18 HOW FIRST SHIPS CROSSED OCEAN WITH ALL LIGHTS Welsh Royally Entertain the American Blue Jackets, Harrisburg Boy Writes The following letter received by- Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Myers, 122 North River street, from their son. Quar termaster Waldo I- Myers, says that the Red Cross is everywhere doing the good work: U. S. S. Bushnell. Queenstown, Ireland, j Nov. 24, 1918. j Dear Mother, Father and Sisters: I 1 received your welcome letter and I was glad to heur from home. After being assigned to the V. 8. S. Bush nell. I left Philadelphia October 31. went to Hoboken to sa' l J or town Ireland, where the Bushnc was quartered. The L\ S. S. Orizaba was the vessel I was to take passage ""November Ist we took on about 500 members of a machine gun reg iment. but on November 2they.were ordered ashore because the Orizaba ( and her sister ship, the sibo "®> • I were going to cross without a eon- i voy, and with all running lights burning. We had nobody üboard | the vessels but sailors. | At a a. m., November 3. wo pro- j teeded to sea. Orders were B' ve " ; to all hands to wear lite jackets at all times. Those vessels were the , first to crops with running lights burning and without a convoy since we entered the war. We struck a | storm soon as we last sight of land and It kept up until Nove, " b " *' übout noon, when the seabecame calm, and stayed calm until about | 5 p. m.. of the same day, when we ( hit another storm which lasted until we reached St. Nazaire, trance. Sec I."-Boat About 4.30 p. m., November 11. the day the armistice was signed we sighted a U-boat about 200 yards off our port quarter. The Sibone. lircd ftt her with her 6-inch batter>, and she went down, but don't know if it was hit or not. Three destroy ers came out in answer to our call for a convoy. Pulled into *.t. a * zaire November 12. Took on about 700 wounded soldiers and believe me they were wounded. Me then proceeded along the coast of trance to Brest. From here we t ° ok tbe . destrover Bell to Plymouth, Eng land. Here we took the Great West ern R. R. for Liverpool via London, but just before we got started vve received orders to go to E iahgUMd, South Wales. , _ . The next morning we woke up to find ourselves sidetracked in a lit tle town named Clynderwen, So" 1 " Wales. We were hungry and had ( monev to buy food, but no place to buy it. But when the farmers got awake we had more than enough to eat, and they would not accept a cent of pay. At 10 a. m. we left for Fishguard and arrived at 11 a. m. Wc inarched down through the town looking for a hotel at which to get dinner. Ttie natives thought we were German prisoners, never having seen an American sailor. Welsh Hospitality But when they found that we were Americans, each family took two or three of us to their homes t and gave us dinner an dsupper and ( believe me, they did feed us. That evening they held a dance in the school house for our benefit and gave us more to eat- The \\ elsh people certainly are generous and hospitable. The boys will ne\er forget this day. We took a boat from Fishguard for Rosslare, Ire land and from there we took a train to Cork. At Waterford, Ireland, the Red Cross nucses gave us sandwiches, cookies and tea. Believe me the Red Cross meets the boys every where and they have the pleasant feature of being at the right place ut the right time. We took dinner at the Metropole Hotel at Cork. This is the best hotel in the city. Took a train for Queens town and from there another train to Bantry and from there the S. S. Princess Beaia to Castletown and • from thene we took a motor sailer ; lo the Bushnell. \hen lying in Bantry Bay. So here I am at last, traveling twenty-one days con tinuously, aboard my vessel. We leave for Portland, Eng., to stay three weeks and from there we go to | the Azore Islands, then to Bermuda j and from there to Philadelphia. I expect to be home some time in | January. I suppose you think it is | strange that 1 am telling you all this, ! but the censorship was lifted and we j can tell anything we want. I must | close now: will write you from! Portland, Eng. This is Mr. Myers' eighth trip 1 across. He enlisted April 2, 1917, | and was given his rating as quar- . termaster March 1, 191 S. He was a former Tech High student. Have Found Another Champion Swimmer Honolulu, Hawaii. Hawaii has j discovered another swimming cliam- . pion who some day may outrival j even the famous Duke Kuhanuinoku. ! The youth in question is Sam Kanoa, j sixteen-year-old native boy, who is an inmate of the Boys' Industrial ! School. Kanoa escaped from the school re- ! cently, and when his pursuers were | almost upon him, plunged into the breakers and swam out through the surf six miles to sea, before being captured. Air Voyage Overseas Is Off Until Spring Washington.—The much-discussed j trans-Atlantic flight, in preparation, for which a huge aeroplane of the United States navy has been put ! through experimental tests at Rock-1 away Beach, cannot come in any l event before next spring. It is pointed out by experts here | that the winter, with attendant Btormy seas, is not propitious for over-seas flight experiments. HARDWARE DIET FATAL TO OSTRICH CHICKS Madison, Wis.—A hardware diet is not conducive to long life even on the part of an ostrich As a result three out of fifty ostrich chicks at the Vilas Park Zoo alone survive a feast which consisted of broken glass, nails, etc. Out of the stomach 1 of one chick was removed five pieces 1 of wood, one large pebble, a two- Inch screw, two pieces of glass and Bevetal nails. GAUTEMALA PORTS OrEX San Salvador. Steamships are now entering and leaving seaports of Gautemala, the quarantine hav ing been lifted. The ports were quarantined during the recent epi demic of yellow fever, which now has disappeared. v • v ' . : ' f ■ ' i. ' TUESDAY EVENING. * HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 17, 1918 Father Whalen Hears From Brother in France Father W. W. Whalen, of Buchan an Valley, recently received the fol lowing letter dated October 22 from his brother Tom, with the. American Expeditionary Forces in France: "We are still at the front, and are making good. We carry one of the best records here. We have always come out with honors—as well as with prisoners. We are praised by everybody as a cracker-jack division. Tha Huns are a-scared of us. They call us 'The Attack Division' or "The Red White and Blue Devils." The prisoners we American are captur ing are very young and small. Lorfly, their helmets would fit them for bathtubs, only these Fritzies look as if they never took a dip. The rain runs off them like water from a duck's back, but leaves the dirt behind. You eouldf plant onions in their ears, such nice solid soil. These soldiers seem just a poor bunch of' StorG Hours 9to 5.30 / jo /-) a ryi f) y*r\i f ~i£)171/7 y/ Store Hours 9to 5.30 * Saturday 9to9P. M. ULI/tyO% ± (JIl LCI UIJ OC &I(ZLULII L Saturday 9to9P. M. . • > ■ * Xx /\X\ ~ TT - r ' RAIN CAPES k(jww C\r\ . 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These squares are of line Hie greatest, Mother in the Woild (the Red Cross) aids gathered for gift purposes are all of a JfSSLJy. quality and hand embroidered in good taste. the ill and the wounded, clothes the ragged, feeds the hungry, type that you will not be ashamed to Specially priced, each, 350. houses the homeless, helps the friendless and succors the have given for they are so carefully L/V ' EQUALLY NOTEWORTHY VALUES needy. rubberized that they will turn, the UI'LY Handkerchiefs with fancy colored embroidered corner pieces are,. 15c and 17c * rain. . i*T \ I i I 1 f"\ ' tray, tobacco jar and match-holder, " Dives, Pomeroy & Stewdrt, M illlnery Section, Second Floor. Give Gloves to a Woman ooze, black, red or green leather, ,* ' Dives, pomeroy & nL°mtVeTirt 'supplements? I 'p"ce P ! > ! M 15c Cv OHI X*o I* t t) 1 6 OVO I* SLU.IT OU. ° { course, much difference in gloves as there are in Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, street Floor. • • people, but if your gift gloves go to a friend from our carefully chosen -j • 1 tv i • stocks, your gift is bound to make a very pleasing impression. In Aln£LiyS ana KOCKGRS eacll g ,ove tlle sk ' ns are selected for their primcncss, and they are q QlXytlicH A"F fashioned by skilled workmen, in the most cases they come from Tre vjlXL OX d Oiyilbll X alLCill G1 , , J TlT'i. 1 rp I. fousse, than whom there is no finer glove maker. TWq * l - 23 u,MI ® l5O 8c to SO.OO Black wool batiste, 36 to 45 inches, . „„ .i . Tan kid gloves with pique sewing, Dives, Poirieroy & Stewart, French twill serge, 36 to 54 inches. yar( j $1.25 to Si.os tapeStr} . p ajr _ $3.25 Street Floor. fine colors, yard SI.OO to $4.50 Black French serge, 42 to 54 inches. * Wool poplin, ten leading shades yd yft rd ChaUS (ind. RockeTS $35.00 tO $85.00 ' *• Black wool santoy, 3b to 54 inches. w r . ...... , , , ... . ... , Wool santoy, 42 inches, s shades. yard $1.25 to $3.00 Dnvpnnnrfc Of) tn S/7'i TNCIDENiALLY, it you want to bestow a gut that will be ever yaLrt 'j'i' Vk'' i' ♦' kV 'ikkhVa' '.w'm' Black broadcloth, 48 to 54 inches • / w ' • lastingly- remembered, buv a book or two of a mechanical turn and Broadcloth, 48 to o4 inches, eleven yard $3.50 to SO.OO . v i•* ' - . shades, yard .$3.50 to s(i.oo ' B i ack velours, -54 inches, yard, HI !\/Tohnrrorvtr ' ~ , send it to suede veiour, 54 inches wide, all new $3.50 to $6.00 IVlctllUgally / The Government Reconstruction Hospital, shades, yard $1.50 to $6.00 Black silk faille, 40 and 44 inches, SMS Ci - 1 * ■ 1 ,f" 1 Parlisle Penna Silk poplin. 40 inches, street and yard to blTlOkmg | WMW [ .... ... LarilSle, Henna. evening shades, yard $2.00 Rack eostutrte serge, 36 to 54 inchc. ° ' ° ■ ° j Where soldiers, maimed in battle, are undergoing reconstruc- Wpol plaids, 30 styles. 36 to 54 m., yard •••• mmuM Stands if.. , f J tion. Do not send books of fiction. , yardx .....si.oo to $5.05 Astrakhan. . o . Qj [)Q We'll help vou to make selection and do the forwarding if you Dives, Pomeroy A Stewart, Street Floor. • jj Qr I / S u .j s]l . . •*/D || y \j 1 I Dives, Pomeroy & The Newest Modes $15.75 \I ; j Rich Cuttings of Glass fB Winter rlats ' Carc ] Mahogany Table Desks Prices Range From $1.50 to $6.50 i Satins nncl r urs i i Tables $22.50 Cut glass has again come into great favor as gilt |p==^—-j| A , , it 1 I I" ' items and the assortments to be found in our Base- /Z t\* ' i Close-fitting turbans and pequant small 1 | j jj l h °5_ a " a 'i, ro '!,w B T Rockers, cov- , men t section are accordingly of the finest and best !. iats ° f sat jn, satm and fur^and_ velvj! with * tC VT ?.selections. Considering the quality of the cuttings fi"e French tlowers,. tiny berry garnitures tt S1 ~5 to $2 50 1 lhe ices are vc moder a te . *1 so and beads—close to 200 new models are \ i , r ,. m n n w Vi c\ lik'p tn nrovide Fumed oak waste paper baskets, O'd Ivory bedroom suite, $120.00 Sugar and cream sets are ELKCTRIC COPr EE h women wlio like to prOMUC $3.30 Bamboo tabourets 6c S3.US to 56.11H PERCOLATORS WF , ' 1 " themselves with new hats tor the happy Mahogany magazine stands, Reed and fiber chairs and Footed comports. Every housewife Whose. Christmas season. sll .so rockers in baronial brown, old $1.50 to 53.50 dining! 00m Is fitted with , , I , . - . Solid mahogany sewing cabinets. ivory, meerschaum, tan and brown cinrv'trnv. S'l 50 to 86 BO electricity would long np- . IW®?French blues, browns, henna and black. 5 7.50 dcoorated and American walnut Rn.vh. S6 50 predate receiving an elec- : ' \xCFLr " $5.00, $6.50, $7.50 to $12.00 Mahogany foot stools covered finish $8.95 to $25.00 ' cut " howis trie coffee percolator. * . o, n ftrt . Oft OA with tapestry $2.95 ami $3.<5 fiber Davenports, $19.00 - <4! or. to $6 00 Universal types are priced 1 ... Fur hats SIO.OO to $20.00 Cedar chests $10.50 to $10.50 Brown fiber Davenport tables. Mayonnaise ' plateh and at $12.00, $15.00,'518.00 mid WR Dlv. r m .ro S - 4 atew.rt, S..ond K.oor, Fr.n, JMm - a„, o.„„ living room -*-• '. £SU 'T , Genuine leather chaii* and suites In 7 distinct styles In veiour • . wf,.! ".1L Aluminum Coffee porco rockers $15.00 lo $75.00 tapestry $155.00 to $275.00 Wuter %\%.... lators, $1.15, $2.25 to $7.25. v n■ o TTT Omber mahogany rockers, with Beautiful gift pieces in mahog- !,! . .. . Nickel plated coffee per /"I * 4?i- vlivwx/Man (jIT L ull|3l)Ui S XOl IVI vll V3L VV UIIIIII $25.00 $..95 to $35.00 ' * A Nickeled cnserolcs with C*A) . - 1 - . . Dives Pomeroy & Stewart. Fourth Floor. lee cream sets $3.50 fireproof vitrified china in- ets 75 ° al,d BBt V $3.25. $3.50 to $5.75 Mens "Hl-Lo" Comfy Slipper, of two-tone grey felt two style. In.one; the , GrOCGneS FOY 106 HOlldayS Nt t <> ® Vdook tea poto . collar can be worn high turned down; J ™ 98ct 0„.50 ALUMINUM COOKING Men's tailor-made "Comfy" Felt Slippers in blue and oxford; felt ornament; California white layer fig's, lb .' Hot cake plates, WARE II 11 h S ° Me'n^^ffne B co^nf>"evereU slippers with felt binding, soft leather soles and Cane and maple syrup, gallon pans $2.29 Cracker and cheese plates Coffe ®, • hpels .f1,73 . $1.50 s•..!)•> to $1.50 spring ne Califnrnin Alinonds and Fntrlish walnuts lb 45<4 Hair receivers. Double roasters, - Men's Romeos Women S Slippers Calitornia Almonds and tngusn walnuts, 89' to 98c $5.25 and $5,35 I 1 lVlcii o itt/iiit-ua r-f ... 1 ... 19 z. „, e fto i Puff boxes../.Boc to 08c Tube cako pans, / , tJ ~ „ T „ . vanilla flavoring, in large bottles, \ZC qts 9Sc ■ 1 v.r mini mn. $145 to si so JUT J'WU Men s brown kid skin Romeos, with Felt ' Hi-Lo" "Comfy" Slippers in 1 b< b r i-ajei cage pans . . rw' 'FS hand turn leather soles $2.50 two tone brown $3.00 -n PnfTee 1h - 1, 1 ® pans 24c to 65c k Black kid skin Romeos with stitched Keo LOttee, lb Double rice and B °Black kid akin EveietVsii'p'pe'A'with ' C ' l fm ° > California prunes, meaty and large, lb and 25<- "" lk " tQ 3( , fC-fe? brown° l6^kin ' "ieJfhe? Old rose saUn boudoir slippem, $1.50 ganta Clara currents, lU. .! -n,a ,a slippers, with leather stitched soles, Pink and blue cloth boudoir slippers, $1.85 10 $2.35 Mlßr ?9 jf 3U f $1.35 • $1.50 California seeded raisins, pkg Tan felt Indian moccassins, with • K1 , kin boudoir sllDDers SI 75 v lth covers, headed vamps, leather soles and spring Fresh creamery butter, lb heels ....$3.00 Indian moccasins ... .$2.75 and $3.00 J T Dives, Pomeroy A- Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor. Rear. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart.—Basement. Stewart, Basement. ' 2X * ■ - ' ' ' I school children that went out for a picnic, loet their way and stumbled into the trenches. One kiddle wo took saifl he was in the service but two weeks. Gad, they tell you the kaiser loves his people! If he jdld. would he stuff kids into guns as am munition to tight for his rotten old throne! "One of our fellows (guess who!) when he saw a German kid soldier bleeding, and biting his lips to keep from crying, grabbed him and gave him a bear's hug, and hid the moist ure in his own eyes by sticking his face down into the enemy's crop of stiff yellow hair. Mushu, we ought to be after usin' a slipper on such instead of a bayonet. I offered hint the only thing I had, a K. of C. free cigaret. but he said in fair Eng lish, 'Thanks, Mister, 1 have never smoked —yet." Too young a Camel, too smooth-faced for a Gil lette. and yet snitched from his mammy by Bill the Baby Snatchcr! I'd love to tote that kid home with me to pgrade him before the folks, only over beyond the Rhine tlia poor mother Is waiting for him to come back. She'll have him again, thanks to the Americans, but no thanks to BUI Ilohenzollern, the dirty piker. '"those "soldier' kids in helmets look like Brownie policemen playing a Christmas game. They show us the kaiser's army is pretty far gone. My God, would ho bleed his nation white to keep up his bluff! "Betore I take my hand off the paper, let me take off my hat to our American infantry. Doughboys they call 'em, and the D In their name stands for 'dare-devil-donh-glve-a damn!' They're always on the job. When they go over the top, they al ways come back with a fistful of sauer-kraut and a handful of pork— prisoners by neck and crop. "Good night! "TOM. —Supply Co., 76th Field Artillery In France." • 1 Republicans Plan Cautious Tax Fight Washington.—Republican oppon ents of the $6,000,000,000 war reve nue bill have agreed upon a line of campaign which, while embracing a determined fight on the floor of the Senate, may mean that the measure eventually will be supported by their votes and the points In dispute left to joint conference for final adjust ment. In assuming this attitude Re publican leaders say that they would avoid putting themselves In the po sition of blocking necessary legis lation, while still maintaining the advantage of carrying on the opposi tion, both In (he Senate and later In conference. One of the Republican leaders told the New York Times correspondent that the minority party did not in tend to allow the Democrats to ac cuse it of obstructing the war reve nue bill. The Republicans insist upon their privilege to combat the: features that they regard as Incon sistent with a practical nfter-war measure. But their disposition now Is to confine their opposition to de bate on the floor, and. in the event tliut they do not win their point, to make a decisive stand when the joint conferees get together. Smoot Attacks Profits Tux Senator Smoot, one of the Repub lican members of the finance com mittee, offered u dissenting report In the Senate today, in which he attack ed the plan of corporation excess profits tax us embodied In the bill. Tlig Utah Senator denounced the scheme us "unscientific, unwork able, and discriminatory." , He urged a tax on straight war profits "so simple and plain that any ordinary business man or'individual could un derstand it. and which would lend to no trouble in making out n tax return." Such a scheme, he said, was outlined in a plan which he re cently submitted to the committee. "Every individual, whether in business as such or as a member of ia partnership, would have been treated alike under my plan," said Senator Smoot. , Senator Smoot pointed out that the majority of the finance commit tee in framing the bill liad not fol lowed the plan of taxation recom mended by the Secretary of the Treasury, but had '.'maintained the unjust, discriminatory plan of taxa tion on so-culled excess profits as provided In existing law and the pending bill." The Secretary of the (Treasury, he said, had urged a fiat normal tax (nt all net prbtits In place of the excess profits tux in which, he fcald there are involved questions of watered stock, borrowed money and the definition of invested capital. He preferred the secretary's scheme to that embraced in the bill. Mr. Smoot calculated that the re quirements of the Government for would approximate $10,000,000,000. the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, This, he said, did not include future estimates that might be sent to Con gress in deficiency appropriation bills. The $10,000,000,000 Senator Smoot said Would be reduced by whatever amount Is received as sal- vage from the sale of war material paid for and not needed either here or in Europe. The entire war revenue bill wai read io the Senate, the task occupy ing three hours. ■ Senator Penrose, ranking Repub lican member of the committee, will luunch an attack upon it early in the debate, - CORN GROWING ON ROO^* Gaffnoy Palis, N. y.—For se weeks farmers on the Lane road ob served a green substance on tb 1 * roof of an nliandoned house on tree * Le Gale farm. They watched it grow until it attained a height of live feet. The men reported the phenomenon but were laughed at. Jnbcz Mon tow, who watched the* green substance for four weeks, came here and invited the village president, H. E. Shotts, and two oth ers to accompany him to the house for an investigation.