12 ALL NEWS OF T NEW FOREMAN'S SERVICE RECORD Conrad J. Bittner Began asj Machinist at Columbia; | Long at Enola Many congratulations have been received by Conrad J. Bittner on liis promotion to foreman of the Penn sylvania railroad enginehouse at Knola. Ho is frequently referred to is one of the most popular and ef- Sclent men in the company's em ploy. He resides at 936 North Second itreet, this city. Foreman Bittner is better known as "Cooney" Bittner. He has long been Identified in service and is recogniz ed as a big booster for the Motive Power Athletic Association, and a Haunch supporter of the Mutual Beneficial Association for Pennsylva-1 oia Railroad Employes. .Starts As Machinist He entered the services of the com- j pany as a machinist at Columbia, J February 12, IPOO, serving in thai j capacity until August 8, 1914. when ho was made special inspector for i fifteen days. On January 1, 1905, he became an Inspector at Enola at the] time the yards opened, holding that position untii December 1, 190S, when he was advanced to work dis tributor. On October 19, 1908. he was promoted to assistant foreman at Knola enginehouse, and held that po sition until his recent appointment. Reading Traffic Shows Still Further Improvement; Many Coal Cars Handled By Associated Press ISeadlng. I'a., .lan. 22.—A live-inch j enow which fell during the night will j again likely interfere to some ex tent with the coal traffic. To-day the | shipments again promise to be smaller j than usual. '•There is an improvement in the j anthracite region," said Uen'eral Su- j perintendent W. 11. Keffer, of the j Reading Railway, this morning be lore the snow ended. "Twenty-three trains of coal were moved out of the St. Clair yard Monday, hauling a total of about *9OO cars. There were thirty three trains on the Lebanon Valley and these hauled a total of 1,373 cars. Unless the snowstorm now sweeping over eastern Pennsylvania proves a barrier the situation in the Mahanoy region will be cleared up within the next forty-eight hours. "The number of cars handled on the Reading and llarrisburg Division yes terday was 11,000. This is about 5,000 ahort of the average when conditions are normal. The gain over the pre vious day was fully .".0 per cent, and that includes the Shamokin division. P. R. R. Stockholders Have Reached High Record Mark The number of stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad, for the first time in the history of the com pany, has passed the 100,000 mark, the exact number shown in the monthly statement made public to day being 100,038. Of these, 49,492 are women. The total number of stockholders has increased 9,650 last year, and the total number of wo men stockholders 4,555. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has outstanding 9,985,314 shares of stock of the par value of SSO each. All but 2.1 per cent Is now owned in the United States. The average number of shares owned by each stockholder Is 99.82. Discipline Bulletin Shows Several Suspensions In a recent discipline bulletin is sued from the office of Superintend ent Smith of the Middle Division, it is announced that 2 4 employes were reprimanded and 16 more suspended from one day to one calendar month for infractions against the rules and ! regulations. Four others were let I out of the service, one freight con ductor for violation of the rule "G" and previous bad record, a freight fireman and car repairman for con tinued absence without leave and one telegraph ground man for con duct unbecoming an employe. Women's War Relief Branch Holds No Tuesday Meetings Due to the fact that all halls in the -ity are closed to-day, the regular meeting of llarrisburg column. Penn sylvania Railroad Women's Division For War Relief, was not held. Meet ings are held every Tuesday and Fri day at the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Until the weekly closing orders are ful filled there will he no Tuesday meet ing of this branch for ten weeks. Railroad Notes Motive power conditions on the Reading are reported as Improving. Employes of the Pennsylvania rail road about the station received their pay to-day for the first part of Jan uary. The women of Dorcas Circle, auxil iary to the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, will celebrate their anniversary to-night. George B. Howand, head of the state legisla-< tive committee for the Trainmen will be the principal speaker. William E. Schell, clerk In the Bureau of Information at the Penn sylvania railroad station, who has been il'., was reported to-day as in a critical condition. L. C. Clemson. road fireman of en gines on the Middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad, who yester day celebrated his 69th birthday an niversary, received several hundred post cards and many congratulations by letter. Helster Dull has been made a sub stitute clerk at the Bureau of Infor mation of the Pennsylvania railroad during the illness of William E. Schell. Wilson and McAdoo Endorse Scout Move N'ew York, Jan. 22.—Letters writ ten by President Wilson and Secre tary of the Treasury McAdoo w#re made public here to-day endorsing the plans of the Boy Scouts of Ameri ca to "increase the organized boy hood" of the country through a campaign to raise $600,000 between February 8 and 12 and to organize a scout leaders' reserve corps of 100,000 men. TUESDAY EVENING, HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 22, 1918. OFFICIALS AT RUTH Y. M. C. A., PLAN BIG NIGHT warn 7 JT^^HBJHBi Bk HHraj r. Sparks said that the splendid war showing of the college was made ; possible by fifty years of "unconscious preparation for war" jit the institu tion. He emphasized the work done l by the college along the lines of mili tary instruction, engineering and agri culture, and called attention to the fact that the college, in response to i requests from the War Department, ■ was giving special aid in the manu , ifacture of war material and agricul tural production. Heavy Snows Cause Abandonment of Scores of Passenger Trains By Associated Press ,| Washington. Jan. 22. Heavy . snows over the entire east to-day 'compelled the abandonment of scores ! "f passenger train schedules. Locoino -1 lives so released were diverted to coal I; traffic. I All reports reaching the Fuel and • ! Itailroaci Administrations indicated ;iccal moving to Atlantic seaports in 1 adequate quantities to bunker ships j and to citias where domestic supplies ; I were low. •! The fuel Administration declared j plenty of empty cars were being de livered to mines in Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Ohio and coal regions, ■ji'iid that loading was going ahead s I steadily. Many mines' output was re ) strlcted to-day. however, by refusal . | of miners to work, or illness caused . I by cold weather. 'IKS, C. D. ItISHBI. Mrs. Alcenia Bishel, wife of the ' . Rev. C. D. Bishel. pastoi- of Enola Church of God, died this morning at 9 ' | o'clock. Hliort services will be lieli* at the home to-morrow night. The body will be taken to Philadelphia on • Thursday for burias-j tent of earth roads, which must re-1 main so because the state is a lready j tip to its ears in road expenses. Thei members were reminded by thei Governor that they always could I have recourse to the state bureau, for relief in case the local super-1 \ Isor refused to act. He said tna.tj to build a road in these days which ( will stand for vehicles of ten tonsj will cost $50,000 a mile and that the. State Highway Department is in a| "precarious condition." A Careless Nation From the topic of roads the Governor took up war gardens and | farming in general especially in con-1 junction with the various pests. He urged all present to work for thc| Weeks' bill now pending in Con-| gress, which--forbids the importa-j tion of foreign trees. He estimated j the loss from posts last year for the; whole country at sr, 00,000 000; blamed the Hessian fly for $00,000,-i 000 loss and $10,000,000 was charged] against the potato bug. "We are a most careless and in-j different nation," he cautioned. "We are generous and do not. worry, but now we must understand that only scientific progress and innovations! will keep up the farm to its full producing capacity. The girls on a farm should be trained to run these new tractors. There is no reason why the cannot engage in farm work. They are much better equipped than the city boy. Sooner or later the women of the farms will understand this and take their turn at actual cultivating. We must substitute the mechanical for hand power on the farm. ou can not count on help from the city. The tractor is the salvation of the farmer. You must also use scien-j tific knowledge as provided by State, College and the State Bureau. The; day has come when every farmer j must cast off old methods and get j this scientific working knowledge."] Differences Crop Up Indications that the differences of opinion between members of the board and officers of the State De partment of Agriculture over legis lative and administrative matters which have cropped out from time to tittie would be heard from when the time for adoption of resolutions arrived appeared immediately after Governor Brumbaugh had addressed the board. When Secretary Patton had fin ished his address he was asked by several .members Whether In his opinion the board had enough pow ers, while others intimated that they had heard it suggested that the board had outlived itn usefulness and that the Commission of Agricul ture had replaced it. Mr. Patton said that such matters could be dis cussed at the regular time. The board will act on resolutions to morrow. \ Tho board favored adoption of a | resolution calling for clearer defi nitions of the draft and arrangements to provide labor for farms. A sug gestion was also made that there should be a universal draft and meif be drawn and assigned to such work i as they courd do at adequate cont-j pensalion. i The State Poultry Association was informed to-day at its annual meet-I ing by E. B. Dofsett, chief of tliej state market bureau, that a new rul ing relative to breakage in shipment was to be made. New York ship pers addressed the association on marketing of eggs and these officers were elected. President. T. F. Mc-1 Grew, Scranton, president; E. B. Mitchell. Jr., Harrisburg, vice-presi dent; Frank McGrann, Lancaster,, secretary; E. E. Althouse, Sellers vllle, treasurer, and Messrs. Althouse, | Mitchell and McGrann, Fred H: j Stoneburn. Philadelphia, and James' MacDonnell, Sewlckley, directors. | Bitter Attack Made on Cambrai Report London, Jan. 22.—The Daily Mail publishes a two-column contributed 1 article vehemently attacking the government and the general staff in connection with the finding of the staff, announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday, that the Brit ish higher army command had not been surprised by the German at tack on the Cambral front on No vember 30, when the British lost part of the ground gained in the of fensive a few days earlier. The article says that the govern ment, under the pressure of the gen eral stafr, is hushing up the inci dent, while the Germans claim to have captured or destroyed 132 tanks and to have taken 9,000 men and 100 guns. The writer adds: "A particular army clique has had supreme military control for two years and has repeatedly failed to fulfill its own expectations and promises." The Mali editorially indorses the writer of this article, blaming the Karl of Derby, Secretary for War, and General Sir Will.am Robertson, chief of the gonej-al staff, whoso removal It suggests is desirable. It declares the public would llko to see a man of the type of Sir Eric Ged des. First Lord of the Admiralty, at the war office, __ _ Farm Tractors Will j Carry Flag to Victory, Is New National Slogan • "This tractor will carry the flag to victory. On the battle fields it is I pulling the big guns of destruction; I on the farm it is fighting the battle I against starvation. It is no exag geration to say thtat tthe fate of the i nation hangs on the success of the I tractor's universal use. The farm ' lractor will carry the flag tto vlc i fory." ■ This is the slogan that hits a man j when lie steps into the Emerson brantingham Building, where the State Horticultural Association be- LV ' av ltß annual farm products 1 . Nc , ver in thc history of Penn , sylvania have so many up-to-dato | machines been exhibited, machines tor saving labor and increasing the food product, of this Commonwealth. , , farmer has at last been con inced that this war can be won only by keeping up the supply of food and this exhibition in llarrisburg will be historic lor the impression it will make all over the country. Firms , , filr weMt ' the south, i.iti . '! 1 u,ul nearb y have sent the highest devoleped tractors of their visit 6 may bu se en by the ihJ •' U i show. Here you see the caterpillar," here the Frick Kerosene tractor, made in Waynes ou Hvr V lere tho "'most human oultlvator turned out by the Avery Company, of Peoria, 111. The latter 1.1,i£,. Y°-'' ow machine and it will (tilth ate about 16 to 18 acres a day. ' . ? ® a ' d Pennsylvania has lost at least 30,000 horses, sold to the and the neefl for 'arm men to fight is great. The only place m„,W Ce this loss ls by scientific methods, as suggested to-dav by i.overnor Brumbaugh in his address to the members of the State Board of Agriculture. The whole lower floor of the build vi?Jl K !! OVPr to these new de- mf^ e America a greater pro- Hnn n 1!" an bandits or revolutionists." The foregoing is a paruphrase of the official report from the com mander of the gunboat. O'Brien lived at 1214 Douglas street, Reading, Pa., and Donnelly l,y®f at 512 North Eighteenth street, Philadelphia. By Associated Press Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. —A Read ing man lost his life in the light of the United States war vessel Mon ocacy with Chinese revolutionists. Mr. and Mrs. John O'Brien, of this city, late last night received a tele gram from Washington announcing the death of their son, Howard L O'Brien. Scarcely six hours after re ceiving a letter from their son in far away China the telegram addressed to the widow, thought to be visiting here, but who is in Cincinnati, ar rived at the home of the parents from the NaVy Department. Mem ber:! of the family wired the sad tidings to the younj? widow. Deceased was 25 years of age and joined the service in January, 1910. His promotion was rapid un til he attained the rank of chief yeoman, which made him one of the youngest petty officers in the United States Navy holding such a position. In his last letter, sent from Shanghai, China, he said: "Leaving Shanghai for Tochow. 110 miles away, where more rioting has broken out." Farmers Are Urged to Prevent Loss by Selling Potatoes Now By Associated Press Whiladclphla! Jan. 22. The local food administration lias sent an ap peal to the farmer asking him to pre vent loss to himself later on by help ing the present wheat conservation movement through the release ol some of the vast quantities of pota toes still being hoarded. A shortage of wheat flour substi tute has made it necessary for th<> food officials to see that some cheap and abundant substitute is supplied, since the national food program calls for eleven wheatless meals a week Many potatoes now being received in this city are said to be culls Hundreds of bushels received here have frozen during the cold weather Kood officials state Hie supply of po tatoes still on the Pennsylvania farms is ample to take care of th needs of the city. Grocers Plan to Designate Fair Prices For Foodstuffs August H. Kreidler and S. H Schreekengost have been named as representatives of the Harrisburg Re tail Grocer's Association to confer with the local food administrator on the publication 6f fair prices a bul letin of which will soon be Issued at least once every week. Two more grocers, not members of the retail as sociation will be elected. In a brief address last night Donald McCormlck emphasized to the grocers that the food administration has'no power to fix prices but that the grocers them selves would be trusted to suggest fair prices. His remarks were agree ably received. TRADING LIMITED AT DAY'S OPENING With Exception of Rails, Many Substantial Gains Were Made at Day',; Opening; Liberty Bonds Eased Slightly N'ew York. Jan. 22.—Wa1l Street. —With the exception of railr. in which trading was limited and Irreg ular, many substantial gains were made at the active opening of to day's stock market. XKW YORK STOCKS | Chandler Brothers and Company, | members of New York and Philadel j phla Stock Exchanges 3 North Mar j ket street, Harrisburg; 1338 Chestnut j street, Philadelphia; 34 Pine street, New York furnish the following quotations: Open. Close. A'.lis Chalmers 19 19 American Beet Sugar .. 7i ■ 75 American ("an 36' 36'/ t American Car and Fdv.. 72% 71 American Locomotive . . 50 56 American Smelting .... S4 82'4 American sugar 103V4 104 American Woolens 46% 47 Ar.aconda 61% Atchison 83% 83 Baldwin Locomotive .. 00% 59% Baltimore and Ohio .... 50% 50% Bethlehem Steel (B) ... 76 7.1% Butte Copper 19 19 California Petroleum ... 18 15' i Canadian Pacific 140% 139% Central Leather 60 % 65% Chesapeake and Ohio .. 52 51 % Chi., Mil. and St. Paul.. 42% 42 Chino Con. Copper 43 43 Colorado Fuel and Iron. 35% 35% Corn Products 31% 31% Crucible Steel 55% 54 Distilling Securities .... 36% 36% Erie 15. 14% General Motors 112% 112 Goodrich, B. F 39% 40% Great Northern Ore subs 27% 26% Bide and Leather .... 13 12% Inspiration Copper 45 44% International Paper .... 28 28% ICenneeott Copper ....t. 33 32% Lackawanna Steel 76% 76 Merc. Marine Ctfs 23% 23% Mere. Marine Ctfs. pfd.. 90% 91% Mexican Petroleum .... 92% 90% Miami Copper 31% 31% Mid vale Steel 44% 4 4 New York Central 69 68% N. Y„ N. H. and H 29 29 N. Y., O. and W 18% 18% Norfolk and Western .. 103 103 Northern Pacific 82% 82 Pennsylvania It. R 46 46 Pittsburgh Coal 46 45% Railway Steel Spring .. 50% 50% j Ray Con. Copper 23% 23 Reading Railway 73 72% Republic Iron and Steel. 75% 74% Southern Pacific 82% 81% Southern Railway 22% 22% Studebaker 48% 48% Union Pacific 112 % 111% U. S. I. Alcohol 118% 120% U. S. Steel 91 % 90% Utah Copper 82% 82% Virginia-Carolina Client. 38% 39% Westinghouse Mfg 40% 40 J PHILADELPHIA STOCKS By Associated Press Philadelphia, Jany 22.—Stocks clos ed steady. General Asphalt 14 General Asphalt. Pfd 47 Lake Superior* Corporation .... 13 Lehigh Navigation 61 Lehigh Valley 55% Pennsylvania Railroad 45% Philadelphia Electric 25% Philadelphia Company 25 Philadelphia Co.. Pfd Bid 25 Philadelphia Rapid Transit .... 29*4 Reading 72% Storage Battery 49% Union Traction 40% United Gas Improvement 70 United States Steel 90% York Railways 8 York Railways, Pfd 31 One Meatless, Two Porkles s and Two Wheatless Days Weekly Washington, Jan. 22.—With a re newed appeal to American house wives for food conservation, the food administration will issue prob ably this week a new food card asking for the one meatless day, two porkless days and two wheatless days each week. It was stated there would be nothing compulsory about it for households. The food ad ministration will depend on house wives t6 accept the days of self-de nial "without the mandate of law. Tremendous Movement of Freight Reported Here N'ot since 1907 when a record was made for freight traffic on the Pennsy, has there been as great ac tivity as was reported yesterduy. With lines clear and motive power in good shape, thousands of cars loaded with bituminous and anthracite coal I were moved. Officials did not give any | tigures on the total number of cars] moved. From 12 o'clock midnight Sunday night until midnight last night it was one continuous rush of coal trains. They went over the main line and low grade line. Coal traffic was given the preference. To-day the officials were a little concerned over the snowfall. It was feared there would be another tie up. Trains were shortened in order to make time. Passenger trains were a secondary consideration and were run from fifteen minutes to two hours late. Track forces were out on the main line keeping the switches and yard clear. Violent Partisan Attack Rends Prevailing Unity Columbus, 0., Jan. 22. —"The vio lent attack rends that unity* which has made possible everything the President has asked; it will not be so from now on," declared United States Senator Warren G. Harding, referring to Senator Stone's political speech yesterday, in a statement given out here today at a meeting of the Republican State Central Ad visory Committees. L.IECT. BUCHANAN* IS FOUND DEAD Spartanburg, H! C„ Jan. 22. First Lieutenant Dean H. Buchanan, 186 th Machine Gun Battalion, of Grove City, Pa., stationed at Camp Wadsworth, was found dead in a lo cal hotel with a bullet hole through his head. VETERANS OK FOREIGN WARS WII'IJ MEET TO-MORROW NIGHT Howard h. Calder Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet to-morrow evening at the home of Ross A. Ful ton 1930 Green street. The Toadies Auxiliary will meet at the same place at the same time. IjECTURER T<> SPEAK AGAIN Frederick Paulding will give an other of his dramatic reviews to night at Cathedral Hall. It will be distinctive American Action, from Washington Irving, Poe and Haw thorne to Bret Hart and Mark Twain. .. . _ j PHILADELPHIA PHOUUCK By Associated Press Philadelphia, Jan. 22. Wheat Steady: No. 1, red. $2.27; No. 1, soft, red. $2.25; No 2, red, $2.24; No. 2, soft, red, $2.22; No. 3, red, $2.21; No. 3, soft, red, $2.10; No. 4. red. $2.17; No. 4, soft, red. $2.15. Corn Market nominal; No. 2. yellow, $2.35®2.40; No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5. yellow, nominal. Oats Market firm; No. 2. white, 94@95c; No. 3, white, 926®) 93c. Bran The market is steady: soft winter, per ton. $46.50®47.00; spring, per toll. $44.00®45.00. Butter The market Is unchanged; western, creamery, extras, 53c; near by prints, fancy. 57c. Eggs Unchanged; Pennsylvania, and other nearby firsts, freo cases, $19.80 CO) 20.10 per case; do., current receipts, free cases, $19,50 per case; western, extra, firsts, free cases, $19.80®20.10 per case; do., firsts, free cases. $19.50 per ease. Cheese Firm, with a good de mand; New York, full creams, 22® 26c. Live Poultry/"—Firm, fowls higher; fowls, 27®30c; roosters, 20f,j ®l9 V4c. Potatoes Market firm; New Jersey, No. 1, per basket, 75®90c (33 lbs.); New Jersey. No. 2. per basket, 40@60c; Jersey, per 100 lbs., sl.Bu @2.20; Pennsylvania, per 100 lbs.. $2.25®3.00; New York, per 100 lbs., $2.50®2.50; western, per 100 lbs., $2.25 ® 2.50. Befined Sugars —''Firm, but quiet, powdered, 8.45 c; fine granulated, 7.45 ©8.35 c. Flour The market is steady with a good demand; winter straight, slo.lo® 10.25; Kansas, clear. $9.75® 10.00; do., patents, $ll.OO @11.50; spring, firsts, clear, spot, $10.45® 10.60; spring firsts, clear, mill shipment, $9.75® 10.00; spring bakers, patent, spot, $1.40®11.60; spring, patent, mill shipment, $10.65011.05; spring family brands, spot, sll.oo® 11.25. Hay Firm, good demand; tim othy (according to location); No. I, large bales, $28.5rt(5)29.00; No. 1. small bales, $28.50ffj>29.00; No. 2, $27.00® 28.00; No. 3. $21.00® 25.00; samples, $19.00®21.00; 110 grade, $15.00® 17.00. Clover mixed—Bight, mixed, $27.00 5528.00; No. 1, $25.50®20.50; No. 2, $22.50® 23.50. CHICAGO CATTI.K Chicago, Jan. 22. Cattle Re ceipts, 22,000; weak. Native beef steers, $8.35® 13.85; stockers and feed ers. $7.00® 10.70; cows and heifers, $6.00® 11.75; calves, $9.00^)16.00. Sheep Receipts, 22,000; weak. Wethers, $9.70®13.25; lambs, $14.40® 17.60. Hogs Receipts, 50,000; slow. Bulk of sales. $ 16.35® 16.70; light, $15.75® 1G.60; mixed, $16.05®16.75: heavy, $16.00® 16.75: rough, $16.00® 16.20; pigs. $12.75®15.30. CHICAGO BOARD OF TR.IDK Chicago, Jan. 22.—Board of Trade closing: Corn—March, 1.24Z; May, 1.23%. Oats —March, 78; May, 75%. Pork—January. 47.1 May, 45.75. I^ard —January, 24.70; May, 24.95. Ribs—January, 23.95; May, 24.35. ' Col. Frank E. Ziegler Promoted to New Command Cftmp Hancock, Jan. 22.—Colonel Frank E. Ziegler, of Harrisburg. formerly of the Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, has been designated to succeed Colonel Ezra H. Ripple, dis charged on account of physical dis ability, as commander of the Machine Gun Colonel Thomas Blddle Ellis, former commander of the Sixth Pennsylvania Infantry, has been designated division officer of tho day to succeed Colonel E. H. F. Conrad, who also was discharged on account of physical disability. TIN PLANT HAS NO COAL The Balance Grosjean tin plant an nounces that it ls without coal w.lth which to resume operations to-night. Notice uf the time of resumption will be made public to-morrpw through the newspapers. WANTED: A RESPONSIBLE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE €| We are desirous of securing the partial services ot responsible men lo act as Resident Financial Corres pondents in the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, Lan caster, York, Adams, Cumberland, Perry and Juniata! * Q We prefer men established in Insurance or Real Estate lines or men already of banking experience—men of ac quaintance, character and ambition to enter the financial field on a highly profitable basis. CJ No particular experience in financial matters is neces sary to qualify for this position. An extensive acquain tance with local conditions and people is essential.