10 KING COMMENDS MAID HEROINE IN LONDON RAID Braves Death as House Col lapses to Save Aged Mistress London, March 13.—The death of Mrs. Lena Gullbert Ford, the Amer ican woman who wrote "Keep the Home Fires Burning," one of the most popular marching songs of the British Army, and her crippled son, Walter, was a pathetic incident of -fche German air raid on London. !fhey died under the wreckage of their home, the flrst Americans to lose their lives in a London air raid. Annie Coxall, an English maid, by a remarkable display' of courage, saved the life of Mrs. Ford's mother, Mrs- Brown, 86 years old. although the aged woman was injured seri ously. The King and Queen sought out Miss Coxall at the scene of the explosion Saturday and expressed their warm admiration for her "he roic behavior." Mrs. Ford and her son were in bed at the time of the raid. They occu pied adjoining rooms on the second floor of a four-story house in a long block of substantial brick structures. A bomb appeared to have hit the • roof close to the partition wall divid ing the Ford house from the ad joining building. It shattered the roof and upper floors, which gradu ally collapsed, with part of tho wall. Maid Braves Death to Rescue The heavy beams and brick wall fell through the building, envelop ing the chambers occupied by Mrs. Ford and her son. They were thus QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Get Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets That is the joyful cry of thousands since Dr. Edwards produced Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician for 17 years and calomel's old-time enemy, discovered t>.e formula for Olive Tablets while treating patients for chronic constipation and torpid livera. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets do not contain calomel.but a healing, soothing vegetable laxative. No griping is the "keynote" of these little sugar-coated, olive-colored tab lets. They cause the bowels and liver to act normally. They never force them to unnatural action. 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Open Evenings Quality will always be patronized while cheap goods are dear at any price KING OSCAR CIGARS have for years enjoyed the reputation of being a quality proposition. In re turn for this confidence, the public ex pects and receives the same regularity year in and year out. The result is that all concerned are satisfied. John C. Herman & Co. MAKERS / WEDNESDAY EVENING, imprisoned for several minutes be fore the second floor collapsed un der the weight of tho wreckage, car rying them to the first floor and then, after another pause, to the basement. They died probably from suffocation. The two upper floors of the house were occupied by another family, all of whom were killed. Mrs. Ford's mother, Mrs. lirown, occupied a room on the flrst floor, while be neath her in a small basement bed room was Mrs. Ford's maid, Annie Coxall. The maid, amid splintering Um bers and crashing brickwork, ran up the basement stairs to Mrs. Brown. She found Mrs. Brown bewildered in the midst of falling plaster'and dragged her through the collapsing walls down the stairs and to the basement bedroom. It was evident the whole weight of the walls and upper floors would soon crash into the cellar, and the maid placed her charge on the floor close to the wall, pulling a cot over her as a protection and placing upon this two heavy oak doors in a slant ing position, which she hoped would deflect the falling debris. Surprised When King Calls Failing to reach the upper part of the house again in answer to the cries of Mrs. Ford and her son, the maid had barely time to crawl under the bed beside Mrs. Brown when the final collapse occurred. The iron bed and the oak doors served their pur pose. Mrs. Brown and the maid were almost suffocated, but two hours later they were rescued. Mrs. Brown suffered severely from shock; Annie Coxall was unin jured, but dazed. She tried to re enter the ruins in a frantic effort to find tho Fords, but was finally per suaded to leave the scene. Annie Coxall does not think she has done anything heroic. She be wails her inability to rescue Mrs. Ford and her son and regrets the loss of her entire trousseau, which she had been preparing for her mar riage to a British soldier. Nobody could have been more surprised than she when King George and Queen Mary called upon her person ally and told her how greatly they admired deeds such as she had per formed. Mrs. Ford and her son had lived in England for more than twenty years. The words of many of the most successful English popular songs in recent years are from her pen. Shortly before her death she wrote what she called an Anglo- American song—"We Are Coming, Mother England," which has been adapted to the tune of "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are March ing." Mrs. Ford's home was the scene of weekly teas, receptions and mu sicales for wounded soldiers and of ficers. THREE SIITES OFFERED FOR BIG NEW PLANT That the $15,000,000 plant which in all likelihood will be located here is not one for the making of muni tions is the assurance of Andrew Patterson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, but further than that Mr. Patterson declines to specify Mr. Patterson said that three sites had been offered to representatives of the huge concern and that these men were in conference at Washing ton yesterday, but no word has reached here of any decision. An acreage of 3,000 will be needed to accommodate the industry. GROCERS HIT AT CASH AND CARRY PLAN OF TRADE Committee Declares Business Is Subjected to Unfair Competition The "cash and carry" system for selling groceries was criticised by some twenty grocers in a statement under the heading, "The Cash and Carry Burlesque" made public last night. Contending that the "cash -ind carry propagando" has caused old reliable grocers to lose trade, which goes Instead to "cash and carry schemers," who, the grocers claim, sell one article at cost and make up on a number of others, the grocers claim that the cash and carry sys tem has been misrepresented to the advantage of grocers who use it un fairly in competition. The grocers say in their state ment that to adopt the cash and carry plan universally here would spell ruination to many of them, who, they say, are selling their wares at a "dangerously low profit" at the present time. A closer co-operation between the grocers and manufacturers is of fered as a solution to the high cost of living bugbear by the grocers, who gave the information that in many cases elaborately wrapped and ad vertised commodities purchased from the grocers are not worth as much as the wrapping and advertising alone cost. The statement of the "Grocers' Committee" follows: "On account of a lack of actual knowledge of the details of the prjic tical side of the grocery business, the facts regarding the cash and carry plan have been so much dis torted and misrepresented by the press that the public is being de ceived. The policy of conducting the so-called Vash and carry stores are at such variance with the ethics of the usual honorable business methods as to approach fraud. "It is claimed that six to eight cents can be saved on every dollar's worth of groceries if you carry your own packages. This is not only not true but is absurd and ridiculous and is made for the purpose of de ception or made through ignorance. "If this statement were true it would cost grocer as much to de liver goods as it costs him for rent, light, heat, insurance, telephones, clerk hire, paper, twine, etc., all combined, and any paper making such statements must presume that the people of this community are like a nest of young robins with their mouths open ready to swal low anything. "The propaganda as conducted tends to spread dissatisfaction among consumers and to entice them from the long established re liable grocers who have served them honestly and fairly for years to the cash and carry schemer, who sells one article at cost and makes up on another, a policy which many an upright man would not stoop to. "Any sane person knows that if a grocer pays eight cents for a loaf of bread and sells it for eight cents, he makes up on something else, or he could not stay in business any longer than he could beat his cred itors and get out of paying rent, unless perhaps he might like the Kaiser claim to be in partnership with the Higher Power who can do hiiracles. To Conserve Fooil * "If Mr. Cash and Carry does not malte up on other articles for those he sells at cost whv don't he sell all his goods at cost? A grocer who will practice deception will beat his customers when he has a chance. When a grocer sells an article at cost he loses money on it because he does not get hack *iis cost of doing business. An gro cer who prizes the confidence of his patrons and expects to serve them in the years to come will not resort to that kind of flimflam. "It is most • commendable, it is patriotic, it is our duty and our pleasure to conserve food even to the point of privation in order to feed well those who now lie in the trenches on foreign soil to protect our comfort and safety at home, and no class of businessmen are doing their bit more loyally nor more cheerfully than the grocers—those same grocers who served you be fore the advent of the cut price schemers, most of whom send theil profits away from Harrisburg .to maintain their estates in the fash ionable suburb of some large city, where they live in luxury. "It is honorable and legitimate for any grocer to fix a decent living profit on every article he sells and he will not undertake to deceive his customers by, offering them sensa tional prices on a few articles used as bait to conceal the sharp point of a crooked hook he expects to catch them on. The legitimate gro cers of Harrisburg are doing busi ness on dangerously small profits now. Several grocers have failed within the last year, five in one neighborhood, and others who could not live out of the profits of their stores have gone to work for wages. "It is not the object nor the de sire of any grocer to oppose the Food Administrator nor to retard the progress of his most commend able efforts to effect lower prices, but it is their desire to co-operate in every way and to give such aid and advice as only a practical gro~ cer who has actual knowledge of the details of the business Is able to give. * Not the Solution "He knows that the solution of the problem does not lie in the cash and carry plan, but he also knows that much can be accomplished in directly through the grocers by be ginning with the manufacturer. For instance, suppose the Heinz Com pany, who carry a stock #>f their goods In Harrisburg adopt the cash and carry plan and give reduced prices to the grocers, who cart their own goods, then the grocers could pass It along and give the benefit to their customers without impair ing their already too small profits. Why not Heinz sell all his pickles In bulk and save the cost of expen sive bottles, labels, etc., then the consumer could get twice as many pickles for the same money (for the packages actually cost more than the pickles) and it would not rob the grocer of his small profit. There are packages In a grocery store, where the package and ad vertising cost more than, thq con tents of the package and in the use of such goods the consumers throw away more than they eat. Why not supply the same goods In cheaper cartons without advertising and thus give the consumer the benefit of lower prices without any attempt to beat the grocer out of his small profits. "Why not give thf bakeries no flour at all for six months and let the government pay thfem their cus tomary dividends, then the house keepers would have to bake their own bread, but would have as much HJLRRISBURG TELEGRAPH! bread for four cents as they now get for ten cents and thus save six cents a loaf; and every family that uses three loaves of bread a day could save enough to pay for a tlfty dollar Liberty Bond every year. Does any sane person Imagine anything like this can ever be accomplished by the cash and carry plan. "Why not suspend the taxes and licenses on the manufacture and sale of buttorlne and give the con sumer the benefit Instead of under taking the Impossibility of cutting more out of the grocer. "Why not have a few beerless days, say six or seven a week, uso tho barley to fatten the hogs and save the corn so the boys In the camps and In the trenches can have a little good Johnnie cake occasion, ally. The barley so diverted would furnish a good substitute for six million loaves of bread a day. "We are enlisted for our best co operation with the Food Adminis tration apd subject to Its call to duty any time. "THE GROCERS' COMMITTEE." Partner's Divorced Wife Sues Leading Hazleton Operator For $250,000 Allentown, Pa., March 13.—John Markle, coal operator and one of the leading citizens of Hazleton, has been made defendant In a suit for .$"50,000 damages brought by Mrs. Alice Dlllinger Jessup, divorced wife of Albert B. Jessup, vice-president and gdneral manager of the G. B. Markle Coal Company, of which con cern the defendant is the president. Mrs. Jessup is the daughter of the late Colonel Jacob S. Dillinger, a prominent member of the Lehigh county bar, and is now living in this city with her 14-year-old daughter. The suit was brought in the courts of Lehigh county and the papers •were served on Mr. Markle on a train as he was on the way to his Hazle ton home from New York. The case is the outcome of the do mestic troubles of Mr. and Mrs. jes •sup. culminating in a divorce being granted to the husband in the courts of Idaho in February of last year. The grounds, It is stated, were "cruel and barbarous treatment," as well as desertion. Mr. Jessup, it was said, established a six months' residence in Idaho be fore he began the proceedings, al though his Wife now alleges in her complaint in the Markle suit that her husband, as a matter of fact, did not reside in Idaho during that period, but that he lived at Mont clalr, N. J., and continued In the service of the Markle Coal Company. In her statement Mrs. Jessup as serts she was maVried to Mr. Jessup June 23, 1897, and lived with him until May 14, ISI6, when, she alleges, Markle aided her husband to estab lish a false residence in Idaho, where divorce proceedings were started by him in August of the same year. 1 Spring Style Show Announcement 1 <H> OHHOBD BHBH wnmmmem m I Fashion's New Ideas In Spring | iCarments For Men and >' jg|r. 1 | Women Presented Thursday 1 | Friday and Saturday "|\ 1 H Three Days Of Unusual "f* J M Interest in Styles for Spring ' £ u sfk}''-k ira This is the most important season in years for W everybody to consider well what to buy and I jJm \ C ||| where to biiy. The War has caused great jM, / y ik \ ||| changes from one end of the land to the other 1 ' Hi and everybody should know by this time that it 5 is up to each qne individually to spend money m M Mil ifl For years we have been outfitters to the men iX.\- % W and women of this great community. Our . |§£ superb styles and high qualities have made thou- 111 ||| sands of friends for our store. And now—when s I life the value of the dollar must be weighed carefully 1 ||| —we are able to take care of our customers with ■ *jj \ • Hf best obtainable at the lowest consistent prices. I pi jpl And to this service we add the convenience of iWe Are Ready for Spring J j 1 || Women's Suits, Dresses and Coats 1:W §| |g v . Men's Suits and Top Coats ||l <|f values —and for future reference—it is well for you to in- <jj|| | GATELY & FITZGERALD SUPPLY CO. | p| HOME 27 - 29- 31 S. Second Si. [ FAMILY ] 8 H [FURNISHERS | ; >• THE DIFFERENT KIND OF A CREDIT STORE [CLOTHIERS] || Plan Drive to Enlist Youths as Workers A campaign will be launched hero next week, under the chairmanship of Dr. C. B. Fager. Jr., for enlist ment of boys in the United States Boys' ■fVorking Reserve, of the De partment of Labor. The drive will open, Saturday. The U. 8. Boys' Working Reserve Is u registered army of patriotic youths, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, organized under the U. S. Department of Labor to help the nation where most needed to win the war in Held and factory. Every boy physically fit, of proper age, is eligible for this non-military civilian army. He can serve his country in three separate units of the Reserve. If he goes into the agricultural unit, he will probably work on a firm from a camp, Or live in the farmer's family, and after six weeks of satisfactory service he Will receive a Federal Badge bearing the Great Seal of the United States. If he works in an industry which is essential In helping to win the war, he enteVs the Industrial Unit, a*nd gains the Federal bronze badge when he has served ten weeks sub sequent to enrollment The Reserve recommends that all boys who are at school remain there and use their spare time in preparing themselves vocationally for some essentia! oc cupation. The boy who thus trains himself and goes into active Bervlce in a war-essential occupation as a member of the Vocational Unit, is awarded the Federal Bronze Badge on taking employment. Lancaster Observance To Be One Day Only Lancaster, Pa.< March 13.—The' General Committee of the Lancas ter Centennial Celebration, which I was planning for a seven-day festi val in July, including parades and pageants, announced to-day that be cause of the war, the celebration would be limited to one hig histor ical. meeting to be held March 20, the centennial date. Governor Brumbaugh has been , invited to make the principal address. The committee includes the Rev. Dr. H. H. Appel, president of Frank lin and Marshall College: J. W. B. I Bailsman, M. T. Garvin, Congress man Greist, William H. Hager, Dep uty Attorney General Keller, Charl es B. Long. Lieutenant Governor MCClaln, Charles F. Miller, Richard M. Rellly, Morris Rosenthal, Mayor Trout, I. H. Weaver and Dr. H. B. Work. 15 ENLIST IN MILITIA Last night's results of recruiting for the Reserve Militia at the Arm ory brought in fifteen, making the total up-to-date an even forty. An other meeting is scheduled for Fri day night. Venice, Once Beloved Now Resembles Tombs Rome.—"Vnlce is a dead city. "Its many places of amusement, its cafes, its theaters, its beautiful hotels are deserted. Even its wind ing canals, once vibrant with life, are still and the reflections therein are dun. To walk among the build ings, picturesque and stately, Is to walk among tombs. It is heart breaking." So writes a Venetian in the Ga zette de Venezia, describing the fate that has overtaken the best loved city in the world. "I left Venice," he says, "for Rim ini, the new home of the fleeing Vepetians. "In the city of Rimini the Ameri can Red Cross has opened an im mense hospital for the care of civil ians. This Is in care of Professor Cavazzine, of Venice. "An automobile transport service is operated in connection with this institution. The. hospital has been stocked with supplies and Is fully equipped to care for the hundreds of refugees seeking relief and shelter within its doorß. The organization has contributed vast quantities of medicine, surgical dressings, bed clothing and food from its ware houses. "The first convoy of refugees from the threatened city reached Rimini I after a difficult and tiresome jour ney. The sorrowing Venetians were fatigued and desolate, but fortu nately there was very little sickness among them, and this greatly simpli fied the situation. Soon afterward came other convoys." HENRY P. MILLER Henry P. Miller, aged 69, died Monday afternoon, at the Pennsyl vania Railroad station. He was overcome by a heart attack upon leaving the train at Newport, and was taken to the waiting room where he died shortly afterward. He is survived by eight children. The remains were taken to Newport by Undertaker Charles H. Mauk, Sixth and Kelker streets. Funeral services will be conducted from the home of his son, John H. Miller, Thursday afternoon, and burial will be made in the Red Hill cemetery. THIRD SON ENLISTS Shamokln, Pa.—The departure this week of the Rev. Harry B. Strickland from Lebanon to Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., to serve as an army chaplain, makes the third sone of Mrs. J. R. Strickland, of this city, to enlist. Dr. J. Gardner Strick land was commissioned a lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps several months ago, and another son, Oliver Strickland, recently enlisted with the 35th Railroad Engineers. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. MARCH 13, 1918. Fanners Are Uurged to Test All Corn Ali farmers who expect to plant corn this year, will be wise if they test their seed corn immediately for germination says Secretary of Agri culture, Charles E. Patton. Many farmers who are counting on their own corn to germinate properly are being very much surprised with the actual tests they are getting. Corn which tested good laßt Thanksgiving wll! probably test very poorly now, If it has been exposed to the severe weather of this winter. Many in stances are on record at the State Depsirtment of Agriculture of the germination dropping from 90 per cent, to 30 per cent, on corn which has been exposed. The Bureau of Markets has found gieat difficulty In securing any quantity of corn testing 85 per cent, or better. They are on the constant lookout 'lor it, and any farmers who have corn suitable for seed, are re qaested to send in six representative ears as sample for germination test. The Bureau of Markets is Issuing a price list of a few lots of good seed corn for sale. All inquirers will re ceive a copy of this list promptly. Gen. Phil Sheridan's Brother Dead at 78 Washington.,— Brigadier-General Michael V. Sheridan, U. S. A., retir ed, died at his home here yesterday aged seventy-eight. General Sheri dan, who was a brother of Phil Sheridan, left active service at his own request in 1902. He was a native of Ohio, but had lived in Washington for fifteen years. He will be buried here to day. k NO HEADACHE OR NEURALGIA PAIN Get a 10 cent package of Dr. James' Headache Powders and don't suffer. When your head aches you simply must have relief ot you will go wild. It's needless t.o suffer when you can take a remedy like Dr. James' Head ache Powders and relieve the pain and neuralgia at once. Send someone to the drug store now for a dime package of Dr. James' Headache Powders. Don't suffer. In a few moments you will feel fine—head ache gonr—no more neuralgia pain. EX-SENATOR WAG NEK DIES Samuel C. Wagner died yesterday at the horn* of hl son In "Philadel phia. He was a former member of the State Senate. He had a. number of relatives in Harrlsburg and in' Cumberland county. Hx lived at I Newville. iRUB YOUR BACK! STOPS LUMBAGO Don't drug kidneys! Rub the-) pain right out with old "St. Jacobs Liniment" Back hurt you? Can't straighten up without feeling sudden pains, sharp aches and twinges? Now listen! That's lumbago, sciatica, or maybe from a strain, and you'll get blessed relief the moment you rub your back with soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Liniment." Nothing elsa takes out soreness, lameness and, i stiffness so quickly. You simply rub !it on and out comes the pain. It is perfectly harmless and doesn't burn or discolor the skin. V. Limber up! Don't suffer! Get a small trial bottle from any drug store, and after using it just once, you'll forget that you ever had back ache, lumbago or sciatica, because your back will never hurt or cause any more misery. It never disap points and has been recommended for 60 years. Stop drugging kidneys! They don't cause backache, because they have no nerves, therefore can not cause pain. 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