Warren Evening Times (Newspaper) - November 21, 1916, Warren, Pennsylvania g Daily Paper WARREN TIMES A by its scription books are CIRCULATION YESTERDAY BEAUTIFUL PROGRESSIVE SUBSTANTIAL WARREN A BC VERIFICATION VOL SIXTEEN WARREN NOVEMBER 21 1916 TWO CENTS IS TO BE UPHELD Heads of the Railroad Determined That the Adamson Law Shall Not Be Broken Down CONFERENCE WAS HELD WITH PRESIDENT WILSON Brotherhood Leaders Say that It Is Their Intention to Aid the Government In Injunction Fight Washington Nov 21 Heads of the railroad employers brotherhoods determined that the Adamson eight hour law shall not be broken down conferred here late yesterday with President Wilson Attorney General Gregory and their legislative representatives declared their purpose to aid the government in every way in lighting injunction suits against the law and made further plans for perfecting a working agreement with their allies the railroad men of the American Federation of Labor When the government attorneys G Carroll Todd assistant to the attorney general Assistant Attorney General Underwood and Frank Hagennan appear in the federal court at Kansas next Thursday to oppose the Union Pacific and Atchison Topeka Santa Fe suits against the Adamson law they will be flanked by representatives of the It is probable the four brotherhood heads themselves will be there Messrs Todd and Underwood left last night for Kansas City Great significance is attached to the announcement that the brotherhood heads will address the Federation of Labor convention in Baltimore today Never before in the history of the two organizations have any of their members met in joint session but their meeting at Baltimore will be the result of a carefully worked out agreement that the two forces shall hands in working for the general betterment of the organized railway employes After receiving the brotherhood heads and Chairman Adamson author of the eight hour law President Wilson virtually finished his message to congress in which he will recommend completion of the railway legislative outlined by him at the last session These recommendations include provisions for the enlargement of the Interstate Commerce Commission and for compulsory investigation of threatened strikes The latter is bitterly opposed by brotherhood leaders Railroad executives figured only inconspicuously in yesterday's activities here Their representatives appeared before the senate interstate commerce committee and learned that their spokesmen would be heard first on the railroad problem on next Thursday Brotherhood representatives may appear before the committee later but so far have not indicated formally their intention to do so President Wilson told members of a committee of the Evansville Ind Chamber of Commerce who called during the day to tell him that there would fee a Middle States conference on the railroad situation in their city early in December that he hoped there would be similar discussions on the problem in other sections of the United States and that he wished all business men would investigate the question in an open-minded way After their fifteen minute conference with the President the brotherhood heads would admit only that they had congratulated Mr Wilson on his re-election Warren S Stone head of the engineers declared that he could not tell now whether a strike would be called if the eight hour law was not effect on January 1 We can tell that better later he said Representative Adamson went over plans for railroad legislation fully with the President Afterwards Tie said that he had no doubt that the eight hour law would be upheld by the courts as constitutional adding that the measure was very carefully framed by lawyers familiar the situation the constitution I have a prepared for additional legislation to meet the situation which I probably will introduce as soon as congress convenes he said I do not think there is anything in the talk that the railroad inen will call a strike if the eight hour law is pending in the courts said Mr Adamson In doing so they would be running directly contrary to public opinion and that no man or body of men can afford to do DEMOCRAT LEADS IN RECOUNT Pittsburg Nov 21 M Clyde Kelly Democrat took the lead from Representative W H Coleman Republican in tho official recount of the vote cast in the Thirtieth congressional district yesterday With 41 of the 212 precincts in the district remaining to be counted the official vote was Kelly Coleman a net gain for the day of for the former Guy E Campbell Democrat made a net gain of 145 over Representative A J Barchfeld Republican in the recount of the vote in the Thirty-second district which with 69 precincts out of 244 in the district yet to be counted gave the former and the latter METHODIST LAYMEN MOLD THEM OPENING SESSION LAST NIGHT Convention Is Started To Advance Work of Church Harrisburg Nov 21 Pennsylvania Methodist laymen gathered in Harrisburg for a state wide convention for advancement of the work of their church were welcomed to the capital city of the state last night by Governor Brumbaugh and a series of addresses urging the reuniting of all Methodist churches in America Numerous clergymen and close to laymen representing nearly every county in the state have registered for the convention Bishop J F Berry of Philadelphia presided at the opening session in the late afternoon at which spiritual preparedness was the theme and Bishop W A Quayle of St Louis and W E secretary of the educational work of the missionary movement were speakers Last night Bishop Earl Cranston of Washington of the Methodist Episcopal church north presided and made an earnest plea for the union of the Methodist churches saying that the time has come for them to get together and that it is a test of Methodism and of patriotism Bishop Eugene R Hendrix of Kansas City representing the Methodist church south and Dr T H president of the Methodist Protestant church college at Westminster Md followed speaking on the importance of unity What a united Methodism meant for religions work in America Governor Brumbaugh in his welcome asked that the convention present a solid front and that it speak its message to the legislature so that laws which will still further tend for the conservation of character and life will follow The convention will last for three days and today education and civic righteousness church problems and a world program will be themes of the three meetings SECRETARY LANE TO EXPLAIN TERMS OF BORDER SETTLEMENT American Members of Commission Are Very Optimistic Atlantic City N J Nov 21 Cabrera and his colleagues on the joint commission will be formally told today by Secretary of the Interior Lane chairman of the American commission on just what terms and an agreement providing the withdrawal of the American punitive expedition along the international border may be reached Fortified by the of President Wilson that he will back the American representatives in their efforts to reach a settlement of the questions at issue between Mexico and the United States Secretary Lane returned here late yesterday He immediately went into conference with Dr J R Mott and Judge Gray the other American commissioners informing them in detail of the conference he had at Washington Saturday with the President The formal meeting with the Mexicans will take place today The atmosphere of uncertainty and even hopelessness which has been apparent for many weeks was entirely lacking last night The Americans appeared confident that the end of the conference is in sight Their propositions have been reduced to writing and it is understood will admit of little debate The Mexicans appeared not to take a pessimistic view of the situation Mr Cabrera again assuring newspaper men that he was very hopeful of an amicable adjustment There was no evidence however that he was prepared to recede from his position so long maintained that agreement to the plans of the Americans was out of the question WARREN WOMAN VOTED FOR PRESIDENT AT ELECTION Miss B A Berringer Has This Honor Now Lives In Chicago The first woman native of Warren to vote for a president of the United States is now in the city in the person of Miss B A Barringer of Chicago 111 who two weeks ago today cast her ballot in Chicago Miss Barringer although a native of War ren has lived in Chicago for the past ten years She is an enthusiastic suffragist and believes that it will only be a matter of a few short years until every woman in the country will have the right of franchise in common with the men When asked if she had voted for Wilson she You had ought to be able to guess you cUn see what office I came in to tell that I had cast my first vote for a president of the United States From this and the fact that she is a subscriber to the Times we take it that Miss Barringer cast her vote according to the policies advocated by the Times Miss Barringer is spending her vacation with her family on avenue CLOSE OFFICE Recruiting By Colonel Wheelock Is Discontinued He Will Leave Tonight With Aids for Fort Dupont STOP TAKEN AS SIGN OF EARLY RETURN OF THE 1 6TH REGIMENT Thirty-four Men Taken Since Office Was Opened Aug 1 Recruiting Privates Likely to Go to Border Col D F A Wheelock with Privates R S Hough ton and Ed Dailey will leave this evening for Fort Dupont Delaware The recruiting station which has been in operation here since shortly after the departure of Company I last spring will pass into history today There is just a chance that when Colonel Wheelock and his two aides report at Fort Dupont tomorrow they will be sent doWn to the Mexican border Colonel Wheelock declared today that he would go down if he could The likelihood that the two privates will be sent on to the border is even greater There are several reasons which may be assigned for closing the recruiting station here it is believed they are being closed up similarly in other parts of the state The first reason is that the boys on the border are going to come home soon This is the logical conclusion to be taken from the recent mustering out of troops Other regiments will be sent home next time and it is possible the Sixteenth will be among them Another reason is the high cost of recruits Recruiting has not been brisk recently The idea of spending the winter in a southern clime has not taken any great root among the boys brought up in this northern clime and then the fact that Company I has seen no action since it left here last May but has had its activities confined to hikes and drills has undoubtedly had a discouraging effect on the minds of young might otherwise have enlisted Colonel Wheelock done sonte excellent Work the time ne has conducted the recruiting office here He proffered his services to Adjutant General Stewart long be- fore the National Guard was called Immediately after Company I left he opened a recruiting office in the Armory and began sending recruits to Mt Gretna Incoming federal authority when it took charge of the National Guard ruled that such recruits were secured without proper authority and they were returned to Warren In July Colonel Wheelock was duly authorized and sworn in to act as a federal recruiting officer He opened the office in the state Armory August 1 and since that time has sent to the border no fewer than 34 recruits His office showed such excellent results that his territory was enlarged and he was made recruiting officer for Erie Corry Bradford Lock Haven Coudersport and other towns in the section He made 34 recruits but he rejected 29 other applicants himself Of the 34 he sent to Fort Dupont only seven were sent back to their a small percentage when compared with that of other districts in the state Colonel Wheelock's friends hope he gets to the border and sees service there as he wishes to Private R S Houghton if he is sent down will go with Company A of Corry and Private Ed Dailey will be attached 16 Company I VON IS NOW HARD AFTER RUMANIANS Teuton Armies Are Attacking Stronghold of Craiova Berlin Nov 21 The capture of the Roumanian stronghold of Craiova by Von Falkenhayn is imminent The war office officially announced that the Teuton armies before the city are attacking its defenses The headquarters of the Roumanian army have been removed and a Sofia dispatch says the defenders are falling back in disorder Its capture would isolate all western Roumania and compel the retreat of the large Roumanian forces Allies May Assume Control Y London Nov 21 On account of the national unrest in the allies Towers are on the point of assuming control of the government according to Athens dispatches A new ultimatum is reported to have been sent to Constantine who has protested at the disarming of the country HAS PLURALITY OF San Francisco Nov 21 The California vote complete gives Wilson a plurality of 3.416 according to a check made by the Republicans of the State Committee oh the official returns from all but eight counties SAILS New London Nov 21 With three allied cruisers lying outside the three-mile limit the German merchant subj marine conveyed by the tugs Alert and Beck sailed at this afternoon A curious part of the cargo I safely loaded on the submarine were a number of wreaths which the crew will spread on the water in mid-ocean in memory of the men who were lost with the ill-fated Bremen LAIN TO STAND ON SAYS STONE Will Watch the Railroads Fight the National Government Baltimore Nov 21 Organized labor in the coming legal battle over the eight hour law is going to remain an interested spectator on the sidelines and watch the railroads fight the government under which they live This was the stand of the great railroad brotherhoods as outlined today by Warren S Stone head of the engineers in an impassioned speech before the American Federation of Labor Stone was followed by Sheppard of the conductors Garter of the firemen and Lee of the trainmen all of them upholding unequivocally the Stone program The time is Stone said when labor is to come into its own We have great faith that the man in the White House will see that we get what was given voluntarily Stone accused the railroads of seeking to bankrupt labor by starting three thousand injunction suits throughout the country Lee threw down a defi to the railroads declaring going to work for a universal eight hour day for every man who toils and if we can't get it we'll fight for it and we'll also fight compulsory arbitration Following the brotherhood chiefs President Gompers of the labor federation took the platform and pledged amid wild cheers the undivided support of every man and woman in the organized labor movement to assist the railroaders with efforts to secure the eight hour day for all who toil FOR BOTH IS NEW PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN SLOGAN State Suffrage Convention Opened Today at Williamsport GERMANY HAS MADE DENIAL Kaiser's Government Makes the Claim That It Has Not Violated On Her Submarine Warfare LIFE BOATS WERE NOT FIRED UPON Admitted Submarine Sunk Ships Washington Government Accepts German Denial As Final Berlin Nov 21 The German government has handed a note to the United States embassy flatly denying it violated its submarine pledges to the United States The note is in reply to the American communication relative to the sinking of the British steamship and three other steamships which were sunk in September The German government admits a submarine sank the but denies the lifeboats were fired upon declaring it was due to German precautions that lives were saved The sinking of the Antwerpen is admitted but the principles of international law were observed says the note The sinking of the other two is denied Accepted as Finel Washington Nov 21 State department officials were ready today to accept as final the German denial of the violation of submarine pledges contained in the note expected from Berlin Their receipt is expected to be closely followed by a note on the case Williamsport Pa Nov 21 With nearly in attendance the annual convention ofthe Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association opened here today Dr Anna Howard Shaw is one of the notable national suffrage workers in attendance Prominent state include GiffOrd Miss Sfc Carey Thomas president of Bryn Mawr college The principal business of the the planning of the fight before the next state legislature for j another referendum on the suffrage amendment The legislative tee conducted an active I campaign and reported today they j Have pledges of support from a percentage of legislators elected at the recent election It was announced at the opening session today that the slogan of the Pennsylvania suffragists has been changed from votes for women to ballots for both The convention will close on Friday PENNSY EMBARGO LIFTED Philadelphia Nov 21 The embargo on carload freight for local delivery was removed by the P R R yesterday It was announced that with a few minor exceptions all restrictions are now lifted against the shipment of freight of any kind including coal and grain for delivery here WARREN MEN BRING BACK EIGHT DEER FROM THE NAME WOODS K M Andrews Gets Biggest Buck Shipped Out of Patten This Season L Charles Moore ana Moore Jr returned home last evening from a ten days hunting trip in northern Maine The party was lucky and brought back eight deer two for each man and the total number allowed under the game laws Leaving here ten days ago the four men reached Patten Me 36 hours later They went into camp in the big woods for six days Mr Andrews who is superintendent of the Wells company had the best luck of anyone in the party bringing down the largest buck shipper from Patten so far this season The buck had a nine-point head and weighed 218 pounds dressed Mr Andrews also got a doe Eighto inches of snow fell the day after the party went into camp and the weather hovered around zero making fine hunting The heads of the four buck brought back by the party will all be mounted POLICE JUSTICE THINKS FINE OF UNMUZZLED DOGS TOO HIGH Council Will Amend Present Ordinance at Next Meeting in All Likelihood Police Justice Blackman wishes there would be a meeting of Council before the first Monday in December He would like to have Council consider the question of reducing the fine now imposed by the ordinance upon owners whose dogs are taken unmuzzled by the police No fewer than a dozen dogs have thus far been captured by the police since the Board of muzzling order went into effect and every time the owner has been assessed the minimum fine of he has given vent to a feeling of indignation that was just as strong as the howls of anguish of the canines who lost their liberty Police Justice Blackman is inclined to believe the fine is a little high and he would see it lowered There are several points about the present ordinance that will likely be changed at the next meeting of Council Under its terms now any person desiring to pick up a dog can purchase it from the poundmaster by offering him not less than The poundmaster cannot shoot the dog but must sell it if offered a price Under this clause it would seem that an owner who has been fined 510 could get his dog from the poundmaster by buying it for He could but Justice Blackman rules that the fact the dog is not in the possession of the police does not let the owner off from paying the fine All that has to be proven is that the dog was at liberty and unmuzzled and the fine can be collected Of the dozen persons who have been fined thus far only a few have paid Six dogs have been shot Their owners could have gotten them all without paying the fine The fines are collectible as others are under the law If those who have refused to pay maintain their position the only recourse of the borough will be to bring suit CONCERT Russian Symphony Orchestra Played to Capacity House Finest Musical Attraction To Ever Visit City EVERY NUMBER WAS PLAYED IN A MASTERFUL EARTHQUAKE REGISTERED Washington Nov 21 A severe earthquake lasting three quarters of an hour was recorded early today at the Georgetown seismograph It originated miles from Washington PACK THANKSGIVING BOX BOYS AT PARISH HOUSE THURSDAY Dainties Needed if Soldiers Are to Feast on Member In Company Has a Cold Extra Purchased If Committee Raises Money Holiday Every Blankets Will Be In almost every town the citizens are busy preparing boxes and packages to send to their soldiers on the border Warren does not wish the boys of Company I to be disappointed or to feel they have been forgotten when all others are membered A committee of ladies has taken the matter in hand and will pack one or more boxes on Thursday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock at the Episcopal Parish house Enough fruit cakes have been promised but ginger cookies rock biscuit candies nuts jams and jellies chipped beef sliced boiled ham or pork and tobacco in any form is needed Every package should be done up in waxed paper Anyone wishing articles sent to individuals should wrap each article carefully in oiled paper place in a shoe box carefully wrap plainly mark to whom it is to be delivered In view of the fact that the boys are suffering very much from cold at night as several have written home the committee believes probably nothing would be more appreciated than an extra blanket and instead of buying them here the money can be contributed and forwarded to Captain Bordwell who can purchase them there and save the expense of shipping The price of a good blanket on the border is about and in case all do not require blankets other needed necessaries can be purchased instead The following is part of the letter received today from one of the boys written at Camp Stewart November My Dear Have been so nearly froze up for the past week have been too busy hugging the fire to write I believe that it is colder here than at Warren as any water left in the pails although they are inside the tent freezes solid during the night They have been talking about floors and sidewall lumber foi the past two weeks but it is as far a thing of the future as ever as near as I can find out Everybody in camp has a cold and although we get out to reville at instead of in the morning it is so confounded cold that we don't go to drill until The letter goes to show that cold is one of the hardships the people at home have not recognized As the city certainly wants to do all that is possible for its soldier boys and also show them that we honor and appreciate them and what they are doing an immediate response should be made The time is limited in which to get the box ready to reach them on Thanksgiving for the box must be started the coming Thursday The blankets are a present need Major Wheelock states there are about 80 in the company at the present time so will be required for the blankets All contributions for the box proper should be taken to the Parish House Thursday between 2 and 5 o'clock Those in cash or check should be sent at once to either Mrs C E Bordwell Mrs W H Jones or Mrs S E Walker SMITH MAY BRING HOME RACERS FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Local Man Will Sell Filly at the Big Morse Show In New New York City Cylde C Smith chairman of the local racing association and one of the best known horsemen in the section will leave this evening for New York city where he will attend the Madison Square Garden show and sale Mr Smith will bring back with him a couple of colts if he finds likely ones that suit his fancy Mr Smith will also be interested in the sale because he will have a horse there which will go on the block She is a Peter the Great filly and her name is The Great Miss Fowler The horse was not used here this summer but she has speed and will probably bring a good price Bad luck followed the Smith stable the past summer At the beginning of the season Mr Smith had four colts all of which gave great promise and had been picked by him for development as trotters and pacers One after the other they have taken sick or figured in slight accidents which has rendered them useless for rasing purposes Not a one of them has shown anything like the class of Col Franklin the pacer which Mr Smith sold nearly a year ago Mr Smith will go down to New York alone He is going to take a look and if he sees what he wants will undoubtedly bring home a horse or two Fast horses are his hobby and the fact that he had no luck this year has not discouraged him in the least NO CHANGE IN OFFICIAL VOTE Sacramento Cal Nov 21 Unofficial returns from four counties were rendered official by the canvass conducted yesterday in the office of Secretary of State Frank C Jordan leaving only 12 counties to be heard from These include the largest counties of the state and more than half the vote has still to be canvassed not later than Monday November 27 the date fixed by law No errors in the count of votes for presidential electors have been found MEXICANS RELEASE AMERICANS El Paso Tex Nov 21 Albert Herold an American cattleman who was arrested and taken to Chihuahua city on a charge of cattle stealing was released there and has reached the border He declared General Trevino warned him to leave for E Paso as soon as he was released Herold added that General Trevino declared he was no longer able to protect American citizens in his zone Herold is said to have been with Villa at one time Fair tonight and Wednesday Rendition of Sixth Symphony Was Superb Master Composer Faithfully Interpreted Last night's concert by the Russian Symphony orchestra under of Modest Altschuler was of the kind that remain in the memory as a source of perpetual delight The theatre was filled with a sympathetic even enthusiastic audience paying the closest attention and quick to manifest its appreciation Naturally this sort of atmosphere reacted on the players and they able to give of best The program had been very happily chosen Although Sixth Symphony is reckoned to be one of the greatest compositions for the orchestra which the world knows still the themes are so distinct that it is not difficult for an ordinary listener to follow Therefore it made an admirable foundation for the concert last night The lovely melody in the first movement reappearing again and again introduction in wonderful combinations of tone color the fascinating of the dance themes the fine march and the sombre closing strains these were all so well played that it would be impossible to single out any as of especial merit Of course a conductor of rank one expects to have his men welt in hand but there was more than this they had been so well trained by him that there was a spontaneity and fire as well as a melting tenderness that are found only when genuine artists are in the mood and alt the surroundings contribute to expression The applause at the conclusion was so hearty that the genial conductor had his players render the popular Humoresque of Dvorak Saint Saens Rouet d Omphale gave pleasure as that bright piece of program music always does the composer takes as his title Spinning Wheel as the school children know queen of Lydia among whose women p.oor Hercules was compelled for to wear feminine garments and spin with the rest he exercises hia right to make the composition simply a bit of airy graceful music a charm impossible to resist The orchestra played it well Much more interesting however was ballet The Nut Cracker In a series of dancea called respectively Arabian Fairy an endless variety of rythm and melody as well as some extremely beautiful harmony ara drawn upon Curious effects drums cymbals tambourines piccolo and bassoon are employed but the effect under the conductor's alert eye last night was highly enjoyable For an encore we had Blue Danube waltzes It will never cease to be thought of singularly beautiful orchestration and seldom have those who were present last night heard it played so gracefully and with such compelling rythin The applause would not cease until Mr Altschuler had them give us once frequently played little Entre Act Loin de Bal Cesar Cui's Orientale and Beethoven's lovely Minuet in G by Bernard Altschuler with orchestral accompaniment A rich full tone and the other qualities which go to make a fine cellist the soloist a torrent of applause to which he responded with a Gavotte by Popper A couple of light and graceful compositions by Arensky followed In one of them was an incidental solo by the first violin As a result of the favor shown it he played Liebesfreud and won his way into the hearts of his hearers It was very beautiful indeed The last number was just the kind to send us home perfectly happy Tannhauser Overture with the amazing developments of The Pilgrim's chorus was played with a dash and precision a superb of the bass kept under perfect control by the conductor and not once degenerating into mere noise and an accuracy that was beyond all praise It was a fine concert and we all grateful to the Philomel who planned it Messrs Haggerty and Suter who managed it and Modest Altchuler and his orchestra who rendered it Monday November 20 1916 will be a red letter day in the history of Warren SHOT WIFE ATTEMPTED Pittsburg Nov George Vovk aged 45 last night shot ami killed his wife and then attempted suicide at his home on the north aide in the presence of his daughter Jennie According to the police jealousy was responsible for the crime Vovk is in a serious condition
