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NEW DRAFT RULE ANNOUNCED;
SINGLE MEN WILL GO FIRST
Next Draft Will Take No Married Men With Dependants
Washington, Jan. 3.—Provost Marshal General Crow- old since June 5,1917, (the fiirst draft) and who become of
der, reporting to Congress to-day on the progress of the age hereafter shall be added to Class One as they become
draft, expresses for the first time a definite promise and available. This will insure, the general estimates, a
aim of the government not to take for army duty any supply of 700,000 men a year.
other men than those listed in Class One of the new draft General Crowder outlined the new policy in this
questionnaire. language:
This classification excludes married men entirely, "Whether this guess (1,000,000 available men) be jus
whose wives or families are dependent on them for sup- tified in practice or not, it can be announced now as the
port and other men with dependants. General Crowder . policy and belief of this office that in all probability it will
does this on the estimate that 1,000,000 men physically fit be possible to fill our military needs without invading any
for Army duty will be available from Class One. This class more deferred than Class One; and this is the prom
number, he thinks, sufficient for the present military ise, the standard, and the goal, here for the first time an
needs of the nation, but to assure the future supply for nounced, toward which every administrative iffort of this
those he recommends that men who have become 21 years office shall be directed."
HALTED PEACE
CAUSES GREAT
MISGIVING TO
GERMAN RULER
Reported Break in Negotia
tions Responsible For
Sudden Change; Teuton
Envoys Revise Offers
MAY UPSET PLANS
ON WESTERN FRONT
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Formidable Attack in Cam
brai Region Is Unlikely
While Russian Situation
Remains Unsettled
By Associated Press
Petrograd, Jan. 2. —The
Bolshavik foreign minister,
Leon Trotzky, declared to
day that the government of
the Russian workers would
not consent to the German |
peace proposals.
A crisis is Hearing in the'
Russo-Gerinan peace negotia
tions and indications are that a;
definite break :s not far off. The!
Russian government has de
manded that the eonfereuce
which was to have reconvened
on January 4, be transferred to
Stockholm and has protested i
against the German attitude
regarding occupied territory. A
resumption of hostilities is not
improbable should the Germans
decline to meet the Russian de
mands.
Emperor William and the rulers
of Germany apparently are aroused
over the sudden change in the
situation and the German and Aus
trian foreign secretaries are re
ported hurrying back to Brest
1-itovsk with new instructions. Ger
man military and political leaders
conferred yesterday with the em
peror and there is a widespread de
mand throughout Germany that the
Reichstag be convened immediately.
Reichstag leaders at a conference
with foreign Secretary Von Kuehl
[Continued on Page 12.]
HUNDREDS RISK LIVES
IN PHILADELPHIA COAL RIOT;
150 TONS ARE TAKEN
Philadelphia, Jan. 3.—Coal riots, which began here
yesterday, were resumed when sevral hundred men, wo
men and children raided cars on a Pennsylvania Railroad
siding and stole mere than 150 tons of anthracite. Rail
road detectives were powerless before the women, many
o fwhom risked their lives when an attempt was made to
remove eight of the fuel laden cars. For three hours the!
raiders carried off coal and could not be dispersed until a
riot call brought a detail of police who arrested the ring
leaders.
CITY BEHIND
K. OU C. IN ITS
WAR CAMPAIGN
Workers Are Given Warm
Welcome in Homes Vis
ited on First Day
! Ilarrisburg will oversubscribe its,
! Knights of Columbus war fund. j
, | This was the concensus of opinion i
I to-day by team workers who com
; pieted their first day's work. Every- j
i where the workers were received
I with a welcome and contribution,
j That the $23,000 mark will be'
i passed seemed assured from the to- |
| tals pieced together by enthusiastic j
j committeemen. Just how much the|
first day of the big drive brought in
I cannot be told until after the formal
reports are made by team captains
to-night.
Men and women of every religious
faith are already listed on the con
tribution sheets. It is thoroughly
understood, team workers said, that :
the recreation centers in the great
Army cantonments here and "over
there - ' with Pershing are open to!
battling Yanks of every creed. The,
uniform is the only credential need-1
[ ed to gain a glad welcome and a!
i warm handclasp.
The campaign was gotten under]
j way last night at a big meeUng in!
| the Board of Trade auditorium overj
j which .David E. Tracy presided.
| Anions the speakers were Bishop l
| MeDevitt, William Jennings, Chap-I
lain I.allou and Supreme Knight Fla- J
herty.
25 Killed, 74 Wounded
in Hunting Acidents in
Penna. During Season
Twenty-flvo men were reported !
killed and 74 wounded in hunting ac
cidents in Pennsylvania during the
season of 1917 by Dr. Joseph Kalb
fus, secretary of the State Game
i Commission, at the mid-winter meet
ing of the Commission hold here to
. day. ,
The kill of game, except for rab
bits, was much the same of last year,
the storms in December preventing
larger kills of deer. There were 1,-
080 legal deer reported killed; 31 11-
1 legal bucks and 75.does, which are
also forbidden. Other game was re
ported killed as follows: Bear 368;
1 rabbits, .1,500,000: squirrels, 179,400;
grouse. 107,287; wild turkeys, 2,950;
i ring pheasants, 1,362: quail, 26.223;
woodcock, 25,660; wild waterfowl,
32,907; raccoons, 13,255; shore birds
17,645.
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1918
SEVERE WEATHER
DELAYS FREIGHT
ON ALL R.R. LINES
Reading Company Is Doing |
Only About 55 Per Cent. j
of Normal Business
By Associated Press
Heading, Pa., Jan. 3.—Because of j
the severe cold weather, the Reading i
Railway Company is to-day only do- i
ing about 55 per cent, of the busi
ness compared with normal eondi*
tions in face of the fact that many
trains have been annulled and the
road is devoting itself more largely
to coal and freight shipments under
government direction.
Never before has it been necessary
to cut down the tonnage of freight
and coal trains for so long a period.
Notwithstanding the modern locomo
tives that are now employed, there
have been instances when they have I
been frozen up solidly and it was j
necessary to draw fires.
The connecting lines are similarly;
situated, or the lines of the Reading i
would be swamped with traffic. Hun-:
dreds of cars of freight, which had j
been sidetracked, is now gradually
being moved, together with muni.
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FRENCH DOSE P SHIPS
Paris, Jan. 3.—Nino French mer
chant ships of more than 1.600 tonsi
were Sunk by submarines or mines!
during the week ending December!
29. There, was no loss of vessels!
under 1,600 tons or of fishing ships j
Two attack,', on steamers failed. '
KAISER WILHELM AS A
rhis photograph of Kaiser Wilhe.lm, dressed as a fleld marshal of the Turkish army, was taken when
\LL? C . - ave & German l 3, ur " e ® 1 U l e Preeincta of the great mosque of Sophia at Constantinople. The
short left arm which he usually In hie photographs makes an effort to hide is here plainly visible.
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COUNCIL. PLANS
j CONFERENCE ON
| APPOINTMENTS
| Commissioners to Get To
gether at Closed Session
• on City Jobs
With the reorganization of city
I departments and county offices next
I Monday, interest is centered in pos
j sible changes when appointive offices
I are filled.
Little lias been said in city of
ficial circles about such changes.
While it has not been decided defin
itely when council reorganizes just
how the various department heads
will be placed It is believed Com
missioners Lynch and Gross will re
tain the departments of which they
have had charge during the last two
I years. This will mean that some de
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Mexicans Protest Against
Troops Crossing Border
By Associated Press
Austin, Tex., Jan. 3.—The Mexl
| can government, it was learned here,
has protested against the crossing of
i American troops into Mexico in pur
suit of bandits.
1 Governor W. P. Tlobby, It was said.
has received no advices from V/ash
ij ington relative to the protest and
i the Texan Rangers at least will con-
I tinue their activities against Mexican
■ j raiders unhampered by state authori-
I ties until Federal authorities instruct
' otherwise.
WORK ON SHOPS
RUSHED BY PIPE
1 MILL OFFICIALS!
Burned Buildings to Be Beady
For Operation in "Jwg
Weeks
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i i
I Shops destroyed by lire yesterday
"j at the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe
j i Bending Company will have been re
| built and in operation within two
I weeks, officials estimated to-day
| from the rush with which workmen
• j got building operations under way.
t j In order that no time may be lost,
} I plans to erect fireproof concrete
structures have been abandoned. As
I many ot' the 1,000 men thrown out
.! of jobs by the blaze as want to work,
can secure places in the construc
| tion work.
Part of the old walls can be utiliz
ed for the new buildings which are
to be of brick and wood, David E.
j Tracy, president of the corporation,
| said this morning. AJrevised esti
> mate of the loss to-day shows that
; the damage will not exceed the $200,-
! 000 mark.
The company will not be held up
. in its contracts, Mr. Tracy said,
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BRITISH AMBASSADOR LEAVES
, [ Washington. Jan. B.—Sir Cecil
- Spring-Hice, the British ambassador,
1 who yesterday announced that he
. was going home on leave, saw Presi
i dent Wilson to-day to say farewell.
■ The ambassador, it is expected, will
t not return to the United States in
his present capacity.
RUSSIA MAY
THROW ARMY
I OF 3,000,000
AGAINST HUNS
Even Most Radical Bolshe
viki and Ardent Peace
Advocates Aroused by
German Position
MUST FIGHTIX)
SAVEJ>RINCIPLES
Teuton Attitude Is Harmon
izing the Domestic Differ
ences ; Resumption of
Fighting Much Discussed
By Associated Press
Petrograd, Wednesday, Jan. 2.
—The Russian peace delegation
officially has suggested to the
central powers that the meeting
place of the peace delegates be
transferred to neutral soil and
has protested against certain
articles in the Austro-Gcrman
terms already submitted.
The halt in the Russo-German
peace negotiations and indica- 1
tions of a German refusal to'
move the conference to Stock
holm have revived universal dis
cussion in Petrograd of a re
sumption of fighting with a
greatly reduced army, probably
three million men.
Even the most radical Holsheviki
and the most ardent peace ad ocates
have been aroused by the lierman
position. They declare that a re
sumption of hostilities is imminent
and express the belief that it is
possible to organize and make eftec
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Another Cold Wave
Sweeps Down From
Canadian Northwest
Washington, Jan. 3.—Another cold
wave sweeping down fromithe Can
adian Northwest was to-day centered
In the Ohio Valley and Western
lennessee. The cold will penetrate
to-night as far south as Florida with
freezing temperatures in the north
ern part of that state and with a
frost as far south as Miami.
A storm was reported some dis
tance off the South Atlantic coast
apparently moving northward and
storm warnings were issued from
Kastport, Maine, to Hatteras, N. C
Dangerous northerly gales will blow
. along the coast between these two
I points tigs afternoon . and to-night
• and all snipping has been Warned.
President Will Outline
Railroad Plan Tomorrow
By Associated Press
Washington, Jan. 3.—Congress, re
convening at noon to-day after its
holiday vacation, planned immediate
adjournment until to-morrow out of
respect of Senator Newlands and
Representative Uathrick, who died
during the recess. The big war leg
islative program will begin to-mor
row when President WilHon is ex
pected to outline his plan for govern
ment operations of railroads in an
address to a joint session.
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5 NORWEGIAN STEAMER TORPEDOED •
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X Jan. 3.—The Norwegian foreign officer re-
*f* poris that the Norwegian steamer Vigrid (1,617 tons * '
4* l; i *915 at Bergen) was torpedoed and sunk ' *
T while" on her way from Bari to Rouen, says i Central -J >
4* ' Five men on '* *
4* .*s*
i the Vjgrid were killed. Thirteen of the cicw were •
rescued. i* *
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4 ' LSORY RATIONING'FN ENGLAND * *
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| to put 'f
into eff< .'t in England soon, it was announced officially
HIGH COST OF REGISTER IN DELAWARE .1 .
*l* Washington, Jan. —An exhaustive report on the
of before Congress to- JL
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shal General Crowder. r* !*§*
J • brought down to detail for every tf
j p cultural pursuit, *)T
<. 9 tt ide. and it sho\vs clearly that no class y
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lj tary burd Th; large d cument is replete with map*. ,T
X r men enrolled in ich
T. state is iigured out. Delaware showed high cost at §l9, -Jl
and South Dakota low at $l3B. T -
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J THREE HIGH SCHOOLS CLOSED J
£ Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Jnn. 3.—Three ' \ the !**
eta 'ttj
X heart or the anthracite fields were closed to-day am! JL
▼, others may have t 'ban pupils because of a shortage of
£° coal. Authorities of the schools, which arc in Pitts- <i
ton and vicinity, have been unable to obtain even a srna'; JL
* supply of fuel. W*.
X HEAVY ARTILLERY ACTION ON AISNE FRONT J
fighting oc < urred dur*
J i n the night, especially on the Aisne front, in the region. T
X of L ndricourt ami Cavaliers De Courcy, in the sector •
T of T: :i. ons de Champagne and on the right bank of the Jf|
|* Meuse," says to-day's official report. "Two enemy raids, *•
mS 4 tf &£&
X one south of the Oisc. the other near Carnillet, were re-
•f pulsed completely." ; ~,
| MORALE OF SUBMARINE CREWS GOOD 3
4 Washington, Jan. 3.— Admiral Benson, chief of oper-
ations told the House Naval Committee to-day it was jf?
j4 folly to believe there was any loss of morale among Ger- X
Hb ITl3n submarine crews and that from information gath- j*
y* ercd from German prisoners he believed their morale was A
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|t the best in the German navy. T>
x ASH COLLECTORS ARE FINED '*f
4 Harrisburg—Fine aggregating $250 have been im- J£
j £ posri i!pen the Pennsylvania Reduction Company, rep
rv v. 1:3 4 :or. of f.sh collecting regulations, it
£ was announced to-day. * A
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£ STOCKS TAKE UPWARD TREND ,J
jf New York, Jan. 3. —Stocks took another decided up- |3
J ward spurt to-day. the reason most generally advanced 'X
T being the further signs of a collapse of the Russo
f Teutonic peace negotiations. Rails, which were slug- Z
. ' gish at the opening soon bounded forward, leaders gain
■J* ing 2 to 3! 1-2 points. !T
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X HOSTILE RAIDING PARTIES REPULSED **
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London. Jan 3.—"Hostile raiding parties were re
-4 pulsed last night south and southwest of La Bassee, •JL
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leaving a few prisoners in our hands." the war office re- ,T
" * ports The enemy artillery showed considerable ff
4* during the night east of Epehy."
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T TWO SOLDIERS FREEZE ON GUARD &
Newport News, Va., Jan. 3 —Two soldiers while do- 'X
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ing guard duty here arc reported to have been frozen to i*|*
" * death Saturday and Sunday night. Their death certi
* * ficates say they died in discharge of duty. i !
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