8 KILLS SELF BY DRINKING ACID Howard L. Burkholdcr Found Lying Dead Across His Bed After he had drained the contents of a vial of carbolic acid, Howard L. Burkholder. an employe of the Central Iron and Sieel Company, was found dead In his room, IST North Fifteenth street, late yesterday by I the Battle Fleet | I of Commerce The Economical I Motor Truck Bethlehem Motor Trucks—Powerful Carriersof Essentials —speedy, sturdy, responsive to every direction of the driver. Bethlehem Trucks are not merely engines on four I . wheels —they are designed and built AHEAD of the standard; they are sold cn the basis of Economy in < Miles per gallon—Ton Miles per gallon—ai\d lasting Stability both in Mileage and road strain. Get the utmost for your money by buying a Beth lehem —it's as modern as a limousine with its Gray & Davis Starting and Lighting System. These are War Times when nickels count Beth lehem Trucks save as well as serve. Examine a Bethlehem and seo why. $ fa 1 i Ton ChassU 2 J Ton Cfe&tsU 3}TonChasaU $1965 $2365 $3465' F. O. B. Allentown, Paj The truck bought today without electric starting and lighting will be out of date tomorrow. Wo can ifl deliver yours now. • I THE OVERLAND-HARRiSBURG CO. ? fito 212-214 NORTH SECOND STREET |s fit V II r —m iistm "Deutchland Über Ailes" contains Copyright registered 1918 more truth tlian poetry. What's a Battery Expert? stretching forth to garner tho • earth, and, to their minds, tile Expert: "One who has special skill, ex orderut Any others claiming this con- [Vaf ' M&tiUiKsian i>o) naBM nection are frauds, and cannot ok#£SSk *r j, f give you Willard service. \U Hj SATURDAY EVENING Mrs. Mary Rcxroth with whom he had been boarding. Burkholder had been dead for some time before he was discovered. No reason for his sui cide has been advanced. Mrs. Rexroth said that upj>n return ing to her home from a shopping trip downtown, about 4.30 o'clock yester day afternoon, one of Burkholder's friends called for him. Upon going to his room to Inform him of the friend's presence, she found Burk holder lying across his bed. A physician from the neighborhood pronounced Burkholder dead. Burk holder was 41 years old. A sister, Mrs. Milton' Levan, of Allentown, wa i notified of her brother's death. Last night Burkholder's body was removed to the Wilt undertaking parlors. LIBERTY MOTOR AND COL VINCENT Packard Motor Co.'s Explana tion of Recent Report on Aviation America needed nn aviation en gine, it at the earliest possi ble moment, and J. G. Vincent, the engineer in charge, cut the entang lements of red tape to get the need ed results. That, in brief, is the Packard Motor Company's explan ation of the course which resulted in Lt. ,Col. J. G. Vincent's arraign ment In the Hughes report on the aircraf* program. It is pointed out that the Packard Company had done aviation engine development work available to the government at the outbreak of the war; J. G. Vincent had been in charge of engineering on that work, and the war need was to get a war engine for the United States air service and get it quickly even at the expense of rules and routine. The statement by Alvan Macauley, Parkard president and general man ager. follows: "The papers contain extracts from, and comments upon the report of Judge Hughes, following his investi gation of the aircraft situation. We are especially concerned regarding what ho has to say, and the com ment concerning Lt. Col. J. G. Vin cent. 'Judge Hughes' report, I am ad vised, gives credit for the invention and creation of the Liberty motor to the Packard Motor Car Company and to Colonel Vincent while he was still vice president of this company, in charge of engineering. Shortly after the Liberty motor was created. Mr. Vincent resigned his large salary with this company, to accept the position as chief engineer of the Liberty motor, for the Government, at a salary about one-fifth as large. "The Liberty engine having been created, there was no Government organization to expediate its produc- j tion. The crying need was for a man capable of cutting the entangle ments of Government red tape, cre ated during peace times, and to get results. Preliminary models were ready within about a week, and a complete ready-to-operate Liberty motor was built, by night and day effort, wiihin a month from the time the- Packard received instructions from the Government to proceed. "The charge against Col. Vincent is that the routine of the transac tion was not handred in the ortho dox Government manner. The splendid results are admitted; the splendid success of the Liberty motor now known to the world. The sole charge is a technical one. Ked tape had to be cut and it was severed. The accomplishment of results was put ahead of the technical correct ness of the method. It cost both Col. Vincent and the Packard Motor Car Company heavily to develop the Liberty motor, and neither has asked one cent of recompense for that de velopment. The Packard Company's patents and inventions—upon which it had spent several hundred thous and dollars before the declaration of war, were expressly donated to the Government for use during the war, gratis. All of which Is a mat ter of written record. Our opinion is that if there had been more red tape cut at Washington during the early stages of the war preparations, ~-e would have been in shape to win the war even earlier. "Lieutenant Colonel Vincent .be ing an army officer, is, under the rules of the serf ice, precluded from making any reply to, or denial of the charges against him. But the facts are perfectly clear, and as we are not under the restraint upon him we cannot remain silent while even a technical charge is leveled against him." FIXED FOR BEATING CHILD Wilkcs-Barrc, Pa., Nov. 16. Welts about the body exhibited in police court yesterday by 7-year old Helen Baskier caused a fine of $5 to be assessed upon Joseph An drews. a blacksmith. Andrews ad mitted whipping the, girl, but said she and other children were an noying him and interfering with his work. . HARJRISBURG TELEGRAPH V KEYSTONE MEN ADVANCE ON FOE [Continued from First Page.] experiences during a two weeks' bat tle northwest of Verdun. The letter, dated October 10, is full of thrills and the fire of ad venture. It follows: k"My Dear Mother: "Now since I have t[ie opportunity I will tell you about the two weeks' battle that we have been in. After our short rest when we came out of Flsmes, we hiked to the front, north west of Verdun, and one dark night we took over the trenches from the French. Over the Top "The next morning we were to go over the top. The Germans wero not aware of the presence Qf Americans at this point of the line, although they did expect an attack., As wo entered the communicating trenches and wound our way toward the front line, past the reserves and support trenches. I saw for the first time how complete everything was. • Although the trenches had been there and used since 1916, and were rather weather-beaten, they illustrated to me very clearly all the stories I had read of the trenches, of the shell proof dugouts, and how much easier trench warfare is than this setni open kind of a war that we are forc ing on the Germans by our aggres siveness. "When wo arrived in the front line we put our guns into position. At this time there opened up one of he most furious barrlages that I ever heard. It seemed that all the guns in the A. E. F. were throwing 'iron rations over to Jerry.' The bar rage continued all night, but it did not keep me from getting a few winks of sleep shortly before day break. The Tanks Proceed "We put over a machine gun bar rage, and then followed the infantry over. The tanks had preceded and tore gaps in the barbed wire for us to pass through. When we reached the Boche front lines, under cover of a smoke ifcreen, we found them de serted. It was here that I saw what havoc our barrage had done. The trenches were caved in. dugouts were closed up, in many instances en tombing the occupants. Many Roches were killed by the barrage, and irtany others were cut off by the terriffic fire and were taken prisoners. "When we got to the Boche sec ond line snipers and machine gun ners started to play on us. We rest ed between the second and third line for the night. In the morning we advanced again and took posi tions at the ehge of a woods. The infantry kept on ahead wiping out machine gun nests and hunting snipers who were left behind to de lay our progress. "It was very interesting to watch the tanks which worked with the doughboys. Nothing stopped them. They went headlong over trenches, through woods and over rough fields, and were a great help in cleaning out machin gun nests. Hun Lines Damaged "While we were at rest once I found a big dugout that had been caved in by a direct hit, and the Boches who were in it had tumbled out just a few hours previously. But the hole was so small that they had to leave their equipment behind, and some of us got 'down in the dugout and found many souvenirs in the Heinies' packs. I got a large pistol with*a stock attachment so th. t it could be used as a rifle, several 'Uott mit uns' belt buckles, and many other ornaments from their cloth ing. "I was talking to a prisoner. He was a Prussian Guard. He said that we 'would have pitied them if we had known how severe our artllfery barrage was. He had been in the German army for three years, and said that there were only 100,000 Americans over here. He sure was misinformed. Our aviators are try ing to wise up these fellows by drop ping papers. I have seen many avia tors dump a load of papers in the German lines. Hot Meals Always "The next morning we advanced and made our eight kilos before we met any resistance. This was in the form of heavy machine gun fire which came from a wooded hill, and this hill was polluted with machine gun nests, and It took some hard fighting to dislodge these fellows. We were advancing along a road with our heavy equipment one day, when our mess came up. We had hot meals all through the mixup. But this time the mail came along. I got eight letters and I sure did have an exciting time reading them with a sniper taking shots every time I put my head up too high. We took this hill and the fighting continued through a heavily wooded section of hills and valleys. Every where could be seen dead German soldiers, and there was lots of muni tions captured, also many field guns. Early in the fight we captured a complete railroad train loaded with ammunition and several engines. The big guns of the six-inch variety, which were too big to get back on the muddy road, were blown up by the Boches. But the *775," about three-inch, which were not dam aged, were turned around and used against the Bochq. In this way some of the immense amount of captured ammunition was used. Fighting in Mud "The day before we were relieved we had quite an exciting time. Bul lets came as close to me as I ever want them to. I was lying in a shal low ditch in the mud and the bullets were knocking the dirt into my face, and were coming from all sides. I did not care how muddy it was when those pills began to sing, and when the mud meant shelter. For you know I believe in being careful as well as brave. "The last night we were on the front line with the infantry and shipers were all around us, we could hear them talking. These snipers stay behind when the main body falls back, to harass us and to try to delay us, and they are never taken prisoner when the 'nest' is captured. It rained throughout the drive, and the mud was a great handicap to us, and probably kept us from doing even better than we did. This was the first time any fight ing was done on this part of the line since the early days of the war. Fritz had held these hills since 1915 and had them strongly fortified. He also had concrete dugouts, 30 and SO feet deep. He also had narrow gauge railroads for conveying ammunition and supplies, and he held these posi tions with Prussian Guards, which are his best troops. "But he did not hold them long after we got started." EVANGELISTIC SERVICES The South Enola Church of Ood will be the scene of a series of in spiring evangelistic meetings open ing Sunday evening and continuing each evening except Saturday. The Rev C. D. Rlahel is pastor of the church. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator—Ad REPUBLIC PAYS TRIBUTETO PRESS I. W. Dill, Local Manager, Be lieves in Newspaper Advertising "I firmly believe that the news paper, whether It Is a metropolitan daily or local dally, is one of the first mediums, if not the first, in value to the national advertiser," says I. W. Dill of the Pen Mar Auto Co., local distributor of Republic Trucks. This opinion, coming from a man intimately acquainted with advertising in its inauguration of an extensive advertising campaign on the 2,000 pound Republic Special, which is being confined to daily newspapers exclusively. "Newspaper advertising, to my way of thinking, is the connecting link between buyer and salesman," continues Mr. Dill. 'lt is the voice of the product itself. What it says, how it says it, aqd where it says it moulds the character and reputa tion the product enjoys in the public mind. "It is no longer necessary for the manufacturer of motor trucks to create a desire for motor equip ment. The desire is already there. Every, progressive business house realizes the advantage of motorized equipment—it is now only a ques tion of finding the truck best suited to the particular requirements of his business. The prestige of the maker, the reputation of the truck, its economy and ability to stand up and deliver the service day In and day out, year in and year out— those are the things that prospec tive purchaser is most interested in now. And those are the things our newspaper advertising is driving home, quickly and effectively. "Take this present drive of ours on the Republic Special. At its price of $1295, we believe it to be the lowest priced real 2,000 pound truck on the market. And by real truck I mean approved truck con struction throughout. Not on adapt ed passenger car —but a truck built by truck specialists in a factory that makes nothing but trucks. We are sure that if a prospective buyer will inspect this Republic Special its unequaled value will become per fectly obvious. That is where newspaper comes in. It tells our story, briefly and to the point, illus trates the truck and urges the read er to act promptly while we are able to make immediate delivery and at so low a price." FIRE BURNS ll' HIS $2,000 Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 16. —John Siros, a wealthy Greek, drew $2,000 out of the bank to consummate a business transaction and took the money home. Early yesterday morn ing his home S.t Miller Heights, near this city, took fire in some unknown manner and was completely burned, the money being consumed in the blaze. . jgZSSZiZZL-. rT"HniWifiir~|l I • Capacity 2,000 lbs.—Price $1295 | f I 'V i | 1 You get the most truck ! •] I j j for the least money j I I in this • I: i I 1 .Here's a truck a real truck and not a makeshift —of 2,000 pounds capacity you can buy NOW for $1295. i 5 The Republic Special successfully meets the requirements of 90% of I 8 a " truck users. And it is the lowest priced real truck of its capacity on the 1 a market. . 8 16 . . N ? t , e , these few specifications and then compare them with other | | trucks of like capacity selling at much higher prices: | I | r-Four-cylinder, 3%"x5" motor of Republic original design, built exclusively for truck requirements. i \ j | —Republic armored type radiator and cooling system that pre -3 1 | vents overheating on the hard pulls. Built to withstand vibra | tion and road shocks. j 3 ! —Semi-elliptic springs, alloy steel; heat treated and extra large and strong. —Torbensen Internal Gear Drive, delivering from 12% to 26% more power than any other type of drive. j —Nickel-steel gears; long lived Chrome-Nickel steel in the steer- j mg arms and wheel spindles. Heavy pressed steel channel , frame. Irreversible steering gear. —Strongly built, heavily reinforced Open Express or Stake body, built especially for the Republic Special chassis. t If you want a truck that will prove dependable wherever you put it here s your opportunity to make a real investment. We can make immediate delivery at the exceptionally low price of $1295 NOW but we cannot I '■ guarantee this price for any length of time. - J s Better phone us now to have our representative call with further information. 4 PEN MAR AUTO CO. I 1135 MULBERRY STREET f f X. W. DILL, PROP. BOTH PHONES "A Truck For Every Purpose" | | | •\/ . ' SOLF POINTS OUT HOOVER AS YANK TOFEEDGERMANY Says Peril in Teuton Country Should Speedily Be Avoided Berlin, Nov. 16.—1n his message to Secretary of State Lansing. Dr. W. S. Solf, after appealing to lilm to in tercede with President Wilson to j send peace delegates to The Hague as soon as possible "in order to save the German people from perishing by starvation and anarchy," suggest ed that Herbert C. Hoover, the Amer ican Food Administrator, be assigned to the task of assisting the German people. This section of Dr. Self's message reads: "American delegates could discuss with the plenipotentiaries of the Ger man people the details of how the magnanimous help of America could save, in time, our fatherland from the | worst. Perhaps the- matter could bo put in the tried hands cf Mr. Hoover, who has rendered such great ser vices in Belgium. "The acceptance of the oppressive armistice conditions, the necessity of supplying from scanty provisions the armies that are streaming buck from the front, the cessation of naviga tion in the North Sea and the Baltic by the continuance of the blockade which Imperils our provision supply, and the disturbed conditions in the east make the situation in our country daily more unbearable. The peril I can be avoided only by the most speedy help." Cr COURTESY plus SERVICE is the motto at the REX GARAGE Our aim is to please our customers and to give them the best service, obtainable. GOODYEAR AND RACINE CORD TIRES STORAGE REPAIRING ACCESSORIES REX GARAGE THIRD and DELAWARE STS. — J) NOVEMBER 16, 1918. Germans Told Fleet Needed Only Show Itself I'orln, Nov. 16. —Admiral Sir Ross lyn Wemyss, who was appointed to notify the German envoys of the navul conditions of the armistice, Is credited by Figaro with a phrase ' Five Good Reasons I . 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J | Keystone Sales Company $ | Bell 4458 * 108 Market St. 4 which admirably reflects the tive positions of the two fleets* "It Is Inadmissible," the Germans protested, "that our fleet should be given up without hiving been beaten." Facing the envoys with his mono cle, Admiral Wemyss retorted, "it had only to come out."