NIGHT EXTRA Coal Shortage Grows Worse in Harrisbmg T TRA HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • Btrtr-Jn&epcnscni • - * LXX.W No. 12 14 PAGE£ 15 PER CENT REGISTERED ENGLAND IS DEMANDING NEW TROOPS Between 420,000 and 450,000 New Recruits Must Be Raised at Once, Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service, Tells House of Commons; This Estimate Is Declared to Be an Absolute Minimum London, Jan. 14.—Between 420,000 and 450.000 troops must be raised at once in this country, Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of national service, told the House of Commons to-day. The minister said this was the absolute minimum, and that it might be necessary during the year to take men from civil life for the army. Sir Auckland said the government had de cided not to introduce conscription in Ireland ior the present, nor to c hange the military age limit. Great Britain and the colonies, he added, had raised 7,000,000 men. "Plain facts," said the minister, "do not .sup port the .statement that the armies are melting for the lark oir recruits and that recruiting has broken down. "The withdrawal of Russia means that ncrt less than 1,600,000 men will be made available on the western front, ' said the minister. "Notv withstanding Russia's defection, the re sources of the allies and America are sufficient to assure victory, and nothing but a psychological catastrophe can save the central powers.'' 15 PER CENT. OF REGISTERED MEN I IN FIRST CLASS! Local Boards Expect to See This Number Classified For First Call Harrisburg will have a good per centage of its 6,000 registered men classified in the first class for future calls for tlie National Army, to judge by. the figures arrived at to-day by members of the three local draft exemption boards, "who are working on the questionnaires, much of which liave been returned. Owing in great measure to the vast number of industries in this section ihere were many single young men "without dependent relatives." and much unskilled industrial and farm labor. Members of board No. 3 estimated that from 15 to 20 per cent, of the registrants, out of a total of " 2559 were fixed in the c?:is.s from which the first troops wilt be taken. About the same average prevailed at board No. I, out of a total of 1,078, nnd as for board v No. 2. of Pantang. it is impossible to give any approxi mate guess for the members of that hoard have not been able to get through with their list of 2,757 reg istrants. Only 150 have been passed on owing to the fact that some mem bers of the board have been xo press "(l for time that they could not at tend to the job. Many Appeals If this estimate of 15 to 20 per cent, is correct it does not mean that that number will eventually no, for the district board up at the Capitol was flooded to-day with appeals. Krorn board No. I, alone a bundle of [Continued on Page 7.] FIRST LIEUTENANT BE DRAFTED INTO SERVICE There milst be a lut of men in the Army suffering with toothache and yet in llarrisburg Is a first class dental patriot who cannot get down to the camps to lend a hand. Bince last August this expert with the drill and forceps orginally from a % western state but widely known ' here, has been waiting in Harris burg, armed cap-a-pie in his uni form of first lieutenant, with no place to go. Convinced that there would be an emphatic call for men of his pro fession he appUe4 la*t summer to , enter the service and received a SCHOOL BOYS AID IN ATTACK UPON CHICAGO DRIFTS Public Institutions of Learn ing Remain Closed While Pupils Battle With Snow Chicago, Jan. 14. An army of Workers estimated at more than 100,- 000, including 60,000 school boys, to day resumed the attack on the great snow drifts which for 48 hours tied up railroad traffic in this city and vicinity and caused what the health authorities termed an alarming shortage of fuel and milk. As an emergency measure the public schools of the city did not open to-day, the board of education having decided that the boys could render valuable service in clearing away the snow. Every ton of coal in the railroad yards was commandeered by County l-'uel Adnvnistrator Kaymond E. Durham a' ->rders were given to the railroads divert coal on tlie tracks t Ac most available yard or team t A. Stock trains started un loading /vith a semblance of unusual activity, but numbers of cattle and hogs were found frozen in the cars. Rochester Schools Close Car Service Curtailed Rochester. N. Y., Jan. 14. Be cause of the shortage of bituminous coal here all public, private and parochial pchools of the city, the University of Rochester, and the Theological Seminary will be closed to-day for an indetinite period. commission in the Jledical Reserve Corps. Ready to do his bit he wrote for orders to Washington and was amazed to get a reply that the gov ernment was overstocked with dent ists. At the same time, being in the service, he must wear the uniform and when fairly riddled with inquiry from curious friends, he linall.v called to-day at draft headquarters appealing there to be taken as a drafted man. It was the most curi ous case that had come up there and the board could only say that they have no authority to draft a man already .in. service and besides an officer. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARR 14, 1918. OF HARRISBURGERS ARE IN CLASS ONE KREIDER PLANS il TO AID MOTHERS OF U.S.SOLDIERS; Seeks Amendment of Insur- ] ance Law That Works Inequity to Aurands : I • POINTS OUT INJUSTICES I Dependent Parehts Have a ; ] Right to Government Aid For Sacrifice of Support Congressman ICrelder has intro duced in the House a bill which if; reported favorably by the commit- j tee on interstate and foreign com-! merce and passed, will correct what j appears to be a grave inequity in the! present war risk insurance law. j When this law went into effect thej general pension laws automatically 1 became obsolete. Under the old! pension laws, a mother who depend ed on her son wholly or in part for support and who lost that support i because of the death, of her son in line of duty was entitled to a pen- I sion. Under the war risk insurance law, i this mother would iot be entitled to I a pension unless she was a widow, the law only taking care of a "wid owed mother." i To Aid Aurands Congressman Kreider first noticed | this inequity in the law when he en- j deavored to obtain relief for the j mother of Karl Aurand, the first ! llarrisburg boy to give his life in I France, in order that "democracy! might life." Karl Aurand contribut- ] ed to his mother's support and dur- I ing liis service in the Army he! made an allotment of his salary tot her. During the last few months | the allotment was not so large, be- ( cause he was buying Liberty bonds,' but nevertheless he was assisting in no small way in the support of his mother and invalid father. Karl Aurand was a good soldier i and a good patriot and has been highly commended by his superior officers for the splendid showing he j | made at the front and for the sol- j dierly qualities and bravery display | ed in the engagement with the en emy which cost him his life. , it is without doubt the intention | of the government to aid parents of j I boys like this and yet under the war I I risk insurance act Mrs. Aurand Is I not entitled to a pension because she ! is not a widow—yet she is doubly j entitled to a pension as she must not | only care for herself but also her husband who is helpless because of | almost total blindness. The bill j I makes no provision at all for a "do- I I pendent father." Needed Amendment l As soon as Congressman Kreider i discovered this apparent flaw in the law he prepared and introduced a bill, the purpose of which is to amend the present law so that a dependent mother, whether she be a widow or not, a dependent father, or both parents shall be entitled [Continued oil Page 12.] WORKING ON VNCLE SAM'S NEW AIR FLEET HER JM Ik <sp^jr I •• t ■ •WOIPJCTNrt ON J<TF.W ySXK. FLEET <S>Comm. ./R.i/c A A. . Photo shows expert workmen reinforcing the landing gear of a-new airplane. The United States is doing everything possible to rush through thousands of planes for use on the battle front. The landing gear of an airplane must he able to withstand a greater hammering than any other part of the machine. This is due to. sudden and powerful blows received when a machine comes to earth. HICKOK LOOKS TO U.S. TO TAKE OVER ALL FUEL: Local Fuel Administrator Says 1 Situation Grows Worse > in This City GOAL YARDS ARE EMPTY! Light and Power Company) Plant Gets Only Tern- i porary Relief Snow to-night and to-inor- ! row was forecast to-day by j Weather Forecaster Domain for j this district. Slightly warmer I weather was said to be due this j evening. Zero weather .was avert ed yesterday, the mercury fall- ' ing only to twelve. With little letup in the cold ' weather promised, the coal shortage; in llarrisburg and vicinity remains] as serious as ever. Eight per cent. ; of the dealers in the city .are with- j out coal to-day, the Retail Coal Dealers' Association announced this morning, rush on the deal ers remains as strenuous as ever. In place of the thirty cars of coal promised by the Pennsylvania rail i roau for to-day, Fuel Administrator liickok was able to announce the arrival of only three ears of coal from tliat company and two from the Reading. Gates Coal Company and J. E. Dare Company each re -1 celved a car of coal this morning ; from the Reading Coal and Iron ! Company. Hoffman Coal Company j received two cars from the Pennsyl ! vania, and the Joseph E. Rhoads I Coal Company received one car of i coal. These offices were besieged | with eager buyers, and their dellver i ies are expected to consume the en j tire supply during the day. The j Gates Company announced that one j hour after the arrival of a 27-ton I capacity car of range coal this morning, fourteen tons of it were in j the bons of the consumers. The Harrisburg Railways Com | pany also is reported to have re ' eeived two cars of bituminous coal j this morning. Mr. liickok said that I there might have been arrivals of coal other than the few cars that I were reported to him, but the Retail | Coal Dealers' Association could re i port no other shipments. Mr. Hlckok said that the coal shortage is as suming a worse aspect than any time during the winter. He visited sev eral yards this morning, finding ! [Continued on Page 12.] GET AWAKE To the fact that Thrift Stamps at $4.12 NOW Will mean $5.00 January 1, 1923. up the Post master. BREACH is PARLEY IS II NOW LIKELY* I Rasso-German Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk Are Again Broken Off, Apparently; Final Break Not Unexpected in Petrograd; Armistice Extended Till February 18; ; German Military Leaders Hold Hurried Conferences By Associated Press London, Jan. 14.—Warning of the possibility of a final breach J in the Russo-German negotiations is the outstanding feature of | the current news from Petrograd. Meanwhile, according to the correspondent of the Daily Mail in the Russian capita!, the j armistice had been extended until February 18 and the Russian 1 delegation returns to Petrograd to-morrow, but the peace nego-j tiations will be resumed after an interval at Warsaw. Premier Lenine has returned to. Petrograd, and is reported to lie ■. taking an important hand in guid-j ing the negotlaUons with the cen- • tral powers, although avoiding the | limelight. The correspondent of the j Daily Mail says some extremists are i dissatisfied with Foreign Minister Trotzky's conduct of the negotia tions, thinking he is too willing to meet the German views, and they suggest Lenine take his place at fu ture conferences. (•ennaiis Confiscate Newspaper The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily News reports that the Germans are doing their utmost to COUNCIL HOPES TO PUT END TO TREASURY SNARL City Commissioners to Ballot oil Appointments at To morrow's Session Appointment of a city treasurer, city solicitor anil cjty assessor and action on the bid for ash collections received by Commissioner Hassler on Saturday, will be the important business before Council to-morrow morning. The ordinance providing regulations for garbage collections and another authorizing appointment of five.more patrolmen arid one ser geant on.thi police force, also will be called for final passage. The city treasurer appointment may necessitate a number of ballots because of the failure of the com missioners and the mayor to agree on anyone for the post. With the elimination of the names of a number of candidates because of private conferences and the decision of some of the members of Council to make an appointment from-a business in [Continucd 011 l'agc 7.] Germans Melt Statues From Belgian Cemeteries Washington, Jan. 14. —Uronze statues in Belgium cemeteries have been taken for war purposes by the Germans, according to official dis patches here to-day. A sea tf-timatfe of th i economic depreda tions oi* German invaders i liel- KUIII places the damage *.*u more than tight billion francs, of which 1,'.'10,000,000 "as ir. ?ksh up to last A rg'.Tt. GREAT TASK OF QUESTIONNAIRES With to-day, or possibly to-mor row, the intricate task of advising all draft men how to fill out their ques tionnaires will be finished in tho courthouse, and the lawyers of Ilaf risburg are being complimented for the speed and efficiency with which th'ey obliged the public. Other cities were not so lucky, for in many places not a single member of the bar volun teered. spoeded up to high voltage at all hours, day and night, the men ot law nevertheless had time to relish many a queer Incident which will be quoted In years to come. For a wholesale revelation of social condl- I stop fraternization at the front. He j | inte'rpretes that to mean that the Bolsheviki propaganda is having its! j effect among the German soldiers, j ! The Germans confiscate all copies; of the Fackel, a Russian newspaperj printed in German, containing a full account of the Brest-Litovsk nego tiations and other propagandist litc . rature. Notwithstanding this he adds, the German soldiers crawl across to the Russian lines every night to obtain copies of the paper secretly. A dispatch to the Times front Odessa describes the disorders at - Sevastopol in which sixty-two naval officers were killed in two days of | > [Continued on l'agc 10.] 'DRY' AMENDMENT LEADER OUTLINES PLANS FOR PENNA. All Parties Should Put Forth Strong, Clean Men Pledged to Cause, Says Clavpool Speaking before the Harris burg Rotary Club at its luncheon in the Y. SI. C. A. building to-day, the Kev. Dr. 10. V. Claypool, head ot the Anti-Saloon League In the twelve counties of Central Pennsyl vania, outlined the policies to be pursued by that organization for the adoption of the federal prohibition amendment at the hands of the next session of the Pennsylvania Legis lature. Dr. Claypool said there is no question of the approval of the [Continued on Page 12.] Quartermaster's Men Shovel Out Trains By Associated Press • Watertown, X. Y„ Jan. 14. A blizzard which has been raging in this section for the past forty hours was, still in progress at 1 p. m. to tiay, a foot and ahalf snow having fallen. Traffic on the St. Lawrence division of the New York Central is badly demoralized, the high wind having piled great drifts on the tracks. A large number of soldiers lirom the quartermaster's depart ment at Madison barracks is being used by the railroad to shovel out stalled trains. WEATHER FORECAST For IlnrrlaliurK mid vleinlt* : Snow anil somen lint warmer tH-nlsht, wllh lourNt Irmprrn • tire nltout 2(1 degrees; Tuesday mow or ruin mill narnirr. l-'or Eastern Pennsylvunlni <>noiv to-nlicM, mirmrr In nrkl por tion; Tuexdn y snow in north, "now or rain soulli portion, iviirmerj moderate south winds, probably Inei rnxliiK b.v Tues day. tlons, notions of economy and lack of intelligence, nothing like this questionnaire session was ever known. Among the incidents that set the lawyers into chuckles of genuine mirth was that of tho anxious.man who was evidently trying hard 'to provide some valid reason for keep ing ont of tho fra.v. finned down, however, at every turn, lie was about to give up when the question came up as to his wife's health. Friend wife was sitting right beside him and likely enough they had discussed this matter. . [Continued on l'occ 7.J Single Copv. 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA ? ' I LATE HEWS 4 **•<„, ■ i .""" M LOSES HEAVY 7 I Nc\y r . . d shippings reacted to low- T; est n the final hour. The plosin ; L $ K was heavy. Liberty 3 !-2's sold at 98.58 to 98.50, first * T V 4's t r v . 1 second 4's at 96.60 to 96.50 s*' ■ Wi H Pre ,- :., based upon unfavorable domestic conditions. 2 • f i v • leaders yielding Ito 3 points. 4 £ Sales approximated 450,000 chares. jg E Hunting ! tf-jUifagc of the Swcttbuck T M js* , 'V'" > 4 |§* Sok h t mtingijpn w-s totally de- <fi stro i.c < ther with twenty-three auto- j| & mobile ■ ;1 1, of $45,060. 3t . J | J HISTORIC MARKET HOUSE BURNED *f M T *i 4* Pnila The old centennial market house whicii ' *' Ju w ' j: '' md contained twenty-five meat stalls, 4 ! 4* v,v * •■l l ■ >in; a lef estimated at *f . <*?> * JL The property was recently pur- 4 '.JM jr chased m uunt 2 ,*| X GEANT NEWBERRY DEAD 4 A Reginald Newberry, 22. A 4 °* United States ambular c service, died last night o; T j* pneum comrades.'members of Buck- .A 4* ncl' 7 • ps, left camp last week, his illness 'JL $ 4> preventing cing wfth them. Two months ago 4 J T? ,c " 1 his home nd was married. The J. V js bridt 1 were bedside when he died. 4 J BO I KI IN STRONG POSITION !f 4* ' George W Buchanan, British ambassa- Jf* • *>f u Stockholm with a cor 4 J jjF* resp Daily News, says that the Bolshevii J; ' I<s* arc • ■ :1 ( - party at u>** I \ I A cnt • t" : ut. X• s * jy s '■< -10USAND OUT OF WORK . jM ( 4 —Several thousand men were out of • • ~ <4 w 1 iustrial plants and stores were with-* 4" M X out light motive power and 15,000 homes were de- Z • 4* P r ' vc 'oi li • dfy when three sub stations of 44 -J the Municip.il Electric Lighting plant turned off the elec trie curi au e f the coal shortage. ■ 4 X REMIER UNDER ARREST % H? Premier Joseph Caillaux who has been -X * lender im < tig uioii by the authorities in connection with 4 A IJ t h e ' I ranee, was placed under ar- V rest thi ninj;. , T 1 X TO REQUISITION SAILING VESSELS !| juisitioning of all American sailing A vessels forecast to-day when the Shipping Board re- 4 * V X l Ut - ot Commerce to report the loca -4j t'On Is. Secretary Rcdfield replied that 175 J ' with :rrgo carrying capacity of 425,000 2 X ton: ' ! ■" or adjatept to American territorial a , ~o* water . ' JL p ' * 1 !<£ COAL -I,Y AR BELOW NORMAL S . <4 IT. No - , A. H Smith, assistant director *■ m gene ■ . i • ted that more than 462,000 tons |3Jofcoa: bleat'tidewater to-day ample for the 2, /,>.* i T; 3' | ; r3f i<|* city's immediate needs—fuel administrators asserted that 4 -4f 4 ! -i* on ac< . the '.ifficulty in transportation, the actual |i jTjavailab!. ... :) \y w ,:s tar below normal. . '4* TRAWLER LOST 4 4* W -j 1 A lerican trawler, operating in ' XEaroMi • attrs been lost. Admiral Sims reported 4 '* | , ,B ' >s* the si k ,! li'tl -ve el to the Navy Departmer,: - H I to-day. ' n:cmb' f the crew were saved. T. ,!■ I G ;RMAN TRENCHES RAIDED ' 4 Jt. A *2 <4* 1 s " ches north of Lens were raided J night by Canadian troops who brought back pris- ** ■ • K goners, the ial from Field Marshal Haig | T to-day says. There were no Canadian casualties.* Near Mericourt, lierst of Lens, British soldiers were vic 4 4 # £ in patrol engagements. Elsewhere the night was 3' ■ t MARRIAGE LICENSES * #£ X. I'liilifi 11. Major, IMMMliurish, iiml s„ r ,ih Brultnkpr, llnrrln- ?, Ituriti \\ lllinin H. Ilrlslc; nml llnsrl U. Srlhrrl. llnrrialiurKi An- lr>v ('. Kn|i| nml IVaitli >i. Ilni>|>. IliirrUliuric; llnrviy o. Hrrhtcl, gi V Krt Hunter, mid Kniuiu A. Snydi-r, Hlllrr>liuri Ira H. Wclktr, ™ Akron, UHlo, nml llrrnlor M. Naltaer. I.ykcnH Innimhlp. i ' ' ' 'V
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