Hundreds Work For Liberty loan Throughout the Gty D wing Rah and Wind Storm Jfe HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M ' . 0) c £tar- Jn&cpcn&cnt LXXXVI— No. 255 14 PAGES LOAN RETURNS ARE FALLING BELOW MARK Subscriptions on Liberty Day Are Only $1,492,150; City Surpasses Yesterday's Record but Is Far Below Quota; Harrisburg District Has Less Than Half of Amount Assigned; Meeting to Be Addressed by Dr- Hillis Expected to Add New Force to Drive Harrisburg teams secured $ 917,750 P. R. R. Campaign 28,200 • Technical High School 3,300 Executive Committee 247,700 Total $1,196,950 Allied Towns 1 295,200 Grand Total $1,492,150 The second day of the See- 1 ond Liberty Loan campaign shows sales amounting to a million and a half dollars. Splendid work was accomplished by many teams, but the total for the day was rather disappoint ing- . , To secure Harrisburg Dis trict's quota of $7,500,000, heroic work must be done to-morrow. William Jennings, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee, authorized this statement to the press immediately following the reports of teams to-day: "There were 30,000 cards pre pared for the city of Harrisburg. Every card bears the name of a person who ought to subscribe for one or more of the Second Liberty Loan bonds. Up to this time, but 4,997 of the 30,000 prospects have given in their subscriptions. Not less than 10,000 subscriptions should be registered to-morrow." Can They Do It? Can they do it? That is the question. Through rain and mud the bond salesmen relent lessly followed each prospect to-day. Many persons have not een interviewed. This afternoon the postal employes of the city will help. salesmen are doing their hest. Now it's "up to the people." Overflow Mooting To-night an overflow meeting will lie held in the Reftfrmed Salem Church, immediately adjoining the • 'hestnut Street Auditorium. Herbert A. Kmerson, who is assisting Herbert Hoover and the liberty Loan cam paign. will deliver the first address. He will be followed by Newell Dwight Hillis, in order that those who are unable to get into the auditorium may have an opportunity to hear the noted lecturer. Among the high-lights to-day were these: Bowman & Company, it was an nounced, purchased bonds valued at $50,000. A bond was sold for a child three days old. A SIOO bond was sold to a Jewish resident of this city who was born in Germany, fought in the English Secure Ticket and Be Sure of Seat at Hillis Lecture Admission to the Hillis lecture in Chestnut Street Auditorium to night will be by ticket. There is no charge for the tickets, which may be procured by anyone at tire Liberty Loan headquarters, in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the Dauphin Building. Persons having tickets will be admitted to the building and to reserved seats prior to 8 o'clock. At that hour the doors of the au ditorium will be thrown open and any unoccupied space may be taken by persons without tickets. If you want to be certain of a seat, secure a ticket. The lecture begins at 8.15. THE WEATHER 1 , For Harrisburg and vlclnltyt ( IfirluK tlil> nftrrnuon or to- * night) colder to-night, with (rrriliiK temperaturei Thursday partly cloudy and colder. For Fasten! I'ennsylvaalat Italn and colder to-ulghti Thurnilny pnrtly cloudy and colder* gen eral northwest galea to-nlKht, diminishing Thursday. Hlver The Juniatn will rise somewhat this afternoon and begin to fall at Huntingdon to-night or Thursday. The main river and the Lonrr West llrancli and probably the I,ower North Branch will rise. A stage of about 6.0 feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Thursday morning. Temperaturei S a. m., 44. Mum Hlses, <1:37 a. m.) sets, stll p. in. Moon i Full moon, October 30. Hlver Stage I 5.5 feet above low water murk. ' Yesterday'* Weather Highest temperature, IIK, l.oweat temperature, 36. Mean temperature, 47. Normal temperature, 51. jgSlfr: . n JagS DR. NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS j army, and is now an American citi zen. He is 51 years of age, and will Bo to the front to fight if his adopt ed country needs him. Waiting to Buy salesman reported that his men . cannot see all of the people in his district. "The people are wait ing at the front door to buy bonds," he reported. "The newspapers have splendidly paved the way; the people are waiting." Two Germans who required an in terpreter to explain the Second Lib erty Loan gladly purchased bonds. Sibletown, Fharles W. Burtnett re ported, is waiting until the salesmen can take an interpreter in to that sec tion. Some tine sales are reported among foreignborn residents. One aged woman who has been farming seven town lots in order that she could raise two hogs for this winter, lost the animals through poisoning a few days ago. She is in firm and blind, but declared that she meant to have a bond. Chairmen of divisions have the fol lowing record for the second day: Division No. 1, Robert McCormlck, chatrman, $509,850; C. H. Hunter, $67,400; K. D. Hilleary, $68,050; Peter Magaro, $60,050; Donald Mc- Cormiek. $136,200; M. Harvey Tav loi, $53,750; J. H. Wallazz. $124,, 400. Division No. 2. J. William Bow man, chairman, $79,350; Ramsey S. Black, $2,900; John F. Dapp, $lO,. 050; C. H. Kinter, $54,000; Ed. Moes lein, $4,100; Andrew S. Patterson, $3,300; Frank C. Sites. $5,000. Division No. 3. Harry Leonard, chairman, $66,950; O. F. Baker, sl,- 750; 1). D. Dunlap, $1,250; George W. Fisher. $300; Henderson Gilbert, $5,150; David Kaufman, $55,200; J. P. MCCUIIoukII, $3,300. Division No. 4. John C. Herman, chairman, $85,300: C. W. Burtnett, $1,400; E. R. Eckenrode, $43,050; L, M. Neltter. $7,500; B. M. Oftelsby, $26,850; George S. Reinoehl, $3,550; Brook Trout $31,050. Division No. 5, Charles E. Pass, chairman, $84,400: Arthur D. Bacon, $4,150; Harry A. Boyer, $10,100; A. L. Hollar, $54,700; Clayton G. Mil ler, $6,000; Walter S. Schell, $3,000; R. Ross Seaman, $6,450. Division No. 6, John F. Sweeney, chairman, $50,800; R. E. Boswell, $12,000; A. G. Eden, $18,800; John C. Johnson, $5,100; John T. Olmsted. $2,850; William Pavord, $4,350; Ray S. Shoemaker, $15,700. Division No. 7, Flavel L. Wright, chairman, $41,100: J. R. Morrison, $21,100; Walter L. Dietrich, $5,850; R. W. Dowdell, $5,100; Dr. C. E. L. Keen, $1,500; T. W. Smallwood, $4,- 550; Dr. Guy G. Snyder, $3,000. The allied towns of the four coun ties comprising Harrisburg district report as follows: Juniata County, $28,050 Juniata county's report for the second day is as follows: Mifflintown, $5,400; Mifflin, $7,000; Port Royal, $2,000; McAlisterville, $450; Rich field, $5,500; Thompsontown, $5,300; Spruce Hill, $150; McCoysville, sl,- 650; East Waterford, $1,200. Pewy County, $28,350 Perry county's showing is: Dun cannon, $7,000; New Illoomfleld, SB,- 000; Newport, $12,000; Marysvllle, $1,350. Cumberland County, $06,750 Cumberland county, after a fine (Continued on Page 10) 8,000 BOCHESARE TAKEN PRISONER IN FRENCH DRIVE Crown Prince's Army Suffers Smashing Defeat at Petain's Hands PERSHING IS IN BATTLE Kaiser Launches New Offens ive on Italian Front in Alps By .Associated Press AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN FRANCE, Oct. 24. —General Pershing accompan-' ied one of the Ifrench generals yesterday as far as the second German line in the French at tack on the Aisne front. Paris, Oct. 24.—The number J of prisoners taken by the French in their attack northeast of Sois sons has reached eight thousand, the war office announces. By Associated Press Berlin, Oct. 24. —An Austro- German offensive has been in stituted on the Italian front, army headquarters announced to-day. German and Austrian infantry this morning captured th foremost Italian positions near Flitch and Tolmino and in the northern portion of the Bainsizza plateau. By Associated Press Home. Oct. 24.—The Austrian* have concentrated strong forces on the Italian front for offensive pur poses. army headquarters announced to-day. A large proportion of these troops are Germans. Associated Press Berlin, Oct. 24.—0n a wide front between the Gulf of Riga and the Dyina the German troops have been withdrawn without interruption trom the enemy, army headquarters announced to-day. The withdrawal took place Sunday night. Smashing Victory t mashing against the German lines along a six-mile front northeast of Soissons, the French have made im portant gains from the German Crown Prince. The sudden blow also brought the French more than 7,500 prisoners and twenty-five heavy and field Runs. General Petain completed an ef fective step toward Laon, the south ern extremity of the Hindenburg line and an important railroad cen ter which lies ten miles northeast of Chavignon, where the French ad vance attained its greatest depth— two-and-one-flfth miles. The heights dominating Pargny-Filain, at the ex treme right, were seized and French guns now can batter the Germans on the hills on the opposite side of the Ailette river from Chavignon. More important still, they can pour an en filade tire into the forces of the Ger man Crown Prince still clinging to the* northern slopes of the plateau paralleling the Cheniin des Dames. To the German Crown Prince the blow may prove the most severe he has suffered since Verdun. He has lost several divisions of his best troops, including Prussian guards, who were rushed forward to hold the line at all costs. Line Weakened General Petain's masterly stroke weakens the German line northward to the forest of St. Gobain. A retire ment from this line would probably cause the Germans to give up their present front from Chavignon to St. Quentin. The French had no easy [Continued on Page ll.] Soldiers on Way to Atlantic Port Are Given Delicacies by Red Cross Members of the local Red Cross branch gave a hearty welcome to day to several hundred soldiers. They came from Fort Leavenworth, Kan sas. Their destination is an Atlantic port. On the arrival of the train in this city the committee shook hands with the soldiers and distributed things good to eat. Nearly three bushel of apples were distributed to the soldiers along with pretzels, cakes and chocolates smokes and newspapers. Kaeh soldier was also given a stamped post card and wrote a message home. The cards were later collected by the women and mailed. Richard C. Thompson Commissioned First Lieutenant in Reserves Among the colored men given commissions in the Army after train ing in the Seventeenth Provisional Training Regiment at Fort Des Mo ines, la., is Richard C. Thompson, of Carlisle, to be a first lieutenant, ofll cers reserve corps. He has been as signed to Camp Dix at Wrlghtstown. N. J. Lieutenant Thompson Is now in the city visiting friends and relatives. He is widely known among residents of the city and Cumberland Valley. KAISER'S GIFTS RETURNED By -Associated I'rcss London, Oct. 24. Captain Roald Amundsen, the noted Norwegian ex plorer, went to the German legation at Christlania on Tuesday, say*- Reuters' Christiania correspondent, nnd returned to the German minister hin German decorations as a "per sonal protest against the German murder of peaefeful Norwegian sail ors on October 17 in the North' Sea." HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1917 "OURBOYSHA VEGONE. LET YOURDOLLARSFOLLOW" OVER THERE W. B. M'CALEB IS > RAISED TO HIGH P. R.R. POSITION Superintendent Here Heads Subsidiary Water Com panies of State Superintendent William B. Mc-1 Caleb for 14 ygars the head of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsyl vania Railroad, was to-day promoted to General Superintendent of Water Companies for the Pennsylvania Railroad nt Philadelphia. | He will be succeeded here by J. K. Johnson, superintendent of the Tyrone division, and formerly di vision engineer of the Middle di | vision, when the headquarters Were 'in Harrisburg, an,d nerving under Superintendent Brown. These changes are effective No vember 1. Superintendent William B. Mc- Caleb gets one of the most Important promotions made on the Pennsylva nia railroad system for some time. He will have charge of all water companies under control of the com [Continued 011 Page ll.] Cold Wave Moving in on Heels of Rainstorm Which Causes Damage Freezing weather to-night. That Is what the weatherman predicts. The rain which started last night and gave indications of causing trouble along the smaller streams was accompanied by a high wind which caused damage to trees i nnd some roofs. A large sign on the Hotel Columbus roof was blown loose and came nearly tumbling down, it was fastened with ropes until repairs were made. Kain softened the plaster in the display window of the Stieff Piano Company and caused the ceiling to fall. Two pianos were slightly damaged. On Susquehanna street, near Keily, and along the River Front above Mat-lay street, trees were blown down. The heavy rain also delayed trains. At a number of points track watchmen found trees on the tracks and wires down. The rain was due to cease by late this afternoon, when the cold w*ve was scheduled to move in. About o'clock a thunder storm passed over the city. Will Consider Plans For Welfare Work Among Jewish Troops; Plans for welfare work among | Jewish men will be considered at a' meating to be held in the Y. M. H. A J rooms in this; city this evening. Many! men of the Jewish faitli are to be found in the camps at Gettysburg.! Middletown, etc. Prominen.t speakers will be here; for the meeting. All Jewish organ- j izations, including the women's so-| cieties, are to be present. Among i ihose who will address the meeting l are Marcus Feuchwanger, of New I Castle, chairman of the state organ-1 ization of American Soldiers and • Sailors Welfare League of tho I. O.! B. B.; Rabbi George Fox, of Chi-1 cago, Director - General of the | league, and Rabbi Haas. TUX TKUTONS ESCAPE j By Associated Press Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 24. Ten Ger-' man sailors of the several hundred i Interned at Fort McPherson escaped! last night or early to-day. They werei from the ships Prince Kltel Frledrichl and Appan and included two officers. SCHUMANN -HEINK TO TELL SOLDIERS' RELATIVES OF WAR Mother of Four Sons in Serv ice Will Describe Condi tions in Camps to Women 8 If Ainu' dispcwv. MADAME BCHUMANN-HEINK Wives, mothers, sisters and daugh ters of men In the service of the United States, will assemble in a monster rhass meeting at the Or pheum theater, Friday afternoon, at 2.30, where they will organize an as sociation to help the boys in the trenches. . Mine. Schumann-Heink, who will sing in Chestnut Street Auditorium. Friday evening, will be present at the meeting and will deliver a message to the audience. The celebrated cop [Continued on Page o.] 13,000-ton Cruiser Lost by the British Londop, Oct. 24. The British mer chant cruiser Orama, Commander W. Moorsom, was torpedoed and sunk last Friday, it is announced officially. A British destroyer has been sunk in a collision. Two officers and twenty-one men were saved from the destroyer. No lives were lost on the Orama. HIXDIIKD tt'OItKHKJ KIIXKD Amsterdam. Oct. 24. The Echo de Beige says that 100 workmen in cluding forty Belgians, were iillled nnd 100 injured by an explosion re cently at Luttre, in llainauft province.! Belgium. The material damage Is re ported to have been considerable. PUPILS TO TURN OUT ARBOR DAY; MAYOR PRESIDES Governor Brumbaugh Gives Out Order of Exercises For Tree Planting at Capitol Governor Brumbaugh to-day de cided to follow the order of the por traits in the office of the Governors in naming trees to be planted or ded icated to mark the formal start of Capitol Park improvements and ob servance of State Arbor Day in the state's park on Friday. This leaves out Benjamin Fletcher, Governor of New York, who served between the visits of William Penn. Six young oak trees presented by the City of Harrisburg and grown in its municipal nursery will be planted and one locust, which is young and in the line, will be ded icated Friday morning. J. William Bowman. Mayor of Harrisburg, will preside and the Governor will speak and children of the Harrisburg schools will sing. The Governor will plant the tre> for William Penn: Lieutenant Gov ernor McClain that for Sir William Kieth; Secretary of the Common wealth Woods that for James Logan; Attorney .General Brown that for James Hamilton; Auditor General Snyder that for John Penn. and State Treasurer Kepluirt that for Richard Penn. The locust will be dedicated for Patrick Gordon, third Governor. • Superintendent George A. Shrein er, who has arranged the exercises and to whom the city has given the trees for planting, has planned to have the ceremony at the Third and Walnut streets entrance at 10.30 o'clock. William Penn's tree will be planted right opposite the new Penn- Harris Hotel, and the other trees will be in Walnut street, from Third to Fourth. When the extension is laid out other trees will be planted for other Governors until the whole park is girdled by a "Governor's row" of native Pennsylvania trees. As the planting will mark the In auguration of the scheme of beauti tication of Capitol Park and make the day a real Arbor Day, it will be an event of state-wide importance Infant Roasts to Death on Hot Kitchen Stove By Associated Press Williamsport, Pa., Oct. 24. Tho infant son of John W. Propst. of i Point township, Northumberland county, was roasted to death to-day. The child, which was just learning to walk eluded his mother us she was busy in an upstairs room. Toddling into nnother apartment tho baby fell through an open radiator hole land ing in a kettle of boiling water on the kitchen range below. Tho kettle upset and the child rolled out on tho hot stove. Anarchy Driving Russia to Ruin, Says Minister By Associated Prest Petrograd. Oct. 23.-—Minister of the Interior NiklUn in a proclamation to all the commissioners throughout Russia, exhqrts all classes of the population to "unite against the in creasing anarchy, which is driving the country to ruin." The minister says that without such co-operation the Government will be hardly he able ta keep order and prevent outrages. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION FOOD PRICES SOAR TO NEW HIGH RECORD Costs Half Again as Much to Eat jjs It Did in 1911 ONLY ONIONS TAKE DROP Big Advance in Prices Re corded Since U. S. En tered Conflict By Associated Press Washington, Oct. 24. —Food prices as a whole have advanced forty seven per cent, over the year before the war. Latest compilation of prices, an nounced to-day by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows principal articles of food as a whole six per cent, higher on August 15, 1914, just after the outbreak of the war, than they were on that date in 1913. There was a drop of six ;ier cent, in 1915, but in 1916 prices ad vanced fourteen per cent, and during this year they have jumped thirty one per cent. From July to August this year there was a two per cent, increase in the combined price of the principal articles of food. Flour prices in August were two and-one-quarter times what they were in August, 1913. The increase was 1.10 per cent. Cornmeal ad vanced almost as much with an in crease of 120 per cent. Potatoes ad vanced 87 per cent; sugar, 77 per cent; lard, 72 per cent, and pork chops 58 per cent. During the year ending August 15 onions was the only article to de crease in price. Cornmeal doubled in price: floiir advanced 70 per cent., beans 59 per cent.and other articles to a lesser degree. Il I'll.S OX STRIKE By Associated Press Petroß-rad, Oct. 25.—A dispatch from Tlflls says a strike has been called by the pupils of intermediary schools, who demand the right to have representatives of the three higher classes of scholars participate in the administrative affairs of the schols. They also demand that the number be decreased. t I §* 'CANDY FACTORIES CLOSED f X PI Uadelphia, Oct. 24.—The sugar supply of all candy i *s* fac; ric: in this city was cut eft to-day through the foi *§* §* *i wing telegram received frcm George M. Rolph, suga. ,! ▼ representative in the Federal Food Administration * I •7* * | 0m Now consider it advisable to entirely discontinue selling i <4# n to confectioners, gum syrup and cordial manufacturer; # *f* and other manufacturers of similar products. It is prob * * 4 JL able they will be licensed shortly and theit productior T reduced to & minimum. Will try to' get relief on ca: * 1r * shortage." . '*£ 8* % 4 PERSHING'S MEN BUY BONDS i I 4* v eL Washington, Oct. 24.—American Army units in Franc,.; Jg # •* * have subscribed for more than $1,500,000 Liberty Bonrh ,* I and in some organizations every soldier has subscribed. in 1 interpreters at CfenenU 7 * '* Pershing's headquarters are subscribers and the total' i| • * 4 it to be large b , ® # cr. . : !:.< ■ < ek. * * • ♦ *1 MORE PENNSY PROMOTERS * * A Philadelphia—ln announcement of the Pennsyl X ypnia Railroad changes are included the following J t * T Hutehisorf, Jr . assistant superintendent cf the Pitts- I 1 M p i, Dtjrgh Division cf the Pennsylvania, Will succeed J. K t Johnston as superintendent of the Tyrone Division. -A • 4* o JL W McClellan, division engineer of the Williamsport i T division, promoted to division engineer of the Middle ,Jj * * Division. Roveri Farries from Elmira to division en > X giheer of the Williamsport Division. H. A. Anderson * g * J assistant purchasing agent; B. P. Phillippt, local agent J * € in purchasing department, advanced to assistant pur- 4 # chasing agent; D. T. Jones promoted to be assistant to ? *** purein , ag- nt • * ij * , WashingJ*m, Oct. 24.—A special commission appointed , * * by President Otrranza is now on its way from Mexico • * " City to Washington to arrange with the authorities hem |f ri p'j fc rn nnd Arrferican gold in return for a JJ * i" p '-ide bv the Mexican govern- *> * n f s ver and grid bullion. * MARRIAGE LICENSES ? 2 C hnrlox K. Itnniliill. Currinth, .V. Y„ nnd ( xrollnr sbalTrr, Hnr- J ' * rlNlmrKi l.fllO) K. Moore and Ijllmilirth R. liuunvul. HnrrUhunti *s* 4 llnbrrl 1.. nml KraneeH K. I ins IlHrrlaliurit! Knrl Tuber nn.l L, Klomrc Turner, >lt. I'nlon DR. MICHAELIS READY TO QUIT AS CHANCELLOR Puts His Portfolio Into Kais er's Hands For Final Decision VON BUELOW TO FORE Prince Is Said to Be Slated For Head of the Cabinet By Associated Press London, Oct. 24.—Dr. George Michaelis, the German Imperial Chancellor, has placed his port folio in the hands of Emperor William, according to an Am sterdam dispatch given ont uy the Wireless Press. Copenhagvn, Oct. 24.—Emperor ■William returned to Berlin last night prepared to deal immediately with the political crisis, particularly as i f affects the imperial chancellor ship. Rudolph Von Valentinl, chier of the emperor's civil cabinet made a report to the emperor on the train on the various developments of tbe internal political situation durir.g the emperor's absence in the BuHtans. Prince Von Buelow again is bains advocated strongly for the chan cellorship by the conservatives. Cantonment Hospital Is ■ Threatened by Blaze By Associated Press Macon. Ua., Oct. 24. Fire, which for u time threatened to spread to buildings occupied by more than three hundred patients In the hos pital zone at Camp Wheeler, Na tional Guard camp for Georgia, Ala bama and Florida, here last night v.as put under control after a part of the medical office headquarters had been destroyed.
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