/ • v "' IWmL'dj ' r&li Turkey Suisuts ~. : m of flrreaXr * •.' -a HARRISBURG .TELEGRAPH \ * ffllt Siar-3ni>epcnf>cnl. I.XXXVII- Xo. 238 14 PAGES SStt*MS!3i.?*" HARRISBURG. PA.. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1918. OWI NBW9PAPB? ! 'hA , |MUSUIIKU KSS t'WO^'eNTS HOME EDITION ' MURDERERS OF GETTYSBURG MAN TO VISIT SCENE I Youths Who Slew Garage Owner to Point Out Spot of Crime CONFESS TO THE KILLING Robbery Was Motive of Crime Which Gave Them $5 in Cash f Clarence J" Collins, and Charles C. Reinecker, Gettysburg lads who last night confessed to the murder of George J. Bushman, well-to-do Get tysburg garage man. Wednesday night, October 16. will be taken in an automobile to the scene of the crime, supposedly near Idavllle. on the road from Carlisle to Gettsburg. to de termine if the murder was committed in Adams or Cumberland county. The men cannot tell the exact lo cation of the shooting, and it will be necessary to return to the scene be i fore the men are turned over to the authorities of either county. When it is finally determined where Bushman was murdered, the case will be dis . charged by the authorities of Dau phin county through Alderman Shaner, who made out the informa tion. It is likely the trip will be made Monday or Tuesday. Ages Falsified Keniecker gave his age as 18. but authorities have reason to suppose he is at lqast two years older. Reinecker lived with his sister in Gettysburg. Both his parents are dead. Collins also gave his age as IS, but it is said he is 21 years old. It 'also • is said he is married. He figured in a white slave case at one time, detec tives say, but was acquitted. He has been living with his widowed mother on the Baltimore pike, five miles out of Gettysburg. Collins was arrested by Detective Wilson, of Adams county, at the l.andis Too! Works in Waynesboro Thursday night. Reinecker was ar rested at Reiehles' Butcher shop in Gettysburg yesterday. They made a partial confession to Wilson at Get tysburg yesterday and when Harry C. White, private detective, brought them to the county jail here last night both men made what was learned a complete confession to the authori ties. According to both young men, Ijeinecker fired the shots. The see- shot was for precaution, fired into the dead man's breast at such close range it burned his coat. The second shot was tired after he had been bundled into the tonneau for the gruesome trip from Mount Holly to Harrisburg. and then up the river road, for fipal disposal of .the body. According to the confession. Bush man was in the act of running his automobile into his garage at about * o'clock Wednesday evening. Octo ber 16. when Reinecker and Collins hailed him and asked him to take them to Carlisle. Bushman agreed to take them. $5 to be paid in ad vance, and the remaining $7 when they began their return trip from Carlisle to Gettysburg. The trip to Carlisle was made and at 11 o'clock • were ready to return to Gettysburg. Without asking for the remaining S7 owed him. Bushman complied. Shortly after" they passed Mount Holly, the murder was committed. Collins rode beside Bushman in the front seat, Reinecker was in the tonneau. Reinecker pulled a 38-cali her revolver from his pocket, and shot Bushman in the back of the head. Bushman was driving very slowly, and fell over the steering wheel. Collins jammed on the brakes, after which the two boys lifted the inert form into .the tonneau, where they fired another shot to insure that lie would be dead It was then they went through his pockets, and found only .the five dollars they had given him. and eighty cents in change. They expressed surprise last night when [Continued on Dago 4.] New York World Thinks President Should Not Have Made His Appeal New Vork. Oct. 26.—The New York World, staunch Democratic newspaper and some times regarded as the spokesman for the administration, editorially expresses the belief to-day that President Wilson should not have written his appeal to the Ameri can people to return a Democratic Congress. November 5. The World agrees with the President . but says: "It is not surprising that Republicans vigorously criticise the President's appeal for the election of a Democratic Congress. His argu ment is powerful in all its bearings but he is not the man who should have said it," and adds "our'only re gret is that forces of such inesti mable value should have been ad dressed in the wrong way." HIGHER RATES PROPOSED W iiMhlngton, Oct. 26.—The Inter state Commerce Commission to-day approved proposed increases in ex press rates to become effective unless another method of giving the Ameri can Railway Express Company added revenue is worked out with the rail road administration. \THE WEATHER Far Hnrrlsbnrg and vicinity. In settled. probably rain to-night and Sunday| dot much change . in temperature. For Kaatrra Pennsylvania i In nettled to-night and Snndnyi probably occasional local ralna, moderate and variable winds. River The Snsquehanna river and all Its branches will probably remain nearly stationary to-night. Rain mny cause some streams of the system to rise Sanday or Sunday night. A stage of about 4.0 feet la tndlcatrd far Harrisburg San day morning. Turning Them Over to the Specialists now- ALL YOU fnT ty? IT""" NEED IS THREE lift!) A } •- OR FOUR CAREFUL O'— OPERATIONS BY . ' " ' G>oOl> ' SURG£QRS ' T' r | STORM BREAKS ON WILSON CALL FOR PARTY CONGRESS Taft and Knox Score Partisan Plea; War Not Affected, Pennsylvanian Says Washington. Oct. 26.—Republican sentiment in both Senate and House in resentment of President Wilson's appeal was vigorously set forth last night in a statement signed by Sen ator Lodge, as leader of the Repub licans in the Senate, and by Senator Smoot. the chairman of the Senator ial Republican Committee, as well as by Representative Gillette, the Re publican leader in the House, and by Representative Fess, the chair man of the Republican Congression al Committee. Jvnew Statement Was Coming Senator Harry New, of Indiana, the veteran in the Senate, in service in the Republican National Commit tee, and who has been chairman of that committee, declared after he [Continued on Page B.] Boy Sends Load of Shot Into Man's Shoulder When Father Lays Down Weapon Eli Shearer, 65. of Middletown. while discussing the question of tim ber to be cut with Gus Credden, of Round Top, in the woods near that place yesterday afternoon, was ac cidentally shot in the right,.shoulder by a gun held in the hands of Cred den's 10-year-old son who had ac* companied the men to the woods. Shearer was taken home by Credden but upon an examination of the wound by Dr. J. L. Blecker it was decided to remove the man to the Harrisburg Hospital, where it is said that his injury is serious. Shearer is said to have carried the shot gun with him when he went to Credden's home to talk over timber cutting and took it along when the men went to the woods nearby. The former had barely laid the weapon aainst a tree when the lad picked it up for examination. A few seconds later its contents were acci dently discharged by the boy into Shearer's shoulder. JOHN N. H. MEXGER Qftrs SENATE HOTEL Wit hthe transfer of the liquor license for the Senate hotel. Market Square, to Fred H. Menger, which was approved by the Dauphin county court this morning, announcement was made that John X. H. Menger, a brother, has retired from the man agement. The Mengers had been in charge of the place together for some time, and the license transfer to-day was transferred as a legal for mality. It was also announced that John N. H. Monger had purchased the Court Dairy Lunch, Court and Strawberry streets, and will con tineu fhe restaurant there. SNOWSTORM I.N MIDDI.E WEST Chicago, Oct. 26. The first snow of the season was reported In North ern Nebraska, Western South Dakot* and In Minnesota. At Pipestone, Minn., the fall measured ten inches. r \ Household Helpers Needed by Red Cross THE Red Cross headquarters to- ' day sent out a call for women ! who will be t wllling to go into houses where tlie mothers are sick ! and children are without proper care ' and diet. "Many of these families j are willing to pay for such ser vices." said Mrs. Gilbert, "and the j need is great. Scores of mothers J are sick and little ones are suffer- | ing for a woman's care. Volun- ! teer nurses have responded nobly; ! now we need housekeepers. Those willing to serve should phone or j call at Red Cross headquarters in j the Harrisburg Public Library j building in Walnut street." x J THIRD SATURDAY ! NIGHT CLOSING IS ORDERED AT 6.30 I)r. Rover Lifts All Bans on; Phladelphia, Beginning Next Wednesday No decision on lifting the closing | orders in effect in Harrisburg to i check the epidemic of influenza, has been reached by Dr. J. M. J. Rau nick, city health otficer, and it may be a week before the date for open ing of schools and other places now closed will be fixed. Dr. Raunick said to-day the situa tion'is still improving. He also an-j nounced he will have a statement j prepared to submit to council next i Tuesday. At the Emergency Hospital there I were no patients admitted or' dis- | charged during the day. Fifty-four j persons are being treated at the in- j stitution. There have been no deaths > in the last 24 hours. At the local Bureau of Vital Sta- | tistics fourteen burial certificates | [Continued on Page 13.] SUN TO GET HOUR TO CATCH UP WITH U. S. TIMEPIECES WHEN CLOCKS ARE SET BACK Men Who Forget to Move Watches Back Tonight Will Lose an Hour's Sleep in the Morning Altogether now:—"Backward, turn , backward, O Time in thy flight!" Yes, sir, at 2 o'clock to-morrow ' morning the United States will com- { plete its test of "daylight saving." At that hour clocks of the naval ob servatory and other agencies by which time is regulated In this coun- j try will be stopped for one hour | while the sun, which dally has been lagging farther behind the nation's clocks, has a chance to catch up. At j the same time trains on all railroads will stop by order of Director Gen eral McAdoo for one hour, then proceed on their way. The correct thing to do is to turn CHAMPION HUN ! KILLER HAS 13 | TO HIS CREDIT ! Quick Shooting Member of 112 th Infantry "Pots" German Officers j Thirteen Huns have fallen to the shooting prowess of a Pennsylvania boy in the Iron division. He is Pri vate William Whalen, of Sunbury, I and his comrades are calling him "the champion Hun killer." Private Whalen went overseas, | with the divisional headquarters : ; troop. Later he was transferred to ! | the infantry, where he made his ree ■ ord. Since then he has been assigned ; to duty at division headquarters. I An officer on the staff of General i Charles H. Muir, commanding the I Iron Division, tells of the Sunbury i | boy's exploits. "He has killed more German of- , j fleets than any other man in the di- j • vision," this officer writes. Private ; , Whalen himself, in a letter to his | parents at Sunbury. furnishes his I score to date—l 3. Before the war 1 | "the champion Hun killer" was a ' I Pennsylvania railroad clerk. Harrisburgcrs In Unit j On the eve of the Yankee drive i along the Meuse, Colonel George C. Rickards, commanding the 112 th j Infantry in the Iron Division, wrote an inspiring letter of the task which the Pennsylvania boys were facing j [Continued on Page 4.] First Part of Week Rainy; Cool Start, Too By Associated Press I Washington. Oct. 26.—Weather j predictions for the week beginning j . Monday, issued by the Weather j Bureau to-day include: Northern and Middle Atlantic ' I States: Rain Monday and probably ; (Thursday; cooler Monday; seasonal temperature after Wednesday. , your timepiece l>aek one hour before j ; you go to bed to-night, and then | . forget it. Otherwise, one will lose I the extra hour of sleep which he i lost last Mach 31', when all clocks were turned ahead one hour. The heads of steel corporations will have the edge on their employes i for they will have to work one hour ! longer, but it was the other way when the saving daylight order went ; in, so it is "even-Stephen." Probably the greatest single! achievement by this order was the gain of 329,409 hour-day-year to , the 5,285.300 was gardenrs. Many ' an hour, too, was furnished for out- J i door recreation. i i 50,000 HUNS LOST IN BA TTLE; 15,000 CAPTURED BY ALLIES; FOCH GAINS ON EVERY FRONT Foch Gives Enemy ! .No Time to Rest on Any Front HUNS SLOWLY PRESSED BACK Hy Associated rress • Paris, Oct. 26.—The battle lias j flamed up again and heavy fighting ; now is under way from Valenciennes 'to the Mouse. The Germans are light !ing well everywhere, but the Allies i continue to mak substantial headway | In the task of driving back the enemy ! on the Meuse line. Although the recent fighting hr.s | been marked by no sensational do i velopments. It is having a cumulative j effect which, apart irom the g. ootid I gained adds considerably to the wast | age of men and material with which | the Germans must reckon. In the last fpur days the enemy has lost ; well up towards 15,000 prisoners and ; ! 200 guns. His total loss of o ctives • | cannot have been less ihan 5",000. > | Strictly speaking, there are thieej | large battles in progress, all of which I ' are being conducted with equal sue- , ! cess for the Allies. The first is be- I i ing carried on by the British 'Jiiiid j and Fourth armies which, pushing |on towards Mons, have .• inched the i Valencinnes-Hirson double track rail | road. The second is the attack of ! General Mangin north and oast of ! Laon. which has resulted in a gain on j a front of 8 miles for a distance of | two miles. He has carried ills line ] out of the swamps around Sissoue. j The third battle is being fought by I | General Guillaumat on a front of | | seventeen miles from Sissone to f'ha- ; I ter.u Poreien, where the Hull'ling line I joins the Krtemheld system. The i average gain has been a mile, al | though at some points lite advance | has been greater. Lieut. Johnston Officially Reported Killed in Action Conflrmaton of the belief that Lieutenant Donald Johnston, attach |ed to the American Air Service in I-'rance had met his fate when word reached his brother, Paul Johnston, of this city, October 10, from the j Adjutant General's office in Wash- \ ington, that the aviator had been | missing In action since September 12, ; came to-day when another message i from the same source to Mr. John- . stoti. stated that the airman had | been killed in action on the above date. Though a profound shock to the t Johnston family, news of the Lieu- j tenant's death while tighting in the j air was not entirely unexpected by them and they were steeled for the j worst. Lieutenant Johnston, who former- | ly lived in Harrisburg, enlisted in j the aviation service in California, i He was 27 years of age. Hun U-Boats Idle as Germans Strive For Peace London, Oct. 26.—German submar- ' Ine activity reached such a low state ; this week as to become almost negll- , gible as a war measure, notwith- . standing that as many or more U- j boats were lurking in the Atlantic | and the Mediterranean. The British i Admiralty looks upon this situation I as part of the German peace often- I slve. j DRIVE FOR FUND TO AID SOLDIERS GETS START HERE Workers Crowd to Gilbert Store to Learn Part in CityVProgram The national campaign to supply ' comforts and amusements for men in service with a fund of $170,000,000, |to be divided among Y. SI. C. A., i Knights of Columbus, the Y. W. C. A., the Jewish Welfare Board, the War i Camp Community Service, the Salva ■ tlon Army and the American Library i Association, opened up locally to-day with a big crowd of workers who flocked to the old Gilbert store on . Market street to get a line of actlvi j ties. Secretary E. R. Eckenrode has just returned from a trip to Philadel phia where he sought details for or ganization, but the program cannot be given out for several days. Dau i phin county is supposed to dig up SIBO,OOO and the city itself, sls-0,000. The actual drive will start November 11 and continue until November 17, | and the various chairmen all agree l that this drive will be as successful as the last Liberty Loan. | The busiest people in town to-day ! were members of the "stunts" com mittee, headed bv Henderson Gilbert, i and including Floyd Hopkins, Joe I Waliazz, Linn Scott and Division Pas | senger Agent Longacre. Progress was made to-day in appointing com mittees, such as William P. Starkey, industrial chairman; Paul Johnson, head of house-to-house canvassers; Charles E. Pass, chairman of fraternal organizations; victory boys and girls, A. I'. Dinsmore; committee on post ers, luncheons, etc., Boyd M. Ogelsby and Mercer B. Tate. The city chair ; man Is David E. Tracey; the vlce ! chairman, Mrs. William Jennings; J, William Bowman; David Kaufman, , and George Rellly is secretary. E. ;J. Stackpole Is chalrman of the com- J mfttee whose activities embrace ten j i counties. DIAZ SEEKS TO DRIVE WEDGE INTO BROKEN ARMIES OF AUSTRIA \ Valenciennes Being Encircled by British Armies; French Drive Forward For Important Gains on Wide Front; Americans Face Heavy Fire By .Associated Press French troops facing the southern bulwark of the German defenses in France continue to make important dents in the enemy positions along the Serre and eastward, while the British hammer at the pivotal point around Valenciennes. Southwest of Marie the French have captured Mortiers on the Serrc. while farther east in the region southeast of Mont cornel General Petain's men have smashed through the Ger man lines on a front of four and one-half miles to a depth of two miles at certain points. The German defenses here were for midable. having been prepared in 1917 and continuously rein forced. Encircle Valenciennes In the encircling of Valen ciennes the British have gained new successes north and south of the town. On the edge of the Mormal forest, on the south. Field Marshal Haig's men have ! taken Englefontaine and Mt. Carmel lull. In the bend of the Scheldt river northwest of Valencinnes the British have moved eastward and captured ; the villages of Odomez and ! Maulde. The American troops on the I sectors east and west of the j Meuse are being subjected to ! strong German reactions, espc -1 cially with artillery, but main | tain their hold on the new j ground won yesterday. North |of Grand Pre the Americans | have strengthened their posi ■ tion in the southern part of | the Bourgogne wood. While the British, • French and ' Americans slowly are breaking j through the stubborn defense along ' the line south of Valenciennes the 1 attention of the Apied world is di j rected to the Italian front, where i General Diaz apparently has started j a major operation. 1 Allies Capture Finvc Islands 1 Fighting on a large scale appears ENEMY GETS OUT | OF 7,000 SQUARE MILES IN FLIGHT Coal Fields in France Recon quered; State Men Near" Belgian Frontier fly Associated Press Washington. Oct. 26.—Sumniariz | ing the situation on the western j battle front to-day, General March | said the Germans have evacuated ■ or been driven out of seven thou sand square miles of Belgian and French territory qince July 18; that I four hundred square miles have been | freed during the past week and that | all the coal fields in Northern France have been reconquered, except for a [Continued on Page 13.] $17.50 Fixed as Price For November Porkers Chicago. Oct. 26.—A minimum of prices of hogs for November has been fixed at $17.50 as the daily average for packers' droves. A min imum of $16.50 has been fixed for throw-outs, which consist of , hogs under 130 pounds, stags, boars, sows and skips. As packing house products have been selling on a basis of $16.50 fo hogs, the announcement to-day of the new basis for November result ed in a big jump of prices for pork, j lard and ribs. JAY LINKS TO APPEAR TO-MORROW MORNING City Highway Department em ployes early to-morrow morning will paint "jay lines" at the downtown street intersections If weather condi tions permit, ofiictnls announced to day. Two lines will be painted at | each of the four crossings at each j intersection. Two attempts \vi ic j made months ago to have "Jay lines ' J but the paint soon waa worn oil, to have begun on Thursday, when the Austrian official statement re ported heavy artillery fire from the Brenta river to the Montello plateau. It was reported yesterday that Ital ian, British and French forces at tacked between the Brenta and Piave rivers and advanced over rough country for a considerable dis tance. At the same time, the Allies moved ahead and captured islands in the Piave above the Montello plateau. Aim to Divide Austrians This stroke was aimed at the angle in the Austrian line which runs from the Adriatic along the I'iave until it reaches the mountains and then turns west. If the Allied attack makes material progress the Austrian armies on the lowlands near the sea and those holding the front In the mountainous sector may be divided. The number of prisoners taken, three thousand, would seem to indicate fighting of a serious na ture. It is too early to determine whether General Diaz has really be gun an offensive or is merely direct ing an operation which is in the nature of a diversion. British Drive in Mesopotamia British divisions in Mesopotamia '•live resurrted their offensive against the Tigris and those operating there will be an effort to form a junction between the forces along the Tigris and t hose operating north and east of Damascus. f .OONEY PLEA IN SUPREME COURT . , by counsel bo-day, was asked to review the case of Thom f • c . *< tion with a bomb plot, f i Jj i this afternoon ratified an agreement entered into by their q I This was the twenty-third day of the strike. ft' INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN *fE*""-? Mexico City—Spanish influenza now is epidemic in IN 1 all parts of the republic, excej I th and a 5 D s \ y\ ' ' ft y] 1 1 .pt ' I;| . . . <P'I I. MINERS WILL WORX MITCHELL DAY '-1 B j I •• C •' 5 through the epidemic of Spanish influenza miners' unions 1 in the anthracite : ;lds Have voted to- forego the celcbra- T I I the ' to-day said. ,S| 1 ANSWER RESENTED BY BERLIN PRE? ■ 1 l J not satisfied with President. Wilson's late ' .. IB c? diem say it means progress toward peace. Th- # ing was reflected yesterday in advanced prices on the oer- I B lin stock exchange. The Krcuz Zeituog of Berlin advd- Jfl cates war to the end. J jjl ] MARRIAGE LICENSES f Ifrrmnn n. Wnanrr nnd Kllr.nbrlh F. SkrnlTer. Fcnhrookj Jnmra I Anilrnon nnd I.lkklf l-rrxon. Tnrrl*biiri Henry Brrker uml Mnr- Ty tinrntn HolirrtM, snoKnn, I'nul J. %rndl and Vloln M. barter. Mid- . V dlctottni (irorar K. Hill. Hnrrlnbnra. nnd Kdnn M. Holl, Hl*bp|re. > Qi 11 M Turkey Asks Allies For Peace Terms; Ready to Quit - DUALMONARCHY NEAR COLLAPSE By Associated Press London, Oct. 26. The Turkish minister to Switz erland has handed the Brit ish and French ministers to that country an offer of peace virtually amounting to surrender, according to a Berne dispatch to the Daily MaU. London, Oct. 26. —An officii statement, according to whicfc the demobilization of the Austro Hungarian army is being pre pared is published by the news papers of Vienna, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copcn hagen says. /jiiricli, Oct. 26. —Pince Fredericl Lebkowitz and Baron Nadherny who represent the strongest antl- German tendencies at Vienna, have left that city for Switzerland charged with a mission about which no de tails are given, according to tin Neues Journal of Vienna. Basel, Oct. 26.—Vienna uewspa pers are publishing articles relative to preparations for demobilizing the army. One newspaper says two in fantry regiments stationed at Kario witz, a village in Oroatia-Slavonia Hungary, have revolted.
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