Resumption of Peace Parley at Brest-Litovsk Between Russia and Germany Is Claimed by Berlin HARRISBURG l&lip TELEGRAPH M Star-Jn&epcnbcnt <r> LXXXVII— No. 33 16 PAGES HUNDREDS PICKED AFTER U. S. TRANSPORT GOES DOWN LESS THAN 100 AS TUSCANIA FR OM ENEMY SHELL More Than Two Thousand American Troops Were Aboard Cunard Liner When Sent to the Bottom Off North Coast of Ireland; State Department Hopeful That Most of Those Reported Missing Are Safe; First News Received in London Yesterday Afternoon; Troops Mostly Former Michigan and Wisconsin National Guardsmen; Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. Rush Representatives to Belfast Empowered to Spend All Money Needed in Relief Work LONDON, Feb. 7.—At noon to-day the number of missing was 101, according to unofficial reports. A majority of these were fnembers of the crew. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. —Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, the Cunard liner Tuscania, bearing 2179 officers and men of the Thirty-second National Guard division lies at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean to-day, and at least 168 troopers —probably more —are missing. On the basis of figures reported to the War and State Departments to-day, the missing would be 267; the figures of the British admiralty, as they stood early to-day, however,* placed the missing American troopers at 168. There is every hope that the lower number will prove to be correct. J.ritish convoys near to the torpedoed ship closed in quickly and did heroic work, as the comparatively small number of losses shows. The position of the 1 uscama off the north coast of Ireland, evidently headed for England, also was such that numbers of British patrol ships and other vessels rushed to her side and in that way losses were minimized. ~ Such reports as were at hand early to-day Save no details' of how the transport, supposedly lieavilv convoyed, fell in with the submarine, hut it was regarded as more probable that the ship stumbled on the submersible, rather than that the disaster was the first shot in the mucn-advcr tised German offensive against the line of American troops and supplies. First news of the sinking came in a report to the War Department early last night announc ing that 1,100 survivors had been landed at Buncrana and Larne, two widely separated Irish ports. This was made public about 10 o'clock and until the arrival of the State Department dispatch two hours b.ter it was feared that more than 1,400, including the Cunarder's crew, had perished. Ihe State Department message said 2179 troops were aboard the Tuscania. Fate of Crew Not Learned No mention of the fate of the crew was made in the State Department advices nor was the landing points of the rescued American troops indicated but the War Department's message say ing "ITIOO survivors" had been put ashore at Buncrana and Larne indicated the convoy vessels got alongside the sinking transport quickly and relief ships made the scene of the disaster within a few hours. Buncrana is on Lough Swllly on the north coast of Donegal not far from Londonderry, while Larne is a North Channel port on the east coast of Antrim near Belfast. The landing points indicate the Tuscania was taking the northern route around Ireland to England and the distance between Buncrana and Larne leads ollicials to believe the number of rescue ships starching the vicinity is large. First Xnvs at 8 P. M. No ment'on of the time of the sinking was made in either of the official messages -but news was re ceived in London at 3 p. m. yester day. A coded list of survivors was com ing into the War Department early to-day. The official list was expected to-day as soon as it is decoded. Mostly Western Men The troops aboard the Tuscania were mainly former Michigan and Wisconsin National Guardsmen now attached to the Thirty-second divi sions trained at Camp Texas. Several aero squadrons and several companies of the Twentieth engineers, a forestry regiment, were aboard. The list of units as made public by the Adjutant General's office last night Is as follows: Headquarters Detachment and companies D, E and F, of the Twen tieth Engineers. 107 th engineer train. 107 th military police. 107 th supply train. No. 100 aero squadron. 158 th aero squadron. 213 th aero squadron. Replacement detachments Nos. 1 and 2 of the 32d division. Fifty-one casual officers. THE WEATHER] For IlnrriHltiirK and vicinity! Fair mid KliKhtly colder to-night HIMI Friday; lonmt temperature to il tK lit about 30 ileitrtp*. For Kontern Pennsylvania: Fnlr nml aomnvliiit collier to-nlxht ami Friday; moderate wmt wind*. River The SuHqnelinumi river nml nil it* hrunchcx will continue leeliouml noil ncnrly xtationary. A fitnue of nhout 8.11 feet lx Indicated for IlnrrlHbiirit Friday liiorninK. Temperature: N n. m„ 34. Sun: KINCM, Uis3 n. m.; net*. 5:07 p. Iti. Moon ■ w moon, February 11. Hlver Stage: 3.1) feet aliovc low water murk. Yejtterduy'n Weather IliKhCNt temperature, 2fl, I.owext tempernture, 4. Menu tempernture, 15. normal temperature, 20. i ROBERT MERLE 51 ACE Harrisburg- Flyer Believed to Have Been on Transport; No News Has Been Received as to His Fate The 107 th Engineers was compos, ed of the First battalion of Michi gan Engineers; the 107 th military police was made up from the Fourth and Sixth Wisconsin Infantry and the 107 th supply train from the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wisconsin Infantry. At first there was some confusion THE ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS PAPER IN THIS CITY THE HARRISBURG TELE GRAPH is the only evening newspaper in central Penn sylvania served by The Associated Press, the oldest and largest news gathering association in the world. No other newspaper can get this service. It is the Telegraph's ex clusively. It becomes necessary to make this announcement for the protection of the reading public from the misloading ad vertising of an unscrupulous newspaper management that is trying to sail under false colors at the expense of The Associated Press and the Telegraph, with which it is not and cannot form a connection. Read the Telegraph, the only evening Associated Press newspaper in the central Pennsyl vania field. The latest, fullest and most accurate news in the city. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1913 at the War Department as to wheth er the Twentieth Engineers or the One Hundred Seventh Engineers were aboard the Tuscania. It finally was established that the One Hundred Seventh Engineers was not on board. (This is a sepa rate organization from the One Hun dred Seventh Engineer Train, which was on board.) A headquarters company and Companies D, E and F of the Twen tieth Engineers were on board. These units comprise the Sixth Bat talion of the Twentieth, which is a forestry regiment, not attached to the Thirty-second Division. It is one of the forestry regiments spe cially organized for work in France. Ollicials Up Late President Wilson, who was at tending the theater when news of the sinking was received, Secretary Baker and many other officials re mained up late for more details but only the terse War and State De partment messages came through until the list of survivors began to arrive from the American Army headquarters in London early to day. The State Department's dispatch said Ambassador Page had sent two Army officers to Belfast and repre sentatives of the American Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. had gone with full power to spend all the money needed in the relief. Although the American transport Antilles was torpedoed and sunk In the war zone while returning from France and fourteen soldiers and 156 others were lost the Tuscania is the first ship carrying American troops to Kuropc to be sunk by a subma rine. The Tuscania until last fall had been in the transAtlantic. trade but the sinking indicates she recently had been engaged in transporting American troops. She carried a Brit ish crew and a British armed naval [Continued on Page ll.] Harrisburg Aviator Was on Board Sunken Transpor Word received from Washington to-day gave the name of Itobert Merle Mace, 1523 Swatara street, this city, as one of the members of the Two Hundred and Thirteenth Aero Squa dron. en route to somewhere in France on the Tuscania, which was sunk by a German U-boat. He is the son of Mrs. W. K. Crosier, wife of the Assistant City Klectrician. The young man was slightly injured last fall during a flight and was home for a short time. He was said to be a successful aviator and won special distinction from superior of ficers on trial flights. Mrs. Crozlcr* was simply notified that her son was aboard the Tuscania and told that details would come later. First American Transport Sunk by Submarines. ■' * • m ' ' v.--- •" . 'o • ' „ - ' A '' - I . ' I , \, '. ■ The big liner Tuscania sank quickly in the war zone off the coast of Ireland when one of the Ilun pirates lurking undersea avoided the British convoy and sent a torpedo int(J®a vital part of the great steamship. Every effort is beinsr made to care for the men who were saved. FIRST UNIT AT ' MIDDLETOWN SIX BIG BUILDINGS Each Will He as Large as Market Square and Two Stories High Contract will be lot at Washing ton during' the next few days lor the iirst unit of the big war supply de pot to be erected on the old state fair site near Middletown. Blue prints of this set of buildings indi cate ttmt this work is to be on a truly gigantic scale. The first set of huildimgs to go up will be locat ed in pairs along the railroad. They will be six in number, two stories high and almost as large as Market Square in size. Kach of the pro posed buildings if set down in Mar ket Square would almost fill it. They will be of concrete and Siocl construction with concrete floors und capable of bearing great weights. Another Group Following this group of buildings will come another group directly in their rear and these will be of about {Continued oil Page 12.] FIRST THAW IN EIGHT WEEKS MAY REMOVE ALL SNOW Pleasant Weather May Con tinue For Several Days Be fore Next Cold Snap The most Comforting news for months came from the locai weather bureau to-day, Mr. Demr in figuring that Harrisburg is in for some days of comparatively warm weather." Ten days of temperature like this," he said, "will take the snow away and gradually melt the ice on the river so that there will be no dis aster." The coldest mark in the last twen ty-four hours registered at 8 p. m. yesterday, 2G degrees above. At 8 [Continued on Page 12.] Hindenburg and Ludendorff Now Established in Belgium Amsterdam, Feb. 7. Hindenburg and LiUdetidorff have moved their headquarters to Belgium. An inter view with German army chiefs re cently published in an Austrian Jour nal indicated vaguoly that their head quarters were somewhere in the Rhine region. The new locality where they are established is within , easy reach of Brussels. WHEAT FLOUR ELIMINATED ENTIRELY FROM With These Formulas Made in Harrisburg For Food Conservation, Housewives May Aid the Nation in Saving Wheat That pastry loses nothing by eli minating wheat, flour has been con vincingly proved In Harrisburg by the baking department at the Dav enport lunch. Manager Davenport was one of the most determined res taurant men of Harrisburg in en forcing the food conservation sug gestions. Indeed many say that pie crust, doughnuts, layer cake or any other dainty has more of a relish when prepared with the substitutes, PEACE PARLEY IS IN PROGRESS BERLIN CLAIMS Resumption of Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk Con sidered Uncertain By Associated Press Dondon, Feb. 7,—The resumption of the pence negotiations at IJrest l-itovsk to-day, if it occurs, will take place in a fog of vague reports and coniradictions as far as the outside world is concerned. Statements in many German news papers Indicate a probable breach ' between the Germans and the Bol ' sheviki, and the conclusion of a separate arrangement between the Central Powers and the Ukraine. No light on the situation comes from [ Russian sources. A dispatch from the Petrograd | correspondent of the Daily News j under Tuesday's date says there has I been no direct telegraphic news re slceived there from Brest-Litovsk for i four days. The Germans alleged the t wires were damaged, whereupon the [Continued on Page 12.] SAVING COAL THE lliirr|NltirK Telegraph, on fuelle*M .MontlnyN, ban been printed In lew* time than uny other newspaper In tlil.H elty. Some other newNpnper monnffe mentM have eonNtrned (lip Glir tleld order to permit them to run ull <lay on one edition. The Telegraph lin* not done thlM. With a liiKKer edition than any other newspaper printed in Central l*ennnylvnnla t It ban been out earlier than any of them. The pin nt and of flee liave been eloMed before any other in this elty. The (jiarfleld order rentrletN new simper* to the publieatlon of only tlielr UMUOI holiday edition* on MomlnyM. The Telegraph lias pone even farther than required to meet tlilx order. Anybody who tell* you otlier ufse IN ilolnw; MO nolely for the un patrlotle and mallelotiM purpowe of tryliiic to Injure the huxlneNii of this neuMpaper. Tumulty Will Not Ask Appointment as Senator By Associated Press Washington, Feb. 7. Secretary Tumulty, in a formal statement to day, declared he was not a candi date for appointment as Senator from New Jersey nor would he be a candidate at the election in No vember. He said he considered it more Important for him to remain as secretary to the President. such as the Telegraph indicates in the appended formulas. The success of substitute pie crust surprised even the most hopeful and the housewife who follows the in structions below need not fear that her product will not be popular. The Davenport is selling more pies with the war crust than ever before, nor is there any drop in the demand for [Continued on Pace 13.1 , PENNSYLVANIA OWES U.S.GOV'T NEAR $3,000,000 Mystery of Debt to National Treasury Is Solved by B. M. Nead, Former Stale Agent "Pennsylvania always was shy and uncertain in the matter of record ing her history," said Benjamin 1. Nead to a Telegraph reporter to day, "otherwise the state officials would be neither mystified nor skep tical over a news item from Wash ington to the effect that Congress man Frank Clarke, of Florida, through a measure pending in Con gress was about to get after our State Treasurer for the neat little sum of $2,867,514.78; being money had and received by Pennsylvania, as a loan or temporary deposit eigh ty-two years ago and never to this day repaid." Mr. Nead, who was state financial agent of Pennsylvania, at Washing [Continucd on Page I.] WILSON ASKS A DICTATOR'S WAR POWERS | Bill Introduced Would Cen tralize Authority in Na tion's Executive | Washington, Feb. 7. —The admln j istration yesterday asked Congress for sweeping and unchartered power Ito reorganize the government and the war machine in any manner which the President might deem nec essary to the successful prosecution of the war. A bill containing provi sions to was sent to the Capitol by Postmaster General Bur leson and was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Overman, Democrat, of North Caj-olina. It was referred to the Committee on Judiciary. The bill, which caused expressions jof great surprise upon the part of Republican leaders of the Senate and which they declared would be stren uously opposed on the ground that it virtually would place absolute con trol of the government in the hands of the executive, was introduced [Continued on Page IS.] Shadfly and Straw Hats Here to Welcome Spring Rejoice, ye suffering humanity. Spring is not far off. The first shadfly arrived to-day. It was discovered by | "Tom" Go.sney, foreman at the city i asphalt plant, South Ninth street. Foreman Gosney, who has charge of the toolroom, had gone to get several shovels. Picking up one of the latter he noticed something fly from the handle. He found the shadfly and quite lively. After securing several witnesses the shadfly was allowed to proceed with its glad tidings and was last seen flying in the direction of Market street. liight after that a man appeared in the street with a straw hat. MAY DM ON BOAT It is possible that five men formerly in the State Forestry Department are with the Twentieth Engineers. The names of the men are: W. 11. Horning, Miffltntown; Marvin 11. Moyer. Tel ford; Louis C. Ioetzer, Sayre; Walter Mosch, Coudersport, and Itoy 11. Hoss, Greenwood Furnace, Huntingdon county. FIRM PLUG BKVtfTS A frozen Are plug at Ihe Columbus Hotel hursted at 2 o'clock to-day. The water shot several feet into the air. * - *• Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION CONDITION OF MEN IS PITIABLE AFTER TWO HOURS IN SEA Many of Those Rescued Had Cast Aside All Clothing and Struggled in Water Until Exhausted; Tuscania Was Torpedoed Tuesday Night; Remained Afloat Two Hours After Enemy Bomb Pierced Vital Parts Lodon, Feb. 7.—The Turcania was torpedoes on Tuesday night. The vessel remained afloat for two hours after being torpedoed. The condition of some of the survivors of the Tuscania was j pitiable. Many had cast aside all their clothes and had been swimming about for two hours before being rescued. Ilri(l*|| Orfii-iiil Slatpinrnl The following official communica tion was sflven out early this after noon: "The Anchor liner Tuscania. Cap tain J. J* Henderson, was torpedoed on the night of tile fifth of Febru ary off the Irish coast, while carry ing United States troops. "Following are the approximate number saved: "United States military officers, 76; men, 1;935. "Crew: Officers, 16; men, 125. ©4*>s• r fr°s> 5 3Hb$ ,e $* l"i"H4 8* * 4. •J* >s* j j LOSS LESS THAN 100 *" T ■s* tig* *jfe London—The Admiralty announced late this after- <f X noon that ten more survivors had reached a Scottish Jjb 5P pert. f J ANOTHER CUNARD LINER TORPEDOED X 4* New York —The Cuuard liner Aurania 13.400 tons Hr I *s* £ was torpedoed by a German submarine within the last T forty-eight hours while bound for the United Spates it T <•44 *|* was learned from officials of the Canard line to-day. Al- | 'X though badly damaged by the explosion the ship was not X P sunk, and is believed to be making her way back to port I with the assistance of government vessels, it was said *f* The ship carried but little cargo. ▼ | Mew York Cable messages received here in shipping jy circles to-day from London, report the captain,' purser i and chief steward of the Tuscania saved. *■s* 4* w aihington—Entire control of the problem of hous- '2* T ing workers in all war industries has been delegated to * • the Department of Labor after discussion of the question T at recent cabinet meetings. * * jj£. NEW SUPERINTENDENT HERE T Harrisburg—Superintendent J. K. Johnston, of the * * 'A Philadelphia Division, Pennsylvania Railroad, was this * afternccn returned to his fcrmcr position as head of the y e>p jL Iyfone Division. lie is Succeeded here by F. W. Smith, 2j Jr.,. now acting superintendent of the Concmaugh i Division,' Other official changes announced are: J. B. * * $4 Hutchison, acting superintendent, Concmaugh Division: ' T R. H. Pinkham, assistant superintendent, Pittsburgh * * <p Division; Thomas A. Roberts, now agent, Erie, to be as- ► A n | sistant superintendent, Philadelphia Division, at Glen v | ** Loch; G. M. Smith, now traiumaster. Maryland Division. * * it <-jfe to i.t assistant superintendent, .Maryland Division, a? g T Lamokin; W. M Post, assistant superintendent, Middle Division, at Mifflin; Robert 1 liries, division engineer, $• Pittsburgh Division; E". J. Ayars, division engineer, Wil- 'X *<P liarnsport Division; C. M. Weisman, division engineer V Allegheny Division; W. E. Brown, division engineer. IT Elmira Division. • t jjg U- • 4 $ MARRIAGE LICENSES 5 Lnwrcnre 11. West. Ilnrrlburn, unil l.ydln K. Moyer, Wlllluma- I port | John W. Miller mill Aller M. Herbert, llarrlaburß) HI rum U. • "T 1 * McMxner anil llenle 11. Hiixlinleh, l.>ken~t liroritc W. Wolf and T Mary M. Conrad, HnrrUburit i John ||. linker ami Vern C. byter, j South Hanover toivim.ilpi Ciluln D. Strife ami Kllen O. Cooke, T < liambcriiburic; Harvey M. Kuke, Wrt Kalrvlen-, anil Eva 1. MorrU, ' V "Passengers: Three. "Not specified, thirty-two. "The total number aboard, 2,397. Total saved, 2,187. "The foregoing are approximate figures, but as correct as can be giv en at present." Ile<l CrwMft Act* Promptly The American Ited Cross head quarters hero dispatched Captain Kd gar H. Wells and Captain Smith to Belfast immediately news of the tor [Continued on Page 10.]
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