dabiai rorces Credited Wit ft Brilliant Successes in Moiastir Region \ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 245 SERBS MAKING NOTABLE GAINS AT MONASTIR Push Well to North Following Recent Passage at Brod OUTFLANK BULGARIANS General Haig Again Pushing Foe Toward Bapaume, Says London Notable headway is being made by the Serbians on the Macedonian front in their campaign for Monastir, ac cording to the current reports from entente sources. Parts to-day announces further gains against the Bulgarians In the bend of the Cerna. southeast of Monastir. where the Serbians have pushed Well to the north of the river, following their recent, passage at Brod. Unofficial advices also report the Serbians, assisted by French troops, attacking in the Kenall region to the west along the Florina-Monastir X'all way. Kenall is less than ten miles from Monastir. The Bulgarian position here Is declared by entente military com mentators to be virtually outflanked by the Serbian capture of Venyeselo, in the Cerna sector, six miles north east of Kenali. The latest Bulgarian and German official statements reported the Ser bians checked in their Cerna valley campaign. On the Somme front in Northern France General Hatg's forces are again scoring gains in their push toward [Continued on Paso 9] Policeman Who Hauled Typhoid Patients to Hospital Has Disease Patrolman William Balthaser, who has been off duty for the last few days, is now suffering from typhoid fever, it was learned at police headquarters last night. Officer Balthaser Is one of the ambulance guards and it is be lieved he may have contracted the dis ease while hauling the typhoid pa tients to the Harrisburg Hospital. Wilson Thwarting Will of Majority of People Oil City, Pa., Oct. 21. Woodrow Wilson, a "minority President" and a "minority Congress" are thwarting the will of the majority of the people who live in "dry" territory on the liquor questions, Ira Landrlth, Pro hibition candidate for vice-president declared to-day in a speech here to a large crowd. STEAL MESSENGER'S BICYCIJE Bicycle thieves are still at work in Harrisburg. This morning a wheel van stolen from Benjamin Longnecker, K Western Union messenger boy. It Mood in front of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway station. An Iver- Johnson make, it is red in color, and the number is 279058. The police are investigating. TWO TYPHOID CASES Only two cases of typhoid fever were reported to-day in the city—the lowest number in one day for weeks. Since the first of October, 195 new cßses were reported in Harrisburg, but city health officials now believe that, the epidemic is almost over. Precau tions are being taken to prevent sec ondary cases, and daily tests are be ing made of milk and ice cream. SHOOTS IN K ON WHITE DRESSES AND SHOES Boston, Oct. 21. A mail who amuses himself by shooting ink on the .white dresses and shoes of wo men is being hunted by the Boston police. Up to to-day more than one hundred women had reported that they had been the victims of the ink shooter. INJURED IN PA LI < Berrysburg, Pa., Oct. 21. Edward Kerstetter, aged about HO years, fell down stairs at his home here yester day'and was painfully injured. One ear was nearly severed and he re ceived many cuts and bruises. THEWEATHER For Harrisburg ami vicinity: Fnir nmi colder to-night, with hrnv.v frost; lowest temperature nliout ■IS decrees; Sunday fair, eontinu _ ed eool. For ICuKtern I'ennsylv aula: Fair, ■•older to-night, with heavy frost; temperature dose to freexliiK In north and went portlouit; Sunday fair and eool; gentle to moderate went windM becoming variable. River The <trtli Branch, toner \\ est llraneh and the main river will rls? slightly. other streams of the system will fall slowly or re mnln nearly stationary. A stage of about 4.: i feet IH Indicated for HarrlHliurg Sunday morning. General rondltioiiN The Southern storm has continu ed to move northvvnrd and IN now central over Ontario. It hns caus ed light to moderate rains in the last twenty-four hours ifenernllv eusf of the Mississippi river, ex cept iu the tiulf States and the Florida peninsula with some snow in the Ipoer Mississippi Valley nmi iu Manitoba. Fair weather has prevailed over the western half of the country. There has been n general full of a to 30 de urees In temperature over nearly all the country east of the Mis sissippi river. Temperaturei 8 a. m., -14. Sun: Rises: 6:22 a. M.i sets, ,":1H p. m. Moon: New moon, October SO, 11:37 p. nt. Hlver Stage: 4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Ilißhcst temperature, 77. I.ovvest temperature, 62. Mean temperature, 70. Aormal temperature, 52, BY CAttIWKHS <1 CENTS A IVEEK SIMGI.H COPIES 2 CENTS. HARRY A. BOYER TO MARSHAL BIG STUDENT PARADE Organizer of 11,000 School "Kids" Year Ago to Head Loan Demonstration HARRY A. BOYER j Marshal of High Student Parade. i School Director Harry A. Boyer will ibo chief marshal of the big high | school loan parade of November 4. J One of the spectacular features of i the campaign organized to puq , through the $1,250,000 loan to provide for better high school facilities, is to i lie the great marching demonstration ;of the 1,500 odd students of Central i and Technical high schools. ; Through the co-operation of Cap j tain H. M. Stine, Uncle Sam's regular army recruiting officer here, the hun j dreds of students are being drilled i daily at Central high by youthful mili i tary instructors who have volunteered ! their services. Old School Days Monday Technical high school be | gins its program of training under the i tutelage of ex-Troop Sergeant J. Grant | Koons. For a week the boys will get I instruction In marching in the school "gym"; the following week they'll be drilled in the streets. | All that was needed was the selec j tion of the proper head for the par ' ade —and the committee has picked I Mr. Boyer to marshal the youthful | forces. The former president of the school ! board amazed an admiring city a. lit tle more than a year ago during Har risburg's three-day municipal im provement celebration by organizing some 11,000 of the city's school chll-. dren in the most colorful and interest-' | ing spectacle of the kind ever ar ! ranged in Pennsylvania. And it wast | the passing of the hundreds of small ! youngsters, incidentally, that suggest | e<l the idea of driving home to admir | ing papas—and mammas—the Impor j tance of carrying the proposed loan ; for a new high school. Select Aids in Few Days Mr. Boyer will select his staff of aids ! within a day or two. By Wednesday of next week Arthur D. Bacon, who has charge of the Ito | tarian end of the campaign activities will be ready to announce the list of i volunteer Rotarian poolworkers who will I e on the job electioneering for I the passage of the loan at the polls. | Mr. Bacon said to-day that he is awaiting the literature that has been promised by the committee before se j lectlng his co-workers. The School ! Board yesterday awarded the contract lor printing 20,000 pamphlets to the | Aughinbaugh Press at Its bid at $242. Aged Captain and Two of Shipwrecked Boat's Crew Bravely Stick to Ship j Detroit, Oct. 21. Manned only by its aged captain and two members of his crew, the tug Shaun Rliue of De j troit, was brought safely to Pelee 1s- I land, Ont., this forenoon. The vessel i was disabled in the terrific storm on I hake Erie last night. When a tug j came to the rescue early to-day, it is i claimed that five members of the j Shaun Rhue's crew left their ship and were taken aboard the rescuing tug. Captain Robert Maines, 75 years of age, refused to leave his tug and ac- I cording to reports received here, his ) engineer and cook decided to stay with j him. The skipper steered hi.s ship I through the gale to Pelee Island, while I the other tug proceeded to Kingsville, | Unt. United States Legally in State of War With Mexico Is Rule Washington. D. C„ Oct. 21. —Prest- dent Wilson and Secretary of War i Baker, according to information forth coming from the War Department, arc I much incensed over the fact that ! I'rigadier-Oeneral Enoch 11. Crowder, ! judge advocate-general of the army, holds that the United States is legally lin a state of war with Mexico. Gen"- ! era I Crowder says that the invasion •of Mexico is a condition and not a theory. This decision from the highest legal source on matters pertaining to mili tary operations has been rendered by General Crowder to keep the record straight and to cover the legal pro cedure involved in all incidents grow ing out of the so-called Mexican cam paign. The judge advocate-general's office found that the refusal to admit that a state of war exists led to such legal absurdities that light on tile real status was essential. The resentment of the adminis tration over this decision is due par ticularly to the fact that it has reached the public. It was carefully suppressed for days and not intended for publi cation at present. It is admitted it weakens the plea "he kept us out of war." One unpleasant effect which State Department officials fear in view of General Crowder's expose is the strengthening of Carranza's demand tlia: the "state of war" be eliminated by withdrawal of tlie American troops. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1916. EIGHT-HOUR LAW SHOULD BE FOR ALL--KREIDER Tells How He Tried to Have Congress Include Track and Other Employes MANY OUT AT RALLIES Hughes Sentiment Strong at Republican Mass Meetirtgs; Others Are Announced Congressman Aaron S. Kreider. candidate for re-election, told a big body of voters last evening, at Hall fax, many of them railriad employes, why he voted against the Adamson eight-hour law, and after the rally quite a number, some of whom were Democrats, came forward and pledged .their votes to him. "I am not opposed to the eight-hour day," said the Congressman. "But I believe the trackmen, the signalmen, the switchmen, the shopmen, the clerks and all the other employes of the big transportation companies work just as hard as the trainmen and are Just as much entitled to eight hours as they. If any were to have the short day I believe all should have it." The Congressman then went on to say that he had urged and voted for an amendment to the Adamson bill providing that it be made to include every man in the transportation ser vice. When Congress refused to give eight hours to any but trainmen he the bill. The Halifax meeting was one of three big Republican rallies held Inst evening. The other two were nt Fisli orville and Swatara Station. All were unusually well attended. The speak ers at the upper-end rallies were Con gressman A. S. Kreider, Recorder James E. Lentz, County Solicitor Phil lip,S. Moyer, George Ross Hull and Harry E. Ulsh, candidate for assem bly. John C. Blxler, manufacturer presided at the Fisherville meeting and Charles Shope, at Halifax. At Swatara Station, where the Hughes sentiment was found to be particularly strong, Harvey Dowhow er, presided and the speakers were William H. Ernest, Charles E. Pass, County Chairman William H. Homel and D. J. Bechtold, candidate for as sembly. Tuesday evening the campaign in the Lykens Valley will be opened with big meeetings at Elizabethville and Berrysburg, where Senator Beidleman and Congressman Kreider will speak. Monday evening there will be a great rally at Penbrook and Wednesday night the Knox meeting in Harris burg. This evening the speakers will ibe in I.inglestow* and Grantville. $5,000 in Torn Envelope, Handled by Hundreds; Reaches Destination Washington, D. C„ Oct. 21. —Five thousand dollars in bonds, good as cash and readily negotiable, poorly canceled, in a much torn envelope which revealed their value to scores ot employes, traveled safely in the ordinary letter mail from Rusk, Texas, to the Post Office Department, where they were delivered to-day to the pos tal savings director. officials thought it a tine testimonial to the honesty of postal employes. The bonds came as security for postal de posits from a national bank, which was requested, however, to register such valuable mail In the future. CATCH MUSICAL THIEF AT EXPRESS COMPANY OFFICE George Tanaskl, wanted by the Lew lstown authorities on a charge of steal ing a phonograph, was arrested here to-day by Harrisburg police. Tanaski was located at a local express com pany office Just as he was about to claim the phonograph. Lewistown au thorities, however, communicated with Harrisburg officials, notifying them to hold Tanaskl. SHOOTS THE VILLAIN Movie Fan Pierces Film to Sa\o Heroine Hammond , 111., Oct. 21. The movie was a thriller. The villain had the sad-eyed heroine by the throat and was struggling to throw her over the cliff into the raging stream. There was a quick "bang, bang." The audi ence in the Eyrie theater dashed for the exits. The villain had been acting up awfully with the defenseless heroine. He was choking her. Jn a minute or so he would throw her into the river. John Sebastian couldn't stand it any longer. One bullet clipped the dem on's ear, another pierced his brain. John was finally overpowered. Taken to the station, his nerves were still upset. "1 couldn't stand to see it," he wailed. "He treated her so awful." BIG SHORTAGE OF PKNMIES New \ork, Oct. 21. A serious shortage of pennies is confronting the country, according" to information ob tained at the Sub-Treusury in Wall Street to-day. All unprecedented in crease in the use of 1-cent pieces with the warring countries controlling the copper market by long-term contracts has been affected this condition. 1125 GALLSTONES REMOVED Bloomsburg, Pa., Oct. 21.1 In a clinic at the Hloomsburg Hospital, Dr. J. S. John to-day removed 1125 gallstones from one patient. CAR JUMPS TRACK Traffic at Third and Walnut strefets was delayed about fifteen minutes shortly bafore noon to-day when Third street car No. 611 of the Harrisburg Railways Company jumped the track on Walnut street. lt-R-R!! :"> TO-NIGHT After a warm day yesterday that almost reached the record for the last ten days of October, Harrisburg folks will get a touch of real cold weather. It. IK expected that the mercury will drop to-night to 35 degrees. The high est temperature, yesterday was 77 degrees. MAN WITH KNIFE BOARDS PRESIDENT'S CAR \ 4 " , I !.. ■' -i ■ - PRES. Wli-SOK At'BANXV President V\ ilson is here shown leaving Albanv on what Secret Service men believe might have been Ills last fatal trip had the attempt of Richard uilen, a machinist, 23. to board the President's car while driving* through the streets of Pittsburgh been successful. Cullen made three efforts to leap into the machine, but was frustrated by the President's guards. , A ,5 aK which Cullen was carryving when arrested contained a small bottle jf fluid and a long knife. The bag was unlocked. When questioned at police headquarters Cullen said he was dissatisfied with the President's foreign policy, ana entered into a long and rambling tirade against the Chief Executive. He ffl I to be lllentall >' unbalanced. City chemists will examine the bottle SOUTHERN NEGRO REAL PROBLEM Mayor Appoints Committee to Meet Steel Company Head j Because of the six murders committed , in Harrisburg and vicinity during the j last few months by Southern negroes jwho are brought here to work in local • plants, Mayor Meals last night appoint : ed a committee to confer with Quincy ■ Bent, manager pf the Steelton plant of i the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The committee includes. Chief of Police J. | kidward Wetzel. Dr.Churles H.Crampton, ! president of the Dauphin County 'and Order League, and \Y. Justin Car ter. an attorney. The committee will probably meet on Monday and then irtake arrangements to confer with Manager Bent, to make arrangements for drastic action to put ;an end to the lawlessness which has I started. Yesterday's murder at Wormleys ! burg, when Railroad Officer J. 1,. Beis , ser was shot and killed by two Southern 1 negroes, was the cause of Mayor Meals taking immediate action. This has been the sixth murder since Officer i L.ewls C. Hippie, of the local force, was 1 killed in June while on duty. Harry Chubb. 1024 Market street, the other railroad officer who was shot vesterday, is in the Harrisburg Hospital with 'a (slight chance of recovery. . Although members of the committee appointed by the Mayor had not met to day, all of them expressed their willing , ness to co-operate wherever possible. : Chief of Police Wetzel is particularly 1 anxious, he stated, to have a conference | and take steps to prevent any more [Continued on Page !>] HUGHES SURE OF 300 ELECTORALS Ohio, New York, Illinois and Indiana in the "Sure" Column New York, Oct. 21.—Confident his | trip has added greatly to the certainty 'of his election, Charles K. Hughes re i tinned to New York to-day from his third campaign tour, which carried i liim through ten states during a period ; of 1 leven days and included thirty-nine speeches. A total of 300 electoral votes assured • for Hughes, with an additional 50 j probable and another 55 possible, was | claimed for the Bepublican preslden tiul candidate to-night by Charles W. I'arnham, manager or the Hughes | campaign tour. There are 531 votes in the electoral college. Farnham said i ho based his conclusions on observa ! tiori 011 conditions in all parts of the [country. Among the states he placed in the "sure" column were Ohio, New York. Illinois and Indiana. A consensus bsed on the polls taken in various Stats, the private figures supplied to State committees and the estimates of State leaders produced the following table, giving Mr. Hughes 300 electoral votes, putting 50 votes prob ably for Hughes and holding 55 votes possible to get: Sure For Hughe* Prohnlilr Ohio 24|Vew Jersey 11 Pennsylvania . . .38'Navuda . ,1 Oregon SMontana .. 4 Massachusetts . . 18! Arizona 3 New Hampshire . 4!i !onneet lent 7 New York 4SlVebraska S lthode Island .. . s!Vew Mexico .... 3 Vermont 4|West Virginia . . x Illinois 23] _ Maine 6' Total .50 Michigan 151 Possible lowa ISMaryland s Minnesota 1:! Kentucky 13 California 13 polorado fi Kansas lOl'lklahoma 10 North Dakota .. 5 Missouri 18 Utah 41 _ Idaho 41 Total 55 South Dakota . . 5' Washington .... 71 Indiana 151 Wisconsin 13 Wyoming 31 Delaware 31 —I I Total 300| Total number of electoral votes ... 531 I Necessary to elect 266 During the tour Just closed Mr. Hughes received a warmer welcome [Continued ou Pago 0] BISHOP GREETED BY HUNDREDS Public Reception at Cathedral Hull Is Brilliant Affair Bishop Philip R. McDevitt, of the! ' Harisburg diocese of the Catholic 1 I church, this morning expressed his! | hearty appreciation of the cordial | welcome extended to him last night byj imore than 2,200 persons who at-j ; tended the public reception given for | him at Cathedral Hall, North street, j The reception began at 8 o'clock, t Continued on Pasc 11] MAY VOTE BY PROXY j Governor to Address Chamber of Commerce Business Meeting Members of the Harrisburg Cham- I ber of Commerce who cannot attend t the anual business meeting at the I Board or Trade Building at 6:30 on j Tuesday, October 24, may cast their ballot by proxy, according to a state- I ment issued by Secretary E. L. Mc ; Colgln this morning. Blank ballots j will also be available at the tellers' I booth at the Board of Trade office on I that evening in case any member ; neglects to bring his ballot with him. A buffet supper wlv no served to I the members who attend and at the | conclusion of the supper Governor M. 1 G. Brumbaugh will address the mem j hers on his interest in the Capitol Park Extension and the new High I School movements, both of which he I favors very much. SEVERE STORM IN UPPER END Barns and Dwellings Damaged and Trees Uprooted; Woman Seriously Injured I ! Berrysburg, Pa., Oct. 21.—Yester ■ day afternoon a. heavy thunderstorm | with wind and rain, passed over this section of the county, doing consider , able damage between Berrysburg and j Millersburg. A large barn on the tarm of Klizabeth Holtzman was blown down, one 011 the farm of John : Dockey was unroofed. The barn of j Henry Daniel Daniels was badly j wrecked by the wind. Telegraph poles | and fences were blown over and trees I uprooted and broken all through the j district affected by the storm. WOMAN HURT IN HOME Elizabethville. Pa., Oct. 21. A j severe storm passed over the north- I ern section of this valley last evening and a few miles above Deibler's Gap the clouds lowered to the ground, I forming a spout and uprooted trees and tore down buildings. When It I reached the farni tenanted by Wtl ! Ham H. Bonawitz a schoolteacher it tore the barn to pieces, scattering the J lumber and also demolished part of | the house, causing a corner cupboard j to fall 011 Mrs. Bonawitz, hurting her . internally. The storm followed the Mahantongo Mountain to the Pillow Gap when It ] turned northward and demolishing a I blacksmith shop at Pillow. Many ; trees were uprooted. "It's All Over Boys" Says Wilson Manager ! . " n ls , a " over, boys, the President i lB re-elected, ' Vance C. McCormick said to the newspaper men when they called on him In the New York head- 5 quarters yesterday. "Yes, T mean It " I he added.—New York Sun. But Chairman McCormick declared 1 he was elected Governor In 1914 just' before the people voted and he will ! admit now that he was not a howling success as a prophet. *IO,OOO BIST I'tA(KI) ON HUQHISS AT 10 to 8 Between f:t0,000 and $40,000 was bet i 011 the Presidential election in Wnll i Street yesterday, with the odds con-' tinning at 10 to 8 and JO to 7 on I Hughes. " DISAPPOINT JUST 34 HARDSCRABBLE LAND HOLDERS 1 hose Who Agreed to City's Figures Suffer Inconveni ence by Delay CAN'T MOVE AWAY Savings Tied Up in Homes and Question qf Removal Else where Undecided Of the fifty-six property owners most deeply interested in the "Hard scrabble" problem, just thirty-four of 1 hem are more than disappointed at the prospect of another winter's ap proach with the condemnation ne gotiations uncompleted. [ The thirty-four represent the tax payers on both the east and west sides [ of Pront street between Herr and Cal , del- who were perfectly satisfied with [Continued on Page 16] INVITE ALL UNIONS TO TAKE PART IN PAIIADE j The executive committee in charge jof the jitney amendment demonstra tion to be held 011 Saturday, Novem ber 4, at a meeting held last night ex pended an invitation to all union or ganizations to participate in the pa | rade. The Trainmen's band has been j secured to play for the parade. THINK COLON IKS SAFE London, Oct. 21.—Dr. Krauss. under secretary for the colonies, speaking at a celebration of the Berlin Missionary Society, declared his conviction that Germany would no* lose her colonies. FOURTEENTH LIVE CATAMOUNT Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 21. C. E. j Logue, keeper or the Otzinaclison Club reserve, captured a live cata mount that weighed twenty-live pounds, on the club grounds several :"days ago. After the cat was trapped j Logue ensnared it with ropes and then ] placed it in a cage. Capturing live j catamounts is getting to be a habit with the Otnnachson keeper, as this makes the fourteenth to his credit. STEAMER CAPSIZED London. Oct. 21.—The steamer Gus tnv Wlegland has capsized on the coast near Berwick and was driven on the 1 rocks. The crew was saved. H !'SSI A-NS KEPKI.S: M Herlm, Oct. 71, via London.- --Russian • tt mpts to take 1 i trenches on the west bank of the river Stokhod in Volhynia, < were fx* by troops under command of ' • Prince Leopold of Bivaria with heavy losses to the attack- \ [x' ers says the official statement issued to-da. at the German ® \ army h< ;.dqi ut-i s BRING IN RESCUED SEAMEN 1} Norfolk, V.H., Oct. 21.—Seven members of the crew 1 ! 1 the four-masted Amc ]i Fall River, Mass., were brought here this morning by the i. I Norwegian steamer Avon, after Captain Cai ter and the first 1 k < | 1 ' mate had been lost when the vessel was shipwrecked in ' & ! mid^c> < FRENCH SEIZE CHINESE POLICE ' * I Peking, Oct. 21.—A square mile u- ry adjoining j I the French concession at Tien Tain has been forcibly seized 1 r Iby the French consul with the assistance troops. 1 ' 1 Ch | ifor thr. : " •! VON MACKENSEN STRIKES HEAVILY London, Oct. 21.—Field Marshal Von Mackensen haa'i. striii•; !;f av;Jy in Dobr.Jdja Hi-- vr rvtends along the whole front from the Danube to the Black Sea. * ► * t REFUSE MINERS' DEMANDS 1 f Punxsutawney, Pa., Oct. 21.—8. M. Clark, assistant to \ , the preodent of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Irott |f Company, to-day issued a statement refusing the demands I - 1 agreed upon several months ago with the United Mine | ! Workers of America . i 9 SEVEN OF BARGE CREW DROWNED : Cleveland, 0., Oct. 21. The Del d Cleveland JI Navigation Company office here to-day received a wireless' [ message from the captain of its passenger steamer Western j States, which left Detroit for Cleveland this morning, that*! t I he was standing by the wreck of a barge off Bar Point and 1 thart seven of the crew were drowned. I J MARRIAGE LICENSES ~ ■ George Holnutl Houek, l.aneaater count*', and Annie Varnlele, Pnrkea-' burn. | Ueorge Mninell MeCorntlck anil Kvora I'enrl Uuenaler, city. .Irotiul l'ow( mill lalno Uia Ki-rtlu, .Hieelton. , lOluier Andrew Klrkputrlt-k, elty. nnd Kunule Hay Ober, I'eiilirouk. a > k Harry Ail Hum nnd Kather Cecelia Klnnannky, elty. , I Nnrl Adam II nrn hi nicer, Dover, nnd Kdythe Itutli Neff, Yoe, l"n. a'W"" W" " w "vV" 11 <yy ih CITY EDITION 18 PAGES PLAN TO TEACH TINY FOLKS IN MODEL COLONY Children's Industrial Farm May Succeed "Home" if Money Can Be Raised WOULD REQUIRE *70,000 Unit System For Buildings Is Scheme; State's Oder Re vives Discussion Harrisburg, in the not very distant future, may build a model Children's Industrial "colony." Tentative plans Jiave been discussed for months among members of the governing boards and the recent deci sion of the State Department of Dabor and Industry relative to the unsatis factory condition of the Children's in dustrial Home at Ninteenth and Swa tara streets, has served to drive lioms [Continued on Page 16] SAYS AMERICA WILJj STARVE Yuma. Ariz., Oct. 21.—Allan D. Ben son. Socialist presidential candidate, f.peaking liere last night, declared "a halt must be called on exportation of foodstuffs or great disaster will speedily overtake this country." Mr. Benson said: "American exporters have al ! ready contracted to export 4 00,000,000 i bitfchels of wheat. If these contracts | are carried out. America will be left to | starve. The cost of living before next spring will become so bigli that mil lions will suffer from lack of food." FACE COAIj FAMINE Pittsburgh. Oct. 21.—Railroads and mills in the Pittsburgh district are fac ] ing a coal famine and it was stated i here to-day that for the first time in I years an agent had been sent to Chi cago in the hope of buying coal. The shortage is laid to the extraordinary demand and the car shortage, which has become acute. CONFER ON FOOD SITUATION Berlin, Oct. 21 (via London). —A conference in which all the leading ministers of the German federal states will participate will be held in Berlin to-day. Invitations for the meeting were issued by the imperial chancellor. Dr. von Bethmann-HolHveg. The con ference will deal with food problems, mainly the question of providing the I empire with potatoes for the winter.
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