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LXXXVII— No. 223 16 PAGES Dal &sY?t\ S he n p£t &m,MBBS I S ta " HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 19iS. !I" KSS slN fwocentl NIGHT EXTRA
KAISER MUSI REMOVE
I^mS7OIALKPEACE
Washington, Oct. 8. —President Wilson to-day informed the German government that before the United States can discuss an armis-
Icrman troops must withdraw from all invaded territory. He asked Chancellor Maximilian whether he represented the German
eor the authorities of the empire who are conducting the war. The President's message was not a reply, but in the form of an inquiry.
* imperial German government is asked whether it accepts the terms laid down by the President in his address to Congress January 8,
A subsequent addresses. *
Washington, Oct. B.—The text of the communica
tion handed to the charge of Switzerland follows
"Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge on beholf of
the President, ycur note of October 6th, enclosing the
communication from the German government to the
President; and I am instructed by the President to re
quest you to make the following communication to the
Imperial German chancellor:
"'Before making reply to the request of the Imperial German|
government, and in order that that reply shall be as candid and
straightforward as the momentous interests involved require, the;
President o fthe United States deems it necessary to assure him-;
self of the exact meaning of the note of the imperial chancellor..
Does the Imperial chancellor mean that the Imperial German
government accepts the terms laid down by the President in his
address to the Congress of the United States on the Bth of January
last and in subsequent addresses and that its object in entering
into discussions would be only to agree upon the practical details
of their application?
"'The President feels bound to say with regard to the sug
gestion of an armistice that he would hot feel at liberty to propose
a cessation of arms to the governments with which the govern
ment of the United States is associated against the Central Powers
so long as the armies of those powers are upon their soil. The
good faith of any discussion would manifestly depend upon the
consent of the Central Powers immediately to withdraw their j
forces everywhere from invaded territory.
*
" 'The President also feels that he is justified in asking whetherl
the imperal chancellor is speaking merely for the constituted au-j
thorities of the empire who have so far conducted the war. He
deems the answer to these questions vital from every poiht of j
view.
"Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of mv high consideration.
"ROBERT LANSING."
ARMISTICE IS
TO FALL FLAT
Note toGermany May
Be on Cables Now,
Says Report
By Associated Press
Secretary Lansing is ex
pected to give out President
Wilson's answer to the Hun
plea for mercy at 4 o'clock
this afternoon. The Tele
graph will place an extra
edition on the streets at that
time.
Washington, Oct. 8. —Presi-
dent Wilson's reply to the Ger
man and Austrian request for an
armistice and peace negotiations
probably will be dispatched be
fore night, if it is not already on
the cables.
After being called into confer
ence by the President with Colonel
House and Secretary Lansing. Sec
retary Tumulty announced to-day
that Mr- Lansing would see the
newspaper correspondents at 4
o'clock and "probably would have
something for them."
President at Work
The President had spent the en
tire morning in his study and was
believed to be putting in final shape
a document upon which he worked
nearly all day yesterday.
None of those In the President's
confidence would give an intimation
of his decision, but when the con
ference was over there was no
change in the confident belief
throughout official circles that an
armistice would be flatly refused
and the Central Powers informed
that unequivocal acceptance of con
ditions laid down by the United
States and the Allies must precede
any meeting of peace plenipoten
tiaries.
In Touch With Allies
The President, it was believed has
preceded actual sending of the re
ply by asking Premiers Lloyd
George, Clemenceau and Orlando to
advise him of their answers or by
submitting to the premiers a draft
of his reply for approval. At any
rate it was assumed the American
reply will have the approval of Great
Britain, France and Italy and of
all the other co-belligerents.
FRENCH SMASH
CENTER LINES
Pershing's A rmy Has
Placed Enemy in
Great Danger
By Associated Press
London, Oct. B.—English and
: American troops attacked this
morning on the front between
i St. Ouentin and Cambrai, Field
Marshal Haig announced to
day. Satisfactory progress is being
: made, the report states.
In successful operations near Mont
1 Brehain and Beaurevotr on this
! front yesterday, more than 230 Ger
mans were taken prisoner bj Ameri
can and Knglish troops.
Today's attack was launched just
, before daybreak, during a heavy
! rain which began last night.
CROSSING the Aisne at Berry-au-
Bac, the French have brought
new peril to the whole German
line in the Laonnois and Champagne
sectors in France. This advance by
General Bertholet's men seems to be
a stroke which may be cosidered in
1 future as the fisst step in the final
j operation designed to hurl the Ger
! mans out of the positions they have
j held for so long from the Ailette
river to the Meuse.
German Retreat in Balance
If the French are able to de
bouch from Beryr-au-Bac and ob
tain a bridgehead on the north side
1 of the Aisne, the German forces still
I clinging to the Chemin de Dames,
\ along the ridge north of the Aisne,
further west, will be compelled to!
fall back rapidly. At the same time
; the Germans retreating before Gen
! eral Gouraud's army, further to the !
i east, will find that the Aisne. their,
apparent objective in the present re- j
tirement. is not a refuge. It may,!
! on the other hand, be but a trap for i
the shattered forces now streaming
hack from the Py, Ames, and upper
: Aisne rivers.
French Take Hills
General Bertholet's wedge has
wrested the hills northwest of
Rheims from the enemy, swiftly
swept the enemy back to the buippe
river and crossed the Aisne at a j
vital point.
In the champagne sector. General I
Gouraud's French and American;
forces are closely following the
enemy, who is retreating In the dl- j
rection of the Retourne river. The
success of the French further west [
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ORDER NUMBERS
FOR NEW DRAFT
MADEj>UBLIC
Men Having Serial Designa
tions May Find Their
Places on List
The Harrisburg Telegraph prints
a list of all the serial numbers of
the new draft for the central Penn
sylvania district, showing the order
in which they were drawn in Wash
ington.
The master list, made public from
Washington to-aay, contains 17,000
numbers because somewhere in the
United "States there is a local draft
board having that many registrants.
But as the largest number of regis
trants in any local division in or near
Harrisburg is four thousand odd, the
drawings above that llgure may be
disregarded here. All the numbers
higher than the total number of men
registered with your local board will
be considered blanks by that board.
Each registrant should ascertain
from his local board how many men
it has registered. Then, by taking
the subjoined list and drawing a
pencil through all the numbers larg
er than that total the registrant will
be able to tell exactly what his call
number is; In other words, he can
find out how many men will be sum
moned for examination before he is
called.
This is the list: read across the
lines, not down the columns, to as
certain the order of the drawing:
strike out all numbers that are high
er than the total number of regis
trants in your local until you come to
your own serial number." The cross
heads—"first hundred" and so on—
are Inserted before each block of 100
serial numbers for the reader's con
venience.
Only 1,480 American
Fighters in Hun Prisons
Washington, Oct. B.—Members of
| the American expeditionary forces
i who have been identified as pris
! oners of war in Germany numbered
' 1,480 on October 5, said an an
j nouneement yesterday from the of
, fice of the Adjutant General of the
' Army.
In addition, 220 civilians interned
jin Germany have been identified, as
! have sixty-one sailors held in Con
] stantinople.
PHYSICIAN WOHKUI) TO DEATH
j Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 8. Dr. J. W.
Kinard. with a large practice, attend
' ed to his patients until he fell from
: exhaustion and went to bed with
i pneumonia, dying twenty-four hours
| later. He was the Pennsylvania Rail-
I road physician here, was 60 years and
j a thirty-second-degree Mason.
INCREASED FARE
NECESSARY, SAY
BOTH COMPANIES
Denials That New Rates Arc
Unreasonable Filed With
Utilities Board
Counsel for the Harrisburg Rail
ways, attacked in complaints against
Increases of fare, capitalization and
other matters before the Public
Service Commission last week, to
day filed answers which specifically
deny that the advances in fare are
! unreasonable and declare that var
jious statements made by complain
jants are not material and that, fur
thermore. the personal opinions of
Ithe people who signed complaints
; are not germane to the issue raised
before the commission. The denials
are formal and sweeping, being
couched in strict legal phraseology.
The whole proceeding has now got
ten down to an Impersonal basis and
the next move will be fixing of dates
for hearings.
The Harrisburg railways answer
declares the six-cent fare reasonable
and necessary because of costs of
operation, including wages, equip
ment and material, and of main
tenance. Various matters raised by
C. F. Qulnn are styled not material
and proper for separate com
plaints.
The Valley system answers each
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BIG TEAMS OF
I BOND WORKERS
CANVASS CITY
j- IN GREAT DRIVE
First Reports Being Made This
1 Afternoon of Success of the
House-to-House Sale; Much
Remains to Be Done
MAJOR SCHELL SENDS
WORD FROM OVER SEAS
In the Liberty Loan drive
! on 1 jmes of Harrisburg up until
I 1 o'clock to-day bonds to the
i total of $582,000 were sold.
The Industrial drive, to noon
j to-dav, has sold bonds valued at
| $1,913,900.
Here is Harrisburg city's total
i to 3 this afternoon:
! Homes $582,200
Industrial 1,913.900
i Total $2,4%, 100
The first day in the Fourth
| Loan surpasses that of the Third
| by almost $1,000,000
When it comes to getting into the
war—and making it their own per- I
sonal war —the employes of the j
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending j
Company take back seats for no J
other portion of Harrisburg's popu- j
iation. It was reported at head
quarters this morning that 2,655 em
ployes of the Pipe Bending Com
pany have purchased $400,000 worth
of bonds. This sum does not include
the bonds bought by the company
itself or the individual members of j
the company.
The Pipe Bending employes have [
bought almost double the bonds
they purchased in the Third Liberty
Loan.
Homes Drive on in Earnest
The homes drive began to-day in
earnest.
Hundreds of team workers were
canvassing every city block.
The Fourth issue flags began to j
appear as if by magic in many hun- 1
dreds of homes.
Between 11 and 1 o'clock to-day j
team members were reporting sales .
to their captains, who have been ,
given the use of five rooms on the i
third flpor of the Federal building <
by Postmaster Frank C. Sites. This j
will be the procedure every day. Be- j
tween 1 and 2 o'clock team captains
reported progress to their command-j
ers. and the totals were taken to
Liberty Loan headquarters in Mar-.
ket street.
Board Will Sliovv Totals
The bulletin board in front of Ihe
Courthouse at 2 o'clock this after
noon was the center of interest for
hundreds of persons who gathered
to hear the program by the Munici
pal Band and to see the marking up
of totals for the various teams.
This concert will be a daily fea
ture.
Major Scltcll Buys Bonds
A 'letter came to-day from Major
Edward H. Schell, well-known em- :
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Shell-Loading Horror
Work of Enemy Agents,
U. S. Sleuths Believe
Washington, Oct. B.—Evidence
tending to show that the explosion
in the T. A. Gillespie shell-loading
plant at Morgan, N. J„ last week,
was caused by enemy agents, has,
been discovered by government
operatives in a letter predicting the
explosion on Friday night, signed
"Heine" and addressed to a man in
Sonora, Mexico.
HEART DISEASE FATAH
IX DOCTOR'S OFFICE
Mrs. Catherine Feeser died last
night in the office of Dr. James E.
Dickinson, 228 North Second street,
from heart disease. She is survived
by her husand and a brother. Fu
neral serv'ces have not yet been
arranged. ■
THE WEATHER
For Hnrrlabarff and vicinity ■ Fnlr,
■lightly warmer to-night, with
lowrat temperature about 45 de- |
grees) Wednesday fair.
HUN PRESS DIFFERS
ON PEACE OFFERS
By Associated * Press
Amsterdam, Oct. 7.—Comment
ing; upon the address by Prince
Maximilian, the new German im
perial chancellor, the Tageblatt,
of Berlin, says:
"All Germany, or at any rate,
that great, honest and good Ger
many which is imperishable, feels
that Prince Maximilian has done
what is right and neccsary. Why
haven't we learned earlier to
know ourselves?"
The Lokal Anzeiger defiflantly
says the German will to the last
drop of blood fight those whose
aim is to. dictate a humiliating
peace.
FOUR MORE ARE
ARRESTED IN A
DRUG ROUNDUP
City Detectives and Federal
Officers Make Raid on
Cowden Street House
City Detective Hyde Speese, with
Federal authorities, yesterday round
ed up four more alleged links in
the chain of narcotic dispensei-s and
users who have been responsible for
much of the illegal drug traffic re
ported to be carried on in Harris
burg.
In a quietly conducted raid on
No. 12 Cowden street four alleged
narcotic users xvere arrestcU and
taken to the police station. The
hearings will he held by the Federal
authorities. Those arrested are
James Thompson, Harold Barnett,
Charles Jefferson and Rose Coleman.
Energetic efforts have been start
ed by police and Federal authorities
to put an end to the insidious drug
traffic which is reported to be car
ried on in Harrisburg and which is
accountable, according to the police,
for much of the crime of the city.
Detective Speese has been active in
the efforts to round up the alleged
dopesters.
HOW THIRD AND FOURTH
LIBERTY LOANS COMPARE
THIRD LOAN FOURTH LOAN
First Day First Day
ROBERT McCORMIGK— N'o. Amount. No. Amount.
1 C. C. Fitch 99 $51,300 55 $12,450
2 H. M. Stine 68 13,150 74 18,950
3 J. A. Brandt 68 4,500 76 • 53,300
4 George W. Barnes '52 54,200 56 66,600
5 W. M. Essick 48 47,700 51 13.500
6 M. H, Taylor 47 8,000 38 13,500
Totals 382 $178,850 350 $178,300
ARTHUR D. BACON —
7 M. W. Fager 39 $32,200 90 $21,050
8 W. M. Robison 76 8,800 21 2,750
9 C. H. Kinter 44 5,700 46 5,900
10 J. N. Kinnard 45 5,700 63 7,550
11 E. J. Lewis 7 4 5,750 108 10,000
12 A. H. Armstrong 35 2,450 49 6,500
Totals . 313 $60,100 377 $53,800
CHARLES H. HOFFMAN—
-13 Wm. Strouse 57 $7,600 104 SIO,BOO
14 C„ W. Burtnett 40 2,750 55 4,050
15 W. Frank Witman 47 3,800 215 21,600
16 D. L. M. Raker 43 2,500 ..
17 J. T. Olmsted 35 4,450 ..
18 L. M. Keiffer U 750 27 4,650
Totals 233 $21,850 ... TT7TTTT
JOHN F. DAPP—
-19 B. F. .Blough 100 $76,200 419 $178,^50
20 A. S. Allen 79 46,"75 52 14900
21 C. E. Landis ..; 47 3,400 18 8,000
22 H. P. Miller 19 2,400 36 12,000
23 Andrew Redmond .... 43 _ 4,650 . 75 12,700
24 Benj. Strouse 22 8,750 48 . 22,050
Totals 315 $142,375 648 $248,000
CHAS. S. HUNTER—
25—J. C. Stevens 18 $1,050 47 $5,400
26 J. C. Johnson 19 ■/ 1,300 46 5,050
27 W. I. Cozolli 39 3,590 100 10,050
28 M. A. Seely 39 3,750 47 4,100
29 W. R. Repp 22 8,700 107 12,550
30 J. S. Mac Donald 26 1,600 11 1,300
Totals 163 $20,400 356 $38,450
CHAS. E. PASS—
-31 A. L. Holler 89 $24,050 ..
32 C. G. Miller 43 3.200 57 3,600
33 W. S. Schell 28 1.400 .. ....
34 R. R. Seaman 41 2,700 33 5,150
35 H. A. Boyer 28 1,700 115 3,350
36 11. B. Saussaman 22 4,850 56 10,450
Totals 251 $37,900 ..
SALOONMAN IS
ARRESTED FOR
SELLING LIQUOR
DESPITE CLOSING
Peter Kohlman Charged by
City Health Authorities
With Having Sold Intoxi
cants Despite Quarantine
LITTLE CHANGE SEEN
IN EPIDEMIC'S GROWTH
No check of the Influenza
scourge in this city seems in sight,
according to City Health Officer Dr.
J. M. J. Raunick, who stated at
noon to-day that the epidemic con
tinues to spread with few optimistic
signs of its abatement. Ten per
cent, of the city's phylsicians re
ported to him up to 12 o'clock to
day and turned over figures showing
that 157 new cases of the disease
had developed within the last twen
ty-four hours.
Dr. Raunick, though giving it as
his opinion that the general situa
tion will be improved by the end of
this week, said that he didn't look
forward to any appreciable change
for the better before that time. Con
tributory factors in making a hope
ful forecast of the epidemic. Dr.
Raunick said, was the favorable
change in weather conditions, which
is clearer and colder than last week,
and the fact that the strict quaran
tine laid down is being -rigidly ob
served. These continuing will lead
to the stamping out of the malady
in Harrisburg, he said.,
Need of Rest
The city health officer suggests
that those suffering from the disease
remain in bed and remain indoox-s
even when their convalescence is ac
complished for a period of a week
or ten days. Fresh air and sunshine
in abundance is the receipt par fx
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BRET'S BONDSMAN-THROWS UP BAIL A
Harrisburg—H. Mr Bret*, prominent local lawyer,
vcs an occupant of a cell, in Dauphin county jail for sev- i
xal minutes this afternoon when George R. Bentleyi his |
>cxds*r.a is two of the eight eases brought against him, 9
hrew up his bail. He was arrested; taken to prison a*d / m
emaiied there uatil Senator Prank Martin went on his 1
>ond. \
$25,000 S¥IT AGAINST VANCE C. McCORMICK 9
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Harrisburg— A siiit claiming $25,000 with no details i
nade public was filed against Vance C. McCormick by -.V
Edward Saxman in court this morning. An' injunction J
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Washington—The Supreme Court which reconvene/, #
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ilonday because of the influenza epidemic. 1|
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MARRIAGE LICENSES A
Robert 11. Cathrart nnd Marie A. Bau*hmna, l'bllndelpfcla. r