2 RALLYING ROVND THE FLAG first Baptist Extends Call to Former Pastor of Tabernacle Church Tlie pulpit committee of the First Baptist Church at a recent meeting recommended that the Rev. W. J. I.oclthart, of Baltimore, anri a former pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist • 'hurch, of this city, he extended the • all to become pastor of the First Baptist Church to succeed the Rev. W. S. Booth, who left April 1 for New Jersey. The Rev. J. W. Spencer, retired, is chairman of the pulpit committee. The Rev. Mr. will probably make his decision early next week. THREE BARNS BURNED Highmount, April 21.—A fire oc curred on the Detweiler farm, near here last night, entailing a loss of over JB,OOO, only partially insured. A large barn, two small ones, a tenant house and all the contents of the barns were destroyed. CmiHtOLE AT® BELIEVES COLDS It easily Loosens Congestion and Drives out that Cold in the Head, Throat or Chest If you havo a sore, tight chest, cold in the head or a raw, >eore throat, get a jar of Camphorole from the nearest drug store, and watch how it will loosen up that cough, cold and con gestion in chest. Do not treat your colds lightly; this is pneumonia season. The remark able success of Camphorole is entirely due to Wintergrcen, Menthol and Camphor, prepared in a synthetic way to give results. Physicians recommend Camphorole for Bronchitis. Sore Throat, Croup, Whooping Cough, Tonsilltis, Pleurisy, Neuralgia, Asthma, Stiff Neck. Useful In Broncho-Pneumonia. At all druggists, 25c and 60c Jars.' War Conditions make the coal out look for the next Fall and Winter very uncertain. You know how uncer tain they were last Win ter. Look ahead and safeguard yourself for the future. Conditions at the mines can't improve with War draining both men and cars. What little bit we have in the yards is subject to your order. Don't delay. H. M. Kelley& Co. Office, t North Third Yards, Tenth and State f \ Also Knight Tires 5000 MILES FROXT-MAUKKT MOTOR SUPPLY CO. UarrlhliurK, I'a. SATURDAY. EVENING, KAISER FACES CRISIS THAT ROCKS EMPIRE [Continued Prom First I'npro] pressive. On its heels arrives the account of demands made by the leaders of the Berlin strike, demands of such a revo lutionary character that compliance with them would mean a prompt ending to the militarist regime in the Ger man empire. Similar demands have not been voiced publicly in Ger many since the imprisonment of Dr. Karl Liebknecht on a charge of treason. It is significant that they include a requisition for the release of all political prisoners which would include of course the noted Socialist leader. 1 he exact status of the strike movement in Germany is unknown but it is certain that a very considerable portion of the munition workers have been affected. There are re ports of a new strike at Essen and Magdeburg, the site of an important branch of the great Krupp establishments. Indication of the seriousness of the situation is afforded bv the fact that Field Marshal Yon Hindenburg has considered it necessary to make a personal appeal to the workers in which he denounces strikes as inexcusable crimes against the fighting forces. French Press On In the meantime General Xivelle maintains his unrelenting pres sure against the enemy at the most vital points of bis defenses, the sharp angle at which the German line,.running south from Lens, turns east toward Rheims. This angle has already been crushed into an appre ciable extent and is in imminent dan ger of being entirely shattered. The heavy toll of prisoners -taken by the French mounts steadily day by day, giving strong support to the claims made in London and Paris of the de terioration of the German morale. Three great obstacles stand in the path of General Nivelle. The first is the formidable and sinister Brimont plateau, the height from which the German guns have poured their shells on the Rheims cathedral. The French SOLDIERS DELIGHT IN NEW WARFARE [Continued From First Page] land. It is really most of it wheat or turnip land which has not been cul tivated for a year or two. The coun try is as open as the Australian cen tral plains. It is quite a new sort of battlefield for these Australians. They inarch down to it through valleys, almost ex actly lik<> the, valleys in the peaceful parts of France. There are whole acres in which one can not see a single shell hole. Hack across the green country or down the open roads come men in twos or threes occasionally, saunter ing, as one might find them on a coun try road on Sunday. They are the wounded helping one another back to the dressing station. The walking wounded have to help each other back in these modern battles. It is no longer looked upon as meritorious for an unwounded combatant to leave the field and help a wounded comrade to the rear. Angry Color llurNt* Nearer the front the country be comes more feverish. Angry bursts of tawny color are seen in a haphazard sort of way dotting the horizon and the countryside. Here and th£re are Australians in great coats standing be hind mounds of earth with their rifles pointed over Hie top, bayonets always fixed. Frequently when there is no other shelter there are hastily scooped trenches. A quarter of a mile awav another party is lining a roadside, fiat BREAKFAST V ~ V EVERYBODY WANTS THE BEST CORN FLAKES EATS POST TOASTIES 65 •MBiaaaßmaHniitatan | are at the foot of this plateau and I l>y a double flanking movement are | endeavoring to cut it oft on the main i German line. Allied Artillery Active The second great barrier is the al | most similarly situated Fort de Mal maison, which stands between Gen ; eral Is'ivelle's troops and Laon on the road frm Laffeux. The third ob i stacle is the upper Coucy forest, a ! densely wooded plateau which held I up the French in their initial drive j from Soissons. I While the French guns thunder ; against these three German strong j holds there is minor activity on the J Hritish front. That General Haig is preparing for another tremendous blow is taken for granted and I,on don believes that this blow will not I be long withheld now. ! on their stomachs in the ditch, bay : onets peeping over the top. Shells j are whizzing by at the rate of two or ; three a minute, high explosives burst- I ing on contact behind their backs | about as far as the other side of a cot : tage parlor. 1 Over a bit to the right is a sleepv , French village. Not a living thing is to be seen down these straggling | Uangicourt streets. The bricks of tumbled walls lie here and there just las the shells knocked them. Through ; them just as in the old battle pictures may be seen the bodies of dead Ger i mans, at corners in the angles of tum l bled houses, in a courtyard visible j through a shattered brick wall, two | of them in the bottom of one of the j big craters which the Germans them- I selves blew at every crossroads to im t pede the enemy's advance. Nothing I stirs in the whole village and the only sound coming from their abode of death Is the occasional fall of a tile or some I debris thrown skyward by a shell de | scending from over behind the n&xt i village. Rededication of Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg Gettysburg, Pa., April 21. After making improvements costing $3,150 the Presbyterian Church will be re dedicated to-morrow morning, with apporpriate services following during the remainder of the day and the com ing week. The formal dedication will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Franklin E. Taylor. BREAK GROUND FOR HOUSES At"a dinner given last night in the Harrisburg Club by the Harrisburg Clearing House Association, to the rep representatives of banks in the out lying districts, plans were discussed for the forming of a county clearing house, operated in the same manner as those in Lancaster and York coun tios. Eighteen banks on the outlying sections were represented last night, as were fifty bankers from this city- Chairman Donald McCormlck, of the Harrisburg Clearing House, was in structed to appoint a committee to consider suggestions in forming the njw association. HARRZBBURG *SIJYK TELEGRAPH SENATE LEADERS TO PUSH DRAFT BILL [Continued From First l'age] with tho strategic plan of tho Presi dent to have the Senate pass the measure promptly as a lesson to the slackers in the House. The bill goes to the Benate with seven of the seventeen members of the Military Committee in favor of a call for volunteers instead of tho pro posal of the bill lo raise the war army by a selective draft. There is certain to be several days of debate. No effort is expected on the part of the opponents of tho draft to delay a vote, but many senators who favor Iho bill want to discuss it before they vote. l„ines have not been drawn detlnltely, but friends of the bill were conlident to-night it would be passed by a good majority. Sen ator Chamberlain, chairman of the committee, said it would pass practi cally as reported. Kfforts to change the measure will center on the amendment beaten in committee to add to the General Staff plan a provision authorizing a call for volunteers, offered by Senator Mc- Keller, a Democrat. A report pro pared by the Tennessee Senator, sup porting the amendment, has the ap proval of six other committee mem-; bers and will be submitted formally to-morrow. Debate Six Hours a Day Senator Chamberlain expects to keep the bill before the Senate until a vote is reached, but no plan is now contemploted to hold unusually long sessions or to attempt to sit continu ously. In the ordinary course of Sen ale debate, at six hours a day, the bill 1 should reach the voting stage by the j end of next week. The House Military Committee will j meet to-morrow and go through thei formality of approving the measure. A majority has substituted for the j General Staff measure which provides i that the volunteer system shall be j given a trial before draft is resorted , to. The minority will vote for the staff'bill, and reports by each side l will be tiled with the House when it I meets Monday. Chairman Dent, of tho committee, has said the bill would be taken up Monday, and that a tentative arrange ment had been made with Repre sentative Kahn, of California, ranking Republican committeeman, and a staunch supporter of the administra tion, to have nine hours' general de French Cavalry Patting Through Noyon I "Spring Drive" I I Supplement I ■ ■ C UNDAY'S Public Ledger will contain a special four-page Pictorial Supple ■ v me „t showing dramatic incidents in the I advance of the Allied troops on their I Hi "spring drive" and the desolation wrought by the retreating Germans. The J ml pictures graphically portray conditions as H I they actually exist in France. See them in H I Sunday's I ■ PUBLIC LEDGER I ' ] bate. That, with the time to be oc cupied under the flve-mlrfute rule, may permit a vote to bo reached Thursday. Under the House rules It always Is possible to limit debate, and tho Sen ale has clothed Itself with a cloture rule that designed to sh it eft dilatory debate. There Is no desire apparent among leaders, however, to apply re strictions on such a measure ns this, and debate, certainly in the Senate, will take Its natural course. Pacifists to Have I>ay Although It will not affect tho bill, Chairman Chamberlain has promised several pacifists a hearing and the House committee will hear Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, on tho Swiss system of universal military training. The prospective entrance of the United States into the war on a huge scale was forecasted to-day by the preparations being made by the Ad visory Hoard of the Council of Na tional Defense, which is laying its plans for tho equipping and clothing of a million men at arms within a year. The plans further contemplate the similar outfitting of 2,000,000 men within two years. The plans of the war college are still more far-reaching and gigaijtic. It is proceeding with its plans on tho assumption of an army that will ul timately number 5.000,000 men, prob ably within less than five years. THOUSANDS WILL DISPLAY LOYALTY [Continued )Yom First Page] this morning at 10 o'clock by the Scot land Industrial School band, which will accompany the Capitol Hill em ployes in the parade. The musicians arrived here early this morning and the concert arranged through the ef forts of Frederick A. Godcharles, chairman of the Capitol Patriotic com mittee. Rc<l Men Have Crowd The Steelton band will lead the Red Men tribes. Red Men from Steelton, Higlispire and Middletown will meet in the Hill tribes at Elev enth and Market streets at 1 o'clock and then proceed to Verbeke and Sixth streets, where they will meet the uptown tribes. The Red Men will report at the tribes at 1 o'clock. Members of the Engineer's So ciety will meet at Front and fehest nut streets at 1 o'clock and pro ceed to their place of formation. At 1:30 o'clock members of the ■< APRIL 21, 1 9(7. Young Men's Hebrew Association will meet in their rooms and be supplied with tho necessary parad ing paraphernalia. A. M. Porter, marshal of the Com monwealth l' Pennsylvania Em ployes' division, issued orders for marchers to report on the Capital plaza promptly nt 1 o'clock. The Capital Hill unit will carry ban ners calling on the people to rally to the flag. Flout to Represent Allies ■ A largo lloat representing America's Allies will be in line. A number of girls dressed In white shirtwaists and dark skirts will be in the lloat waving flags of the Allied nations. Joseph N. Mackrell, legislative cor respondent of the Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph, and marshal of the Mack rell Marching Club, the largest organ ization of its kind in Allegheny county, will inarch with the HABIUSBUBG TELEGRAPH employes division. A huge American flag will be carried by forty-eight girls in the Lucknow shops section of the Pennsylvania Bail road employes division. Each girl will represent a State of the Union, and they will he preceded by thirteen girls typifying the thirteen original colonies. Alderman Charles Em met Murray will carry three Spanish-American Wat veterans, all of whom lost a leg in the war, in his automobile. Bars and restaurants will be closed at 12.30 o'clock and remain closed until the end of the parade. The ltegent and Majestic theaters will not start their matinees until 3.30 o'clock. Hats olT! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! WRECK NEAR EMIGSVILLE Trains from the South were delayed yesterday afternoon by a freight wreck near Emigsville. A broken flange w'its the cause. Ten cars.were piled up, blocking traffic until late last night. No person was injured. Trains were sent to Columbia and from there to Harrisburg. THOMAS O. KEEI'E DIES Thomas O. Beefe, aged 56, died Thursday morning, at his home, 1114 Bartine street. Euneral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock, the Kev. G. S. Bentz, assistant pastor of Market Square Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be made in Paxtang Cemetery. Charge Trainmen With Responsibility For Big Wreck Formal Informations against Engi neer A. T. Cook and Flagman S. K. Ja robs, of Harrisburg, In connection with the death* of twenty persona In the hi IT Mercantile express at Mt. Union on February 27, were made yesterday be fore Squire James Kelly, of Hunting don. by Jesse Port. The Informations, made at the In stance of District Attorney C. D. Fet terhoof, in order to properly bring In dictments before the grand jury, charge that the victims of the wreck, came to their deaths by reason of tho "gross negligence, wilful misconduct, carelessness and disobedience of the rules and regulations of the Pennsyl-* vania Kailroad Company." As both men furnished bail when held for the grand jury by the Coroner's jupy, they will not have to be rearrested. ARGENTINA READY FOR GERMAN BREAK [Continued From First Pago] Germany attempts to evade responsi bility for the loss of the vessel. The instructions sent to the minister ore that Argentina will permit of no evasion or delay on the part of Ger many. He is told to instruct tho Ber lin government that if prompt satis faction is not granted, Argentina will follow the course of the United States and Brazil and will arm its ships against submarines. * MOTHER GRAY'S POWDERS ~ q BENEFIT MANY CHILDREN Thonsandsof mothers have found Mother (Cray's Sweet Powders an excellent remedy for children complaining of headache, colds, fevcrishness, stom ach troubles and bowel irregularities from which children suffer during these days. These powders are easy and pleasant to take and excellent results are accomplished by their use. O'ttrt by mot hen/nr 81) year*. Sold by Druggists everywhere, 25 ceuts. / \ Also Warner Lense "WITHIN THE JjAVT FRONT-MAHKET MOTOR SUPPLY CO. Harrisburg, Pa.
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