CAPITAL CITY FOOTBALL TEAMS TREATED ROUGH AWAY FROM HOME; BEAR SEASON OPENS
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Fish Are Calling For Help;
Now the Time to Save 'Em
By TOM MARSHALL
Help! Help! Rescue or I perish.
How quickly we would respond to
a call of this character and rush
to the assitance of suffering hu
manity should the above appeal
reach our ears. Take a stroll in the
open, follow the rivers, visit the
bayous, locate the inland lakes,
where the water is shallow and grad
ually evaporating. In the near fu
ture the fins and tails of fish will
, be exposed; a little later the water
will be entirely gone.. "You will
hear the dog fish bark out their
misery and the cat fish meow for
assistance. Intelligence or intuition
' advises them In advance of the evap
' oration or solid freezing of these
lakes, both conditions mean death to
the flsh.
Rescue work is the only effective
answer to their plea. This must be
done by the devotees of the rod or
the fishermen whose financial Inter
ests are served. Now is the ac
cepted time and the work should be
done at once. Game Warden and
Deputies of the different states
should be actively engaged in this
work, directing and assisting at all
times the rescue parties, while they
are conserving our food supply by
rescuing fish from the shallow lakes
, or ponds. Liberal appropriations
BEAR SEASON TO
OPEN TOMORROW
If You Run Across One After
Midnight It Is All Right to
Bag Him; Quail Oct. 21
While the open season for small
game, such as squirrel and quail, will
not come in until October 20, or, le
,. gaily, until October 21, real big game,
such as bear, may be shot on and
after Tuesday, October 15, but it is
hardly likely there will be a big rush
to the mountains for this kind of
game, notwithstanding the fact that
bear are unusually plentiful on Centre
county mountains this year. In fact,
a few have displayed a particular
fondness to come out of the mountain
fastnesses on various occasions and
exhibit themselves to the traveling
public.
So far as quail are concerned they
are a nonentity in Centre county and
not worth bothering about. There
are some squirrel in woodlands where
nuts abound, but so far they have not
been seen in any great numbers, and
hunters are likely to find the pursuit
of small gome a rather irksome sport
this yea;. Ordinarily pheasants pro
vided the best hunting and attracted
good shots from all over the state, but
this year Centre county has been clos
s the hunting of these toothsome
and local hunters are regarding
it as a blessing in disguise, because
so many hunters from other counties
hogged the sport every year and the
. man who went out for only a day at
a time stood little chance of getting
anything.
When the wild turkey season comes
in it is probable that a greater num
ber of hunters will be attracted to the
woods, as they are reported quite
plentiful, but the real hunting Will
not begin until the opening of the
deer season, hast season there were
more deer killed in the Centre coun
ty mountains than in any season for
several years, and woodsmen report
deer very plentiful this year. Just
why this is the case is hard to under
stand when nothing but bucks can be
killed and the kill last year was about
150.
Game Birds Differ Greatly
in Their Flying Speed
A most interesting problem in
shooting, observes an oldtimer, is that
of studying the variation in the
Bpeed of flight of game birds. The
crow may be taken as an example
of the slower flying bird, with a rate
of thirty-five to fifty-flve feet a sec
ond and with an average speed of
forty-flve miles an hour, while many
• * species of hawks attain the remark
ably fast speed of 200 feet a second.
Here is the table showing the aver
age speed in flight:
Feet per Aver
♦ Bird Second age
Quail 65 to 85 75
Ruffed grouse ... 60 to 80 75
Snipe 50 to 70 65
Mallard 55 to 90 75
Wood duck 70 to 90 80
Teal 120 to 140 i3O
Calivasback 130 to 180 145
Canada geese .... 100 to 120 110
Red head 110 to 130 120
It may be said that if ducks are
scared they can reach a maximum
Bpeed at will, and this sprinting flight
Is usually what the gunner has to
make allowance for.
On the other hand, many wild fowl
are Jumped and killed while hover
ing oved decoys and moving slowly,
n, and birds like snipe and quail are of
ten killed before they have attained
full speed.
Upland birds are not often shot
while passing the gun at right angles,
but going straight away, quartering
or twisting.
Germany Is Willing
Kaiser Should Fall
Paris, Oct. 14.—The tendency is
remarked in certain German circles,
lays a dispatch from Geneva to the
' Temps, to represent the eventual
call of Emperor William as a con
fession which the Germans would
be disposed to allow to the Allies if
V they demanded it.
' Much talk appears, ab.ote all, the
Message adds to be an attempt to
:uing about an event which many
Hermans judge to be Inevitable and
sven desirable.
Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 14.—Neu
tral travelers arriving here from
Germany report that rumors Em
peror William may abdicate ap
pear to take greater consistency day
„ y day. The arrivals add that the un
popularity of the German Crown
Prince has considerably increased
In Germany.
CONGRESS All ARMED
Washington, Oct. 14—Members of
Congress regard the German answer
is opening an international political
lituatlon so stupenduous as to de
mand the greatest statesmanship in
ieuling with the matter. They feel
that the crucial climax In the history
, if the wgir has been reached and
rsist that decision must not be
hastily reached.
MONDAY EVENING,
should be made by the legislatures
of every state to bo utilized In this
work, under the direction of the
Commissions or Warden.
Do fish suffer when hooked? It
is claimed by many recognized au
thorities that the cartilaginous tis
sue surrounding the mouth of fish
is devoid of nerves hence non
susceptible to pain. Admitted, to
close the argument, that the claim
has been proven. This is no evi
dence that flsh do not suffer as the
water slowly evaporates, leaving
them imbedded in the mud or in
crusted in the solid ice to die a
lingering death. Rescue! Imme
diately seine the shallow lakes,
transplant the fish into living water.
Let your seine mesh be pmalt, flng
erlings and fry now baved mean
credible creel decorators in the near
future. Fish you rescue are accli
mated and accustomed to individual
rustling, their chances to mature are
even better than these hand raised
or hatchery propagated.
Cooperate with your State Warden
and Deputies, or better—devote' in
dividual time and efforts to seining
and saving the game fish for pros
pective food consumption. "Rescue
the pershing fish; care for the dy
ing."
EATING PLACES
TO CUT PRICES TO
FIT THE ORDERS
Food Administration Issues
Regulations For Hotels
and Restaurants
Washington, Oct. 14.—Herbert C.
Hoover, United States Food Admin
istrator, yesterday announced his
initial move in great conserva
tion campaign which mutt be under
taken, by the American people this
year if the nation is to make good
its promise to send 17,500,000 tons
of food to the Allies.
New food regulations, designed to
carry out a direct reduction in the
consumption of all foodstuffs, jtar
ticularly staples, will be put in force
on October 21 in' all places where
cooked food is sold to be eaten on
the premises. The regulations will
affect every hotel, restaurant, cafe,
club and dining car in the country.
I Tt. is estimated approximately 9,000,-
000 persons take their meals In
these public eating places.
Twelve "don'ts for restaurants"
make up the regulations, and their
application will bring about the
serving of less elaborate meals to
obtain the food saving rather than
the series of emergency regulations,
such as meatless and wheaUess days
and meals which formerly served
that purpose.
Homes to Get Similar Calls
Mr. Hoover's next step will be to
institute a similar saving in the
American home. Within a short time
he expects to pare down her entire
food bill and spread a more frugal
table, so the great _ deficit of our
Allies may be made'up. Details of
the means to be employed in accom
plishing the home saving have not
been completed, but the fact is pa
tent the world is short of food,
and only a surplus of American food
can meet the situation.
The "orders" sent to the public
eating places call for voluntary co
operation. The food administration
announced that actual licensing of
the operation of restaurants was not
deemed advisable or necessary at
present. It was made plain, how
ever, that if compliance with the in
structions are not complied with, the
public eating places will be dis
ciplined summarily by the food ad
ministration's control of the distri
bution of sugar, flour and other food
supplies.
Prices Should lie According
Another important feature of the
orders Is that if patrons desire only
one chop it should be served and all
portions of meat should be large
enough only to meet' the require-
Iments of patrons. Prices, however,
should be adjusted accordingly. It is
also urged that as few fried dishes
as possible be served in order to
conserve all fats. No candies should
be served after meals and icings
made from sugars should be elim
inated and honey, maple sugar, corn
sugar and svrup used as sweeteners.
Fresh vegetables and fruits should
be used wherever possible and
canned fruits and vegetables should
be used as little as possible in order
to save tin and labor.
Twelve Regulations Issued
"A failure to conform to any of
the following orders." says a circu
lar to the proprietors of restaurants,
"will be regarded as a wasteful prac
tice forbidden by Section No. 4 of
the food control act of August 10,
1917." The circular says:
"We know the majoi'ity of men
in this class of business will welcome
this enforcement on the ground it
protects the patriot from the slacker
and gives the honest man who wants
to save for the country protection
from the wrongful acts of his un
patriotic competitor."
The regulations follow:
First. No public eating place shall
serve or permit to be served any
bread or other bakery product which
does not contain at least twenty per'
cent, of wheat flour substitutes, nor
shali it serve or permit to be served
more than two ounces of this bread,
i known as Victory bread, or if no
Victory bread is served, more than
four ounces of other breads (such
as corn bread, muffins, Boston
brown bread, etc.). Sandwiches or
bread served at boarding camps and
rye bread containing fifty per cent,
or more .of pure rye flour are ex
pected. ,
Second. No public eating place
shall serve or permit to be served
bread or toast as a garniture- or un
der meat.
Third No public eating place
shall allow any bread to be brought
to the table until after the first
course is served.
Fourth. No public eating place
shall serve or permit to be served
to one patron at any one meal more
than one kind of meat. For the pur
pose of this rule meat shall be con
sidered as including beef, mutton,
pork, poultry and any byproducts
thereof. ,
Fifth. No public eating place
shall serve or permit to be served
any bacon as a garniture.
Sixth. No public eating place
shall serve or permit to be served to
any one person at any one meal
more than one-half ounce of butter.
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Even Horses Receive Extensive
Athletic Training in War Time
London, Oct. 14.—A war horse, be
fore he is ready for service, receives
an education almost as rigorous and
comprehensive as that of the recruit
who rides him into battle. When
properly trained he will face barbed
wire and even rush entanglements,
regardless of lacerated legs and
flanks.
After he has been accustomed .to
have a man mount rapidly on iiis
sensitive back he is taught to kneel
with his rider. He has to be taught
to pull up in his own length from a
gallop, to stand steady while a rider
fires from his back and to lie still
on the ground while he is being used
Seventh. No public eating place
shall serve or permit to be served
to any one person at any one meal
more than one-half ounce of Ched
dar, commonly called American
cheese.
Sugar Bowls Barred
Eighth. No public eating place
shall use or permit the use of the
sugar bowl on the table or lunch
counter. Nor shall any public eating
place serve sugar oT permit it to be
served to any one person at any one
meal exceeding one teaspoonful or
its equivalent.
Ninth. No public eating place
shall use or permit the use of an
amount of sugar in excess of two
pounds for every ninety meals
served, including all uses of sugar
on the table and in cooking, except
ing such sugar as may .be allotted
by the federal food administrators
to hotels holding a bakery license.
No sugar allotted for this special
baking purpose shall be used for any
other purpose.
Tenth. No public eating place
shall burn any food or permit any
food to be burned, and all waste
shall be saved to feed animals or re
duced to obtain fats.
Eleventh. No public eating place
shall display or permit to be dis
played food on its premises in any
such manner as may cause its de
terioration so that it cannot be used
for human consumption.
Twelfth. No public eating place
shall serve or permit to be served
what is known as double cream or
cream de luxe; and in any event, no
cream containing more than twenty
per cent, of butter fat shall be
served.
Indoor Baseball Knocks
Cricket Into Cocked
Hat, Say English
Baseball as played indoors during
the winter months in the United
States is proving remarkably popular
among the Allied soldiers in France.
It is played, of course, out of doors,
but the larger indoor ball is used and
the rules of indoor baseball adhered
to. It seems to be an easier game as
well for the British soldiers to learn
than the more scientific and technical
outdoor baseball. It is quickly learn
ed, and its caliber is not'too high to
admit an amateur. The English sol
diers find that any good cricket play
er possesses suflcient qualifications to
feel at homo in a few innings.
On athletic fields and aerodromes
all fiver France, one may see scores of
Rritish, Canadian, Australian and
American officers and men, playing in
door baseball with a vim and eager
ness never displayed at cricket.
"Indoor baseball knocks cricket in
to a cocked hat," declared the star
cricketer of one of the guards' regi
ments the other day. Probably the
quicker action, the wider inciusive
ness of the game, and the laughs it
arouses among the players and spec
tators —to sayhiothing of the rooting,
appeal more to the soldier in France
than the more serious and sedate
game of cricket, and the equipment is
simpler and cheaper.
Runaway Trolley Kills Two,
Injures 30, Rams a House
Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 14.—Two per
sons were killed, a score seriously in
ijured and a dozen more slightly hurt
I when a crowded trolley car on the
j South Bethlehem and Saucon Electric
I Railway, a short line running from
I this city to Center Valley, ran away
;on the Wood Street hill in South Beth
j lehem and crashed into a house at
the bottom of the grade. It was
j crushed like an eggshell, and Edward
Smith, aged 40, of Center Valley, and
; Mrs. William Trauger, of Colesville,
were crushed to death.
Local Pigskin Athletes
Meet Defeat Out of Town
Only twp Harrisburg football or
ganizations were active on Saturday,
both leaving home to meet defeat.
George Cockill took his Steelton High
schoolers to Millersvllle and when
he started home the squad was even
more sadly crippled and tottering
under a defeat of 27-0. About half
of Cocklll's regiment are down with
the flu.
The West End Invaded Marysvllle
nnd it succumbed to superior play
ing:, -13-7. West End however put up
a good game. The lineup was:
• HARRISBURG QSBSS TELEGRAPH
as a cover for his rider, who snipes
over his side.
One of the most difficult things re
quired of a war horse is to become
familiarized with the sword. In war
fare it is a common trick for a cav
alryman to aim his first blow at his
opponent's horse, for no horse will
stand after being pricked on the nos
tril or lip.
i When a horse knows his rider well
he will perform surprising deeds. A
brigade has been known to go
through three lines of bayonets and
then through a barbed wire entangle
ment. Not long ago a Canadian troop
charged two lines of German machine
guns and rifles and gathered them
both in.
MINERS URGED TO
WORK TO LIMIT
Governor Issues Proelanuition
Calling For Maximum Pro
duction of Fuel Now
Governor Brumbaugh has issued
a proclamation to the miners and
mine officials of Pennsylvania to ap
ply themselves daily and diligently
to the great service of providing
fuel. "The governor asks that the
coal of the Keystone State keep
'ablaze the fires that won the war' ".
The proclamation is as follows:
'WHEREAS, The American Min
ing Congress in full co-operation
with the State Department of Mihes,
the United States Bureau of Mines,
the Federal Fuel Administration and
the United States Employment
Agency has appealed to the Execu
tive of this state, in which fifty
two percent of all coal in the Union
is produced, to exercise his prerog
ative in securing the largest possi
ble output of coal every day, and
WHEREAS, It has been made
manifest that coal is essential to
the winning of the war, that its
aggregate output could be largely
increased if all miners and mine
owners in the true spirit of pafriot
ism were to unite in a real campaign
of production, avoiding all causes
for disputes, all occasion for un
rest, all need of strikes and delays,
and give themselves daily to the
great national need for fuel by work
ing full time and all the time, and
'WHEREAS, The so-called "Span
ish Influenza" is a new menace to
maximum production by reason of
the illness of many miners and their
attendants, thus reducing the man
power devoted to this industry—
skilled and unskilled alike, miners
and technical or administrative em
ployes, thus presenting to our peo
ple the absolute necessity of observ
ing fully all laws of health and ab
staining from all acts that in any
way could add to the menace from
this cause, and
"WHEREAS, As early as August
14, the, State Department of Mines,
with my approval and in full reali
zation of the imminence of the con
ditions, appealed to the owners and
employes of the 2,500 coal mines
in Pennsylvania to speed produc
tion and to appreciate the fact that
to dig coal is as patriotic a service
as to dig trenches.
"Now, THEREFORE, I, Martin
G. Brumbaugh, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
deeply sensible of the grave obliga
tion to the nation that our abound
ing resources lays upon all our peo
ple who in any way have to do with
the production of coal and resolved
that Pennsylvania at all times shall
be first in loyalty and in love for
liberty, do hereby urge all our min
ers and mine officials to apply them
selves daily and diligently to the
great service of providing fuel for
our homes, our institutions, our in
dustries, our Navy, our Merchant
Marine' and our Allies. Let it be
written when the story is told that
Pennsylvania was not slack, that
her manhood was patriotic and
heroic and that our coal kept ablaze
the fires that won the war for de
cency and democracy."
WITH BOOZE BARRED,
POLICE HAVE 810 WORK
No arrests were made by city police
since 8 o'clock Saturday evening.
Police account account for the singu
lar fact to the closing of the saloons.
MARYSVILLE WEST END
Straw right end Fetyow
Warren ... right tackle ..Laugherty
Smithgaul . right guald ...Vienhour
Kocker center Hodohan
Shoemaker .. left guard Hill
R. King ... left tackle Borch
Bitting .... left end Hoffman
C. Shaeffer . quarterback Anole
Tuck .... left halfback .Pennyhcffer
M. King .. right hdlfback . ...Spotts
Rhoads .... fullback Flinger
Substitutions: Benfer for R. King.
Touchdowns: Rhoads and Fetrow.
Field Goals: Rhoads, 2.
Flying With Shaffer
ACTION IN THE AIR
LETTERS FROM A DAUPHIN COUNTY BOY TO HIS MOTHER
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Escadrille Spad 38,
Secteur Postal 102, 1
G. C. 22, •
Sept. 8, 1018.
Dear Mother:
Say, don't let me hear you com
plain anymore that coal is so hard
to get that you must burn wood.
Why, doggone it, I haven't even got
a candle, and it sure is chilly, for to
day seems to be making up for all
the many clear days we have been
having lately. It's raining some-'
thing fierce, and for a Sunday 1 have
yet to see one more dreary. Worse
luck, no letters came to-day and the
rain Is getting worse. You may well
ask, ''are you downhearted?" and
like so many things I do, the -ans
wer might well surprise you, for the
answer would bo decidedly "No!"
You see, one of the French pilots
took his permission in English.
O, Glory, a Phonograph
He just got home to-day and
among other things brought a pho
nograph along. He orougnt many
American records along also as it
is a Columbia. Gee! I like to hear
a choir out camping along side that
"coford chaser" and even though
the Frenchmen cannot understand
the words the music certainly made
a hit with them. It's a cinch if we
don't wear all the needles out to
day it will be a miracle. Even now
while X scribble wrapped up in two
sweaters, a sheepskin coat and ear
muffs, a Frechman Is seeiug to It
that the musicbox keeps working
regular, and it sure is amusing to
hear him try to pronounce the names
of those Hawaiian pieces. Worse
yet, he wants to know what, they
mean—just as if I knew. Why, I
can't even pronounce them myself!
You know, with all this music go
ing on around me I don't feel like
speaking of war. And there certain
ly has been a lot of it going on late
ly around here fdr you remember I
tqld you my flying activity at present
Is around Soissons, although we
often fly near Rheims, too.
Hoisting the Huns
Of course, you #iave read in the
paper of the advance around Sois
sons. They certainly have been go
ing right along towards Berlin in
this sector, and the Frenchmen ad
miringly give the credit to the Amer
icans. It was the day the lines were
advanced from the river Velsc to the
river Aisne that I really got an idea
where the lines were and also what
a gas attack lpoked like. It was a
wonderfully clear morning and as we
neared the lines we could see clouds
of white vapor filling the many nu
merous valleys thereabouts, with
every now and then a tremendous
belching explosion of black smoke.
What the latter was I don't know,
but it surely made some spectacle.
Probably, the result of one of the
German trriek of mining a shallow
bit of water, so that when a com
pany of soldiers start wading
through into heaven so ,quick St.
Peter hasn't time to collect their
passports. A flyer from another
escadrille saw an explosion of this
sort when he was returning at a low
altitude from burning a Boche bal
loon. Just as he passed over a large
pond of water there was a tremen
dous explosion, and then there
wasn't any more water, or anything
else thereabouts for that matter. He
did not say whether he received a
shower bath or not, but it's pretty
certain he got his wings wet. Un
fortunately we saw no Boche that
morning so had no chance to help
along in the good work.
Clouds Full of Huns
The next day though, we" had
plenty, in fact too many, for the air
was alive with Boche at all alti
tudes. I had the latter fact duly
impressed on me for that evening
three Frenchmen and I asked for
"chasse libre," and there being no
orders we were allowed to go. By
the time we reached the lines two
of us were left, the rest having gone
hack with motor trouble; but we'
kept on hunting, as we had perfect
confidence in each other, for the
Frenchman knew 1 would follow him
wherever he went, and I dtnew that
he would run a minimum of risks
no matter where he went. We did
not have to hunt long for trouble
for as I said, before the sky was
full of Huns. \ No sooner had we
reached the lines than we saw the
white shrapnel that denotes their
presence and the Frenchman head
ed that way. Suddenly he turned
and headed straight into Germany,
diving as he did 80. Wondering what
the idea wus I followed and then I
saw we were headed for some more
"Archie" at lower altitude.,
In Night Quartern '
I could also make out a few planes
but we were too far away to tell
whether they were Boche. However,
we were getting closer and my
leader began diving steeper and then
suddenly pulled up and started for
home. As for me I first looked down
to see where the Boche were he had
dove on, but could see none and then
I took a look around above to see the
why and the wherefore of this sudden
decision to return to the home roost.
A Spad from another escadrille had
followed us In and he was still above
me. and believe me he wasn't letting
any clouds from un#ei* him. He was
heading for the lines with his tail
up over his head and all the motor
he had. I did not waste any time
following either, for not a mile away
were three little Fokkers coming
full speed to cut us oft for we were
for enough In Germany to make me
remember the words you had writ
ten of "Bishop" "never to take any
unncessary chances." Anyway, there
we were, two little Frenchmen hump
ing it for home with Ave Boche under
us and three more at our same level
looking as if they might catch us.
I say two, because my leader, hav
ing a lower-powered plane than ours
was endeavoring to get away by div
ing to a lower level. That did not
appeal to me though, seeming more
dangerous and when he came home
and said he had fell among seven
I was convinccdiof the wisdom of my
decision, for I chanced the menace of
the three Huns and kept heading
straight ahead. As they drew closer
and X could distinguish their chunky
lines, and their white tails wiih its
black cross I had a sudden desire to
meet them head on, and fight it out.
With this thought in mind, X looked
up at the strange Spad overhead |o
see whether he had the same thought,
for he was higher than the Huns and
thus in a more advantageous posi
tion while I was on the same level.
"Hang" <.o Bodies
But apparently he hud no such de
sire, for he kept right on going and
made no sign of showing fight, so
seeing that the odds were throe to
one not very favorable at that I re
linguished the idea of opening fire,
but if I was undecided the Boche were '
not, for about that time they decided
they were close enough and opened
tire with both guns—all three of
them. They didn't follow us far, for
would you believe it, we ran plunk
into ten more, who were milling
around in their circle jformation at
all heights while several Spads high
overhead dove down now and then
to the attack. Talk about being be
tween the devil and the deep blue
sea! Golly! I sure was glad I had
not stopped to cross bullets with
those three, for those ten coming up
on the other side would sure have
made it hot for me. As it was I had
troubles enough and three Boche on
my tail not withstanding, r proceeded
to get some more space under me,
for several of those ten were as high
as I was. I lost track of the other
Spad about that time and also the
original three Boche.
Home In a Thunderstorm
Incidentally, several of the second
patrol at probably 200 meters under
me stood up on their tails and began
speaking their little piece also. By
this time I had been shot at so often
that I was getting sore, and seeing
a favorable opportunity as one Boche
turned tc regain his patrol, I turned
both guns on him and did a little
shooting myself. True. I did not
knock him down, but it was a grim
relief to see my bullets go sailing
towards him like little sparks of
Are.
When I pulled out of the dive In
which I had been throwing flaming
stars around so promiscuous, another
Spad shot past me who had dropped
down from above—and then they
shot at us some more. I jumped in
a friendly cloud then, and seeing
that I had been out nearly my limit
of time I came out of the cloud and
headed home. On 6 would think I had
done enough dodging for one day,
but on my way home I had to dodge
a thunderstorm. And believe me a
thunderstorm seen from aloft is an
awe-inspiring spectacle.
WALTER.
Wiconisco Boy Has Arm
Shot OH in Battle
XViseonlsco, Pa., Oct. 14.—Word
has been received by Mrs. James
Hand, that the right arm of her son,
Edward Johns, was shot off in bat
tle in France. He is now in a hos
j pltal in Paris and expects to be sent
home. Johns enlisted at Battle Creek,
Mich., in September, 1917, and was in
training at Camp Mac Arthur, Texas,
arriving in France last Easter. He
was connected with the Machine Gun
Company of the One Hundred and
Twenty-Sixth Infantry.
EDWIN H. BLESSING DIES
HummelMtown. Oct. 14.—Edwin H.
| Blessing, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. D.
i Blessing, died on Saturday morning
lat the home of his wife's mother,
i Mrs. Henry Shearer, at New Bloom
| field, from pneumonia. Mr. Blessing
j was born here, and for a number of
j years was manager of his father's
| general store. He was aged 32 years
I and is survived by his wife and two
! children, his parents and one sister,
; Mrs. Clarence Conrad. He was a
j member of Zlon Lutheran Church, the
Men's Bible class, Derry Council No.
40, Jr. O. U. A. M., Washington Camp
' No. 306, P. O. S. of A„ and Camp No,
10714, M. W. of A. Funeral services
were held from the Shearer home at
12 o'clock to-day with burial in the
Hummelstown cemetery.
LIVERPOOL MINISTER RETIRES
Liverpool, Pa., Oct. 14. —The Rev.
William Beach, pastor of the United
Brefthren Church at .Royalton, and a
former pastor of the United Brethren
Shurch here, after an active minis
try of over thirty-one years, retired
from service on Sunday and was
placed on the retired list of the
church. During these years the Rev.
Beach served at Liverpool, Manor,
Lingleatown, Halifax, Tower City,
Intercourse, Peaque, Hillsdale, and
Royalton.
OCTOBER 14, 1918.
Georges Carpentier, French Boxer,
Must Quit Game, Says "BilP'McCabe
Yankee lighters who have recently
seen Georges Carpentier, the French
champion heavyweight boxer, believe
he will never enter the ring again.
This, at least, is the opinion of
"Fighting Bill" McCabe, who Just re
turned from the other side, after
meeting AI. Nealez. who is called
champion of Paris.
"At the port in France at which I
landed," said McCabe, "the Y. M. C. A.
director, a man named Martin, is a
boxing enthusiast, and every Satur
day night there is a boxing show put
on at the Y. M. C. A. hut over which
he presides. And say, some of the
bouts are corkers.
"The first day I was ashore I ran
into a little boxer whom I had known
in the Navy. He showed me around a
bit. The following Saturday night as I
1 approached the 'Y' hut I was sur- |
prised to see an enormous crowd of
soldiers. I btfgan to inquire what was
doing, when suddenly my little boxer
friend spied me and gave me a yell
of recognition.
" 'Come over here,' he shouted,
•you're just the man we want.
"It developed that 'Soldier' Gal
lagher, an American from Boston, had
about cleaned up every opponent that
could be found for him, and he had
just announced he was ready to meet
all comers.
"I hadn't any training, but I am
alwavs in good condition, and I went
on with him. We boxed six rounds.
430 Clocks at Capitol
Need Winding Weekly
Washington —There are in the Cap
itol at Washington 430 clocks, every
one of which has to be wound once a
week. To set them all back an hour
a few days he in itself quite
a job. ,
Sightseers who visit that great edt
, fice fail to learn from the guides or to
notice for themselves many things
(hat are interesting. For instance. If
they would observe the brownish
gray walls of the rotunda they would
understand Just what was the color of
the White House (built of sandstone
from the same quarry) before it was
burned in ISI4.
The outside of the building (bar
ring the iron dome and white marble
wings) is of the same material, and
to paint it is a task that occupies
thirty-five painters for thirteen
weeks.
So thick and massive is the ma
sonry structure that the interior is
like a series of caverns—always cool
even on tho hottest days of a Wash
ington summer.
Repairs cost $30,000 a year, and
mainly for this purpose workshops
are maintained in the sub-basement.
There is a paint shop, a Carpenter's
shop, a plumber's shop and a machine
shop down telow ground.
The buflding has 670 windows and
is illuminated by 25,000 electric lamps
of sixteen oandlepower or the equiva
lent. Wght, heat and power are sup
plied from a big plant several blocks
distant at a cost of $170,000 per an
num.
WMIE.V ASKED TO AID
IN I.IBERTV BOND DRIVE
Arr appeal.for the women of Cum
berland county to speed up their
work on the loan has been reecived
by Miss Margaret Moser. chairman of
tlie Women's Liberty Loan Commit
tee of Cumberland county, from Mrs.
William Gibbs McAdoo, national chair
man. In her telegram. Mrs. McAdoo
says:
"The President has called to the na
tion to oversubscribe the loan as an
imperative measure toward certain
and complete victory. The National
Women's Liberty Loan Committee, ap
preciating all £ou have already done,
calls upon you to take this message
home to your committee:
" 'Over subscription of the quota In
your district must be the personal re
j sponsibility of every Liberty Loan
worker.'" n
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9
but he was a slam-bang artist, and
I succeeded In outpointing him. Then
they asked me if 1 would box Nealez.
1 told 'em sure I would. They said
he was a heavyweight, but I answer
ed that it didn't make any difference
to me, and I had about a week to
train. I went to Camp (cen
sored), where there were all the spar
ring partners I could possibly want,
and trained hard for the week. At
the end of that time 1 felt as If I
could lick Willard.
"On the Saturday night that 1 was
to box Nealez the whole camp came
down to root for me. Nealez had his
followers, too. and the thing looked
like a world's championship over
here In old days. I had about-fifty
seconds, and so did Nealez. We got
busy right away and for three rounds
the gang .lust stood on their chairs
and howled. After that Nealez found
the pace too fast for him and I was
able to beat him in the last three
rounds, but I couldn't put him out.
"Georges Carpentier is fat and looks
flabby to me, and I don't believe he
will ever engage In another real ring
battle. There is a whole lot more
sports indulged in behind the line
than you would imagine. Plenty of
baseball is played by the men. but
the character of the sports, of course,
depends largely on the whims of the
officers in charge. Some of them are
not so keen for sports, and. of course,
their men don't have so much of
them."
SPECIAL TRAINS
START THIS WEEK
i Hundreds of Men Will Be
j Taken to Camp Green and
V Three Colleges Soon
The first movements of drafted
men of any account to army camps
since the outbreak of Influenza be
gan will start this week when three
distinct train movements will take
place. Meanwhile physical examina
tions of the last of the registrants
prior to September 12 to fill qt|tas
for October movements Is being ex
pedited- In many'districts where In
fluenza is not generally prevalent
the examinations and classifications
,of September registrants has been
advanced. ,
Commencing tomorrow three spec
ial trains will take almost 2,000
white drafted men with grammar
school educations to the University
of Pittsburgh and Cai*negie Insti
tute for mechanical training and a
special train will take 300 to State
College for a special course. Three
special trains will be run on Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday to take
1,500 colored men to Camp Greene.
These men were called to go to Camp
Upton, but the order was changed.
Train schedules are now being
worked out to send 6,725 white men
to Camp Greenleaf for general mil
itary service training.
HEARS OP "PEACE"
AND FALLS DEAD
When Mrs. W. H. Auchmuty. aged
51 years, of Sunbury, a sister of Gro
ver Wayne. 1713 Carnation street,
Harrisburg, heard early Sunday
morning that the Germans had accept
ed President Wilson's fourteen terms,
she fell dead, due to an attack of
heart diseases brought on by the
shock. Shortly after the German re
ply was heard of In Sunbury, every
conceivable noise-making instrument
was let loose, and when Mrs. Auch
mutv went to the door and learned
the cause, the shock was too much for
her.