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LXXXVII No. 56 16 PAGES
POPULACE HURRIES
FROM PETROGRAD;
MOSCOW IS CAPITAL
Germany Plays Into Hands of All-Russian Congress by
Granting Respite; Loyal Russians Will Abrogate the
Teuton Treaty; Interval Will Be Employed For Rais
ing Army to Resist Invasion
Petrograd, Tuesday, March s.—The Bolsheviki
leaders are prepared to withdraw even as far as the Ural
mountains rather than submit to the defeat of the revolu
tion, said Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki foreign minister, in
an interview to-day with the Associated Press.
London, March 6-—The evacuation of Petrograd has begun.
Three state ministries, says a Rcutcr dispatch from Petrograd
dattd Tuesday, have started to leave the capital, from which the
population also is fleeing hastily.
The Bolshevik government purposes to declare Moscow the
Russian capital and Petrograd a free port.
Petrograd Being Evacuated
Petrograd is being evacuated by
the Bolshevik! government. Moscow,
the ancient capital, again is to be
come the seat of the Russian gov
ernment, while Petrograd is to be
made a free port.
The population of Petrograd is
quitting it hurriedly and various
government departments are remov
ing further inland away from the
German invaders. Bolsheviki coun
cils in Moscow and the provinces
are said to be more opposed to the
Germans and a separate peace than
those in Petrograd.
Previous reports that the hard
terms of the German peace treaty,
which take from Russia thousands
of square miles in Europe and Asia,
would not be accepted by the all-
Jtussian Congress of Workmen's and
Soldiers' delegates, indicated also
that the non-peace elements in the
Bolsheviki ranks were gaining the
upper hand. Evacuation of Petro
grad was mentioned as one of the
measures the war pact proposed.
Trotzky Downfall Expected
Refusal of the peace treaty by the
congress when it meets at Moscow
next week probably will cause the
downfall of Lenine and Trotzky, if
they do not resign before hand. A
section of the Bolsheviki is said to
lean toward the Social Revolution
ists of the Left, who have been op
posed to the Lenine regime and in
clined to be friendly to the entente
allies, although favorable to an im
mediate general peace.
Apparently Germany unwittingly
played into the hands of the all
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Mr. Harrisburger
Do You Think
You Can Beat
$4.14=55.00
K in doubt call
A. Carson Stamni
25C starts Thrift
i THE WEATHER
FOP lliirrll>iirK and vicinity:
emlly cloudy anil colder to
-11 llfli t and Thursday, probably
liKht rain or snow; lowest tem
perature to-night about free/..
Inn.
'■' or Kastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy
and colder to-nl c ht and Thurs
day. probably rain or (mow;
moderate to fresh west to
northwest winds.
Itlver
The Susquehanna river and nil lt
branches will probably fall
slowly or remain nenrlv sta
tionary, except sllKlit rises are
indicntcd for tlie l ; pper West
Hrnncli anil the them un K< A
wtnisc of about *l.ll feet may he
expected nt Harrishurg ou
Thursday morning.
fJeneral Conditions
The disturbnnce that was central
over the .Southern Rocky Moun
tains, Tuesday mornlni;, htm
moved northeastward anil novr
covers nearly alt the eastern
half of the 1 nlted States, with
Its center over the I'pper Sus
lueliHiina Valley. It lias caused
liKht, scatteied rains In the
Middle Atlantic mid New Ktm-
Innd States, with some snow
along; the northern border from
Minnesota eastward. I.licht
snow bus fallen nlso over the
Southern Itocky Mountain and
plateau regions.
It Is - to HI degrees warmer east
of tke threat l.akes and south
and enst of the Ohio river, with
tempernt lire* much above nor
mal In the Ohio Valley and Ten
nessee.
Temperotn re: S a. in., 42.
Sum ltlnes, tl:17 n. in.; nets, .*>:43
p. nt.
Moon 1 „Vew moon, March 12, 2t52
P. in.
Itlver stiigfi 7.6 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday'* Weather
Highest temperature, til,
I.owest temperature. 34.
Menu temperuture, 48.
formal temperature, 31.
HARRTSBURG, PA.,WEDNESDAY EVENING,' MARCH 6, 1918.
SCORES LOST AS
GREAT LINER IS
SUNK BY U-BOATS
.")00 Removed to Irish Coast
After Ship Is Hit by
Four Torpedoes
By Associate J Press
London, March fi. —Official an
nouncement was made by the Ad
miralty to-day that the British
armed mercantile cruiser Calgarlan ,
was torpedoed and sunk on March
1. Two officers and forty-six .men
were lost.
Belfast, Ireland, Saturday, March
2.—The British liner Calgarian has
been torpedoed off the Irish coast.
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Plain Facts, Plainly
Stated Wins a Point
For This Farmer Lad
"State fully the actual condition
which would result from your re
moval ?"
In the ominous gloom of the great
room where sits the district draft
board, stood Harold Barclay Bair, a
young tiller of the soil from Fan
nettsburg, Franklin county. Long
and tedious had been the series of
questions which encountered him in
his thorny path through the claims
for deferred classification. He told
about his farm, where he lived, what
he raised, the number of live stock,
what fertilizers cost and how many
hours he put in every day in the
year, until breath slackened at the
effort. Surely those draft officials
could gather that he was needed
right in Fannettsburg, Pa., much
more than in France. But no one can
tell what that board is meditating,
and the final, comprehensive ques
tion came as a stunner if Farmer
Bair could not combat it.
"State fully, etc., repeated the
Hoard and looked hard at the serious
faced husbandman.
"There'll be one farmer less in
the United States," was his deliber
ate reply, with such a bulk of mean
ing that the Hoard, impressed, decid
ed to list Farmer Bair in the second
class.
Grocers Who Sell Sugar
Only With Cornmeal Do
So of Their Own Volition
Grocers ate not compelled to sell
sugar in combination with cornmeal
or any other cereal. This informa
tion was given by tlie Dauphin Coun
ty Food Administration this morning
in answer to a query from people
who report that grocers compel them
to buy cornmeal when they purchase
si-par.
When the grocers do this thfy are
entirely within their rights, but the
Federal Food Administration has not
made a ruling: that tlie grocers must
dispose of sugar and cornmeal in
combination. Any grocer who sells
sugar in combination with cornmeal
does it on his own volition, the Food
Administration said.
Doctor Plans to Correct
Boy's Mind by Treatment
Iteno Kemp, the 13-year-old boy
from Camp Hill, who was arrested
lost night for the alleged theft of
a purse containing $25, a check for
$lO and a SSO Liberty Bond, was
1 scheduled for a hearing this after
noon. Dr. Irminie Gunsaul, 130 Mar
ket street, from whom the lad took
the articles, requested this morning
that he be turned over to her care
in an 9ffort to relieve his immoral
trend of mind by scientific treat
ment. The police granted the re
quest. The boy is afflicted with St.
Vitus dance, which accounts. Dr.
Gunsaul thinks, for his criminal ten
dencies. Dr. Gunsaul has been con
ducting these free clinics for the
benefit of Sunshine children, visiting
nurse patients and the poor of the
city for abput seven years.
THE PACIFIST
"SENTRY" SENDS
BULLET THROUGH
"OFFICER'S" LEG
Boys' Military Club Drill Ends;
With Disastrous
Results
"I got just what would be coming
to me in the Army it I tried to pass
a sentry at night." said 10-ycar-old
Paul Klberti, of Middletown, last
night, lie was shot through the leg
by a boy companion who was on
guard at the headquarters of what is|
l:nown as the "Secret Seven Club," a 1
schoolboy organization.
In keeping with the rules of the S
club, the name of the boy who did
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One U. S. Division in
France, Germans Say
By Associated Press
Paris, Tuesday, March 5. —The Ger- j
mans persist in declaring they are
not aware of the presence of Amer
ican troops on the western front,
writes the correspondent of the
Temps with the British army in
France. This, he says, may be pre
tense or the result of what they
have been taught, but all prisoners,
officers and privates, taken in the
last minor operations when asked
about tile Americans invariably re
ply:
"Yes, we know there is a division
in Prance, and there never will be
more. That, is not enough to scare
us."
TELEGRAPH TO GIVE TESTED
RECEIPTS FOR VICTORY BREAD
Healthful, Palatable Loaves That Save the Wheat and
Permit Intelligent Use of Cereal Substitutes
Housewives who .bake their own
bread to-day were urged by the fed
eral food administration to make a
real Victory Loaf. This loaf will, it is
pointed out, do much to save the
wheat flour and at the same time
permit the housewife to make valu
able use of the substitutes which
now must be purchased with wheat
flour.
Seven tested receipts for baking
victory bread have been procured
from the Home Economics Section
of the Food Administration and will
be published one each day in the
Harrisburg Telegraph. Each receipt
will make three good sized heathful,
palatable loaves and will save from a
pound to a pound and a half of
wheat.
This bread is especially valuable
because of the body regulating sub
stances which it contains.
l'otato Von.st Bread
One or two cakes compressed
yeast; 1 cup lukewarm water; 4 tea
spoon salt; 3 tablespoons corn syrup; i
3 1-2 cups mashed potatoes; 7 cups
flour (more or less may be needed).
COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSE CHANGES
IN COUNTY GOVT.
Would Abolish Jury Com
missioners, Coroner, Tax
Collectors and Assessors
Radical changes in county govern
ment are advocated by the Dauphin
county commissioners in their an
nual report made public to-day, in
cluding abolition of the office of
jury commissioner and that of
coroner.
In the opinion of .the commission
the jury commissioners could be dis
pensed with-and their places taken
by the president judge, the sheriff
! and tho prothonotary. These would
be entrusted with the duties of fill
ing the jury wheel and drawing all
juries, now done jointly by the jury
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McAdoo Thanks School
Board For Patriotism
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
to-day acknowledged by telegraph
his appreciation of the- patriotic ac
tion of the Hoard of School Directors
of Harrisburg, who have been the
first in the whole country to au
thorize a subscripti.on' of $50,000 for
the new liberty Loan.
What the Keystone State will do
on the third Liberty Loan is inter
esting the whole nation. The Treas
ury Department has just announced
that she came out second in the last
one with $137,372,550. Tile state of
New York alone beat her to first
place with $1,413,045,800. The com
plete returns of the second Liberty
Loan amounted to $1,617,532,300.
Mix as follows: Soften the yeast
in the liquid and then add (lj salt,
(2|) syrup, (3) potato, and enough
of the flour to make a stiff dough.
Mix and knead thoroughly. Let raise
3 1-2 hours, or until double in bulk.
Knead or cut down the dough, add
the remaining flour, and let raise
again until double in bulk (about
11-2 Hours). Shape into loaves. Let
raise in pans until double in bulk.
Bake 50 minutes to I hour.
Handle and mould these bread
doughs with greater care than white
bread. If the doughs stick,to the
hands when kneading down, add
more flour at this time.
Always keep the dough at an even
warm temperature (about 75 de
grees). •
if you have a good rule for bread,
use it, but in pluce of part of the
white flour use one of these otheri
grains—either all or part of the
time.
If ,dry yeast is used, a sponge
should be made at night with the |
liquid, the yeast, and a part of fhe \
white flour, „
BANDITS SEIZE
CASH; THREE DEAD
IN PISTOL DUEL
Police of Kentucky Towns
Seek Robber Who Assisted
in Covington Holdup
By Associated Press
Covington, K>\, March G.—With
one bandit deacl and a suspect in
custody, the police of three cities,
Covington and Newport, Ky., and
Cincinnati, Ohio, are searching the
river front for the third member of
the gang which held up a meeting
of the Ninth Ward Building Associa
tion of Covington, last night and
killed two of the directors and
wounded a third, the latter the chief
of police of Covington. One of the
bandits was killed by Chief Kleum
per, after he had shot down the two
directors, Andrew Nordmeyer, 63,
and John Rehm, 83. Nordmeyer was
I president of the association.
The six directors of the association
| had just been called to order by
I President Nordmeyer when the three
| bandits leaped into the room and
j with drawn revolvers demanded the
I money on the table, which amounted
to about $2,500. Rehm attempted to
hide the cash box and fell across the
table dead, with a bullet through his
head. The other directors made a
wild rush for safety, as all three of
the desperadoes had opened fire
with their guns and Nordmeyer fell
into the arms.of his son, also shot
through the head. Chief Kleumper,
in citizen's clothes, returned the lire
and was shot through the cheek but
not before one of his bullets had
reached the heart of one bandit.
When the bandits dashed from the
place they shot their way through
the crowd in front, attracted by the
shooting, to an automobile.
The robbers, it is said, obtained
less than half of the money on the
table.
Steamship Armenia
Beached After Second
Attack by Submarines
By Associated Press
An Atlantic Pdrt, March 6. —The
American steamship Armenia, for
merly a German merchantman, lies
beached and badly damaged on the
British coast after being torpedoed
by a German submarine, it was
learned with the arrival of the Ar
menia's crew here to-day. The at
tack took place on February 0,
about three weeks after Secretary
Daniels made public tho details of a
similar attack on the Armenia in
December.
The sailors arriving to-day, thirty
three in number, said that after the
Armenia, of 5,464 tons gross, was
torpedoed the first time, in the
Knglish channel on December 5, she
was beached and temporarily repair
ed by means of a wooden patch
placed over the hole. Most of the
ctrgo was saved.
The vessel renewed her voynge
on February 8. hound for a British
drydock, to have an iron patch re
place the wooden one. At 12.35
o'clock the next morning nnother Ü
boat sent a torpedo into her hull and
again she was forced to beach the
crew said, and it was a question I
whether she could be saved.
Single Copy. 2 Cents HOME EDITION
AVERAGE EIGHT
POUNDS EXCESS
IN FLOUR SUPPLY
First 1(59 Families Reporting j
Hold 1,307 Pounds More
Than Actual Needs
MUST REPORT IN COUNTY
Men Holding Large Amount
Explain It Is a General
Custom
That the registration of flour in
Dauphin county will give the fed
eral food authorities accurate in
formation of the amount of flour on
Tiand, was evidenced at the Coun:y
Food Administration offices this
morning l , where 169 flour slips were
returned in the first mails.
The fact that householders are so
prompt in filling out the cards and
returning them, is a matter of much
satisfaction to the local food admin
istration. Flour slips continued to
pour into the County Food Admin
istrator's office all day, and the food
administration anticipates no diffi
culty getting all householders to sign
them.
Fifty householders reported
an excess amount of flour on
hand. The total excess reported was |
1,307 pounds. The greatest amount!
of excess held by any one house- |
holder was 220 pounds. Next to this I
was an excess of 131 pounds. With
the latter report was a letter, sup
plementing the report with the ex
planation that the excess was due to
the fact that the householder bought
his winter's supply last July, in ac
cordance with his annual custom, |
which accounted for the large ,
amount on hand.
Most Moldings Small
The householders who reported
excess supplies reported, as a rule,
only between three and twelve
pounds excess. A few ranged around
twenty-five, and one was 108, one
100 and one eighty.
For the benefit of readers of this
newspaper who do not reside in
Dauphin county, the names of the
food administrators of various sur
rounding counties are printed.
Householders must in all instances
report their flour supplies to the ad
ministrator of the county in which
they live. Filling out the flour card
printed in the Telegraph and send
ing it to the administrator of the
county in which the householder
lives, is all that is required of each
householder.
Surrounding county administra
tors are: Cumberland, 11. H. Mentsi
er, Carlisle; York, Grier Hersli,
York; Lancaster, M. E. Bershong,
Lancaster; Lebanon. P. N. Hershey,
Lebanon; Perry, the Rev. William
A. Dorwart, Newport. These men
may be reached by mail, sent in care
of the county food administrations
of their various counties.
Footsore and Weary Old
Man and Woman Stop
Here After Long Walk
Footsore, hungry and penniless,
Cornelius Daily, aged 74. and wife,
Mrs. Becky Daily, aged 73, reached
Harrisburg early this morning. They
had traveled many miles on foot anil
were en route to Lewistown, where
they have friends.
Frank Magaro, a Union Xews
Company employe, found the aged
couple in tears. They were sitting on
the granite coping at the Grace and
Blackberry streets entrance to the
station.
The unfortunates were taken to
the Pennsylvania railroad station
and given food. A collection was
taken up and besides the carfare to
Lewistown, $5 in cash was raised.
They told a pitiful story.
Forest flres had driven they from
their mountain farm in Lee county,
Kentucky. With what money they
could raise, they started North in a
one-horse wagon. This was late lust
summer. Kn route the horse died.
Then they sold the wagon and start
ed to foot it. Just about the time
winter set in they reach Bradford
county from which point they start
ed to walk. The old folks last night
took shel er In a shed somewhere
along the west shore.
The aged woman said she had
prayed all night that someone would
help them, as it was feared they
could not travel very much further.
She said, "my folks are all buried in
Kentucky. There is where I would
like to die. I was born on Jyly 4,
1845, and was married on July 4,
1876. My ancestors were Daniel
' Boone followers."
Mail Order House
Sells Sugar at Loss;
Unfair Tactics Charged
Washington, March 6. —Complaint
was issued to-day against Sears, Roe
buck and Company, of Chicago, by
the ' Federal Trade Commission,
charging unfair methods of competi
tion in the conduct of its business.
The complaint summons the firm
to answer a charge that it has ad
vertised sugar foi; sale at three to
four cents a pound, actually at a
loss, but only upon condition that
certain amounts of other groceries
! be purchased for which a sufficient
price is charged to make a profit on
I the combined sale. The complaint
: further charges that Sears, Roebuck
I and Company, with the purpose of
j injuring competitors, has circulated
catalogs representing the quality
of merchandise sold by its competi
tors as inferior.
The complaint charged that the
low price on sugar was made for the
purpose of lessening competition aqd
I creating a monopoly.
A hearing has been set for April 11.
PENNSY BUYS
MORE PROPERTY
IN MARKET ST.
Humor of New Station Re
vives With Purchase of
Hoffman House
PROMISE IMPROVEMENTS
Company Officials Refuse In
formation on Recent
Purchases
Purchase of additional properties
to-day gives the Pennsylvania Rail
road a continuous frontage of 237
feet on the South side of Market
street, from the main tracks to a
point well above Fifth street.
Just what the company intends to
do in this locality which is adjacent
to the present railroad station is not
known, but there have been uncon
firmed rumors of extensive improve
ments there. Probably the most per
sistent of these reports is that the
purchases have to do with the long
talked of new passenger station to
be erected north of Market street,
which might make the railroad com
pany desirous of controlling all
property on both sides of Market
street between Fifth street, and the
railroad tracks.
Takes Over Hoffman House
It was announced Saturday that
the company had bought the proper
ties 437 and 439 Market street, at
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ROOF ON IN TKN DAYS
The roof will be on the Penn-Har
ris Hotel within the next ten days.
Some extra hustling may be neces
sary to do this, but it is going to
happen, sure and certain. Columns
are now going up rapidly and as
soon as they are all up an American
Hag will float from the top of the
column on the northeast corner of
the hotel. The National Hoofing
Company will place the top on the
big hotel. Material is now on hand
ana the roofing company awaits the
completion of the columns.
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condemning Senator Lafollette was passed by a vote I
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7* HON. JOHN G. HORNER DEAD {
4* N. J. —John G. Horner, speaker of the New X!
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T Jersey House of Representatives in 1903, former state sen- JW
ator and judge of the Burlington county common pleas Xj
JT. court, died early to-day at his home in Moorestown, N. J. jtT
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CHRISTLEY SEEKS COMMUTATION
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f risburg—Jojin O. Christley, postal clerk, of Har- p
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§ risbu. . teed to death for . the murder of his wife, JU
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to-day applied to the pardon board for commutation of
7* sentence. The hearing wiH be March 20. *s>•
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I MARRIAGE j
Albert J. Lfuacliur, Tower City, nn<l Klim A. Irvln, Williams
4, town I John F. Hoke, Mldletown, antl Minnie I>. IpdricrnfT, Royal- 'i
; toii( Willhuu 11. Altinaii. Manor, und NUNHII 11. Kuhn, I'ennn *t- # T®
Hon t Hoy A. (iutxhall, llarrlHbiirK, and Mary I. Mann, Mechanics- Jla
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JOHN E. REDMOND,
IRISH LEADER. IS
DEAD til LONDON
For More Than Twenty-five
Years Fought For
Home Rule
IN COMMONS SINCE 1881
Famous Fighter Was Well
Known in U. S., Having
Visited Here Frequently
By Associated Press
London, March 6.—John E. Red
mond, the •Irish Nationalist leader,
died this morning.
Mr. Redmond, who underwent an
operation in London last Friday,
passed a fair day yesterday and ap
parently was maintaining the pro
gress shown Monday.
The Irish convention, which had
been supported by Mr. Redmond yes
terday adopted a message of sym
pathy in which an earnest wish was
expressed for his early and complete
recovery.
Mr. Redmond passed away peace
fully at 7.45 o'clock this morning.
Death was due to heart failure,
following the recent operation which
was for an intestinal obstruction.
This was borne courageously and it
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'God Will Continue to Aid;'
Emperor Tells Hindenburg
By Associated Press
Amsterdam, March 6.—Emperor
William has telegraphed a message
of congratulation to Field Marshal
Von Hindenburg on the "glorious
conclusion" of the war on the east
ern front. The telegram, as quoted
in a Merlin dispatch, says further:
"Xow the costly prize of victory
in the long struggle is in our hands.
Our Baltic brother and countrymen
are liberated from Russia's yoke and
again may feel themselves Germans.
God was with us, and will continue
to aid us."