i Hospitals Bombarded by German Airman Bringing Death to Nurses and Wounded Soldiers HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH (0k " . • ®l K 3tar~Jn&cpcii&cnt '/ . v J LXXXVI— No. 235 14 PAGES WOUNDED AND NURSES KILLED IN AIR RAID Hospitals Behind Lines Are Bombed by Boche; French Bombard German Cities to Give Kaiser a Taste of His Own Medicine; Teutons Throw Armies Against Lines Held by Allies in Desperate Attempts to Stem Defeat British Headquarters in France and Belgium, Oct. 2. —A German airman has dropped bombs on two hospitals behind the British lines. Three British nurses, and some wounded soldiers were killed. Paris, Oct. 2.—The German cities of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Stuttgart, Treves and Coblens, were bombarded last night by French aviators in retaliation for German aerial attacks on French cities. Heavy artillery fighting is in progress all along the Aisne from especially in the Craonne sector. The German attacks were re pulsed by the French last night, todays official statement says. Spectacular Fighting High in Air Saves London From Serious Damage in Raid By Associated Press ** London, Oct. 2. —Londoners, de spite the repeated German attempts to drop bombs upon the city, are standing the test well. Last night, when two squadrons of raiders suc ceeded in getting close to London and some of their number over the city, there was no panic and no out ward incident. Ten persons were killed and 38 Injured. Immediately the coming of the raiders was signalled the people in the streets scurried for cover, while motor buses and cars drew up to the curb where the passengers alighted quickly. Within five min utes the streets were deserted vir tually and a strange silence fell over the city. Most of the offices and shops had closed before six o'clock to permit their employes to reach their homes and there was only a fraction of the number of persons in the street as under normal circumstances. With the gathering of dusk many of the poorer classes, particularly the women and children, had gathered at the tube stations around the Guild Hall and St. Paul's and other places of refuge. The police and special constables aligned them in files and when the warning was given they vere shepherded into places of refuge without confusion or crowding. The theaters which are open had small audiences and the majority of the restaurants were almost deserted. Matter of Course The air battles over London have become so much a matter of course that whenever there was a lull for a few minutes in the firing the buses started running again and the peo ple flocked into the streets. While a terrific barrage was kept up by the defense guns with the bursting shrapnel furnishing one of the greatest pyrotechnical displays London ever saw, a thrilling battle in the air took place between enemy aircraft and British aviators in the northern district, according to spe [Contlnucd on Page 12.] I ~' ——y Casualties of Air War on Great Britain Killed. Wounded September 24 . . 15 73 September 25 .. 7 25 September 28 September 29 .. 11 82 September 30 .. 9 42 October 1 10 3S 52 260 •None reported. v * THE WEATHER | _ For llarrlahiirg and vicinity! Fair, - continued cool to-nlKht, nitli lowest temperature about 15 de gree*! Wednesday (air and wftrmer. For Knstern l'ennsylvimin! Fnlr to-nigbt and \\ ednenday| warmer AVedneaday; Kentlc aouthweat ivindn. River Tbe Suaquehiinna river and nil Ita branehea Mill fall nlnwly or re main atatlonary. A sluice of about 3.4 feet la Indlcnted for liarriaburs Wednesday morn- Inn;. General Condition* An area of high barometer, cov ering the eastern part of the Ijnlted States, la separated from another high area of somcnhit leas maKiiitude lu the West by a narrow trough of low pressure extending from the Rio Grande Valley northeust ward through the I.ower Mis souri Valley and the l.ake Su perior region into Canada. It la 3 to 10 degreea cooler In the Ohio Valley, Middle Atlantic and New Kngland States. Froata oc curred this morning In lonstt>rn New York, portions of Pennayl vanla, Virginia, West Vir ginia and Western North Caro lina. Temperaturei 8 a. m.# 46. Sunt Hlsea, BiOS a. in.) acts, 5t43 p. in. Moon i Rises, 7si 5 p. m. River Stagei 3.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday'a Weather Highest temperature, Hi. I/O weal temperature, 40. Mean temperature, 55. Normal temperature, 00. RUSSIAN ARMY LOSES FIGHT IN LATEST REVOLT Troops Move Against Govern ment Officials in Turk estan By Associated Press Petrograd, Monday, Oct. I.—A revolutionary movement is In pro gress In Turkestan. General Cher kess, commander of the division, has been attacked and beaten. A temporary revolutionary com mittee has been organized to take all power. Parts of two regiments join ed in a counter revolutionary move. The Minister of the Interior says he is not alarmed and is confident the disturbances will soon be quelled. Government dispatches describe the Turkestan revolt as increasingly serious. Irresponsibles element among th.e troops have obtained con i trol of the military and seized the officers. The people are in panic. Russian Turkestan is composed of four provinces in Central Asia ex tending westward to the Caspian sea. It has an era of 420,000 square miles and a population of about 6,865,000. i Second Movement of Drafted Men to Start AH Over State Tomorrow The movement of drafted men on the call for the second quota will start all over Pennsylvania to-mor row according to the approved sched ules and provision has been made for th'> movement of men to make up shortages on the first shipment to start October 8 and continue until October 14. Estimates are that the second movement, which will last five days, will consist of 7.716 men as follows: Camp Meade, five per cent, 1632; Camp Lee, twenty per cent.' 4781, and Camp Sherman, thirty per cent., 1303. The exact quotas will be re quired. no excess being authorized. The movement for the shortage is estimated at 1200. State headquarters received a telegram to-day that persons attest ing deserters shall file a statement of the > ircumstances of the capture with claim for a reward. Schuylkill County Board Wants to Send Its Entire Quota at Once to Meade The seventh local draft district of Schuylkill county with headquarters in Minersdale has asked state draft registration headquarters that it be permitted to send its whole draft quota when the movement starts to morrow. The telegram stated that the board had examined, parsed and certified its entire quota and could send every man asked. "This telegram is unique," said Colonel l-'rank G. Sweeney, the state draft registration officer. "This board begs us to take the whole quota this week, not the five per cent. I do not know what wo can do, but I am glad to son such a spirit." The telegram mentioned the fact that the district of Schuylkill coun ty furnished one of the "first de fender" companies in 1861 and that it claimed the honor of being first to furnish its full quota in 1917. According to word coming here government representatives are ap pealing cases all over the state and i many are being sent here by mis take. Railing Prevents Auto From Going Off Bridge A small delivery truck and a tour ing ear crashed on the Mulberry street bridge i ttß t evening a few yards fr,o nithe western end of the Cameron street approach. The tour ing car, which was occupied by four persons, mverved over the sideWHlk and crashed | n to the railing which he'd. The delivery truck remained on the highway. Bot .h cars got under way again be fore the paiice got their numbera. J TO THE PEOPLE WHOM YOU HAVE BETRAYED 1,700 RECRUITS EACH MONTH IS PRESENT PLAN Volunteer Workers Hope to Clear Qity and County on Next Call The special drive for 1.700 recruits a month, is progressing in fine shape at the Army recruiting headquarters, in this city. Yesterday's enlistments In the district exceeded fifty, of which several are credited to Hfl.rrisburg. The following persons from this section have enlisted here since Sat urday's report: Forrest E. Steigleman, Progress, medical department. Charles F. Reeser. Steelton, medical department. Mario Moffa, Steelton, cavalry. William A. Gallagher, Steelton, cav alry. ; Charles E. Begerling, 1406 Vernon street, medical department. John S. Broxterman, 1912 Fourth street, medical department. Berry F. Miller. 757 South Nine teenth street, medical department. Albert L, Hoover, 417 Boyer street, medical department. Walter A Smedley, 511 Curtin street, 21st Engineers. L,avler M. Roath, Enola, 21st En gineers. John Vollercliamp, 1825 Regina street, 21st Engineers. Clinton E. Arndt, Middletown, 21st Engineers. George Brigges, Steelton, stevedore. Eddie Gallery, Steelton. stevedore. Ernest Horden, 2 Sherman row, stevedore. Willie King, 638 Briggs street, stevedore. Ralph J.'Kennedy, 32 Cowden street, stevedore. William T. Small, 271 North Sev enth street, stevedore. Plnn* ( iirrfiillv Made The drive which is being pushed a Jong well mapped out lines is ex [Continued on Page T.] Farm Agents Discuss Methods of Increasing Products OvQf State Farm agents of the southeastern counties of Pennsylvania, met in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, in the Dauphin Building, this morning and discussed plans for carrying on work in this state. F. B. Weaver, Dauphin county farm agent, and assistant in charge of the work for the state, was in charge ol' the conference. Among tiie matters brought up for discussion were tiie subjects of steer feeding, pork production ahd farm product shows. The farm bureau work in the state has been carried on for Ave years and great progress is being made in bringing the subject of scientific agri cultural methods before the farmers. In Dauphin and the southeastern counties the work has been slow and developments of the past few years have been carried on through "these furni bureau conferences. The local conference Is the first of a series, which will be held all through the state. LATE EXPKXSK ACCOUNTS. Primary election expense accounts were filed to-day by George a Hover ter, nonpartisan nominee for mayor, who spent $166.92; and Edward J. Hilton, defeated Republican candi date for nomination for coroner who spent $216.95. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1917. 29,687 PEOPLE HERE ARE ABLE TO BUY BONDS City Residents Will Be Visited by 504 Volunteer Canvass ers in Second Campaign While the Harrisburg district la figuring on a campaign through which 5,000 men will be recruited for the Regular Army, the question arises: "Who is going to pay the upkeep of these boys?" And the answer so far as thousands of peopla in the district is concerned has been: "I'll hold up my end. I'll do more than talk with my mouth. I'll talk with my pocketbook—and buy a bond!" It was the concensus of opinion among members of the Dauphin county executive committee this morning that there are nearly 10,- 000 people in Dauphin county who will do more than "talk with their months." Realization of the fact that this is a real war—and that a real war can't be won on wind, has resulted in a widespread determina tion to buy the new Liberty Loan 4s. At yesterday's meeting of the loan .board the city was divided into seven districts, in each of which six teams will operate. Each team will have (Continued on Page 11) Paxtang Borough Fathers Move For Better Roads President J. A. Rutherford, of the Paxtang borough council, to-day vis ited the State Highway Department for consultation about ways and means to accept the offer of the state to pay half the cost of improving the Derry street pike if the borough will pay the same. Mr. llutherford said that he desired to know what was customary and stated that he would consult with the borough solicitor. The announcement that the state had made the. offer to git rid of the de plorable condition of the much traveled highway caused many ex pressions of hope that the borough fathers would get into action prompt ly- Commissioner O'Neil said this afternoon that he was ready to do all in his power to help the borough it It did its part. Sisters Argue Their Financial Troubles in Court Two sisters aired their differences In Courtroom No. 1 to-day before President Judge Knnkel on how much board one owed the other. The suit was brought by Mrs. Mary 10. Myers against Mrs. Emma Singer,' a sister, who had been living: with her for some time. Mrs. Myers asks for payment foi; boardin- for one year at $3 a week. Mrs. Singer said at the time she went to the Myers home it was the understanding she should not pay bt>ard. She asks payment at the rate of $2 a week for her services at the house and also for a number of articles she claims she brought to the Myers home after her husband, died. The case is expected to go to the jury late to-da.v. K. M. Duey, who brought suit against Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gelger for payment for paper hanging, was given a verdict of $39.62 b(- the Jury. In Courtroom No. 2 before Judge MeCarrell the suit between John H. Doyle and Samuel T. Klnslnger for damages because of an auto acci dent in which Doyle's small child was hurt, went to the Jury this af ternoon. I TOBACCO FUND SURGES CLOSE TO S3OO MARK One Check Conies in For SSO; Another Is For $10.50 From Astrich's; One From Cuba With checks of SSO from W. T. Hildrup, Jr., another of $10.50 from employes of Astrich's and a third from far-off Cuba, in addition to many smaller contributions, "Our Soldiers in France Tobacco Fund" took a surge toward the S3OO mark. The check of Mr.' Hildrup, so far, is the highest single contribution to the fund. With it alone enough to bacco can -be bought at the reduced rates to keep 200 brave bovs in the trenches supplied with smokes for a : week. Hand Together | The spirit which prompted the contribution from employes of Ast j rich's is very gratifying to those who t are in charge of the Telegraph's [ lund. Without being asked the em ployes of this store, and the majority are women and girls, banded together and in less time than it takes to tell rais,ed $10.50. The showing is con sidered remarkable. From far-off Cuba, G. W. Mathes, who is located at Oriente, and a reg ular reader of the Telegraph, sant his check for $2.00. It has been on the road for many days.. The movement to supply the bova over there" with the brands of to bacco they are accustomed is meet ing with a wide response. Ministers, tionusers of tobacco, grandmothers' children, heavy users of tobacco, men who chew but don't smoke, in fact all kinds of people are chipping with amounts of from a quarter to many dollars. Recent contributions follow: Previously acknowledged . 5210 H." Goo. W. Ilepler, ,|r l oo Jack lleplcr <' (10 Mrs. .1. M. shelly JV, H. Lorene Shelly I no J. M. sheiiy ;; W. T. Hildrup, Jr 50.00 Astrieh Employes 10*50 •1. R. Welsh * ) '25 A. C. Perry '" Adam P. Illltehcatcl i' oo W. Mathes, Oriente, Cuba s!oo Total .. . 8280.10 Sign ooupin on page 3 and join the happy throng. Liberty Loan Bonds Needed to Care For U. S. Soldiers By Associated Press Indianapolis, Ind.. Ocf. 2. —Secre- tary McAdoo in address to-day to Liberty Loan workers, said: "We must keep our soldiers and sailors armed and equipped with the best that money can buy and Amer ican skill devise. We must constant ly provide them with necessary clothing and food; we must pay their wages; we must, as a humane na tion, support their dependent fam ilies while they are risking and giv ing their very lives for us; we must supply them with a reasonable amount of life Insurance. We de stroy their insurability and conscript almost the whole of their earning power when we draft them and send them to the front. We can do no less than restitute their destroyed insura bility and their diminished earning .power. CRIME CHARGED TO MAYOR AND ELECTION THUGS State Senator Vare Said to Have Put Up Money For Gunmen VISITED VARE'S OFFICE Maloney Alleges Deutsch Told Him "Little Man Would Pay" Philadelphia, Oct. 2.—The hear ing of Mayor Thomas B : Smith and others accused of being" implicated in the Fifth ward political murder was held to-day before President Judge Charles L. Brown of the municipal court, sitting us a com mitting magistrate. Nine men were arraigned in the presence of a crowd that packed the municipal court room on the sixth floor of City Hall. All are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and some have additional charges laid against them. The defendants are: Mayor Smith, William E. Finley, chief lieutenant of the Vare brothers. Select Coun cilman, executive director of the Re publican City Committee, and mer cantile appraiser; David Bennett, po lice lieutenant of the Second district, which embraces the Fifth ward; Isaac Deutsch, candidate for Select Council in the Fifth ward, the tight over whose nomination resulting in the killing of Policeman George A. Eppley, by an alleged New York gunman; John Wirtschatter and Michael Murphy, district detectives. Lewis Feldman and Emanuel Brum, special policemen; C. H. Hayden, a negro policeman. In addition to the foregoing, four alleged gangsters are <nder arrest in New York and three in Philadel phia. One of those under arrest here. Jacob Mnscia, is charged with the actual killing of the policeman. Samuel G. Maloney, an old Re publican leader in the Fifth ward, and now local agent of the Vulo's Farrel detective agency, was called. Maloney was arrested yesterday on a charge of conspiracy of murder and was paroled in the custody of Mr. Gordon. Deutsch Incriminated Maloney said Deutsch came to his office about ten days before election and said he wanted eighteen "husky men" for work in the Fifth ward on primarv day. Deutsch, Maloney said, "told him a gang of men were com ing down from the Tenth ward to "rough things" and he wanted to be prepared. Maloney said he asked who was to pay the expenses and Deutsch re nted "the little fellow." Maloney | satd Deutsch meant Senator Va.ro. Malonev said be turned Deutsch | over to "Mike" Sullivan, of his of | flee and Deutsch and Sullivan ar | ranged to bring the men from New 'York. It was also arranged that the men should wenr a white Vibbon and not badges. Maloney said he gave Instructions that no one must be hurt in the Fifth word because his business was more important than politics. At Vnro's Office Continuing, Maloney said he went to Senator Vare's office to see about the expenses and met Congressman William S. Vare and William E. Fin ley. the Vare political lieutenant. Maloney said he asked about the money and was told by the Congress man that Deutsch had ample funds and everything would be all right, when he was leaving Finlev told Maloney not to worry about the ex penses as everything would be all right. On the street, Maloney said he met Senator Vare, who told him to see Captain Tate, of the Citv Detective Bureau, and arrpnge to have detec tives sent into the Fifth ward. Mu' loney said he saw Tate and arfange -1 ments were made, j Coming down to the day of the primary, Maloney told of what.hap | nened in the ward, the efforts to get the gunmen out of the city after the shooting and his efforts to get Fin ley to pay the men. Maloney told of meeting Finley in the Ritz Carl tol Hotel on the afternoon of the primary and asked him for money. Maloney said he needed SI,OOO to pay the men. Finley said, according to Maloney, he did not have it hut would see what he could do. Ma loney said ho again saw Finley the next day and FMnley again did not have the money. On the day follow ing this Maloney said, when he reached his office, a special delivery letter was there. In it were two piece of blank paper and between them was a SI,OOO note. Hospital Attaches Are Vaccinated When Case of Smallpox Is Found A number of nurses and other at taches at the Harrisburg* Hospital were vaccinated this morning at the order of Health Officer J. M. J. Raunick when it was learned that a colored man employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad had been treated there last week and was discover© dto be suffering from small pox yesterday. The ward in which the man had been treated is under quarantine and no visitors will be allowed to see patients there. More than fifty colored laborers employed at the same place with the victim were vaccinated yester day, among them twenty-seven actual contacts. Burns to His Death in a Stable Blaze Chambersburg, Pa-., Oct. 2.—-John Honus Eyster, aged 60, a former baseball player and musiciau, was burned to death late last night when the stable of Stephen Clipplnger on Lincoln Way, East, was burned toj the ground. It caught fire from a cigar Eyster was smoking when he fell asleep in the building. Eyster was seen in the blazing building try ing to escape but he fell back Into the flames. His charred corpse was] recovered. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION COUNCIL CALLS ASH COLLECTORS FOR CONFERENCE Numerous Complaints Be cause of Failure to He move Waste PLAN SPECIAL MEETING W ant Contractor and Bonding Firm Representative at Session Numerous complaints because of the failure of the Pennsylvania Re duction Company to collect ashes and refuse in the city during the last few weeks, and maintain regu -8r t v ' c ®' resulted in Council de ciding to-day to call a special meet vhi,h"il" PXt , M ° m,ay aftern oon at winch the contracting company, the bonding company for the contractor ?o hn n y Sol ' cltor Fox Will be asked to be present. A letter from D. B. Smouse, 1521 State stree,t, addressed to the com- ? n< \. askin K for some ox /n S situation started the discussion this morning. Com missioner Lynch at once stated some action must be taken in the next few weks or the city will face a repetition of conditions which [Continued on Page 9.] Body of Famous German Aviator Found by British ™? ri 4 i 8 Hea<lt )uarters in France and Belgium, Oct. 2. The hnriv of Lieutenant Vosse, the famous f °und in J illnii • ,lnes - , Th( - lieutenant was killed in a combat with a Brit ish airman. He died lighting de terminedly. The death of Lieut. Vosse was re ported unofficially from Amsterdam last week. He was said to have been killed in a fight with his fiftieth aversary. The lieutenant was credited in German official re ports with having brought down 42 airplanes up to September 10. I VATICAN GIVES OUT TEXT 1 ome, Oct 2. he Vatican ha delivered to the Brit a X ish mir.ister the text of the replies of Germany and Aua ■F tria to the Pope's peace proposal;,. The replies are accom- JL panied by a short note from the Vatican. T BRITISH TAKE- 4,000 PRISONERS T London, Oct. 2—Nearly 4,000 prisoners were taker: by the British army in Mesopotamia which captnrec Ramadie, it is announced officially. X MANY BUY LIBERTY BONDS JL New York, Oct. 2.—This community's subscriptions to the second I. ty I in had reached $40,281,050 fet r " ARMY TYPHOID ERADICATION Paris, G:t. 2.—Prof. Charles Richet, of the French X \cademy, Nobel prizewinner for medicine'in 1513, de- X f \ 'boid feveir, which med eginning of the war, had V ;.o\v been virtually eradicated from the army through vac *2* cii 4 4 4 GERMANS RUSH TROOPS TO ALP -Alar led by t}ie success of the It;. ! plateau, Germany ta tvithdrawing large numbers of Austrian troops (rem X France and'Galicia and rushing them to the Italian front to meet the renewed offensive of General Cadorna. Offi*. lb cial disj ~ ■ '' •i- he the second phase of the jjft great battle is about to begin. 5 C PROMISE REFUSED 4* Washington, Oct. 2.—Representatives of coal miner* I*® ht the' Central Competitive Field rejected to-day a pro -1 L| | sal by operators offering in part the wage increase! *jr • •il be i ontinurcd f $ |i \"KLIN c: -MMS SUCCESS <| Berlin, Oct. 2.—A portion of the fighting ground at X Polygon wood, on the Flanders front, to a depth of 500 4* meters, was captured 6y German troops from the British |4 ytst'-"'day army lit ,*d t > announce dttxiay. The X gained ground vv. retained. S . . MARRIAGE t lohn K*rel*t nnd Mnriu Si nkavltch, llnrrUburfu Sllaa Lee and ArilellM llurdeu, huiri4Uir, Howard I'oore, lln rrlnlnirK, and b " r " Knolnj Lee K. Nneeder nnd Clara C-lften, Millers- SYNOD TO ACT ON MERGER AT EARLY SESSION Will Be First of Subordinate Units to Reach Decision on Important Issue VISIT LOYSVILLE HOME Delegates Make Trip in Auto mobiles; to Be Entertained by Brotherhood The seventy-third annual conven tion of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania is now under way. Following: a period of Bible study this morning, led by the Kev. J. M. Tweedale, pastor of Cal vary Lutheran Churph, Philadelphia, important items of business were taken up. The most important matter to be considered by the Synod will not come up tp-day, in the opinion of delegates. The matter of paramount importance before this body Is the proposed merger of the three great Lutheran bodies known respectively us*the General Synod, the General Council, and the United Synod for the South. The three general synods have accepted the recommendation that these three bodies be united un der one head, and now the matter is to be discussed and finally deter mined by the subordinate units of the church. Royal Welcome Particular'interest centers around the meeting now in progress in Zion Lutheran Church, because the East Pennsylvania Synod is not only one of the largest synods in the country, but is the first to meet, and the ac [Continncd on Page 13]
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