•wm I - T'W "•"*■" 4 ' "* • ; ••• 1 v - " 1 " -•-' *• • •'•-•; /-'W T ■* " - • ■■ • '".•••'•■ r -> "• ngentof American Officers WithGeneralP HARRISBURG tSsf§Bi TELEGRAPH ' (jTlif Star* ffnftcpcnbfnt. LXXXVI— No. 139 14 PAGES MAKE PLANS FOR BIG RED CROSS MEETING HERE Workers of National Promi nence to Address Represen tatives of 86 Chapters ASKED TO RAISE SIOO,OOO That Is This City's Share of $100,000,000 to Be Contributed Officials of the Red Cross are to day making plans for the State Con ference to be held in this city, Thurs day, June 14. At that time it is ex pected more than 500 Red Cross •workers will gather at the Board of Trade. The meetings of the day will be addressed by workers of national prominence. More than 86 chapters will be represented by at least six members and auxiliaries will also have representatives. The State Conferences have proved a big success in other States. They enable each chapter to work in bet ter co-ordination with the other members of the State organization. At this time It is also very important that Interest is not allowed to lag, and a general get-together meeting always proves a new source of en thusiasm. June 21 the local drive for the SIOO,OOO will be started. The National Red Cross has asked for $100,000,- 000, Every effort will be used by the local chapter to reach and if possible oversubscribe the Capital City's al lottment. At the final meeting of the volunteer salesmen for the Liberty Loan many of them volunteered their nervlces for the Red Cross campaign. It 1* expected the splendid success of the Liberty Loan will help to encour ego the solicitors. A new campaign committee has been appointed consisting of W. T. Hlldrup, Jr.; Spencer C. Gilbert, Wil liam Jennings, James Cameron, George W. Reily, Morris Jacobson and D. E. Tracy. Increase of 89.8 Per Cent. Made in Year in Prices of Principal Foodstuffs By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 11.—The level of prices paid producers of principal crops on June 1 was 99.8 per cent, higher than a year ago and 107 per cent, above the past nine years' average on that date, the De partment of Agriculture reported to day. Producers of meat animals on May 15 received 48.4 per cent, more than a year ago and 71 per cent, more than the average price on that date in the last seven years. The composite condition of all crops on June 1 was 5.8 per cent, below their ten-year average on that date. Either Spy or Traitor Has Been Divulging U. S. War Secrets, Says Daniels By Associated Press Washington. June 11. Either a 6py or traitor has been divulging confidential information of the Bureau, of Ordinance, Secretary Daniels to-day told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. When the committee to-day re sumed investigation of the Mongolia shell attack. Senator Frelinghuysen produced some letters which Secre tary Dar.iels said contained informa tion which only could have been obtained from the confidential fi!f;s of the ordnance bureau. He asked to have them turned over to the secret service. Senator Frel'.nghuy sen said he had no desire to shield any one and that lie had attempted to find out something about the author and could not. Secretary Daniels said it was absolutely necessary to run down traitors or spies in the navy depart ment and that the person who fur nished the information was one or the other. He urged the committee to uncover the author of the letters and make him disclose everything. THE WEATHER For Hnrriffburg nm! vlrlnltyi Fair | y xhovrers In rrtrrm e cast por tion to-night and Tuesdayi gentle, variable winds. River The main river will continue to fall) It* tributaries will prob ably fall, except the middle pnrt of the West Branch, which "111 likely rise aomenhat or remain nearly stationary. A atagc of about 7.0 feet la Indicated for Harrisburg Tuesday morning. General Conditions A weak disturbance, central over Virginia, Is causing unsettled weather In t>e Middle and North Atlantic States. An extensive low area ay stem covers the country between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi river, with Ita center over east ern Sooth Dakota. Showers have occurred In the L'ppcr Ohio Val ley and In the Atlantic States from Sooth Carolina to Maine, Inclualve. Temperature! S a. m., 8S degrees. Sunt Rises, 4i27 a. m. Moon i New moon, June 10. River Stagei 7.6 feet. Yeaferday'a AVeather Highest temperature, 73. Lowest temperature, 64. Mean temperatnre, 68. Normal temperature, 60. NORTHCLIFFE IS HERE TO HEAD WAR MISSION English Peer and Publisher Will Take Up Work at Once PLAN CO-OPERATION i Refuses to Make Statement Until Credentials Are Pre sented at Washington By Associated Press An Atlantic Port, June 11.—Lord Northcliffe on an errand to America i to co-ordinate British activities hero ' as a commercial representative of the ; British government, arrived in the I United States to-day on an American steamer. A* virtual head of the British war ; mission in this country, Lord North l cliffe, owner of the London Times and other English newspapers, comes, it is understood not as a dip lomatic representative but to work along industrial and economic lines i in the furtherance of his govern ment's interests in America. In this j connection he is expected to co-oper ate with Captain Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner in the United States. Lord Northcliffe issued the follow ing statement: Is Much Pleased "The war cabinet has designated me head of the British war mission to the United States and I have been instructed to try to co-ordinate the work of the various admirable Brit ish organizations already established here. Until 1 present credentials at Washington it is impossible, of course, for me to make any further statement. "I can however, express my very great personal pleasure at being again in America, which 1 have no often visited and which has many delightful associations and friend ships for me. "Nor is it saying too much when I add that the whole British people have a profound sense of grateful appreciation of the magnificent wel come accorded Mr. Balfour and his associates and the complete success of his mission. England May Throw Its Trousers Into Discard as War Time Economy By Associated Press London. June 11. - Kilts may re place trousers for civilian dress. Their adoption is under serious con sideration in many parts of Eng land as a result of the government's advice that men should wear mate rial of one hue to economize in dye stuffs. In support of kilts a government fashion expert says they dispense with the nuisance of pressing and of their durability there can be no question, because Scottish families have passed one kilt from genera tion to generation. Another argument advanced in favor of the kilt is the advice of phy sicians who say that it is the ideal dress for boys, because it gives the greatest warmth around the stom ach, and greater freedom than trous ers. Many important newspapers have come out for the kilt. The presence of thousands of Scot tish troops in all parts of the coun try has made the kilt popular with many civilians. Prohibition Is Given Support by Various Members of Senate By Associated Press Washington, June 11.—Prohibition took more forward steps to-day in I Congress. It WPS decided to combine the many pronibition amendments to I the food bills, in one separate meas ure for conservation of grains ani thus prohibit the manufacture of foodstuffs into beer and nr.alt liquors as well as distilled spirits. The Senate Agriculture Committee reached this decision. The Senate Judiciary Committee favorably reported witn amendment a lesolution by Senator Sheppard of Texas for a prohibition constitutional amendment. A similar resolution fail ed last session. The Sheppard resolution was ap proved with Senators Culberson of Texas; Reed, of Missouri and Bran degoe of Connecticut, voting against it. Prohibition advocates promise to press for a Senate vote upon it. Th 6 agriculture committee did not fix the terms of the new bill it pro poses to introduce but merely ap proved a measure to embody the piinciple of stopping use of food stuffs for manufacture Into liquor and heer for beverage purposes dur ing the war. The new b'U Is not in tended as a substitute for the other food control measures pending. Cossacks Endorse Siand Taken by Government • By Associated Press Petrograd, via Londot., June 11.— Energetic support of the provisional government by the Couwcks lias been pledged by their delegate to the congress of peasants. M. Kuban. Delegate Kuban declared that ths Cossacks recognize only one author ity, namely the provisional govern ment and would not tolerate the un dermining of its power by separate groups and Individ-.als. He said that the Cossacks would not hesitate to use arms If the government requir ed It. The .delegate added that when Leninite" aglatfcrs came of Cossack territory they were greeted with one word "go" and they went. FAMOI'S AVIATOR KILLED Bj Associated Press Amsterdam, via London, June 11. —A Berlin dispatch reports the death in action In Flanders of Baron Von Plener, one of Germany'* most celebrated aviators. LIBERTY LOAN WILL PASS FOUR MILLION MARK Campaign Leaders Declare City's Share Is Double Quota Expected TEAMS CONGRATULATED Many Canvassers Volunteer to Help Ginger Up Lag ging Districts Estimates made this morning by Donald McCormiek and Victor F. LeCoq point to more than $4,000,01)0 for the Liberty Loan in Harrisburg and vicinity. Complete returns will not be made before Friday morning. All bond returns will leave here Thursday evening to be In the hands of the National Committee in Phila delphia by Friday noon. It is expect ed that many of tile prospects who have been delaying will be rounded up by that time. • George K. Reily, one of the mem bers of the National Committee, this morning phoned Mc. LeCoq, chairman of the bond salesmen committee, con gratulating the teams on their splen did work in this territory. Dauphin county is the only district in the State to have oversubscribed its quota. The National Committee also has request the local salesmen to offer their services to campaign in Leba non, l'ottstown and Clearfield county. Many of them expect to respond to the call and to help ginger up backward territory. Charles E. Bentley and Victor F. LeCoq this afternoon staged a selling dialog at the Majestic Theater. It is known as -, A Slacker Becomes a Pa- Hoy Scout* Helping triot." t The American Bankers Association has sent a number of installment cards to the local banks. They will be kept in duplicate and each payment recorded on both cards as it Is made. The Boy Scouts of the city are tak ing an active part for the remainder of the week in the Liberty Loan cam paign. Circulars on the loan are al ready In the hands of scoutmasters, who will assign members of their re spective troops to distribute the lit erature and to take subscriptions whenever possible. In many cities where the Boy Scouts have acted as salesmen they have met with better success than men having years of ex perience. Hotary Club Hears Echoes The Rotary Club of Harrisburg at its weekly luncheon in the palin room of the Elks Club heard echoes to-day from last week's Liberty Loan cam paign. It is a remarkable fact that almost the total membership of the club was embraced in the campaign committee of some 250 who took part in the "big push" that put the loan .over in this district. Andrew E. Bu chanan, the new president, was in the chair for the llrst time, and in addi tion to the Rotarians there were pres ent as many of the team captains and members as could be rounded up on short notice. Those who were not present this week are Invited to be guests of the Rotarians at luncheon next Monday at noon. President Buchanan presented Wil liam Jennings, president of the Com monwealth Trust Company, and one of the executive committeemen who staged last week's campaign. Mr. Jennings paid a high tribute to the quality of salesmanship displayed in the campaign and said he felt much of the success of the three days' work was due to the efforts of the Ro tarians and the backing they gave the movement. He bespoke for the Red Cross campaign to come the same earnest co-operation. Most of the Ro tarians have volunteered to help in this work. E. J. Stackpole, also a member of the executive committee, addressed the luncheon on the value of organ ized community effort in campaigns of the kind carried out last week and expressed his pleasure in the patriotic response of Harrisburgers and the people of surrounding towns to the [Continued on Page 5] Slackers in U. S. Would Have Others Buy Liberty Bonds Says Sec. McAdoo fly Associated Press Louisville Ky., June 11.—There are "slackers in this country Just as there are in every other, and here as everywhere else the men of the high est courage and the largest patriot ism must bear the greatest burdens," declnred Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, in appealing to Louisville business men here to-day not to cease their efforts on behalf of the Liberty Lonn. \ He had Just been notified that Lou isville, having oversubscribed its al lotment of $5,000,000 by more than forty per cent, the local campaign on behalf of the loan had been called off. Missouri Town Is Quiet Again After Baby's Death By Associated Press Springfield, Mo., June 11. Con ditions in this city were practically normal to-day after 36 hours of in tense excitement due to the finding on Saturday of the body of 14- month-old Lloyd Keet who was kid naped ten days ago, and the an nounced intention of the populace to take the lives of six prisoners, one a woman, held in connection with var ious alleged abduction plots unearth ed here. ( The prisoners, not connected offi cially by the authorities with the kid naping and death of the Keet child, son of J. H. Keet, banker, that had so aroused the populace, to-day were thought to be safe in the Jails of other counties, four —Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Adams. Maxte Adams and ■Sam McOlnnls —at Stockton, and the whereabout of the remaining two, Claude Plersol and Cletus Adams, unknown. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1917. FALLING IN FOR LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE I Members of Troop No. 7 of the Harris Street Evangelical Church have taken an active part in everv line i.vm activity. When the call came for participation in the Liberty Loan Drive, Troop No. 7. armed with literature on the Loan proposition immediately responded. The above pictures shows them ready for a drive headed by J R. Miller. Scoutmaster, and G. F. Schaum, assistant. Other team members are Sam Krebs, Herbert Lambert, Ray Garber. Jacob Stacks, Donald Gardner, William Quaid, George Dolbv, Rudolph Miller. Herman Goldstein. Joseph Goldstein. Sam Freedman, Paul Henning, Alfred Miniclt, Lester Gipple, Blough De pant, Lharles Steiger, Paul Schwartz and George S. Reinoehl. AMERICAN ARMY OFFICERS REACH FRENCH CAPITAL First Contingent of Pershing's Staff Takes Up Work in Paris By Associated Press Paris, June 11. The first contin gent of American officers of Major General Pershing's staff arrived here this morning. The party consists of Colonel Mc- Carthy of the quartermaster corps, Colonel Taylor, of the engineers; Col onel Ireland, of the medical corps; Major Drum of the general staff, and Quartermaster Captains Moore and Parges. The officers were met at the station by Major James A. Lo gan, Jr., and Captain Carl Boyd, rest dent military attaches. Their ar rival was without formalities. The officers have come to look over a large amount of work preliminary to caring for the American forces when they arrive. Informal confer ences were held during the day be tween French and American officers. Dine With King London, June 11. General Per shing and United States Ambassador Page took luncheon with King George and Queen Mary at Bucking ham Palace to-day. The King has invited the enlisted men in General Pershing's party to visit the palace on Tuesday. U. S. Commandeers Fruit Ship For a Transport By Associated Press An Atlantic Port, June 11. —The United States government to-day no tified the United Fruit Company that one of its steamers now discharging cargo here has been requisitioned for federal service and will lie taken over within a few days. The craft Is equipped with wireless and re frlgerating machinery and probably will be used for transport service. WOUNDED FAVOR WAR By Associated Press Petrograd, June 11.—A host of wounded and sick soldiers from the hospitals paraded the streets yes terday in a great demonstration in favor of a continuance of the war. The procession was preceded by maimed men who were unable to walk. The demonstration has caus ed a strong impression. WOULD TAKING PITY ON THESE LADDIES BE DOING YOUR BIT? Seamen in Training at Chicago Hear of Attractive Har risburg Girls; Now Fourteen Want to Start Corresponding Dear Sir: I take ray pen in hand To let you know that thru this letter, I'm going to "do my bit," you understand? My bit, or better! —Rhymes of a Sub-Deb. What's a fellow going to do, when the reading matter's scarce around the army and navy Y. M. C. A. ? Some of the hoys at the Chicago Naval Training station have solved the problem. They're going to try to be made the recipients—O, to come down to hraas tacks, they want Har risburg girls to write to them. The backwash of the rumor that Harris burg has the prettiest girls in the country has apparently reached the naval training station. For that rea son the HARRIBBURG TELE GRAPH this morning received the following Macedonian cry: There are a few boys in our company who would like to have some young ladles of Harrisburg correspond with them, as there U. S. RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA TO BE CONSIDERED Petrograd Professor and American Newspaperman to Speak on Conditions Prof. Boris E. Shatzky, professor of constitutional law University of uoaipuni }xeu am oq pejaoajad speaker before the membership of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce. It promises to be the most interesting meeting ever held in the city in view of the place in world politics and affairs now held by the newest republic. The luncheon will be held Wednesday at the Harrisburg Club. i Prof. Shatzky has been a mem ber of the Constitutional Democratic party in Russia and has been and is in close and intimate association with Mr. Rodzianko, president of the Russian Duma and other leaders of th 3 new government. He is a gifted speaker. His subject will be "The Political Situation in Russia in Ref erence to Its Relations With the United States and the Development of the Democratic Ideal Generally." Will Describe Leaders In view of President's Wilson's re cent message to the Russian govern ment no phase of the foreign situa tion is attracting as much attention as the status of the new government. Prof. Shatzky will be able to give an intimate picture of the present Rus sian leaders and the political situa tion in Russia. With Prof. Shatzky and sharing honors on the program will be A. J. Sack, American staff correspondent for the official publication of the Russian Ministry of Finance. He is the correspondent of the Petrograd Telegraphic Agency, which distribu tes all cable news from the United States to the Russian newspapers. Mr. Sack will speak on questions in connection with the development of closer trade relationships between Russia and the United States. The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce is the first commercial organ ization to give its members a first h nd impression of the new Russia from unquestioned authorities. After the war Russia will offer the greatest new market to American merchants, manufacturers, bankers and men. Companies D and I Are Up to War Strength Strength reports of organizations of the National Guard as of June 10 fiipd at the office of the adjutant gen eral, show that Companies D and I of the Eighth infantry, are up to war strength with three officers and 150 men each, and that the Gover nor's Troop is up to three officers and 103 men. is very little reading matter here. The names of fourteen young men 2 r r?r l?^ ardetl the HAP.RISBURG TELEGRAPH by C. C. Tryllng There are so very many young men at the training station, and so few magazines, that leisure moments are crowded with too little to do. When a fellow's No. 67 on the waiting list for weeks before last Sat-eve-post a letter from a Harrisburg girl Mr Try ling suggests, would be like a fortune from a Chinese mandarin a lad never heard of. The object It might be mentioned, is not matri mony. Here are the names of the young men who may be reached by ad dressing them at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, ill.: c - Tryling, E. E. Lawrence, C. T. Harrison, O. L. Retherford J Crosby J L. Malone, G. T. Malone. WlJlard Garr, D. E. Linn, M. Mc- Kenaie, M. E Farrell, B. YV. Scanns pleco, G. J. Decker, and T. W. Clark Garr and Crosby are In the bugle sQuad, the two Malones, care B Com pany. and the rest Just Naval Train ing station. RED CROSS NEEDS $100,000,000 FOR RELIEF IN WAR Vastness of Undertaking at Home and on Battlefront Pointed Out By Associated Press Washington, D. C., June 11.—Spe cific purposes to which the Red Crpss expects to donate the $100,000,000 it has asked the American people to contribute are enumerated in a state ment made public to-day by Henry P. Davison, chairman of the war council of the Red Cross. President Wilson has designated the week of June 18 to 25 as Red Cross week and Mr. Davison hopes to obtain contri butions for the full amount of the $100,000,000 war service fund during that period. "Our first obligation is to render such service as comes within the province of the Red Cross to our soldiers and sailors at home and abroad," the statement says. Con sideration of the vastness of this undertaking alone as compared with any other situation ever known to us will impress one with the impos sibility of forming a definite budget or specifying in particular the amounts of money required to care for our countrymen." American Sailing Ship Is Sunk by Submarine; Crew Saved in Boats By Associated Press London, June 11.—The American sailing vessel Magnus Manson has been sunk by a German submarine. She was sent down after the crew had left her. Private advices were received in Mobile late last month that the Mag nus Manson had been torpedoed off the French coast. The dispatch re ceived stated that the master and crew were saved after the torpedoing of the vessel. The Magnus Manson, a flve-hiasted schooner of 1,751 tons gross, sailed from Pensacola, Fla., late In March for Genoa with a cargo of lumber. She was owned in Mobile. Whale Steak Said to Be Succulent and a Real War Time Economy Washington. June 11.—As the result of the activity of the Bureau of Fish eries. through Government pamphlets and newspaper stories, the people of the United States are eating fish that heretofore had never been used. One pamphlet advocated using whale meat, pcrpoises and dolphins. "Whales and porpoises are mam mals, like cattle and sheep, and their tlesh is 'meat' and not 'fish',", says a bulletin issued to-day by the Bureau of Fisheries. "In texture and appear ance it resembles beef, though the color Is darker red, and the flavor is closer to that meat than any other. It is devoid of all fishy taste. It is likely that it will soon be obtainable fresh, corned and cartned, and it is recommended to those who have the O] portunity to purchase It. "During May an enterprising whal ing company placed whale meat on the market In Seattle, Wash., and I'ortland, Ore. The product met with a ready sale at ten cents a pound and was Immediately placed on the menus of hotels and restaurants un der Its proper name." Lumberjacks Just Hear of Registration Laws That there are places in Pennsyl vania so far removed from the cen ters of population as to have kept the few residents In Ignorance of the passage jf the conscription law was made apparent to-day when Clear field county registrars asked permis sion of State headquarters to register a number of men who had- Just omt in from the woods and who not know until their arrival that rej.stra tion had been made necessary. The permission was granted. The men are lumbermen. Single Copy, 2 Cents BIG BATTLE IS EXPECTED ON BELGIAN LINE British Resume irencn naias uver a Wide Front; Heavy Artillery Engagement Reported Near Ypres; Gen eral Sarrail Gets Ready to Launch New Blow in Mac edonia; Cossacks Endorse Provisional Government The wiping out of the German salient at Mcssines appears, in the light of later developments, to he merely the prelude to a projected battle of a far mightier description after a German re action of a surprisingly feeble character. The British have re sumed trench raids over a front reaching from North of Ypres to as far South as lipehy, a distance of about seventy miles as thi crow fiies, but far more than that along the tortuous windings of the battle front. The official announcement of raids north of Ypres is of especial interest in view of the recent frequently reported heavy aitillery fire on the Belgian fronti Some weeks ago the Germans made a voluntary retirement from in front of the Belgian lines, a fact little noted at the time in the pressure of greater events. From Ypres the allied front sharply to the sea and an advance here would threaten the German hold on their great submarine bases on the Belgian coast, Ostend and Zecbrugge. In the meantime there are indi cations that General Sarrail is pre paring to resume the offensive in Macedonia, the Bulgarian ofticial an nouncement reporting a great in crease in the violence of the allied artillery fire on this front. Consid erable fighting has been KOlng on in Macedonia for a month or more, but the meagerness of the official re ports and the surpassing interest of events in France have combined to observe the exact situation. Another gleam of light has pierced I I , 'i' 1 | | : i- * ; rr. .vrrc S * ' £ * June 11 The tulnn- have rrsumed thf J i • n-v m 1 . that prv g *"• ■. Lebanon t countj the comrnis- 'W screed to free. g all toll fates between Harrisburg arid r ~Lt.bsr.ri, MARRIAGE LICENSES J Charles FrancU Si-hrefltrr and Martha Nelann Snoddy, HarrUburg) C f ru / T nnd Ellaabeth (■■rib. .Sterltom < harle* Kdwnrd Child* 1 | I hilndrlplilti. and Helen (ioodnln Hammond, Harrisburm William m •rank Mummers, HarrUbiirit, nnd (irace laullne Jonrn, Mt. Unloni Ar- C thur Chnltr Brndernvlll,, „nd IMuvlh Kdun K.pploman, Asperat J | Nathan Spangler Klnaej, ( ami. Hill, and Myrtle Hnd.v. Xew Camber- / lanJi Alfred Elmo Hundley, Jr., nnd Delia Eleanor Shearer, Harris- % burst Christian Chester Hrli[s and Mabel Stabler. York. HOME EDITION the dark clouds hanging over Rus sia. The Cossacks have again voic ed their determination to support the provisional government and there are indications that they will receive strong backing from the peasants. This cheering news comes on the heels of the publication of President Wil3on's message to Russia, which is hailed by the British press as not only a great State document, but a powerful reinforcement to the men who are striving for law and order in the infant republic.