GOMPERS VISITS BIRTHPLACE IN LONDON EAST END American Labor Leader Re members Scenes of His Childhood Davs London. Thursday. Aug. 30. —Sam- uel Gompers, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, to-day vis ited his boyhood"home where he was born sixty-eight years ago. It was an event of great importance in the little section of East London, known as Spittlegate. Mr. Gompers had only visited England once before since he had left England as a boy to seek his fortune in America. His previous Visit was nine years ago. Mr. Gompers was accompanied to day on the journey to Fort Street by several members of the American Labor mission. They went down in two .American Army automobiles and got out at the street corner. Mr. Gompers stopped when he alighted and standing in the middle of the Best For Backache, Rheumatism, Lumbago Wonderful -Oth Century Liniment Can .Now lie Obtained at All DruK Stores. In Guaranteed. The shooting, tearing pains of Neu ralgia. 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E| Many Odd Pieces Now AT HALF PRICE I I6RT . <£= Solid Mahogany 2-door Bookcase, djl O Crt P regularly $25.00; now 1£ d\j H Gothic Queen Anne Arm Chair, 1 7 Cft j||| Nubian finish, regularly S3SDO; now P 1 / •<3vl jig Mahogany Tea Table and Tray, (||| i OC g regularly $22.50; now vP 1 1 p Decorated Red Chinese Lacquer Queen Anne p IH Arm Chair; regularly $30.00; Cj 1 C I pi now $ 1 O.UU j|§ Metal Bond Boxes, Mahogany fin- d Q gA TJ: pj ish, regularly ssuoo; now p Jacobean Oak Nest of Tables (4), *1 £ Nl regularly $30.00'; now tp A OevlU P ||. Limbcrt Fumed Oak Arm Chair, genuine Spanish |p g=j leather loose cushion seat and back, &00 Ef/"! fH I regularly $45.00; now Fumed Oak Breakfast Table, (tins s\rv ir regularly $42.00; now 1 e vJv/ Decorated Enamel Juvenile Bedroom Suite, four |§ pieces; regularly $75.00; (haw P now CpO I ,DU | Ivory Enamel Triple Mirror Toilet Table and £1 Chest of Drawers to match, regu- d* O O C P larfy $62.50; now fH Ivory Enamel Dresser, Adam de- d? A O j sign, regularly $85.00; now v|)4ZI!)U p v Mahogany finish Comfort Rocker, d* j* f\f\ p saddle seat, regularly $10.00; now ... SDUU j<l ja All Our Remaining Stocks of [Jj I Porch Swings and Couch Hammocks at l /-2 Price |j COLDSMITH'S 8 NORTH MARKET SQUARE FRIDAY "jiViiNimj. NEARLY 3,000,000 GERMAN LOSS IN KILLED ALONE By Associated Press London. Aug. 30. —It is esti mated by experts here that the German losses in killed alone now reach a total of more than two million and probably approach three million. These figures were given out after a study of tables of German and Allied losses which have been published. street recalled many scenes of his boyhood. "The old street has not changed much," he said, as he stood in front of the house which .had been his home for many years. "That old public house on the corner looks ex actly as it did when I used to listen to the crowd of old cigarmakers dis cussing politics there in the evening when 1 was a mere slip of a boy." While Mr. Gompers was talking an old woman of over 80 years, wear ing a long gray shawl, hobbled up, looked at the stranger a moment and then broke in: "I know you, Sam Gompers," she said. "Many's the time I gave you a piece of my mind when y#>u used to live there," pointing to the house where Mr. Gompers was born. The old woman had not seen him since he left London as a youthful appren tice cigarmaker. Mr. Gompers spent some minutes talking over old times with her. asking about various boy hood playmates. The little group of labor men was surrounded by n great throng of Spittlegate people, many of them children. grandchildren and even great-grandchildren of persons whom he remembered as neighbors of his father and mother. Spittlegate is deep in the interior of London's East End. which is not so different from New York's East Side, except that it is greater in ex tent and much older. Never before had American Army automobiles been seen in remote Fort street. In the afternoon Mr. Gompers called at American Army headquar ters to see Major General Biddle and Surgeon General Winter. Afterward he paid a surprise visit on Major Endicott. the American Red Cross Commissioner, at Red Cross head quarters. Arrangements were made pitals to-morrow to distribute cigars to seven hundred Americans, sick or wounded, who recently have ar rived in London from the western front. GIRL OPERATORS AT STEEL PLANT Steelton N Items Men Will No Longer Operate Telephone Exchanges, It Is Announced When calling the Bethlehem Steel Company exchange at the local steel plant in the future you will not hear the gruff voice of a male operator. After employing male operators for several years, officials of the local plant find it impossible to retnin the men for this kind of work and are again going back to girl operators. Announcement that the change would become effective in the near future, was made at the local steel plant office this morning. Officials could not say when the new ruling would become effective, but were of the opinion that it would be some time early next month. Seven male operators are now em ployed at the two exchanges. These operators work in eight-hour shifts. Officials of the pjant said this morn ing that this number of girl oper ators in addition to a girl to act as chief operator, would be employed. The hours for working would be sim ilar to the present schedule, it is un derstood. Several years ago girl? had been! employed as operators but were un able to handle the work. Male oper ators were employed and were able to do the work up to this time. Con-j ditions brought about by the war make It necessary to again use girl operators at the exchanges, officials say. Tlje men will be used on more important work. BAND CONCERT The Steelton band in charge of Di rector Zala will give its weekly con cert in the Lawn playgrounds this evening. A program including some high class selections will be present ed by the local musicians. FOUR ARRESTS Four persons were arrested last evening by patrolmen of the local police department on charges of drunk and disorderly. They will be given a hearing before Burgess Mc- Entee this evening. VISITING IN HIGHSPIRF, • Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Huck, of Pitts burgh, are visiting at the home of their relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cowdrey and Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Melehoir, of Highspire. DEATH FOR BRUTE IS DEMAND OF CITY [Continued from First Page.] everybody take a shot at him; I'll take the first shot." Mercer B. Tate said: "I suggest this punishment for Bill the Hun: a patrol of Allied boats around an island, .al lowing him no communication with any one but himself, which would eventually give him a lingering, tough demise." "To Fit tlie Crime" W. D. Block, city license tax com missioner was brief and positive. "Commence cutting him just under the ears." I Charles Tress, city supervisor of j the lower district, had this inspira j tion: "Dig a hole in the earth, with a picture of the sinking Lusitania nearby. Bury the Kaiser up to his arms; and then furnish him good food and drink, but as he is about to reach for it. cut off his fingers." George A. Schreiner, superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings was willing for anything. "Let the pun ishment fit the crime" he suggested. Ex-Mayor William J. Bowman does not believe we will have to worry ourselves with devising punishment for the Potsdam ruler. "I would like to see him shorn of his power." he says, "but as for his punishment, well, the war will take care of that." Bishop Philip R. McDqvttt, of the Harrisburg Diocese of the Catholic church, does not believe in looking into the future for suitable rewards for the 4 archmurderer. "We must give our undivided attention to winning the war now; than we can consider just desserts for him," he maintains. HANGING TOO GOOD "I'd try the Indian method—strap him to the ground and leave a nest of red ants eat him alive. They could eat all his flesh In four hours." ground out J. Edward Wetzel, chief of police, as he struck his desk a mighty blow with his fist. "What would I do with the Kais er?" said Fire Chief Kindler, "I'd quarter him, preserve the parts in alcohol, and exhibit them all over the world and that would be too good for him." "I've given the question a lot of thought," said Warren R. Jackson, secretary of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, "and nothing I've heard of is bad' enough. I'd heap all the punishment together, and add some more for good measure. Hang ing is much too good for him." "I'd dethrone him and imprison him for life, If not shoot him." was the terse way John E. Fox. ex-senator and present city solicitor, said, as he proceeded to sign some Induction papers in the office of Draft Board No. 1 which would send some more young men on their way to captur ing him. "I'd like to put his head on an an vil, apply an ax to his neck, and say 'Here goes nothing' said Thomas B. Wilson, veteran elevatorman in the Commonwealth Trust building. Taste of Own Gas Dr. Hugh Hamilton, army surgeon for 37 years, and now examining phy sician at the Harrisburg recruiting station, said "Gas him or hang him, just as you would any one in your neighborhood who committed the same atrocities." "Cut his body in silts, put salt in the wounds, and hang him up by the toes, "said Earl M. White, chief clerk to the chief of police, who has had experience in treating criminals for what ails them. "I'd let water drip on him till he goes insane and dies." said J. H. Rlneer, traffic officer at Second and Walnut. "No, put him in a cage, and stir 'him up so he can't sleep, then exhibit him to the people with a charged admission, the money to go to the Red Cross, said Complaint Clerk Henry Buch. "What I would do to the Kaiser Is not fit for publication." said J. Clyde Myton. secretary of the Harrisburg district Liberty Loan Committee. "Put him on a steeple, and whirl him around and let the people in the street take shots at him with guns, that's what I'd suggest," said C. C. Backenstoss, the mayor's private secretary. Harry B. Schiffman, top sergeant at the Harrisburg recruiting station, summed them all up when ha said. "I'd give him a lingering death, and I'd have to study a long time before I could think of anything frightful enough.' lIARRISBURG tigTELEGRAPH Negro Hits Laborer Over Head For Working Slow Because he thought a fellow em ploye 'in the coke oven department of the steel plant wasn't carrying enough bricks to earn his daily wage, Allen Miller, 26, Locust Grove, proceeded to give hint a lashing out. Miller had no sooner started to reprimand his fellow workman un til he was in deep trouble. Miller, it is said, angered at the workman bo cause he would not follow out his j orders, pulled a knife QUt of his pocket and cut the workman in the neck. In taking his part the work man picked up a piece of gas pipe, it is understood, and struck Miller over the head. Miller is now in the hospital believed to have a frac tured skull and the fellow workman is in the borough lockup. EXAMINE REGISTRANTS Of the sixty-two registrants of Au gust 24. examined yesterday by lo cal draft board physicians, a large j number passed physically. The best | part of this bunch of registrants will j make up the September quotas as j many of them have no claim for ex emption, officials say. ARREST STARRER James Walker, a West Side negro, is in the borough lockup pending a hearing before Justice of the Peace Stees on a charge of stabbing Frnk Hughes early yesterday morning. Walker was arrested last evening by Detective Durnbaugh. HELD FOR COVRT At a hearing before Justice of the Peace Stees last evening, Prudecio Madrigal and Jose Vargas, two Mex icans, were held for court on a charge of robbery preferred by Lovro Susie, a West Side foreigner. The two Mexicans were arrested by Patrolman Pearson late Tuesday night when the officer came upon them as they were about to relieve the foreigner of his money at a dark spot in Iron alley. TO SPEAK HERE The sufferings of the Armenian people and his escape to America ■will be told by John D. Teramian, an Armenian refugee, who will speak in the Main Street Church of God on Sunday evening. NO HOLIDAY MONDAY The local steel plant will be oper ated as usual on Labor Day. it was announced at the main offices of the company this morning. Not any of the departments will be closed down, it was stated. Little out of the or dinary will mark the observation of the day in the borough. Holiday hours will be observed at the post, office and at the local banks. •EXPECTS 5,000 REGISTRANTS C. C. Cumbler. chairman of the local draft board, said this morning between 4,000 and 5,000 men would likely register under the new orders. Preparations are being made for the registra'ion of this number, he said. , INSTITUTE AT HTGHSPTRE Members of the Woman's Mission ary Association and the Otterbein Guild of the local Centenary United Brethren Church will attend a mis siohary institute in the Highspire United Brethren Church to-morrow afternoon and evening. Miss Elsie Hall, Davton, Ohio, general secre tary ot the Otterbein Guild, will coh duct the institute. STEELTON MEN'S BIBLE CLASS ON OUTING TO HERSHEY Members of the Men's Bible class of St. John's Lutheran Sunday school of Steelton, and a few friends went to Hershey in eighteen automobiles last evening for an outing. At Her shey they had dinner on the portico of the Hershey cafe. Nisley Mumma, president of the class, was toastmas ter and Frank B. Wickersham. the teacher and the Rev. George N. Lauf fer, the pastor, responded to toasts. Singing was a feature. MINISTER RETURNS The Rev. C. B. Segelken. pastor of the Frist Presbyterian Church, who has been engaged in Y. M. C. A. war work at Camp Dix, N. J., during the summer, will preach in the Pres byterian Church on Sunday, both morning and evening. At the even ing service the Rev. Mr. Segelken will speak of some of his experiences with the soldiers. In this address he will give a clear conception of life in a Y. M. C. A. hut, the people you meet, the work that is being done, the results that are being achieved, with special emphasis on the Chris tian service that is being rendered. BRENNER TO GO TO CAMP Thomas H. Brenner, 1318 Penn street, the man who has a wife and three children dependents and who wants to go to war to avenge his brother's death, will leave next Thursday for Camp Greenleaf, Lytle, Ga. The draft board of the first city district put Brenner in that quota to day. Brenner had been in class 4 by reason of his having a family, but he moved the draft board on Monday of this week to advance him to the first class. Upon passing the physical ex amination he asked to be sent with the next quota. PROGRESS S. S. PICNIC Under the auspices of the Progress Church of God Sunday School, a pic nic will be held in Fishburn's Grove, near Progress. to-morrow. Games end prominent speakers will be in cluded on the program. Music will be furnished by the Elliott-Fisher Company band of Harrisburg. A cordial invitation has been extended to everybody to come to the festiv ities. Good Bye Corns You Are Going Now Take them out roots and all. Mere ly cutting the top oft! with a razor or burning it off with' caustic liquids, pastes, plasters, etc., is wasting time. Also It is risking blood-poisoning or even lock-jaw. Cutting the top off a tooth wouldn't stop it from aching. Same way with a corn. Get after the root. That is what causes all the pain by pressing on sensitive, irri tated nerves. $lOO.OO Reward Offered This amount will be paid if anyone proves that saltrated water, prepared us directed below and used for a rea sonable time, is not the equal of any treatment ever perfected for geting rid of corns, callouses, etc., or for excessive perspiration, tenderness, aching, etc. To produce saltrated water, just dissolve a small handlul of refined Rodell bath saltrates In plain hot water. This forms a re freshing, medicated and oxygenated foot bath. The following and other local druggists keep Rodell bath saltrates already put up in packages of convenient sizes and at very low prices: Keller's Drug Store, O. A. Gorgas, Clark's Medicine Store, H. C. Kennedy. Satisfaction is of course fruaranteed or money back immediate y and without question. GREAT RAID ON "MOONSHINERS" IS SUCCESSFUL Five Outlaws and Two Sher iffs Are Killed and Many Wounded in Roundup By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 30.—The biggest intensive roundup of illicit whisky distillers ever undertaken by the government lias just been completed in southern mountain districts by revenue agents under direction of Internal Revenue Commissioner Dan iel C. Roper. The activities of the agents re suited in the seizure of 486 stills, arrest of 200 moonshiners, killing of five outlaws and two sheriffs and the wounding of a number of other gov ernment men and liquor makers. This systematic campaign of raids has been under way eight weeks, mainly in mountains of Tennessee. Alabama, Georgia. Florida. North Carolina and South Carolina— all dry states—but arrests were withheld until to-day to avoid giving advance information to moonshiners of the activities of a Hy ing squadron of fourteen experienced revenue agents. More than 30,000 gallons of pale The New Store M Strouse The Thinking Man Knows fir 1 That $30.00, $32.50 and $35.00 New Fall Suits . $ 24- 0 \ W7fl save him a lot of good American money that x. l\ M would have to be invested later, at any rate, if he wants mml M clothes like these and buys them on toward winter B!jj|k / / / This clothing "scoop" has "taken" well with men ) j / / who are on the alert. These suits are selling fast. // t j The choice for Saturday will be fine. You may y j I j select from— f 111 Regulars Stouts Slims Short Stouts Long Stouts / / / ' Serges Worsteds Cheviots Cassimeres Homespuns ' Black and Blue Unfinished Worsteds You Can Get Excellent Follow the Crowd of Boys CL- . . do J do rn to the New Store F° r ohirts at $1 and n i l Q** af the New Store MING the hoy here Saturday for his school ■ cl'i /xl x i MI clothes. We've taken extra precautions this lt/ibTRIC Shirts —scores or them to select from . . , iff H • • xx j t l .i season to insure the very utmost in value for AVM —all choice in pattern and far above the , , . . • .. , / i• x • xl , x • i t school clothes, and the wear these stylish clothes usual ran of shirts in the quality of materials of ■ „ > , . , . will give wiU prove our work, which they are made „ , All the Finest Materials Fine Satin Striped Madras an in All Sizes and Correct Styles $6.50 $7.50 $lO Harrisburg's Specialty Store For Men and Boys—3lo Market Street moonshine whisky was seized and poured down mountain streams. Over $lOO,OOO worth of illicit copper stills of all sizes and other paraphernalia, automobiles, horses, mules and wag ons belonging to the distillers was taken by the flying squadron. Extraordinary significance is at tached to the concerted raids because Revenue Commissioner Roper under took the enterprise largely to demon strate that prohibition really can be made effective. In addition the purpose was to dry up the sources from which great quantities of moonshine liquor has been furnished clandestinely to sol diers in Southern training camps. 1,500 Attend Picnic of Oakdale Grangers More than 1,500 people took part in the Oakdale Grangers' picnic on the farm-of Frank Cassel. near Beav er Station, yesterday where the first pig club roundup was conducted, and an extensive tractor demonstration was given. Eight makes ot tractors were used In the demonstration. A wheat conservation demonstra tion was conducted by Miss Plott. under the auspices of the Dauphin County Farm Bureau. Representa tives of the 'State Department of Agriculture, and H. G. Nlesley, county farm agent, made addresses. Prizes were awarded as follows to various members of the Oakdale Pig Club: First. Earl Mengle, one pure bred pig valued at $l5; second, David Espenstiade, a baby bond; third, Ray Mengle, ar. agricultural book; fourth , AUGUST 30, 1918 and fifth, Albert Espenshade and John Zimmerman, one year's subscription each, to an agricultural magazine. COUNTY LEADS IN STATE IN CONSERVATION HESUI.TS Reports from the State Fuel and Food Administrators show that Dau phin county is leading the state tn the amount of conservation by house holders and others. The local food and fuel administrations will not let up their efforts to continue the good work, and they are indeavorlng to September Victor Records Will Be On Sale Saturday, Aug. 31st V at the J. H. Troup Music House 15 South Market Square Come in and hear them. There are some very good ones make an even better report ' nextil month. 2(10,000 BRICKS ORDERED New Cumberland. Pa., Aug. 30. E. E. Flurrie has received an order", from the government for 200,000' bricks. Work on the contract win begun yesterday. • "The hard road of experience ia| softefied by the strains of music." SPANGLER MUSIC HOUSE. 2112 North Sixth Street. —Advj
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