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8 SECTIONS 544 COLUMNS LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PITTSBURG BURG PRE lrtGSr AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PiTTSDURG JL JLJL PITTSBURG, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1915 ESTABLISHED 1884 FIVE CENTS 1PQ 1L KJ FAMOUS "SNAKE DANCE" BIG FEATURE AT PITT-W. J. FOOTBALL GAME I HJYT plosioim In Camidly ptiftf il fc.j 1 kA i i i s- 14 CROWD AT BIG, GAME SETS NEW RECORDS Close to Thirty-Five Thousand Vociferous Enthusiasts Witness Downfall of Wash-Jeff at Hands of Warner's Men, 19 toO Traps GMs Above left to right Pitt students in "Snake Dance" between tialves; one LJ V- of teiowiiFandUinE' water Bpoutto get into Forbes Field. V. 'V THOMPSON DENIES HE'S TO WED RICHES POLICE PROBERS IN EVENING SESSION BRITISH WAR LORD GOES TO LEAD ALLIES IN BALKANS By Ed.

L. Keen. Vnlted Preaa Staff t'orr capon dent. London, Nov. G- I-ord Kitchener, hurrying from London to the Near East, was believed tonight about to take active command of the allies in the fiejd-against the Austro-German-Bul-garian forces in the Balkans.

Who will succeed him as war minister was a much-discussed question. That "he had resigned was still officially denied but few believed he would return to his cabinet ine London Globe was suppressed by the police this afternoon. The ties ariinn xc-ns tak-T. of the paper's publication of -reports n-iicntner naa resigned. This -story was accompanied by a bitter attack on Lord Haldane In connection with an expression of the hope that he would not recetve the war office post, is an unpleasant obscurity j-p'obe in ttr confiscated issuer of today.

uuiu ittiuniiB is creaitea with the conviction that he could flit the war office post adequately. but we most sincerely trust the premier will not commit such an irremediable error as to give it to him, which would instantly jeopardize the Mfe of the government." Of the war minister's absence the Post said: t7V 13 believed that Earl Kitcheners business will necessitate a S. Prlo.nered, tnat Jt win be necessary to fill his place at the war office before long. It is true that he has not resigned, but the importance of his present errand makes it certain that his resignation is only delayed. The suggestion has been made that Lord Haldane be brought back to the war Su Whis 18 Probably unfounded." The Globe is the first English paper 1 to be suppressed since the war be- Conrlaocd oa Page 4.

EiTGolRAGiT Irish Potato Forgotten in Cel-- lar Grows 1 P2 Feet. Special to THE PRESS. Columbus, Nov. 6. W.

E. Pancake is exhibiting in his store at Clifford an Irish potato with an extraordinary sprout. The potato was In a cellar and was overlooked when other potatoes were called on to perform their duty. This overlooked potato began to bud and became 11 feet six inches lone and still growing. CHOKES Oil SCREW.

Child Dead Before Aid Reaches Him. Special to THE PRESS. Fergus Falls. Minn, Nov. 6.

The small son of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Derky of the town of Corliss, this county, found a large screw while playing and put it in his mouth. It slipped down his throat and choked him. An older boy ran out to the field where his parents were at work, but before they arrived the child was dead.

John Sagard Hurt by Auto. John Sagard, aged 22. of 1211 Stanhope Sheraden, was knocked down by an automobile, owned and driven by J. N. Palley, of 619 Allegheny Northside, in Fifth near Wood st, about 10:25 last night, and suffered a fractured rib.

He was taken to the Allegheny fJeneral hospital. Bystanders said Sagard stepped in front of the moving machine. HER LIFE WAS FILLED Not Cupid's Brand WITH NAUGHT BUT MUSH Special to THE PRESS. Marion. Ind.

Nov. 6. Mrs. Dora Duke, in her testimony in an action against William Duke for divorce in the Grant Superior court, said that during the last six weeks she lived with her husband, near Oxford. be would give her nothing but mush to eat.

ilrs. Duke had children by a former marriage and these were a.lso limited to the mush diet. Duke had property, bis wife said, and was not guilty or cruelty otner man ne would provide no clothing and oaly mush as food. The court granted a divorce- Firemen Searching for Bodies Believed Buried Beneath Debris in Brooklyn Horror. 200 Escape Death Narrowly MANY JUMP FROM WINDOWS HIGH ABOVE THE STREET By rnlted Press.

New York, Nov. 6 Between dozen and 25 persons are dead and 41 were injured in a fire that swept through an old factory building at 281 North bixtn Brooklyn, this afternoon. The victims were young factory girls and a few men. They were either baked to death while clinging to the ed out in despairing leaps to the brick street ironvine lourin anu uua -Nearly 200 other girls, warned by the first roar of the flames that burst forth from the basement, escaped death. Borne alia aown ropes: umei hastily improvised life nets, and ftill others were carried fainting down lad ders from the third floor.

Squads of firemen were searcning in ruins tonight for bodies of other girls, fnr thin venlnar. WHO uiidv.vwwvv and are believed to lie beneath tons of debris tne uasenieiu- The building was occupied by he Diamond. Candy the Essex Shirt nwn ii. rM- psrnf mstnu facturing men's clothing who occupied the two upper noora. Todny'a firr nil the fltfc In we aiame bnlldinjr in four Tears.

Thrre wjih "levator down whleh the rlrls. 75 feet above the street, might have been taken MfbER PATH TO SAFETY. i There wan only one Are escape. though andrr normal c.aitioB.,- than 30O anen aaita balldtaar. Thla oe deader Ph uunuiun- mr nnnpll II no a oae nlaoow on afety was bat two ieea.

"what caused the Are is not yet a burst of. flame rushed up from the blowing out part of the windows on the first floor. 40 girls sprang through wowi rear -to safety gusts of air nathrnrst floor warned those on the floors above. They Pushed to the window nd then turned back, choked by the smoke, toward the A column of flame leaped into the second floor when a htened rl threw open the stair door. There was a oanicky rush toward the windows oJ? ri after girl Jumped to the roof Sf-a fhed adjoining the factory, falling off with a broken leg or arm.

Girts and men fought their way to the windows on the three upper floors as the flames gained headway Smoke waa Jaait beglaalajg to roll from the third floor whea a girl wear, a abort white aproa appeared at a vHadow oa the flfth floor aad "Help! Oh help mmV Before the aaswerlna; yells reached her, ahe Jumped from the her body turalag over twice be-tvrV'm Twa. evu-hed to death on the navement below. of the 12 known dead, eight are young girls and four men. So badi were the bodies burned that tonight only a few had been identified. A eray-baired mother, supported by two policemen, was led rnnrcrue at twilight and identified the bodTo a Klrl who had been killed by Sing aKs that of her daughter Bertha Kossman.

aged 19 278 orth Sixth st. She collapsed and was taken to a hospital tor ireauncut. Continaed on Page 4. traSTwreck KILLS THREE By ratted Press. ke Charles.

men were Kinea a train. Snr rn six miles west of Longville, today. WATCH SAVES LIFE. Bullet Stopped by Hunter's Special to THE PRESS. CanyonVille, Nov.

-6. James Pickett of Cow Creek, when seeing a leer feeding the ago secured his gun and was after the deer in an open, clear field when he was shot at. the bullet striking his doubltcased watch in the shirt pocket mrecttv over his heart. The ball went fnrtugfe both cases of the watch and left not a wheel of the works, but inflicted only a flesh wound on his breast. FROGS' LEGS CHEAP.

Croakers Sell for 5 Cents the! Dozen. Special THE PRESS. Fulda. Nov. 6.

The frog industry is in full swing and giving employment to many boys and men. are more numerous than for years. In the past week two firms -bought about 4.0W) dozen. The frogs are found hiding in crevasses of the rocks around the lake. They aH tor 5 cents a dozen.

1 GRANDSTAND PRESENTS RIOT OF RIVALS' COLORS By Ralph S. Davis. While 33,000 frenzied enthusiasts j-elled' themselves hoarse, the University of Pittsburg yesterday at Forbes Field won the football championship of Western defeating W. strong eleven by the decisive score of 19 to 0- Scenes such as were enacted at the pigrantic Bellefleld stadium yesterday may never be repeated in local sporting historyCtedainly they broke all precedent, and firmly established, this city ns one of the foremost football strongholds of tho nation. With the grandstand presenting a riot of coloi, the streets outside swarming for hours before the g-ame with thousands of persons eaeer to Rain admission, with the later scenes both on the field and in the stands and bleachers Lepsarinfr description, the ensemble was one which will never bs forgotten bv anyone who witnessed "The crowd was conservatively estimated at between 3S.00O and It filled every nook and cranny of Forbes Kield.

while -thousands, unable to grain though all sorts of offers were made for tickets, wending their disappointed way homeward without witnessing the spectacle which they were wild to see. The retrular means of entrance were too slow for many of the hot-blooded youngsters who swore allegiance to either Pitt or W. and scores o( them dared personal injury by scaling-the hiarh fence into the bleachers in rierht field. Most of them had tickets, but they couldn't curb their impatince to be on the scene of battle, and no one endeavored to stop thern as they made their daring climb. PLANKED BY SEA OP FACES.

The great gridiron battle was staged Continued on Page 4. (For particulars and detailed account of the Pitt-W. J. football game see sporting section.) 5TFESCUED BY CRUISER AFTER WRECK By United Prens. Washington, Nov.

5. All passengers and the crew of the American steamer Fort Bragg, which ran shore at Port Gordo, at the extreme end of Lower California and foundered, were saved and taken oft by the cruiser San Diego. Admiral Wlnslow wired the navy department tonight that he was taking the 07 survivors to San Diego. They spent a night of hardship around bonfires ashore while the Fort Bragg, was being pounded to pieces on the rocks before being rescued by the American warship today. INQUIRIES PORTEND, DEPARTMENT CHANGES.

Harris'ourg, Nov. 6. A general overhauling of the state government is about to be inaugurated by the new state economy and efficiency commission, composed of the governor, auditor general and attorney general. Harry S. McDevitt, counsel for the commission, has addressed a circular letter to all the state departments in which he asked for information in detail, concerning all the employes.

It is believed the information lie receives will be used in the preparation of bills providing for a more economical arrangement of the departments. Hear! Hear! Right Here! Step fas idc, and on ant Ad Pace meet 3HIIS. A-XXA ADPACK. She tells ton ahe well, let her tell It! Quite a Story 4 et ft urn- eoteit of nbal liea fcefciad FRKSS want aa. Unman laterest Lata of it.

Kead the ADPAGK FAMILY ANTHOLOGY! Continue Heckling of Northside Police Officials and Ask Questions Regardless of Who's Embarrassed by Them ASSERT THAT GAMING IS PRACTICED UNLAWFULLY In the face of, the denials of the Northside police officials, members of the councilmanic committee in charge of the probe of the Sixth police district, which Is now in full swing, continue to charge that gambling and disorderly houses are running on the Northside almost as openly as in days of old. The hearings were resumed at the Allegheny police station shortly after 8 o'clock last night, and Lieut. E. B. Barry and Lieut.

Charles Faulkner, who were assigned by Commissioner Uniontown Banker Says Story That He Will Marry Widow Worth $40,000,000 Is Absurd UNIONTOWN IS FACING FUTURE UNDISMAYED New York. Nov. 6. Josiah V. Thompson, coal land owner and president of the First National bank of Uniontown, which closed its doors Jan.

18, having on deposit $1,400,000. emphatically denied today the consistent: rumors that he was to marry a woman worth S40.000.000 and was to return to Uniontown to straighten out his affairs. Mr. Thompson, when seen at the Waldorf, laughed heartily when questioned about the rumor Of his marriage. "I want to.

emphatically deny the rumor. There is absolutely no truth In it. When. I go back to Uniontown it will not be by the marriage route. "The depositors of the First National bank will be paid every dollar due to them.

They need have no fear. I have put up absolutely good securities in the hands of the comptroller of the currency at Washington." When asked what, these securities were, Mr. Thompson replied: "Ten thousand acres of coal lands along the Baltimore Ohio and in West Virginia, and it is appraised at considerably more than is owing depositors of the First National bank. "I expect to return to Uniontown within the next month or two and the bank is to be opened. I never ran away from any action and I want to say to you I will never run away.

I am prepared to face any action at any time." SOME SUITS HELD UP. Uniontown, Nov. The creditors of J. V. Thompson, former president of the First National Bank of Uniontown and -coal operator, are prepared to wait until Xhe end of the month to learn the quality and quantity of "the assets Thompson has agreed to assign over to the creditors committee for settlement of his debts.

Only a few creditors suits were filed against Thompson here today. Reports are that a "large number of suits will be filed Monday. That the future of Fayette county and Uniontown does not depend on the re-opening of the First National Bank of Uniontown. or the financial restitution of Thompson, was apparent tonight at this place and ConnellsvlUe. when thousands of dollars passed into the hands of the merchants of both towns.

In Uniontown the stores and sidewalks were congested with buyers and pleasure seekers, which controverts Continued aa Page 4. FAIR. Bright nad eiondleaa afciea are the happy promise ef the weather forecaster for today, and the lover of the acreat satdaara will he ac'teat at leant aaother ehaaee of freedom ia the open before the close of ladiam annimcr and the arrival of cold it tad and amove. Tingling weather, the kind that bring a slow of health to the cheelut, but warmer tluta yesterday, ia a part of the promise that kaa been made. The forecast for Western Pennsylvania.

Eastern Ohio and West Virginia for today 1st "Fair and Warmer i Monday partly cloudy." MUNITIONS FOR TURKS TO BE RUSHED BY KAISER By Vnlted Pa. Berlin, via London, Nov. War munitions for the Turks will be rushing by through train from Germany great Krupp plant toward Constantinople by Monday, it was believed here tonight. No delay was foreseen beyond an occasional wait on a siding fo rthe passage over the single track line of northwesterly bound trainloads of food and raw materials from Turkey and Bulgaria on their way to Germany. The Bulgarians were expected to push to the northwest immediately, along the Orient railroad, from Msh.

which thev captured Friday afternoon. The Germans were reported already moving to the southwestward to meet them, Varvarin. which they took today. The two towns are miles apart. Military men thought the gap could be closed i-v Sunday night.

It was recognized that this would require long marching but the Germans advanced miles Friday. Germany mutually in urgent need uppUes, which each can furnish to the otner, poU was deemed certain that no unnecessary time will be lost. vl With a junction today at Krlvl vir, S5 miles a little west "Ofc of Nish and IS miles east of between the Austro-German left and the Bulbar right wings, an almost unbroken line of the two forces extends oroh.cn across Serbia, along a vi-rrt rrom "TV" eaL through and down the railroad line Continued on Page 4. BUYS COWS WITH WOLVES. on Pests Pays for Bounty Stock.

Special to THE PRESS. Bayfield, Nov. 6. Jack Mussell. a farmer of the Bayfield district, has solved the problem" of making wolves buv cowa for him.

He bought several cows on payments of $30 a month- He is meeting the Instalments with drafts from the state and county treasurer, which he has received as bounty on wolves. POPE TO SEND WEDDING GIFT By Vnlted Preaa. Rome. Nov. The pope is reported tcyiay to plan sending a special representative with an autograph letter and a gift, to attend the wedding of President Wilson and Mrs.

Gait. His holiness is believed to be under the impression, however, that there Is to be a state ceremony. tonotmXiTlUvtily festooned tables to the place poll or me ClUDS vl I In the toastmaitor usuallv assigned to the toastmaster PROSPERITY IS CELEBRATED BY STEEL HEADS Representing an industry which is now running 100 per cent plus as against 50 per cent, a year ago and 35 per cent 10 months ago, 250 operating heads of the Duquesne Steel Works of the Carnegie Steel Co. last evening held their annual dinner in the English room of the Fort Pitt -hotel. It was an occasion for the renewal of friendships and the exchange of felicitations, and in order that -pleasure might be uppermost in the minds of the fiarticipants, those in charge bad prom-sed to allow the evening to pass with out the customary oratory.

They had movies and music instead. About the only arrangement which gave the banquet the usual appearance of such affairs was a "head" table, and persons occupying the central board included leading officials of the Duquesne Works. The place of honor was held by E. J. Hamilton, general superintendent at Duquesne, who recently rose to that post when his immediate chief.

Homer D. Williams, was made president of the Carnegie Steel upon A. C. Dinkey leaving that office. -re-Ti tha rpnnrter made nis waV and inquired as to whether mention would be made of the reported fact that the Duquesne works had broken all records for output during October, he was told that the matter 'of steel production as well as operations in the immediate future were cause for gratification and satisfaction to all, but that such topics were a little serious for the period, and would not -the interviewer remain to laugh over the movies.

Even though the Duquesne works dinner is a family affair" those connected with the industry which has its most extensive plants in the Pittsburg district feel just about as optimistic as Farrell. who when in this city Friday said: "I am quite sure that what may appear to be an abnorbal activity will develop into a steady and sustained degree of prosperity." YOSHIHITO ON WAY TO CROWN By TTaited Press. Tokio. Not. 6.

Through a succession of gaily decorated towns, station packed with cheering, brilliantly dressed men. women and children and thousands of groups of farmers and their families scattered along the railroad line, the Emperor Yoshihito was journeying in his gorgeous royal train today from Tokio to the ancient Japanese capital, Kioto, to be crowned, To avoid a tiresome long railroad, arrangements had been made for his tnajesty to spend the night at Kagoya. He will enter Kioto ia state Sunday forenoon. The empress, owing to poor health, was unable to make the Journey. NEW SPLIT THREATENS IN MEXICO By United Preaa.

Ei Paso, Nov. 6. A threatened split with Carranza was said, tonight fo be Qen. Obregon's reason for soms to Agua where he "has 10,000 loyal followers. Obregon may open -negotiations with the defeated Villa forces, it was rumored, to unite against the recognized head of the present de facto government.

While passing through El Paso last night, Obregon would make no statement regarding. his standing with Car-ranra. The man "who brought success to Carranza in the Mexican civil war brushed all such questioners aside with the reply: "Mexico will be at peace The popularity of "El (the one-armed man), as Mexicans now call Oregon, caused words between Carranza and Obregon on their recent tour of northern Mexico and resulted in Obregon-leaving for Agua Prieta. In Saltillo, Torreon and other cities they visited the multitudes acclaimed Obregon enthusiastically, but there was hardly 'a cheer for Carranza. Gen.

Serrano, Obregon's chief of preceded Ei Mocho to Agua Prieta and reported that Oen. Plutarco Elias Cal-les and the garrison there felt kindly toward Obregon in the latter's reported differences with CarranzL WILL SCREAM NO MORE. Huge Eagle Slays Goose and Is Laid Low. Special THE PRESS. Elizabethtown, Ky Nov.

J. Walters killed a gray eagle on his farm, eveni killed ters, who took part in the affray with a shotgruri." The bird measured seven feet from tip to tip of its wings. tour m.les ea.t Of town Sunday ng. The eagle bad just previously a gOOSe belonging to Mr. Wal- Walsh to make a the district Friday, were closely ques tioned about their round of the clubs and about vice There is now no doubt of the animosity existing between the police offi cials and the.

councilmanic committee in charffr of'the investigation. The members of this committee are S. Dr. G. A.

Dillinger and W. Y. Knglish. PAIT.KNER IS QUESTIONED. Councilman was the only member of the committee not present at the hearing.

Lieut, Faulkner was the first witness called. He askea- by Councilman Coattfaned ob PaV Editorial Seetloa. ADAM AND EVE ATTIRE WORN AT POKER GAME By TTBtte Fraa. Cincinnati. Nov.

6. Mrs. Iola Gray, aged 24, -wife -of Harry A. Gray, aged 27, assistant head gardener of the park board, told Domestic Relations Judge Hoffman today in her suit for divorce, that as a result of a poker game to which her husband took her one night, the scene was transformed into one similar to the Garden of Eden. Judge- Hoffman had never heard of such a game.

He was told players mast doff a piece of clothing at each defeat. The game continued so long. Mrs. Gray said, tnat ever a Bg leaf i wo J1 court investigators are taking charge 0f the case. usoand of anther woman who h.

ram holds hirh more man coupies f. nark rir-rmnt it.