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FAT law makers BARRED
BY NTNEY BUS DRIVERS
Representatives Swartz and ostrander,
Who Weigh Considerably More
Than 200 pounds, Are Advised BY
Chauffeur to Ride in Trolley Car
MRS STEWART soOrHAN MASON

Wanted-Thin, lanky lightweights
for passengers in iitney busses. Fat,
heavyweights make better trolley pas.
sengers and need not apply.
That sort of an advertisement may
be expected soon to appear on placards
ON the eventy-eight iitney busses in
Harrisburg if the newest tendency
among ehauffeMs develops. If you
don t believe it ask Dr. W. A. Ostran-
der, Assemblyman representing Ne
kedn county in the Legislature, or
Representative j. w. Swartz, of Har.
risburg.
DIR. Ostrander is a heavyweight. He
tips the scales at 267 and Mr.. Swartz
can move the scale dial to 237. They
wanted to take ride in a iitnev bus
on Saturday evening but the pleasure
gof the chauffeur S company was denied
to them.
Can t haul you, gentlemen. Moth
ing doin. = bluntly remarked the
driver as the lawmakers were about to
enter his car.
"Why noti" was the puzzled an
swer.
You re too fat. Heavvweights
should ride in the trolley ear. Fords
were not built for fat men," was .he
chauffeur's reply as he footed his horn
and sped away.
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women OF UPPER END To
WORK ON Good ROADS DAY
Motor Clubs of Millersburg and Lykens,
as Well as Business Men and Farm
ers, Generally Will Respond to the
Governor s Appeal

Good Roads Day, as proclaimed by
Governor Brumbaugh, to be held on
May 26, is going to be generally OBJ
served by the people of Upper Dauphin
county and when they get through the
roads in that section are going to be
real roads, the joy and delight of those
who travel over them.
The motor clubs of Millersburg and
Lykens, the business people of the Up
per End, the farmers and even the
women and children are all going to
turn out on that day, and work on the
highways. More than 300 persons in
the Lykens motor club have announced
their intention of working on the roads
all day, and the Millersburg club mem
bers will add another 100 to the toll
ers. To this number must be added
the business men and farmers who will
get out their implements and endeavor
to do their best work in making the
thoroughfares better.
The women will go along with the
road builders and provide and serve
the luncheon for them, and the chill
dren, both boys and girls, will go along
to pick up stones.
All of the Upper End is entering
into the spirit of the occasion, and ex-
tensive preparations are being made to
devote the entire day to road making.
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WILSON Soon TO INFORM
is. What Steps He HAS
DECIDED ON IN DISASTER

Washington, May 1O.-Specuation
as TO what the United States probably
would do as protest against the tor
pedoing of the Lusitania with the loss
of more than hundred American lives
developed among officials and diploma
usts to-day the general opinion that
President Wilson would express in the
policy he pursues denunciation of the
act as inexcusable under the laws Of
nations and humanity
The extent of his aetion-whether it
would 60 beyond an EN- mphatieally phrased
note to an actual severance of diplo-
matte relations with Germany-still
was undetermined. Late o-day the
President will go to Philadelphia to ad-
dress a gathering of four thousand nat.
uralized Americans. 1t is generally ex-
peeted that he will refer to the situa-
tion produced by the sinking of the
Lusitania, though not divuiging def.
nitely the course the United States gov
ernment intends to pursue.
When the Cabinet meets tomorrow
the President will probably present to
his colleagues his ideas of what the
government S policy should be.
1t Is now certain that the President
Continued on Ninth Pnee
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STEELTON'S MINSTRELS
READY FOR 18TH SHOW
Home Talent Funmakers Have Been
Preparing for Eight Weeks for En-
tertainment Tomorrow for Benefit
Of st. James Catholic Church

After eight weeks of careful drilling
by Gwylim Watkins, the Original Home
Talent Minstrels, composed of the best
funmakers in Steelton and vicinity. are
ready to stage the eighteenth annual
show in the Steelton High school audi.
torium tomorrow evening for the bene-
fit of st. James Catholic church.
The program consists of all new
jokes, new skits and many odd features
which will eliminate all dull minutes.
The sale of tickets has exceeded the
expectation of the managers, more than
one.half of the entire seating space in
the large auditorium having been re-
served up to noon to-day and the pros
poets are that every seat will be sold
before the program starts tomorrow
evening.
Daylor and Lynch, who originated
the organization and have been its man
Continued On Seventh PAGE
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Z. NJ. HALDEM AN FOUND DEAD
Member of the Dauphin County Bar Is
Victim of Heart Trouble

Edward NJ. Haldeman, for years a
member of the Dauphin county bar,
was found dead in his apartment at
204 Locust street, last night. Coroner
Eckinger was called and said death
was due to heart trouble.
Mr.. Haldeman was "a years old and
at one time was Dauphin county chair
man of the Democratic party. 1t is
believed he died eight or ten hours pre-
vious to the finding of his body.
Mr.. Haldeman was grandson of
Jacob NJ. Haldeman, son of the late
John Haldeman, and nephew of the
late Richard j. Haldeman. Through
marriage the family was connected
with the family of Simon Cameron,
Secretary of War under President Lin
coin.
Mr.. Haldeman was one of a family
of five children of whom two SURVIVE
Mrs. Mary Armstrong, wife of the Rev.
j. Newton Armstrong, formerly of this
city, now of Blairstown, n. j., and
Robert Haldeman, of Camp Hill The
funeral arrangements had not been an
nounced late this afternoon.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. S.
Pipes. sc and Ga
Years Old. Struck on
w ay From Church
MAN is PINNED
UNDER VEHICLE
Trucks Have to Be lacked Up to Re-
lease Him and His Death Soon Fol
lows-Mrs. Pipes Skull Is Frac-
tured-She is in Critical Condition

William $. Pipes, Sc years old, Ais
South Thirteenth street, deacon, in
the Market Street Baptist church, was
killed on his way home from that
church when he was struck by trolley
car of the Paxtang line of the Harris
burg Railways Company, at Fourteenth
and Derry streets, last night. His wife,
81, who accompanied him, also was
struck. Her skull was fractured so
badly that her recovery is doubtful.
Mr.. Pipes died soon after being ta-
ken to the Harrisburg Hospital. His
wife was taken to the operating room
where physicians operated to remove
the pressure on the brain caused by
the broken bone. She has remained in
an unconscious state ever since and
her condition early this afternoon was
said to be critical.
The couple had stepped back to al.
low the trolley car to pass as they ap-
preached the track. Witnesses said the
motorman, Charles Page, had the ear
under control and released his brakes
as he saw them step off the track.
Thinking the motorman was slowing
down for stop at Fourteenth street
thc OouPtS stcPPSu ohto ihe tidch again
and were struck.
Mr.. Pipes was thrown under the car
which passed over his legs and Mrs
Pipes was thrown to the side, falling
on the adjoining track, her head strik.
ing a rail. She was rendered uncon.
scious and was taken to the hospital
in an automobile
The car had to be jacked up to re.
lease Mr.. Pipes, who was taken to the
hospital in the police ambulance. He
was dying when admitted.
The funeral of Mr.. Pipes will be
held at his home Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock. The Rev. w. H. Dali.
man, pastor of the Market" Street Bap.
tist church, will officiate. Burial will
be in the Harrisburg Cemetery.
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late WAR news SUMMARY

A further victory for the Austro Ger
man forces in Galicia was reported to-
day in dispatch from the Austrian
press headquarters. Having completed
the first stage Of the battle by breaking
the Russian lines in Western Galicia,
the Teutonic allies were said to have
begun an attack along the Carpathians
further TO the east, driving back the
Russians between Lupkow and Uzsok
passes. 1t was estimated that the num-
ber of Russian prisoners taken in West
ern Galicia would be increased to fOO.-
600.
The German adventure in the Baltic
provinces of Russia was reported at
Copenhagen to have been checked.
Strong Russian forces operating from
Mitau were credited with having COM
PEELED the retreat of Germans who pene-
trated 100 miles or more into Russian
territory. No mention was made of the
fate Of Libau, capture of which the Ger
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Observance of Diocese
Anniversary w i'll
Start Tonight With
General Reception
BISHOPS WILL BE
AMONG SPEAKERS
Big Event of Celebration Will Be Serv-
ice at st. Stephens S Church To-mor-
row Morning When Bishop of Long
Island Will Preach

Prominent men in the Protestant
Episcopal Church. including the Bishop
of Maryland. the Rt. Rev. John G. Muir
ray; the Bishop of Bethlehem, the Rt.
Rev. EtheFbert Talbot, and the Bishop
of Central New York, the Rt. Rev.
Charles T. Olmsted. arrived in this city
to-day to attend the celebration of the
tenth anniversary of the Harrisburg
Diocese and of its first bishop, the Rt.
Rev. James Henry Darlington, which
will open tonight with general re
ception and continue until Wednesday
night. Because of the distance they
have to come, two of the bishops who
will take prominent parts in the pro-
gram did not arrive to-day as had been
expected, the Lord Bishop of Toronto,
the Rt. Rev. James f. Sweeney, and the
Bishop of Cuba, the Rt. Rev. Hiram
Hulse. Both are expected to arrive to-
morrow. The Rev. William Dorwart. of
Newport, assistant secretary of the Dio-
cese since its organization, in whose
charge was to nave been much of the
routine work of the Diocese convention
opening tomorrow night, will be un-
able to attend the sessions because of
sickness Nearly two hundred visitors
are now in the city, entertained by
members Of local Episcopal churches.
Speakers for This Evening
At the general reception at o clock
this evening at the Masonic Temple the
speakers wiIr include: The Rt. Rev.
John G. Murray, Bishop of Maryland.
who will be the honory chairman of the
meeting; the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot,
Bishop of Bethlehem; the Rt. Rev.
Francis Holder, Polish Old Catholic
church: the Rt. Rev. Charles t. Ohm
sted, Bishop of Central New York; the
Rev. DR.. George E. Reed, former presi-
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Serious Damage to Prop.
erty and Loss of Life
Reported at South
End
SEVERAL SHOPS
BURNED ATLEIGH
Four Zeppelins Said to Have Dropped
Forty or Fifty Bombs At Latter
Place-Man and His Wife Are
Badly Burned

London, May 10, 1915 A. M.-Two
Zepplin afrships are reported to have
dropped bombs on westcliff.on Sea,
near South End, but no fatalities have
been reported,
London, May 10, $40 A. M.-lu.
coming passengers on trains from
South End, seaside resort in Essex,
report an air raid there in which Sc.
rious damage was done and which
caused some loss of life
London, May 10.-Warning of the
approach of hostile air craft was given
South End at 2.52 clock this morn
ing. Several machines took part in the
raid but whether they were Zeppelins
or aeroplanes the residents were un-
able to State as the weather was
cloudy.
Bombs struck houses in various
parts of the town but no deaths have
been reported. One man and his wife
were badly burned in fire started by
an incepdiary bomb. One resident told
of three bombs dropping near his home,
none of which caused damage.
1t is reported that several shops
were burned at Leigh. town near
South End. Four Zeppelins are said to
have dropped forty or fifty bombs
thera
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-10
N O Serious Mishap
Mars First Half Day
of Harrisburg Pub
licity Run
27O PERSONS
IN THE PARTY
Autoists Are Greeted Enthusiastically
in ALI the Towns Visited-Tire
Trouble in a Few Cases the Only
Inconvenience Encountered

Especial to the Star-Independentl
Norristown, Pa, May 10.--All the
81 cars that left Harrisburg early this
morning in the three-day publicity run
had arrived here by noon, without seri.
Gus mishap.
In one or two cases slight inconveni-
ence was caused through tire trouble.
The party was received enthusiastically
in all the towns and cities through
which it passed The participants have
been elaborately entertained every
where, especially at the Norristown
Club
Sixty automobiles got away
from Harrisburg, the first at 6.S1
o clock this morning, starting a three
day trip through Eastern and Southern
Pennsylvania. New Jersey and Della
ware, on an errand of pubhcity-to put
Harrisburg on the automobile map, as
it were. The run is being held under
the auspices of the Motor Club of Har-
risburg. The six,y-seven ears included
five autos carrying the officials and
altogether the Harrisburg party num-
bered in the neighborhood of 270 per.
sons. Four machines that had been EN-.
tered dropped out over night. Sixty.
seven, however, got safely away under
the guidance of w. R. Douglas, starter
and finish judge.
When the ears lined up in Market
Square there was much impatience and
the last in the line made such a howl
that the starter changed the interval
of leaving until it was one car every
Continued on Eleventh Page.
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BERNSFORFF REGRETS LOSS
OF 50 MANY AMERICAN LIVES

Washington. May 10.-Count Bern.
storff, the German ambassador. to-day
expressed in person to Secretary Bry-
an "his deep regret that the events
of the war had led to the loss of so
many American lives. The phrases
used were those of the ambassador in
written statement given out after
his call.
Whether the expression was made
on instructions from his government or
on his own initiative, was not made
clear by the ambassador nor explained
by MIR. Bryan.
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AMERICAN MISSIONARIES ARE
REPORTED In GRAVE DANGER

Tifis, Via London, May 10, 3.53
A. M.-American missionaries in the
Nilayet of Van, where the Armenians
appear to be weakening after a fierce
resistance aaginst attacking Turks and
Kurds. are reported in grave danger.
The American missions are located in
the eastern suburbs of the Vilayet,
where for | days the Armenians have
been standing off their besiegers. Elev.
en- hundred Armenian boys and girls
and thirty American citizens have ta-
ken refuge in this quarter of the town.
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New York, May 1O.-Prices fell
away again in the later dealings, but
recoveries of 2 to ) points followed
renewed support. The closing was
heavy. Liquidation and short selling
provoked further severe declines to-
day, with substantial rallies at the end.
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5 PERISH IN TENEMENT FIRE
Blaze Starts in Barber Shop on First
Floor of Building
By ASSOCIATED Press.

Pittsburgh, Pa, May 10.-Five per.
sons were burned to death, two were
seriously injured and a number were
saved by jumping from third.story win.
dows into a life net when fire early to.
day destroyed an Italian tenement
house.
Louis Gatano and Tony Scarifo have
been identified among the dead, but the
other bodies were charred beyond rec.
-ognition. The fire started in a barber
shop on the first floor.
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SERIOUSLY INJURED BY MULE
Young Man Kicked by Animal Near
Duncannon

Duncannon, May 10.-Walter Beers,
aged 22 years, of Penn township, was
kicked by a mule on Saturday after
noon and is in serious condition.
He was unhitehing a pair of mules.
when one of them kicked him in the
face and the heavy wagon passed over
him. He received broken nose and
a cash across the forehead and hole
In the back part of his head.
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to England to join relatives while their
husbands were at the front.
Nor . single body was brought in
to-day from the spot where the Lusi-
tania disappeared bat some bodies may
yet be found if storm does not seat
Ter them. There willynot be so great a
number picked UP, however. as was the
case in the North Atlantic after the Ii
tanic disaster, for that vessel remained
ahoat so long all on deck had ample
time to carefully adjust life belts.
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A Rumored German Check

London, May 10, 2.47 p. M.-The
Exchange Telegraph Company publishes
dispatch from its Copenhagen cor
respondent, declaring that the Germans
have met a severe check to the west.
ward of Miau, capital of the Russian
province of Courland. Numerous
forces of Russians in strong positions
compelled them to retreat.
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THE GERMAN SUBMARINE U.39
SANK LUSITANIA, 1T is SAID

London, May 1O.-The Central
News" has received dispatch from
its correspondent at Genoa who saws
a telegram received there from Munich
declares that the German submarine
U-Ss was responsible for the sinking
of the Lusitania.
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Decrease in Untitled Steel Tonnage
By Associated Press.

New York, May 10.-The untitled
tonnage of the United States Steel Cor.
poration on April 80 totsled 4,162,244
tons, a decrease of 93,505 from March
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Bu .tssncintcd Prs,s.

Queenstown, May 9, Via London,
May 10, 1.57 A. M.-Afidavits made
by Miss Jessie Taft Smith, of Brace
Vile, o.; DIR. Howard L. Fisher, Major
=. Warren Pearl and Robert Rankin,
of New York, are the only permanent
records of the LuSitanis disaster OBJ
tanned by the United States consulate
here. All are brief and none reflects
seriously upon the behavior of the Lusi.
tania 5 crew except what some wit,
nesses consider the lifeboat faseo. The
stfidavits of Miss Smith and Mr.. Ran.
kin were cabled tonight to Secretary
of State Bryan, while those of Major
Pearl and DR.. Fisher were sent to Am
bassador Page at London.
Notables in Cheap Cofins
Beginning at noon to-day at Consul
Frost s orders the bodies of the iden.
titled Americans. covered with the Stars
and Stripes were removed from seat
tered morgues and placed side by side
in the Cunard Line offices on the water.
front. As they were carried through
the streets by British sailors the crowds
uncovered. Cheap brown collins con
tanned the bodies of Charles Frohman.
Issac F. Trumbull, of Bridgeport,
Conn; Mrs. Henry u. MaeDona. of
New York: Charles H. Stevens. of At.
lantie City; DR.. F. :. Pearson, New
York; D. Walker, New York; DR.. Pear
son 5 secretary, Mrs. Bride. Hugh
Compton, Il wears old; C. T. Broderick
of Boston; Herbert Ellis, of New
YORK, ami Mrs. Spillman, of Detroit.
Mr.. Frohman 5 secretary arrived to
take charge of his employers body.
Huge Grave for Unidentified Dead
One of the survivors tonight iden-
tiiei the body of Mrs. R. d. Shymer,
of New York, the American widow of
an English nobleman, who subsequently
married an American and had been
living in New York. She was on her
way TO London and her name probably
will be added to the list of American
dead. Her body will be sent back to
the United States as well as those of
the Others, some of them starting to-
night.
A whole company of British soldiers
to-day completed the digging of three
huge graves, each 80 by 20 feet, in
which the one hundred and forty odd
unidentified dead will be buried to-
morrow. The moving of bodies up the
hill to the cemetery will begin at $50
a. m. and continue until 1.30 p. m.
Then at the last ten or a dozen-the
number to be determined by the hearses
available-moves to the cemetery the
funeral procession will form and march
TO the graves. Mounted police, soIdiers
and civilians will participate. There
will be joint service, clergymen of all
ereeds joining in saying prayers.
Cover Babies With Flowers
Many children and little babies still
lie in the morgues like so many dolls.
The townspeople covered them with
flowers to-day and ii is probable these
little ones viii be placed in grave to-
gether.
Some on erutehes, many limping and
nearly all bruised the survivors left
their hotels in silent groups throughout
the afternoon. There we're some
Americans, many Canadians and Eng
lish. The presence of so many chill
dren on the Lusitania was due to the
fact that Canadian women were going
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Advised of china's Acceptance

Washington, May 1O.-The State
Department has been advised Officially
of China s acceptance of Japan uti
matum, Secretary Bryan said to-day,
but he could not say whether the terms
were satisfactory to the United
States.
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Toxic, May 10, 1880 A. M.--Prc-
mier Okuma is quoted as having stated
that China's acceptance of Japan &
demands has removed the "roots of
much trouble. -
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Frank Sentenced to Death

ny ASsoctutcd fIfSS.
Atlanta, Ga, MAY 10.-Leo NJ.
Frank to-day was resentenced to be
hanged on Tuesday, June %, for the
murder of Mary Phagan.
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st. Paul Passes FLOATING Bodies

Steamship st. Paul, Via Wireless to
London, May 10, 4.20 A. M.-Many
floating bodies were passed at ii
o clock yesterday morning twenty miles
west of Kinsale.
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3HUGE GRAVES TO RECEIVE 14O UNIDENTIFIED DEAD:
US.PLANSoN LUS|TAN|A HORROR NOT TYETREVEAlED

B ode S of Identified
Americans. Covered
w it'll Stars and
Stripes. Are Remov-
ed From Scattered
Morgues and Taken
to the Cunard Line
Offices on the Water
Front by British Sail
orS-CrowdS in the
Streets Uncover as
the Dead Are Trans
ported
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BODIES ENCASED
IN CHEAP COFFINS

Many Children and Lit.
tie Babies Still Lie in
the Morgues---Little
Hope For the Recov-
cry of Any More
Bodies at Scene of
Disaster---No Extra
Session of Congress
Probable, at Least for
the Present. In Con-
sequence of Calamity
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WALL STREET CLOSING

Continued ON Ninth Page.
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Continued on Eleventh Page.
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Continued on Ninth Page.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-01-29
LIGHT IS THROWN ON
 UPHEAYAL IN MEXICO
ACCUSE VILLA AND ZAPATA OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT, OPPOSING
 THEM OF COMMANDS.
SENIOR ENRIQUE JlMlNEZ

ngton.--General Francisco Vil- Ia, commander-in-chief of the forces controlled by the convention in ses sion at Mexico City, is due to reach the capital to assist Colonel Roque Gonzales Garza, selected by the con- vention as temporary executive to suc- ceed General Eulalio Gutierrez. Ad- vices to this effect reached the state department, together with the infor- nation that while the capital was quite well protected and policed, there had been some executions for diSor- ders, and the populace was uneasy over the general situation Light was thrown on the conduct of Gutierrez by the receipt from Vera Cruz of letters said to have been exchanged between General Gutierrez, Obregon and Az uilar dated January 9, apparently the time when Gutierrez announced to the convention that he was working on plans for the pacification of MeXi- co. Briefly his plan was to unite with Generals Obregon and Aguilar ill de posing General Villa from control of the convention forces. Elizaro Ron- dondo, head of the Villa agent here, made public the text of the corre- spondence.