Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - September 11, 1915, Altoona, Pennsylvania REGULAR EDITION THE CIRCULATION YESTERDAY WAS AVERAGE DAILY PAID CIRCULAR TION DURING AUGUST ESTABLISHED JUNE 13 1874 ALTOONA PA SATURDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 11 1915 SIXTEEN COLUMNS FIRST STORY OF LONDON UNDER AIR RAID Record Breaking Crowd Flocks to Lakemont Park to In Feast of Beans OFFICERS REELECTED AT BUSINESS SESSION Captain Stambaugh's Sons of Veterans and Captain el's National Guardsmen In Sham Battle This Afternoon The largest crowd that hns attended any outing in this section of the state this year present today at Lakemont park helping the veterans and grand old men of Blair county help celebrate Grand Army day Never before in the history of the summer resort was such a crowd present as gathered at the park today With fair weather ing it is anticipated that the outing will lie by far the moat successful in the history of the organization A sham tle and parade are scheduled to feature this afternoon's program Early this morning persons began to crowd the open trolley cars and mako their way to the popular summer resort By noon nearly people were in at- tendance with prospects for at least a crowd before the are over FronY early morning until noon the chefs in charge of feed the great worked in the steam of the kettles which contained fifteen bushels of beans preparing the hardtack and bean feed for all Enough beans and hardtack are on the grounds to feed at least people Twelve hundred pounds of of coffee and ten gallons of milk were on hand early today to feed the thousands of old soldiers and their families and friends besides the thousands of baskets full of good tilings to eat taken to the park by the picnickers Old Officers Shortly after 11 o'clock the general the Grand Army Republic in this county gathered in the park theatre to transact the an- business and elect for the ensuing year President Michael Poet presided at the meeting which was attended by nearly every member of the committee ing the Hon J D Hicks moved that the officers who served during the past year be was seconded and the following were President Michael Poet vice A Miller J A Calvin and treasurer Harry Ail executive committee composed of one member from the twelve in the county was next pointed by Chairman Poet It was de- that five members must be present at any meeting of committee to con a quorum An auditing committee composed of Jacob F Smithf John Ross and James appointed to audit er accounts for past The matter of obtaining a charter for the Grand organization of Blair county was brought up and referred to the executive committee On motion of Comrade Hicks a rising rote of thanks was tendered the officers for the efficient manner in which they conducted the business of the tion the post year The meeting adjourned at 11.40 o'clock Great Feast Enjoyed At noon thousands flocked to the kitchen and feasted on the hard tack and beans served Nearly everybody in the park had their spoon and cup in waiting for the first free handout that was made by the chef Samuel Jones Forty-one gross of cups and spoons disposed of by J K Stouffer and his corps of workers There is no on the gram for the outing this year This afternoon at 3 o'clock a sham battle is scheduled between Company G National Guard under Captain J K and the Sons of Veterans under Captain YV H Stambaugh Four sand rounds of ammunition will be used in battle Following the battle there will be a battalion dress drill The committee in of the outing today is composed of Jacob F Smith chairman of commissary Michael Poet I W Brandt J S McCurdy Ti F I J A Trissler J W flutter C Weetley D R P Johnson J F and Samuel The outing is the final one of the son VON PAPEN EMBROILED IN DIPLOMATIC ROW Military Attache of Germany Embassy In Washington May Be Recalled Captain Frann von- Papen military attache of the German government Jn the Washington embassy is deeply in- in that let to S demand for the recall of IV to the United States Captain von Papen was quoted by Dr in a captured let- ter as expressing the opinion plan to tie up munitions plants in this country is of great importance and amply the expenditure of money involved With Its Campaign to Stop In- by Foreign Diplo- mats With Internal Affairs U.S Will Fight to Bitter End AUTHOR OF WONDERFUL STORY OF AIR RAID AUSTRIA WILL LIKELY RECALL AMBASSADOR Unless Kaiser Makes Further Concessions It Is Admitted That Break With Fatherland Is Certain Wife of City Commissioner Frank E Severely Injured In Fall From Fifth Avenue Car Mrs Frank E Hooney wife of the director of highways and public is today being ed on her extraordinary pluck she having last evening climbed the Twelfth street bridge and walked with a dislocated ankle after- having been injured in a fall from a street appointment to meet Air Twelfth avenue and Twelfth 0 Mrs Rooney came in from 2301 Eighth avenue oil a avenue burg car but in getting car at avenue and Twelfth street she the ankle and sustaining other minor in- juries When assisted to her feet thought she wag trot badly hurt and insisted on going OIL over town to meet her husband horrible pain with every from the she managed to climb the Twelfth street bridge and hobble to the corner of Twelfth avenue and Twelfth street where seeing her band waiting for her she collapsed the Eleventh ward passing in his auto at the time and ho stopped took Mrs in and conveyed her to her home where physician dis- overed that the ankle was dislocated While considerable pain Mrs is much better today though she will have to be confined to the house for some time WEATHER FORECAST WASHINGTON D C Kept Kastern tonight and probably Sunday cooler variable winds mostly west and west Western cloudy tonight and cooler By United Tress Sept sub- marines have sunk three more British merchantmen in the last thirty-six hours In addition the cargo boat has been sunk olT the Algerian coast by an Austrian sub- mersible The British steamers Alexandra and the fishing smack were reported sunk in dis- patches received here early today The crew of a steamer registered at Falmouth been landed Madrid dispatches said twenty-eight of the crew of the dcr have reached port the steamer having been sunk the Spanish coast One man of the crew was wounded by a shell Nineteen passengers and eighteen ol Ulu crew of the were landed BY CHARLES P STEWART Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON D C its campaign end interference by foreign diplomats with America's inter- nal affairs the administration was re- solved today to go ahead to the bitter end It its submarine controversy with Germany it was prepared to go any ex- tent short of sacrificing its principles or the country's dignity to avoid a break These two learned on the best of authority Oddly enough the situation in which the United States an unyielding attitude was improved while relations with reference to which there a friendly as badly Austria Likely to Acquiesce That would acquiesce ully from Washington was generally predicted Little was fore- seen in tlie execution of a similar gram expected in the cases of Austrian Consul General Nuber York and Captain von Papen military of the Germany embassy here As for Germany's submarine policy however anxious the administration was for continued friendly relations it was the consensus of official opinion that the latest Arabic note fell so far short of had been expected and officialdom considered practically promised through Ambassador Bernstorff as to be wholly unacceptable Unless the kaiser made further concessions it was admitted that it was hard to see how a break could he avoided Answer Is Expected Today answer to ca's request for Ambassador recall was expected at the state ment some time today Upon excellent authority it was re- ported today that German Ambassador Bernstorff will soon ic told if indeed ho already been formally or mally advised that von con- presence in this country is ob- to tlie government It was believed may solve the lem himself by dismissing von It was reported that the German tary attache would be sent home on a Vacation Steps toward criminal prosecution of others involved in the strike conspiracy were also taken today Federal and New York state statutes were being to determine whether indictments would lie under tiie general blanket statute governing conspiracy the state law or for violating United States It was accepted as certain that if sible proceedings will be begun against Archibald and the Hungarian editor Criminal action against foreign officials is not contemplated Talk of Rupture Revived The German-American situation over- in official attention all other international issues It revived talk of Continued on Page 8 Crown Prince's Army Sustains Casualties and the French Losses Are Almost as High TEUTONS GAIN NEARLY A MILE IN GREAT BATTLE For Thirteen Days Belgian British and French Artillery Has Poured Rain of Shells on German Trenches By United Press PARIS Sept crown prince's army has lost more than men in successive attempts to break through lines west of Verdun it was officially estimated this afternoon It is officially admitted however tha the French losses in this week's were about as heavy as those by the crown prince An official review of the fighting In the western Argonne was given out supplementary to the daily communique review admits that in his attacks on Wednesday and Thursday of this week the crown prince penetrated On French trenches on a front of two-thirds of a mile but declares that the Genual losses were out of comparison to the ground gained Result Say French Since prince's ita the French lines has not a single strategically important said the official review In one year a corps has losf over men The crown prince's army altogether has lost more than men his repeated reverses of last month the crown prince tried to obtain an important success in the Wednesday and also on the following light But despite the nan dispatches these made with arge forces and supported by many failed of appreciable results The Germans penetrated the French trenches only at points on a two-thirds of a mile front but were immediately blocked In vain they attempted to renew the attack The situation in that is practically unchanged though cost to the German troops was at east as heavy as to the French Shells Rain on German Trenches For thirteen days Belgian British and French artillery has poured a steady rain of shells from guns of all upon the German trenches from the Swiss frontier to the sea This afternoon's official communique reported no cessation in the ucnt The continual pounding has down rows of Teuton trenches around Arras in the Argonne and the and has prepared the way minor successes by the infantry Throughout last night the region around Arras near Neuville and shook with the roar of exploding shells Between the Somme and the Disc in the region of Faye there vere continuous combats all night with both mines and artillery and tins after- loon's communique reports the ng of enemy trenches In the Argonne the Germans attacked energetically with bombs and hand ades Their foremost ranks were bathed n a shrapnel fire that threw the enemy rack At in the region In at and ey the artillery combat continues No infantry fighting occurred in the WEATHER REPORT Sept 10 i p temp abv 10 12 p temp abv Sept 11 0 a temp abv Sept 11 22 temp abv W G William 0 Shepherd United Press correspondent the first writer to get a personal experience story of a Zeppelin raid passed by the British censor re- cently returned to Europe after a short visit in this country Air Shepherd has added another glowing chapter to his already voluminous contributions tu the history of the great war UNABLE TO USE NEW LEG BERNHARDT QUITS STAGE By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS Staff Correspondent PARIS Sept the world's greatest actress probably never will appear upon the stage again After a single performance here for the movies she discovered she was un- able to UHO new artificial leg well enough to walk She has cancelled her American engagement and returned Iny to Bordeaux part in the movie play Mean required that she come o Paris for a big scene on the She complained to the director of the movie scene that her artificial leg scorned too short and uado her way the part with tho greatest difficulty Mine herself hopes that continued use of the artificial limb will make it possible for her to walk un- supported but admitted before leaving Paris she was greatly disappoint- ed Her friends believe it certain that she will never appear on the stngo again and that her only acting will bo before the movie camera Some of her associates said today that plans enter the film business managing and staging her own productions and chosing her own scenarios Slip has already considered plans for a studio of own Her highest hopes even before her leg was amputated were to elevate the movies her friends paid by ducing on he screen the world's est dramas UNUSUALLY HEAVY Large Numbers of Voters Crowe Polling Places and County Tax Collectors Offices on Last Day effort to have every voter in the city register for the fal elections is meeting with more than usual success is indicated by the way to register on cither the first or second registration days are hurrying to the polling places today While the registration on the first days was already regarded as heavy today's figures are expected to bring the totals up to almost the full strength of the vote in many of thu different wards Today was chance and being Saturday many men not working today had a better chance to register than either of the previous days In cally every voting district of the city reports came in that the keen interest being taken in thu coining primaries is bringing out large crowds In some pre- the voters came in faster than the registrars could handle them The desire to register was also shown by the fact that quite a large number of voters who had failed to pay their taxes hurried to the of County Tax Collector Michael J J B Hammond in order to get a tax re necessary for registration At one time this afternoon fifteen persons were waiting ia Mr office to get tai receipts In the Ninth ward the registration up to 12 o'clock was unusually large with seventy-five qualifying for the primaries and election The first two registration resulted in 373 out of an expected voting strength ol 550 In tlie second precinct of the Second ward twenty-two were registered up un- til noon making a total in the precinct of 170 The voting strength of the pre- cinct is Of the morning tion 14 wore Republicans live democrats I Washington and 2 Over 30.0 voters in the first precinct of the Fifth ward this ig showing fifty-one additional names enrolled by the registrars There were registered the first two days In the First precinct of the Sixth ward where the voting strength is 325 107 were registered the first day the second and twenty-six up until this afternoon for today This makes the total registration 209 to date In the First ward First precinct a otal of 334 men were registered up until 2 o'clock this afternoon including he 134 received on the first day for registration and the 130 on the second leaving fifty who presented themselves this forenoon At the First ward Second precinct almost a men were to be registered when he took their seats at 2 o'clock this afternoon A total of 249 were registered in the Third ward First precinct up until loon today Of 113 came the first day and 102 the second Thirty-four were registered this fore- toon In the Eleventh ward there were registrations this morning making thf total for the ward to date 322 Registrars in the ward First took the of fifty voters his forenoon 130 on the first day and 178 on the second bringing thti total number up to 358 ELECTRIC SERVICE INAUGURATED By United Treaa with trains was in this morning by the sylvania railroad between Broad cct station and British Censor Passes Personal Experience Account of the Latest Invasion From the Sky PEOPLE GAZE UPON YELLOW DIRIGIBLE Biggest City In the World Becomes Battlefield As Zeppelin Drops Fatal England Is White-Hot Mad The British censor has passed for publication the following 1 sonal experience story of the Zeppelin raid over London by William G Shepherd United Press staff correspondent It is the first story that has yet been thus approved It is the first story which gives a complete insight into the British public's under fire It confirms the announcement by the United Press on Thursday that night's air raid was over the heart of London although Shepherd is not permitted to state what theatre he attended nor to identify the section of the city where he was By United Press LONDON Sept is Wednesday night September the eighth Above the din of the orchestra there sweeps over the theater a cavernous bass boom Zeppelin whispers a pretty girl sitting next to a Scotch officer you hear him whisper It's a door banging He's lying and knows it The whisper runs through the audience you knew what was transpiring in you'd be out there instead for the last act to end scene is being enacted out there as the old town of London in all its rich thousand-year history never before The curtain goes down You file out of the theater into a crowded street Million Quiet Cries Make a Subdued Roar Traffic is at a standstill A million quiet cries make a subdued roar Seven million people of the biggest city in the world stand gazing into the sky from the darkened streets Here is the climax to the Twentieth Among the autumn stars floats a long gaunt Zeppelin It is dull color of the harvest moon The long fingers of searchlights reaching up from the roofs of the city are touching all sides of the death messenger with their white tips Great booming sounds shake the city They are lin Lesser nearer at hand the noise of aerial guns sending shrapnel into the sky God's Don't do says one man to another who has just struck a match to light a cigarette Whispers low voices run all through the streets There's a- red light in the sky over there our house may be exclaims a woman clutching at a man's coat There are a million houses in London why ours he responds Beautifully Garbed Women View Invader A group of men talking French stand gazing up from the street They are in waiters clothes and have rushed out from the upper room of one of the most luxurious hotels in the world The exclaims one and We've got itl It can't get There's shrapnel all around says a pretty girl in evening wraps I can't look up a ute more But she does All about you are beautifully garbed women and men in evening clothes and long of admiration like the sounds made by American crowds watching the Hashes of shrapnel Biggest City Is Battlefield Suddenly you realize that the biggest city in the world has become the night on which harmless nen women and children live Here is war at the very heart of civilization threatening all the millions of things hat human hearts and human minds lave created in past centuries tonight will leave the side of their dead to look into the sky fearfully le children who have Now I lay have gone to will be awakened and rushed into cellars to save them from death There arc more cries Good It's as a flash breaks apparently near he great airship Bat the Zeppelin moves on steadily What a roar of joy would go up from he millions of great city if they ould suddenly see the yellow object into the flash nf one ic gas White-Gloved Hands Clap Little white-gloved blinds clap their approval at the Zeppelins near approach o white teeth sparkle in men road with delight These men and women flowers of twentieth century culture have become elemental Dirty bloody soldiers feel this same way in battle Killing has been put into the of these crowds If the men up there in the sky think they are terrifying London they are wrong They are only making England hot mad The redness of a burning building fills the sky The dome of historic St Paul's cathedral looms up against the redness You pass the old church in a side street At the gateway stands the verger half-dressed It has duty for the past fifty years to guard the church against thieves and fires as other sextons have guarded it for centuries past But he's got a bigger job on his hands than any of them ever had before Point to Zeppelins Yellow Form The verger's white-haired wife stands beside him They are talking with three girls such as never couie into the lives of church on nights like this They are pointing out to the aged couple with fingers the yellow form of the We are all brothers and sisters in the streets of London man nor woman neither good nor humans outraged mad unwilling to die It is a miracle the great gas bag in the air brings about On the of Chinese Gordon's monument sit a soldier and n girl She is tracing invisible figures on the stone pavement Ilia arm is about her her face is bent to his Maybe they've seen this Zeppelin tonight but just now she's listening to the old story that will be new flic books telling the if Zeppelin raid have crumbled nto dust They typify London and changed one iota by this Zeppelin raid that only ended in the loss of twenty harmless lives next day tripled
