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Letters From the Front |
HARRISBURG BOY IS
TAKING PART IN
BIG ALLIED DRIVE
[Among the young Harrisburg men who are doing their bit in
France is Herbert W. Wallower, son of E. Z. Wallower, president
of the Penn-Harris Hotel Company. Young Wallower is a grad
uate of Princeton and Cornell Universities and has been serving
with the French in the transport service. His reference in the
letter herewith to an approaching big drive manifestly refers to the
tremendous operations of the French and British armies in Flan
ders during the last three weeks. This letter is of unusual in
terest.]
Saturday, Sept. 22, 1917.
TVarest Family—
-1 very unexpectedly had to-day off
While the rest of the section have
1 ten out on convoy all day on a long,
]ii\rd trip. As It quite often happens,
not oil the cars are needed on a cer
tain trip, so the fellows are given
their spare days in rotation. I
worked on the car this morning and
s'.ept this afternoon and it was a
badly needed sleep, too, for we have
just had the hardest week so far,
long hours on convoy every day and,
two night runs.
Things are beginning to warm up
considerably and the long-expected
"big push" Is due almost any day
row. We can judge fairly closely
I y observing movements of troops,
artillery, etc., and we have been
K ; ven unofficial information as to the
objective points of the drive and
character of the proposed attack,
which I will be able to tell you
about after It Is over.
As we ride over the main military
roads, I am continually thrilled and
impressed by the extent and magni
t".de of the operations behind the
lines. Especially the last two weeks,
the roads have been filled continu
ously with regiments of troops
marching toward the front, com
ing from their sectprs, artillery
t.-alns sometimes several miles long,
convoys, both wagons and cannon,
nil moving in the same direction,
I- nd empty convoys and troops go
ing en repos moving back. To-day
rhnost all day long there has been a
constant stream of artillery moving
past the camp, and along the roads,
especially a little closer to the
front, troops are billeted and en
< amped. As the country is thickly
wooded, the woods are literally
.•■warming with men who live in
barracks, but mostly In dugouts or
any kind of a shelter they can build.
Moving Up
Vast quantities of ammunition and
supplies are moving, which we are
SUFFERED WITH
STOMACH and KIDNEYS
Now Good as Ever
"Several months ago I became
very badly run down as a result of
hard work," says Thomas Peches,
254 Lincoln avenue, Steelton, Pa.
"I became very nervous, could not
sleep at niglit and as a natural re
sult my stomach and kidneys soon
began to give me a lot of trouble,
after eating would bloat with gas
and have pains under ribs on right
side, which made me think that my
liver was getting bad, too. I had
dizzy spells, ion rising in the morn
ing my eyes burned and felt swollen,
my head and throat were ologged up
and I felt all to the bad. I heard
of Sanpan and the good it was do
ing, and concluded that it might be
the Moses to lead me out of the
wilderness of ill health.
"Well, to-day I am feeling as well
as ever in ray life and Sanpan
worked wondfrs. That is the best
way to express it."
Sanpan is being personally intro
duced at Keller's Drug Store. 405
Market street, Harrisburg, where the
Sanpan man is meeting the people.
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SATURDAY EVENING,
carrying forward all the time to the
depots near the front, and these de
pots or pares are innumerable, each
of them holding large quantities of
ammunition, and tho statement that
the Allies are suffering from Insuf
ficient supplies is certainly belied by
the sight of what they have stored
here in readiness for any emergency.
It is that which impresses me, what
a terrific drain it is to the nation and
what an awful expensive operation
the war is, and I feel at an utter loss
to comprehend the magnitude and
extent of the whole organization.
We had a most interesting trip
the day before yesterday, when we
went to a pare closer to the front
than we had yet be£n. The road par
alleled lines of batteries back of
which on the side of the hill were
the dug-outs and living quarters of
the men; It reminded me of a vil
lage of prairie dogs, all ready to
duck in their holes when the shells
Hew.
While we were unloading at the
pare situated at the end of a ra
vine which ran straight up to the
firing line about 1 miles away we
heard a low, droning whistle, at
which we instinctively ducked, and
then a terrific explosion which rocked
the ground. The Germans were try
ing to locate a French battery near
us on the hill and the arrivee, a lit
tle out of range, fell uncomfortably
near us, about 150 yards away. It
was the only shell that fell near us,
though we could hear them whistling
over our heads. While waiting for
the other cars to be unloaded we
walked up over the hill, another boy
and myself, and found a French bat
tery in the middle of a thick clump
of trees. The Frenchmen were all
gathered around a cider press, while
waiting orders to fire, and when they
saw us, asked us in and gave us
some fresh cider. They said they
would fire in about half an hour and
that if we could wait they would let
us fire the gun. It was a 150 mm.
and a pretty big gun, but unfortu
nately we had to get back to the
convoy. We are going back to the
same pare probably in a few days,
and I am going to fire that gun.
Shell Balloons
The Germans tired several shells
at a ~ French observation balloon
quite near us, and, though they
came dangerously close, the balloon
was not touched.' There were lots
of planes in the air, both French
and Boche, which were being fired
at without success on either side.
Wednesday, Sept. 25. When I
stopped writing last Saturday night
I intended fully to finish the next
morning, as we rarely "roll" on Sun
day, but this has really been the
first opportunity I have had since,
and this afternoon off was unexpect
ed, as we left camp this morning at
1 a. m., presumably for an all-day
trip, but we finished our loading and
unloading in good time and hurried
back to camp. The other half of the
section left at'l p. m. and will prob
ably get back early in the morning,
as they are going on a long trip close
to the front. The trips that direc
tion now mean seeing some firing,
for there has been a marked in
crease in activity and the Boches are
sending them over pretty fast now.
Sunday we had a hard day, making
three trips between two ammunition
pares, carrying 150 mm. shells, sixty
cases of tan shells each, making a
load of ahout six tons, which made
the old "Fierce Sparrow" groan.
Bodies on Itai<l.
Monday and Tuesday were hard
days, but the trip rather uninterest
ing, as we were merely carrying
trench material from one pare to
another on this side of the river
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Alsne, so it was just hard work.
The trips across the river always
prove exciting.
night we had our first Boche
air raid, and It was quite exciting.
About 9 o'clock wo heard heavy firing
close by and then some one rushed
in with orders to put all lights out.
We rushed outside to see what was
going on and saw several powerful
searchlights trained on'a Boche plane
flying almost directly over us. Star
shells were being sent up and shrap
nel was exploding over us, which
worried me a little, for the shrapnel
comes down as fast as it goes up
and I wasn't particularly anxious to
stop any. In fact, X heard a piece
of it whizz by. No bombs were
dropped near the camp, but as we
went past a small town about five
miles from hero I saw a barracks
which had been completely demol
ished by a bomb, probably from the
plane that flew over us. Two men
were killed and eight wounded.
I believe wo will roll again early
in tho morning and perhaps late to
night. The night runs are pretty
hard going, for the roads are very
dusty and a heavy fog usually set
tles about midnight, so that it is
.pretty much of a strain and is very
tiring work. Fortunately, I am in
splendid condition and feeling fine.
The weather has been wonderful and
very warm, but very cold at night,
And getting up at 3 o'clock to roll at
4 o'clock is no fun; much less when
you try to crank a car. Usually ono
car gets started and tows the next
to. get it starred, and so on down the
line. HERBERT.
War With Germany Is
Decreed by the Brazilian
Chamber by Large Vote
Rio De Janeiro. Oct. 27. The
Chamber of D'eputles, by a vote of 1-19
to 1, has declared that a state of war
exists between Germany and Brazil.
The tributes of the Chamber were
filled to capacity. After debate on |
the opportuneness of proclaiming
martial law, the president of the dip- i
lomatic commission spoke in favpr of |
a resolution worded as follows:
"A state of war between Brazil and ]
Germany is hereby acknowledged and
proclaimed. The President of the
Republic is authorized to adopt the
measures enunciated in his message
of the 25th of October and to take all
steps tending to insure national de
fense and public security."
The virtually unanimous vote of the
Deputies was received with general
acclamation.
President Braz has sanctioned the
proclamation of a state of war with
Germany.
Butter Prices Slashed
by Chicago Committee
Chicago, Oct. 27.—The consumer
realized the benefits of Government
supervision of food sales to-day when
the better price was slashed three to
six cents by the local food price com
mittee, despite predictions of retail
grocers that the best grades would
sell at fifty-five to fifty-eight cents
next week.
The committee decided on forty
four to forty-nine and a half cents
a pound for creamery extras in bulk
and forty-five to fifty and one-halt
cents for butter in cartons. Retail
ers have been asking fifty to fifty
five cents.
The butter and egg board commit
tee agreed the grocer's profit should
be two cents a pound on bulk butter
and three and a half cents for car
tens.
ENSIGN MORGAN, C. S. N.
London, Oct. 27.—Ensign J. P. Mor
gan Jr. is now serving with United
States Navy forces in European
waters.
A few days ago Ambassador Page,
while taking lunch in the messroom
which the embassy now maintains In
the basement for the convenience ot
its big staff, was struck by the par
ticularly sturdy appearance of one
young ensign. A few minutes later
the young millionaire submarine
fighter was introduced to the ambas
sador.
MICHAEI.IS MUST GO
Amsterdam, Oct. 27. The major
ity leaders in the Reichstag to-day
made a formal declaration to Ru
dolph von Valentlni, chief of the Em
peror's civil Cabinet, to the eltect
that Chancellor Michaells no longer
could carry on the chancellorship.
The leaders assert that the Chancel
lor himself had asked them so to in
form the Emperor.
Wife Reverses Exemption;
Won't Be a Slacker
Hollidaysburg Pa., Oct. 27.—Mrs.
Chance G. Earnest, wiffe of the
automobile expressman between Hol
lidaysburg and Claysburgh, appeared
before Exemption Board No. 1 to-day
and pleaded that her husband be sent
to war. Earnest had been discharged
by the board because he had a de
pendent wife and two children.
Mrs. Earnest renounced all claim
of dependency, declaring: "I will
work my fingers to the bone rather
than be a slacker's wife."
The board revoked Earnest's dis
charge and ordered him to report for
military duty.
This Scout Sells
Twenty-two SSO Bonds
Arthur Swanson, 1171 Market
Btrcet, proudly boasts of the sale of
twenty-two SSO Liberty Loan bonds
of the wecond issue. Scout Swanson
is 12 years of ago, and has lived In
Harrisburg three months.
Among the Bales made by the scout
was one to Mayor J. William Bow
man. Swanson, Is a member t
Tioop No. 12, of wUrti ]>r, O. A.
E.mmerman, 1407 Market meet, U
ihfe Bcoutmaster.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
TECH BOYS BUY
$7,150 IN BONDS
Working Spare Hours to Pay
Obligations; Students of All
Schools to Attend Church
Tech students went "over the top"
with a bond sale of $7,150 at the
close of school yesterday afternoon,
and each sale had a partial or an
entire payment on it. Tech stu
dents will be busy during the pres
ent school semester earning money
to pay the bond. Many of them have
accepted work at Enola to-morrow,
the proceeds of which they will ap
ply to their bond.
Dr. Floyd Appleton will address
the students of Tech, Central, Seller
school and the Academy to-morrow
evening at his church on "Religion
and Education." Tech students will
attend in a body; it will be the uec
ond year that Dr. Appleton has de
livered to the students of this city,
an autumnal sermon.
The Camera Club will meet next
Wednesday afternoon with Charles
E. Keller, presiding. The program
committee is preparing a program
for the meeting.
The tech Tatler has gone to press
and will be distributed to the stu
dents the first week in November.
The issue is dedicated to the fresh
men and will be a football issue.
Rees Lloyd is the editor-in-chief.
Next Friday morning the seniors
will have an opportunity to display
their talent to the school. The chapel
period will be given over to the
fourth year class. They have elect
ed an officer who will direct the af
fair. They are planning some sur
prises. Other members of the school
will not know the program until it
is presented. On successive Friday
mornings of November, the other
three classes will render programs
from talent in the class.
1 " JR. I
1 AMERICA!
"The average German today hates the United
States with a hatred far more venomous, far more
implacable, far more unreasoning than the hatred
gll which has been visited upon any other belligerent" J
BE
How this animosity was fostered and fed by the
German Government, how it has been fanned to a fury
by misrepresentations and deliberate deceptions, is re
vealed by A. Curtis Roth, former American Vice-Consul
at Plauen, Saxony, in the
I PUBLIC LEDGER |
The National Newspaper—Published in Philadelphia
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 1
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BS| ' fjj
Mr. Roth, who left Germany with Ambassador Gerard, was possessed
of exceptional facilities for observing the German temperament and pene-
J trating the official plans of the Prussians.
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The suite where a card-index of American "crimes" is kept with German
jjg thoroughness, the "diabolically cold precision" with which the military
leaders have laid out their future operations on this side of the Atlantic and
the fate which wi!^bef all America and Americans if Germany wins the war
are all depicted in this vivid account of the secret schemes of Germany.
In addition to the Roth revelations, the Sunday PUBLIC LEDGER will
H EMM ;iiiiifliii | i | ipiiii''!i; 'l'
MANY RABBITS IN
STATE THIS FALL
Belief That There Will Be
Fine Shooting When the New
Season Opens Next Month
The first rabbit season under the
new game code will run from No
vember 1 to December 15. This is a
new season which will allow tlma for
the northern and southern sections
of the state to test the law.
Cottontails aro numerous in al
most every section of the state and
the counties where they were liber
ated have reported many seen. In
some section farmers have been de
claring them a nuisance and in the
vicinity of Harrisburg there have
been a number killed by automobiles,
especially at night. Under the new
code the rabbit bag is limited to ten
in a day or sixty in a season, but the
activities of hunters will not put a
dent in the number, it is believed.
The old unlimited number caused
the killing off of rabbits in some
sections, especially where market
hunters got busy. The new game
code carries the first provision ever
made especially for boys to catch
rabbits. All kinds of traps are for
bidden with the express provision of
box traps which may be used by boys
under fourth n on lands wherein
they reside.
There are more wild turkeys to be
seen In the southern counties notably
in the sections along the mountains
than have been known in that part
in twenty years according to some of
the men who have been out for the
first week's hunting in the small
game season. The flocks are large
and there are numerous young birds,
many of which appear more or less
tame and are to be seen not far from
roads. Under the new game code
the wild turkey season will last only
fifteen days or from November 15
to November 30 and the kill is one
for each hunter for the season. This
is the same as in the last law, which
was passed after the two years'
closed season. In a number of coun
ties turkeys are protected under the
county closed season act.
West Shore Subscriptions
Exceed Those of First Loan
West Shore towns subscribed more
to the Becond Issue of the Libert>
Loan than to the Irst one, accord
ing to reports to-day. Official reports
of the campaign were not obtainable
this morning. The latest figures Is
sued were on Wednesday evening.
The campaign was extensively con
ducted In Lemoyne, New Cumber
land, Camp Hill and Enola, while
West Falrvlew and Wormleysburg
did not take such an active part.
The business was conducted through
the Iyemoj'ne Trust Company and
the New Cumberland National bank,
the only banking institutions on the
West Shore.
N. Y. INFANTRY GOES SOUTH
Lemoyne. Pa., Oct. 27. —After be
ing ready to leave this borough and
awaiting official orders for three
days, Company B, Tenth New York
Infantry, left this morning fqr Spar
tanburg, S. C. Camp was broken
forty-eight hours ago and the equip
ment packed in railroad cars at the
Lemoyne station. The men were or
dered into the passenger coaches yes
terday morning, but did not leave
until early this morning. The com
pany is composed of 12 4 men, and
has been located here since eaijy in
August.
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BIBLE CLASS LECTURES
Marysville, Pa., Oct. 27.—Big prep
arations were completed to-day for
the first of a series of lectures by
prominent speakers to be held in the
borough churches under the au
spices of the Men's Bible classes of
the five churches. The first address
will be delivered .to-morrow after
noon in the United Evangelical
Church at 3.15 o'clock. The speaker
will be Dr. Robert Bagnell, pastor
of Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Harrisburg. The plans of
the clergymen provide for the hold
ing of one lecture each month.
FAREWELL FOR TEACHER
New Cumberland, Pa., Oct. 27.
Miss Claire Frysinger, who resigned
her position as teacher of the inter
mediate school at Elkwood was riv
en a farewell party by her pupils on
Thursday evening. Scholars of Miss
Frysingw's school, the grammar
school taught by Orville Morrett and
Miss Coover and Miss Tritt, teachers
in the building, were guests.
OCTOBER 27, 1917.
BOY SCOUTS FOR A
SANE HALLOWE'EN
Will Patrol West Shore
Towns and Encourage
Saving of Grain
Celebrating Hallowe'en Without
throwing grain or damaging prop
erty, a move suggested by a prom
inent resident of the West Shore, haa
gained impetus.
A move to have Boy Scouts patrol
the towns and ask the boys to do
away with tho long-used customs In
celebrating the event and not to
throw corn or damage property has"
/iow been endorsed by the Camp Hill
Boy Scouts and the Lemoyne scouts.
At a meeting of the Lemoyne
scouts last evening the matter was
endorsed. J. Boyd Trostle, scout
master, gave the boys a talk on the
conservation of food and different
ways in which Hallowe'en could be
celebrated.
The New Cumberland Boys' Bri
gade will fall In line shortly, it is
believed. The matter of having the
schoolchildren bring the grain to
school that they would throw away
in the celebration of Hallowe'en will
be brought before the boys and girls
Monday and Tuesday of next week.
They will be asked to bring the corn
on Wednesday. The corn will then
be collected and ground for the bene
fit of the Red Cross.
SUBJECTS OF SERMONS
New Cumberland, Pa., Oct. 27.
The subjects of the Rev. Dr. T. S.
Wilcox's sermons to-morrow will be,
"Man, the Masterpiece of God's Cre
ation," at 10.30 o'clock, and at 7.30,
"The Remedy For Sin." Special
prayers will be offered for the coun
try during the services.
BOY SCOUTS RAISE $3,250
Camp Hill, Oct. 2 7.—Camp Hill
Boy Scouts have raised $3,250 for
the Second Liberty Loan up to noon
to-day. Last evening a wiener roast
was held on the Alleman farm, and
about thirty boys attended- They
were in charge of the scoutmaster,
the Rev. Raymond Ketchledge, and
Assistant Scoutmaster A. E. Strode.
Grand Lodge Officers to
Visit Star of America
Tuesday evening, octoDer 30, Grand
Commander H. M. Askin, of Carlisle;
Grand Captain General S. Raymond
Snyder, of Chambersburg; J. Smith
Riehl, of Sunbury, and the Rev. Dr.
L 8. Kerschner. past commander of
Lincoln Commandery, of Punxsutaw
ney, are expected to pay a fraternal
visit to Star of America Command
ery. Invitations have been sent out.
Including the commanderiea of the
city, Steelton, Mlddletown and Me
chanlcsburg. Many members from
these commanderiea will be present
to extend a hearty welcome to the
grand officers.
The evening will be spent In ad
di esses and a social time.
J. G. CLUB ENTERTAINED
New Cumberland, Pa., Oct it 4
On Thursday evening the jr. G. Club
was entertained at the home of Miss
Elizabeth Smiling. Market and Fifth
streets. The evening was spent knit
ting and crocheting, after which re
freshments were served to: Misses
Mabel Schaffer, Frances Schaffer,
Nerissa Sadler, Jennie Baker. Josie
Horn, Pauline Neidhoimer. Marie
Neldheimer, of Wormleysburg;
Marion Ileffloman, Sophia Witmyer,
New Cumberland.
CATCH SIX ESCAPED GERM INS
Atlanta. Ga„ Oct. 27.—Six of the
ten German prisoners who escaped
from the alien enemy detention camp
at Fort McPherson on Tuesday night
were captured to-day by agents of
the Department of Justice.
I Five were taken at Surrency, Ga..
and the sixth, Johann Adelhardt, a
noncommissioned officer, was arrest
ed here.
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