Wilson outlines Pan Americanism and preparedness in address
President Wilson delivers his third annual address to Congress urging full partnership in the Western Hemisphere and a comprehensive national defense build up. He backs government ships rural credit federal aid and a new commission on transportation while denouncing hyphenated Americans aiding belligerents and proposing higher internal taxes to fund the program.
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Daniels
250-lb. Husband Deserts. Wife Spanks Him, Court Hears
Sunbury Pennsylvania December 7. John Heim of Herndon weighed 250 pounds faced desertion charges from his 90 pound wife. He pleaded guilty and asked the court to curb his wife as she admitted to spanking him when he misbehaved causing their separation.
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Sunbury
John Heim
Herndon
Shaw urges U S to spend two billion on defense
Special to The Telegraph reports George Bernard Shaw advises the United States to build thirty two dreadnoughts and spend two billion dollars on defense rather than one billion. He favors a Pacific navy to deter Japan and an Atlantic fleet to deter England with zeppelins and siege guns.
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New York
George Bernard Shaw
United States
R. Shaw
Intercollegiate Socialist Society
America
Pacific
Japan
Atlantic
England
Weather forecast for Harrisburg area a night to Wednesday
Partly cloudy with little temp change. Night low near 30. Winds variable. Susquehanna and tributaries fall slowly toward a near stationary stage. Harrisburg Wednesday morning stage about 0.7 feet. Mean temp 52. Yesterday high 36 low 28 normal 35. Sunrise 7 16 sunset 4 30. Moon first quarter December 13 6 35 am. River stage 3.8 feet above low water mark.
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Susquehanna
President's congressional message outlines defense and finance
The address stresses internal taxes to fund national defense, warns against “Hyphenated Americans,” and reinforces the Monroe doctrine. It proposes expanding the army to 141,843 personnel, a 400,000 citizen militia, and a Navy buildup, with a government owned merchant marine bill forthcoming. It recommends new revenue measures including higher taxes on gasoline, automobiles, and bank checks, plus tariff and rail transportation reviews.
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America
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Porto Rico
Wilson Outlines Defense Plans and Pan American Doctrine
President Wilson, in his annual address to Congress, detailed national defense measures and a broad Pan American doctrine. He criticized Americans who show sympathy for foreign belligerents as threatening U S neutrality. Continued on page 12.
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Washington, D. C
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Diplomatic Note Over German Officers Noted
Washington reports Secretary Lansing told Germany the recall of Captain Boy Ed and Captain von Papen stems from their military and naval activities. The U S withheld specific reasons to protect its sources while investigations continue into German agents linked to plans against Mexico.
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Washington, D. C
Lansing
Germany
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von Papen
State Department
James F. J. Archibald
Department of Justice
Mexico
Huerta
Gregory
Captain von Papen
Germans to Aid in Mesopotamia and Macedonia
London reports that the main Serbian campaign has closed and General von Gallwitz with German forces may join Bulgarians in Macedonia to strike at French and British troops before they grow stronger. Berlin dispatches say earlier Balkan units are now detached to join the Franco British assault along the south.
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Associated Press
London
von Gallwitz
Macedonia
Berlin
Balkans
Labor trust double crosses German agent says Marshall
United States Attorney H Snowden Marshall said Franz Von Rintelen a German agent trying to incite munition factory strikers was double crossed by labor leaders and failed to achieve results. He noted hundreds of thousands spent and suggested indictments against corrupt labor men may follow. Rintelen is jailed in London. Separately Allentowns Republikaner German weekly will cease publication after December 21.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
H. Snowden Marshall
Franz von Rintelen
Marshall
Rintelen
Mr. Marshall
David Lamar
Tower of London
City to widen Market Street sub way at $160 500
City officials plan widening of the Market street sub way and new approaches from Fifth Street with total estimated cost of 160 500 exclusive of condemnation damages and utilities shares. Pennsylvania Railroad and trolley lines will contribute portions. new plans delayed to next Tuesday after minor changes.
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Fifth Street
Harrisburg Railways Company
M. B. Cowden
Trolley Company
Philadelphia and
Reading
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fifth
Strawberry
Union Station
Cowden Street
City Council Examines Workmen's Compensation Liability
City officials heard Gordon D. Adler explain the liability of the city under the new workmen's compensation act covering police, fire, drivers, street cleaners, stenographers and clerks. Ordinances proposed include funding for Front Street damages, an assistant assessor, consulting engineer for Walnut Street bridge, and chief of police photo project. Executive session followed to discuss the jitney ordinance.
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Gordon D. Adler
J. W. Hartley
Pittsburgh
Gorgas
Front Street
Harris
Maclay
Lynch
Bowman
Walnut Street
Taylor
City Assessor Salary Ordinance Increases Rates
City Council considered an ordinance fixing salaries for the city assessor and an assistant. Proposed: assessor 2500 dollars and a male assistant 1000 dollars, with possible additional assistants for triennial assessments. Current pay is 900 for assessor, 50 per month for girl clerks, assistants 1200 and 900.
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W. H. Lynch
Howard C. Townsend
Horace A. Chayne
Poultry Exhibition Opens at Kelker Street Hall
The Seventh Annual Pennsylvania Branch American Poultry Association convention opens at Kelker Street Hall this afternoon with the Central Pennsylvania Poultry Association showing. The exhibition features over a thousand entries and hundreds of pigeons. an egg laying contest runs through Saturday evening as judges award prizes.
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American Poultry Association
Kelker Street
Central Pennsylvania Poultry Association
A. W. Newcomer
Glen Rock
Rh. O
French Submarine Fresnel Sunk by Austrian Warship
A German radiogram reported the French submarine Fresnel destroyed on December 5 by an Austrian warship. Two officers and twenty six men were captured. The Fresnel, built in 1909, measured 167 feet and displaced 392 tons with six torpedo tubes. Its normal crew was twenty four.
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Paris
Fresnel
Marine Aiistry
Confesses to Helping Hurl Wife to Death
News reports state Charles D. Etchison confessed that he and Frederick T. Price pushed Price’s wife from a cliff near Minneapolis. The wife died November 28, 1914 after being lured on a ride. Etchison claims Price struck the woman with a rock while they watched, then lied about the incident to conceal a dog related motive. Price denies the confession, calling it false and says he was near his car when the death occurred.
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Chicago
Ill
George W. Armstrong
Hennepin County
Minn
Frederick T. Price
Minneapolis
Bhurling Price
Charles D. Etchison
Washington, D. C
Etchison
Armstrong
Price
Mary
Strikers Picket War Plant at Sharon
One hundred striking machinists picketed the Driggs Seabury lockout plant in Sharon Pennsylvania as a combined lockout and strike continuam. Leaders described the pickets as plain guard and no violence was expected. The firm recently passed into new control amid potential war munitions contracts worth thirty million dollars. Former president John Stevenson refused to accept war orders.
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Prew
Sharon
Driggs-Seabury 1 Lockout Company
Driges-Seabury Company
Ataest
John Stevenson
Clerk Anna Cubbison To Stay In Park Dept Under New Commissioner
Miss Anna S Cubbison longtime clerk to the park superintendent and City Planning Commission will be retained by Commissioner elect I Z Gross as successor to City Commissioner M Harvey Taylor. She has served three years in the park department and recently joined Capitol Hill but will remain due to her familiarity with the work. Augustus Stanley was inaugurated governor of Kentucky for a four year term.
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Anna 5S. Cubbison
City Planning Commission
I. Z. Gross
M. Harvey Taylor
Cubbison
Capitol Hill
Prize list for quotation contest and quoted verses
A historical notice lists prizes for a quotation contest with books valued at $15 and a complete set of Aldworth’s Tennyson in thirteen volumes among the awards. It notes two more installments tonight and winners announced a week hence. The last week restricts quotations to major poets. Several quoted lines from poets like Byron and Shakespeare are displayed.
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Aldworth’s
Tennyson
Ofkespeare
Evangelical Book Store
Well
Byron
Carly Dante
Gray
Gamith
Kipling
Ongfellow
Lron
Shakespeare
Shelley
Spenser
Thomson
Slouch Hat Found as Murder Suspect Charged in Ella Albright Death
Thomas Smith, a colored man, was charged by Detective Harry White with the murder of Mrs. Ella Albright at her North Bighteenth Street home on June 30. Smith denied the accusation, then admitted being in Harrisburg the night of the crime and was held for a preliminary hearing next week. Victim found choked. a witness, 14 year old Katherine Gillet, reported a window left ajar.
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Thomas Smith
White
Smith
Harrisbore
White and Murnane
James Walters
Joseph P. Thompson
Edward Hilton
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