Sale G f I Loan Bonds totali Throughout W HARRISBURG ifSjgli. TELEGRAPH M f ®l)c Star- 2n&cpcn&cnt * * LXXXVI— No. 234 4 PAGES FRENCH AIRMEN DROP BOMBS ON SERMAN CITY lalf Ton of Explosives Dropped on Capital of Wurttem berg as a Reprisal For Bombardment of French Mu nicipality; French Repulse Three Attacks Made by Crown Prince on Verdun Paris, Oct. I.—The Germans attacked last night on the \ erdun nt on both banks of the Meusi The war office announces that :y were repulsed. Violent artii erv fighting is in progress in t Verdun sector. French aviators dropped half ton of projectiles on the Ger n city of Stuttgart in reprisal f r the bombardment by the Ger ns of Bar-lee-Duc. Stuttgart, capital of the king ! u of Wurttemberg, is a city of rly 200.000, about 100 miles m the French border. Plan New Offensive 'hile the lighting front in Flan i apparently is witnessing the >aration of another offensive Ke by Field Marshal Haig which Germans are trying to anticipate ewntr attacks and retaliatory the "Crerman crown prince's army .gain attempting to harass the ich in the Verdun region. Iter yesterday's three futile at pts to drive the British back l the high ground they occupied both sides of the Ypres-Menin I in Flanders, the Germans con ed themselves with keeping up a ry artillery tire during the night, (ion's official report to-day re ; this hostile demonstration, but youngsters started out rather I 1 in life to see the wonders of big world this morning. Hand tnd they wandered over Market t, every moment in danger of { run down by a passing vehicle, an officer picked them up and them to the police station, e youngsters were about three i of age. Their homn is at 20 l Cameron street. The mother ieally searched for the children • the officer turned them over I r ' IE WEATHER] I Mnrrlshura and vicinity: Fair I <1 I'uolrr to-night with llshi I >st 111 exposed pliirrst lonmt I sipcraturr alioul 42 ilegrccsj I irsilay fair. Kanlern I'ennsj Ivnnla s Fair, I uler to-night with liicht front; I csday fairs diminishing west I nd. Illver I Susquehanna rlirr and all Its I anrhra will fall slowly or rc- I tin nearly stationary. V I ibi* of about .*1.4 fret Is Indl- I ted for Harrlaburg Tuendny I irnlng. I (General Conditions I tropical hurricuitf that was I 11 ra I aver Alabama. Saturday I rnln, has disappeared I m the map. bavin* probably I ved seaward off the South ■ antle roast. The dlsturh- I >e from the l.ake Superior re- I n has moved eastward with I reosing enersry and I" now I tra' oft the .North Atlantic I at. I 2 to 10 decrees roolrr tbnn I Saturday morning over prar- I lly all the eastern half ot I country. I rrnturn Ba. m.. H Itlsrs, iliOl a. in.i seta, BiM ■ I Itlses, ttigff p. in. Staaet 5.4 feet above la w- I rr mark. Tw| # wlaj , i ul r I a . .I ii , A ■ fiiliir" l-ais ■■■' w GERMAN STAMINA J i DETERIORATING, SAYS SEC. BAKER; Kaiser's Defensive Strength 1 Is Shaken hut Still Powerful THI TONS ARE DESPERATE I S. Official Statement Out lines Progress of War in France By Associated fress J Washington. Oct. I.—Sl-.aken. but stiii powerful is the estimate of Ger many's defensive atrengt on the wi ern front given in this week's ofi ial communique, issued by the Wti- Department. T e superiority of the Brit.sh over the enemies, the communique says, has conclusively been proved by th last week's lighting; while it has demonstrated that the lighting stam ina ot the German is deteriorating Oi the activities of the American force in Europe the communique says absolutely nothing. Of the forces at home, it reports mobiliza tion of the National Guard and the National Army proceeding satisfac torily. The analysis of the situation on the wes' tront which the communique says remains the principal battle front of the war, follows: Great Ifaittle of War "The battle of Menin road (Tpres salient) which promises to be one of the great battles of the war, is fol lowing its normal course. Last week we recorded the gains of the British in this sector. This week w t must note the desperate attempts made by ; [Continued on Page 12.] Old Enough, They Say, But Won't Give Ages |L " We ?, re of marr'app age wore I the rt plies from lister r. Rooks City Point. Va., and Miss Knu . k' . | Myers, of Middleiown. at thr m&r riage license bureau to-day wh<--n t'ie ' clerk inked each one that question 1 The couple would net s>tu , e : numbf: of years, a rather unusual ocucrrf nee at the bureau, as f , v ,|„ l not obj. rt to Riving a definite a-i w. r Ito the iuery. How. ver, the law provide* that when applicants will not give their ages in years, but will make an nffi davit tl tthey are or age. a li<-< n >... . may bo issued. So the clerk fliic- i out thr ertificates. During Seutember 156 marriage license? were issued at the ofTi <• m comparer! with 122 for the ami month ! -t year. Nicolo Kotur Dies in Chair For Steelton Crime By Associated Press Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. I.—Nicolo Ko tur. of lauphln county, twice con victed of murdering Yosep Bakic in Steelton on December 22. 1915, was electrocuted at the Western Peniten tiary to-day. He went to the chair at 7.03 a. n: and after Ave contacts was prone .need dead by Dr. Robert J. Campbell at 7.10. Kotur was refused a commutation of sentence by the Board of Pardons Inst week I.FTTKR* GHA XT FID Isetters of administration in the estate of Samuel E. Paul, late of Mid dle Paxton township, were granted to day by Reirlster Roy c. banner to the widow, Paul. HUNTERS T . " i ' - ■< o , i "i| ..t •> ! I i!l IV '.♦ tt'* >. i riv >>. k X KARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1917. | SEVEN CIRCLES OF HELL j DELEGATES ARE ! ARRIVING FOR SYNOD MEETING 230, Representing 143 Lu theran Churches, to Be Enrolled Many of the delegates who .will ' participate in the seventy-third an nual convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylva nia arrived in this city this after- j noon, it is expected that 250 dele gates, representing 143 churches in the synod, which embraces Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and South ern New Jersey, will be here when j the convention gets down to routine : work to-morrow morning. This afternoon several young men will be examined and if they success- j fully meet the test will be licensed to , preach for a probation period of one year. If at the expiration of that time they receive church calls they I will be regularly ordained as pastors of congregations. At 4 o'clock to day the nominating committee se lected the standing committees. As the visitors arrived here to-day they were met at the railroad station j and takn to the homes in which they j will be entertained during their stay j in Harrisburg. Each delegate was presented with an attractive badge | with a replica of the original He- I formation medal attached. Important Sessions The interior of JJion Lutheran j Church, in which the convention ses- j sions will be held, has been attract- ! ively decorated with American flags and with cut and potted flowers. [Continued on Page ll.] City Has Only 40 Cents Available to Pay Bill For Damages of SIOO City Council has a mathematical problem to solve to-morrow. City 1 Solicitor Fox has recommended the j payment of SIOO damages to Percy] V. Rltter. of this city, who was in jured in a fall on a sidewalk. Finance Commissioner Gorgas, however, announced that there is only 40 cents in the general con tingent fund, from which the money must be obtained. The announce ment came as a serious blow to the ommissioners. as It means that there i is practically no money available for contingencies and that no improvc j ment can be made except out of thf funds specifically appropriated at th< end of the year. It is probable that a Tew hnndrei dollars representing unexpended bal ances in specified funds will be trans ferred to the general contingent fun< There Is about $3,000 in the for paying the premium of work men's compensation Insurance. / the city is carrying its own lnsuranc all of this will not be needed to pi claims which are due. Ilherc is nearly SI,OOO also In t" funil for the payment of the sala ) of Assistant city clerk, as that off has! been vacant since the appoli meiit of R. R(* Seaman, succeedl t lie I late Mayor Charles A. Mill CorrLnlasloner Gross, however. 1 Intiiltluced an ordinance at anaell meeting whli+ wIM i|W 1 •I I , i f■. Ui\* f ! DEALERS UNABLE TO ASSIMILATE COAL RULING: Declare Services of Experts Arc Necessary to Determine Profit; Prices May Rise Text of Garfield's Order Reducing Pea Coal Prices j To all persons, firms and cor- j pora "gaged in the mining | anil ion of coal in the Stat nsylvania: T dent of the United Sta' g heretofore, on or abo ;3d day of August, 191 , tue of the provisions , of if Congress approved Au 191", entitled "An act to further for the na j tio ity and defense by en co the production, con se s supply and controll- ; in itribution of food pro- It fuel," ordered and di- j rf t the maximum prices ' w uld not be exceeded in tl f Pennsylvania anthra- j c >al should be as follows, t' kVhite ash pea coal, $4 ! p red ash pea coal, $4.10 j | fnd Lykens Valley, $4.35 | ! i 'hen sold by certain pro- | j < lecified in paragraph 4 } ! i!' esident's proclamation of : J3, 1917, and that when ! any other producer the I n price should not exceed i ! • than 75 cents the prices ' .fcd above. , y direction of the Presi the United States, the j ninlstrutor hereby orders > •cts that, until further or the premises, the above j ned maximum prices for vania anthracite pea coal | the same hereby are modi- j j 1 reduced, pending further . ! tation, to the following am prices: White ash pea I j 3.40 per ton; red ash pea 3.50 per ton, and Lykens •< $3.75 per ton, which said arc to be observed by the j Ij- :ers specified in paragraph < t the President's proclama- i I f August 23, 1917. V.■'■ it is further ordered that her producers shall sell ylvania anthracite pea coal j ximum prices not to exceed , bove mentioned maximum j i by more than 75 cents per ! f 2,240 pounds. ?se prices shall become ef- i e at 7 a. m. October 1, I dealers in this city frankly' s that the ruling of Dr. Harry, < iarfield, coal administrator, them very much "in the air.", irice of pea coal has been ci:tj • ats a ton at the mines, and deal- j ill base their sharges upon their ' profits in 1915. Because of the ased cost of doing business •rs may charge the consumer' ice representing not more than [Continued on Page 9.] CAItS DAMAGED •• touring car and an automobile j •!' 'ery were damaged ut Third and it<*r dt . \i iX tttiV-f - .1 t'iu- fleiiv.-rv • • T' • .*•< "' due it fIM-rt • >1- : 1* <■ -r mrtw.l tni.i't 1 the : ROTARIANS BACK MINISTERS' MOVE j FOR PRAYER DAY October 24 to Be Set Aside to Petition God For Safety and Success of Soldiers j The Harrisburg Rotary Club at its I noon luncheon to-day endorsed the i movement of the Harrisburg Minis-1 j terial Association for a day of prayer j for soldiers October 24. j The Rev. Dr. Robert Bagnell. the j Rev. George Edward Hawes and the I Rev. William J. Dockhart represented the Ministerial Association. Dr. Rag- ■ nell said the ministers of the city feel that the young men at the front are in need' of divine guidance and that they would be greatly benefited and comforted by the knowledge that the people back home were appealing to j God for their help and protection, i The association, he said, had come to | the club with the proposal that Oc- I tober 24 be set aside as a special day I of prayer in Harrisburg for our sol- I diers at the front and in the trenches. | and that two hours of that day be especially set aside for prayer, when business should be suspended and the j whole city devote itself to "prayer | and talking of prayer." The club | unanimously endorsed the move, i which will be laid before Cham | ber of Commerce at its meeting next i week. I .The entertainment of the day was j provided by YV. S. Essick, David Cot terei and Kd. Black. Mrs. Vanßeed, accompanied by Miss Essick, sang several solos. Paxtang Invited to Join State on 50-50 Basis For Road Repair Harrisburg State Highway Com missioner O'Xeil has written to the borough council of Paxtang inviting the borough to join with the state l on a fifty-fifty" cost plan to improve I the condition of the pike in Paxtang between the city limits and the end of the state highway. This stretch is one of the most atrocious In Dauphin county and the cause of many com plaints. The borough authorities have not vet replied to the proposal, but [there is considerable sentiment in j the town that the council should , either accept or do something to i abate the conditions so much com plained of by people entering the I city trom that section of the coun j tv. The bad stretch begins at the end |of the state road beyond the en trance to Paxtang Park. German Reform Dissolves After Doing Nothing | Copenhagen, Sept. 30. The dis solution of the "double seven" coni ! mittee of the Reichstag and Bundes j rat under the chairmanship of the i Imperial chancellor, draws attention I to how little is left of the widely j hailed constitutional reform move ment In Germany. The committee, the institution of which was pro claimed by the liberals and the chancellor as a great step forward lon the path to constitutional r>™. • ' * •' .a;.'-nl |itrs : oirdlety ( >t vt si > v ; "tl i PM-j.tur.rSil, .• .(*'•>(* IftM'.l I'tott • U. -p.'- ' Jte i*'" • ti < !*r •* 'm r m\n in •' Of ttt* Geri,. j rgpf; xy t(ic BIGPUSHFOR VOLUNTEERS IS NOW UNDER WAY Scores of Organizations Iden tified With Movement to | Free County Second Time COMMITTEES ARE NAMED Campaign Will Be Carried to Every Nook and Corner by Speakers To-day witnesses the commence- j ment of the greatest drive to secure recruits for the United States Army ever known by Harrisburg or Dau- i phin county. yh purpose is two-fold. First, to; enable the city and county to avoid l furnishing any men under the sec- j ond selective quota. Second, to form | a lighting unit known as the Dan-i phin county unit to which the peo-! pie of this city and county can point; with pride as their own unit in the! Hegular Army. Proudly did the names of Harris burg and Lancaster stand forth un der the first selective quota as ;hel two cities in the Harrisburg recruit- j ing district of twenty counties which! had supplied the entire quota! through volunteers. Dauphin county now has its op-i portunity to do better than it did prior to the.first selective call and every aid will be given to assist its [Continued 011 Page 14.] Hopkins Tells Rotarians Shows Will Be Clean; Sslys His Critics Are Insincere C. Floyd Hopkins, manager of the ! Wilmer and Vincent Theaters in Har- j risburg, appeared before the-Harris burg Rotary Club to-day to defend i himself and his firm from what he re garded as unfair newspaper attack with regard to burlesque shows ap pearing at the Orpheum Theater. Mr. Hopkins said that conditions had been misrepresented. The re porter who wrote the first of the criticisms of the burlesque shows had tcld him the day aftei the article ap- ' peared that he could find no fault , with the show, but that he had roast- 1 ed the show because he had been told | to write his story that way. Mr. Hopkins also pointed out that the newspaper in question had print- j ed the pictures of young men attend- j ing these shows as "mental weak- j lings" and worse, and he called atten- i tion to the fact that twenty-four em-1 plo.ves of the Patriot and its evening j edition had been attending each ot these shows on twenty-four passes, provided as part,pay for advertising I the burlesques. • He also pointed out what he said was inconsistency because the paper > ccmplained that women in the bur- | lesque shows wore little clothing, I while in the same issue on an inside | page it published the picture of an j almost nude woman, "clad after a manner that would cause my arrest if I attempted to have her give her dance here." He pledged his support to the au thorities to have nothing but clean ! shows in Harrisburg. and said that ! be. makes weekly trips to Philadel- ; phia, New York, Altoona and other ! cities to make sure that nothing ob- j jectionable comes here, "if the shows | are not what they ought to be. let j the management be arrested,'*"he said. U. S. Faces Stupendous Task of Raising 14 Billions For War Before June 30 By Associated Press \ Cleveland, Oct. I.—Secretary of | the Treasury William G. McAdoo of-1 flcialty opened the secotid Liberty Loan Campaign in Cleveland to-day. Speaking of the financial problem of the nation, Mr. McAdoo said: "After allowing for the revenue from taxation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, we shall have to raise by additional bond Issues between thirteen and fourteen bil- i lions of dollars. It is estimated that $5,000,000,000 will represent addltio-j nal loans to the allied governments, which, in turn, will give us their obligations hearing interest. "To raise thirteen to fourteen bil-- lions of dollars on or before the 30th of June, 1918, by the sale of bonds; in recurring instalments, seems toj some people an impossible task. It Is' a stupendous undertaking but it Is: not Impossible for America. It is not I easy, but it can be done. Our re-' sources are adequate; our will Is per-1 feet; our spirit is' indomitable and our success is certain. We have | only to pull together and we can do the job. Already we have demon-1 strated what a united people '-an do i when partisanship is subordinated to patriotism: when love of country be-! comes supreme. 1 look forward, therefore, with confidence to the i success to the recurring campaigns j we must make for the sale of Liberty , Bonds." American Patrol Ship Is Sunk Off U. S. Coast by An Unknown Vessel Washington, Oct. I.—An Ameri can patrol ship on duty off an At lantic port was rammed and sunk to day by an unknown craft. The Incident, rennrtpd to th Vqw IK-j.fi truent. *h ofh in.' i ;S follow* 'Ai fas' laM VUMr oh , , o.f .v., -> -liv < • ' W,.. V A. - WT-K of y M i tUe I "St„ 1„ ■ '*• . •• Single Copy, 2 Cents EXPECT CITY TO SET FAST PACE IN NEXT LOAN Committee Declares Philadel phia and Pittsburgh Will Have to Hustle BUY A BOND! Every SSO bond purchased in j the new Liberty i.oan will buv 1,200 cartridges. Buy a bond! The new Liberty Loan 4's will be issued in such denominations and upon such terms that every patriotic citizen will have'an op portunity to assist the govern ment by lending: his mone" , in the security or a Uni* a government bond. It is essential t the war and tf. gallant United these loans shall scribed, but over. Buy a Dond. The county oinmit ~ direct t'- • Libert i * the t, ny. trict 'ail ■ i I i the ! ShOI ! ■ . . lsto ll the u. Per' county. *!i t .y; •, th first ea. i . hai ♦ 3,000,00 h< do better in ti . ,i erally belie The Harri- \ . Liberty camp. . - w .,,. [CoutilllK t i • ■ i ] W.WTS N V "If! • Motions for a n-> J it Karpes. convicted of tor vehicle while int , <' • an aggravated ass;u charge, were tiled to-i. .-'tucker, counsel for K# ' 1U the reasons given Is tHt. ,r Andrews, one of the juroi. n , cases wpre tried, is a broth ■ >" liam Andrew's, one of the >ir wealth's principal witness motions were directed to IK T" : for argument. i t t . i 4 l 5 t' . i fl r: -r. u. | 4 T A • < **. -,<:■ ... V 4 4 4 5 v t ' TO FORM NEW PARTY • , ~, X $ W? •• gton, Oct I.—Amalgflimatlln of li ' Z * i \, *f X . * ih * t'> < 4 ! r^fl -4 4 4* - C DViM J T ma:- -.rur.'ay atil -S A : ' 1 ■ f ' 4. -,*■ !4 ■ 2 *A' V AD vB :; 4 IT r '■'•• ' -• ■ !un >'o 4 *7* ■ i v^| -3 Jfl -4 ■-> *i iv ;9 J 0J.t.1; rn^B Mr Washington. Oct : . n-j IB JL ' i T'l the £■ : - i-aT ' 'Gronna, of ~h ->" - * r.tcd Jk l h" <•• ' v *J* ■ - ■ j t ;m m fAn At ..." . v Unit en 3' tnt^H *§* on S•■}>•>:■ •$ 4 and a large :!, # '■ iitfdfl *ide. . 9 4 — -M *