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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
~ Men Under Command of
Lieutenant Roberts Get
Rousing Homecoming Des-
pite Early Hour of Their
Arrival in City; Mothers
Break Through Lines to
Kiss Their Boys
WHISTLES SHREK AND
BELLS CLANG NEWS
Touching Scenes at Armory
When Relatives of Guards
men Are Allowed to Greet
Lads in Khaki; Bronzed
and Sturdy From Expert
ence at Ell Paso Camp, All
Are Glad For Training

Cheers from 10000 people, smiles
Irom pretty girls, kisses and embraces
from mothers, wives, sisters and sweet
hearts, and handshakes frolL hundreds
of friends were features of the rouSinS
welcome home given the Governor $
Troop at 4.25 this morning.
Veteran military organizations, vol
unteer tiremen, athletic clubs, march
ing clubs from department stores high
school students and a reception COM
mittee from the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce and Rotary Club made
up an escort parade from the Pennsyl-
Vania Railroad station to the armory
on State street.
Troop c, First Pennsylvania Cav
airy, as the local company is called in
the United States Army records,
reached Harrisburg at 4.25 this morn
ing after a tiresome trip. The troopers
left lei Paso last Thursday and were
almost forty-eight hours behind sched-
ule time in reaching Harrisburg.
Streets Are Throngcd
Notwithstanding the early hour for
a reception and parade, the streets
before the troop arrived At the
Pennsylvania Railroad station 5000
people gathered.
Fire bells and engine whistles woke
all Harrisburg at / o'clock. signalling
the news that the troopers had left
Altoona and would be home in three
hours.
Some folks did not go to bed at all.
Anxious mothers, patiently waiting for
their sons, were at the railroad station
as early as midnight. Parents, wives,
sweethearts, brothers and sisters were
there, too.
AS it was the Homecoming of a real
military company under marching or
ders, the soldiers could not be greeted
personally when they detrained
Some mothers just couldn't wait for
that first fond embrace and when the
troopers reached Market street they
rushed into the ranks and gave their
sons the kind of kisses that only
mothers can give. This was not ac-
cording to military orders and the po-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
BOARD TO
SUMMON DOCTORS
TO GIVE EVIDENCE
Unusual Proceeding Taken This
Morning in Case in Which
Life Is at Stake

The State Board of Pardons to-day
continued the application for recon-
mendation for commutation of the
death sentence of John Nelson, of
Wyoming county, for month be-
cause of presentation of a claim of
after discovered evidence, directing
lawyers to produce before the Board
at the next meeting surgeons who
could give testimony bearing upon one
of the most remarkable assertions
made before the Board in a murder
case.
In two cases of lesser grade the
Board struck them from the list be-
cause applications were made for con-
tinuance by mail, Lieutenant Governor
McClain asserting that counsel must
appear in person and that cases should
not be sent before the Board unless all
papers were complete and facts ready
to submit. The Lieutenant Governor
declared that if the Board should rec
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NATION MOUJRNS
DEWEY'S DEATH
Funeral Services Over Body of
Hero of Manila, Sataturday;
High Honors

Washington, Jan. IT. Funeral
arrangements for Admiral Dewey
were partially completed to-day
Orders were issued by the Navy
Department to bring all the cadets at
Annapolis and all available blue
jackets from the Norfolk and Wash
ington navy yards to attend the fun
eral here Saturday. Secretary Baker
will order all available army units to
participate in the ceremonies.
Secretary Daniels and ranking of
ficers were engaged to-day arranging
the details. These include appropriate
exercises on every American naval
vessel and at all American naval sta
tions throughout the world and the
firing of an admirars salute of II
guns.
Guard of Honor
Until Secretary Daniels has con-
ferred with President Wilson and Mrs
Dewey no additional plans will be
decided upon.
A guard of honor composed of
blue jackets from the gunboat Dol
phin and the presidential yacht May
flower, was stationed at the Dewey
home.
1t has practically been decided to
hold funeral services for the Admiral
In the Capitol under the dome, Sat
urday morning at IL o'clock. The
body, however, will not be viewed by
the public. In the event that the plan
is perfected, Congress would adjourn
on that day.
President Wilson will issue an exc
cutive order closing all government
departments on Saturday.
Flags at Halfmast
American naval vessels and stations
throughout the world received word
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LEGAL TO ERECT
COMFORT STATION
IN THE SQUARE?
No Superstructure Permitted
Under Harris Grant; Under
ground Method Preferable
CONSIDER TWO PLANS
Entrance on Sidewalks Will
Meet With More General
Approval

Just what Harrisburg's proposed
public comfort station is to be like
whether it will be a structure erected
in the center of Market Square or
underground with small entrances and
exits on the sides-was the one big
question discussed pro and con in
municipal circles to-day.
Yesterday morning Commissioners
Lynch introduced in Council an ordi-
nance authorizing him to employ an
architect to draw up plans for one or
more comfort stations and footwalks
or safety isles. The ordinance will
come up for final action next week.
Comment favoring and against any
plan for public comfort station fur
nlshed plenty of opportunity to city
officials, commissioners and citizens for
lengthy discussions.
Is 1t Legal?
One of the questions debated al
length was whether or not it will be
legal for the city to erect any super
structure in Market Square-a public
highway. An act of Legislature passed
in 1913 gives Harrisburg's commits
sioners this right. On the other hand
it is claimed that no structure can be
erected in the Square, as it is part OF
the Harris grant.
Despite the legal right given in the
legislative act a plan for the structure
in the Square will meet with much
opposition, it is predicted. An under
ground plan with entrances and exits
on the sidewalks instead of in the
center of the Square will meet with
more general favor. it is said.
At a conference yesterday afternoon
Harrisburg Railways officials, the ex-
ecutive committee of the Municipal
League, city committee of the Munici.
N.I
and the Planning Commission decided
some form of circular traffic around
the proposed isle of safety in the
Square is necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17

Washington, Jan. II. - To-day's
session of the leak hearing was sud-
denly postponed as it was about to
open.
Witnesses were notified to appear
tomorrow morning. The postpone
ment was made so the committee
might ask the House for authority to
employ counsel.
Meanwhile the committee Will make
its plans for extending the inquiry into
general investigation which was
forecast when it yesterday summoned
j. P. Morgan, Frank A. Nandersl1p,
Henry p. Dawson and other we'll
known financiers. Some of them were
on hand to-day waiting to testify.
Thomas w. Lawson also was ready to
go on, and Mrs. Ruth Thomason Wis.,
CONT, the woman who Lawson says
told him Secretary Tumulty was in
volved in the leak, had been served
with a subpoena.
"The committee has decided to ask
permission of the House to employ
counsel and accountants and for an eX-
tension of 30 days in which TO report,
said Representative Garrett, in eX-
planation of to-day's action.
Another witness to arrive before the
postponement was announced was
Pliny Fisk, of New York, described
by Lawson as the man who told Arch
ibald S. White, he controlled Secre-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17

Chicago, Jan. IT. - recommends
tion that the prohibition party enter
into no relations at present whereby
it would in any way surrender it's in
dependent identity was made to the
National Committee of the Party in
session here to-day, by Virgil G. Hin
recommendation followed proposals
to organize a nationwide fedora
tion," composed of all of the temper
ance organizations in the United
States for a united campaign against
liquor in 1920. Mr.. Hinshaw ex-
planned that the confederation could
be worked out so that the identity
of the Prohibition Party, the Anti
Saloon League and other organizations
working toward the common end
would be safeRuarded
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
FOOD SITUATION SERIOUS

Stockholm, via London, Jan. II, -
The food situation in Germany has
grown much worse during the last six
months, according to the experience
of the Associated Press correspondent
who has returned from trip to Ber-
lin. Potatoes are so scarce that this
weeks per capita ration in Berlin was
less than four and a half pounds. This
is attributed in part to the farmers
Withholding shipments until February
Is, when higher prices will be per-
mitted but it is not denied that the
potato crop is insufficient to meet
normal demand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
ATTACKS AMERICAN MIITARIsu

Rome, Via Paris, Jan. II. - In a
strongly worded editorial the Messagero
attacks what 1t calls American Militar-
ism. The paper says:
President Wilson breaches pacificism,
but under his administration the great
est military program, surprising even
that of Germany, has been passed.
America is preparing to become the sec
ond naval power in the world, indeed
the first IL another battle like that of
Jutland reduces the Anglo German
naval forces. American Imperialism,
after Cuba, the Philippines, the Sand
wich Islands and Panama, is now look
ing at Canada to the north and Mexico
to the south.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
SOLVES HOUSING PROBLEM
Million-Dollar Operation Planned For
Suburb of Reading

Reading, Pa, Jan. II. - The hous-
ing problem for workers and persons
OF moderate means, which has been
an acute one in and around Readine
for some years, has resulted in an am.
bilious attempt at its solution in the
borough of Wyomissing, one of Read
ing's suburbs.
Work has begun on one of the larg.
est operations of its kind ever under
taken In this region for the erection OF
several hundred model homes, upon q
tract of $50 acres. 1t will involve the
expenditure of more than S1,000,0OO.
Each house will be of six or seven
rooms, varying from single and twin
construction up to blocks of five oil
six, but with such a divergence of ar
chitecture, form and arrangement thai
each will be virtually a detached
home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
OF POLE
AROUSES COMMENT
City Electrician Explains Lack
of Progress in Elimination of
Unsightly Standards

Much public comment has been
aroused over the replacing of an
enormously large telephone pole at the
corner of Walnut and Court streets,
when it was generally understood that
all poles in the business district were
to be eliminated. Clark e. DieLl, the
City Electrician, was to-day asked
whether this indicated that the line in
Walnut street was to be permanently
maintained, and who was the owner.
Mr.. Diehl said:
THE pole belongs to the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
which is the long distance department
of the Bell Telephone Company.
THE Bell Telephone Company
operates the separate and distinct
plants in this city, one being the local
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
u. 5. Protectorate For
Palestine Talked OF

London, Jan. II. - proposal to
make the Holy Land protectorate
under the American flag is being
mooted here as a solution of the most
difficult problem in the tangled po-
litical situation in the Near East.
A high official said that entente
statesmen would welcome the partici-
patton of the United States when the
future of these territories is to be de-
termined, and that, in the belief of
the Allies. America must soon aban-
don her traditional policy of isolation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
$500, 100000 Boost in
Revenue Is Planned

Washington, Jan. II. - Administra-
ton plans for meeting the treasury
deficit at the end of the next fiscal
year took the form of q definite pro-
gram yesterday embracing increases
in the inheritance tax, new tax on
excess profits of corporations and part
nerships and a bond issue of $2S9,000,-
600. A bill including these proposals
and bearing the Endorsement of Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary McAdoo
will be framed at once and pressed
in the House.
The increase in revenue under the
plan is expected to be more than $780,
100000 annually, and if it fails to take
care of the deficit, a $100,O00,O00 is
sue of treasury certificates of indebt-
edness may be decided on.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
MAY ESTABLISH
CITY SHADE TREE
COMMISSION SOON
Commissioner Gross to Intro
duce Ordinance Creating
Body

An ordinance will be introduced
into Council shortly to establish a
City Shade Tree Commission as part
of the Department of Parks and Pub
lie Property it was announced this
morning by City Commissioner Gross
head of that department
Speaking of his plans, Commission
er Gross said that as soon as possible
the ordinance will be presented. The
new bureau, If established, will have
supervision over the city forester.
Although only q tentative program
has been outlined, Commissioner
Gross has been working for some time
to get plans made so that as soon as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
MANY DIE IN WRECK

London, Jan. II. - A dispatch from
Ciurea, Rumania, dated January Z, to
the Times says that an overcrowded
train, with 1000 passengers aboard.
crashed into a train from headouar-
ters at full speed near Ciurea, eight
miles from Jassy, the temporary capt
tai and was derailed Man-. persons
were killed, the bodies of children.
women and soldiers being spread
llong the tracks The French attache,
MARQUIS Beltoy, was among the in
lured
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
Survivors Reach Port

Survivors Reach Port
The first news of the raid was re-
ceiVed through the arrival at Per-
nambuco, Brazil, on Monday evening
of the Japanese steamship Hudson
Maru which Lad on board the masters
and 237 men of the crews of vessels
destroyed between December II and
January IL. In addition the British
steamship Yarrowdale, one of the
captured vessels, was sent off with
about 400 men who we're to be landed
No news of the men has been received.
The point at which the Hudson Maru
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
BLOCK MEASURE
TO DELAY STRIKES
Labor Wins Victory When Part
of Wilson's Program Is
Defeated

Washington, Jan. II. President
Wilson's program of railroad legisla-
tion, designed to prevent a railroad
strike and to undo some of the evil
embraced in the Adamsin wage fixing
law, received a serious blow in the
Senate committee on interstate COM
merce. The committee by vote of Z
to rejected the first feature of the
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ACCEPT ALLIES DEMANDS

London. Jan. II. - The definite
announcement that the Greek govern
ment has accepted in their entirety
the demands of the allies was received
here to-day in a cablegram from Sir
F. e. IL. Elliott, British minister at
Athens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17

Eight British and French vessels have been sunk
Atlantic and British steamships captured by German raider
Announcement to this effect made to-day by the British
Admiralty confirming which had been circulation for
time that German raider had
allied warshps and escaped to the So far shown
the British the raider is still large Apparently
she has been operating off the of South America
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17

Just how the Ferry -Hornberger-
Balmer counterfeiting gang made, and
disposed of hundreds of dollars worth
of bogus Federal Reserve Bank notes.
will be told at hearing of Ferry and
Hornberger before United States Com
missioner Leroy ]. Wolfe on Monday.
The secret service men who arrest
ed Joseph ID. Ferry, the garage man
of 125 South Cameron street, and AL
vim Hornberger, of Mohnton, on
charges of making and distributing
counterfeit have left the city and are
understood to be at work rounding
several more men suspected of helping
to 'shove the queer"
Excellent Imitation
1t is understood the counterfeit
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put in makes it appear probable that
the German raider has been operating
off the coast of South America.
The British Admiralty announced
on December that a report had been
received that a disguised German ves-
sci of the mercantile type was sighted
in the North Atlantic on December 4.
1t was reported from Halifax that a
strange vessel, believed to be a raider.
was intercepted on December off
the Northwestern coast of Scotland but
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WANT $zI, 600 FOR PA. ROADS


Philadelphia Jan, 1.-THE State Highway Department
viii the State Legislature appropriate $2loooooo for
the Construction of roads repairing and maintenance Of
old and purchasing toll roads during the
years according budget the department announced
conference here to-day between representatives of the
department the State Motor Federation and tho State
Grange money will be asked for in two nstamcnts
of $lO,5Oo,ooo each
ARTHUR KINGS CONDITION UNIMPRoVED
Arthur King. president OF the Middletown Car Com.
pany who suffered relapse several days ago after serious
illness is in unimproyed condition at his Middlctovn
home
ALSToN WILL BE RESPITED
Harrisbug.-Respite for Junius Alston, who was to
have been executed Monday viii granted late this after
HUGHES AND UNTERMYER AS COUNSEL?
Washington Jan II. The names of Charles Evans
Hughes and Samuel Untennycr suggested in the
House late this afternoon as counsel for the committee
probing the alleged leak the peace There were
strong objections each
DEFICIENCY BILL FORMULATED
Harrisburg-Thc deficiency bill for presentation to the
Legislature IS Deng framed at the CaPtol to-day Eleven
departments will have deficiency The Agricultural
Commission meeting frame budget and the Antha
cite Coal Commission here frame report to the Legs
Iaturc
ARREST THREE BOYS
Three boys Charles Fetterhof 2233 jefferson street
John Loper l726 North Third and Harry Prez 1857
Fulton street this afternoon by city detectives
Murnane and ScheIhas for series of recent minor crimes
They have confessed breaking the plate glass window
Ifn Deppens grocery Sixth and Emerald streets
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Dennl.o oMarrow md RuthM Rhan. city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
Hears Guardsman Lover Married q
Border and Takes Poison


Allentown, Pa, Jan. 17.-Miss Jen-
ME A. Wehr, a young woman of this
city, is recovering at the Allentown
Hospital from dose of poison taken
yesterday because, as she alleged, she
was Tilted by her lover one of the
troopers who returned from the Texas
border on Sunday.
She says she heard that the guards
man was married to Texas girl dur
ing his six months absence. The re-
turned soldiers, however, say that they
know nothing of any marriage by one
of their number while on the border.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
COMMITTEE WANTS
COUNSEL SO LEAK
PROBE GOES OVER
Will Ask House For Authority
to Employ Lawyers; to Re-
sumo Tomorrow
WOMAN IS SUBPENAED
Mysterious Mrs. Visconti and J.
p. Morgan to Appear; Other
Financiers Summoned

Washington, Jan. 17.-The leak
investigation was interrupted to-
day while the House extended the
time of the investigating commit
tee thirty days and authorized it
TO employ counsel. This fore
shadows extending the inquiry to
its broadcst aspects. Taking of
testimony will be resumed to-
morrow, probably with j. T.. Nor
gan and other financiers on the
witness stand.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
RAIDER SLIPS
BLOCKADE AND
SINKS 10 SHIPS

Eight British and Two French Merchantmen Sunk by Un-
identified German Commerce Destroyer in South At
lantic; Two Other Steamships Captured; Daring
Deeds Rival Those of Moewe and Emdem
SEVERAL HUNDRED SURVIVORS LANDED IN
SOUTH AMERICA; 400 OTHERS BELIEVED SAFE
Mysterious Fighter Described as Being Heavily Armed
and Equipped With Two Torpedo Tubes; Still at
Large; Warnings Flashed All Over Ocean by Allied
Cruisers on This Side of Sea
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
General Conditions


inc barometric pressure has de-
creased decidedly over central and
northern districts east of the
Rocky Mountains during the last
twenty-fOur hours, particularly
In the Missouri and Upper Miss
slssippl valleys.
Rain, sleet and snow have fallen In
Louisville, Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska. New Mexico,
Colorado, Utah and Arizona, and
Hight rain In the East Gulf and
South Atlantic States.
There hns been general rise of
to 20 degrees In temperature over
the greater part of the country
east of the Rockies, except In the
Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic
States and I'm Nebraska.
Temperatures a. ma, IS.
Suns Rises, 7ilO "a. M; sets, SOL
ID. IN.
Moon, New moon, January 23.
River Stage; 5.7 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, 20.
Lowest temperature. 1S.
Mean temperature, ~.
Normal temperature, IS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
THE WEATHER,

Forecast till ID. m., Thursday-
For Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair
Tonight and probably Thursday;
warmer Tonight, with lowest
temperature about - degrees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania; Partly
overcast Tonight and Thursday;
warmer Tonight; fresh south
west winds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-17
River

The Susquehnnna river and it's
branches Will fall slowly or re-
main stationary, except local
rises may occur where the cham
mel becomes chOked with lee, A
stage of about 81 feet Is indI-
cnted for Harrisburg Thursday
morning.
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URGES NAmoN-DRY FEDERATION

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JILTED GIRL TRIES TO DIE

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Temperature, g a. M, IS.

MOOni New moon, January 23.
River Stage; 5.7 feet above low
water mark.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1917-10-25
RECORD RUN OF
ENTHUSIASTIC kUT0|ST

Mr.. G. Sherman, of this city,
who is a most enthusiastic motor
lst, recently made a record run
from Huntsville in his Stearns
car. He left there ar 7:15 a. m.
and at p. m. was eating dinner
at his home here, having tra> ell
ed the distance, 100 miles, in
that short time. During the
run his engine was never smut
down nor water put IN the radla-
tor, and on arriving here every
thing was fit as a fiddle for
another run of 100 miles. Some
of the road was excellent, and
about 20 miles of it was rough.
Mr.. Sherman is manager and
treasurer of the handle works,
this city, and uses this car a
great deal in his business trips.