PLANES BUILT IN AMERICA IN FIRST FLIGHTS De Haviland Fours, Equipped With Liberty Motors, In vade Enemy Lines Washington, Aug. 17.—General Pershing yesterday advised the War Department that early in August a complete squadron of eighteen De Haviland Four airplanes, built in the United States and equipped with liberty motors, successfully carried out the first reconnaisance flight of American-built machines behind the German lines. They returned with out loss. In making this announcement, Secretary Baker said that Brigadier General Foulois, of the American- Air Service, led the expedition. This was the first report of General Pershing on American-built De Hav ilands to be made public. Tliaw on Trip Secretary Baker said his advices contained no other information re garding the flight except that Lieu tenant Blair Thaw was on the trip. The time and place of the flight, Mr. Baker considered it advisable to withhold. The announcement was consid ered by officers as seeing at rest rumdrs that! the De Haviland ma chines were not a success, and also as showing that the Liberty motors have now proved themselves in ac tual war conditions. Whether the squadron was at tacked was not stdfted. It would have been well able to take care of itself, however, as the machines, each carrying a pilot and observer, are equipped with four machine guns, as recommended by General Pershing many months ago. The flight undoubtedly was a scouting trip, and, probably many photographs of the enemy's works were brought back, the American photographic equipment for this service, devised since the war be gan, also coming in for final test. No recent figures on the produc tion of the De Haviland fours are available, and Secretary Baker would not sanction discussion of this phase pf the matter. It is re called. however, that the produc tion of the one thousandth machine at the plant of the Dayton-Wright Company was recently celebrated, and since then another great plant has come into quantity production. SHOOT AT PRESIDENT Monteveldo, Uruguay, Aug. 17.—An attempt was made to assassinate President Viera, of Uruguay, on Tuesday afternoon during rioting growing out of the recent general •strike,, actvrding to on afternocAi newspaper. The president, It says, was standing on a balcony when fired at and the bullet missed him by a narrow margin. ' \; STERLING Cord and Fabric TIRES G^^ED 5000 MILES PLUS FREE REPAIRS Keystone Sales Co. G.G.GOLLING, Mgr. , 108 Market St. How are your chandeliers — look pretty bad? Wouldn't you have them refinished if the cokt was reasonable? Phone us or drop us a card and have our representative cali. When you find out how little it costs you will certainly have the work done. We replate, polish and re pair art metal fixtures of every description. " Automobile Work a Specialty AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES AND SUPPLIES OF ALL KINDS P. H. KEBOCH 111 Market St. Successor to Retail Department of Front- Market Motor Supply Co. SATURDAY EVENING, COUNTIES LOSE UNLESS THEY PAY State Treasury Insists on Bills Being Met Before Cash Bonus Is Paid Over I laaHMiik A number of \ \\ /Tm the counties certl \\\ fie d by the State VOoA Highway Depart- S| ment for payment I of the cash road I tax bonus are not getting all that I Sqlwiinßrawl the y were put " tfilß I down * or from I iaa&tSMILSHIU the State Treas- Sc- urer because he BlMßaiSEnwMril has found that they owe Fathor Penn rnoiley. It was discovered that some of the townships had failed to pay their shares of cost construction of high ways and had fallen into arrears in other respects. Some of them owe hundreds of dollars to the state through recent court decisions. Treasurer H. M. Kephart has sent the counties notices that they owe the state money and has given them thirty days in which.to arrange pay ments. Meanwhile th'py are not shar ing in the distribution which is be ing made to townships which com plied with all state highway require ments and also paid their bills. Just Oilicers. Just 9,369 voluhteer slate policemen have been commissioned at the State Capitol under the act of 1917. These police men have in many cases assisted in the formation of home defense units and also in training drafted men. They have been organized according to wards, boroughs and townships and some have been called out on trial summons this summer. Need Teachers. Difficulties of county school superintendents in ob taining teachers for the opening of the fall term of schools next month are commencing to be heard of at the offices of the S.tate Board of Edu cation. In sortie rural districts teachers who had retired years ago are returning to help out and in others volunteers have offered their services so that opening of schools will not be delayed. The shortage of teachers Is worse than ever shown in the state and is most severely felt in the rural counties. New Coal Companies. Over a score of coal companies have been granted Pennsylvania state charters in the last six or seven ac cording to records at the State Capi tol. In addition several companies have received charter papers to en gage in coal dredging. The latter companies are for the anthracite re gion and as the scarcity of coal con tinues it is expected that there will he further applications for letters patent. The bulk of the companies chartered to mine coal have been l'or the bituminous region, some of them having capitalizations of as high as $200,000. The incorporation of coal companies the last two years has been the greatest aver known at thej Capitol. Watch Cattle Feeds.—Suggestions! of vigilance' in state supervision of the cattle feeding stuffs being sold in Pennsylvania are contained in the report of the analysis of over 1,200 samples made in 1917 by Chief Chemist J. W: Kellogg, of the State Department of Agriculture. It is stated that weed seeds and fiber ap peared in some feedings and in oth ers excessive amounts of oat hulls were discovered and in some ground up peanut hulls. The restriction in the use of certain by-products made necessary marty changes in formulas and registrations, especially in the grains from breweries and distiller ies. Selling prices were reported to have generally advanced. Public Service. —The Public Serv ice Commission, which will have exe cutive sessions in this city Monday and Tuesday, has scheduled hearings for this city and Pittsburgh Wednes day and Thursday. Monday a con ference will be held here in J.he com plaint of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce against the proposed dis continuance of the Pennsylvania railroad station in that city. Wednes day the proposed sale of the Eddy stone and Delaware River Railroad Company to the Philadelphia, Balti more and Washington railroad and several grade crossings in Philadel phia and Chester counties will come up, together with the controversy at Hanover between the Conewago Gas Company and the Hanover and McSherrystown Water Company. Rich Withdraws. M. B. Rich, member of the last House from Clin ton county, who was nominated for Congress-at-Large on the Roosevelt- Progressive ticket by scattering votes, to-day filed his withdrawal at the State department. Townships Object. Complaints were filed with the Public Service Commission to-day by Abington town ship. Montgomery county; Haverford township, Delaware county, and Upper Darby township, Delaware county, against the new rates for fire pretec tion filed by the Springfield Consol idated Water Company, in accordance with an order by the Public Service Commission. It is alleged that they are far greater than paid under the old system because of the addition for; fines. A similar complaint was filed a few days ago by Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, which alleged Nhat the increase was over 1,000 per cent. The complaints will be sent, to the Springfield Company for answer. Ilr. Hull to Inquire. Dr. H. L. Hull, associate chief medical inspec tor of the Department of Health, will go to Downtngtown to make an in vestigation into tlie causes of the typhoid outbreak in that vicinity. Companies Fight. The Slate Belt Electric Company, which operates in Northampton county, has filed com plaint against the Pennsylvania Util ities Company, of Easton, alleging that it refuses to furnish power. Papers For Bechtel. —Sets of nom inating petitions for Judge H. O. Bechtel, of the Schuylkill county I courts, as a candidate for the su preme court were taken out at the Capitol to-day. Saturday seems to be the day for candidates to secure pa pers as the last thjee Saturdays re quests have come for the blanks. The time for filing will expire late in September. Leane Scheduled. The Philadel phia Rapid Transit Company, lease is scheduled for consideration by the Public Service Commission when it meets on Monday in executive session, but whether action will be taken or not is not certain. Big Meeting. Representatives of building and loan associations from all over Eastern Pennsylvania are ex pected to meet with Attorney General Brown and his deputies in Mr. Brown's Philadelphia office on Tues day to discuss the effect of the re cent decision that such associations may not invest in Liberty Bonds. Germans Seize Greatest of Russian Forts, Says Report Purls, Aug. 17.—Reports are in cir culation In Finland that the Germans have seized the Russian naval port of Kronstadt, according to a Stock holm dispatch to La Matin. Kronstadt Is twenty miles west of Petrograd at the eastern extremity of the Gulf of Finland. It was the principal fortress of Russia. Reports received through Germany early in the week were to th% effect that Premier Lenlne and War Minister Trotzky had fled to Kronstadt from Moscow. It was added that other de partments of the Soviet government also would go thera. SPROUL VISITS BIG PATH VALLEY PICNIC CROWDS Gubernatorial Candidate Re ceives Notable Welcome in Franklin County RECEIVES MANY PLEDGES People From Half a Dozen Counties Gather; Dry Run Among Dryest Today Cliambtrsburg, Aug. 17.—Senator William C. Sproul, Republican can didate for Governor, was the central figure at the big Path Valley picnic, held annually In Hammond's woods, to-day. The gubernatorial candidate reached here at 9.30 o'clock over the Cumberland Valley Railroad and was met at the station by County Chair man David L. Greenawalt, former Superintendent of Public Printing and Bindhig A. Nevln Pomeroy, United States Commissioner Norman L. Bonbrake and other Franklin county Republican leaders. He made the twenty-flve-mlle journey to the picnic ground by automobile. The crowd, which has varied in past years from 5,000 to 10,000, probably is not as great to-day. for the great war Is on. Many who in years past have left their fields for the event have, by the demands of the crisis, stuck to their furrows and l'ood-producing tasks, but there are enough here to place the picnic in the front ranks of Franklin county's celebrations. For many ydhrs this picii'c has orawn hundreds of people who decide November elections and the shrewd political guides ' bidden their party candidates come hither to meet the freemen of the greater part of the Seventeenth Con gressional district, the battleground of many notable contests and made famous iri local political history by the candidacy of such men as the late William S. Stenger, Louis F. Atkinson, the lamented Thad. M. Mahon, soldier and Congressman. Invariably, the candidates in Frank lin. Fulton, Perry, Huntingdon and Juniata have come here to shake hands with their fellows. It has been a gathering where votes are made and lost, depending, of cottrse, upon the utterances of candidates when they could be prevailed upon to state their issues and their positions on public questions. To-day the great war is the uppermost topic and events overseas are discussed on ev ery side. Accompanied by Chairman Green await, the active head of Franklin county Republicans and who stepped into the shoes of Chairman Dr. Joseph P. Maclay, son of a worthy father and former Assemblyman Dr. David Maclay, when the son entered the service of the Army, Senator Sproul is shaking hands with the hundreds of voters of all political faiths. Here, too, are former leaders in hard-fought county and district contests, making the gubernatorial candidate welcome and presenting him to the crowds that have come for miles around to 866* the next Governor. During the day speeches have been made by Senator Sproul, Colonel W. C. Bambrick, of the Scotland Indus trial school; Postmaster William Alexander and Prof. J. L. Finafrock, assistant superintendent of the Franklin county schools. Red Cross workers to-day tagged thousands for war funds and before the middle of the afternoon hundreds of dollars had been secured. Music was furnished during the day by the Queen City band, of Chambersburg. The story was told to-day of a po litical meeting during the Cleveland campaign that was new to the guber natorial candidate. At Sylvan a num ber of county Democrats, chief among whom were the present post master of Chambersburg. William Alexander, and John G. Orr, both at the time Democratic leaders. One of them was addressing Democrats at a night meeting. The Cleveland men were gathered close about the store box on which the orator stood. In the background, but within hearing, were a number of old-line Repub licans who had come to hear them selves laid out. "I tell you, men," said the speakers in the course of his address, "if Cleveland is elected next November there won't be a Re publican get an "office in the next forty years." There was applause for a nunute and then one of the Re publicans, in language that was more forcible than elegant, slapped his hat on the ground. For a little while laughter prevented the speaker from proceeding. When it had subsided the speaker continued uninterrupted to the end. Picntc luncheons are everywhere and there is an abundance of spring chicken, the same kind that drew from United States Senator Penrose once upon a time the remark that he had never eaten better chicken any where than that served him a num ber of years ago at the Path Valley picnic. Perhaps it tasted better be cause the Senator had eaten it in old-fashioned picnic fashion, seated on the ground in Hammond's woods, with friends of his own political IX rifeJkT"' ' I * car backed by ■ fflr-HV 1 "RELIABLE" com- I Jul l> " 1 ' knowing the I reputation of that I | "* company to back up I PL*""" every statement made, I 1 \J among used car buyers, who know auto I values, for selecting their cars from us. ™ I 800 CARS TO CHOOSE FROM. 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From 15,000 to 20,000 tons of foundry iron which the Bethlehem Steel Company owes on contracts, but which, it cannot deliver because of the government's request that it concentrate on basic, low phosphorus, spiegeleisen and ferro-manganese, has been allocated to other furnaces. By-product coke production con tinues to increase at a very satis factory rate .although all work on by-product ovens has been greatly retarded for more than a year by scarcity of labor and materials. The production at the Clairton plant of the Carnegie Steel Company has in creased to such an extent that the requirements of all three of the Clairton furnaces are being supplied, representing about 10,000 net tons of coke a month. This is the output of the first battery of 128 ovens. The second battery will get into operation in from thirty to sixty days, and the next three probably before the end of the year. Six additional batteries are expected to be completed in 1919; and Clairton will then have a by product coking plant appjoximately twice as large as any other in the world, the largest at present being one at Gary, Ind. By-product coke is now being produced at the rate of 27,000,000 net tons a year. Built Railroad in France in One Hundred Days Paris, Aug. 17.—A railway more than 130 miles in length behind the French front has been built in fewer than 100 days and yesterday was opened for traffic. Its purpose is to improve the communication between the northern and southern parts of the northern railway system. The construction involved the building of two important bridges and a tunnel 375 yards in length. Premier Clemenceau, who was pres ent at the opening, said: "All France is working until the day when victory shall come, a day of which the dawn is breaking." Miners Leave For Better Pay in Other Work tVllkes-Barre, Aug. 17.—What is hampering coal production? Operators and union leaders in the anthracite region agree that the fundamental trouble is in a lack of labor. But they plMce different in terpretations on the cause of the labor shortage. "High wages paid in other Indus tries attract our unskilled labpr," say the operators. "Low wages paid In this industry force unskilled labor out of it," say the labor leaders. Disagreement is also expressed on the question of the automatic draft exemption of mine workers. Union leaders say the men won't accept de ferred classifications and that they rush to enlistment stations, or at least don't dodge army duty, although they are entitled to do so. Union leaders want "draft regulations so worded that a miner is automatically exempted from military dutjj, On the other hand, the operators, while expressing no antagonism to automatic draft exemption, say they are willing to "put it up to General Crowder." * . YANKEE AVIATORS VICTORS With tho American Army in France, Aug. 17.—Three'aerial vic tories ,two of which already have been confirmed officially, were achieved Thursday by American aviators. Lieutenants Putnam, Drew and Stiles. O faith around him serving up the po litical crumbs gathered for a week ! prior to the Senator's appearance. The picnic is an absolutely "dry" affair, for the hotel bar at Dry Run, following a precedent established many years ago, is closed for the day. Almost every resident of the Path Valley capital, as it is called to-day, is here. Automobiles and teams by the hundreds stand around I and there are many persons who have made the Journey on foot. It is the one great day in the year for Path Valley and it is being enjoyed to the full by those who are here. 1 II ■ . I "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" Eight" Big Clothing Men " With the "Live Store" j IF. E. WOOD p. EDGAR HESS The enormous patronage this "Live Store" now 1 enjoys is the reward from selling standardized merchandise, giving S you the service you expect or a "little better" than you expect—ln this way you and your friends prefer to come here. We are in business to take |i care of your needs, to sell you clothes and to give you service. The clothes we sell are Atdeß. the best quality obtainable. Buying clothes is always the simple matter that it sounds—A man demands nuch of a suit of clothes that he often finds it difficult to be sfied on every point—He wants good material, fine workman >, a style that will last and a model that will fit. i looking for all these qualities you can't be 8 ith "just any suit." You must get a garment of high must go to a merchant whom you can "depend on" to give you the -Next time you want the best that's to be had in every branch of the less, y the Dependable Doutrich Service 1 at Everybody Is Talking About | ET STREET HARRISBURG, PA. | V • urg Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx and Kuppenheimer Clothes I AUGUST 17, 1918. 7
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