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LXXXVII No. 57. 14. PAGES
FAILURE TO SEND
IN FLOUR REPORT
TO BE PUNISHED
lo Secure Lists by Making
Use of County Tax
Records
MANY CARDS ALREADY IN
Persons Who Refuse to Give
Details Suspected of
Hoarding
Householders who fail to fill out
Jie flour registration cards and re
urn them within Jhe required six
lays will receive a personal visit
'rom a representative of the Dau
phin County Food Administrator,
* - ho will conduct an investigation of
iheir flour supply, It was said at
the Food Administration offices this
.•norning.
A tax list of Dauphin county will
be secured, and the flour cards re
ceived by the Food Administration
during the six days of registration
will be filed and checked up with
the list, and every household that
ifalls to send the flour registration
card will be put on the list for a
personal investigation.
"Failure of a householder to make
a. report of the flour on hand is in
dication that there is hoarding in
that household," it was said at the
Food Administration offices this
morning. The Food Administration
representative will have the author
ity to enter any home which falls
'to make its report, and investigate
the flour resources of that house
hold.
Penalty Is 'Heavy
When asked what will happen
where a personal investigation of
Food Administration representatives
discloses excessive hoarding. Food
Administrator Donald McCormick
said tersely: "You've seen the pen
alty for hoarding stated right on
the floor card."
Tho penalty is J3.000 fine and two
years' imprisonment.
The first mail this morning
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Jitney Association Asks
County Court For Charter
Members of the Jitneurs" Indem
nity Association of Harrisburg to-day
filed a petition for a charter with
Prothonotary Charles 10. Pass. Sub
scribers to the application are: 13. G.
Kastner, 11. Edward Forry, W. S.
Dimeler, A. R. Stine and George M.
Swope, the first three named being
directors of the organization. The
petition states the purpose of the as
sociation will be to indemnify mem
bers against claims because of acci
dents. There will be no capital
stock dnd the total income, except
from real estate, is not to exceed
15,000.
CYRUS E. WOODS
Secretary of the
Commonwealth
urges saving-
A NICKEL A DAY
For THRIFT STAMPS
itS*r One Stamp=One
Quarter=Five Nickels
j THE WEATHER
For IforrlNhurg anil vlclnltjri Fair
and KllKhtly colder to-night,
with lonrnt temperature about
HO deitree*; Friday fair.
For Eastern I'ennnyl vnnln t Fair
to-nlKh t, MllKhtly .older In
Koutli portion; Frijlny fair; mod
erate north winds, becoming
variable.
Itiver
The Xorth llraneh will rise *tead-
II J'- The lower portion of the
\\ est Hraneli will rise *ome
what this afternoon and to
night and fall Friday. The
main river will fall slowly or
remain nearly stationary thin
afternoon ami to-night and be
gin to rise Klowly Friday. A
stage of about 7 feet in Indicat
ed for llnrrinburg Friday morn
ing.
(■enernl Conditions
A ridge of high burometrlo pres
sure cover* the middle part of
the country, extending from the
Hlo (irnnde northeastward
through the Middle MUslNMlppl
and Ohio vulleya Into the l.ake
Keglon, with Its center over
Arkansas. It separates (no
storm* of moderate energy, the
prlnelpnl one being <-entral
along the Middle Atlantic roast
and the other over .Northern
Minnesota.
I.lght to moderately heavy snow
has fallen from the Great Lakes
rantwaril to the Atlantic coast
and light rain oceurred general
ly fom the Ohio river eastward.
I.lght nnovr fell In Northern
Minnesota und In Manitoba.
Temperature! N a. m., 30.
Muni Itlnen, ttittl a. m.| aeta, 5i44
p. ni.
Moon I JVew moon, March 12, 7i32
p. m,
lllver Stage i 7.2 feet above low
water mark.
Teaterday'a Weather
Illgheat temperature, on.
I.oweat temperature, to.
Mean temperature, fit.
Manual temperature, 31.
May Command First
Army Corps in France
flßißiia^vsSNak
:
BRIG. GEX. HUNTER LIGGETT
The acting commander of the
American forces which have been
engaging the Teutons is Brigadier
General Hunter Liggett, who is
well-known in this section. Formerly
president of the Army War College
at Washington, he ranks as one of
the authorities in military science.
General Liggett graduated from
West Point in 1879. He is a native of
Pennsylvania, and will be remem
bered by many Harrisburgers as
commander of the camp at Gettys
burg at the Blue and Gray Reunion,
in July, 3 913, on the occasion of the
50th anniversary of the famous
battle.
U.S. TROOPS NOW
HOLD EIGHT-MILE
LINE IN LORRAINE
Ilcccnt Raid Shows Pershing's
Men in Place; at Least
81,000 in Trenches
% By Associattd Press
Paris, Tuesday, March 3.—An ofti
cial statement issued to-day Iw the
French war office announcing th* re
pulse of German raiding forc* on
trenches held by Americans in a new
sector of the Lorraine, says:
"North of the Cheniin-des-Damcs
and east of Courcy French troops
conducted successful raids on the
German trenches and brought back
about twenty prisoners.
"On the right bank of the river
Meuse there was violent artillery
lighting in the region of Caurieres
and Ohaume woods. At the last
mentioned place the German* yes
terday morning delivered an attack
but were repulsed after spirited light
ing.
"Another German attack at Che
valiers wood was completely checked
by the French and we took some
prisoners.
"In Lorraine a German raid on
trenches held by American troops
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Harrisburgers Take Places
on the Front Line With the
Famous Rainbow Division
The famous Rainbow Division is
one of the big units on the new eight
mile American fighting line. This
means that quite a number of boys
from the city and neighborhood and
now actually in the trenches await
ing the promised assault of the Hun
legions.
The so-called Rainbow Division
was made up of individuals from all
parts of the country and Harrisburg
boys were keen to be identified with
it. Commissioner E. Z. Gross was
among those who wore a worried
countenance t6-day for his son.
Lieutenant Henry M. Gross, went!
over with the Rainbow Division and
is likely now in the thick of it.
German Peace Terms
Those of 'Political Bandits/
Says Russ Committee
By Associated Press .
TVtrograd, March 7.—Tlif central
executive committee of the Soldiers'
and Workmen's Council, while rec-1
ognizing that the German peace
terms were those of "political ban-]
dits," has called on its delegates to
the Moscow congress to vote for the
ratification of the peace, says the]
Izvestia, the Bolshevik organ. This
action is advised because the peace'
has afforded the social revolution an
"absolutely' necessary respite."
Germans Take Jamburg
Despite Assurances That
Hostilities Have Ceased
By Associated Press
London, March 7.—The Germans
have captured Jamburg, cast of Nar
va, while the Turco-German offen
sive is continuing beyond Trebizond,
says a RUssia.n official agency' dis
patch received here to-day. This
action, adds the statement, is despite
the official announcement by the
German high command that hostili
ties against Russia have ceased.
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1918
STRENGTH OF U.S.
CORPS IS DOUBLED
AT WAR FRONT
New Plan of Organization
Substitutes Six Divisions
For Three
NEW TYPE OF WARFARE
Pershing to ,Be Equipped
With Artillery Heretofore
Not Dreamed of
By Associated Press
Washington, March 7. —Based up
on the three-line method of trench
warfare evolved in France, the War
Department, it was learned to-day,
have approved a plan of organization
which fixes six divisions as the
strength of an Army-corps.
Three or more- corps will consti
tute a field army and the immediate
purpose of the department is to com
plete the organization of the first
field army in France in the shortest
possible time to give General Per
shing the strength to hold a fully
"Americanized" sector of the front.
The.plan leaves to General Pershing
the determination of the number of
corps and the number of field armies
needed and also authorizes him to
recommend commanders for the
higher units.
Two Divisions at Front
By the six division army corps
plan each corps will occupy a front
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It's a Long, Long Way
to Lewistown, if You
Know How to Work It
Ilave ycu ever heard of the crew
of the Flying Dutchman, the unfortu
nate humans who were consigned by
fate to the unspeakable anguish of
wandering in their ship over the face
of all the waters of tne globe in a
never-ending and vain %earcli for a
final resting place?
Cornelius Daily and his wife,
Becky Daily, aged 74 and 73, respec
tively, who "were picked up in tears
on the granite coping of the Grace
and Blackberry streets entrance to the
Pennsylvania railroad station,"
claimed that they were on their way
to visit friends in Lewistown, after
they were driven from their home In
Lee county. Kentucky, by forest tires.
The story goes on in such like:
"We started in a one-horse wagon.
This was last summer. En route the
horse died. Then we sold the wag
on, and started to foot it"—etc., etc.
Now, the funny part is, that it's a
much longer distance to Lewistown
than you think. This is vouched for
by a reporter, who gives his word
that one year ago |a#t September
this self-same couple was "picked up,
in tears, on the granite coping of the
entrance to the Pennsylvania railroad
station" in Williamgport, where
their pitiful story touched hearts,
just as it did here yesterday. At
that time the money, and some be
sides, to take them to tl.-elr "friends
ir Lewistown" was raisrd, and the
old couple started on their way re
joicing. The couple plays cne-night
stands only, never stayirg in the
city more than long m.vigh to be
helped along their way with a purse.
Now. the question is. how often,
since that night in Septembtr,
years ago almost, when the "Ken
tucky" refugees told their story in
Williamsport and received a pjrse to
pay their fare to Lewistown, v fiw
often has the sajne fare to Lewis
town been raised, and how f:iv is it
to Lewistown, anyway?
Austria, Impressed by
Wilson Proposals, Sees
Basis For Understanding
By Associated Press
New York, March 7.—President
Wilson's address to Congress early in
January, in which he defined four
teen conditions for world-wide peace,
has acted like a leaven in the po
litical life of Austria-Hungary and
the conditions are reverted to over
and over again as a possible oi® con
crete basis tor negotiations, as ap
pears from the discussions in Ger
man newspapers of the latter part
of January, just received h^re.
The President's proposals also have
received considerable attention In
Germany. The papers iher; explain
the favorable echo the proposals
have evoked in Austria by stating
that the objectionable parts of the
President's address do not apply to
Austria as vitally as they do to Ger
many.
Various members of the Austrian
House of Deputies declared Ir. the
budget committee of that body that
it was a mistake to reject *ha Wil
son proposals coolly, and contemptu
ously. They expressed the belief
that even at the present, time it
should be possible to reach an un
derstanding with the western pow
ers.
German U-Boat Leader
Brutally Kills Wounded
Master of Belgian Smack
London, March 7.—80w the mem
bers of tho crew of a German sub
marine brutally killed the wounded
master of a Belgian fishing smack
who refused to leave the vessel, is
described In a Press Assoclat'on dis
patch fxom Penzance. The subma
rine attacked the smack with Kun
flre and the skipper was wounded se
verely. He urged his men. Including
his son. to save themselves.
The submarine commander forced
th-> fishermen to row German sail
ors" to the smack In order to place
bombs aboard. One of the Germans
drew a revolver and shot tho help
less skipper through the head In the
presence of his son.
Relieving First Americans Wounded in Lorraine Trenches
rile first Americans wounded in the Lorraine trenches, those in which United States troops took over a
r from the French army, are here shown receiving lirst-aid behind the lines. The hospital corps Is on
within the zone of tire to care for these men.
HONORS PAID
TO MEMORY OF
IRISH LEADER
Death of Redmond to Have
Effect on Ireland's
Destiny
London, Wednesday, March C.—
The House of Commons paid tribute
to the memory of John E. Bedmond
to-day when Premier Lloyd George
and various party leaders expressed"!
their sense of the • loss the House j
hail sustained.
Mr. Lloyd George said the House j
was shocked profoundly by the un- j
cxpec.ed news of the death of one 1
of its oldest, most respected and
eminent members. Mr. Redmond
had been a member of the House
for thirty-seven years, and the Pre
mier added, had in the es
teem, admiration and affection of
the members of all parties.
The Premier said Mr. Redmond
gave up everything in service for
Ireland, and it was one of the trag
edies of that land that he was struck
down before he achieved the great
purpose of his life. Warm tribute,
he said, had T>een paid to the Na
tionalist leader by his political op
ponents in the Irish convention who
trusted and believed in him. Mr.
Redmond went to the convention
bowed d,own with sorrow and 'his
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Victory Bread
i
i
Save the Wheat
Every time you maHe three j
loaves of this bread instead of |
white bread you save more than '
a pound of wheat flour.
Comment Yeast llrrnil
1 quart water
1 or 2 cakes compressed yeast
3% teaspoons salt
I! tablespoons corn syrup
1 \'z cups cornmeal
8 cups flour.
Mix as follows: Soften the
yeast in cup of water (luke
warm). Heat the rest to boiling,
then stir in the cornmeal. Let it
toil up once. Cool, add the salt
and syrup, and when lukewarm
add the softened yeast. Then add
the flour to make a stiff dough.
Follow the directions for knead- |
ing, raising and baking t'lven tor !
potato bread.* '
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KR EIDER TELLS ARMY HE A DS HOW
TO OEOAIO SHOES SOLDIERS
I
Prevents Work Being Done by Contract; GoeLhals I'raises |
His Recommendations; Will Adopt Them
Washington, March 7. —Modern
shoe repairing units to be manned by
experienced shoemakers will be in
stalled at each of the big canton
ments throughout the country as a
result of recommendations made to
General GOethals by Congressman
Aaron S. Krelder, of Pennsylvania. J
General Goethals pronounced Mr.
Kreider's 'pfans to be the most prac
tical and economical presented to
him and they will be at once carried
into effect. 'i
The Gener.%l asked the Pennsylva
nia Congressman for advice, know
ing him to be a shoe manufacturer
of experience, and suggested that as •
the shoes were accumulating rapidly,
It mlgfit be wise to let out the re- <
pairs by contract to shoe manufac- ]
turlng plants equipped to do the <
work. Congressman Krelder replied \
that bis experience was that this 1
CITY CLEANUP TROTZKYSEES U.S.
BEGINS WITH A j AND RUSSIA ON
SMALL FORCE; COMMON ROAD
Many Carts Scheduled For
Municipal Use Uptown
Next Week
While six carts and a small force
of men started a cleanup in the dis
trist north of Verbeke street from
Third to Front streets, the large
! force of teams which will be employ
| ed to cover the entire city will not
j start until next Monday, Commis
sioner Hassler said to-day.
| The official explained that a num
; ber of owners of carts have weekly
contracts and as the general clean
up was not authorized until Tuesday,
it was almost impossible to secure
any teaitis or men.
Chief Inspector Slieesley and In
spector Hutton have been making
arrangements for the work to be
done beginning next week and will
probably start the big force in the
uptown district lirst.
Regulations for garbage collec
tions and a schedule of districts and
days on which the teams will be in
various setions are being completed
now by the Bureau of Ash and Gar
bage Inspection and the garbage
contracting firm. These will be an
nounced next week it was said. Cards
will be printed and distributed to
all householders giving instructions
and rules which must be followed.
American Staff Colonel
Captures Hun Officer;
Takes Him to U. S. Lines
With the American Army in
France, Wednesday, March 6.—An
American staff colonel, while with a
French raiding party for the purpose
of securing information, a few days
before his men took ■ p their posi
tions in the new American sector on
the front, met a Prussian
lieutenant in an enemy trench and
captured him. The colonel, with an
American captain, brought the Prus
sian officer back to the lines the
Americans now are occupying.
During several days of the Amer
icans' service here the casualties
have been extraordinarily slight, as
the sector is one of tho Quietest.
The lines are far apart and the po
sition is held by strong .joints rather
than by continuous trenches.
The Prussian lieutenant's capture
was the first instance of an enemy
officer beine taken prisoner by the
Americans and also the first occasion
lipon which an American officer had
captured either an enemy officer or
a soldier in this sector.
would be cc ly and impractical. He
said that great delays In shipping
the shoes to and from the repair
plants would result, and that the
government naturally would have to
allow the manufacturers a profit for
the repairs. He suggested that the
Army ask experts from the big shoe
repair machinery makers to visit the
encampments, lay out plants suitable
to their needs, hurry the machinery
needed through on priority orders
and organize permanent repair units
from the drafted men who formerly
worked in shoe factories and shoe
repair plants. He provided General
Goethals with a list of men in the
Army from the Krelder plants who
could be called upon. The Krelder
plan will be worked out in all the
cantonments and thousands of dol
lars will ,be saved the government
thereby In shoe repair work.
Possibility Grows That U. S
May Become Russ Ally,
in Restricted Sense
Petrograd, Tuesday, March 5.™
Should th>3 Alf-Russittn Congress of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates
at its meeting next week at Moscow
fail to ratify the peace terms forced
upon Russia bv Germany, it is not
unlikely that Russia and the United
States and her allies again may be
fighting against German imperial
ism as allies, although allies in a
somewhat restricted sense.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik for
eign minister, granted the Asso
ciated Press an interview at the
Smolny Institute.
Replying to a question if it might
not be possible for the traditional
friends Russia and the United States
to continue together to battle against
German oppression should peace
efforts fail ' Trotzky replied:
• Have Common Road
"America and Russia to-day have
different aims, but if we have com
mon stations on the same route I
see no reason why we could not
travel together in the same car.
Each could have the right to get off
when he wanted to.
"Until a revolution comes in Ger
many, undoubted!*' Russia and
America have a common road.' We
are what we are and cannot change,
and we do not expect the American
government to change."
The foreign minister said that if
the Bolshevik government could re
turn to ,las f November, it would re
peat its whele program just as it
happened as . the commissaries be
lieve onlv ir such manner can Rus
sia be saved. I
Five Murder Trials Are
Listed For Trial When
Court Sits March 18
Five murder trials will be listed
for the session of criminal court be
ginning March 18, it was announced
to-day at the District Attorney's* of
fice. Of this number, four ni*s new
cases, the defendants all being col
ored. The fifth "case vM.'l be, a re- j
trial of the charge against Frederick
Richcreek, who had been convicted ot |
first-degree murder, but was granted j
a new trial. ,
The two latest case.i to oe added
lo tle list are those against Andrew
Cary, charged with shooting James
A. Watts, and Will Evans, accused
of stabbing Rufus Geilam. Both
murders occurred in Steelton. The
defendants were held for court yfes
terday.
At least one of the murder cases
will be tried at the March court, it
! is believed, fcut the larg3 number of
continued and new cases on thfc
list will probably prevent > tarring
more,than one trial.
Lost U. S. Patrol
Reaches Lines Safely
Hy Associated Press
With the American Army in
France, Wednesday, March .—An
American patrol, comprising one of-,
ficer and eight men which had been'
missing since last night in the sec
tor northwest of Toul, suddenly
emerged from a shell hole close to
the German lines to-day and made
a dash across No Man's Land with
out a shot being tired at them.
ATTORNEY CELEBRATES
This is the birthday anniversary
of James A. Stranahan, ex-Attorney
General and one of the oldest mem
bers of the Dauphin county bar,
Mr. Stranahan is celebrating his
seventy-fifth birthday and received
congratulations from hip many
friends in the city and state.
Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION
PETROGRAD QUIET;
WAR SUPPLIES ARE
MOVED SPEEDILY
Russian Capital Remains Calm Regardless of German
Troops at Narva, 100 Miles Away; War Supplies Are
Removed; Hun Advance Eastward Stopped Tuesday,
but Was Later Resumed; Swede Feeling Grows
Petrograd, Tuesday, March s.—Petrograd was calm
and orderly to-day regardless of the presence of German
troops at Narva, one hundred miles from the capital, and
evidences on all sides of the removal of war supplies.
London, March 7.—The German advance eastward into Russia
Stopped early Tuesday, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Pctrograd dated Wednesday, but was resumed during the
night on several sectors in order to allow the Germans to reach
and consolidate the line between Jamburg and Gdoff (east of
Lake Peipus and south of Narva). It is reported in Petrograd
that banks have been reopened, the property of landlords restored
and other conditions approaching the old regime revived in towns
occupied by the Germans.
■ Amsterdam, March 7.—lnterven
tion by Germans in Finland and the
consequent ill-feeling against Ger
mans in Sweden is criticised severe
ly by lendependent Socialists and
Progressive members of the Reich
stag, a Berlin dispatch says. Baron
Von Dem Bussche, undersecretary of i
toreign affairs, in reply said Sweden!
no longer raised objections to Ger-;
many's action which was taken in j
response to appeals for help from
Finland.
The occupation of the Aland Is
lands as a base, he said, had not yet
taken place.
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g lay—German raid 6 on th iVerdun
I night were repulsed by the French, the we, JjR
7*. office announces. Li
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fc mallj ax nounced the transfer of the Ellis Island immi *s
gration station to the Army and Navy for shelter o *§?
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Rumanian Peace to Be
Concluded Within Period
of Preliminary Treaty
By Associated Press
Amsterdam, Wednesday, March C.—
The preliminary peace tveaty signed
Tuesday evening at BufCtea, says a
dispatch from Bucharest, stipulated
that the armistice between Rumania
and the Central Powers should run
tor fourteen days from midnight ot
March 5, with a period of three days
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