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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
VERDUJN BATTLE
TURNS in FAVOR
OF THE FRENCH
Recapture Part of Cumieres
and Reclaim Trenches;
Repulse Onslaught
AUSTRIANS TAKE RIDGE
Take Mountain in Trentino
With $500 Prisoners and
Many Guns

The tide of battle 1T Verdun has
again turned in favor of the French.
according to this afternoons official
bulletin from Paris.
Attacking the German lines to the
West of the river Meuse. French troops
have succeeded in recapturing part of
the village of Cumieres. which the
Germans stormed earlier in the week.
Trenches northwest of the village
were also reclaimed in the French at
tack, which were on the opposite bank
of the river Paris claims the repulse
of German effort to gain further
ground in the neighborhood of Fort
Douaumont
Austrians Win Ridge
Vienna announced a notable success
for the Austrians in the bitter struggle
being waged in the Trentino. They
have captured the entire mountain
ridge stretching from Cornociocampe
TO Maata, inflicting heavy losses on the
! Italians and capturing more than $500
prisoners, besides four cannon and as
many machine guns.
Rome officially reports the Italians
making a determined stand which
held the Austr.ans in check in all but
one sector of the front. An Italian
retirement from an advanced position
on the Astico river is admitted. 1t is
! in this district that the Austrians have
/ been eXerting the heaviest pressure
/ and i'm the ASiago sector along this
/ front the Rome war office records the
Iofrtunes. The main Austrian at
1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
DIAMOND GONE;
SO Is AGENT
Woman Has Ring Declares EX-
press Clerk Who Took
Her Measurements"

Adams Express Company officers
are investigating the mysterious dis
appearance of diamond ring con-
signed to Miss Iisa Woodcock, 449
Swatara street, Steelton, believed to
have been stolen from the Steelton
office.
When the usual time for opening
the Steelton office came this morning,
c. J. Liljenberg, division agent of the
company, went to the office to investi-
sate circumstances surrounding the
disappearance of the ring.
Until a late hour H. 7. Brosey, the
Steelton agent, did not appear at the
office and this afternoon officers of
the company were endeavoring to To-
cate the absent agent.
The ring was sent to Steelton from
Waynesboro, Thursday May Is, and
according to the story Mr.. Brosey told
+. L. Smith, an uncle of Miss Wood
cock, the diamond was stolen from
the package some time between last
Friday when it arrived and yesterday
when Mr.. Smith began to make in
Qulries.
Brosey. according TO Mr.. Smith, ad-
mtted that the ring had been stolen
while in his custody but insisted that
someone else was guilty OF the THEFT.
He later informed Mr.. Smith that the
ring was in the possession of a
Dorothy Dockey' and that he thought
she had gone to Pittsburgh.
This morning a reporter questioned
Mrs. J. A. Steele, 359 Myers street,
Steelton, a widow, who admitted that
she was the Miss Dockey' to whom
the absent express agent referred. She
denied, however, that she had any
knowledge of the ring.
How did you come TO meet AIr
Brosey," inquired the reporter.
why he put in an application for
a position for me as a clerk while |
was employed at l41 South Front
street. Just across from his office,
the woman replied. He took my
measurements one day and then sent
the paper away" she continued.
Going on Vacation
Il often stopped in TO see whether
he had any reply to my application
and he asked me once to go out with
him and told me he was single and
resided at a fashionable local club.
He told me he was going to Palm
Beach soon for a vacation"
After reading in the Telegraph last
eN ening that an investigation was be-
ing started. Brosey went to a Steel
ten drug store and telephoned his wife
that he wouldn't be home during the
night.
II am here with Detective Ibach
and another officer and we are going
to watch the office. Go buy a Harris
burg Telegraph and you'll see why
In: watching the place" he explained.
Mrs. Brosey could not. be located
to-day but neighbor at the Brosey
home, 273 Hamilton street, declared
that the express agent has not been
home since yesterday.
officials of the Express Company
have been unable to open the safe in
the Steelton office and as yet do not
know whether there are any dis
crepancies in the agents accounts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
FINISH SLOPING
WALK AT MUENCH
Trial Job of Riprapping
Parkway Slope Completed
Satisfactorily

Finishing touches were added to-
day to the newly 'rip-rapped" ramp
from the upper park to the River
Front wall, Muench street and on Mon
Gay the sloping walk will be smoothed
over with cement enough to protect
the feet of promenaders from the up
standing stones.
Earth-flled pockets" have been
constructed here and there in the
crevices of the rip-rapping and these
will be planted with matrimony vine
TO serve the double purpose of
strengthening the structure and re-
lieving the monotony of the stone
surface.
The Muench street ramp" was
constructed as q sort of trial job as
the park officials figured that a safe
estimate as to the cost could be OBJ
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
MAYOR FROM HIS
SICK BED ASKS
FOR MEMORIES
Requests Citizens to Pay Five
Minute Tribute to Grand
Army Men
WANTS FLAGS LOWERED
Says open Your Heart to
New Baptism of
Patriotism

Mayor L. S. Meals, on his sick bee
in the Harrisburg hospital this morn
ing, remembered the Boys in Blue whC
will honor their dead on Tuesday anC
issued a proclamation this morning
requesting the citizens of HARRISBURG
to stand with barred heads five minute!
70" memories at noon on Memoria
Day.
The proclamation follows:
Harrisburg Pa,
May 81. 1915.
To the Citizens of Harrisburg:
The whole nation will once
more observe Memorial Day on
Tuesday, May 80, and in thus
honoring the soldier dead, honor
themselves and testify loyalty to
the flag for which those we honor
gave life itself.
While this annual tribute to the
loyalty of our soldier and sailor
dead has always made strong ap-
peal to all divisions of the popu-
lation, our celebration on Tues
day should exceed all others in
dignity and sincerity because of
the terrible war in Europe, and
because our own country has been
drawn within the area of war dis
turbance through the trouble in
Mexico.
I therefore ask whole-hearted
observance of Memorial Day on
Tuesday. May 3O.-not only the
beautiful practice OF strewing
flowers on soldiers graves, but l
especially request that at the hour
Trnnffr,tnA =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
J. K. Staples to Return
as Playground Supervisor

j. X. Staples, of Houston. Texas
supervisor of Harrisburg's playground
system up until a year ago, will re-
turn to take charge again Of the out
door activities of the city's youngsters
in the parks and recreation places.
Word to this effect was received to-
day by the park department following
earnest efforts of V. Grant Forrer. as
sistant park superintendent, and Park
Commissioner E. Il. Gross to induce
Mr. Staples to return. Supervisor
Staples practically organized the pres
ent modern playground system which
Harrisburg has been following out.
Mr.. Staples will come to Harrisburg
June g.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
PREsBYTERY ADJoURNS

Atlantic City n. j.. May -. - The
12Sth general assembly of the Pres
byterian church in the United States
of America came to an end tonight
after what leading commissioners
term the most business-like" session
in the history of the assembly. In the
closing hours a large number of reso-
lutions were referred to committees
with instructions to report To the 191 I
convention Mt Dallas. Texas. while
others were laid on the table. Among
the latter was one that would have
nut the assembly on record in favor OF
woman suffrage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
Continued on Page 16.)
CONCERT By ITALIAN BAND
: Crack Musicians Will Give Concert at
Reservoir Memorial DaY

Memorial Day isn't to pass without
a public band concert in Reservoir
Park, for the Sons of Italys crack
hand has volunteered to play an at
tractive program Tuesday evening.
The concert. which will be the first OF
the season. will begin at $50 o'clock
and this program. prepared by Pro-
fessor F. Cirillo. the leader. was an
nounced to-day by Park Commissioner
F. u. Gross:
March. "Trento Trieste" Pao!Icci;
march. Symphonic" Quagla; selec-
ton. La Campana dell Eremitagglo,
Sarria; march. National Emblem
selection, "Traviata Maestro Verdi;
waltz. 'Niglione,' Bertini: selection
limo Figli d Italia" Tripepi; selec-
ton, America"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
ADVOCATE WEIGHT SYSTEM
Harrisburg Should Discard Measure
Method of Selling Commodities

While Harrisburg will probably not
take kindly to the proposed plan to
change the present methods of selling
food commodities to the metric system
City Sealer II. ID. Reel said to-day
that he believes system whereby
fcodstuffs even to potatoes. eggs, etc,
could be sold by the pound instead of
by count or measure would prove
economical and advantageous to deal
er and consumer alike
The change of standard to the
metric system for the entire country
was the chief question threshed out at
the national convention of sealers at
Washington last week. A bill author
izing the change is pending in Con-
sress. The national convention of
sealers endorsed this measure by
resolution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
Thompson Asserts Police Had
Exceeded Rights in Tapping

New York, May 27.--State Senator
chairman of the legislative
committee that has been investigating
the methods of the New York police
in tapping telephone wires to hear pri-
vate conversations said to-day that the
police had exceeded their rights, and
expressed belief that Governor Whit
man would he asked to appoint a spe-
cIal commissioner to conduct a fur
ther and more searching inquiry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
WAITE IS FOUND
GUILTY OF MURDER
IN FIRST DEGREE
jury Returns Verdict After Be-
ing Out but Short
Time
PRISONER SIGN E D
Takes Seat in Court With Same
Nonchalance That Has Char
acterized Actions
Bv .IEtatiG.ci -

New York. May 27.-"Guilty of
murder i'm the first degree" was
the verdict of the jury returned
after IL had been absent from the
courtroom one hour and twenty
five minutes.
Waite was rcmanded to the
Tombs TO await imposition of sem
tcnCe on June 1.
New York, May 27.-The summing
up of the evidence against DR.. Arthur
Warren Waite in his trial for the mur-
der of his father-in-law. John f. Peck.
of Grand Rapids, was concluded by
both defense and prosecution soon
after noon to-day. Justice Shearn
then began his charge to the jury. He
completed his charge at 1.20 p. III.
and the jury went out to consider it's
verdict.
The district attorney called three
alienists TO court to state their belief
that DR.. Arthur Warren Waite is sane
and was shamming when he tried to
make it appear that he was not men
tally responsible for his acts. There
were reports that the prosecution had
a surprise in the person of new Wit
ness. a former inmate of the Tombs,
who helped Waite prerare for the dis
play of Callousness which was the
most remarkable characteristic of his
behavior on the stand.
The taking of testimony in the
Waite case was concluded this morn
inc and Assistant District Attorney
Brothers, for the prosecution began
his address to the jury.
Believes He Was Sane
DR.. Waite entered the courtroom
with the same apparently resigned,
nonchalant manner that has chaTlc-
terized his demeanor since the begin
ming of his trial The prosecution
promptly began its rebuttal of the tes-
timony of the defense bearing upon
Waite's alleged imbecility and idiocy
by placing on the witness stand a
neurologist, DR. Smith Ely Jeliffe, of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
Excursion to Gettysburg Will
Be Feature of Big Gather
ing; Music Will Be Under
Direction of Big Men

Harrisburg is completing arrange
ments to entertain fifteen hundred
registered delegates and approximate
ly $500 from the city and vicinity at
the twenty y-second annual, eighth hi
enniaD State Christian Endeavor con-
Nention, to be held in the Capital City,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
July 11-14. Great preparations are be-
ing made by the local convention com
mittee for a record breaker attendance
to be held in the Chestnut Street Hall
y strong and interesting program
including many prominent speakers
will be carried out in the convention
auditorium, Market Square Presby ter
ian and Salem Reformed Churches and
Continued on Page 49,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
ALTO HITS Roy

Kirk r. Deibert. aged A. son of
James Deibert, 1905 South Cameron
street, was struck by an automo oile
this morning at Cameron and Allison
streets and hurled in front of an Ip-
preaching trolley car. The car vas
stopped. however, before it struck the
hoy. The youngster was rushed 70 the
Harrisburg Hospital by A. p. Rider,
who drove the machine that ran the
boy down. Deibert sustained bruises
and decorations of the face and Frac-
tured left shoulder. His condition is
not serious.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
YUAN Sill KAI RESIGNS

London, May q. - A dispatch from
Picking says that Yuan Shi Kai has an
nounced his intention TO resign as soon
as a suitable successor has been
chosen. Reports from China received
here for some time past have indicated
that the President was willing to retire
as soon as the personal safety of him
self and his family was assured.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
[Continucd on Page ISL
RESCUE GREW OE MoRANIA

Paris May 27. - a HaVas dispatch
from Port Nendres says that two
French torpedo boats arrived there
yesterday bringing thirty members of
the crew of the Italian steamer Mora
via which was torpedoed by n German
submarine on Thursday afternoon
without warning. The crew was aban-
doned in two lifeboats. The Morayia
was on her way from New York to
Gennoa with a cargo of flour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
BERLIN DENIES Won BUELOW
HAS MISSION TO AMERIC!

Berlin, May 26. via london May 81.
The rumor in circulation abroad
that Prince Won Buelow, former Ger
man Chancellor, is going on special
mission to Washington is officially de-
MED here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
GET BOY WHO STABBED BECK

George Reed. colored. aged II.
charged with stabbing Carl Beck, p
North Summit street. in front of he
Lincoln school building yesterday aft
=rnoon. was arrested this morning at
Third and Strawberry streets by De-
tectives Schelhas and Murnane. Reed
was held for a hearing on Monday.
He told the police that Beck attempted
10 strike him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
FLAGS TRAIN WITH TABLECLoTH

Chambersburg, May %. The
Cumberland Valley express train. due
here last night at 7.1S o'clock was
tagged by man with a red tablecloth
two miles east of Shippensburg.
Harvey Coover, a young farmer. who
had seen a heavy oak tree uprooted
and hurled across the track by the
severe wind and electrical storm. sig
nailed the engineer with the red table
cloth which he had snatched from the
.sunnaE table,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
SKELETON OF MISSING Man? :?

York. Pa. May 27.-Admission was
made by the York police yesterday
that they are at work on n theory
that q skeleton found buried at the
rear of the Hotel Brooks. in the cen
tral part OF the city. last week is that
of a wealthy man from another city
who disappeared here fifty years ago.
Their only hope of identification is
through the teeth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
TAFT NOT FOR T. R.

Washington. ID. c., May 27.-RepIy-
ing TO report from New York that
he will support Roosevelt if .he
Colonel is nominated at Chicago, Mr.
Taft said: ~ do not feel called upon
to answer any such violent hypothe-
sis !"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
MILLION FOR BALKAN RELIEF

New York, May 81 - The Rookie
feller Foundation announced late yes
terday that it had appropriated ST.
600 900 for war relief work in Poland,
Serbia, Montenegro and Albania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
RUSSIA PERMANENTLY DRY

Petrograd May 27. - A bill has
been introduced into the Duma to put
into effect the governments promise
that the war prohibition of alcoholic
drinks shall continue in force after the
war
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
LEAVES WIFE AND FIVE

city police have been asked to
search for Edwin Prescott, aged "A,
of sos Showers street, who left his
home on MAY 5 TO 20 to work and
was last seen on May is. Prescott
left q wife and i've small children.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
GERMAN SOCIALISTS PROTEST
By Associated Press

London. May 27.-An Amsterdam
dispatch says that during the debate
i'm the German Reichstag on Thursday,
Wilhelm Dittman, Socialist, protested
against censorship by the government
of speeches Of peace loving Social
lists"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
INVESTIGATE 500 ROBBERY

City police are investigating the rob
berry at the home of Warren Thonp-
son. 1925 North Third street where
burglars stole s4OO and two gold
watches belonging to Mr.. Thompson
Two diamond rings belonging to Mrs
Thompson were not taken.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
MRS. NAT GOODWIN III

New York. May 81. Margaret
Moreland. fifth wife of Nat Goodwin
is seriously i'll at st. Elizabeth's hospi-
tai. where she underwent an operation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and yIcinityi pnrt-
" cloudy, probably showers to-
night OF Sunday; not much
change in temperature.
For Eastern Pennsylvania Partly
cloudy, probably showers late to-
night or ON Sunday; gentle TO
moderate east to southeast winds.
River
The SuSquchBnnE river and prob
ably all Its branches will continue
To fall. except the upper portions
of the North and West branches
may rise somewhat sunday as n
result of showers. 4 stage of
about % feet il Indicated for
harrisburg sunday morning.
General Conditions
The Western disturbance has con-
tinued TO move nOrthward and fits
center ls now located over Mani
tOha. 1t has caused general
showers since last report over
the Lake Region and the Upper
showers In the Northwest.
Freezing temperature occurred
again in Southwest Colorado, Du-
range reporting a minimum of
80 degrees.
Temperatures a. M, 90.
suni Rises, 4;4O n. M; sets, 7;24
D. m.
River stage, 5.7 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, ~.
Lowest temperature. 63.
Nean Temperatures. 20.
Normal temperature, 65.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
DNNEWOOD SUNK
Rr .4ESocfntcd Ptcss

BY Associated Press
London, May %. The British
steamship Danewood has been sunk.
Her crew was landed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27
RIGGS OFFICIALS NOT GUILTY

Washington, May 27.-The three Riggs Bank officials
on trial here for perjury were to-day found not guilty after
the jury had deliberated nine minutes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-27

Continued on Page 49,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-09
BASKETBALL PLAYERS REMEMBERED
BY THE T0N0PAH SCHOOL TRUSTEES

The basketball team of the high
school was treated to a very agreeable
surprise yesterday afternoon, when
President j. b. Tregloan, on behalf of
the school board, presented to each of
the members of the team a lovely
white corduroy sport coat. The mem.
bers OF the main team are Captain Ger
trude Rippingham. Ella Perry, Lavina
Shields, May Kimball, Helen Mitchell
and Fannie Holmes. The substitutes
include Helen Clendenning, Helen
Davis, Arlien Dalzell, Addie Murphy
and lnez O'Connell. On the coats of
the first six, a large TT" is embroider-
cd in red on the sleeve and the coats
of the substitutes bear red mono
gram. "T. H. s." specially designed,
on the large pocket BY little stra-
tegy the perfect fittings of the coats
was secured. The girls were led to
believe the measure of the neck was
needed to obtain some newly designed
neckties and few other little ruses,
secured for each one the dashing coat
each one possesses. To say the least,
the girls we're bewildered with aston
ishment when Mr. Tregloan made
known to them that the school board
desired to give testimonial which
would express in a small way recog-
nition of their athletic work during
the past year. He did not wish them
in any way to construe the boards ac'
tion as placing their academic work
as secondary. On the contrary he
dwelt on the proper use Of sport and
placed emphasis on the value OF ply.
steal exercise as great aid to study
but that il must necessarily take a
lower rank in school work
The astonishment of the girls was
most amusing. Some of them ran all
the way home to bear the glad tidings
When Mr.. Tregloan had finished his
address Captain Gertrude Rippingham
responded in behalf of the team and
thanked the school BOARD for their
kindness and expressed the hearty ap
probation of her team for the gifts
bestowed.
Joe Murphy responded for the stu
dent body. thanking the directors fol
their backing and sincere interest ir
their work of the year. He also paid
tribute to the girls assuring then
of the intense pride and esteem IL
which they we're held by the whole
school.
The student body of the high schoo
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-05-09
: isy Associated Press,


LONDON, May 9.-Major Priestley,
of the army medical corps, has sup
plemented the recent official report
on the typhus epidemic among British
prisoners of war In the Wittenberg
camp in Germany last year with fur
ther descriptions of the horrors that
he encountered there. Major Priestly,
II will be remembered, was one of six
British doctors sent to the Witten-
berg camp by the Germans when, 1t
is alleged. the German medical staff
abandoned its post at the camp after
the typhus broke out. Major Priestly
is one of the three survivors among
these six British doctors, the others
having succumbed to the fever.
I'VE were pushed through the barb
ed wire by the German guards" said
the major to an Associated Press cor
respondent in describing his introduc-
tion to the Wittenberg camp, "and in
structed to proceed to certain hut
where we found our mattresses on
top of a stack of coffins
1T was dusk when we arrived and
ii is impossible to give you an ade-
quate impression of the terrible con-
dition in which we found the camp.
We walked through the compounds to
Number Eight, reserved for hospi-
tai, and although fifteen thousand pri
soners were crowded into space OF
ten and one half acres, we might have
been walking through camp OF
ghosts for all the notice that was
taken of our progress. The men seem
ed dazed and apathetic. That night
we began our desperate fight against
typhus with all of the odds in its
favor.
Our only stimulant was camphora-
ted oil which, although slow In ac-
tion. can serve that purpose when all