NIGHT EXTRA— ltalian Forces Victorious Over Austrians—Nl 'l\ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M ®l)t otar-Jn&cpeni>cnt LXXXVII— No. 26 16 PAGES FLOODS CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE: NEW STORM THREATENS TIE-UP GERMAN AIRMEN AGAIN ATTEMPT 1 TO BOMB LONDON^ Fail in Effort to Reach Me-: tropolis, but Attack Suburbs CHILDREN ARE VICTIMS Enemy Raiders Made No Ef fort to Destroy Military Objectives By Associated Press London, Jan. 30. —In last night's air raid bombs were dropped at var ious places in Kent and Essex, it is announced officially. There were sev eral aerial engagements. All the British machines returned safely. German airmen, as far as could lie learned early to-day. failed last niglit to penetrate to the heart of London. Bombs, however, were dropped in the suburbs. The enemy raiders during the past two nights did not succeed and ap parently did not attempt to bomb any military objectives. They merely attempted to kill civilians and a ma jority of the victims, as usual, were women and children. The official statement follows: "A number of attacks were de livered aguinst London by hostile airplanes last night, between 10 p. in. and 12.30 a. m., but in no case did the raiders penetrate into the capital. The first enemy machine [Continued on Page 13.] TWO AMERICANS ! KILLED IN ITALY BY TEUTON BOMBS William Piatt and Richard Fairfield, Attached to Red Cross, Arc Victims Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 29 —-Two Americans attached to the Red Cross were killed at tyestre Sunday night by bombs dropped by German raiders. They were William Piatt and Richard Cutts Fairfield. First Americans Killed They were the first Americans to be killed on the Italian front. Their addresses are not available here. "*ne is believed to be from Pennsylvania. They har not enrolled in the Ameri ci'.n organization, having enlisted previously in the Wynne-Bevan branch of the British Red Cross. Piatt and Fairfield had just ar rived at a lied Cross hospital on a motorcycle when the raid began. Five bombs fell in the courtyard of the hospital, killing four persons and wounding a number of patients. The Americans were killed outright. One received a fragment of a bomb i*i the heart, while the other was struck t-j three fragments, in the head .stomach and legs. Funeral at Mestre The funeral of the victims of the raid was held at Mestre to-day. American flags and floral offerings covered the caskets of the two [Continued on Page 13.] ONE GROUNDHOG THAT WON'T SEE HIS SHADOW SATURDA Y L. F. Piatt Banks on His Training of Household Pet to Bring Early Spring Ilarrisburg, at least, will be in sured of an early spring and fine weather after next Saturday. A man up at Marysville, L. F. Piatt, auto mobile dealer, ' writes to the Tele graph to-day that he lias a trained groundhog; raised him from a pup, or whatever a groundhog is in youth, and he will take care that this reliable prophet does not see bis shadow. Everybody in Marysville is banking on this groundhog. There is no chance of him being frozen up by the snow and failing to tip off the weather, for Piatt keeps him near the furnace, wrapped p in a good sweater and wearing artics. "If all the groundhogs in Amer lee freeze up, this one won't," writes Piatt. "We got him last spring when a neighbor's dog killed the THOUSANDS RIOT IN BERLIN SHOPS, LONDON REPORTS Dissatisfied With Peace Par ley 90,000 Workmen Strike in Germany MEETINGS PROHIBITED Finnish Revolutionists Have Set I*]) a Government of Their Own By Associated Press London, Jan. 30. While some morning newspapers feature Swiss and Dutch dispatches representing the strikes in Germany as being on a great scale, the Rotterdam cor respondent of the Daily News warns against an exaggerated idea of the size and importance of the indus trial upheaval. Other newspapers report that the workmen in forty war material factories in Berlin alone have struck and that many strikes elsewhere have, been ac companied hy grave disturbances. Dissatisfaction with the progress of the peace negotiations and Prus sian electoral teform, German work men have brought about serious strikes in Berlin and other parts of the empire. The German govern ment has begun repressive meas ures and has ordered the arrest of [Continued on Pago 10.] DANGER OF MEAT FAMINE PASSES, DEALERS CLAIM Sufficient Supplies Now Ar riving to Care For City's Immediate Needs Harrisburg wholesale and retail meat distributors this morning de clared without any hesitancy that | Harrisburg is in little immediate I danger of a meat shortage. | This was the reply of all dealers I when informed of the message re- I ceived in this city from State Food Administrator Heinz, warning deal ers to conserve their supplies and distribute them with regard to a future shortage. Wholesale and re tail dealers announced that there is no need now for the public to become alarmed. Owing to the Monday blizzard and snowstorm, all eastern cities suffered [Continued on Pago 12.] Shortage of Barley Supply Brings German Brewing Industry to Standstill By Associated Press Zurich, Jan. 30.—The Allegenieinc Zeitung Fuer Braurein (General Ga zette for Breweries) says that the supply of barley for German brew eries will be stepped, thus bringing the whole brewing industry to a standstill. Not even beer for the army will be produced, the periodical declares. Til measure is said by the publica tion to be due to the exceedingly bad harvest of oats, necessitating the use of barley for fodder for army horses. mother. The hunter gave the infant groundhog to my little girl. lie was very small and we had to teach him to eat by placing a drop or two of milk on his nose, and finally he learned to suck tiny pieces of bread soaked witli milk. He comes out of his warm nest every day for bread and milk, jelly bread, canned cherries, peaches and any kind of fruit. Then he plays around with the cat. rolling on the floor with her. He takes a good squint at the sun every day and some times eats a little snow. lie is very fat and lively, and though a groundhog he has never been on the ground, but he looks wise, and he will know enough to keep out of the sun, even if it does shine next Sat urday." HARRISBURG, PA.,WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1918 HEAVY SNOW UKELY TO AGAIN TIE UP ALL CITY TRAFFIC Snow, starting to fall at 2.30 this| afternoon, threatens to paralyze all i vehicular, street car, and steam rail. | way service in Harrisburg by night, i Street railway companies, and the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad officials, are preparing to put in the most stren- > nous night in the history of the city, | to avoid complete tieup of all out- j side transportation during the next: 12 hours. In addition to the new snowfall, j the prediction of the weather | bureau office is that vehicular and] railway traffic in the city will be! paralyzed by a sheet of ice, as the* storm is expected to turn into sleet 1 towards morning. Temperature will remain below zero. Xo hope is held out for a thaw , after the storm, zero or even colder ' weather following directly In tliej wake of the storm. To-morrow | night or Friday morning, the city I Senator William Hughes, Well Known Legislator, | Dies at Trenton Hospital Trenton, N. J., Jan. SO.—United ; States Senator William Hughes, of Patcrson, dieil here to-day at 10.15 a. m., at a hospital where lie. had j been conllned for several weeks suf- I fering from septic poisoning resulting from an affection of the teeth, fol lowed by bronchial pneumonia. Senator flughes was born in Ire land, April 3, 1872, and had a meteoric rise to political fame. Edu cated in the public schools of Pater son he later worked in the silk mills there. Studying nights he became a stenographer and in 1898 enlisted in the Spanish-American war. lie was admitted to the bar in 1900 and became prominent as counselor for Paterson labor organizations as a result of which he was sent to Con gress for eight years. In 1912 he! was chosen United States senator as' a Democrat, taking his seat on' March 4, 1912. Senator leaves a widow and two daughters, 16 and 8 years old, Washington, Jan. 30.—Senator A\ m. Hughes died to-day word reached the White House. President Wiilson to-day sent to Mrs. Hughes the following message of condolence: "My heart goes out to you in warmest and sincerest sympathy. | In the death of your husband Ii have lost a friend for whom 1 had! the deepest affection and a very genuine admiration." Senator Krelinghuysen, of New! Jersey announced in the Senate the I death of his colleague and the Sen-! ate adjourned until to-morrow, after i a committee had been named to at tend the funeral. During hi l *.* service in Congress.! first in the House, Senator Hughes! was especially noted for his interest in the working classes. He cham pioned many bills in behalf of la-! bor and was active in behalf of leg-! islation creating the Department of 1 Labor. Senator Hughes was a .cousin of i John P. Qohl, head of the well-known I painting firm of Gohl and Bruaw, of Harrisburg. He served nine vears in Congress, and was on the bench of the ' New Jersey Supreme Court for a, year. He was elected as United! States Senator from New Jersey, serv ing four years up to the time of his I death. Would Close Industries in\ Boston to Supply Homes With Needed Coal Washington, Jan. 30.—As a dras-j tic measure to meet, the coal short-1 age in Boston, Fuel Administrator! Storrow, of New England, who was! here to-day conferring with Fuel! Administrator Garfield and Director General McAdoo, is considering! whether to shut down all industries' in the city for a period of forty eight hours. Mr. Storrow pictured to Federal officials a situation in Boston made so critical by the recent storms and I snow blockades that it was thought only a stopping of industry could! make it possible to heat homes, hos pitals and schools, until relief comes. r . Friday The price of the Baby Bonds Will go tip one cent To-day and to-morrow $4.12=55 Do you under stand ? will bo In the grip of another severe cold wave. • Frank B. Musser, president of the Harrisburg Railways Company said another severe storm during the night will put most of the street car service out of business. Should the snow continue until well into the morning, as predicted, most of the streets are cleared of snow thrown have to be suspended while the streets are closed of the snow thrown along the sides of the street by the sweepers after previous storms. The local weather bureau station was pessimistic over the outlook shortly after the storm started this afternoon. The storm is from the souththwest, moisture laden from the Gulf of Mexico, which was the ori gin of the heavy storm Monday. Precipitation has been heavy since eight o'clock in the states over which the storm has traversed, and the prediction for the duration of the local storm is that it will not be over by morning. Vatican's Revenues Cut Off by War; International Committee to Assist By Associated Press Home, Tuesday, Jan. 29. An in ternational committee is to be form ed to reorganize the finances of the Vatican, which Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state- reports are in an alarming condition. The com mittee, one of whoso members is to be Thomas E. Ryan, of New York, will be called upon to devise means of obtaining funds, possibly by the underwriting of the world-wide loan. The Vatican's usual source of rev enue, such as rentals from proper ties and gifts from Mexico, Belgium, France, Austria and the United States, have been reduced or cut off by war conditions. At the same time Pope Benedict daily expends thousands of dollars in war chari ties, including the sending of food and clothing to prisoners of war in Germany and Austria. Appeals for contributions- are received in large number at the Vatican from many countries. Under the present system of fi nancial adminstration the Pope acts as treasurer of the Vatican, having in his office a safe in which he deposits the funds to be dis bursed. When tlie safe is empty the Holy SeSc nominally is bankrupt. City Now Able to Supply Own Water Needs When Auxiliary Service Stops With 27.2 feet of water in the reservoir this morning Commissioner Hassler announced that the electric pump which was started yesterday was shut off, and the water supply from Dauphin and Steelton stopped. While all the manufacturing plants in the city resumed using city water yesterday the drain only took the reservoir s|iglitly below 25 feet, due partly to the additional amount being pumped and the supply obtained from Steelton and the Dauphin plants. Commissioner Hassler said to-day he believes all danger is over for the present hut repeated the warn ing against wasting any water. The electric pump will be started as soon as the supply in the reservoir begins to fall perceptibly again, and it is though now that the city is pre pared to furnish enough water for both domestic and industrial pur poses. Local Boards Should Consider Marriages Since May 18 on Merits of Case New York, Jan. 30. —Secretary of War Baker in a letter to Charles Evans Hughes, head of a local dis trict draft appeal board, upset the rilling established by the board that all marriages contracted since May 18, last, by young men of draft age, should be regurded as "slacker mar riages" and emphasized the need for local boards considering all such cases on their merits. The districts board's ruling was based, it was announced, on Draft Law Ruling No. 4, *-hich was issued shortly after the epidemic of mar riages to avoid the draft. "The ruling was carried over into the new regulations with the ex press statement that the effect of the selective service law was not to suspend the Institution of mar riage," the secretary of war said in his letter. THE WEATHER Snow, nlrrt or rain to-nlttht nnd ThurxriiiTi not inarli chnnxr In temprrnturr, lownt to-night About 20 (Irwrrpd. For Kastern Pennsylvania! Know In north, snow or Irrstorm In xoath portion to-nlsht and Thurs day! little rhnnge In tempera tare) northeast winds, Increas ing. FLOODS CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE IN MANY STATES Brief Rise in Temperature Starts Ice Movement in Rivers PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY Many Vessels, Caught in Jam, Arc Smashed and Sent to Bottom By Associated Press Cincinnati, 0., Jan. 30.—The ice gorge at this point broke this fore noon and began slowly moving down stream. The first boat to be taken with it was the large packet City of Louisville. It swung loose from its moorings and crashed into the gov ernment boat Ottawa. The Ottawa, however, did not break loose. The City of Louisville soon sank. Padueah, Ky., Jan. 30.—Fresh ice gorges in the Ohio river, reported forming above Padueah last night still were holding early to-day with [Continued on Page 13.] WEIGHT OF SNOW CRUSHES IN BIG GARAGE BUILDING Eighteen Automobiles Are • Completely Buried Under Timbers and Ice Eighteen automobiles, including several heavy trucks and delivery cars, were buried under thrco feet of snow and wood when the roof of the storage garage of the Excelsior Cycle Company collapsed under the t accumuated weight, shortly after S o'clock this morning. The garage, a one-story, light frame structure about 50 by 100 feet, was destroyed, not a single board of the roof or walls was left standing. When the building gave way under the weight of the roof, the entire structure caved in com pletely. covering the cars which were stored in the garage over night. Nat Feldstern, owner of the garage, has connected with his stor age garage, on the first floor of the three-story brick building at 1021 Market rstreet, an' office and sales room, where he will conduct his business. The property damage is small, ac cording to the Harrisburg Trust Company, executors for the Robert Snodgrass estate, which owned the building as the structure was old and of little value. There Is no rebuilding project under way, it is understood, and Mr. Feldstern said that he has not made arrangements to care for the cars he is under contract to store. The Witman-Schwars wholesale Grocery Company hud their trucks Htored in the garage, and soon after receiving news of the collapse of the building, had men at work shoveling away snow and excavat ing the machines. It is thought that the dumage done to the automobiles is confined to the tops. MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION KILLS Sharon, Pa., Jan. 30.—Mrs. Peter Luzok, 23, is dead, and her hus band, Peter Luzok, 30, and Mary a daughter, are dying as the result of a mysterious explosion at their home here early to-day. The vic tims were terribly burned. ASH COLLECTOR W GAME TO FLEECE HOUSEHOLDER Wagon Men Find Smooth Scheme to Get Double Pay For Hauling Away Cinders From Furnace "Here you are, lady; I'll haul away your ashes for fifty cents!" O, glory be—what good news Is this? Instant agitation about that house. Up go cellardoors; out come bag?!, baskets, cans, buckets of ashes. In some homes the kind ash man has to dig his way in. But what of that? It is worth double the price thinks the householder and not In frequently the benevolent life-saver Is treated to a piece of pie and hot coffee. This Is the play all over town be ing made by a new and very artful squad of ash shifters, who own their own teams. In several places people observed with some surprise how HALF OF MEN IN FIRST CLASS ARE PHYSICALLY FIT Fifty Per Cent. Ratio Found When Board Examines , First City Men PRAISE FROM PHYSICIAN Men Sent to Camp Will Be Best is History, Says Examiner / "The men who go out from Harris burg, qualified for general military service, should be the finest set of soldier material, physically and men tally, that ever wore an army uni form," declared Dr. C. R. Phillips to-day after the first instalment of twenty-five drafted men had com pleted its physical examination in the offices of John C. Orr, chairman of the local board No. 3. Of the thirty men of the first class who were to appear, five failed to be present. The others were disposed of by Dr. Phillips and Dr. IS. E. Darlington, as follows: qualified for [Continued on Page 6.] ISNOW MAY HOLD i UP COLLECTIONS BY HAGY BROS. Plan Use of Sleds to Get Gar bage to Municipal Piggery Huge piles of snow almost blocking many of the city streets for auto and wagon traffic will not mean a delay In starting garbage collections, according to Hagy Brothers, the Arm which begins work on a five-year contract on Friday. "We are .prepared to go right ahead on Friday with the collection tContinued on Page IS.] Another Tieup Expected as Result of Cold Wave Which Sweeps Country By Associated rrets Washington, Jan. 30—Further hard ships from lack of coal, another tieup of the badly-congested railway sys tem and a slowing down of industry, are in prospect with the appearance in the northwest of another severe cold wave which to-day covers the northwest and central west. It will cause cold weather over the eastern half of the country for several days, reaching the Middle Atlantic and New England states on Friday. It is ac companied by general light snow. Throughout the northern districts east of the Mississippi river there will be snow to-night and Thursday. Russians Would Hold Ambassador Responsible for Safety of Berkman Washington, Jan. 30. —An anar chist newspaper published in Petro grad, udviees to the State Depart ment say, has recently published an inflammatory article proposing that American Ambassador Francis be held personally responsible for the safety and freedom of Alexander Berkman. who with Emma Gold man is about to begin serving two years in a federal penitentiary for conspiring against the draft law. speedily the driver dumped a big load and came back to the same neighborhood for mgre. And to-day the mystery was cleared up. The public benefactor was seen to rumble oft with his load to a nearby corner where one of tho collection wagons of the Pennsylvania Reduc tion Company, (he regular collector, was standing. Here it was a simple matter for the colored men in charge to unload th ashes from one cart to the other. Working this way together, the divvy at tho end of the day gives ea<*h man a considerable sum in addition to his regular pay. It was satd to-day that one enter prising fellow "knocked down" |lO a day. Single Copy, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA | LATE NEWS J "fa . - * * /■ * r 1 t-n> - * * f ..< *. /;t " MARKET CLOSES FIRM > • 4 < X —lmportant stocks were midway between * € * <49 the listless final half hour. The dos- 15 flr 'g wa s :m. All Liberty issues were at new minimums, |fe> ) } econd uC e tjC ic3 were the j|y 11 % ! Mexi- <£ 1 _ T # :h:,: m M * * 1 00.000,000 of certificates Si of ir ijy over *u v Department announced to day. 'jfl M 4 RICHARD MANSFIELD. 2ND, ENLISTS 5| 6 * 4 j, laven—Richard Man; the lat< * * Richai Id, the actor, enlisted hci in the .JfjMs Army Aviation Signal Corps. 1* OVERTURNED PLOW KILLS THREE j?B ' en were kille-* t noon .Uj™ e . as overturned on the Braden- a, V vi ' near Derry, Pa V J STEAMER REPORTS MUTINY X % * * —A call fo Brit 1 ®! * *f* ' ish steamer which reported a mutiny among the Arab 4* , # firemen was received bene to-day. Th&.vessel, the name L . e * hundred miles off the e coat X f ■ I J T I -3* V JL are at yL M ± nrx by |jR hav< ig "arto.l thr lire IJ: L AIN JOINS BAKER AT LUNCH I 3* I— Secretary Barer and Chairman Chare I m f ■ JL tary Committee, chief actor? in | * * th- , lunched together 3,8 e | pitol, and the event was regarded as a V * * ecurc a better understanding and *f composing of differences. |J* m 1 I ITALIANS TAKE 2,600 PRISONERS §> ■ ' * Rome—More than 2,600 prisoners have been take V 4' by the It dians in their upon the Aui T I \ At fT H j 4 trian lines on the Asiago plateau, the war office an- • V n to-day, Six guns and one-hundred machine guns g * I * * * H * also have been captured. Extremely 'heavy losses were * * ■ ' 4 suffered by the Austrians, two of their divisions being 2 • * almost completely wiped out. ** j; THREE KILLED IN LONDON RAID I 4 * Londoi night's air raid three persons were 'J I fl X eared * 8 * *> ' he ruins of ' a house. Z ' '± | • SNOW CRUSHES IN ROOK "i ' t t Harrjsburg—Snow late this afternoon caused the roof • 1 4 -t I r ourtccnth and R reets to ■ <m J cave in. 2 I f Paris, Tuesday—The Duke of Chevreuse was killed < M J ; X to-day while making a test flight in an airplane. He was \* *' H ! # years old, son of the Duke of Luynes and ' ' I X grandson of the Duchess D'Uzes. * " T * • X London—"Last night one of our patrols successfully ' attacked a German post northeast of Havrincourt and 'J J fX killed or took pi number of the enemy's gam **J 21 .. f 7 nr ' -e war office reportu. jn ; if HEAR NOTHING OF ZIEGLB]R Harrisburg—Efforts to get into communication with J* physicians treating Lieutenant Colonel Frank E. Ziegler, 1 h ... it X who is in a critical condition following a fall from his | * T horse, failed to-day. No change was reported in the con- j A? ' <L dition of Captain H. M. Stine, who is seriously ill in •* j T Spartansburg. * * ■.. ■ ¥ • MARRIAGE L Jamri H. Frrntr and Kll*l H. MmiHa, Hagertwii. Md.s nr *V* ]f" Itrnnrn nl Mabel V. Crook, Harrlaborc) Carl T. Aidtmii and J. 4) Margaret K. Colenan, Mlddletonn. # ■ ; k
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