piece work rates."
Clerks, stenographers and other salaried employes are nftt
affected.
From South Bethlehem President Grace announced a ten per
cent, increase in the wages of the more than 50,000 employes of the
company at its plants located at South Bethlehem, Steelton, Balti
more and Lebanon. The increase becomes effective May 1.
Third Increase
1 his is the third increase since the Bethlehem Steel Company
took over the Steelton Plant. The first increase came November 1,
and the second December 16. All three increases were approximately
ten per cent.
A majority of the 8,000 employes at the Steelton plant are
effected by the increase. There arc about 2,000 employes at the
Lebanon plant, a majority of which are effected. The local steel
officials have jurisdiction over the Lebanon plant.
Solicitor to File Bonds
in Hardscrapple Appeals
City Solicitor John E. Kox will pre
sent bonds in jourt next week as the
city's surety until the pending ap
peals from the awards of viewers in
the Hardscrabble proceedings are set
tled finally. On .Monday when the
court was asked for issues, counsel
for the property holders who have
appealed, declared the city should file
bonds in each -ase before further ac
tion is taken. Solicitor Fox consent
ed to do this, and unless objections
are raised the city will furnish bonds
itself without furnishing surety
through a private company. In case
of dispute the court will be asked to
decide.
The Telegraph Will
Respond to the Call
RESPONDING to the can ot
Cnpt. Henry M. Stlnc, chair
man of the "Everybody's
Patriotic Demonstration" commit
tee, that all places of business in
Ilarrisburg be closed from noon un
til 0 o'clock in the evening of the
clay of the parade, Saturday, April
21, the 11ARRISBURG 'TELE
GRAPH on that date will be issued
at noon* This will IH' done in order
that the entire Telegraph Family
may have the privilege of |>artici
pating in the doings of the day.
All the editions of the newspaper
on that day will be combined in one
ami the Sports Extra will he sus-
pcmlcd on that occasion.
IWE WEATHER 1
For Harrishurit and vicinity: Fair,
continued cool to-niKht and Sun
day; loufHt tcm lie rat urc to-fiittht
about 32 decree*.
For Knstcrn I'ennnyl\ania: Prob
ably (air to-nli;lit and Sunday;
front to-nii&ht; moderate north
west Hindi*.
RlTer
The Susquehuniia river and all Its
tributaries will fall slowly or re
main nearly Mtatioaary. A staKe
of about 5.0 feet la indicated for
HarriMburjt Sunday morning.
(ienernl Conditions
Tbe Atlantic coast disturbance of
Friday has passed oft' seaivard. It
eauscd rain in tlie last twenty
iour hours over the Knst Gvlf
States and In the Atlantic States
from Northern Maine to Southern
Florida, with snow flurries iu the
I ppcr Ohio Valley and alonK the
eastern border of the tireat
l.akes. A n extensive area of hluh
barometric pressure covers the
tireat Central valleys and the
western part of the Take HCKIOII
with Its crest over Manitoba.
I'ressure In low west of the Kocky
Mountnins, except alonß the im
mediate Pacific coast. I.iuht rains
have fallen In Orfnon and Idaho
and liKht. scattered rains aad
snowa In Kansas, lowa, the l)a
--kotas and Northern Minnesota.
Temperatures are 2 to 20 decrees
lower than on Friday morniui;
over practically all the country
south and enst of the Great
l.akes. In North Colorado, !S>-
raka, the Dakotaa, Western
Minnesota and the Pacific slope.
Temperature! R a. m., 32.
Sum Rlnes, R>24 a. m.; nets, 0i47
p. m.
Moont New moon, April 2S, 12t53
a. m.
River Stattet 5.8 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 50.
I,owest temperature. 37.
Mean temperature, 44.
Aormal temperature. 50.
Royal Arcanum Receiver
Appointed When Charge of.
Mismanagement Is Made
By Associated Press
Boston, April 14.—Thomas J.
Boynton, formerly Attorney General
of Massachusetts, was appointed re
ceiver of the Supreme Council of the
Royal Arcanum by Federal Judge
Aldrich to-day.
The appointment was made on pe
tition of Arthur L. Hobart, of Bain
tree, a member of the order, who
holds a death benetit calling for SSOO.
j Hobart alleged that 'he reserve fund
of the organization amounting to $3,-
i 800,000, had been illegally adminis
[ tered and that it would be entirely
i depleted within two years unless the
I court interfered. He asked that an
I injunction be issued restraining the
I officers from further administering
the funds and that the receiver wind
■ up the affairs of the council.
The petition stated that SIIO,OOO
I was lost last year in the sale of bonds
|of the Commonwealth of Massachu
setts and that in 1915 the sum of
I $1,500,000 was illegally used in the
; payment of preferential death benefit
I claims.
Predicts Peace Within
Two Months and a Half
Copenhagen, April 14, via London.
—Peace within two months and a
half is predicted by the Copenhagen
correspondent of the Danish Socialist
press, which confirms the reports of
■ unofficial negotiations between Rus
| sians and German Socialists, as !
i against the diplomatic denials in the
| Socialist newspapers here and in Ber
lin.
The first negotiations, says the cor
respondent, who is a Socialist mem
ber of the Danish parliament, were
broken off, enabling two papers to
launch a denial that they were In |
progress, but they were immediately
resumed and are being prosecuted
vigorously. The correspondent then I
enters into a discussion of peace i
terms, in which he appears to take i
German Socialist expectations and !
hopes for the government policy.
TEUTON SAVED FROM MOB
By Associated Pre\i
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 14. Police
reserves were called out here last night
to disperse a crowd of several hun
dred people who threatened the life of
Theodore Cossman, proprietor of a
motion picture theater, following a!
street address made by Cossman!
against enlistment in the government i
service. Cossman was arrested on a!
charge of high misdemeanor and com- ;
mitted to jail in default of $10,000)
ball. While Cossman was being held j
at an alderman's office, another largo I
crowd surrounded the office demand- !
ing that he be turned over to them. '
Two riot calls were sent In and ad- i
dltlonal reserves were resisted bv tho I
crowd.
Patriotic Canine Series
THIS DOG SALUTES FLAG
Whenever "Patsy," owned by Mr I
and Mrs. Clarence K. Zorger, 548 1
Mactay street, passes the American
ilag he lifts his right paw to his head
and salutes, they say. He also wears
a flag of his own which he carefully
'.guards and protects.
HARRISRURC,, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1917
I ONE OF FIRST OF GREAT WOODEN ARMADA
V. _>
RT-TIXDI-Nc; "WOQr>X>T..SHJ3P /v* 7ro -*£-.
, > . *' lG P' an devised by the TTnited States authorities to break the German submarine blockade is the eon
aui/llii ? n ot an enormous number of wooden ships. Major-General Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal, has been
SiJri il° m? ch \ irße ot " thls work - uis expected that several ships a week of 3,000 tons each can be built without
Ju u v ' The photograph shows a wooden ship o*£hat type being constructed at Essex, Mass., at an old shipyard
wjuch has not been used for many years.
P.R.R.TOTHROW
OPEN NEW FREIGHT
STATION MONDAY
First Completed Step in $1,500,-
000 Improvement Campaign
For Harrisburg
On Monday morning at 7 o'clock
the new southbound freight station of
the Pennsylvania Railroad in South
Harrisburg will be opened for busi
ness. To make this event a certainty
painters, plumbers, electric light
forces and construction gangs will
work to-night and to-morrow.
The new freight building is a mod
ern structure and faces Second street.
It is only a part of the big freight
station improvements which have
been under way in South Harrisburg
for more than a year. Warren Moore,
the contractor, has been handi
capped because of the failure of the
contractors in charge of the founda
tions to get the work finished. Other
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SEVEN BILLION
DOLLAR REVENUE
BILL TO PASS
Almost Unanimous Vole Prom
ised First of War Meas
ure This Evening
By Associated Press
Washington, April 14. —Passage be
fore night of the seven billion dollar
war revenue bill by the House by an
almost unanimous vote was assured
to-day.
The measure was taken up in the
House at 11 o'clock this morning un
der an agreement to begin discussion
of amendments under the five minute
rule. General debate closed last
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MEXICAN'S NEAR BORDER
By Associated Press
Calexico, Mex., April 14. Two
hundred Carranza soldiers, with an
airplane and machine guns mounted
on powerful launches, are encamped
at the mouth of the Colorado river,
opposite La Bolsa. Lower California,
sixty miles southeast of here, accord
ing to reports here yesterday.
U.S. MUNITIONS
PLANTS READY TO
SUPPLY SHELLS
Enormous Quantity of Fighting
Material Can Be Turned
Out at Once
By Associated Press
Washington, April 14. The Navy
Department made public to-day bids
received from 25 munition makers on
an order for 1,578,000 shells of all cal
ibers. The figures bring out sharp
ly the enormous capacity of American
plants.
Eleven bidders each offered to ab
sorb the entire order for 1,170,000
one-pounder projectiles and within a
few weeks to begin delivery at the rate
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SHELL IX PRESSROOM
By Associated Press
New York, April 14. A loaded
three-inch shell weighing 15 pounds,
made in the United States, was found
last night In the press room of the New
York Globe after the last edition had
gone to press. According to the police,
the shell was leaning against one of
the presses In such a position that it
would have been exploded had the
machinery been started.
SThr Star- 3fni>cpmfccnL
JOHN G.JOHNSON,
FAMOUS LAWYER,
DIES SUDDENLY
Retained by Great Corpora
tions in Nearly All Import-
ant Cases
Philadelphia, April 14.—John G.
Johnson, tlie widely-known lawyer,
died at his home here to-day. Death
was due to heart disease. Mr. John
son had been in ill health but a few
days, although this did not be
come publicly known until after his
death. He was ' 7 years old.
John G. Jiohnson stood in the front
rank of his profession, having been
retained, largely by < orporations, in
many of the great legal cases that
have come before the Supreme Court
of the United States in the last
twenty years. He appeared before
that tribunal fft the famous 'Northern
Securities case, the Standard Oil
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TO ASK STATE
AID TO GUARD
WATER SUPPLY
City May Decide to Name at
Least Nine Additional Uni
formed Officers Also
An appeal for State police and prep
arations to have Council authorize the
appointment of at least nine addi
tional uniformed and armed officers
for patrol duty were the two moves
made to-day by city commissioners to
provide adequate protection of the
city reservoir, pumping station and
filter plant.
Commissioner K. Z. Gross, to whom
a communication was addressed yes
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MIXED WEATHER COMING
Washing-ton, April 14. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Sunday issued b ythe Weather Bu
reau to-day are: Middle Atlantic
States: Generally fair except for
rains Tuesday and Wednesday. Tem
perature below seasonal normal ex
cept warmer weather is probable
Monday and Tuesday.
BOLIVIA BREAKS
WITH GERMANY AS
U-BOAT PROTECT
Soutli American Country Joins
With United States Against
Sea Pirates
I-a Paz, Bolivia, April 14. —The
German minister and his staff have
| been handed their passports by the
Bolivian government with a note de
claring that diplomatic relations be
tween Bolivia and Germany have
been severed.
The note of the Bolivian govern
ment to the German minister an
nouncing the severance of diplomatic
relations with Germany denounces
the attacks of German submarines on
neutral vessels as violations of Inter
national law and of The Hague con
ventions. The note recalls that the
Bolivian minister to Berlin was on
board the Holland-Lloyd steamer Tu
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KAISER NOT ILL
By Associated Press
Amsterdam, April 14, via London.—
An official statement Issued in Berlin
says that all recent reports of the Ill
ness of the emperor are unfounded.
NATIVE OF PENNA.
DIES FIGHTING IN
GERMAN TRENCHES
Dr. C. R. Gregory, Aged 70
Years, and Friend of Dr. Na
than G. Schaeffer, Shot
Dr. Nathan C. Schaelter. Superintend
ent of Public instruction, in speaking
of the death of his former classmate,
Dr. C. R. Gregory, aged 70, who died
in the German trenches, said this
morning; "To fny mind this shows
how desperate the German government
lias been in filling its ranks with sol
diers and what the great universities
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BURNED YEAR AGO; DIES
Michael Snyder, aged 37, died yes
terday in the.Harrisburg hospital from
burns received more than a year ago
at a lime kiln. Coroner Jacob lOck
inger pronounced death due to burns.
FLYING SQUAD
WILL OPEN DRIVE
OF RED CROSS
In Automobiles to Scour City
For New Members; Goal
Without Limit
Plans are completed for the big
spring drive for memberships in the
Ilarrisburg Chapter of the American
Red Cross. The goal is now without
limit as to the number of memberships.
First 5,000 were sought, then the limit
was raised to 10,000, but now anything
is possible within the limits of the pop
ulation of Harrisburg and its suburbs.
Just as this city's industrial and
commercial lifeMs listed in the general
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ST. PETERSBURG AGAIN
By Associated Press
Amsterdam, April 14, via London.
—German correspondents on the Rus
sian and Swedish frontiers report that
the Russian provisional government
intends to change the name of the
capital back to St. Petersburg. The
government is said to have decided
upon this 'because Petrograd recalls
to every Russian the saddest time in
Russian history."
"ON TO BERLIN"
IS SUGGESTED AS
, RECRUIT SLOGAN
Captain Harrell Lauds Harris
burg's Showing, but Wants
More Men
"Let the slogan of every Harrisburg
j man of military age who is free to
enter the army or the navy be "On to
Merlin,said Captain William F. Har
i rell, in charge of the Harrisburg army
recruiting office, this morning.
"Harrisburg lias responded nobly to,
the call, but there are more men here
who are free to go and should feel it
their duty to do so. We have been
enlisting more men in the Ilarrisburg
district, comparatively, than the New
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MEXICO IS NEUTRAL
Mexico City, April 14. ln its an
swer to the American government's
notice of the existence of a state of
war between Germany and the United
States, made public here last , night,
the Mexican government announeed in
efTect that It regretted the United
States had been unable to solve its
difficulties with Germany In a peace
ful manner, but that Mexico, inspired
by the desires expressed In her re
cent peace note, would omit no effort j
to contribute to the bringing about of
peace
Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION
BRITISH ARMY
UNCHECKED IN
GREAT DRIVE
Hindenburg Line Riddled on Northern End; Lens Is Fast
Being Hemmed in and Teutons Are Falling Back Under
Haig's Fire
NERVES OF GERMAN PEOPLE ARE SHAKEN
BY CONTINUED REVERSES IN FRANCE
Fall of St. Quentin Imminent As Fortified Villages Nearby
Fall; More Than 13,000 Meci Taken Prisoners By
English Along With Big Guns
* V*s
By Associated Press
British assaults have broken four miles more of the German
; front in an important sector of the Arras battlefield.
The Hindenburg line has been riddled on its northern end, Lens
is fast being hemmed in and General Haig's forces arc sweeping
back the Germans from the Loos sector far to the southeast of Arras.
Correspondents report every indication of a continuation of the
! German retirement under the smashing offensive of the British. The
Teutons are being hard pressed as they retreat and explosions and
fires are observed in their rear.
Great importance is attached to the success of the British in
the fighting north of Vimy. They have carried there several im
portant positions including points between Givenchy-en-Gohelle and
Angres, enabling General Haig to link up the ground won in the
engagements early this week in the Arras region with the positions
gained long ago in the costly battle of Loos. This movement is
resulting in the envelopment of Lens, with its valuable coal fields.
The fall of St. Quentin also seems imminent. London reports
the capture by British forces of the village of Fayet, one mile north
west of St. Quentin. The French are close to this important forti
fied position on the south and Paris to-day announces the French
U&uns hammering St. Quentin's defenses. -
Between St. Quentin and the main total of 106 captured, with more tluin
battlefield of Arras. British troops 13,000 prisoners in oil, while to-day
continue to press forward towards the London official reports mention
Cambrai, pushing ahead north of the four more 8-inch howitzers taken.
Bapaume - Cambrai road towards Letters to German newspapers in-
Queant. • dicate that the nerves of the German
More big Runs arc being taken public are being shaken by the re
from the Germans as they retire.
' Bast night General llaig reported a [Continued on I'IIKC 1-]
f GERMANS HOPE RUSS WILL QUIT T
? Petrcgrad, April 14.—Austrian officers who have desert- I
J ed, declare that the central empire!, are hoping the various ' >
ft organizations in the interior of Russia who are trying to j
1 obstruct the new government will bring on a state of an ® ►
I
jl CENTRAL IRON AND STEEL GRANTS INCREASES il
Harrisburg. The Central Iron and Steel Company an- . |
! nounced to-day that all day and tonnage men will receive, .in 1
9 increase in wages, approximating 10 per cent., the increase tp I
I go into erti 1 The men received an increase in |
j I wages last December 1^
j 9 QUENTIN ROOSEVELT TO FLY
t , Montreal, April 14. Quenten Roowrvelt, son of the i
former President has joined the Canadian aviation corps to 3j
< obtain instructing for service in the American army shouk; 1
an expedition go abroad. I
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FRENCH ATTRACT ATTENTION 7
| 1 Washington, April 14.—French bluejackets in uniform |
I attracted much attention ur the streets of Washington t • >
II day. Groups cf them walking about town were cheered b • '
J pedestrians. I [
£ U. S. TO HELP RUSSIA [
Washington, April 14.—Official confirmation that the t \
f United Stati ering sending a commission to Rusk; J
J to sec in wh untry can aid to the new , J
i ment.
; I BOYS TO OFFER SERVICES
New York, April 14.—More than 100,000 boy* under 1
| I military a*e affiliated with the Boys' Club Federation have 1 1
been called by the organization to tender their services to
' i the country as angers and hf
food supply sources • !
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' MARRIAGE LICENSES
Henry Hank Rloueh, Philadelphia, unil lira Alta Dcnenlierger, !S>w
Cumberland. Walter Henry Aitklii and Lucy Fleldn, Sterlton. Jniiieng I
i .Qulnter <>aynian and Verna Itebeeca Cinell, llarrlMhu ri£. (ieorge .Deuey , i
< "Martin and Caroline laabell Her, Harrlnbtara;. Jo K <*ib Kdtvard Weacrd,
IMillndolplila, nad Ituth Marian l)onry t I'ennnbnry. Hermnn Clay and
Kllle Hebeeea Carl, Went Hanover to\vn*h|p. Joseph Cuajak and Mary
< staraNlnlc, Steellon. Kduartl Schhonl and ItoNlna Cainacel, Swatarn.
Harvey Grant Jury and Kllr.aheth Irene Shepley, Halifax. Stephen Makong I
Cnd Therein Krlxpak, Steelton. John Clarence Wllllard and Anna Mildred < 1
Wallace, l,,vkea.