Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 12, 1918, Image 1

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LXXXVTI— No. 227 12 PAGES D "&& X R CC A P T L po Y .T SSOTt'HiSSBUrS 1 "" HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1918. ON, SIN TW^ C CENTS HOME EDITION
HARRISBURG IS
NOT READY TO
ADMIT DEFEAT
IN LOAN DRIVE
Executive Committee Is De
pressed at Having to Admit
Capital City For First Time
May Fail Boys in France
PRO-GERMANS FACING
FEDERAL PROSECUTION
Thousands of Workingmcn
Have Not! Bought Bonds,
While Other Men Have Not
Done Full Duly
There were some mighty worried
Harrisburgers to-day. They were
the heads of the Fourth Liberty
Loan campaign, and they were won
dering how they are going to con
vince the people of this city and the
district that there are no big sums
being hid back by the banks for
bond purchasers, but that the peo
ple themselves must buy the $l,-
•>OO,OOO needed to make up the city's
•juota. and the $3,252,8-0 necessary
to make up the district's allotment.
Not a dollar was added to the to
tals for yesterday up to noon to-day.
The Hoy Scouts were vigorously sell
ing in ail parts of the city, but no
reports had been made to headquar
ters. and none is looked for until
Monday.
The executive committee was com
pelled to wire Philadelphia head
quarters this morning that the liar
risburg district has "fallen from its
high estate."
"Harrisburg fails." ran the tele
gram. "Please, however, do not put
us down its failing; give us a few
days."
The executive members were much
depressed
They attributed the failure of the
campaign to two sources—the er
roneous belief of some people that
peace is near and their consequent
indifference; and, second, to the
shrewd work of unknown German
propagandists in the district.
Juniatu County Pro-Germans?
Secret service men to-day went to !
McAUisterville and to Walker town- j
ship, both in Juniata county, where i
some active pro-Germans are declar- |
ed to be busy. The pastor of a con- }
gregation near McAUisterville is de- '
dared to have advised all his par
ishioners not to buy Liberty Bonds; '
that they will be no good when the '
war ends as he thinks it will end. !
in Walker township one pro-German '
has been touring the district inform
ing the farmers and others that the I
Liberty Bond salesmen are being!
paid large sums of money for selling |
bonds. The clergyman is to be ar
rested this afternoon if the stories ,
about him prove true.
t'p to the People
The executive committee to-day i
declared that two impressions !
abroad in Harrisburg are erroneous. ;
The first impression is that the banks 1
can carry the $1,000,000 needed to i
make up the city's quota. That's not i
true; to do so would overload the '
banking institutions and possibly re
sult in financial difficulty.
The second impression is that the
wealthy people of Harrisburg can i
shoulder the $1,600,000 load. That's!
not true: it is due greatly to the I
efforts of the wealthy that the city I
has already bought $4,520,300 i
worth of bonds.
As a matter of fact, the shoulder
ng of the necessary total is abso
lutely 'up to" the rank and file of
he people of Harrisburg, and par
icillarly to two classes of people:
[Continued on Page to.]
[LAST CHANCE '
FOR HARRISBURG
TO MAKE GOOD
Chairman Andrew S. Patterson
of the Liberty Loan committee for
Harrisburg this afternoon issued
the following appeal:
The city of Harrisburg has not
bought its quota of Liberty Bonds.
The situation is serious. We must
meet our allotment. There can be
no failure in a thing of this sort.
I therefore call upon the follow
ing organizations of workers to
secure immediately purchasers
for the bond allotments which
follow their names:
"Boy Scouts and Giil
Scouts $lOO,OOO
"Home Workers, Frank
Sites, chairman 250,000
"Industrials, George S.
Reinoehl, ehalrmAn .. 250,000
"Special committee, W.
M. Ogelsby, chairman, 1,000,000
"It is possible if these divisions
will proceed immediately with
their work to make up our quota.
I trust that every man—every boy
or girl on the Boy and Girl teams
will be indefatigable in his ef
forts.
"I wish that every worker would
do as much as Anna Katharine
Marzolf, 12-year-old Girl Scout of
the Goldenrod Troop, who has
personally sold $1,750 bonds and
who owns two Liberty Loan bonds
and four baby bonds.
"Harrisburg mtist not fail. It
never has before."
Mr. Patterson's appeal was
made known to hundreds of work
ers early this afternoon and the
reply in every instance was that
everything possible will be be done
to take Harrisburg "over."
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HE WEATHER
For HnrrUburg itnd vicinityi Un
settled | probably shower* to
night nntl Sundayi not much
change In temperature) moder
ate r.outhwest to west winds.
Does the Gentleman Prefer the Police Patrol or the A mbulance?
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FANATIC WITH LOADED
PISTOL ARRESTED AS
HE DARTS AT WILSON
President, at Head of Great Patriotic Parade Threatened
by Man in Crowd; Secret Service Men Rescue
Suspect Before Aroused Spectators Have
Chance to Hang Him
New Voir Oct. 12.—President'
Wilson marched in the great Liberty
Day parade - ere to-day. He took
his place in the procession at Sev
enty-second street soon after it
started, at the head of the American
division, and, amid continuous roars
of cheers, led the division down
Fifth avenue to the Altar of Liberty
at Madison Square.
Just as the President passed
Fifty-first street a man broke
through tne police lines and started
toward the President. He was im
mediately seized by Secret Service
CITY TO CLOSE
TIGHT AFTER
6.30 TONIGHT
Trolley Service Seriously Cur
tailed by Lack of Oper
ating Crews
With one hundred nien of the
Harrisburg Railways Company and
Valley Railways Company street ca(
crews confined to their homes with
influenza, street car service will be
curtailed on all lines after 7 o'clock
this evening, when stores will close
by request of the City Health Hoard.
The number of men ill from in-
I tluenza is approximately thirty-five
per cent. Felix M. Davis, superin
tendent of the Harrisburg Railways,
said that after 6.30 the service will
lie reduced fifty per cent. To-day.
with the exception of the Third
and Fourth-and-Sixtli street lines,
on which one car was taken off, the
service Was normal. There was' no
Mechanicsburg car running to-day
on tlie Valley Company's lines, al
though Carlisle cars were giving
hourly service fo Mechanicsburg and
Carlisle. This Carlisle car, with one
running direct to Shiremanstown,
gave Shiremanstown half-hour serv
ice. After 6 o'clock this evening
there will be a big cut in the service.
President Bishop said.
Ten or twelve extra cars, usually
operated by the Valley Railways
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HENRY F. HOLLER IMPROVES
Reports this afternoon from the
home of Henry F. Holler, deputy
prothonotury, of Huminelstuwn, said
that he is somewhat better,
| men and placed in an automobile,
| which sped away with him down
Fifth avenue. A few minutes later
a loaded revolver was found on the
street
In the apparent belief that the
man may have contemplated harm
to the President, the crowd started
toward him, but the Secret Service
men were too quick. Spectators
noticed as the Secret Service ma
chine drove away that the man's
head was bleeding. The revolver
[Continued on Page 10.]
WASHINGTON SAYS
GERMANS ARE NOT
ENDING BIG WAR
Warns Against Teuton Report
That Kaiser Is to Surren
der Unconditionally
Washington, Oct. 12.—German re
ports that Prince Maximilian's reply
to President Wilson's inquiry has
been dispatched and indicating tl?ut
it is "in a sense" an acceptance of
the President's conditions of peace,
led to an authoritative statement
here to-day that the public should
be warned against believing Ger
many is about to end the war by un
conditional surrender.
CITY CLOSED '
TIGHT TONIGHT
Harrisburg will bo closed tight
as a box after 6.30 o'clock to
night. Dr. Itauntck has requested
that a'l business places shut up
shop at 6.30 this evening and re
main closed until Monday morn
ing. Even barbershops and cigar
stores are Included In the early
closing request. The only excep
tions are eating places and drug
stores, which way remain open.
All churches will be closed to
morrow and there will be no
meetings of any kind. Five phy
sicians reported up to noon to-day
138 new ensoa In the past twenty
four hours.
YANKEE FLYERS
GAIN TITLE IN
VERDUN DRIVE
Rickenbackcr, Luke and Com
panion Birdmen Bring
Down Enemy Planes
With the American Army north
west of Verdun, Oct. 12.—Several
aviators have become aces during the
lighting since the Americans struck
the German lines in this sector.
There also has been an increase in
victories credited to olj aces attach
ed to the squadrons in ,'hlf area.
Eddie Rickenbackcr, former auto
mobile racer, has won flftecn aerial
victories and probably will be credit
ed with eighteen In a few lays. Lieu
tenant Frank Luke, of Phoenix. Ariz,
is next with fourteen. Lieutenant
Hamilton Coolidge, of Eoston, and J
C. Vascoucelles, of Denver, are new
aces, with seven and five, respective
ly.
Yesterday's performance by ihc
"strafing raiders" whlcn caused con
sternation among German airmen
was the duplicate of anqtiier raid on
October 3. when Lieutenants Hickcn
backer, Coolidge and Edward Curtiss,
of Rochester, N. Y„ got u-e between
them, and Lieutenant Coolidge got
two more independently. Lieutenants
RiokenLacker end Vascoucelles got
one each, and Lieutenants WlUvya
Sparks, of Uniontown, Pa.; Thorner
Taylor, c f Cn'iago, and William Pu
nier, cf F'ennettsviUe, S. C., downed
one between them.
UNION COUNTY TIRES OF
NAME LIKE NEW BERLIN
Verdun and St. Mihiel Suggested as Appropriate For Vil
lage; Matter to Be Threshed Out at Town Meeting
Lewlsburg, Oct. 12.—New Berlin
Is going to disappear!
The historic old Union county
town will no longer be on the mup
If certain prominent citizens of the
village materialize. These promi
nent citizens arc now seeking a new
name for New Berlin. Some enter
prising pro-Ally enthusiast has sug
gested St. Mihtel and If It were not
for the Jaw-breaking proclivities of
the name for Americans, the offer
might seriously be considered. Ver
dun seems to be a name In popular
favor.
However the new name Is to be
thrashed out at u town meeting In
the neur future. In the meanUme,
CROWN PRINCES ARMY
NOW IN FULL RETREAT
364 UNITED STATES
TROOPS LOSE LIVES
IN CRASH
Sea Rends Vessel to Pieces Against
the Rocks in North Channel;
Otranto Total Wreck
By Associated Press
AN IRISH PORT, Oct. 12.- t
American soldiers numbering!
364 or 366 perished when thej
British armed mercantile cruis-J
er Otranto and the transport'
Kashmir collided in the North Chun-|
nel, between Scotland and Ireland, i
last Sunday.
Three hundred American soldiers j
and thirty French sailors and 266 j
members of the crew of the Otranto '
have been landed at a port in north- j
ern Ireland. Sixteen other surviv-1
ors have been picked up at Islay.
Otranto Is Total Wreck
More than 200 bodies had been re- i
covered this morning and many of'
them have been buried. The Otran-!
to is a total wreck on the Island of !
Islay. The Kashmir landed its |
troops at a Scottish port without
loss of life.
•The troopships collided while a I
heavy storm was raging and the I
Otranto, with a gaping hole in her!
side, then drifted helplessly, towards I
the rocky coast. A number of thej
troops on board were from the in
terior of the United States and were
without experience at sea. ,They had
preferred to remain on the bigger
jship than risk jumping to the small
destroyer Mounsey and they seemed
jto be cheered by the sight of land.
Captain Warns Men
The hopes of tfie men that they,
would be able to make a safe land
ing, however, were dispelled by the
Otranto's captain when he shouted
from the bridge:
"Well, hoys, we will have to swim
for it."
About that time the troopship slid
| with hardly a jar onto a shelving
| rock, which, as a wave receded, held
j the vessel in a vise-like grip,
i The vicious sea began to rend the
ship to pieces. The steel'deckhouse
'was wrenched bodily from its fast
ienings by the enormous waves and
| hurled into the breakers, sweeping
| many men away with it.
Eager Islanders Watcli
The ship had struck about a mile
I from shore and on the cliffs stood
' groups of islanders, eager to send
I aid, but which it was impossible
! even to attempt. Owing to the ter
-1 rifle wind, there was no chance of
| getting a line to the ship, which now
j was fast breaking up.
j Scores of men began to jump and
I many immediately were seized by
I the waves and hurled against the
I sides of the ship. ,
I About noon the Otranto was lift
led on the crest of a high comber
land dashed back to the rock so vio
QUAKE AND TIDAL
WAVE SMITE TWO
SAN JUAN CITIES
!Aguadillo Half Submerged
and 11 Persons Killed;
City Htlll Wrecked
j San Juan, Porto Rico, Friday, Oct.
J 12. —This island was shaken by an
j earthquake yesterday morning and
| the shocks were followed by a tidal
! wave.
Reports from Aguadilla, a town
j on the low-lying northwestern coast,
says that the tidal waters half sub
merged the town. Fourteen persons
were killed and forty or more were
injured.
At Ponce, a city of more than
200,000 persons on the south coast,
the city hall was wrecked and it is
reported that several of the inhabi
tants were killed. Details are lack
ing.
Inhabitants of New Berlin are de-
they shall not live in a
town named after the capital of
Germany and the seat of Hohenzol
j Icrn rule.
New Berlin was the seat of the
famous Union Seminary where hun
dreds of men and women prominent
in Central Pennsylvania life have
received their education. This semi
nary was several years ago sold to
Judge Charles B. Wltmer, Sunbury,
and Senator W. M. MoConnell, Sha
mokln, two old students. The town
was also the county Beat of Union
county before that coupty was spilt
up into several districts. The old
courthouse und a number of lils
toriu points are still on view.
lently that the vessel broke squarely 1
in two. The mast snapped short,
killing men as it fell.
One section of the hulk turned
sidewlse, emptying all hands still
clinging to the deck into the surf.
The other section speedily was
ground to pieces on the rocks.
Best Swimmers Helpless
The ship's Remaining company
now were struggling in the water.
The slim chance they might have
had of getting ashore virtually was
dissipated by the wreckage from the
ship, through which the best swim
mers were unable to win their way.
The experience related by William
Richards typifies that of the others,
but perhaps is a bit more sensation
al. He said:
"The fellows were line. We knew
that when the ship went fast on I
the rocks so far out wo would not
have much chance to save our
skins, but we all seemed determin
ed to make a good try.
"A wave washed mo off und I
managed to get clear of the ship.
The first man I recognized in the
water was the captain, who wus
thrown overboard when the mast
broke away. He was standing up,
treading water and looking about
for something to grasp. >
Dashed Against Rocks
I "There were three men on a mat
tress riding in to shore as though
i they were enjoying life, but while I
I watched them and wishing I were
'on it, too, a big roller swept them
all oft and banged them against the
rocks. '
"I saw five or six others hanging
on a bench. Some managed to climb
on the tin rafts lowered from the
!ship but every raft I saw was smash
ed to pieces against the vessel or on
i the rocks.
| "The noise of the wreckage grind
ing on the rocks was tierce and any
'fellow who got into the wreckage
j was as good as gone. There were
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School Chief Tracks
Bees; Gets Much Honey
i Prof. W. R. Zimmerman, assist-
I ant county school superintendent,
j who has done effective work in the
j schools in food and fuel conserva-
I tion, this week went a step farther,
j He journeyed to the mountains near
j Manada furnace, tracked bees to
I their home in the hollow trunk of
| what once was a giant oak and
j there gathered seventy pounds of
honey.
!J.H.M'FARLAND
NAMED ON WAR
HOUSING BOARD
With Four Other Experts
Local Man Will Study
Living Conditions
J. Horace McFarland has accept
ed an appointment as one of five
members of a Commission on Living
Conditions of War Workers tender
ed him on behalf of the Secretary
of Labor by Felix Frankfurter, of the
War Labor Policies Board, and Otto
M. Eidlitz, director of the Bureau of
Industrial Housing and Transporta
tion. The commission in question
is to be organized October 15, and
it is expected that it wHI serve to
speed up the production of war ne
cessities in many of the numerous
plants now making such necessities
for the government.
More than a quarter of a million
men are involved, and the work of
the new commission will inter-relate
not only with the tremendous hous
ing program of the United States,
but also through members of the
commission representing the War
Department and the Navy Depart
ment, with the activities of these di
rect war-prosecuting portions of the
government.
Mr. McFarland is appointed on
this commission because of his ac
quaintance with the living condi
tions of workers throughout the
country, arrived at in the work of
the American Civic Association, of
which he has been the .president
[Continued on Page 2.]
Corporal Reported
Missing in' Hospital
Corporal S. D. Stleffer, 22 2 Brlggs
street, reported missing by the War
Department, August 7, is in a base
hospitul In France recovering frdin
a wound. Mrs. Steiffer received a
letter from her husband to-day duteri
September 7. He did not tell how
badly he was wounded but said Unit
he was making progress. \
American Troops Closing In
On Dun-sur-Meuse
In Great Battle
ENEMY'S RETIREMENT IS
ALMOST TURNED INTO ROUT
By Associated Press
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE
CHAMPAGNE, Oct. 12. —Vouzieres, Guise and
all of the villages in the whole region south of
Laon are burning.
Paris, Oct. 12.—The Americans are closing in on
Dun-sur-Meuse, while their left wing is within five miles
of Buzancy, says Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris.
Continuing, he says important events which will change
the entire face of things may be expected in this part of
the Woevre front.
Orders found on prisoners, says M. Hutin, show the
enemy was instructed to resist on the Suippe river front
until the 13th at least, in order to save all the material
possible and to enable the adjacent armies to conduct an
orderly retreat.
General Gouraud's attack upset this plan. Although
the Germans had twenty-five divisions in the Champagne
ector, twelve of which were fresh, the fear of being
f
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, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS HERE j
Karrisburg —P jlas ?<:::l ar.ks f famci::; .v. .vie .U j
phis brother, John Fairbanks, and publicity man, spent
a half hour in Harriebttrg this afternoon while on their i
way to yfashirfgton, as a part of their tour of the country •
in the interest of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. ;
They were entertained by Peter Magar© during their
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short stay in the city. They addressed an audience at the i
Pennsylvania railroad station.' ,
FORMER AMBASSADOR CRITICALLY ILL '
I New York.—Walter Hints Page, retiring ambassador ' ]
to Great Britain, arrved here to-day from England,
i e
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steamship he was brought ashore on a 6tretcher and re
ptr.c •- ! to a ho r .tal. J
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STORES WILL CLOSE EARLY !
' Chambershurg. i*~ Every store In the city will close 1
tonight at §.39 at the request of.the Beard of Health. !
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IRVIN CAMERON ELDER DIRS j
f Chamberaburg.—Trvin Cameron Elder, prominent J
local barrister, died at Eldersiie this morning. He waa 1
50 years and is survived by His wife, who is sister of '
Majer it. C. Kennedy, president of the Cumberland Val- 1
ley Railroad, now in London.
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MASKS FOR JERSEY BARBERS
P NEW' YORK.—The Jersey City Health Board to-day 1
distributed gauze masks to barbers, which must be worn j
tor the duration of the epidemic while cutting hair artd 4
'shaving. -A total of 4,562 cases have been reported in j
Jersey City. 4
' THREE VILI \GES CAPTURED j
■ LQNDON.-r-Brltish fbrce* loot night continued their j
Advance north of the Sense* river, Field Marshal Haig j
announced to-day. The advance is in the direction of |
<>ouai. The villages of Hamel, Brebieres, less than three 1
miles from Doual, and Cu'mcy, lesS than two miles from I
iD.-uai, have Wn captured.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
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Hornpr, IlnrrlNlturgt, und I.ldlit VnrKa. Hpr*hcri Kaon A. llojrr. ,
T'nlon nppoNlt. nnd Mnry K. Pnlaiyrnt Wllllnm llitrliold, j
HnrrlnburK, nnd tlnnnlp illllpr HiimmrlM<> ni Hrnry Kublnnon, R
Slppllon. nnd t'ordtx A. I'nlKP, llrp.-.xlpr.