2 ENOUGH TOBACCO IN U. S. TO KEEP YANKS SUPPLIED Telegraph Fund Is Good Me dium to Get Soothing Weed to Fighters ___ "Tobacco plenty!" exclaimed the proprietor of a corner store in the I heart of Harrisburg to-day. "Well, j I should say so. It is a great year ! for tho fragrant weed. Why the j growers down in Lancaster county] are getting forty cents a pound for: the cured article. The growers have all kinds of offers to sell. One Lan caster firm has already packed over 12,000 cases, and the American To bacco Company is gathering it in right and left* It is a bonanza year for the growers," This is great news for the Yanks at camp and in the trenches. It menus that you. American man, woman, girl, boy, can contribute in a special way to America's winning the war. a way which is singularly appreciated. Franco has announced thai her tobacco supply is completely exhausted. The government has th\ls notified the public. So that Ameri can soldiers must now depend ex clusively on what is shipped from this country. A canvass of some of the stores in Harrisburg shows that; hundreds of fathers and mothers' are taking advantage of the big' supply in this country to give their j relatives at tire front a timely solace with pipe, cigar or cigaret. The offer of the American Tobacco Company to give 4 5 cents worth for every 25 cents sent in to the Tele graph means that a soldier is pro vided with pipe, tobacco and cignrets. The following contributors to the Telegraph Tobacco Fund have been ■nadev Previously acknowledged .. $760."8 A. W. Hartnuvn .50 Charles H. Tunis 1.00 'ash I.oo] G. A. Green 1.00 ! • 'ash _ 2.00 j K. Borden .25 $7 66.03 Two New Velie Models Received by Willoughby 11. F. Willoughby of the Velie-Har risburg Company, received, his new J9lB live-passenger model this week. In the body itself is the new model ."..S strikingly different, since the ex terior features first attract the eye. The hie'.;er radiator produces a hood I lie almost horizontal back to the loping shield, while the roll of the body side continues unbroken from t 'io nose of the radiator to the rise of the rear seat. Both front and rear seat backs are higher and deeply cushioned over soft springs. The seats themselves tilt back comfortably and nre upholstered in French plaits of ical leather. In equipment and finish, the Model 38 is considered remark ably efficient at tho price'. In addition to the five-passenger Model, a sedan was included in the shipment of lie wmodels. GOtCATOK TO SPEAK IIHFOIIK PEOPLE'S FOHt M L. K. McGinnes, superintendent of the Steelton public schools will be the principal speaker to-morrow after- I noon at the meeting of the People's | Forum in the Wesley Church, Forster street. The program will begin at 3; o'clock. Special music will be fur- j fished by the choir of St. Augustin's Kpiscopal Church. \l STRIAN REGISTERED John Bosae. an Austrian, employed ; i the Central Iron and Steel Company ! works, Steelton, who said he would j'Ot register, and was going to go to I Pittsburgh to escape the draft, has been found to be registered. He reg i tered iiv Steelton. ;iid his card will j l e sent to police headquarters. Bosae | is confined, and is being tried by the | p. lice magistrate this afternoon for i hi disorderly conduct and disparage-j li.ent of the ITnited States. Vlt RESTED OX OI.I) CHARGE Arthur Dubbs, wanted by Alderman J'eShong since last June, on the charge of selling liquor to minors, w;' arrested yesterday afternoon. !• blis is charged with having pro. cured liquor for two boys. Dubbs escaped to Sunbury, and there escap ed the officers. He returned to Har risburg yesterday, was arrested and will likely be heard early next week ! by Alderman DeShong. ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE Marietta, Pa.. Nov. 17.—Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Dreibellis announce the marriage of their daughter, Miriam I". Dreibellis, to Lieutenaift Charles J Silillott, of Columbia. The wed ding was solemnized at Newport j News, Va., on Thursday evening. No- I \i'rrber 1. ' MISTAKEN IN NAMES James E. Wilson. 326 Reilv street, who was announced as being the father of Robert Wilson. Twenty third Regiment, Engineers, stated to day that he is no relative of the young man. The error grew out of the fact that the boy's father is of the ! seme name, but lives at Cameron and Reily streets. STOP! GIVE VOUR KIDNEYS A CHANGE 9 out of 10 Cases Pain and Soreness in Back Not Due to Kidneys, But Muscular Rheumatism or Neuritis: Stop drugging. So many people I thijik they have kidney trouble and I Mart right in taking drugs, which I . Littl# SATURDAY EVENING, Grandson of Civil War Veteran First to Enlist r • SAMUEL BEAR | In the first Ave to enlist from I Wormleysbtirg was Samuel Bear, grandson of Joseph Bear, who was a Civil War veteran. First Private Bear enlisted September 8 at the medical recruiting station In Harris burs', was sent to Columbus Bar ricks for two weeks and from there tc Company M, medical training camp. Fort Benjamin Harrison. He is one of the four members of Gen- I eral John Hartranft Camp, No. 13, Sons of Veterans, and a member of the Sons of Veterans Reserves. A. F. of L. Leaders Probe Charges of Dishonesty Buffalo, N. Y.. Nov. IT.—The alleged use of positions as representatives ot labor in Baltimore for improper and dishonest purposes was among ,the I first questions acted upon to-day by the American Federation of Labor in convention here. The charge submitted in a resolu tion by representatives of the Inter nationa) Longshoremen's I'nion stat ed that the labor movement in Bal timore was suffering from the action of some labor representatives "by reason of their grafting and their positions as representatives of labor nre being used to their selfish mid personal benefits. The resolution asked on immediate investigation. The committee on lo cal and federal bodies, to which it had been referred, reported to the convention that the resolution cre ated an unjust reflection, but recom mended investigation by the incom ing executive council. After brief debate, in which Presi dent Gompers said he had alreaay addressed communications to persons who seemed to be under suspicion, the committee's recommendation was adopted. Resolutions seeking the appoint ment of organizers to form locals of I officorsworkers p.r.d stenographers I were adopted. Women organizers ! were recommended for this work, j Tile unionizing of city firemen was I approved. Railroad Securities Drop Less Than Others, Shippers' Counsel Claims . By Associated Press Washington, Nov. 17. Clifford i I Thorne, leading counsel for shippers I j in the fifteen per cent increase rate I case, testified before the Interstate 1 Commerce Commission to-day that ! I the railroad securities have in the ; last few months declined less# than ! many others, and that the net oper ating revenues of the western roads' already are far in excess of their es timates for 1917. Mr. Thorne intro duced statistics to prove his state ment that the net operating revenues of tli>> thirty-eight eastern roads in terested in the case had reached a total of $283,000.000 up to September j :i0 last, and stated that the railroads at the previous hearing estimated their net operating revenue for lUI7 would be $215,000,0000. Mr. Thorne also declared that the net operating revenue of the eastern roads was $543 a mile more during June, July and August than the com mission estimated they would be when the decision against the in crease was given last June. He tes tified that his conclusion regarding the position of railroad securities was reached after examination of the bands of twenty industrial stocks published by a leading financial news paper to give the general trend of the securities market and those of twenty leauing cities of the eouu try. Arthur B. Marston Is Named For Telephone Post TT~ fj|| 'Jp' ARTHUR B. MARSTON Arthur B. Marston, to-day enters upon his duties as equipment engi neer of the 8611 Telephone Company. He succeeds L. C. Gainor who leaves shortly to take up studies prepara tory to entering the Catholic priest hood. Mr. Marston was graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1903 and has been in telephone work ever since. He is married and will make his home in this city. THOUSANDS PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO J. P. M'NICHOL Impressive Ceremonies Mark Funeral of Former State Senator and Leader By Associated Press Philadelphia. Nov. 17. Thous ands of persons including represen tatives of every phase of the politi cal life of the city and state to-day attended the funeral of State Sena tor James P. McNichol, who was buried with one of the largest and most impressive tributes in t'*!s city since the funeral of Senator .uay, a decade ago. More than 300 policemen were re quired to handle the crowds who were unable to gain admittance to the ca thedral ot Sts. Peter and Paul where solemn Requiem mass Was celebrated. In the procession to the church in addition t$1.10; 6,000, per 1,000 cubic feet, $1.20; 1.000. per 1,000 cubic feet, $1.30; less than 4.000 cubic feet per quar ter, per 1,000 cubic feet, $1.50. Sunday School Class Gives Mock Court Trial Members of the Sunday school of Grace Methodist Church held a mock trial last evening at the church un der the direction of the John R. Hope class. There were 300 peo ple at the trial. The mock trial was the first of a series of entertainments to be given this winter by the Sun day school. There was a piano sola 1 by Miss Kennedy, and a violin rolo ; by Howard Malch at the beginning |of the entertainment. The cast was 1 as follows: John P. Melick, judge; Harold I Leo, clerk of the court: Miss Martha Lawton, plaintiff; E. Bruce Taylor, defendant; Harry C. Saussaman, lawyer for the plaintiff; John Schreftier, associate attorney; George 1.. Reed, attorney for defendant; John C. Johnson, associate attorney; Mrs. C. C. f'rispen. Mrs. C. H. Israel, Charles 801 l and F. E. Downes, wit nesses. SHOOTS OFF FINGER Frank Neubaum, aged 15. lost the second linger of his right hand when bis gun accidentally went off yester day. He is at the hospital, where his finger was operated on this morninx. The young man was hunting with some companions in I.ykens when his gun went off while his hand was over the muzzle. BEGIN HABEAS CORPUS Habeas corpus proceedings were started to-day in the suit against Jennie Taylor, who was fined SSO and costs on a charge of disorderly prac- Judge S. J. M. McCarrell will hear the cast on Monday morning, at 10 o'clock. Y. >l. C. A. CHAIRMAN TO SPEAK Chairman E. .1. Stackpole, of the Harrisburg district, has accepted an Invitation to speak In the Interests of the Y. M. C. A. War Fund, at a meeting in Huntingdon to-morrow afternoon. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH CHURCHMEN HOLD PATRIOTIC RALLY Mayor Bowman Makes Plea' For a Cleaner, Bet ter City A patriotic rally at the Taber nacle Baptist Church last evening marked the opening of a series of fall' services planned by the congrega- j .tion. There was special music by a J -chorus in charge of Mrs. E. J. j Decevee. Mrs. Decevee sang a solo. ! There were talks by -Mayor Bowman, j Dr. Sludge and the Rev. 11. W. A. j Hanson. Members of all denominations were present at the meettng last night. Mayor Bowman opened the meeting, and made a plea for a greater and a better Harrisburg. He stated that Harrisburg could be made the best and cleanest city in the United States if every citizen would make that his ambition, and lead a life with that end in view, and help his neighbor to do the same. Dr. Sludge made a plea for every man, woman and child in this hour of trial to sacrifice his own individual desire for the common good, stating that the country can triumph only through team work und devoted in terest in the. community. The Rev. Mr. Hanson declared that the country now needs the full est fruits of patriotism atfd love of country, and that can be se cured only through the devoted in terest of the home, school and church, lie urged that the effort be made to keep these three great insti tutions thoroughly American. Fine Program Arranged For Patriotic Exercises at the Wharton School The fact that the Wharton school has furnished a larger percentage of men for the various branches of war serv ice than any other establishment In the city is given for one reason why Governor Brumbaugh should liav saved up the narrative of his recent visit to the Pennsylvania camps until next Wednesday evening when the Wharton men, graduates and undergraduates, will gather in the Technical High school audi torium to give tribute to their com | rades now enlisted with Uncle Bam. I Twenty-eight stars are emblazoned ! in the service flag which will be -r.e- I sented to the school after the other I ceremonies. The Hag will be placed In front of the club. J. W. Kline, president of the club, announced his good fortune in get ting the promise from Governor Brumbaugh to tell all about his trip around the cauipfe. He talked per sonally with many of the boys and got a comprehensive idea of their | life which should be vastly entertain. | ing. Prof. Eugene Heine, of the University of Pennsylvania, will fol ' low the Governor with an address, and it Is possible that Adjutant General Beary will speak. ! The names of each of the men will he read from a roll of honor when the flag is unfurled. Bishop James H. Darlington, of the local Diocese of the Episcopal Church; Bishop Philip R. McDevitt, of the Catholic Church: and Rabbi Louis J. Haas, of the Ohev Sholom Temple, have con sented to take part in the affair. P.O. S. of A. to Aid U. S. in Recruiting Work Plans for the co-operation of the Patriotic Order of the Sons of Amer ica with the reel\iting officers of the Harrisburg district are rapidly get ! ting under way, and the branches ot . the patriotic organizations are al ready at work on the recruiting | propaganda they are going to dis | tribute in this district. ' The P. O. S. of A. is organizing the I Harrisburg recruiting district the | same as the recruiting officers have j already organized their work. The j branches of the order all througn | ihe state will be turned into coni j mlttees to recruit men for the Army. ! livery town and every rural district j which the recruiting officers have j not been able to thoroughly organ ! ize, the branches of the P. O. S. of A. | will reach and organize Into hotbeds ! of recruiting patriotism. H. E. Bufflngton, representative ot ! Mr. Moyer. state president of the P. O. S. of A., will conduct a great | recruiting rally at Lancaster Tues day night, when he will make a pa | triotic address. This rally and mass meeting are organized by the P. O. S. of A., working with the recruiting oflleers, at Reading on the twenty fourth and at Lancaster on the twenty-eighth, there will be mass n eetlngs, which Mr. Moyer will per sonally address In the effort to se-r cure recruits. The P. O. S. of A. .s one of the most patriotic orders in the country, having 20,000 stars In j its service flag. W. W. Lower Is Sergeant at Camp Hancock H| SERGEANT W. W. LOWER Now it is "Sergeant" Walter W. Lower, stationed at Camp Hancock and enjoying the best of hefelth, ac cording to letters written home to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Lower, 619 Forrest street. Picked out as one of the boys fitted to help teach the drafted men, young Lower has the rank of mess sergeant. His wife recently left here to make her home at Augusta. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets.—Adv.! EXONERATIONS FROM MILITARY DUTY RECALLED New Regulations Announced j Today; Repeal Preceding Orders; None Exempt ~ I By Associated Press Washington, Nov 17. New regulations under which the remain- j ing availables ot the nine million j men registered for military duty will ' be drafted for service with the col- j ors were announced to-day by Pro- j vost Marshal General Crowder. The j new regulations are coincident with i the division of eligibles into five j classes, and the circulation of the ' official questionnaires which have i been discussed'in previous announce ments. The new regulations, as has been i announced before, repeal all' pre ceding regulations, cancel all exemp- j tions and discharges granted under | the old system and restore every registered man to his original status. He will hereafter be re quired to undergo all examinations anew and present his claims foi exemption again. As the new jclassillcatiqns make! more liberal provision for leaving men with dependants in the classes to be called last, it is practically cer tain every man who had a legitimae exemption on the ground of depend ency under the old regulations will get the same under the new ones. The first class which embraces men wholly without dependents is ex pected to bring in fully two million | men. Governor Urges That Inmates Knit Governor Brumbaugh's letter to the | heads of the various state institu -1 ,0 ?. s ' s BS:estinß that the inmates knit articles of value to the soldiers was mailed last night to the super intendent of the insane hospital and other establishments. The letter was as follows: To the' Superintendent: "In your institution you mav have inmates who in this war crisis can do a great service to the country. Ihe men of Pennsylvania now and soon to be at the fro..t need certain garments not included in the regu lar Army and Navy issue. Sweaters, scarfs, wristlets, stockings and other wearing apparel will add much to the health and coinfbrt of our men. '! >' oll at once, in conjunction with the nearest Hod Cross agency •proceed to have your people do ail I tiiev can to assist in this laudable work. Men can knit and should he taught to do so. If it.is not possible otherwise to secure yarn and other supplies. 1 suggest that you call upon puhlic-spirited men and women to as sist in providing all the materials necessary to carry on this work. "Let it be a Pennsylvania service to our sons in the national service." Walter Johnston Is Chosen Lieutenant Walter Johnston, of the Johnston Paper Coriipany, was last night elect ed second lieutenant of Company 15, of the Harrislmrg Reserves. ' Mr. Johnston has been first sergeant of the company. The election was held at tiie City Grays armory and was conducted by Captain Harry C. Houtz. Next Tuesday night a lieutenant will be fleeted by the members of Com pany B. Both vacancies were caus ed by officers of the Reserves. C. A. Burtnett and T. P. Moran going into the I nfted States service. Members of Company A of the Re serves appeared in their drill uni ; forms of gray shirts and dark trous ; ers last night for the first time and j other companies will take up the in- I door costume next week, i Twenty-five men were elected to membership In the Reserves last night by the board of directors. \Y bile the drills were in progress the State College unit of the I'nited States Ambulance Corps at Allentown appeared at the armory on their wax to State College from Allentown anil witnessed the drill. The ambulance corps men were quartered at the armory through the courtesy of Philip German of the Armory Association officers who welcomed them to llar risburg. BOY Itl'W DOWN 111' AITTO William Banks, colored, aged 12, 1241 Monroe street, was struck bv an automobile while pleying in ' the street at Fifteenth and Walnut yes terday. He sustained lacerations and bruises of the face. He was removed to the hospital for treatment. TIPSTAVES NAMED Tipstaves for Common Pleas Court sessions next week were appointed as follows: John Pottorf. R. W. (Jreen, M. F. Graham, Samuel Johnson, Felix Newman, Henry Fulchner. H. C. Win ter, Peter Hershey, Milford Ball. Jo seph A. Winters. Jacob K. Kline, Jacob Stouffer, William B. Anderson. A. .1. STKINMAX IJIES By Associated Press Lancaster, Pa„ Nov.. 17. Andrew J. Steinnian. one of the oldest mem bers of the Lancaster bar, for many years editor ot the Intelligencer and operator of the Penn Iron Work, died at noon to-day after having been in failing health for a long time. He was born in Lancaster SI vears ngo and was prominently identified with all the city's activities, He was grad uated from Yale with Cliauncey De pew. Deaths and Funerals DELAY FI'NERAI, The funeral of Robert D. Wilson, which was to have been held to-mor row afternoon, has been postponed until next week, owing to the fact that the body will not arrive until Monday or Tuesday. The young man, who died at Fort Boyard. N. M„ was serving in the U. S. Cavalry. Recruit ing officers in the city had arranged a military funeral for the body of the young man, and the same arrange ments will probably stand for the funeral next week. I.I'.HOV DELOXU Leßoy Delong. the four-y.ear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Delong, died yesterday morning p.t the home of his parents, HO Lipdon street. Funeral services will be held Monday morning, at 11 o'clock, and burial will be made at Duncannon, Monday after noon. MHS. SARAH BAL.MEK Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Katharine Balmer, 7<, will be held from the Home for the Friendless. Monday afternoon. fU 3 o'clock. Burial will be in East Harrisburg Cemetery. She was a member of the Green Street Church of God, and is survived by three sisters. MISS MARY E. BATES Funeral services for Miss Mary E. Bates were held this afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Miss Bates was the victim of an accident Wednesday afternoon, when she was thrown off the Mulberry Street Bridge to the railroad tracks, forty feet below. ANDREW LONG Andrew Long, 83, died last night at his home, 402 Reily street. He Is sur vived by one daughter, Mrs. c. Shaw, of Washington, D. C. Funeral ser vices will be held at his home Tues day afternoon, at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Edwin S. Rupp, pastor of the Otter beln United Brethren Church, will of ficiate at the burial, which will be in the Harrisburg Cemetery. John J. Treist Among First to Join Colors JOHN J. TREIST Among The First, is the title of John J. Treist, stationed now at Fort Hancock, Ga., in Company I, 112 th ; U. S. Infantry. Young Mr. Treist,' who is the son of David Treist, 1121 Fulton street, did not wait for Uncle Sam to come after him. He re sponded to the call to the colors lust iis soon as the call was made. Action to Restrict Transportation Is Not Contemplated Now By Associated Press Washington, No\. 17. —Further | government action to restrict trans portation of non-essentials is not at this time contemplated by Judge ! Robert S. Lovett, administrator of the Priorities Transportation act. Mr. Lovett issued this statement: "While the situation may change, yet I am not at this time contempla ting any further action with respect to transportation of non-essentials. Priority order No. 2 with regard to open top cars went as far as it seem ed wise go in/dealing with that problem by restricting the transpor tation of non-essentials. "Conditions', however, will be con stantly observed. Whether the coal | shortage requires restriction of the i coal spply of non-essential indus i tries is a question for the fuel ad i ministrator, Dr. Garlleld, to determ i ine; and if any priority orders be j come necessary in the furtherance of I his policy in that regard they will be I made ony upon his request. "As to the war industries board i apart from my action under the ] priority act with respect to transpor | tation, I may say that the Industries !of the country would seeni to be justified In assuming from the action of the board in the matter of copper and steel prices and its record gen erally to date that it Is the desire and policy of the board carefully and lib erally to conserve the interest and i welfare of Industries. "I feel safe in saying that the board will take no action deslgne to I eliminate any non-essential industry | without reasonable notice and an I opportunity to be heard." 1,769,196 Pounds Frozen Turkeys Must Be Sold New York, Nov. 17. Dras:ic action, ordered to-day by the food administration, may greatly cheapen I the price of frozen poultry to the consumer. The order directs: Immediate sale ot' all poultry in 1 stornge from last year to avoid pen ' alty for hoarding food under the | United States war act. Sale of 1,709,196 pounds of frozen turkeys before Thanksgiving. Sale of a similar amount of frozen ! turkeys befcre New Year's. Sale of all poultry now in cold \ storage before March 1, 1918. Reports from 275 warehouses i throughout the country revealed 46,- 206,059 pounds of frozen poultry now in storage. Of this 3,538,393 pounds j consist of turkeys, or 242 per cent. more turkeys than were in storage ! last year. SSOO TO SON FOR EVERY GERMAN KILLED Dallas, Tex., Nov. 17.—The Finance Commissioner here. William Doran, announced yesterday that he harl of fered his son, Robert Doran, who left some time asro for France to serve under General Pershing, SSOO cash for every German he kills. 1 Womeiv I ■ Are Here Told the Best Remedy '' I for Their Troubles. _ 'W/i 4 I H Freemont, O.—"I was passing 1 through the critical • **-■ j fhWli/// '// I m period of life, being forty-six years of ago and had all Oaiigg | L ■fttm/M ■ H the symptoms incident to that change heat flashes, Kj nervousness, and was in a general run down condition, j x/I/l II I so it was hard for mi to do my work. Lydia E. Pink- sl^7?.\ \\i jT , / J ■ ham's Vegetable Compound was recommended to me as \ AfA, \j l AS / H the best remedy for my troubles, which it snrcly proved v \\ f / ■ to be. I feel better and stronger in every way since z/v_ ■ taking it, and the annoying symptoms have disap- f /\ \ pcarL"—Mrs. M. GODDKN, 925 Napoleon St., Fremont, f North "Haven, Conn.— I "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- nffiflfi i IMIB ble Compound restored my health after everything else had failed when passing through change of life. There is nothing like it to overcome the trying symptoms." v — ilrs. FLOKE>CIS ISELLA,JJOJC 107, North llaven, Conn. In SuchC&SOS EfDIA E. VEGETABLE COMPOUND I lias the potest record for the greatest goodl NOVEMBER 17, 1917. MEN WHO SPREAD 1 FOOLISH RUMORS ARE AIDING HUNS Scores of Absurd Stories of i War Spread by Germans and Credulous I An avalanche of rumors dealing mostly w'ih supposed great war losses by pretty nearly everybody but the Germans has • been sweeping down upon the city for the last ten days without any letup. New tales, al! of them of a harrowing nature, are now being put in circulation and fit. old ones revamped. There is almost a constant jingling of telephones in newspaper offices I from worried persons asking for < :n --lirmation of these reports. Opinion in well informed circles is that most of the tales are started ' by German sympathizers. That most of the stories aje absurd or ridicu lous apparently does not prevent many persons from believing in them. Telephones Jingle Newspaper offices are in receipt of | an official denial by the Belgian rov | eminent of several rumors that have | beeii going the rounds. It is explain ; eil that German sympathizers are putting out stories that must be de- I nicd later. in this manner the I Kaiser's agents hope that people will J believe real stories are also untrue. ! Credulous and unscrupulous per sons are blamed for spreading the j tales and even .coloring them. On man. who is in a position where he I has heard most of the stories, to-day | expressed the opinion that a large j number of persons deliberately lie about the tales in Circulating them in order lo give the impression to friends that they have Inside in formation or to create a sensation. 'NO ENTHUSIASM FOR RULE BY KERENSKY [Continued from First Page] spondent continues, there was a .-om plcto absence of definite news. Order prevailed at all stations and fewer soldiers than usual besieged the train. The more quiet element of soldiers with whom the correspond ent talked were indignant with the Bolsheviki, while the Socialists de clared they were for General Korni loff. Others seemed to know little of politics and to care less. There was complete order when the train passed through Kharkova and Kurskt. Many contradictory reports were current as the train approach ed Moscow. The train was stopped on the outskirts of the city. "We heard the sound of guns," the Telegraph's correspondent says, "and were told by .officers that the training school was being bom barded. Women told terrible stories of fighting and bloodshed through out Saturday and Sunday. They de clared that entire broad lines were mown down by machine guns. Better in Country "At the station there was not a •Ingle Intelligent person, and I could only gather vague rumors of con tinuous fighting, of houses destroy ed by artillery and of thousands killed and wounded. The streets near the station were lined with peo ple listening to the battle, but it was I said that the streets beyond were j empty. As the train left the station i the sound of a volley came from I somewhere near the central post of fice. The only passengers who board ed the train at Moscow was a sol dier, whose Information was eon fused and fragmentary. He said that I the foreigners were helping the , ov i eminent troops." Arriving in Petrograd the corre jspon'ient found the residents guard ling the doors and gateways to their ! dwellings. He concludes: "Outside Petrograd it is more j easy to believe in Russia. Here the atmosphere. of catastrophe i; stiflinft." ' "BIIJ.V' SUNDAY'S SON IX WAR Trenton, N. Nov. 17.- —"Billy" I Sunday in announcing yesterday to ! John F. Gill that his son, George j Sunday, had joined the American | fighters in France, added in his mes ! sage: "I am proud that he is anx i ious to serve his country." WOrNBKI) BY ROBBERS I Altoona. Pa.. Nov. 17.—Charged I with breaking into the grocery store lof David Parrish, seventy-two years I old, and shooting the aged merchant land his daughter. Miss Nettie Par 11th, twenty-four, George Conrad and George Mooreliouse were arrested early yesterday. CITY'S HISTORY REVIEWED FROM 1902 TO PRESENT J. Horace McFarland Points Out Good and Bad Points in Candid Manner Mingling emphatic praise for the "Harrisburg Plan" which has made the city famous all over America and also freely criticising certain features of our civic regime, J. Horace Mc -I'arland last, evening gave an Illus trated lecture on "llarrisburg, Past, Present and Future," at the Boyd Memorial llall which was heard by a ▼ Iftrge and attentive audience. llluserating his lecture throughout with splendid stereopticon views of scenes before and after the public improvement begun In 1902, he first described the civic awakening. "Har risburs is not an ordinary capital city," he reminded. "It has attract ed wide attention all over the coun- I try because of its scheme of public improvements, termed the Harris burn' plan. "No other city lias ever under taken a similar concrete scheme of civic betterment, or carried it out to the istent that lias been done in Harrisburg, and that Is the reason this city is in the public eye." t "We took the best men to do thjs | work, because we needed the best i men," he commented. "Of late we • I have come to take the man who says he needs a job; we don't use the principle which has ben largely re sponsible for the success of our scheme of public improvements." / Speaking of the recent fatality on trie Mulberry street bridge, Mr. Mc- Karhind said that It was not due to any faulty plans of the engineer who designed the structure. I "it must be remembered that at the time the plans were drawn we >.id not have regular freight cars on .vheels. called autotrucks, traversing our streets. The accidents are really not the fault of the way the bridge was designed." The signboard evil came in fc>r strong censure, and the speaker then urged the necessity of atten lion to the propev care of shade Iroes in thp city. "We have scarcely fifty healthy, normal trees in the whole city," he declared. "All we have is a. lot of old wrecks.' I The failure of the City Planning Commission to erect a public comfort ' station and the election of "men of ' small vision" in school affairs were also points of severe criticism. Moose Pass Resolutions of Loyalty at Patriotic Rally Held at Home I Members of llarrisburg T.oyal Or der of Moose had a patriotic session last night. Resolutions were adopted expressing loyalty to the I nited States government and to the mem bers who are at the frynt. It was do t ided to purchase a service flat? NUti| fiftv-six stars and it will be unfurled this week, und will fly from the front of the building at Third and Boas streets. A letter was read from Andrew S. Patterson, a member of the execu tive committee in charge of the i M. C. A. war fund campaign. It was received with much favorable com ment and the lodge appropriated $25 to the fund now being raised. The committee in charge of the reso lutions included E. L. Rinkenbaeh. John Harle, A 1 Meyers, J. C. Towsen and M. T. Robinson. State Board Charges With Selling Diseased Hogs Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 17.— Charged with violating the laws ot the < oin monwealth in selling hogs affected with cholera, Edward Booze, a farmer, residing near Newburg, was given a hearing here last evening. The action was brought by a repre sentative of the State livestock Sanl tary Board. The hogs were BOUI at a recent sale and were distributed to all parts of the county. It was stated < n that Booze did not Know thai the animals were diseased, cision in the case was reserved. AMIin.ANCE MEN BERK Fortv men of Section u.9. I States Ambulance Unit, e nc ®" l P ed . Allentown, stopped in the t it> last night en route to State College, whole thev will instruct the Penn btati students in first aid and camp sani tation work. The unit Is composed of ix trucks and a kitchen trallei. The contingent is made up of Penn State graduates or undergraduates. It is ronimandod by laeulonant l,awver, of Pasadena, Co. Clarence Heck and Richard Wier, of this cit >'. are in the unit. They spent last night at the City Gray's armory. WtRNEI) OF IMPOSTER.S The llarrisburg Chamber of Com merce to-day issued a warning to the merchants not to give aid to any sol diers - aid scheme unless officially en dorsed.