F'GET EXTRA— Severe Storm Ties Up Traffic of Entire Country —NIGHT EXTRA At HARRISBURG ifSllllt TELEGRAPH Mk 6tnr-JnDcpcnbcnt • • ** ' LXXXYiI Xo. 11 14 PAGES U. S. ARMY CAPTAIN SLAUGHTERS BANK CLERKS IN DARING THEFT RUSSIA BOWS TO TEUTON DEMANDS; RESUME PARLEY Trotzky Will Leave No Possi- hility in Fight For Peace Unutilized STOCKHOLM NOT CHOSEN 1 Ensign Krylenko Begins Cam paign to Raise Bolsheviki Volunteer Army Amsterdam, Jan. 12.—Leon; Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, at the conference at Brcst-Litovsk yesterday, said that in order not to leave any possibility in the tight for peace unutilized tlic Russian delega tion accepted the demand that, negotiations be continued at; Brcst-Litovsk. The chairman of the Russian dele- | cation said that in full accord with J their former resolution, the Russians! desired to continue the peace nego tiations, quite apart from the fact) whether or not the entente powers: participated. Trotzky said lie had noted the | statement of the central powers t'hat 1 the basis of a general peace as form- j nlated in their declaration of De cember 25, was null and void, and I . added: ■ "We adhere to the principles of ■ ' democratic peace as proclaimed by; Bolsheviki Army to Combat Foes at Home and Threaten Germany l.ondon, Jan. I".—The call of Kn-! sign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki com-, mandcr-in-chief, for volunteers for a Russian army, according to the 13ol [Continued on Paso ".] Technicality May Prevent Letting of Camp Curtin Contract .V spe.-ial meeting of the City School , Board has been called for Monday af- J ternoon, when the directors will act I on the recommendation of the board's) solicitor, M. W. Jacobs, that all bids | lor the Camp Curtin building re-, modeling work be rejected because of a technicality in the specifications. According to board officials, Kolici- j tor Jacobs advised them not to sign ! the contract which had been awarded ; to C. W. Strayer, of Lemoyne, beeaute i of the requirement in the speeifica- j tions. It was explained that the Su-I !>remc Court has declared It illegal to r.dvertiso for bids fcr work and not' specify the time the contract is to be ' finished. The specifications for the ]< modeling of the Camp Curtin school ; did not make this requirement, but Wave each contractor the right to state the time he would require to! finish the work. Secretary 1). I). Ilammel'oaugh will probably be au thorized to readvertise for bids. k Baby Scalds Itself to Death by Pulling Pot of Boiling Soup Off Stove Nick Kjcvak, . tlfteen-month-old son of Tomo Ljcvak, of Gnhaut, died last evening from burns received when he pulled a pot of hot soup over his body. The chili', was badly burned. The mother had been preparing the meal and was not paying close I attention to the youngster. The ! baby, attracted by the steam pour ing out from under the pot. lid, made his way to the stove, and not satisfied wjth the view from the floor, managed to pull the pot of boiling soup over to the edge. The kettle toppled over on the child, scalding the left side of his body from head to foot. NAVAL GUN CREW HELD OFF U-BOAT ATTACK F Washington, Jan. 12.—How the naval gun crew of the American steamer J. L. Luckenbach success fully fought off for four hours the attacks of a German submarine un til a destroyer which went to the steamer's rescue forced the U-boat to submerge, is told in detail to-day in an official account by the Navy Department. M The engagement described took * place on October 19 while the ves sel was enroute to a French port. The U-boat subjected the merchant craft to a heavy shell fire that in jured seven men. started a small bla::e aboard and temporarily put -> engines out of commission. POWER COMPANY MAKES APPEAL FOR MORE COAL Plant Must Have Fuel Ininie-i diately to Keep Boilers in Operation 1 SHE TEMPORARY RELIEF | Many Dealers Besieged Willi Orders Arc Unable to Get Pound of Anthracite The Harris!; ui's; .Li&lit and l'ower Company's plants are facing: a serious J curtailment and at the worst a shut down if the shipment of bituminous coal that is now overdue docs not j arrive by the llrst of the week. The I company, which generates power for : city lighting, and most of the big: in- ' dustrial plants in city now s ' using its last reserve. | C. M. Kaltwasser, manager >f the j , company, has boon In constant eoni ; municatlon with Washington and , with several coal operators. Ap-i J peals have bcon sent of Dr. Gar- I field, national fuel administrator, to | expedite shipments here. Temporary relief to prevent R shut down in case the supply does not ar ' rive is hoped fur by Mr. Kaltwas- i [Continued on Page .I.] j K. OF C. DRIVE I SURE TO REACH QUOTA TONIGHT ' Fund Is Little Short of *25,000 Total Set as the Goal Canvassers lor the Knights of ! Columbus are making their last ; campaign day a busy one. The city will easily raise its share of the i •$2.1, 000 alloted Dauphin county. The ! figure at noon to-day for Ilarrfsburg j was $19,472.47. In all likelihood Steelton will I reach $1,750; Williamstown, $500; I Lykens, SSOO, and other sections of | the county $1,500, so that only about . $1,500 must be raised before the j campaign ends to-night in order to j get the required $25,000. | Campaign headquarters in the | Kunkel building will be open Mon [Continued on Page 12.] Harris House Under Quarantine; Well-Known Men Are Vaccinated J Prominent business and profes sional men were caught in a small pox quarantine to-day at 1.30, when i health officers swooped down on the | Harris House, Third and Strawberry streets. Officers went there to make inquiries regarding those present w hen James Milligan. a liquor dealer , | who has smallpox, visited the hotel 'lon Thursday. While making inquiries it was dis | covered that Boyd Davis, of Mid i dietown, employed as a waiter, had smallpox. The place was closed im | mediately and patrolmen placed on I the outside to prevent persons from | entering or leaving until the health | officers gave permission. Dr. A. 54. Ritzman, health officer, land David H. lillinger, or tlio health department. immediately ordered i everybody present to prepare for | vaccination. All complied after which they were permitted to leave the place. , Davis has been ill since Christmas week. He was absent from work yes terday, and when he returned to-day he showed marks of the disease. "Don't surrender." Hashed the commander of the American de stroyer who caught the Lucken bach's distress call. "Sever' 1 was the laconic reply. All members of, the armed guard have been commended by the Navy Department for gallantry in action and the commander has been given the temporary warrant of boatswain in recognition of his service. The oral accoupt follows: "At 7.30 a. JU. the after lookout on the Luckenbach reported a steamer abeam. The commander of the armed guard sighted her him self about one point forward of the [Continued on I'ngc Ift.] lIARRISBURG, PA.,SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1918 USES AXE TO HACK FOUR MEN TO DEA TH Camp Funston, Kan., Jan. 12. —Kearney Wornall, of Kansas City, the only survivor of five men who were in the army bank here last night when the institution was robbed, to-day told the authorities the robber was an army captain whom he recognize dit was announced this after noon. It is understood he gave the officer's name. Camp Funston, Kansas, Jan. 12. i Military police within the canton-j ment and officers of surrounding | towns and cities to-duy were search- ' ing for the men who last night j Killed with axes four men ai\d seri ously wounded another in the army bank on tlit: reservation here, and obtained an amount of money as yet unstated, and several Liberty J I ends. One of the robbers, it is | stated, wore tlie uniform of a captain I of the t'nited States, but officers do not believe a soldier was involved in commission of the crime. The bodies of tlic dead men are said to have been literally hacked to pieces. Dead Men Were Prominent The dead arc: FUIVTON WiNTBW, Vtce-TMvm dent of t!ie National Bank of Kansas City, Mo. JOHN \Y. JIOWHTJIJ, of Springfield Mo., editor of the Camp Funston Trench and Camp, and associate owner with his father. 11. S. Jewell, of the Springfield Header. CAKL OIiIiKSON, 19. son of Andrew Olileson, contractor of Kansas City, Missouri. O. M. lIII.L. clerk in tile bank. Kearney Wornall, cashier of (lie Army Bank, was seriously wounded. When tiie murders and robbery were discovered lie was the only one of the j live victims conscious, but he has not CITY POLICE TO REGISTER ENEMY ALIENS ■ All Male Germans Over Four teen Years Musi Go on Record | The, police are preparing to regis ter all enemy aliens in the city, Chief I Wetzel said this morning. The head I of the department has received notice from the Department of Justice at i Washington to prepare for the regis ! tration of all male enemy alien resi | dents. Registration days will be from February 4 until February 8. i between the hours of 6 a. 111. and p. m. The registration includes all j alien enemies over fourteen years | of age. I Chief Wetzel announced this morning that he has received from ! Washington notification that all ' police chiefs in cities whose pofiula- I tion is more than 5,000 are the chief registrars of their district, which comprises in a city the entire police precincts. in rural communities, the postmaster is the chief registrar, i and the district comprises the post ! office precinct. Must Kcport The communication to the chief ; of police requires that notice of the i registration be given in all local | newspapers, and that members of | the police force . act as assistant registrars. Aliens, after they are registered, are termed as registrants. The registrants will be required at j stated intervals after their registra i tion to uppear and report on their j activities during that time and notify of changes of addi esses. When registering, the alien enemy I must make an affidavit to all his statements, and furnish four photo- I graphs, and allow the police to take I his linger prints. The photographs j must not be larger than three inches square, and must have been taken ] recently. After his registration, the | registrant is given a registration [Continued on Page 12.]- 13 Burned in Fire at Dwight Indian School Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 12. Thir teen Indian boys were burned to I death early to-day in a fire which j 'estroyed the boys' dormitory of I ')wight Indian Training School at Marble City, Okla., forty miles south east of here. Over 100 boys es. caped, scantily clad, in the bitter cold. | yet been able to give a lucid story of | the occurrence. Seatry Heard tiroann The robbery and murders occurred, ' it is believed, shortly after 7.30 o'clock i last night. A half hour later a sen lie heard groans and investigated Mr. Winters was still alive. He was removed to the camp hospital, where he died early to-day. Immediately a guard was thrown | a.bout the camp and all military ; passes were revoked. No one could | go about the camp without being j challenged and taken to the guard house. liarly to-day it was reported that an Army officer with a police dog that is being trained for war work had followed a trail sonic distance to an interurban car line. That appar ently was the only clue. In t enter of Cantonment The Army Bank, a branch of the National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo., is eirtisrted tn inrtWIWW the huge cantonment. It is housed in a small frame building and Mr. Winters was at the bank to supervise moving the bank to larger quarters. Ohleson bad been sleeping nightly at the bank and Mr. Jewell canie to take the other men in his motorcar to their sleeping quarters. William lluttig, president of the National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, of which the Army Bank is a branch, said reports of the amount of money in the robbed bank had been exaggerated. He could not give the exact amount on hand, but said that generally it was SIO,OOO to SII,OOO. SNOW AND WATER HOLD BACK ALL TRAFFIC IN CITY Streets in Worst Condition of Winter Following Storm of Snow and Rain A heavy storm followjng in the wake of a storm that covered the streets with three inches or snow and sleet to-day put the streets of the city In the worst condition of the winter Traffic was Held up for hours and pedestrians were forced to wade through water three inches deep. Demands made upon the Harris burs Railways Company were the heaviest of the season. Thousands ot persons who ordinarily walk to work piled into the cars which already were carrying hundreds of . women with baskets to and from market. Trafllc on the XOnola line of the Valley Railways was cut off when a feed wire broke near Pine's Corner. [Continuetl on Page 11.] British Destroyer Sunk With All on Board London, Jan. 12.—The British de stroyer Kucoon struck rocks off the Irish coast on Wednesday and found ered, it is announced officially. The Racoon was built in 1910. She was 266 feet long and displaced 915 tons She was armed with one 4. inch and three-inch guns, and two torpedo tubes, llernormal comple ment was 105 men. Seventeen bodies have been picked up by patrol craft and are being buried at Rathmullen. Kive more bodies were washed ashore :ind they are being buried locally." ——— N $4.12 Put into Thrift St am ps tonight at post office or store means $5.00 On Jan. 1, 1923 And \ ou'll be glad. NEW FIRM ASKS $84,000 A YEAR TO COLLECT ASHES' Only One Ridder Seeks City, Contract For Sixty-Three , Month Period ! MAY READVERTISE NOWj Price Asked Is Twice Sum City Commissioners Esti mated It Would Cost Only one hid for the collection and I disposal of ashes after the present 'contract expires, was received to-day iby Comnl*"sio.ier Hassler, the firm j asked $7,00 a month, or $441,000 for I a 63-month contract, i' According to Commissioner Hass i ler the figures are far above the csti- I mate made when the 1918 budget 1 was prepared, but he said he will j submit the bid to Council for action, j The firm submitting the proposal is j : said to be financed by local interests j entirely and signed tlie name Stees,' Simonetti & Company. A certified; check for $47,250 was Included with j the proposal. It is probable that bids will be i [Continued on Page B.] < Expert Reviews Civil Service Rules and - Would Make Changes j 1 farrisburg's police civil service i regulations drawn by the local civil j service board for the examination of< applicants for positions in the de partment have ben reviewed in detail by Clement J. Driscol. the expert, j who recommended civil service regu lation in his survey of the Harris j burg police department made I through the Chamber of Commerce I last year/ Several important changes in the rules are suggested and tne Chamber tis urged to petition tno next L.etjts j lature to amend the State law so I that the major faults may be re moved from the local rules. That the act does not provide for promotion of men m t|pj s -rvico is the principal fault Mr. Driscol hnds. Patrolmen should understand, Mr. Driscol points out, that promotion comes to thj >r>an whose tn-iustrv warrants it. This would assure am bitious m v r. *.at thav have a before them in the department. He also recommends that the tgo limit I be reduced from between twenty-five and thirty-five years to twenty-one and twentyfive years. The minimum | height also, lie said, should be re ( duced from tlve feet six inches to j live lcet. A probationary period of six months also should be provided j for so that a man could be dis | charged at the end of that time If he does not prove fit. Smallpox Is Reported From Chambersburg A number of new cases of small pox have been reported to-day to the State Health Department. They have all been traced to points outside of the state, several cases coming from Cleveland. Ohio. Krie is seriously threatened with smallpox by a series of cases coming from several points in Ohio and New York. Daniel Smith, Chambersburg, a new center for the disease, left Cleveland on Decent j her 22. France Will Not Join in Russian Conference Washington, Jan. 12. France will not join in the peace conference ' at Brest-Litovsk, Stephen Pirhon, foreign minister, has announced. Trance will have no peace negotia -1 tions with the enemy until they makr> • direct proposals. The French gov ernment has refused to issue pass ' ports so that French-Socialists might > go to Petrograd. HARD HEARTED CONTRACTOR WRECKS THE John Newton, Grand Exalted Hot Cat of the Ancient and Honorable Order of the Sons of Rest, announced to-day that he and his fellow members were through. "We've been hanging around this Penn Harris hotel for two months," announced Mr. Newton, "waiting for them to do something we Jiadn't seen before. They ain't doing it —at least not where we can see it. They won't let UH in the building. Last night they got a Third street oar off the track ut Third ai\d Walnut, (he crew did, and there wasn't one of us around to see it. It took min utes to get It back on. A couple of weeks ago they had a lire in .t con duit at Third and Walnut—the wires did. but It was late at night, too, and not one of us saw it." 16 KILLED AND 100 INJURED IN ALABAMA STORM Tornado Sweeps Over South, Paralyzing Wire Service, and Cutting Off Cities CIII CA G O IS ISOLATED Discomforts Due to Cold and Rain Reported From Camp Sheridan / fly Associated Press Atlanta. Jan. 12.—With the en-J tiro South ill the grip of the worst) snow and sleet storm of the winter | to-day, early reports showed thatl tornadoes which swept throughj eastern Alabama and central i Georgia had taken a toll of sixteen' lives and injured more than one j hundred persons. Wire comnmnica-! tion over a great area was paralysed, I scores of small towns in the interior! being isolated while Savannah,: Charleston, Jacksonville and other cities along the South Atlantic coasti were cut off from outside communi cation. • The deaths and injuries reported early to-day were as follows: Cownrts, Ala., seven killed and twenty-live injured. Dothan, Ala., six children killed and forty injured in collapse of schoolhouse in country near Dothan. Webb, Ala., one killed and esti mated seventy injured in destruc tion of store and other buildings. Troy, Ala., one killed and several Injured. Macon, Ga., one killed at Ctunp Wheeler and several injured. Discomfort's due to cold and tor rential rains were reported from Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga., and Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala. The tornado which at Camp Wheeler blew down some sixteen hospital tents containing about 100 patients and heavy rains flooded other tents. ' Private Harris, of Atlanta, was re ported killed in the collapse of the [Continued oil Page 2.] 60-Mile Gale Sweeps Lynn; Falling Stack Kills Three I Lynn, Mass., Jan. 12.—A sixty-mile ; gale that came out of the northeast j with unexpected fury swept >ver the ' waterfront section here to-day and sent a big brick smokestack crash ing through the roof at the Sprague Box Company plant on Broad street in which 200 men and women were at work. Three were killed and more than a score injured. Ambulances and automobiles car ried the injured to hospitals and i homes and it was impossible to esti | mate the exact number. The accident happened during a | driving rainstorm which made res ; cue Vvork more difficult and the j plight of the injured more uncom fortable. Baker Disapproves Munitions Director Washington, Jan. 12. Estab lishment of a munitions director was disapproved to-day by Secretary Baker in testifying before the Sen ate Military Committee who said the reorganization of the war depart ment is virtually similar to the Brit ish munitions purchasing system. | WEATHERFORECAST ■ For IlnrrlnburK and vicinity: I-'alr and much colder to-nlicht and Sunday, with a severe eold travel lowmt temperature to night about S degrecM below rero. • For Kastern Pennsylvania: I'nlr and much colder to-night anil Sunday, with a severe eold nnvfi temperatures below zeros northwest Kales. ti "Why don't you put on a night • | turn?" Mr. Newton was asked. j "Ain't • got enough men any ' more." 5 1 "How's that?" ■ "Well, we got to kidding ICd James , and a lot "of the others about not , i working and they went over to the | Ponn Harris contractor and made " believe they was looking for jobs." tj "Well." tj "Do you know what that oontrue- M tor did?" asked Newton. "He said tj he had good army jolm for them fj and signed them up to go to Trance. - j Hut when he told them what the fi jobs were the whole doggon crew ■j lumped town." f; "What did he offer them?" • ; "Quick repairs to machine feuns i! that Jam in action," groaned New , j ton. "So he pretty near euslod thet Sons of llest." Single Copy. 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA | ■ LATE NEWS f * ' :# if* ' "2k. TO COLLECT BINOCULARS M | Philadelphia, Jan. ! ?. —Piano- have ben completed by |* 2 Ju Lewis ,E. Beitler secietary of the Pennsylvania Com- 'clock this afternoon because of lack of coal. Ui 4* £ *s* CLOSE CIITCAGO SCHOOLS FOR *$ A WEEK TO SAVE COAL <| I £ # Chli go-—An unprecedented-order closing the public § 'schools all next we-k cn account of the cold and show *§* $ C 'L 11 -cccssity -' \i •; fuc'. and i tilling, --non 60,000 |J male pupils to he)p meet the snow problem, was Issued Jk *V late tq-day by Edward Davis, president of the Board Of * £- § COLD TO CONTINUE *?♦ Washington—Weather predictions for the week be- *f® ' *| ginning Sunday is-.iod by the Weather Bureau to-day arc Below zero temperatures Sunday, continuing Monday, X I 3* followed by a slow rise that will continue for several .<§► days. Some prospect of rain or snow toward end of the § week. |X STORM DRIVES STEAMERS AGROUN'D 4. Newport New l , V,>.—The sixty-mile gale which s*e;n Ijjb this . lav.t night drove three ocean steamers agfou'nd ' iX in ,1; ' r bor Jiere. The -:hips are hard fast but none v. 2 !jk thought to b" in seriou:. danger. • ' *v EXPLOSION KILLS MANY £ HalmeVend,. North Staffordshire. England—An ex- ® 1 *s♦ *S* !4 P<->" ' ■ ur * Pari: Violent artillery fighting on the Verdun fro.. V Hs* <•%* is reported by the War Office. || J CREDITS TO ALLIES $4,238,400,000 *?? -4#' Wa hington--Total credits to the allies were raised 3 \-h L to-day to $4,238,400,000 when Secretary McAdoo author- \i ized a loan of $2,000,000 to Serbia, making toU 1 "P pP |4 $6,000,000. • t|* COURT REFUSES NEW TRIAL | Os..'7'tf, N. II —Chief Justice Ki el of the Superior w 9 Court ' > day dismis-ed .1 petition for.- new trial asked X X 1 for by Frederick L. Small, sentenced to be hanged at Con- *p *§* ' ji cord Tuesday for the murder of his wife. Formal noli fication of' the court's action on the petition was sent to *?* the clerk of court of Carroll county here, where Small ' £ |X was convicted a year ago. if TROOPS RAID ENEMY TRENCHES 4 <( M London—"Early this morning our troops success fully raided the enemy's trenches cast of Loos, cttptur sins$ ins a few rriso i4 MmLickNStT"- Hurry Bonn lioi-hrnoiir nn ( | Anna I-. IU>, Ilnrrinburci tdim ! —'♦ >i|lrk 11 ml nr> Vehmrltner, Krrrmnn M. HeUclh. ' ralrvlcw, mi,l ( 111 hi-riur 11. Heck. lOnulin John 11. Ilrnhrlch J mill lliirlinrn I'lnxiii, Mevltom .loi-pli IT. 1. 1im.-rlvh. UnrrlHlMirß, ,-Ji mid torn A. Walter, Mtlrenuinoloti■■ i (itrif lleee iinil Anna I'up, , irurrlHl>uri I*nnl l>. I.el> mi,l M.vrl 11. Mhnirer. Ilnllfnx; Klmrr M. * Siodfr, I nlon I><-|m nII. anil Slur.* li. UnKheH. Ilerxhe).