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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
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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."
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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 |
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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$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.
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.OONEY PLEA IN SUPREME COURT .
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by counsel bo-day, was asked to review the case of Thom f
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. *< tion with a bomb plot, f
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this afternoon ratified an agreement entered into by their
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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
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through the epidemic of Spanish influenza miners' unions 1
in the anthracite : ;lds Have voted to- forego the celcbra-
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1 ANSWER RESENTED BY BERLIN PRE? ■ 1
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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
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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- .
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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.