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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
THE COLORADO COAL STRIKE COMMITTEE
 REPORTS TO WILSON
Indictments Against Strikers Are Fostering Sore in Industrial ReIa- tions-lndorsement Given Wages
 and Educational Advantages

Washingto March 6.-Recommenda- . ton that the federal trade commission study the economic side of coal min- ing with view to taking steps to- ward preventing waste and putting the industry on a basis giving maxi mum safety and maximum steady em- ployment is made in the report of President Wilson's special Colorado coal strike commission. The report today for it's information Seth Low of New York, Charles W. Mills of Phil adelphia and Patrick Gilday of Clear field, Pa, composed the commission which says the fact that of 400 indict- ments returned in Colorado in connec- tion' with strike troubles all were against strikers has left fostering sore" on public opinion.
 '.Some of the citizens of Colorado the report comments, believe that many illegal acts were committed on
 the part of the operators and the jus tice which finds all the indictments on one side does not seem to them even- handed. Your commission naturally expresses no opinion as to the cor rectness of this belief. Again it is be- Iieved by some even among the oper- ators that in many of these cases the state has not sufficient evidence ito con. vict.
 'In such eases, and your commits sion believes that there are such, the men affected are suffering from greal 1 injustice in that they are either con fined in jails unable to get bond, or il out on bond, they are refused employ, ment in Colorado on account of thu indictments against them, and are pre- vented from leaving Colorado or th' Jurisdiction of the court by their bonds men.
 'As long as this condition of af
 fairs exists the industrial health O.
 Colorado will be weakened by this fes tering sore. Even in the interest ol public order in the long run, this situ ation should be quickly ended" A general indorsement was given tt wages, living conditions and educa itional advantages in the Colorad, 1 field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09

Washington, March s,-(Special. 1.-The Washington Star prints the following fea- lure story of Representative Heflin of Alabama:
 The elevator man in the Capitol turned to me and whispered in an awe-stricken voice;
 ron Heflin has just called Jim Mann a Bulgarian.
 "Is that so?' l replied, "Is that so?'
 Yes, that's SOL the elevator man said with decision, as we shot upward.
 It was certainly a most unusual epithet even for Tom Heflin, whose verbal aero plane sails in a thick stratum of epithets when he Is on the subject of James R. Mann. have heard Tom Heflin call Jim and others that he does not care for in the House names that could be used for shrapnel shell. Tom and Jim are old enemies. They have fought each other across the House-always at long range never getting into position for hand grenade work or bayonet practice. but their heavy artillery booms away at thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
 END ID JURY PROBE 0F YOUNGSTOWN RIOT Indictments Are Returned Against Judge E. H. Gary Individually and Six
 Steel Companies

Youngstown. O., March s.The Ma honing county grand jury today end ed spectacularly it's investigation Of the disastrous strike riots January :; in East Youngstown by returning i'm dictments against Ebert H Gary, chairman of the United States Steel and against six big steel companies
 The indictments charge Gary, the corporation of which he is the head, one of it's subsidiaries and four inde- pendent steel concerns with consptr- ing to fix the wages of labor and to fix the price of iron and steel pro- ducts in Mahoning county in violation of the Valentine antitrust law, Judge Gary has been indicted indf- yidually." said County Prosecutor \.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
GERMAN EXCHANGE
 TOUCHES LOWEST . POINT IN HISTORY
Quotations for Marks Show Depreciation of 23 Per Cent Unable to Place
 Bonds at High Prices

!. New York. March s,-In the face of further German successes in the western theatre of the war. remittances to Ger many from this market today touched the lowest quotation recorded since the beginning of the European conflict. and, 10 far as is known, in the history of banking and commercial relations be- tween the United States and Germany. . Relehmarks were quoted at s72 9-l6. against the previous low quotations of 727t. recorded early in the year. Inter- national bankers and dealers in exchange were at loss to account for the re- rcwed weakness in German remittances. except on the ground of the almost conn R0lete commercial isolation of that coun-
 y.
 Ier the past six months German in-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
SLIVERS, FAMOUS
 CLOWN, A SUICIDE
Man Who Made Millions Laugh Asphyxiates Himself in New York
 Theatrical Boarding House

New York, March 8.-Frank Oakley millions of people laugh throughout the country. was found dead, suicide from asphyxiating gas, in theatrical boarding house here early today.
 "Slivers," who was 45 years old came by his nickname through his height and slenderness. His cleverness as contortionist earned him a circus job at the age of IA and for years he travelled with Barnum's circuses Later he appeared in vaudeville. He was born in Sweden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
NEW WAGE SCALE FOR
 MINERS RATIFIED

New York, March 8.-The bitumi- nous operators and miners in joint conference late today ratified the new wage scale to go into ef- feet April 1. in western Pennsyl- vania, Ohio. Indiania and Illinois.
 It was announced that the vote was unanimous despite the fact that the Indiana miners refused to vote for the new scale. President John P. White of. the miners union said he would assume responsibility for the Indiana miners. The wage scale will now go to a referendum vote of all the soft coal miners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
Was Deeply Chagrined When He Found He Had Signed Statements He Did Not Believe
WRITES F. M. JACKSON
 LETTER OF PROTEST
 ON THE IMPOSITION
Sanford Thought Scurrilous Statement Was Merely a Letter of Protest on Ref erendum in District
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

"a Washington, March 8.--(Special. That William Hodge Sanford o5 Montgomery, and probably others Q. the 15 prohibitionists who signed ; scurriious attack against Senato1 Underwood, did so inadvertently, wa the gist of a sensational statemen made to the representative of Th' Age-Herald today by visiting Ala bamian.
 This gentleman stated that no one was more surprised than MT. Sanford when he learned that he had been made party to an att tack against man in whose in- tegrity he had always believed and of whose friendship he had all ways felt himself possessed. It was added that MT. Stanford had writ ten letter to Fred M. Jackson of Birmingham, setting forth his po- sition and protesting Fin vigorous language against what he doubt less considers blundering imposi- tion.
 "I happen to know" said this AIabumian, "that Fred M. Jackson, when the scurrilous attack was about to be issued, called MT. Sam ford over the telephone. MT. sam ford was left under the impress sion that his signature was de- sired for . joint letter to be dis
 
 protesting against a referendum on the liquor question in the District of Colulnhia. He had no idea that he was being invited to make an attack to which he could not con- scientiously subscribe against the integrity of statesman in whom he earnestly believed.
 When MT. Sanford was appraised o' what had taken place. he was deeply chagrined. Immediately he wrote tt Mr. Jackson and if MT. Jackson WI publish his letter MT. Sanford vii be presented in proper light.
 Tt Is known that MT. Stanford informed MT. Jackson that in the teiephone conversation he was led to believe that ths letter would be addressed to Senator Underwood. MT. Sanford pointed out that there was a great deal of differ ence between writing letter to a senator urging him to act in ac- cordance with certain programme and in publishing letter attack ing his integrity.
 ss1ar. sanford very candidly informed nr. Jackson that while he differed h come respects with Senator Under wood, lie had always imposed ths ~reatest confidence in him as a states mau. and in his integrity as . man He very candidly stated that he did not believe that part of the statement which he had been made to sign that senator Underwood was subject to thu Influence of liquor bosses, or that hs valued the negro vote of the district more than people of Alabama.
 Tt is made very plain that MT. Sam. ford. who Is prohibitionist but not g fanatic, would not have signed that scurrilous document had he seen il prior to it's publication.
 The statement is interesting in tha' it leaves one to infer that that at. tack was conceived in Birmingham and that outside signatures were ac'
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
To Fine Roads

on car shortage of the American Rail- way association today notified eastern railroads that it would impose penalties upon such of them as continued to dis regard the commissions suggestions for delivering box cars to western railroads to ameliorate the present car shortage in the west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
COMPANY VENTILATED

There can scarcely be anything left on my company. It had already lost one fourth of its numbers in the fighting from February 21 to February 24 This was the finish.
 Another German, a member of the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
FRENCH DRIVE GERMANS FROM
 ALMOST ALL OF CORBEAUX WOOD
Douaumont Is Being Bom- barded Again-R Russians Occupy Town of Rizeh. Will Declare War on Portugal by Saturday

Paris, March S.--The French, by a strcng center attack, succeeded today in driving the Germans from the greater part of the Corbeaux wood which they occupied yesterday. and according to the official statement issued by the war of flee tonight, the Germans now hold only the eastern extremity of this wood. The Germans however, have reoccupied the Harda umont redoubt.
 Douaumont, to the north of Verdun, is again being heavily bombarded.
 Prisoners taken at Verdun estimate the losses of the battalions which took part in infantry assaults since February 25, at an average of two-thirds of their total strength
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-09
WERE DELUDED

Our officers promised us, said one,
 that cannon would clear the way for
 us so that We would occupy the trench
 lines almost without loss. We believed
 also that at each stage of our advance new
 artillery preparation would enable us to continue without great risk. Instead our battalion. under unheard of fire from field guns and machine guns for hours together, was cut to pieces. The effort we made passed all measure of human strength. That is why the march on Yer dun failed.i
 A German soldier belonging to the Sixty-fourth infantry, said: "Our bat talion started from it's -aition in the woods on the night of March with or
 ders to occupy an earthwork to the east of Fort Douaumont. Suddenly someone called Here comes the French The shock was so impetuous that it over
 whelmed our lines. I fell into hole
 made by a shell and lay there all night listening to the calls of the wounded for stretcher bearers The means often end- <l 4l 1,n+ +1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
Court Gives Stiff
Sentence to Negro as
Tip Ito Southern Crowd

Cnruly actions of Southern negroes
who may be brought here by the big
manufacturing plants will not be toll
Grated in Dauphin county, according
TO District Attorney Michael b.
Stroup and he urged imposition of a
suft sentence upon ollie Roots when
That negro was called before the bar
on an assault and battery charge.
rms was preferred by his foreman in
the Pennsylvania Steel Company mills.
President Judge Kunkel sentenced
Roots to two months and a fine of
so. And" concluded the court sig
nificantly. IF YOU come back here
again well make longer disposition
of your case
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
Consider Limiting Access of
Armed Ships to U. S. Ports

Z Washington, ID. c., March 25.-Sec-
retary Lansing had before him to-day
formal responses from the entente
powers rejecting the proposal made
by the State Department that they
enter into modus vivendi and dis
arm all OF their merchant ships with
the understanding that the central
powers would pledge that such un-
armed ships would not be attacked
without warning. 1t is understood
that the fundamental objection was
that there should be no change in the
principles of international law during
the progress of hostilities.
While no indication was given at
the State Department of the next step
to be taken, it is understood that the
United States is considering LIMITING
access to American ports of vessels
which in the judgment OF this govern
ment, carry offensive armaments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
$4,000 TO SEE
WLLARD-M0RAN
FIGHT FOR BELT
Both Pugilists Are Confident of
Winning Worlds Cham
pionship Battle
1000 WOMEN TO ATTEND
Purse of $4,000 Will Be
Divided; Boxers in Per-
feet Condition
1000 WOMEN TO ATTEND

New York, March 25.-Thirteen
thousand spectators will crowd Madi-
son Square Garden tonight to see
Frank Moran, of Pittsburgh, try 20
wrest the worlds heavyweight cham
pionship from Jess Willard, of KAN
sas.
Although the bout is not announced
as for the title and no decision by the
referee is possible under the boxing
laws, Moran might win the champion
ship either by a knockout. n foul bv
Willard, or Wizards failure to 60 the
full length of the bout. The fight is
the most important fistic encounter
which has taken place since Willard
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR GREAT PENN
HIGHWAY SESSION
Hundreds of Delegates From
Towns Along Route Will
Be Here Monday
LEGISLATORS COMING
Governor Brumbaugh and
Highway Commissioner Gun
ningham to Speak

Final arrangements for the Will
liam Penn Highway meeting to be
held in this city Monday are being
made by the Good Roads Commit
tee of the Harrisburg Chamber of
Commerce. composed of William
jennings chairman. Wilson. Blough.
Robert Mccormick. Charles +. Covert
and Frank Bosch, and T.. l.. McColgin,
secretary of the Chamber.
The meetings will be held in
Fahnestock Hall, Second and Locust
streets. The first session will be at
10 in the morning and the afternoon
meeting will convene at 2:30. William
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
DO YOU WANT TO
HELP MAKE YOUR
CITY BEAUTIFUL?
Telegraph Has Plan For Win
dowboX Decorations; CO.
operation Required

VIII you join with the Telegraph
in helping to make Harrisburg more
beautiful during the coming summer?
This newspaper proposes to offer a
number of prizes for windowbox
decorations in the hope of thereby
arousing the interest of people at
large in this delightful and effective
form of gardening
Last year the Telegraph gave prizes
for backyard, front yard and window
ooX decorations. This year the effort
Will be confined to windowboxes
alone, for the reason that the window
box costs little to plant. requires a
minimum of care and not very ex-
tensive knowledge of gardening. Many
persons who are uncertain about
plunSinS into a garden contest with
little or no preparation, will not
hesitate to start windowbox or
two.
The general planting of window
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25

Information obtained from passen-
gers on the channel steamship Sussex,
damaged by an explosion yesterday
afternoon on the way from Folllestone
TO Dieppe, indicates there may have
been considerable loss of life. One
American is missing and is supposed
to have been lost Another was in
jured seriously. Several americans
were rescued.
Opinion Of passengers of the Sussex
is divided as TO whether the vessel was
the victim of a mine or Il torpedo.
The explosion was terrific. II occurred
Just ahead of the captains bridge and
tore the front part of the steamer to
pieces, killing or njuring a number of
persons. Many were wounded severely
by flying splinters.
The admiralty states that $50 sur
vivors have been landed in France and
between. 90 and 100 at Dover AS
there were 3S6 passengers and about
so men in the crew. 75 or more per-
sons are still missing.
German Raider Sinks
A German raider has been sunk in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
OFFERS MILL TO
WORKERS If THEY
PAY 8 PER CENT.
Suggestion Made After 10000
Employees Threaten Strike
For Shorter Hours
BY .4ssociated Press

Paterson, n. j.. March 25.-An offer
by Henry Doherty. part owner of one
OF the largest silk mills in this city, to
turn the mill over TO his employees to
operate provided they guarantee to
pay him per cent. on his investment.
has caused much discussion among
the silk workers here.
1t is understood that Mr.. Doherty's
suggestion was made because of
threats of a strike unless demands of
10000 employees in the silk mills for a
working day are granted.
The mill owners have offered a
9 y hour day beginning May 1 and a
day on November ]
Doherty asserts he is sincere and if
the operatives accept they can work as
few hours a day as they please, pro
vided his per cent. is paid.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25

the North Sea. Five German officers
anu ll5 men out of "a total of 500 were
captured. The British lost "A men.
The British armored merchantmen
Alcantara. which sunk the German
raider, the Greif, was herself sunk.
The fight occurred in the North Sea
on February %. The Greif was sunk
by guniire and the Alcantaro by tor
pedo. The British losses were made
up OF five officers ard 60 men.
Thc Alcantara was a large liner he.
longing to the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company, of Belfast. She haG
been in the service of the British gov
ernment Tor some time. Her gross
tonnage was $4,000. She was $40 feet
long and was built in Glasgow in 1919.
27O Women on Board
The Difficulties imposed by war
conditions in communicating with
English and cross channel ports have
made 1T impossible thus far to obtain
accurate information regarding tho
circumstances of the sinking of thu
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
PEACE PIPE MAY
BE PASSED, IS
LATEST REPORT
Talk in Philadelphia of Har-
mony Among Republicans
Governor Endorsed

Reports from Philadelphia to-day
indicated that the peace pipe might
be passed around among the Repub-
mean chieftains and that everyone now
differing might line up for a reunited
Republican party.
Friends of the Governor and Sena-
tor Penrose have been active in en-
deavoring to reach a plane of agree
ment, but the principals and their
chief advisers have been silent, re-
fusing to discuss any matters.
Attorney General Brown. Compen-
sation Chairman Mackey and Others
who are managing the Governors
campaign were busy to-day in Phila-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
Condemnation Proceedings
Against Kesher Israel Are
Started by Commonwealth

Notice of condemnation proceedings
have been served by Sheriff William
w. Caldwell for the Capitol Park
Commissioners, on David Goldberg
and other officers of the Kesher Isra eli
congregation, worshipping in the syna-
gogue at Fourth and State streets.
The commissioners have fixed Nav 10
as the date for the hearing.
II is understood that an offer Of
S22.500 made TO the congregation by
the State was refused
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
Rejected as Army Recruit,
Boy Patriot Kills Himself

Philadelphia, March 25.-.Failure TO
meet the physical requirements for
enlistment in the army caused Earl G.
illegal, l years old, of Clearfeld. Pa.
to commit suicide yesterday afternoon
by shooting himself through the heart
in his room in the Rittenhouse Hotel.
illegal registered at the hotel on
Wednesday night. According to DEPUTY
Coroner Waldin. who investigated the
case. the young man came here SOLELY
for the purpose of joining the army.
papers of consent from'his parents be-
ing found in his clothing
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25

ICE GORGE AT LoNGLEvEI,

York, Pa, March 25.-The long de-
layed breaking of the ice on the Sus-
quehanna river between York and
Lancaster counties began between 7
and O'Clock this morning on a ten
foot rise. II is now believed that the
volume of the floor produced bv raYns
and melting SHOWS will be sufficient 10
carry off the ice without damage
though gorge at Longlevel-is CAUSING
some anxiety.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
Cook Stove Explosion
Kills Woman, Injuries Her
Husband and Daughter
" .fssociaieG Prcts

Scranton. Pa. March 25.-The blow
ing UP OF q cook stove yesterday at
Susquehanna county. killed
Mrs. Charles T.. Gibson and fatally
burned Mr.. Gibson. Their daughter
was seriously burned and the house
destroyed. 1t is thought there was n
portion of a stick of dynamite in the
coal Mr.. Gibson had but a moment
before put on the fire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
GERMAN RAIDER SUNK BY MERCHANTMEN
WHICH FOLLOWS HER TO THE BOTTOM
Loss of Lite on Both Vessels Heavy; Engagement Oc-
Cured in North Sea; Victor Is Blown Up by Torpedo
From Teuton Vessel Sinking From Gunfre; British
Steamship Salybia Is Lost

Many Americans reported killed drowned
sea disasters The channel
o the United States board seriously damaged
explosion 1t is not definitely known how many killed
-Four Yankees British horsehip believed have
Killed when 1t torpedoed by the Germans.
naval the North resulted in the sinking
OF the German raider Grief by the British merchantmen
Acantara which followed her victim the bottom
part by torpedo.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
WOMAN DEAD IN FIELD
Sbecial 10 az TcLeernbh

Halifax, Pa. March 25.-Mrs. Fan
ME Mease. about 40 years old, a resi-
dent of Fort Hunter. was found dead
in field on the farm of George Hum
mel, in Halifax township. Mrs. Mease
was visiting friends near by and had
started across the fields 10 the home of
John III. Chubb. where she intended To
spend the night. W
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
ALAMO REACHES PORT

New York, March 25.-The NAL
lory liner Alamo, recently i'm distress
off the Atlantic coast, arrived here TO-
day in tow of other vessels. She car
ried fifty passengers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity:
Cloudy Tonight and sunday,
probably showers; warmer to-
night with lowest temperature
ahOut ID degrees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania; Cloudy
Tonight and Sunday, probably
showers; warmer Tonight; mod
crate east to southeast winds.
River
The S0squehanna river and all its
branches Will rise. stage of
about go feet * Indicated for
Harrisburg sunday morning. No
change has been reported I'm the
ice situation In the West Branch
since Friday.
General Conditions
The disturbance that was central
over Colorado Friday morning,
now covers the Mississippi and
Lower Missouri valleys. Ii hns
caused local rains and SHOWS I'm
the Plains states and Southern
Rocky Mountains md some ruin
In the Lake Region.
There has been n general rise of
to 30 degrees in temperature east
0f the Mississippi river I'm the
last tweBty-fOur hours.
Temperature; = n. M, =.
suni Rises, 5;50 n. m; sets, 6i23
Neon, New moon. april 2, 12.2s
a.
River stage, 5.5 feet above low
water mark.
Yesteday's Weater
Highest temperature, 81.
Lowest Temperatures. 20.
Mean temperature, 81.
Normal temperature, Al.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
MEASLES PREVENT sCHoo1,

on account of the prevalence OF
measles among the children of Ali
son Hill, there will be no Sunday
School tomorrow at st. Andrews
Protestant Episcopal Church at noon
as usual.