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She Western Teimsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Cloudy today, PROBABLY RAIN; PAIR and COLDER tomorrow. Sun rises, sets, 4:57. The Great Home Sunday Newspaper 456 Columns Today rife it ir 74TII YEAR XO. 73 SUNDAY 3IORXIXG, XOVE3IBER 21, 1915. FIVE CENTS.

4 LM MEN HAMBURG ROOM WOMAN KEPT PRISONER Belgian Relief Ship Torpedoed Without Warning ITALIAN LINER VERONA SAFE FROM U-BOAT KITCHENER SEES KING OF GREECE TO FORCE EARLY WAR DECISION 12 YEARS BY PARENTS, CHARGE Unprecedented Story of Cruelty Being Told Maryland Grand Jury Disobedience Cause of Imprisonment. Child Who Died, Buried as Tortured One. British Field Marshal's Proposals Not Known But End of Crisis Is Expected in Few Hours. MUST QUIT LAND Germans, Austrians and Bulgarians Forcing Defenders Across Borders Into Neighboring Countries. BULLETIN.

LONDON, Nov. 21. 12:12 a. in. The Athens correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph sends the following: "The Athens newspapers publish a communication issued by the British legation, stating that the entente powers have declared- an economic and commercial blockade of Greece." LONDON, Nov.

20. Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, the British secretary of state for war, paid his expected visit to Athens Saturday. With the British minister to Greece, he was received by King Constantine. Earl Kitchener's visit follows closely that of Denys Cochin, the French cabinet member who went to Greece on a special mission and had an audience with the king of the Hellenes. The present military situation in Serbia, which appears to mako a Serbian retreat into Greek territory almost inevitable, will, the belief is confidently expressed here, force Greece within twenty-four hours to abandon the ambiguous attitude which has been a AIDED GERMANS U.

S. Hundredr More Witnesses to Testify at Trial of Ship Officials. NO DENIAL OF THE ACTS Defendants Contend Helping Cruisers Through False Papers No Crime. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.

One hundred or more witnesses to testify against high officials of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line at their trial on charges of conspiracy, i which begins next Monday, have been summoned by the Government, it was announced today. The trial probably will last a week. Four of the five defendants have pleaded not guilty and the fifth' has not been apprehended. The maximum penalty for the crime charged is two years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine on each of the two Indictments. The defendants are Karl Buenz, managing director of the line.

In control of a great fleet of German merchantmen and l'ners which sailed under the Hamburg- American house flag; Adolph Hochmels-tor, purchasing agent of the line; Joseph Poppenhaus, a second officer in the line's employ; George Kotter. superintendent of the line, and Felix Seffner, alleged supercargo on one of the vessels which sailed with supplies to the aid of German cruisers. Seffner has not been found. ADMIT ACTS; DENY CRIME. A charge unique in American jurisprudence faces them conspiracy to defraud and deceive the Government by obtaining clearance papers on false representations.

To facilitate the trial, counsel for the defense admits that the defend ants chartered certain shlpsf and sent them with supplies to the German cruisers Karlsruhe, Kaiser Wilhelm and other German men-of-war active in the Atlantic in the late summer and early fall of 1914, as charged, but denies that these acts constitute a conspiracy to defraud or deceive the United States. The intent, it is claimed, was to deceive the allies Instead. So well did the German agents know that war was inevitable, the Government charges, that some of the 15 ships Involved were chartered weeks before the war began and several actually sailed on their alleged errands of war before war had actually been declared. To support these and other charges, numerous affi- davits have been taken by the Govern- ment. BOUGHT VESSEL OUTRIGHT.

In another instance, according to Roger B. Wood, the assistant district attorney in charge of the prosecution, the Government is prepared to prove that the Hamburg-American Line paid $350,000 to the owners of an American vessel which had been sold under British prize court order. The vessel was the Lorenzo, which sailed August 6, 1914, from New York with supplies, it is charged, for German cruisers in the West Indies, and the amount represented her full value. Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of German money, the defendants admit, was spent in chartering and outfitting four vessels for relief of the cruisers. This money, the uovernmem is prepared to prove, according to Jrir.

Wood, was placed in a New York bank to the credit of a man who was told to spend it under direction of Captain K. Boy-Ed, the German naval attache, and was spent jfrfT accordance with these instructions. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT. Millions of dollars, the Government computes, were spent in chartering and supplying the 15 vessels which figure in the charges. What these vessels sought to carry to the German cruisers, the Government (Continued on Page Four, Column Seven.) CHARGES I cause of uneasiness both to the triple WASHINGTON, Nov.

20. Official dispatches to the state department today regarding the Norwegian steamer Ulriken. carrying wheat from New York to Rotterdam for the Belgian relief commission, which was reported sunk after striking a mine, specifically state that the ship was torpedoed without warning. Reports brought to Amsterdam earlier in the week said the Uldiken was sunk near Galloper Lights. Today's dispatches say the Ulriken was sunk about 35 miles off Harwich and did not say whether any of the four reported lost were Americans.

The state department has instructed American consular officials in England to investigate the torpedoeing of the Ulriken and report at the earliest possible moment. The department wants to Hoar nn definitely whether there were American citizens aboard, though there Is no disDosition among officials to re gard the incident as likely to prove of a serious nature. Officials were surprised that a ship carrying supplies for the Belgian relief commission was attacked. Boy Kills Sister Who Wouldn't Play Hunter TOUNGSTOWN, Nov. 20.

Carmel Caccavllle, 10 years old, of Coalburg, five miles north of here, was shot and killed at her home shortly after returning from school last evening by her brother, Frank, 12 years old, after she had refused to play the dog in an Imaginary ex-hunting expedition the brother wanted to stage. The boy disappeared Immediately after the shooting, but was found early this morning hiding in a wood a short distance from his home. H5 is being detained pending an investigation. The boy is said to have secured a 32-caliber re volver and chased his sister around the house, finally shooting her. She died instantly.

Man Ends 47-Day Stomach-Cure Fast i YOUNGSTOWN, Nov. 20. Joseph A. Anderson, a telegraph operator, today ended a 47 clays' fast, during which time, no food of any kind passed lips, tn ris long abstinence from food he lost 40 pounds, his weight being reduced from 120 to 84 pounds. He fasted to cure stomach trouble.

For the first 25 days he continued to work. During the last few days, however, he had been so weak he was unable to stand. He devoured his first meal ravenously. Briand Tells Plans War Council Made PARIS, Nov. 20.

The foreign affairs committee of the senate today heard explanations by Premier ETiand and Admiral Lacaze, the minister of marine, regarding the situation in the Balkans and as to the Saloniki expedition. Premier Briand gave the members of the committee a resume of the views exchanged with the British war council in the recent conference here and made known to them the measures which are being taken in accord by the two govern I ments. Send Xmas Money To Europe Early NEW YORK. Nov. 20.

Persons contemplating the purchase of money orders as Christmas presents for relatives and friends In Europe were today advised by Postmaster Morgan to obtain them by December 1, or as soon thereafter as possible. Owing to the war. Postmaster Morgan explained, all mails for Europe are subject to censorship and delay and the transmission of money orders is not excepted, even if intended for countries not actually engaged In war. Dies of Injuries In Football Game BUCKHANNON, W. Va Nov.

20. William Parker, 20 years old. captain of the Wheeling High school football team, died here today as a result of injuries sustained in a football game with the Bvckhannon High school. Parker's head was hurt in the first play, but hf- remained in the game until nar the close of the first half. He died an hour later of hemorrhage of the brain.

the meantime the Brazilians, getting suspicious, had the German vessel watched by a warship which stood by night and day. The Brazilian sailors, to pass the time away, went shark fishing and caught a monster. When it was ripped open, a leather sack was found inside. Upon opening the sack the missing papers of the German ship were brought to light. The shark had swallowed the bag thrown from the Mariana Cuezada.

It was said that evidence would be produced to show that the Hamburg-American line sent out its vessels several days before war was declared, showing that it was anticipated. It is understood that one of the chief contentions of the defense will be that Captain Boy-Ed, naval attache to the German embassy. -was behind the plot, as he cannot be indicted. According to the law, a diplomat in a country not at war cannot be prosecuted. If the indicted men are found guilty, the maximum penalty is a $30,000 fine and four years in jail, as there are two indictments against each defendant.

ASTON. Nov. 20. A tale of cruelty unprecedented In the annals of this section is being- unfolded to the gTand jury In its investigation of charges against Frank Marshall, a farmer living near St. Mi-chads, whose daughter, Grace, now-23 years old, was discovered some time ago a prisoner In a room eight by 10 feet in size.

In -which, she had been confined since she was 16 years old. The woman is now nothing ibut skin and bones and devoid of mind. The charges have been made by Miss Emma Davis, local agent for the Children's Society of Maryland, and backed up by John Hancock of "Wilmington, an uncle of the girl, who made the discovery of her plight while on a visit to the Marshall farm. Verify Report Transport Sank On November 4 LONDON, Nov. 20.

The "Star" this evening prints details of the torpedoing of the French steamship Calvados in the Mediterranean November 4. The sinking was reported November 6 and the loss of i life was given as large. According to this story the Calvados was conveying 800 French troops who had been fighting on Gallipoli to France. The "Star's" story, no authority for I which is given, says: "The French troop ship Calvados was torpedoed by an unknown submarine in the Mediterranean. The Calvados carried 800 French troops who had been in the trenches for 15 months and were returning home.

Fifty-three survivors were picked up by the British steamer Lady Plymouth, which found them hanging to rafts and floating wreckage. One survivor, an officer, said that he saw three soldiers who tried to board the submarine, but their hands were kicked by the oflcers until they were forced to let go." Railroad President To D. E. Gray, president of the Western Maryland railroad, will be the principal speaker at the "Railroad Day" luncheon to be given by the Pittsburgh Commercial Club in the Fort Pitt Hotel next Friday. Mr.

Gray will be the first official of the Western Maryland railroad to deliver an a Caress in Pittsburgh since the railroad entered the Pittsburgh district. A. R. Kennedy, chairman of the railroad and transportation committee, Jias announced that invitations had been issued to the presidents, vice presidents and general managers of all railroads entering Pittsburgh to be present at the luncheon, and most of them will attend. Uniform Tax Law Test Will Be Made The constitutionality of the English uniform tax law.

by which all boroughs annexed by Pittsburgh will pay the same tax rate as the older part of the city, will bi tested in a suit expected to be filed tomorrow by Attorney Chauncey Lo-blnger. The suit will be entered in behalf of residents of old West Liberty borough, which was annexed by the city. It is said the suit will involve a new contention in that West Liberty, when It became a part of the city, waa free of debt and therefore not in equity bound to assume the debts contracted by other por tions of the greater city. Earthquake Rocks Southern California LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20.

Reports re ceived here early tonight stated that a sharp earthquake was felt at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon throughout the Imrerial valley and other points in Southern Cali fornia, No material damage has been re ported. At Yuma. residents rushed from their homes and business houses. Clocks throughout Yuma were stopped. Porter Charlton Gets Release From Prison como.

Italy, io 20. Forter Charlton was discharged from pr'son this morning He left for Milan. Charlton on October 25, was sentence? jeeus ana nve months for the siaying or his wife. iHe had been in jail jrara ana one month. A loyal decres cut nu sentence down one year.

Seer Reads Judge's Palm; Tells True Things; Is Freed A. Hochman of 1533 Center avenue, arrested Friday, charged with fortune telling, teas discharged yesterday by Magistrate John J. Sweeney in Central police court. Esther Cronin, policewoman, visited his place and she says he read her palm. He also told her who she was, Mrs.

Cronin declared, Hochman read Magistrate Sweeney's palm. He told the magistrate he was a kind hearted man, but at times was quick tempered. He also said that better things are in store for the Sister Ship of Ancona Escapes Austrian Submersible in the Fog. HAD TWO PERISCOPES Underwater Craft Operating in Mediterranean Reported as Unusually Formidable. MADRID.

Nov. 20. The Italian liner Verona had a narrow escape from meeting the same fate as its sister ship, the Ancona, when a large Eubmarine chased her. The Verona eluded the Austrian submarine In the fog. The pursuing submarine was an unusually large one and had two periscopes.

According to the telegram the underwater craft was accompanied by a steamer. The position of the Verona when attacked was given as latitude 40, longitude 6. off Ca-bopala. The telegram waa received from the town of Soller on Maporca Island In the Mediterranean off the Spanish coast, 110 miles south, of Barcelona. The Verona was scheduled to sail from Genoa November 9, touching at Naples November 10 and Palermo November 11, on her way to New Tork.

No word of her sailing, however, has been received. Latitude 40, longitude 6, is a point on the western Mediterranean about 110 miles west of Sardinia. The Verona is owned by the Italia So-cieta dl Navigazlone a Vapore, which also owned the Ancona, sunk recently by a submarine tn the Mediterranean. The Verona has been engaged for several years in passenger service between New York and Italian ports. She is 8,251 tons soss.

4S2 feet long and was built In 1908. AGENTS NOTHING. NEW TORK. Nov. 20.

Hartfield, Solar! Company, local agents for the steamship Verona, chased by a submarine In the Mediterranean, said today they had not received notice that the Verona had sailed from Italy although the line's schedule called for the steamer to leave Genoa November 9, Naples the following day and Palermo, the last Italian port, on November 11, Mr. Hartfleld said, however, that the present schedule had been made up some time and as the Verona did not sail from New York until October 21. five days behind schedule, he thought it possible the steamer had not sailed from Genoa until November 14 or 16. CHASE WASEXCITING. PARIS.

Nov. 20. Private information received at Madrid by wireless, according to a dispatch from that city to the Havas Agency, Indicates that the steamer Verona encountered a submarine and that an exciting chase followed. The Verona managed to escape owing to the heavy fog. The direction taken by the Verona, or where the incident occurred, Is not disclosed, nor has the Spanish government received confirmation of the meager wireless dispatch.

Concede Austrian Boat Sunk Ancona WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. The Italian foreign office has notified American Ambassador Page at Rome that it has no reason to believe that the submarine which sank the liner Ancona, with the loss of several Americans, was other than an Austrian. This, with the Austrian rovernment's acknowledgment of the act. clears up the last possibility that It might have been a German boat.

The Italian government also informed Ambassador Page that It has made no contention that the submarine was German. Can Inspect Food Shipped Into State HARRISBURG. Nov. 20. The right of the State of Pennsylvania to Inspect food products shipped from other states in con formity with the national food and drugs ect and displayed upon the shelves of Pennsylvania stores is upheld In an opin ion trtven today by Food Commissioner Foust by Deputy Attorney William Har The decision was given In regard to inspection of food products shipped Into this state from New Tork state and which, the manufacturers contended complied with all laws and were therefore exempt from state inspection, supporting his assertions by opinions in other states.

College Students Flee Scarlet Fever HARRISBURG. Nov. 20. State health department authorities today ordered the locating of 31 students of Gettysburg College who left that institution fever were reported among the students. The students living In this state will be traced by local health officers, while the state health officials of New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia have been notified to look out for those residing in those states.

The remainder of the students will Ae kept under observation for 10 days at Gettysburg. The patients have been iaolaUd. 1 According to the information so far elicited the girl was locked in the room 12 year3 ago for disobedience to her parents She escaped by jumping out of a window. Her leg was broken. She was taken back Into the house and the leg was set, but the surgeon was faulty and the limb is now four inches shorter than the other.

Her mother died some time later, and her father was married again. A sister of Grace died. It is said the impression Vas given that the dead child was Grace. No one ever knew it was not until this week. Hancock came to visit Marshall several weeks ago and when he went to bed he heard pitiful groans.

His insistence to know the cause revealed the truth. Brumbaugh's Secretary, Hiatt, Dies in Capital JAMES S. HIATT. HARRISBURG, Nov. 20.

James Hiatt, private secretary to- Governor Bsiitubaugh, Med at 10 o'clock5 tonight in his home in Bellevue Park, a suburb of this city, after a protracted illness. He was 37 years old. Mr. Hiatt was born in Richmond. of Quaker parentage, his ancestors having settled In the South many years before.

He was educated in Indiana schools and then became an instructor at Harvard College, where he spent several years, later becoming connected with George's school and Friends Central school, Philadelphia, While engaged in teaching he became interested in education of children employed in mills and factories and made a special study of the subject in several cities and 6tates. He wrote extensively on the subject and was author of a monograph issued by the United States bureau of education. He gave much to the sub ject of continuation schools and while engaged In this work was thrown into contact with the governor, then superin tendent of Philadelphia schools. During some investigations he became connected with the Public Education Association and was e'ected secretary. This afforded him an opportunity to study child labor and kindred topics at close lange.

He was selected as secretary of the Brumbaugh citizens' committee when it was organized to promote the candidacy of the governor and became his private secretary when he was elected. Mr. Hiatt moved to this city from Philadelphia soon after the Legislature adjourned. He was taken ill while on the official trip to the San Francisco Exposition with Governor Brumbaugh, and compelled to stop in Minnesota. He returned to this state some weeks ago, but vas unable to resume his duties.

Mr. Hiatt is survived by his. widow and two children. Bleachers Fall Burying 15 Are Injured MADISON, Nov. 20.

Several spectators at the Wisconsin-Minnesota football game here today were injured when a section of the north bleachers fell, carrying about 2,500 persons to the ground. There were no fatalities, although several seriously in lured persons were hurried to hospitals. Many others sustained slight bruises. The game stopped until the extent of the casualties had been ascertained, and when it was found that no one had been killed, play was resumed after 10 minutes' interruption. At the hospitals, where the injured were taken, It was said that 15 persons had been three of them seriously.

None of the injured will die. Scores sat around the scene apparently in a semi-dazed condition, and were unable to explain whether or not they were injured. Three other university students, girls, were taken to the university infirmary and were thought to be internally Injured. President Charles R. Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin, was one of the first to render assistance to the injured.

Woman Suffragist Elected Constable ALLIANCE, Nov. 20. Mrs. John Graber, an ardent suffragist, has been elected constable of Smith township, an office for which she never was a candidate and did not know she was being voted for. A number of men wrote her name on the ballot, and she won.

Her election became known today when the complete official returns were mads. Britain Holds German Woman And American LONDON, Nov. 20. Edward Hodgson, an American, and Lucy Wunsche, declared to be a German, both having American passports, were remanded in Bow street court today, the latter being charged with failing to register as an alien, giving false information and being in possession of a false passport, and Hodgson wth aiding and abetting her. Mr.

Hodgson, who is described as a mining engineer, has a passport Issued in Washington on March 17, 1915. Lucy Wunsche's passport was Issued in Berlin on July 10. Both were vised in Am- sterdam on October 28, the woman's be ing indorsed, Accompanying nusoana 10 England." Immigration Men Quit Under Fire CLEVELAND, Nov. 20. Louis Loebl, city immigration commissioner, and Lcuis Ripplchm, hi3 assistant, both Hun garians, resigned today, as a sequel to their activity in the strike of 2,200 workmen at the war order plant of the Kunitz Company here, into which bribe charges had been injected.

Mayor Newton D. Baker accepted their resignations, but would neither jaffirm nor deny that he had requested them to step out. Mayor Baker conducted an investigation of the affair. Six Injured When Engine Strikes Car CLEVELAND. Nov.

20. Six (persons were Injured when a Nickel Plate engine struck a street car at the Buckeye road crossing this afternoon and hurled It against the curb. Three of those injured were women. There were iine passengers on the car. Those injured are Mrs.

Elizabeth Prokop, Mrs. Mary Danes, Mrs. Michael Osick, Frank Peshek, John Burok and Edward Hannon. The two first named may die. Clues Are Found In Trunk Mystery PORTLAND, Nov.

20. The initials in a hatband, and a blank form on which was printed "Blum's Agency," were further possible Identification marks found by the police today in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found in a trunk here yesterday. Inquiry was instituted In the East as to the agency. Apartment Invader, Tampering With Gas, Imperils Occupants Complaints have been made to the police recently that an unidentified man, described as being short and stout, has been imperiling the lives of tenants of East End apartment houses by entering the basements, turning off the gas, then turning it on again and leaving the building filled with gas. Detective D.

W. Price, investigator for Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong, has been investigating the reports and advised residents of that part of the city to telephone the nearest police station when they see strange persons loitering near their homes. entente and the central powers, and declare some definite, intelligible policy. Such' a policy, even if It la adverse to the entente allies, will at least be welcomed here as an end to the torturing uncertainty of the past month.

PUBLIC FAVORS ALLIES. Some comfort Is derived here from the optimistic tone of dispatches from Athens which, since the arrival of Denys Cochin, the French cabinet member, who went to Greece on a special mission, report that public opinion is running strongly for the entente allies. But since it is a well-known fact that King Constantlne's choice waits upon the outcome of military events which at present would hardly prepossess him in favor of the entente allies, there is no real expectation in London that Greek assistance will be forthcoming. It is already announced from German sources that the Greek government has Informed the foreign diplomats that, in order to maintain neutrality. It will disarm and intern all Serbian troops which may retreat onto Greek territory.

It also is stated In German newspapers that Albanian troops are trying to bar the other road of retreat by concentrating on the Serbian border. The Bulgarian successes at Katchanik pass, Tetovo and Babuna pass have now been confirmed and the Kussovo plateau, where the Serbians expected to make a last desperate resistance, is now apparently open to the invaders. BEATEN TOWARDS BORDER. The Serbian armies, which have been for the better part of two months gradually falling back before the Teutonic advance from the north, are now reaching territory in close proximity to the Montenegrin border. Operating In the region west of the Kopaonik-Planina.

the forces of Field Marshal von Mackensen are pressing on Novipazar, which roughtly (Continued on Page Four, Column Six.) Wounded Policeman Under Double Guard At the request of the Mercy Hospitf authorities Police Commissioner Thomas Carroll yesterday ordered that the guard at the bedside of Policeman Ernest A. Johnson, who shot himself after seriously wounding Mrs. Mary Reese last Tuesday In her home at 22 DeSoto street, be doubled. Three eight-hour shifts of two men each are now detailed at the bedside of the wounded officer. The request was made after Johnson early yesterday morning attempted to leave his room and, after a struggle with the officer on gurd, was subdued.

According to the police Johnson is not delirious. Hetty Green Reaches Milestone 81 Today NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Mrs. Hetty Green will be 81 years old tomorrow.

No celebration has been planned, ibut her son, Colonel E. II. Green, said there probably would be a little family dinner either In hie home. 5 West Ninetieth street, or in the home oi nis sister, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wil.ks, 440 Madison avenue.

Mrs. Green now Uvea in Hoboken and nearly every morning she goes to her office West Ninetieth street. Italy to Declare War On Germany Shortly LONDON, Nov. 20. The correspondent at Berne, Switzerland, of the Central News telegraphs: "Diplomats understand that an Italian declaration of war on Germany is only a matter of boura." Shark's Belly Gives Evidence Against Alleged Conspirators Leather Bag of Papers Tossed Into Sea By German Ship Captain Swallowed By Monster, Which Is Later Captured.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Evidence recovered from the belly of a shark will be used against indicted officials of the Hamburg-American line when they are placed on trial Monday, charged with violation of American neutrality, according to information secured today at the United States district attorney's office. Officials of the line are charged with sending out 16 Hamburg-American steamers about the time war was declared to furnish supplies to German warships. Among the ports from which these ship3 sailed were New York, Philadelphia.

Pen-sacola. San Francisco, Newport News, I Virginia, and New Orleans. Among these supply ships was the Marina uuezaaa. which sailed from Philadelphia for Valparaiso, Chile, about August 1, 1914, or three days before war was declared between Germany and England. The German ship put in at Pernambueo, Brazil.

When the Brazilian port authorities demanded the ship's papera for examina tion, the captain threw overboard a leather bag with the papers inside. In.