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LXXXVTI— No. 213 14 PAGES "'Mm .HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1918. ON y! m'unlS h" kss
BULGARS ARE FACING
DISASTER AS ALLIES
GAIN IN MACEDONIA
German Counterattacks Are
Repulsed by British and
French Armies Who Are
Forging Steadily On
AMERICAN FRONT MARKED BY
INCREASE IN AIR FIGHTING
Enemy Forces Split Open by Advanc
ing Allies in the Balkans; Size of
Victory Is Growing Steadily
By Associated Press |
in the encircling of St. Qucn-j
tin and in driving the German
and Bulgarians northward in
Macedonia the allied armies arc]
making further progress against'
increased enemy resistance.
Northwest of St. Quentin the]
British have followed up the al-j
lied success of yesterday in i
which the British and French,
made further gains toward the i
town from the west, and are
pushing forward in the direction
of the jiorthwestcrn suburbs.
Heavy fighting is taking place in
the regions of Gricourt, less than
three miles north-northwest, and
Selency, two and one-half miles
northwest. The British are ad
vancing despite counterattacks
I>v the Germans, who were re
pulsed with severe losses.
French Artillery Active
On the French sector to the j
south only the artillery has been I
active. Between the Ailctte and
the Aisnc the French have re-1
pulsed German attacks in the j
important territory about Moisy
farm at the western end of the
Chemin des Dames.
While the events along the
I'icardy front in Frartce lack the!
sensational elements which at-1
tend the lighting in Macedonia i
and Palestine, they are, never
theless of great importance. St.
Quentin apparently is almost
within the grasp of the French
and British.
Bulgarians Split Apart
Apparently the allies in Mace
donia have completed the -split
ting apart of the German-Bui-1
garian forces east and west of I
the Vardar. The Serbians are!
pressing northwestward along;
the river toward Yeles which the
enemy apparently will not he
, iblc ta hold, as other allied forces]
are marching northward in that!
direction from Prilep.
Standing on the heights along!
the Bulgarian frontier east of the
SOME PEOPLE
HERE THROW
, MONEY AWAY
You can save and
help lick Bill s ;
USE THE WAR
STAMP SYSTEM
-
I THE WEATHER]
For Ilnrrisliurg nnil vicinity) i
Partly, cloudy to-niKht nnd
Thurktlnyt not much change In
temperature.
For Eastern IVnnK.ylvalllll: Part
ly cloudy to-niKht nnd Tliura
tlayi prohuhly light rain In
north portion) slightly warmer
to-nlKht In north portion;
Itentlc, shifting winds.
River
The Susquehanna river nnd nl Itn
branches will continue to fall.
Tempernture: 8 n. m„ 52.
River Stage! 8 it. m.,-5.1 feet above
low-wnter mark.
General t (.millions
There him hern n general rise of
2 to 14 degrees In tempernture
In the nouthwMt .and over
nearly nil the country runt of
the Mississippi river, except In
Northern Penimylrnnln, Interior
of New York, New F.nglnnd nnd
nlnng the Immediate Atlantic
count from New .lerney to North '
Carolina, where It la cooler. I
'
! Vardar south of Wemirkapu
I pass, the Bulgarians are offering!
stiff resistance to allied attempts!
[to advance. North of the pass
| the enemy is retiring on Veles
'and it would appear that this
I column has been cut off from its
I comrades further south, thus
I splitting the enemy force in two.
| The Bulgarians fighting on the
; frontier east of the Vardar prob
| ably are those who fled before
' th? French, Greek and British
around Lake Doiran.
On the right, the Serbians and
French are moving toward the
northeast and have reached
points which, appear to carry a
distinct threat to the great Bul
garian stronghold of Strumitza.
On the left ,the Serbians arc
moving rapidly toward the
| mountains that divide Serbia
I from Albania and seem to have
cut o ffthe retreat of the enemy
I forces which were caught around
Monastir by the collapse of the
j line eastward from that city.
It is believed in Paris the Al
lies will press on up the Vardar
to l.'skub and then swing east
ward and outflank the Bulgar
ians west of Strumitza rather
than attempt to get over hills on
the southern frontier. In the re
] gion of Prilep the-enemy is be
ing forced toward the Albanian
frontier.
Atrial. and artillery activity
has increased markedly on the
American sector southwest of
Metz, but no infantry engage
ment has resulted. Both the
American and German airmen
and gunners are busy, the artil
lery paying special attention to
! cross roads and troop formations'
within range.
1 lulttar.s Flee Towartl Stmniit/.a !
Strumitza stands as the outpost j
ot Bulgaria in Macedonia. It is a
; veritable fortress and is advantage, j
1 ou.siy situated in the midst of high ,
| hills. TheJJritish and Greek armies
I have advanced around Lake Doiran
i and are pursuing the Bulgarians
along the road toward Strumitza but
[that place, it seems probable, soon
i will be outflanked by the progress
of the allied armies to the north
l west. .
The plight of the Bulgarians on
the western side of the battle zone
! appears to be serious. They are
! forced to pass through the moun
tains toward Albania, where they
1 may join forces with the Austrians
; who have been fighting for weeks I
j against strong Italian and French at- :
[ tacks. But before they can reach '
! even this doubtful haven of safety,!
j they must pass over an almost road- [
! less country and must reckon wit,h
| the hostility of the hill tribes which
; are known to he unfriendly to then. I
Turks in Danger of Capture j
Few details ot the situation in |
I Palestine, as it has developed during]
j the past couple of days have been j
I reported. Only brief formal official j
I statements tell of the eaptura of!
| Acre and Haifa, and the further ad-I
! vance of General All'enby's victorious ]
I troops.' It appears, however, that the !
Turkish forces which succeeded in!
reaching the eastern bank of the'
Jordan virtually are isolated and in
imminent danger of capture. A dis
patch sent from Nabulus on Monday
by a British correspondent says two
Turkish armies have been destroyed*
LAWSOX GETS OX BALLOT
Boston, Sept. 25.—Nomination pa
pers for Thomas W. Lawson as an
independent cundidate for United
States Senator were filed, yesterday.
The papers contained sufficient
names to assure Lnwson's name ht
ing on the ballot In the November
election, officials said.
NEW AMBASSADOR FROM CHILE
Santiago, Chile, Sept. 25.—Beltran
Mathieu has accepted the post of
Chilean Ambassador to the United
Stntes. He succeeds Santiago Aldu
nate Pascunan, who died in Wash
ington last April.
SHAFFER TELLS HOW
HE DOWNEDBOCHE
Dauphin Flyer in Latest Letter Home Gives Thrilling De
tails of Battle in Air in Which Enemy Machine Was
Sent Crashing to the Earth
How, after the other three mtsiti-i
hers ot his squadron had failed in
their efforts, he was gratiflcd to see
a big Bochc plane go dashing to'
cavth he had seen his unerring
aim send each smoking bullet home,
is told in a letter written by Walter
Shaffer, the Dauphin youth serving
with a French flying squadron, to his
mother. A second palm, • probably,
will be added to his Croix de Guerre,
which he has just been awarded, fcrj
this feat, he writes. Bare notice of j
the performance and his subsequent i
citation, was received last week, but
relatives have just received details
concerning the deeds.
The machine which fell a victim to
the red-hot bullets of Shaffer, who is
a sergeant in the French army, was
a two-seated* affair. Since the per-1'
formance. he has been made an i
adjutant in recognition of his work. !
This is the tecond time that he has
sent a German flyer and his ma- j
eiune to earth. An observation I a-:
loon was nis other victim. This wasj
brought down while he was flying
with Lieutenant David E. Putnam,
the American flyer who was recent
ly killed. Putnam was a descendant
of General "lzz" Putnam and was
MRS. BRUMBAUGH
CALLS ON PEOPLE
TO AID BELGIANS
[Great Pile of Clothing Col-J
lcctcd by Red Cross Is
Growing
The campaign for clothing to he |
sent across the seas to the starving
and freezing refuges of Belgium and
France, is meeting with a hearty re
sponse from the people of Harris-!
burg. Gladly and cheerfully the ap- ;
peal is being met by the patriots of j
the city, arid thousands of garments ;
are piled in motley array in the '
three rooms donated through the I
courtesy of Samuel Friedman and j
the United Cigar Stores Company, to j
the campaign.
There is a tale of sacrifice on the i
lips of almost every contributor. "I j
am giving all my boys' clothes, ex- j
cept one suit for each," said a well- !
known Red Cross worker and -offl- j
cial who came into the rooms this j
morning "I am saving one suit for
each of the three boys just to try
on when they return!"
The city is behind the campaign!
This was evidenced this morning
when motortruck after motortruck
drew up to the Fourth and Market.
I streets rooms and hundreds of gar-]
I ments were unloaded by the willing |
[and untiring volunteers. Men with
overcoats and suits hanging on their
arms, women with bundles of cloth
ing, and even little children with
their mites, came thronging into the
rooms. A corps of women is kept
busy all through the day, assorting
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Berne Conference on
War Prisoners Starts
With Calonder First
By Associated Press
Borne, Tuesday, Sept. 24.: —The
American-German war prisoners
conference began yesterday under
the presidency of Paul Dink-he: t,
Swiss minister plenipotentiary. The
conference wus opened by President.
Calonder of Switzerland.
TO EXTEND PLANT
A building permit was issued . to
day to the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe
Bending Works to erect a two-story
brick addition to one of the com
pany's buildings located in Herr, near
Tenth street. The new stricture is
to cost $7,500 and will be built by
the company's employes.
DEFENDANT WHO PLEADS
GUILTY ARGUES CASE SO
JURY FINDS HIM INNOCENT
Defendant# on trial at this ses
sion of Criminal Court who are
financially unable to employ legtl
counsel to prepare and present a
defense have less chance than ever
before to get free legal advice. With
three sessions of court all going at
one time trials are disposed of quick
ly and attorneys aro usually kept
busy, and the only ones to be found
In court are those who have been
engaged by defendants.
One of the reasons is that the
lawyers who at times are not busy
and who ordinarily would "sit in" .
at the Criminal Court sessions for
experience, ah have been put into
| serving, at that time with the French
I flyers.
| Details concerning his deeds are
I contained in the appended letter to
j his mother.
Escadrille Spad.
Secteur Postal 240,
G. C. 22.
Dear Mother:
Just knocked down a Boche, and
since the "drachen" I brought down
several weeks ago, counts as one
Boche atso, 1 now have two to my
credit, which should make Dad stick
: out his chest a little further. Truly, I
I could not be blamed for swelling up
i myself a little after all the fuss the
j Officers and my commander, Lieuten-
I ant Madon made over me. To hear
them praise me, one would think I
had brought down Kaiser Bill him
self. Of course, the fact that the pa
trol followed him so well had some
thng to do with his being so pleased,
' for he said it was the best patrol he
| had ever ied, and he has led a lot.
There werq four of us, you see, and
j the flying formation consisted of a
i diamond shape with my commander
: in the lead, two lieutenants on each
i side with ours truly completing the
diamond in the rear. To keep in
these respective positions requires not
only a keen judgment of speed and
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'DOUBLE LAST
SUBSCRIPTION' IS
| LOAN MOTTO
j City Optimistically Faces
Hard Task in Marshall
ing Dollars
CAN'T STOP 'KM
American ollirrrs In Krnm'e nnil
on oilier Hiiropean front* liuvc the
time of I heir live*, lIN they put
it, to *top A mcrlciins from going
too fur In tlirlr UMMIIIIIIM on the
I Huns.
"Come buck here! Where yon
going?" the imerienn officers
shout continually. "Vou're going
j too fust nn<l too fur!"
"I.et me sny to the people of
llarrlshurg," snlil Vmlrrtv S, I'at
i terson this morning, "that no one
J Is going to shout •Come Imek
i here!' or •Vou're going too fur!"
11l the Fourth l.lberty l.onn. I'eo-
I pie can K u ns fur ng they like."
->
If the 30,671 Hurrisburg men, wo
men and children who in the Third
Liberty Loan campaign purchased
$4,009,850 Liberty Bonds will double
j their subscriptions in the Fourth
| Irfian., which starts Saturday, then
I Hurrisburg will be so far over the
top that it will be setting the pace
for the entire nation. It will mean
over $8,000,000 of bonds. The city's
minimum quota will be in the neigh
borhood of $6,000,000.
"Double the last subscription!" will
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Army Needs 50,000
Nurses by Next July;
25,000 Ready For Duty
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 25.—Act
ing Secretary of War Crowell, in a
letter read to-day before the con
vention of the American Hospital
Association, said the army probably
j would need at least 50,000 nurses by
j next July. In order to obtain them'
without seriously crippling the civil i
hospitals, he said. Secretary Baker |
has approved a plan to supplement
the supply of graduate nurses with j
pupils of the army school of nu'rs- ]
ing, which plan is now being put |
into effect by the surgeon general. !
Up to the present, Mr. Crowell add- '
ed, the government has withdrawn !
from civil hospitals only about 16,- |
000 nurses, while 25,000 have been
graduated from training schools.
service by the legal advisory boards
of.the city and county draft districts
and are Kept busy aiding: registrants
Till o. ' then draft questionnaires in
the city council chamber.
Hence, many defendants have gone
through trials without legal •counsel.
In those cases the defendants exam
ined and cross-examined witnesses
and It wasn't always thnt they were!
convicted. One defendant, without
counsel, entered a plea of guilty; put
his story before the court and prov
ed he wasn't, guilty and then the
judge ordered him to be tried. The
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ARCHBISHOP DIES !
IN ST. PAUL; WAS
HIGH CHURCHMAN
John Ireland Yields to Long j
Illness; Il.oni in 1838;
Carpenter's Son
HAD BEEN ILL LONG TIME
Once Urged Consolidation of
the Parocial and Public
Schools of Country
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A&CHBtSHCP /GSiAND
By Associated Press
St. ' Paul, Sept. 25.—Archbishop
| John Ireland, of the St. Paul dio-
I cese. of the Roman .Catholic Church,
1 died at 3.55 o'clock this morning after
| a long illness of heart disease and
: stomach trouble. He was SO years
i old.
John Ireland, Archbishop of St.
Paul, held such a keen and active in
| terest in general affairs in the Unl
: ted States during the past half cen
' tury that he was noted as a pub
' llelst. as well as for his religious
' zeal. He was one of the most dis
' tinguished of the Roman Catholic
f churchmen of America. There were
1 few lields of intellectual, political or
j spiritual endeavor in which lie failed
i to'take a positive stand, making him.
' scl-f at times the center of a contro-
I versy.
WIIN Carpenter's Son
I Born in 1838 in Jreland, a carpen
| tSr's son. he was carried with his
I parents in the tide of Irish immigra
• tion to America while he was a child.
I Altar service at Burlington, Vt., and
■ a Jolting trip west on a prairie
j schooner* were among his boyhood
| memories, bringing lllm finally to St.
, Paul, Minn., in 1852, when Indians
| in gay blankets stalked the streets
iof that frontier town. One evening,
j the missionary Cretin, first Bishop of
j St. Paul, while watching, from his
window some boys of his parish at
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SECOND TRIAL
FOR EVANS IS
STARTED TODAY
Convicted Once Before Judge
Johnson on First Degree
Mcrder Charge
Granted a new trial by Judge A.
W. Johnson after being convicted
early In May on a charge of tirst de
gree murder, the second trial of Wil
liam Evans, colored, was started
this afternoon when jurors were
called for examination. Evans, it
is alleged, stabbed and killed Rufus
Gillam, colored, in Steclton, Febru
ary 15. His ilrst trial was held at a
special session of criminal court dur
ing the week of April 29, when he
was convicted in the Ilrst degree. A
motion for a new trial was made and
Judge Johnson granted it upon a
technicality.
In courtroom No. 1 before Judge
George Kunkcl, Charles E. Graff was
called for trial on a serious charge
preferred by the parents of a seven
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Shot Fired at Fleeing
Steamer Strikes House;
City Island in Panic
fly Associated J'ress
New York, Sept. 25.—A six-pounil j
Shell fired across Hong Island sound J
from Fort Totten over the bows ofi
a steumer hound eust struck a resi
dence in City Island to-day. No
one was injured, but the 300 inhabi
tants of the islnndrushcd out of their
homes In a panic.
A police Inquiry at Fort Totten
brought an explanation that Impera
tive orders had been received to atop;
the steamer. . The identity of the ves-1
sel and ;ho reason for turning her!
back was not disclosed. i
VON HERTLING IN
PEACE WAIL SAYS
WILSON IGNORES
German Imperial Chancellor Now
Finds He Agreed With Four
Points in U. S. Program
Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—Count Von
llertling, in add reusing the Reich
stag main committee, complained of
the lack of attention his acquiescence
in the four points laid down by
President Wilson as peace
had met from the American Execu
tive.
On February 22, the Chancellor
asserted, he declared in the Reich
stag, his agreement in principle with
the possibility of discussing a gen-
.peace on the basis of the four
points of President Wilson's message
of February 2, but that President
Wilson, neither at that time nor
since, had tuken any notice of the
Chancellor's declaration.
Favors League of Nations
Count Von Hertling declared he
favored file formation of a league
of nations, the promotion of uni
versal, successive disarmament in
equal proportions, the establishment
of obligatory courts of arbitration,
the freedom of the seas and the pro
tection of small nations.
"We never have concealed the
fact, said Chancellor Von Hertling in
the course of his address, "that all
thoughts of conquest were far from
our minds. But how do things stand
on the opposite side? If one credited
the utterances of the enemy, official
and unofficial, they only desire to re
pel a Germany which in criminal ar
rogance is striving for world
hegemony: to fight for freedom and
justice against German imperialism
and Prussian militarism.
Blames War on England
"We know better. The world war |
was prepared years ago by the well- j
known encircling policy of King Ed
ward. In France there arose exten
sive war literature which referred
to impending war with Germany.
Austria-Hungary's influence in the'|
Balkans was to be eliminated. The j
Russian expanison movement and
the' pan-Slavic idea demanded it. I
"The match was not put to the
powder by the Prussian military
party, hut while the German Em
peror was, up to the last moment,
endeavoring to preserve peace, the
Russian military party put through
the mobilization against the will of
the weak Czar and thereby made
war unavoidable.
Says Truth Is Obscured
"The official account of, Ihe Suk
homlinoff trial made this clear to
every one who desired to sec. We
canlook calmly forward to the judg
ment of posterity. For the present,
it is true, those who are in power
in the enemy countries have succeed
ed by an unparalleled campaign of
| lies and calumny in obscuring the
i truth. When result was not ob
j tained by the spoken or written
1 word it was achieved by pictorial
' representations—productions of ab
solutely devilish fantasy, from which
one turns with horror and disgust.
But the object, has been attained. A
hatred has been raised amongst the
enemy populations against the Cen
tral Powers, and particularly against
Germany—a hatred which eschews
all moderation and chokes off all
just judgment.
"You have read Premier Clemen
ceau's latest speech, which seemed,
in its fanutical hatred and the
coarseness of mind displayed, to
surpass anything hitherto achieved.
But in America it found a many
voiced echo, as is proved by the pro
nouncements that are reaching our
ears from across the ocean.
War Fury Rages llcro, Ho Sn.vs
"The wildest wab fury is at present
raging in the United States. The
STAMM FORESEES
GREAT ADVANCE
FOLLOWING WAR
Makes Eloquent Plea For Im
provement t)l' Schools at
Cornerstone Laying
A. Carson Stamm, representing the
School Board at the laying of the
cornerstone br the new Thomas A.
Edison school building yesterday,
made a remarkably strong address in
in defense of the public schools as a
bulwark of democracy.
He foresees for the schools of Har
risburg a growth and improvement
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Swedish Gunboat Hits
German Mine; 19 Perish
Copenhagen, Sept. 2 s.—The Swed
ish gunboat'Geinhlld has been sunk
by striking a German mine in the
Skagerrack with the loss of the
chief officer and eighteen men, re- j
ports the correspondent of tho
Politiken at the Skaw.
SaveCbdl I
Does this look like
your collar window? ,
FI^IT
!
than Coal I
'u#/ Committer j
people are intoxicated with the idea
that America must bring the bless
ings of modern liberal kultur (?) to
the enslaved peoples of central
Europe, while at the same time they
are rejoicing at the many millions |
of dollars which the war armaments
are causing to How into the pockets
of the business men.
"Theory and practice are two dif
ferent things. The old proverb of
the mote in another's eye nnd the
beam in one's own finds constant il
lustration in the machinations of the
Entente. They never are tired of
condemning our march into Bel
gium, but they pass over the op
pression of Greece, the interference
with that country's internal affairs
and the enforced abdication of its
king as if they were matters of
course. They say they are fighting
to protect oppressed nations, but
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Great Demand For Fuel
Briquettes Made in City
A new size of briquette coal to be
burned in open' grates has been
evolved by its experts, the Gamble
Briquette Company announced to
day. This, it is explained, will be
burned in basket grates. The new
coal burns easily and makes a
tiful flame, it is said.
Because of the great scarcity of
coal the briquettes manufactured
by the Harrisburg firm are in great
demand. Many offers have come
from all sections of the country for
the entire output of the manufac
tory, these offers coming from
Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the New
England states. It has been decid
ed by the'company officials that no
coal will be sent from Harrisburg
until this city's needs are fully sup
plied.
Ildrop literature ever this city cn Friday, 'going from here v-ag
The flyers at Lebanon will remain there over
THREE MURDER JURORS ACCEPTED $
Harrisburg—Three jurors ,to try William Eyans,
■charged with the murder of falter ShaefTcr last winter,, >
is after- jm
I PaXton township and T. Clayton Smith; merchant, .*!
yof Middle-town.
s
1 REFUGE IN u. S. MOSCOW C
1 LONDON—A NUMBER OF FRENCH AND BRIT- 1
TISH OFFICERS HAVE TAKEN REFUGE IN THE I
J IERICAN CONSULATE AT MOSCOW, WHICL £
V 1.3 TFNDER TPE PROTECTION OF NORWAY F %
LACCOIYSING TO A DISPATCH FROM COPEN- J
J GEN TO THE EXCHANGE COMPANY. THE 1
| LSHEVIKI GOVERNMENT HAS PLACED /
e
I DED THE SURRENDER QF THE OFFICERS
J AND THE CONSULATE OFFICIALS. f
| PRESIDENT TO SPEAK FOR LOAN I £
T Washington—President'Wilson will speak rtext Fri- f
I day in New York on behalf of the Liberty Loan. A
$ THAYER HEADS ESSENTIAL FINANCIERS }
I New York-rE. H. R. Thayer, president of the Chase It
9 cional Bank, will head the Essential Industries Finance £
I Corporation, to be organized by New York and Phila- X
idelphta banking and> manufacturing interests,
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1 MARRIACt. LICENSES ■ §
| Charles .1. SltimlintiKli, Hrtilv|l|p, mill Florence I'. .Veuliin, lj
I liPHlNlfinni Knrl Itmlli'h mill KrlNtlnn Knull, Streltoiu John 11. • '
I Mnhnn, Jr., mill Miiutl IC. Ilhoitdx, Aliooiuii Jacob (i. llofTiiiuii nuil i
1 l orn F. Grove, llnrrlnliurgi llonulil 11. Mnillli, rhlliillcl|>hlii, uml
£ Evelyn M. Joyce, llnrrßlnirg.
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HOME EDITION
VICTORY FLOUR
IS FINDING FAVOR
WITH GOOD COOKS
No Need to Purchase Substi
tutes With the New
Milling
MEANS SAVING OF WHEAT
Little Darker Than Regular
Flour, Grocers
Say
Victory flour is finding a ready
sale in Harrisburg, and some of the
retail grocers of the city are well
supplied with the new mixture, it
was learned to-day.
Victory flour conforms to the lat
est food administration regulations
designed to conserve wheat. It is
eighty per cent, wheat flour, and
twenty per cent, substitute. When
compared in appearance with ordi
nary wheat flour, its difference of
ingredients hardly can be noticed.
It is sold without substitutes.
, A favorite receipt of millers for
Victory flour is 80 pounds of wheat
flour, two pounds of rice flour, eight
pounds of barley flour, and ten
pounds of corn flour. The mixture
is little darker than ordinary wheat
flour.
The regulations of the food ad
ministration forbid the sale of Vic
tory flour at prices exceeding those
charged for wheat flour. At presejgJ
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Brazil Is at War With
Austria; Vienna LegatitffT
Closed; MinisterDepari.3
Washington, Sept. 25.—A state of
war now exists between Brazil and
Austria, though so far there ha i
been no formal declaration of the
fact from either side. Information
lias reached Washington to the effect
that by Instructions from his govern
ment, the Brazilian minister at
Vienna has closed his legation and
departed for Brazil, and it is under
stood that the Austrian minister m
Rio De Janeiro Is returning to his
country shortly.