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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Publishers Association
Pleads For Smaller Papers
Special to the Telegraph

New York, Aug. Is. = The board of
directors and the paper committee of
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association met here yesterday and
took steps designed to bring about
further reduction in the consumption
of news print. The following telegram
was sent to all members:
Production of news print is at its
maximum and there is no surplus
stock on hand. The demand will soon
increase, with no hope in sight of sup
plying sufficient to meet it. Monopol-
istic prices now prevail and will in
crease unless demand is Immediately
reduced to a point we'll below pro-
duction.
The only way to accomplish this is
for you and every publisher to dras-
tically economize by reducing the
number of pages printed. Reductions
TO be effective must be made imme-
diately. How much will you reduce
consumption?
Il. B. PALMER" ;"
For American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association Directors"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
FROM ASYLUM TO
HUSBANDS ARMS? F.?
Keiners Said to Be Near Agree
ment; Wife Promises Sen
Sational Disclosures

Reconciliation between Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter T. Keiner is probable soon,
it was said to-day.
The husband will name conditions.
Sensational disclosures regarding
the management of The Cumberland
County Insane Hospital at Carlisle are
also promised.
They will be furnished by Mrs.
Eeiner.
This information was given by Mr.
Keiner. one of the proprietors of the
Hotel Plaza, where Mrs. Keiner was a
guest last night. This morning she
visited several friends at New Cum
berland, and this afternoon left for
Atlantic City for u few days visit.
During her stay at the seashore the
wife will prepare a full an3 complete
statement of her case, with a Philadel-
phia attorney as an adviser. Mr..
Keiner said to-day:
Disclosures Coming
My wife came to me last night and
asked is she would have a room.
granted her rauucSt. We had Il long
conversation after which l went with
a party of friends for an automobile
ride, and later returned to my rooms
at New Cumberland.
What Mrs. keincr tod me is not
for publicaIcn in fun at this ti.!.e.
She has promised to make a complete
statement of her case. and to tell "a
few things about the people who have
been instrumental III stirring up this
trouble. l told her that my attorney
would explain what l was ready and
willing to do, and that if she made any
statement ii be submitted to my at
torney and myself. She told me there
would be some interesting facts forth
coming which would make good read
ing. According to the information
given me Mrs. Keiner goes to Atlantic
City this afternoon. On her return the
statement will be made public"
Mrs. Keiner was released on parole
Monday from the Cumberland County
Insane Hospital. where she charged
she was illegally confined.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
WILSON URGES
R. R. CHIEFS TO
REVERSE STAND
Wants Them to Accept Eight
Hour Day, Regular Time and
Appointment of Commission
BROTHERHOODS VOTING
BalIoting Oh Presidents Pro-
posals to Avert a
Strike
By Associated Press

Washington, D. c., Aug. 1s.-While
the railroad employees committee of
$40 was this afternoon casting secret
ballots on President Wilson's pro-
posal to avert the threatened strike,
the committee of railroad presidents
was in conference with President Will
son in the blue room at the White
House. To the presidents, Mr.. Wilson
appealed to reverse the stand of their
managers committee and accept the
proposal to concede the eight-hour
day, regular time for overtime and
have commission appointed by Con-
gress to investigate the collateral is
sues.
1t was plain that the railroad presi-
dents were prepared to refuse the
proposition or ask for time to consider
it. There were some indications. how
ever, that President Wilson might
move them and failing in that, call
in the financial powers which control
the roads. When the White House
conference began, brotherhood leaders
said the men still were balloting 1t
was expected that they would accept
President Wilson's plan.
Hale Holden, president of the Bur-
hnSton, acted as spokesman. 1t was
agreed in advance that the railroad
officials would listen to President Will
sons presentation of his plan. Mr..
TO make the situation clear and the
railroad presidents should return to
their hotel to hold d meeting and de-
eide on their action.
II was tentatively ARRANGED that
when the answer was sent to Presi-
dent Wilson, it would be given to the
public.
President Wilson was considering
going over the heads even of the rail-
way presidents it was intimated if they
should refuse the concessions he sug-
gested. and appeal direct to the
hnanciers who control the railroads.
The Presidents proposal was that
the railroads establish the eight hour
day principle and grant pay at usual
rates for overtime, instead of the
pay and half demanded by the men.
All other issues then might be referred
10 commission of probably three
members one of whom would be
named by the President or some other
pubic representative and the other
two by the employers and employees,
respectively.
Brotherhoods Taking Vote
Inc railway presidents had an en-
gagement to see the President at 1890
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
RUSSIANS AGAIN
START OFFENSIVE
AFTER BRIEF HALT
Teutonic Armies Fail to Stop
Them With Heavy Counter
Attacks
FRENCH TAKE FLEURY
Throw Germans From Village
on Verdun Front; Advance
in Thiaumont Sector

The Russians temporarily held up
in their Galician drive by heavy coun-
ter attacks. have again begun to move
forward.
Petrograd to-day announces that the
Teutonlc armies on this front have
failed in their attempt to throw back
General BrusSiloft's armies, sustaining
heavy losses in the effort, and that
the Russians are again advancing ut
several points.
In the war news from France the
Nerdun region again commands at
tention. The French have not been
notably active there for the past few
days, but last night they resumed their
offensive east of the Meuse. and ac-
cording to this afternoons Paris bull
letin, succeeded in driving the Ger
mans from a part of the village of
Fleury, which has long been sharply
contested ground. An advance by the
French was also scored in the Thiau-
mont sector, nearby.
After a brief period of delay the
Germans have made their expected
counter move in the Maurepas Sec
ton on the Somme front. where the
French on Wednesday night reported
substantial gains. Paris declares sew
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Starving Armenians Eat
Their Children; Others Beg
to Be Buried Alive, He Says
BY Associated Press

Boston, Aug. IS. - A statement de-
scribing the hardships suffered by
American committee on Armenian and
was made public to-day by the Rev
DR.. James L. Barton, chairman of the
American committee for Armenia and
Syrian relief. DR.. Barton said the
statement came from an eye witness,
not an American and could be de-
pended upon as uneXaggerated.
The eye witness Said that of 80, 900
deported Armenians at Meskene, a
part had found employment but the
rest were begging. In every tent"
he said, there are sick and dying.
Many hundreds of the sick are left
without any tent or covering. I saw
desperate ones throw themselves in
grave trenches and beg the grave
diggers to bury them.
THE government does not give the
hungry any bread.
In Sepka, a preacher from Aintab,
told me that parents have often killed
their children. At the government in
vestigation it was shown that some
people had eaten their children"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Skidding Truck Drags
Horse and Man 80 Feet

When the driver of the lsrge auto-
mobile truck owned by B. Handler
furniture dealer of 1912 North third
street, attempted to cross the street
car tracks of the Valley RAILWAYS
along the Carlisle pike this morning
the truck skidded, and crashed into a
produce wagon, owned and driven bv
Frank Hoover, Camp Hill.
The wagon was completely wrecked
and the horse and driver dragged nm
der the truck for thirty feet. The oc-
cupants of the truck were George
Bishop and Robert Metz, both of this
city. Bishop received several bruises
OF the body and Metz received an in
jured arm. Al
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
DIDN'T DISCUSS
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Teachers For New Steele Build
ing and Other Grade Changes
Chosen by Directors

Absence from the city of President
A. Carson Stamm of the special sub
committee on the new high school
survey problem. prevented any action
by the school board in regular session
this afternoon.
President Stamm and DR.. F. E.
Downes, the school superintendent will
go over the recommendations of the
survey and will make a report TO the
directors in the near future.
New teachers for the new Steele
school were appointed and the various
changes in grade as recommended by
the teachers committee were adopted.
John R. Miller of Carlisle was elected
an instructor of German for the Cen
trail High School at a salary of $1,100
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Penna. Steel Company
of Delaware Changes Its
Name With Ownership

The Pennsylvania steel Company of
Delaware to-day filed a certificate at
the state Department, with notification
of a change in name to the Bethlehem
Steel Bridge Corporation, George H.
Blakely, president, and B. H. Jones. sec
retary.
At the Steelton plant of the Bethle-
hem Steel Company, formerly the Penn
sylvania Steel Company, officials said
that the change in name of the Della
the local plant. 1t was explained that
the Delaware company was part of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company, but was
affected separately when the plants
changed hands and became the prop
ertY of the Bethlehem corporation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
THIEF WHO PURLOINED $40 FROM
HILL HOME ADDS INSULT TOINJURY
Neghbors All Wrought Up ODer Why Only Portion of
Apple Pie Was Eaten

If the burglar who last night broke
into the residence of C. w. Hummel,
81 North Seventeenth street, and
sneaked a brand new ten-dollar bill
from the sideboard. had just taken
the money and had gone on his way,
the members of the House of Hum
mel wouldn't have felt so hurt at the
visit, perhaps.
That the theft of the $40 was in
jury enough goes without saying; but.
Mrs. Hummel and her relatives and
friends who know her city-wide repu-
tation as a real apple pie baker.
do not think there was any necessity
for adding insult.
Whyfore? Listen. and you shall
hear and judge for yourself:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
HUGHES ENTERS
STRENUOUS PERIOD
Reaches San Francisco; Four
Speeches Today; Scores
Vacillating Policy
By associated Press

San Francisco, Cal. Aug. IS. =
Charles E. Hughes entered California
from the north early to-day with a
program of speech making, entertain
ment and conferences ahead of him
that promised one of the most strenu-
GUS periods of his Western trip. A
reception committee of thirty, headed
by w. F. Crocker, Republican ma
tional committeeman and Francis V.
keesling, chairman of the Republican
State central committee, waited near
the Oregon line to welcome the
presidential nominee and escort him
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

AS has been mentioned. Mrs. Hum
mel is SOME apple pie baker. She
baked couple of them late yester-
day tand If she did say it herself,
they were pretty fine pies. especially
as to flaky crust), and left them on
the sideboard for her raiIroader hus-
band who was expected in rather late.
And when the results of the sur
reptitious visit were Investigated, it
was found that the ungentlemanly. un-
invited guest had hunted round for
sugar, used a lot of it to sweeten the
pie-Just as If any of Mrs. Hummels
pies needed sugar. mind you.-and got
away with three-quarters of the pie.
But herein lies the insult:
The burglar turned up his nose at
that flaky crust!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
Committee of Employees to
Meet N. Y. Railway Officers
in Effort to Avert Strike

New York. Aug. is. = The board of
ways Company agreed to meet com
mittee of employees and union leaders
this afternoon to discuss with them
their charges that the company has
the recent car strike here.
After having been informed yester-
day by General Manager Frank Hedley
that he was without power to act in
the matter, the committee gave the di-
rectors twenty-four hours to agree up-
on conference, virtually threatened a
renewal of the strike If the board re-
fused TO listen TO their grievances
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
CITY FACING
6-CENT LOAF
POSSIBILITY
Joy at News of Drop in Price of
Gas Dispelled by Flour
Increase Gloom
BAKERS HOPE FOR DROP
If Present High Price Is Main
tanned For Long Stay Rise
Is Inevitable
BAKERS HOPE FOR DROP

A drop of one cent a gallon in the
price of gasoline, and the probability
of an increase in bread prices feature
the cost of living developments in the
city this week.
Big bakeries are facing a probable
rise to SS barrel in the cost of flour,
and should this high standard be
maintained, the five-cent loaf of bread
must go, 1T was said to-day. Pro-
prietors of bakeries however, are look
ing to the brighter side, and point to
similar jumps in flour prices, with de-
creases within two months after the
increase.
Gasoline dealers in the city Topped
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
5000 NoMoN STRIKE
By associated Press

Shamokin. Pa. Aug. Is. One
thousand more men and boys ceased
work at collier!es in the coal region
here to-day increasing the number of
idle men to fifteen thousand. United
Mine Worker leaders are actively en-
gagged counseling order in the ranks of
the strikers and encouraging them
with statements that the strike will
end satisfactorily to the union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
SNAKE BITES A CHILD
SpfeidI 70 The Telegrdph

williamsport. Pa. Aug. 1s.-Phv-
sicians hold little hope for the recovery
of Reba MartZ, 9 years old, of Logan.
town, who was bitten by a rattlesnake
while picking huckleberries. Her
companions tied a tourniquet around
her leg and carried her to her home
three miles distant. BY the time a
physician was called the poison had
spread through her body.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity. Cen
eFaHy faIr Tonight and Saturday.
NOT much change in temDernfur.
FOR Eastern Pennsylvania: (femer-
any IaiT Tonight and Saturday.;
NOT much change in tenuerutIrs;
hsht east winds, becoming south'
River
fne Susquehaana river and MI its
DutaFies will continue 10 fail
Slowly or remain stationary. =
stage slightly below three Teet -
Indicated for Harrisburg saTur-
day morning
General Conditions
Pressure has risen decidedIv e.,
central and north diSfricTs -.
Oh the ROCKY Mountains and cou-
tinues relatively high over 1na
eastern half of the country. The
usturohnce that was over Ne
1ada and Idaho, Thursdny morn-
ing, has moved northeastwar.isx
with increasing energy and -
now central over Western Norfi,
1t Is cooler over nearly all the ter
ritory west of the Rockies- W..
nemucea, New, reports fail Of
degrees in temperature In the
last twenty-four hours.
Temperature: s n. m, ~.
hises' oi2O n. MI sets, 8.57
Moon: Last quarter, August 20,
River Stage: Three feet above Iow-
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
highest temperature, 90,
Lowest temperature, o..
Mean temperature, 10,
Normal temperature, a.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
AUTO UPsETs, SEVEN HURT
Special to .hs Telegraph

Lancaster, Pa, Aug. is. - One man
is dying and six others were injured
late yesterday when an automobile
conveying home eight workmen over
turned near Maytown. Leauder Freed
was fatally injured, while Charles
Forty had his left leg broken; Clayton
McCurdy, an arm fractured and
Claude Henderson, ]. r. Shenk, John
Freed and Amos Sherr were badly
bruised. Five of the men were pinned
under the car.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
DOZEN HURT IN CAR CRASH
BY .4ssocidted Press

Washington, Aug. IS. A dozen
persons were injured, several seriously,
in rear end collision between two
street cars here early to-day. Five
of the more seriously injured were
taken to the city hospitals. The ac-
cident occurred on a steep incline and
is said to have been due to the faulty
brakes on the rear car.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
THREE RAILRoADERs HURT
t0 the Ttlegrefl

Altoona, Aug. 1s.-wesley Morning ,
of Miffiin was probably fatally in
jured. r. H. Stiff1er of 1918 Susoue-
hanna street, Harrisburg. sustained a
broken arm and burns about the face,
and Adam Potteiger of 542 Capitol
street, was slightly burned and bruised
when f1ue burst on engine No. 2691.
hauling PG 10 west. Just east of
Spruce Creek, about 6:34 last evening.
Morning and Stiff1er are now confined
to j. {. Blair Memorial Hospital,
Huntingdon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
ATTACK
ON ARMY WILSON
VETOES MEASURE
Refuses to Sign Appropriation
Bill Because Retired Officers
Are Exempt From Discipline
WILL DELAY CONGRESS
New Bill Necessary: Develop
ment of Contest Between
Hay and Army
By Associated Press

Washington. Aug, 1S.-President
Wilson to-day vetoed the army ap-
preparation bill because of exemptions
from discipline for retired officers
forced into it by the House conferees
led by Representative Hay over the
opposition of the War Department. A
new bill will be necessary and may
delay adjournment of Congress.
Representative Hay said he would
reintroduce the bill IN the House inn
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
LOAN HEAVILY SUBSCRIBED.
By Associated Press

New York, Aug. 1s.-Snydicate par
ticipations in the new British $3.50.
100000 loan were large. according ia
closing of the subscription books to-
day. The books for public subscrip-
tions will not be opened until next
week, but it is stated that applica-
tions in large numbers have already
been received.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
ROBBERY Ar GETTYsBURC

Gettysburg. Pa. Aug is. = Robbers
entered the Huber drug store during
last night and made haul of a quan-
cleaned the show window OF its entire
lot Of cameras. as well as some in the
store. Nothing else was molestec
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

When in after years the roster of
the Greater Harrisburg Navy" num-
bers its members by the hundreds,
these two names will stick out little
prominently than all others, perhaps.
on the Navy log book:
Miss Marian Katherine Zimmerman,
aged 8.
Miss Romaine Friedman, aged 5.
They're the Youngest feminine mem
bers to enlist In the Navy"
Several days ago William Strouse
of the new StroUse store. offered as a
prize an official Navy" uniform SER
vice cap and blouse to the youngest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

VACATION SEASON IS AT
ITS HEIGHT
Rest and recreation will not he
complete unless you have all the
news from nome every day. Your
favorite newspaper, the Harris
burg Telegraph, will fill the bin.
Phone the Circulation Department
before you leave home. The next
issue viii meet you. no matter
where you go.
Six cents n week, postage pre-
paid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

girls who would enlist" by August 3
Instead of one little recruit. two un-
known to each other. of course, en-
listed at the same time. Accordingly
each was presented with a cap and
blouse and here they are, uniformed
and ready for duty. Miss Zimmerman
lives at 2136 Susquehanna and Miss
Friedman lives at 2022 North Fifth
street.
And take it from papas and mamas.
they'll both be very much in evidence
on the big day on the Susquehanna.
Labor Day, September 4. when the
Greater Harrisburg Navy" holds its
first annual "Kipona."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18

DEUTSCHLAND ARRIVES SAFELY AT BREMEN
GENEVA, AUG. Is. - a PRIVATE TELEGRAM
RECEIVED TO-DAY FROM BERLIN BY THE NEUE
ZEIRICH zEITUNG SAYS THAT THE GERMAN
SUBMARINE DEUTSCHLAND ARRIVED SAFELY
YESTERDAY AT BREMEN FROM THE UNITED
STATES.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
PORTUGAL WILL SOON ENTER WAR

LISBON, VIA PARIS, AUG 1s-MAJoR NORTON
EATTOs, THE PORTUGUESE MINISTER OF WAR
ANNOUNCED TO-DAY THAT PORTUGAL WILL
SOON PARTICIPATE IN THE WAR, FIGHTING ON
THE SIDE OF THE ENTENTE ALLIES. GERMANY
DECLARED WAR ON. PORTUGAL LAST MARCH
BECAUSE SIZE SEIZED THIRTY-sIX AUSTRIAN
AND GERMAN VESSELS IN TAGUs RIVER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
DISCUSS MEANS
OF COMBATING
MAIADY SPREAD
Physicians of 3S States Report
11,700 Gases of Paralysis
in Country
FEAR WIDER SPREAD
Drastic Measures Must Be
Taken to Stamp Out Epidemic
Next Summer, They Say
FEAR WIDER SPREAD
By associated Press

Washington, D. c., Aug. 1s.-Public
health experts from thirty-eight States
continuing their meeting with the
Federal Public Health Service here
to-day drew up a code of regulations
for combating further spread OF IN
fantile paralysis by inter- State travel,
and developing methods of co-operat-
ing in study of causes and treatment
of the disease. The delegates reported
that 11,700 cases have been reported
in the United States since January
l. one system of regulations which
the Congress was to adopt would
create methods of uniform inspection,
issuances of health certificates, noti-
fcation of suspected cases and gem
eral cooperation between Federal,
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TRAFFIC NIOLATOR FINED
Para Kutucan, of Steelton, this aft
ernoon was fined $50 by Alderman
James Deshong. for reckless driving
and disregarding traffic signals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-18
CARRANzA FORCES DEFEAT VILLA BAND

Chihuahua City, No&co, Aug 1a.-Troops of General
Domingo Arriea's column under Mayor Pascua De Ahda
routed Villa band commanded by Nicolas Hernandez
Los Adargo Durango yesterday General acnto Trevno
announced to-day The bandits losses estimated at
thirteen, while hvc government soldiers were killed.
Fl Paso Tex, Aug. 18-sixty revoutionists held up
passenger train the Mexican National Railway Tues
day Aguas caentes Rurango. taking prisoner the
twenty-five Caanza soldiers comprising the escort The
revoutionists who surrounded the small station
told passengers that they belonged recently organized
revolutionary group calling themselves "Legalistas"
Washington Aug. 49, = Thrty-one railroad presidents
to-day told President Wilson they by the decision of
their managers committee that eight-hour day was inn
practicable President Wilson refused to take no for an
answer to his proposal that they accept the eghthou day
and asked them to return to the White House tomorrow
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