invr mcijQAAiri: TU —FT — v • fl i T t LUVt INouKAm* t ihe Kind rv Lifee-in we Telemvit f- ' , HARRISBURG iSllll TELEGRAPH T YYYV Vn -);n BY fAHRIERS (J TENTS A WEEK * LA AAV — AO. -JU SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. STAMM SHOWS * WHY SCHOOL LOAN SHOULD GO THROUGH i President of School Board Answers Five Vital Ques tions Asked by Voters in Statement to Newspa pers NECESSITY POINTED OUT TO CITIZENRY j r Amount and Purposes, Ques tion of School Tax Rate In crease and Possibilities of Other Solutions Are Dis cussed Five vital questions dealing withj Harrisburg's proposed new high \ school loan which will involve the i authorization by the people Novem ber 7 for floating a loan for $1,250,000 ■were fully and cryptically answered to-day by A. Carson Stamm, presi-j dent of the school board, in a state-: ment to the newspapers. The amount and the purposes of the loan, the necessity for the pro- , posed building program, the question | of school tax rate increase, how it will solve the grade problem, and the! possibilities of some other solution, were the questions. President Stamm answers each in j turn and he does so in a way that any 1 intelligent voter or taxpayer can, > [Ciir'inued on Page It] Thirty Girls in New York Want to Serve Country New York, Oct. 27. Thirty girls have answered an advertisement in the local newspapers for girls to help; obtain recruits for the National Guard j regiments at the border. "All the girls are pretty and were stylishly, but modestly dressed." said Major Mor ris, of the Twelfth National Guard j | Regiment, who inserted the ad. "Many of them have brothers at the border. All are anxious to do what they can l for their country." l)OG IX BLANKET OF FIRE Burlington. N. J.. Oct. 27.—When he saw a dog belonging to Mrs. Dora Hall, of St. Mary street, shivering in the cold air, the 6-year-old son of a neigh bor wrapped the animal in paper and touched a match to the wrappings. The doer's howls as it endeavored to tear away the fiery bandage attracted a crowd, but by the time the flames were extinguished the canine looked like a live frankfurter. President A. B. Fox, of the Burlington County So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, ended the animal's sufferings with chloroform. MII.K GOING TO 11 CENTS Pittsburgh, Pa.. Oct. 27. - Several large retailers have announced that on next Wednesday the price of milk will be advanced to 11 cents a quart .and six cents a pint. Other dealers are contemplating a similar increase. DID HE DESERVE C ROSS ? London, Oct. 27.—One of fifteen Vic toria crosses, the awards of which are i made in to-day's London Gazette, is to 5 Private Thomas Jones, who. according to the official account, after killing ! three snipers who were shooting at him. entered the German trenches and, single-handed, disarmed 102 Germans, including three or four officers, and marched them back to the British lines through a heavy fire. I)R. STINK'S AL'TO STOLEN Dr. H. A. Stine, Sixteenth and Berry - hiil streets, reported to the police shortly before noon to-day that his au tomobile. bearing State license No. 70375, was stolen this moftiing. The machine is a Ford touring car and had just been repainted. All of the brass parts had been painted black. Dr. j .Stine left his machine standing in Harris street near Front while he was in the Polyclinic Hospital. Two boys one believed to be about 16 years old, were seen getting into the auto. The | police are investigating. THEWEATHERjj For HiirrUfiiirsr and vicinity: Fiilr i to-night nnd Snturilnji not much chanter temperature. For Kaalrrn Trim*) Ivitnln: Fair to- j night anil Saturday: mirmrr to night In north portion: moderate M IIKIH becoming e*t nnd north. , west. River The Sukipieimnim river and all jtn hrnnchex Mill continue to fall "lowly. A ntase of about 4.0 feet IN Indicated for lliarriNlmru Sntur- I day lnornlnic. (■enernl t onilition* Pre**nrr ha* Increased sliliiv. i M ,t continue* relatively ion along the I South Atlantic count i IlKht to I moderate rain* have fallen nnd winds have freshened from t ape Ilntteras to Jnckxonvllle. Another dlMturliance from Northwestern Cannda hax moved Koutheaxtnard to the Lake Superior reslon, cann ing lleht ra!fix over the greater part of the Great Lakex. It la 2 to IS dcureex colder till* mornlnir In the Atlantic and Fiixt tiulf *tatea. eseept Kloridn, and teinperaturex have fallen "J to 14 degree* In the Uakotax, Veliraxkn, Wyomlnic. Montana, t nllforiila and in Albertn. Temperaturei 8 a. m.. 311. Sun! Hlxe*, 6jiS9 a. M.i wet*. 5:08 p. m. Moon i Flrxt quarter, November 2, 12i."il p. m. Itlver Stage! 4.2 feet nboie lovr nntor mark. lllichent temperature, Lowest temperature. 4(1. Mean temperature. F'J. •Normal temperature, DO i VONMACKENSENIS 1 : HARD ON TRAIL OF FLEEING ALLIES Russians and Rumanians Arc i Fighting Hard as Thcv Retreat Inland FRENCH DRIVE ANEW ' Closing in on Fort Vaux; Re- 1 sist All Counter attacks j I ield Marshal von Maekensen is !\ la > most of his victory in ; Dobrudja and is pressing the retreat- I iiiK Russo-Rumanian army hard. Sofia reports this army in precipi tate f.ight toward the further reaches or tlie Danube and Petrograd admits a 1 retirement toward the Hirova i asapksui line, more than forty miles' north of the Constanza-Tchernavoda railway. The Russians and Ruma | mans who were cut off from railroad j communications with the los 3 of. . rchernavoda are fighting hard as they I retired. Petrograd declares. \ ' n resisting the Austria-German , i thrust into Rumania front the north- ; west the ftusso-Rumanian forces are having more success. Rumanian troops on the Moldavian frontier have made further progress into Transylva- I nia. capturing another village and an i important height, the Russian war • office reports. French Make New Drive Betore Verdun the French are driv- j ing anew at the German lines after; j having, according to the Paris war office, repulsed all the numerous : counter attacks of the crown prince's , j troops in efforts to recapture Fort i Douaumont and other positions taken I by General Nivelle's forces in their great drive of Tuesday last. In a fresh attack last night, the statement de ; clares, the French scored advances ' west and outh of Fort Vaux, closing i in farther upon this important work, •i Berlin declares that a French attack J yesterday in the region east of Fort Douaumont was repulsed with heavy ' losses. Apparently the Germans are pre- ; paring for further attacks, as Paris re- j 1 ports a violent bombardment of the | ; French lines at Fort Douaumont and I the Chenois wood. Von Faikenliayn Advancing On the Somrae front Berlin an- j ! nounces the breaking up by German ! gun:- of a French attack in preparation :in the Fresnes-Mazancourt-Chauines i sector, south of the river. Berlin's account of the fighting In ! Dobrudja reports that the district of! Hirsova has been reported by Field , Marshal von Mackensen'e troops. South of the Rumanian boundary : ithe forces of General von Falkenhavn I are continuing to advance in the direc- j ttion of Campulung and below Predeal, | the Berlin statement announces. In Yolhynia and elsewhere along the (Continued on Page 21) Murderer Escapes After Running Revolver Fight Fasten, Pa., Oct. 27. A man al- I 1 iesred to be George Pinto, wanted at : Binghamton. X. Y., on a charge of shooting three men. one of whom died, escaped from the clutches of the law in a sensational manner, near Bangor, t this county to-day. when lie slipped , out of a sweater after Chief of Police 1 of Bangor, had grabbed him, and 1 after a running gun tight through the ■ woods, made a getaway. Detective Henry Burke, of Bingham- I ton, had come to Bangor, after receiv- i ing information to the effect that Pinto : was there. He was in another part of ! the woods when Lewis came across i Pinto. Plan to Merge Mission Is Dropped by Presbyterians - I Atlantic City. N. J., Oct. 27. The; ! executive commission of the Presby- ; terian Church in North America at I the closing session yesterday voted to report that the proposition to con- : solidate the Board for Freedmen's Aid with the Board of Home Missions, re- j J ferred to it by the last General As- ' sembly. is "unwise and Injudicious" I and should be abandoned. The drafting of a $3,000,000 burget 1 to cover denominational mission and educational activities during the fiscal year of 1917-1S was referred to a com- I mlttee of the executive commission in Philadelphia on January 19. SPEEDING TO FUNERAL Corporal P. Wilbur Shetron, hus band of Mrs. Minnie Shetron, who was killed late Monday night in an auto ; [accident near Dauphin, is expected to i • arrive here early to-morrow morning! ! from El Paso, Texas, where he is ; i stationed with the Governor's Troop. i Edgar T. Burfcenstock, regimental • (quartermaster sergeant on the staff of 'Colonel Maurice E. Finney, of the I Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania in fantry, a brother of the dead woman, is expected also. Mrs. Shetron's fun j oral will be held to-morrow morning. j HORNETS BREAK I P MEETING i Hornets broke oose last evening at • the office of Alderman Fritz Kramme, .443 Yerbeke street, and put the Sixth ; ward magistrate out of business. I While hunting yesterday the Aider ; man picked up a hornet's nest, which ihe hung in his office. On the Alder ! man's calendar was a case of assault I and battery between several Hun- 1 garians. While the big crowd was I waiting for the case to open the t j roohi warmed up. So did the hor ; nees. When the busy ends of the i hornets got down to work there was ,a lively scramble. A half dozen went' jhome with stings. TWO MORE MARINE DISASTERS* Washington, D. C., (.fct. 27. Sinking lof the British steamer Huntsfall bv a ; submarine and the burning of the Nor legian steamer, t-'evera. are added to the i list of maritime disasters in the war l zone by to-day's Lloyd's reports. ARBOR DAY NOT OBSERVED i Pupils in the city public schools j did not observe autumn Arbor Day, to-day with special exercises. In the city schools Arbor day is observed In j the Spring. VILLA PBANNING TO ( I T BINE San Antonio, Texas, Oct, 27. Villa is reported to be planning a niove ; ment on Santa Rosalio to cut the rail road line between Chihuahua'and Sal- 1 | tillo and prevent Carranza reinforce ments from reaching Chihuahua from j the south. rIARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27. 1916. SOURCE OF RAID 1 WARNING IS KEPT SECRET BY BAKER Refuses to Disclose Specific i Nature of Alleged Attacks on U. S. by Bandits TROOPS ARE READY ! i Deny Consideration of Domes- | tic Policies Lead to Announcement R u • g N Baker s Statement War Department, Washington, Oct. 26. 1918. ] Statement For the Press The War Deportment has receiv- i ed definite information, coniiinied { from other sources, that enemies of the Administration's policy to ward Mexico in co-operation with ! Yllla or other bandits in Mexico, j have arranged a spectacular attack J to be made either upon some part of the American forces or upon i some American community on the ! border between now and the date of the election, for the purpose of turning the tide of sentiment j against the policy which the Ad ministration has adopted for the i protection of the border. It is slg- j nificant in this connection that i both the State and War Depart- ' ments were advised that the ban dit forces operating at the present time in Mexico are being paid in ! silver coin. Full particulars have been trans mitted to General Funston and General Pershing. All American i forces are. therefore, forewarned , and in readiness for such an at- ' tack. V j Washington, Oct. 27. War and ! I State Department officials refused to- j day to disclose the source or specific i ' nature of the information on which j j Secretary Baker last night issued a 1 j statement charging that a bandit at | ,ac ' J on American troops In Mexico ; I or on American border towns lips been : j planned to discredit the government's! • Mexican policy. They said the chan- | | nel of information through which the j report came was so valuable that j ; nothing would be given out that might j j injure its usefulness, j Both Secretary Lansing and Secre- 1 , tary Baker to-day laid stress upon the ] I statement that no consideration of 1 | domestic policies led to the issue of I the announcement that such a pi oil j had been discovered, j "The obviously appropriate com ment of the Secretary of State," Secre , tary Baker s>aid, referring to the ex- I planation by Secretary Lansinc last I night that no American was im plicated and that a desire to prevent the carry ing out of the plans had prompted I Secretary Baker's statement, "pre : eludes the possibility that any such I construction or understanding could [Continued u Page 6] Next Welfare Meeting to Be Held at Pittsburgh I Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 27. Pitts ; burgh was seieceted to-dav bv the I Pennsylvania conference on Social . Welfare for next year's meeting. This j morning's session was devoted to these subjects; "Efficient Administration or' i the Mothers' Assistance Fund" and I "Meeting Social Needs in the Smaller I Community." Miss Anno Da vies, of j Philadelphia, leader in collece settle ment work, criticised the Ineffective ness of the administration of the ; mothers' assistance fund, owing to the 1 lack of co-operation between the var ; ious county boards. "Children in the farm house may be ! more exposed to disease than the city | street urchin," declared Miss Kather ! ine Tucker, superintendent of the vis iting Nurse Society, Philadelphia. I "Social welfare workers have peculiar , opportunities and responsibilities in rural communities," she , continued. Sanitary conditions there are not so good nor methods of. safeguarding I against illness so effectiv*. The coun try child, figures show is 5 to 20 per : cent, more defective than the citv j child. As a means to meet these con- I ditions Mss Tucker urged the eniplov ! ment of public health nurses. Harvard to Have Course in Police Instruction i Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 27. Har vard University is to extend its in struction to police officers. It became known to-day that plans for a course in the duties of the officers were un der way and would be instituted within a month. Raymond B. Fosdick, of New York, regarded as 4m expert •In some : branches of police methods, has been : Invited to become the first instructor. His teaching which will be in day and night classes to allow members of all poiice shifts to participate will deal largely with the matter of organiza tion, keeping stationhouse records, identification systems and to some ex tent with psychology as It relates to the Interrogation of persons arrested. The police of this city will form the , first classes. Harvard having decided to inaugurate the course at the sug gestion of Mayor W. D. Rockwood. j 1 DEAD IN QUEBEC FIRE Farnham, Que., Oct. 27. The j ruins of the St. Elizabeth Hospital, | destroyed yesterday fire, had suffi ciently cooled to-day to permit the authorities to search for bodies. The Grey Nuns, who conducted the insti tution announced that an inquiry in dicates that the death list will stand at 19 including five children. Farn ! ham was under police guard during the night as a result of several small fires which led to the suspicion that Incendiaries have been at work. TAKE REPRISAL STEPS Amsterdam via London, Oct. 27. | As a measure of reprisal against Nor way, says the "Nieuw Botterdamsche l Courant" Germany has notified Dutch j firms that they must now use German ; iron for repairing Norwegian vessels. Unless they comply they will be de prived of further supplies and mate- i rial from Germany. "Death Chamber" of Bomb-Throwing Aeroplane | I fl / 1 /• ; fpter i i if 1 * JkM ... | 1 ill | m&aimSiirKW- - r- wr :■ ■ " ct. 27. Colonel Roose velt put n mighty punch Into the Illi nois' Republican campaign yesterday. I Thirty-five hundred women voters were swept to the pinnacles of enthu- Isi asm in thd Auditorium Theater when he asked everybody who be lieved In "straight United States Am ericanism" to vote for Hughes, "the man who keeps his word." In the stockyards pavilion last I j night he talked to 16,000 cheering; j men, begging them not to be fooled 'by a "sham eight-hour day," thrown' i at labor by the Democrats for pur-, ! poses of polities. T. It. Assails Munsterbcrg i In cutting loose with his American ism, "undivided allegiance," pica at' the Auditorium, he went further than , some of the conservative Republican! managers In New York and Chicago [Continued on Page SO] CARRANZA DENIES VILLA IS STORMING i CHIHUAHUA CITY In Telegram Declares Diaz Was Utterly Defeated and Zapata Is Quiet New York, Oct. 27. The follow ing telegram from General Carranza. dated Mexico City. October 27, 2.H0 a. in., was made public to-day by Juan T. Burns, Mexican consul general at • New York: i "Absolutely false that bandit Villa I is besieging the city of Chihuahua or that Zapata menaces the tranquility of Mexico City. Diaz was utterly de j feated in recent skirmishes with our ! troops and Is now fleeing with a few i followers :o Guatemala. T shall re | main In Mexico City until the constltu j tionai convention convenes at Quare | faro. All military operations Have I been successful and the situation is ! improving daily. (Signed) "Y. CARRANZA." j riRICF. ENDORSES PEACE LEAGUE I.ondon, Oct. 27.—1n a letter to the ■ | Times endorsing the recent speech of ! Viscount Grey before the Foreign Press ! Association in approval of the League jof B'-ace Idea. Viscount Brice calls attention to the fact that the peace i ieasrue movement already has gained a ! virtually universal acceptance In | Arieriea, raylrir that both President ! Wilson and Charles K. Hughes, the i Republican presidential nominee, rep resenting the two great political par ities. have "endorsed it and declared it | to be the duty ot *he American people I to assist in such a permanent com | bination of nations. 1 KPORT 5,000 MORE BELGI \XS Amsterdam, via, London. Oct. 27. j A:•'■♦her five thousand Belgians were -ent <'om Ghent to Germany Monday, I according to the Telegraaf. About ten ■ the,-"and more at other points have I received orders to prepare for their I departuro. A firm in the relief com i mlttee's storehouses at Ixikercn de ; roved fifty tons of wheat and a quan j tity of other provisions. The losses | can red considerable anxiety as to the 'possibility of provisioning the town. HUGHES TO PICK' ABLE CABINET Cannot Fulfill Duty as Nation's "Business Manager" Without Boston, Mass., Oct. 27. As a 1 climax to a day of the most tumult- I nous greetings which ho has oxperi- I Jtnced as a Presidential candidate, 'Charles K. Hughes last night brought> an audience of 10,000 persons with u I dramatic' exposition of the funda mental principles which will guide his j administration if lie is elected i'resi -1 dent. I He promised that he would provide J the Nation with the ablest Cabinet ! which its genius could supply and that he would conduct n strictly Am i erican government for Americans un swerved by any suggestion of foreign I influence and he pledged himself to maintain American rights be/ore ail 1 the world. In biting phrases he flayed the I i present administration for its weak-' ness in foreign policies and its appeal j [Continued on I'agc 20] GOVERNOR WCJLD I MAKE MT. GRETNA i PERMANENT CAMP Asks Adjutant General Stewart If He Will Take Up Sur vey Question WILL ASK FOR MONEY Believes Legislature Will Look With Favor Upon Appro priation • v Plans for making Mount Gretna the j finest military ramping ground in the ; ! nitcd States are a part of legislation j to be recommended for consideration j at the next session. In a letter to-day I to Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew- | r.rt on the subject Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh suggests immediate steps. He says: "It has come to me from a number cf sources that the tin.e has arrived when it would lie well to make Mount Gretna the finest military camping I I ground in the United States, and I . believe that the Legislature at this scs- 1 1 sion, now that our troops have been | so splendidly organized, have rendered BUCD important duties und conducted I themselves so commendably, would j look with favor upon an appropriation jIo carry out this work. "I am writing to ask whether or not you would i>e willing to take up with ■ some important army engineer of the jl nited States the matter of coniing here and making a careful survey of i hat field, with a view to giving us just j the data we need to appeal to the Legislature to rehabilitate that entire camp and make it what we both want it to be. "If you think well of this, T should | be very glad to have you proceed ac t i ordingly, or if you so desire, see me I at your convenience." THOUGH SINGLE Reading. Ba.. Oct. 27.- —The idea that women have to marry in order to be happy was termed a fallacy and super stition prevalent in Berks and other | counties was denounced by Dr. Arthur Holmes, dean of the general faculty of State College, at the countv teachers' Institute. I lis subject was "Heredity," and attacked the arguments of theorists that children can inherit i criminal tendencies or evil habits of their .forebears. He declared that the I ;.75.000 w omen school teachers in the | United States were just as happy as married women, and in many instances i happier. rrf^ ri JJ v* JI, ' I K u,IIJIJ^ l, *'" -^1, 5 !l Henrst properties nsar Babieora, attacked arid defeated a 1 Geronimo, according to a report to-day at field headquart- /§'■ ■% % | a jf , J I a " * (BURNING IJNER RACING FOR PORT 'I. J I 1 • > | 1 i 1 ■ > IT VILLA HEADER TOWARD STATES ] \ L * > t.t 1 1 • y, ■ ' ■■■ ■ '•! • v'...,- -, }ttn ' ► MARRIAGE LICENSES. > llonjnnilii I'raukliii lliirkrr and HIIOIIII Clllirc Urrkrr, clt>. liurl C. llriKlidiill uul Ir-ue ]lir(iwrltc llrrxhrj, Lower l'axton. g ) 24 PAGES CITY EDITION DEMOCRATS DROP POST OFFICES AND RURAL ROUTES IN CUMBERLAND CO. Eberly's Mills, Hunter's Run ; Longsdorf, Montsera, Starners, Trindle Spring and Uriah Abandoned FARMERS, INDIGNANT, ARE UP IN ARMS Rural Routes of Huntsdale, Kerrsville, Newburg, New Kingston, Allen and West Fairview Are Cut Out [By a Staff Correspondent.] Curlisle, Pa., Oct. 27. The most significant feature of the presidential | campaign in Cumberland county is j easily tlie dissatisfaction of the people with the manner in which they have i been treated by tlie postal authori- I ties at Washington since the inaugur i atlon of President Wilson. This neg lect and the injury which has followed 1 the consequent delays and poor ser vice will cost President Wilson hun dreds of votes throughout the rural districts of this county where the peo ple arc wholly dependent upon the [Continued on I'ajc 5] $1,000,000 Mosque of Shriners Is Dedicated Pittsburgh, Oct. "7.—Syria Temple, the new $1,000,000 mosque of the An cient Arabic Order Nobles of tlio .Mystic Shrine, was formally dedicated yesterday. Solemn ceremonies, includ ing the ritual of the Shriners. attended 'lie dedication, which was completed lie/ore a large crowd. Prominent men of the order from every section of this I country, Canada and one from Hawaii 1 took part in the festivities, which were | held behind closed doors. Following the dedicatory exercises a - banquet, attended by 5,000 Shriners, 1 was served in the dining hall of the ! temple, Last night the largest class o£ ] candidates was initiated. The number ran close to 700 and is probably the I largest to be accepted at one time in ' the history of the shrine.