HARRISBURG Sfiwlk TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 255 16 PAGES FORT VAUX IS • EVACUATED BY CROWN PRINCE Berlin Concedes Withdrawal From Important Fortifi cation RUMANIANS HOLD FIRM Von Mackensen Believed to Be Preparing New Thrust; Russ Defeated Fort Vaux, one of the most impor tant fortifications captured by the Ger man crown prince in his prolonged drive at Verdun, has been evacuated by the Germans. The evacuation is announced by Berlin to-day. Shortly after Fort Douaumont had been retaken and a wide stretch of the front in this region regained by the French in their sudden offensive on October 2 5 it was pointed out that Fort Vaux likewise had been put in a perilous position. The French ad vanced close to the edge of the forti fication on its immediate front in their great drive and pushed well beyond it on each side, making its fall. In the opinion of observers at the front, only c. question of a short time. The Germans evacuated Fort Vaux during the night, says their official report, without hindrance by the French, and after portions of the fort had been blown up. The French con tinued to pour a heavy Are from their oig guns on the fortification. Lost All Their Gains Virtually all the ground of pro nounced value taken by the Germans on the eastern bank of the Meuse in their winter and spring offensive at \erdun has now with the fall of Fort > aux been lost to them. French troops operating In the Les Rouefs and Ranoourt sectors on the Sommo front also gained ground yesterday in attacks on the German lines. The Paris report of night announcing these advances is in part confirmed by the Berlin official state ment to-day. which concedes French tains northeast of Morval and on the edge of the St. Pierre-Vaast wood, but declares that the n-.ain effort of the French to move forward was sangui narily repulsed. The British likewise, says Berlin, failed in an attack north of Courcelette on the Somrne front. London last night reported gains in the Les Bouefs sector in operations in conjunction ■with the French, but announced to- Gay that heavy rain was falling and that there were no noteworthy hap penings during the night. Rumanians Hold Firm M There is no apparent let-up in the m pressure which General von Falk"n havn is exerting along the Rumanian northwestern frontier, but in general the Rumanians are reported to be holding him fairly well in check. No new advances of importance are an nounced to-day by the German war office. In the meantime, however, military critics are looking shortly for definite news from the province of Dobrudia. on the southeast front, where "no change in the situation" has been the v.stial report from both sides for sev. ral days past. Field Marshal von Mackensen is believed to be making preparations for a new stroke in an effort to complete his conquest of this Rumanian province. while from Bucharest comes unofficial announce ment that General Sakharoff, one of the ablest of the Russian generals. Is expected in the Rumanian capital to take command of the forces in Dobrudja. On the Stokhod. in Volhynia, a Rus t Continued on Page 9] Excuse Removed, U.S. Should Get Out of Drink Business Altoona, Pa., Nov. 2. —Liquidation of ihe Civil War debt, the only excuse ever given for the Federal government Issuing liquor licenses, long since has been accomplished, and now the United States should get out of the drink business. Ira Landrith, the Pro hibition vice-presidential nominee, told a crowd here to-day. , ,"T 01 ' Northerners passed this liquor bill, he said. "You did it in 1562. Me Southerners weren't in Congress then. We can prove an alibi. You jou wanted to m66t the war debt, and you probablv did. And President Lincoln agreed to the bill's passage only with the understanding that it would be repealed when the war was over. The war now has been over more than fifty years. The debts R re paid. "We don't need the rnonev any longer." THE WEATHER] For HarrUhurg ami vlt-inltri Fair Und Kr,d >' '• much chaßKc in trni|>eraturrs lourm to-dlKbt ,iliout 40 ilrcrrra For Baatern l>nn>laniai Fnlr 'VL. n, " ,, temperature to night and Fritlayi moderate KOUthnrM to nt winds. .. River Ihe Susquehanna river and all It* branches 111 fall nlowly or re main nearly stationary. \ Htiiite of about XT feet la indicated for Harrinburg Friday morning. General Conditions """ central north of the I. rent l.akfN, \\ ril ncdmy morning, tin* pa%e| off northrn*twnrd -fonr hours nlonir the . northern border from l.ake *u eaatward to Maine and In the St. Lawrence \ alley. The weather I* now nettled throujth w,u. Statm with clear aklfa In all diatrlctn except South era California. Temperatures are mild for the aea son throughout practically all the countryj they have fallen 2 to 10 deKreea in the Enat Gulf States I.aat Tenneaaee and the Atlantle States from South Carolina north, w nrd. Temperature! 8 a. m„ 4ft, Sum Rlaes, 6i3A a. M.i sets. 5:01 Moont First quarter, to-day, 12i51 HUrr Staket 3.7 feet above low water mark. ... . Yeaterday'a Weather lushest temperature, AM. I.oweat temperature. 40. Mean temperature. Si IVoimal temperature. 47. HUGHES SURE OF BOTH OHIO ! AND INDIANA Receptions Exceeded Those Ac corded Any Other Candidate; Assails Democrats HIGH COST OF LIVING G. O. P. Nominee Attacks Ad ministration For Extravagance and Failure of Promises Batavia, X. Y.. Nov. 2. Charles E. Hughes declared to-day before an audience here that he Is entirely con fident of the result in both Ohio and ■ Indiana. "I have returned from a trip through Ohio and Indiana." he said, i "with :x profound sense of gratifica i tion and entire confidence with respect to the result in both States. In both Ohio and Indiana it is not exaggerat | ingto say that I had receptions which jperhaps exceeded those accorded to ! any other presidential candidate. I "That was, of course, as I said last night, not attributed to me personally i but it was an indication of the deep interest the people are taking in the essential conditions of their prosperity and their satisfaction that there is a great reunited Republican party ready for service at this critical time. "So far as promises go no one can I exceed the promises of our prospects but we measure what they say by what they have done." Mr. Hughes assailed the Democratic party for failure to reduce the high cost of living, "as promised four years ago." and for extravagance. "They tell us now," he continued, "that they are going to deal with economic problems that confront us at this time, in a satisfactory manner, but if we endeavor to ascertain by what principle they are to be guided we look in vain." [Continued on Page 41 Bank Robbed of $4,050 by Lone Armed Bandit NHes. Mich., Nov. 2. The State Bank at Eau Clair, about twenty miles north of here, was robbed of 14,050 yesterday by a lone bandit, who. with a revolver, compelled the cashier. \ ere Beckwith. to stand with his hands upraised while the money was being removed from the cashier's cage. The robber backed out i ot the bank and escaped. Husband's Shot Saved Wife Attacked by Wolf i WiUi&msport. Pa.. Nov. 2. Seeing a dog owned by her husband being chased by another animal. Mrs. Mahlon i Saxton shouted to her husband, who was husking corn in the field, for help. The animal turned on her. but in the .meantime Mr. Saxton had caught up a gun and hastened toward his wife. He stopped the animal with a shot before it harmed her and killed it with a sec ond shot. It proved to be a wolf, which es caped last year from Shoemaker's Park, at McElhattan, and weighed sixty pounds. Lieut. Philip U. Kuhns, War Veteran, Dies at Carlisle Carlisle, Pa.. Nov. 2. All Car ! lisle and a big portion of Cumberland | county to-day mourned the death of one of the borough's oldest residents, Lieutenant Philip U. Kuhns, a veteran of the Civil War. Lieutenant Kuhns di_ed about 9 o'clock last evening, aged 77. General complications due to ad • vancing years was the cause. Lieutenant Kuhns is survived by 1 these children: Harvey E., Carlisle; Mrs. Elmer Natcher, Bethayers, Pa.; Milton L.. and Lillian G., both of Car i lisle; a sister. Miss Annie Kuhns, of Carlisle, and a brother, John, of Al i toona. Military funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock will be conducted by Post 201, Grand Army of the Republic. Lieutenant Kuhns was born in this place and lived here all his life. While he never took an active part in politics he was always in the forefront of civic activities and in church and Grand Army work. For years he worked for the Carlisle Manufacturing Com pany and for the Waynesboro Manu facturing Company. Later he engaged in the restaurant business in this place. Mr. Kuhns was a member of the Lutheran church and a charter member of the Empire Hook and Ladder Company. ■ In April, 1861, young Kuhns went to Harrisburg in answer to the "great call" and enlisted in Company C, Ninth Pennsylvania volunteers. Upon the expiration of his term he re-enlisted in Company A, Eleventh Pennsvlvania, I was immediately appointed sergeant, and served with that command until he was mustered out at Harrisburg as a lieutenant in 1865. He served In ; most of the tattles in which the Armv of the Potomac engaged, including Gettysburg and at the battle of the > Rappahannock he was terribly wound jed when a solid cannon shot struck his musket and shattered It in his hands. BANK ROBBERS GET 86,000 Braid wood. Ills., Nov. 2. Four robbers blew the Fafe in the private bank of W. H. Odell & Company here last night and escaped in an automo bile with >6,000. The men cut all wires leading into the little village and made good their escape before , aid could be summoned. TORCHLIGHT PARADE FOR T. R. Cleveland, 0., Nov. 2. Plans for ; a great torchlight procession to escort : Colonel Theodore Roosevelt from the i New York Central depot to the Cen tral Armory to-night were completed by Republican leaders to-day. Roose jvelt will speak here this evening. At ! the same time Secretary of War New ton D. Baker will address two Demo cratic meetings in th. Interest of ' President Wilson's re-etection. AMERICAN AVIATOR KILLED i Baltimore, Nov. 2. Antoni Jan ' nus. of Baltimore, an American aviator, was killed In the Russian aero [service October 12 last according to a I dispatch reeclved here to-day. Jannus was an Instructor at the Canadian i Aeronautical School at Toronto for a j time during 1915, HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1916, VOTE FOR HUGHES! |jj TheSeAmericansare\ferikingTcxjay are Not 8 If fimWk / qf GERMANY TO SINK ALL SHIPS WITH STORES FOR ALLIES Athens Hears Relentless War fare in Disregard of Pledges Will Be Waged Washington. Nov. 2. State De partment officials still were waiting to day for Germany's version of the de struction of the Rritish steamer Mar ina with loss of American lives. They also were expecting affidavits anil other data gathered from American survivors on which to determine whether Germany's pledges to the United States had been broken. [Continued on Page 7] 15,000 JOINING IN MOCK BATTLE Pcnna. Guardsmen and Regu lars Taking Part in Monster Engagement El Paso, Texas, Nov. 2. —One of the greatest military maneuvers held on i the Mexican border In taking place to- i day, in which the Seventh Division, ; commanded by Major-General Charles' M. Clement, and United States regu- i lars are taking part. More than 15,000 are engaged In a mimic battle, which is being (ought on [ the plains east of Camp Stewart. ; Blank ammunition is used In the con- , flict by the artillery, cavalry and in- I fantry units. This is the first time the artillery ha? participated in a mimic I battle in which such a large number of . men have been engaged. General Clement announced that i the First Artillery would entrain for, home November 8 to 9. The artillery ; will leave in six or seven sections. Three batteries will be allowed twenty four horses each and three thirty-two hors.es each. This Is expected to bo i the last unit of the Pennsylvania guardsmen to leave for home until | after the first of the year. Winning third place, the Pennsylva- ' nla National Guard rifle team which ! participated in the national shoot at ; Jacksonville, Fla., returned to Camp , Ftewart. The team was commanded ' by Lieutenant Blain Aiken. 52 OX MARINA; SIX DEAD London. Nov. 2. A telegram to the American embassy to-day from; Wesley Frost, American consul at Queenstown, states that the dis crepancies in former reports regard- : ing the number of Americans on board the British steamship Marina and the ' i names of those lost have now been j cleared up. The total number of Am- | erlcans on board was 52 of whom six! were lost. J • START UNLOADING $10,000,000 CARGO OF DEUTSCHLAND Naval Officials Prepare For Formal Inquiry to Deter mine Status New London. Conn., Nov. 2.—Activi ties of a varied nature centered about the German undersea merchantman Deutschland and her captain, Paul Koenig. to-day. While the crew busied themselves behind the barriers which hide the submarine from public view in preparing to dispose of the 700 tons of \aiuable cargo which the Deutsch land brought from Bremen, customs [Continued on Page 9] AVIATOR MAKES ! NONSTOP RECORD On Way From Chicago to New York Carlstroin Is Forced to Descend at Erie Erie, Pa., Nov. 2. Aviator Victor | Carlstrom who is flying from Chicago to New York landed in this city at 11.26 a. rn. to-day because of engine , trouble, thereby establishing a new : American nonstop flight record. Erie is just half the distance Carlstrom set i out to cover. The aviator was flying about seven , miles south of Erie when a pipe be ,came loose on his engine and he made [Continued on Page 7] Founder of "Hogan's Flop," Port For Derelicts, Dies Chicago. Nov. 2. Ben. Hogan. founder of "Hogan's Mop" which for ! many years sheltered derelicts, hoboes and castaways at two cents a bed each if they had it, died at his home here yesterday at the age of 87. With the passing of the former prize fighter, preacher and humanitarian was re called the days when thousands of un fortunates were fed and sheltered by the humane mission which friends said he always operated at a financial loss. "Moody, the noted evangelist, taught me to preach," Hogan onco said, "and then I learned that there was more to serving mankind than by giving hungry men words. That is the rea son I started the soup mission and the flop." Hogan served both the Union and Confederate armies In the Civil war as a blockade runner. Nearly half a century ago he fought Tom Al len for the world's championship and was beaten. LOWER END SOLID FOR HUGHES AND LOCAL NOMINEES ,Big Meetings at Swatara Hill; ! Rally at Dauphin, Steelton and Oberlin Tonight Republican campaigners returned i last evening from a tour of the lower lend of the county confident that the Conewagos and adjacent districts are safe in the Republican fold. They found Hughes sentiment strong every where and there is no question about the remainder of the ticket. The Democrats have done little byway of campaigning and are plainly discour [Continued on Page 14] TECH ALUMNIIN STUDENT PARADE i Warriors of Years Gone by to Boost New High School Loan Saturday Football, track and backetball foes of days gone by will forget all about ; the trial and tribulations of gridiron, track and field Saturday afternoon and turn out en masse to help a rival's little brothers and sisters of the years to come to obtain a place to study In high school days. In brief Tech high school alumni will head the division of Maroon and Gray students In the big student par ade to demonstrate the necessity of • passing the proposed $1,250,000 loan. Announcement of the share Techni- I cal high school graduates will take in | the demonstration was made to-day by James Fit*pat rick, president of the Alumni Association, In Issuing a gen eral call through the newspapers for the "grads" to assemble at Tech, 12.45 [Continued on Page ] NEW TONNAGE RECORD Central Iron & Steel Open Hoarth De partment Has licst Month Ever The open hearth furnace of the Central Iron and Steel Co., established a record during the month of Oc tober by turning out 10, tons, Wil liam Brown, superintendent of the de partment announced. The mill has oeen In operation 22 years. from present indications an exceptional large tonnage will be turned out this winter at the plant. Harry S. Evans superintendent of the large .plate rnlli i also reported a remarkable production of 6,000 tons of finished steel durihg October Work Is in progresfl on a new open hearth furnace that will heat 125 tons. STATE WINS IN COUNTY HIGHWAY MANDAMUS CASE Need Maintain Roads Only! When Actually Taken Over j by Highway Department ! ~ DISCRETIONARY QUESTION President Judge Kunkel Re fuses Northampton's Suit to Compel Action Pennsylvania is required to repair and maintain the highways Incorpor ated In the State system by authority of the acts of 1911 and 1913, only j when the Commonwealth formally! takes over this work and assumes the! responsibility for the care and main tenance, and not necessarily at the time they become integral parts of the State highway system. In a comprehensive opinion handed down to-day President Judge Kunkel so decided in refusing the request of the Northampton county commission ers for a mandamus upon the State Highway Department, to compel the State to construct and maintain the road leading from Nazareth to Bethle-' hem via Newburg and Hecktown. "As the State Highway Department has not assumed the maintenance of the road in question," savs President Judge Kunkel, "it follows that the Highway Commissioner is not respon sible for its care or tne Commonwealth liable for the expense of maintenance. ] When it has been taken over and its care and maintenance assumed by the Highway Department will Northamp ton county be relieved of the expense thereof. [Continued on Page 12] C. OF C. OFFICERS At a meeting yesterday afternoon lof the directors of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, David E. Tracy was elected president. Other officers elected are: First vice-presi dent, Charles W. Rurtnett; second vice-president; Arthur D. Bacon; treasurer, Robert McCormick; secre tary, E. L. McColgin, re-elected. STEED MAKES NEW HIGH New York, Nov. 2. United States Steel common shares sold at the new high record of 122% shortly after the opening of to-day's market, the stock I being absorbed in large Individual [ lots. This exceeds Its previous maxi i mum by half a point. It also passed the preferred stock, which sold at 122. N< •' Aftrr Ho i?! ' ' UT ' . he ''some telephoning to c?o.*' ARP E5 T MO?' •- :OY THI EVES i i from a house in Duncnnnon yesterday afternoon. Prem pert is r.lno wanted for stealing a diamond ring from his homc'in Bi'timorr Dirriii*' thr Hst tell day; citv police . • • . • , V almost conclusive evident hv n 1 *.t the boys the police claim. SEIT2 AND FORRER IMPROVING n ' ' '' ; t ' 0;:1 ' m operation for ap pendicitir- _i MARRIAGE LICENSES i Anthony UrKrank and Kmmn Kdlth Prayer. SteeHon. | Harry Ureacker l.raeb, l„<-moyne, and Katherlne May Rohrcr, city. Single Copies, 2 Cents CITY EDITION ROSE VALUED AT $15,000 HERETOBE PHOTOGRAPHED J. Horace McFarland, Editor of American Rose Annual, Tells of Wondrous Bloom GROWN IN BALTIMORE Is a "Glorified La France"; Man 82 Years Old Pro duces Flower y One rose—sls,ooo! That's the price of a new and woni' derful rose which was photographed yesterday at the Mt. Pleasant Prlntery, Crescent and Mulberry streets. The rose was found last week In Baltimore by J. Horace McFarland, head of the Mt. Pleasant Prlntery, and ! editor of the American Rose Annual, the official publication of the American Kose Society. It was produced by John Cook, a man 'eighty-two years of age who has been growing roses [Continued on Page 7] Wilson and McCormick Confer on Mayflower" New York, Nov. 2.—President Wil son arrived here this morning from j his campaign trip up-State. He was taken by automobile across town to the East river and went aboard tha Government yacht, Mayflower. When the President reached tha Grand Central Station to spend his only day of campaign in New York City with four speeches on his pro gram for the afternoon and evening, he was cheered by a large group of railroad men, some of them carrying American flags. He was met at the station by Col. Edward M. House and Vance C. Mc- Cormick, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. With him they motored to the New York Yacht club pier and boarded the Mayflower for a political conference. The President, it was announced, would at the invitation of Mr. Mc- Cormick, visit Democratic . national headquarters here. He decided per sonally to meet the start working for his re-election and to see the ma chinery of the headquarters in opera tion. Officials in the President's party | said no announcement was ready in ■connection with the sinking of tho British steamship Marina with tho ' resultant loss of American lives.