RUSSIAN FORCES
NOW WITHIN 25
MILES OF CAPITAL
General YudenitcKs Troops Reach Big
Railway Junction South of
Petrograd
By Associated Press•
London, Oct. 16.—Forced back by the onslaughts of enemies
on four fronts, the armies of the Soviet government of Russia
appear to be facing a period pregnant with disaster. General
Deaikine's Cossacks, from the south; Polish forces from the
* west; northwestern Russian legions, on the northwest, and north
ern Russian troops, from the north, have during the last few days
forged ahead until it seems the Bolshevik armies are between the
' upper and nether millstones.
London, Oct. 16—The military sit
uation in Russia is developing re
markable activity. The approaching
fall of both Petrograd and Moscow
has been many times predicted with
an air of confidence, but always hith
erto the "red" forces have succeeded
in repelling the menace.
Latest news, although It cornea
largely from anti-Bolshevik sources,
teems to bring the capture of Petro
grad, and perhaps Moscow also, with
in measurable distance, and the fall
of Petrograd Is expected the begin
ning of November.
General Yudenitch's forces have
been stirred into activity by the Ger
man attack on Riga. and. working in
close co-operation with Admiral Kol
chak and General Deniklne, have
made a meritorious advance and
reached a big railway junction 25
miles south of Petrograd.
There is a report of the discovery
of a plot at Moscow, in which 800 of
ficers are alleged to be implicated, to
seise the wireless station, announce
the fall of Soviet rule and organize an
armed insurrection.
It is generally recognized that thei
LUTHERAN WOMEN
HARD AT WORK
Annual Reports Show That
Missionary Society Had
Successful Year
Delegates in attendance at the
fortieth annual convention of the
Women's Missionary Society, East
Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran
Church, to-day received good news
in every report presented. In
creased results over the year pre
vious were shown in every depart
ment.
In her report. and talk on "Our
Publications," Miss Rebecca Gordon, ;
of Lionville, Pa., showed an increase
in subscriptions, and urged that the j
ensuing year show a further increase. I
Miss Gordon in her report showed
the value of the publications in
getting information to the workers
and in telling the churches what is
being done.
•> The report on the annual thank
offering by Mrs. C. P. Swank, Cam
den, N. J., showed a big increase in
the fund. This brought much praise
yfrom the delegates. In view of the
flu epidemic over the country an in
crease was not expected. Other re
ports presented came from:
The president, Mrs. C. L. Fleck,
Reigelsville; statistical secretary,
Miss E. Gertrude Heffelfinger, Har
risburg: treasurer, Mrs. J. L. Stadel
man, Germantown; four vice-presi
dents, Mrs. E. H. Pell, Philadelphia;
Mrs. G. S. Parker, Harrisburg; Mrs.
P. C. Shimer, Pottsville; Mrs. D.
Burt Smith, Easton; historian, Miss
Lulu Goodman, Ardmore, Pa.; chair
man of box work committee,
Mrs. E. G. Hoover, this city; chair
man of literature committee, Miss
4 Margaret R. Immell, Philadelphia;
chairman of committee on supplies
for Guntur Hospital, Mrs. M. A.
Engelman, Philadelphia; home de
partment secretary, Mrs. L. L. Porr,
Steelton, Pa.; mission study secre
tary, Miss E. May Baker, Lancaster,
Pa.; annuity secretary, Mrs. Wm.
C. Stoever, Mt. Airy, Pa.; fortieth
anniversary fund secretary, Miss
Mary L. Roedel, Lebanon.
This afternoon gifts for the mis
sionary box were received on call of
the roll of 175 delegates. Mrs. H.
W. A. Hanson conducted the service
of "Consecration of Gifts," and Mrs.
A. V. Pohlman read a paper on "Re
construction Work." A sketch,
"Mission Study" was another fea
ture.
Services starting at 7.45 this even
w ing will be in charge of Mrs. P. C.
Shimer and Miss Annie E. Sanford,
missionary from India. The business
sessions will close to-morrow at
noon.
nHfOVEH STOLEN ALTO
An automobile belonging to Erwin
C. Snyder. Mechanicsburg, stolen last
night from the Miller Auto Company
garage in Mechanicsburg, was recov
ered to-day in Reading. The thief was
arrested.
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THURSDAY EVENING,
fall of Orel and Tula would mean
that Moscow was doomed. There Is
still uncertainty about the position at
Riga. According to the report of a
German officer at Mitau, Colonel Ava
lolt Bermondt, in command of the
Russo-German forces is not aiming at
the capture of Riga, but desires only
to secure the Dvina front against
Moscow.
It seems that the Lettish comman
der has refused a second offer of an
armistice by Colonel Bermondt and
that 6,000 Esthonian reinforcements,
have arrived and fighting around
Riga continues vigorously. Another
report credits the Poles with having
started an offensive agalnßt the Ger
mans and captured Kovno.
Ask Aid In Blockade
The Supreme Council last Thursday
sent a note to Germany and neutral
powers inviting them to co-operate In
a blockade of Soviet Russia, but it
was decided not to publish the note
until replies had been received, says
Reuters' Paris correspondent.
The German commission on foreign
affairs met yesterday to consider the
note, the correspondent adds.
FRANK PAYNE IN
NEW COMPANY
Harrisburg Man Interested in
Mt. Joy Shoe Concern;
Capitol Hill Notes
Frank Payne, of this city, who Is
extensively interested in shoe manu
facturing concerns in various parts
of the State, is one of the incorpo
rators of the new Gerberich-Payne
Shoe Company, of Mt. Joy, chartered
with a capital of $200,000. E. S.
and C. E. Gerberich, of Mlddletown,
are also interested.
The Penbrook Baking Company,
has been chartered with a capital
of $30,000 by W. H. Wolf, G. W.
Wolf and Helen M. Wolf, of Pen
brook, who are interested in such
! enterprises.
The State Highway Department
to-day brought complaint before the
Public Service Commission against
the bridge over the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks near Leaman Place.,
It is contended that the bridge,
which is on the Lincoln Highway,
should be reconstructed and lo
cated in another place. The Com
mission also received a number of
complaints against illegal operation
of jitneys in Fayette and other coun
ties in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Attorney General SchnfTer to-day
assigned Frank N. Hunter, deputy
attorney general, to represent the
State in the argument before the
Supreme Court at Pittsburgh in the
Wasson appeal to-morrow.
First Sergeant James A. Walder,
lof Philadelphia, was to-day ap
pointed second lieutenant of Troop
A of the Reserve Militia cavalry.
The American Railway Express
j Company has applied to the Public
Service Commission for registration
as a corporation to do business in
Pennsylvania as successor of various
express companies consolidated into
it. The proceeding is a purely
formal one.
When a building on property In
charge of a State Commission or an
institution is destroyed by fire the
insurance payment must bo made to
the State Treasury for the State In
surance Fund and can not be used
by the Commission for temporary
sheds or any other purpose accord
ing to a ruling made to-day by the
Attorney General in a question sub
mitted by the State Commission in
charge of construction of the State
Institution for Inebriates.
The Public Service Commission will
act next week on applications for
charters for nine electric companies
which ask rights to operate in Mil
ton. Danville and districts of North
umberland and adjoining counties.
These charters are part of a big
power development up the Susque
hanna. Action may also be taken
within a few days the Lebanon wa
ter cases in which Commissioner E.
Ray Shelby sat yesterday at Leba
non.
The Glen Mills coses were heard
to-day in Philadelphia.
Chief Scwnrd Button, of the De
partment of Mines, has returned from
a series of visits to the Southwestern
Pennsylvania mining district on safe
ty matters.
Dr. B. Franklin Royer, for 'ft yearn
connected with the State Department
of Health, and acting commissioner,
after the death of Dr. Samuel G. Dix
on, has been made executive officers
of the Massachusetts-Halifax Health
Commission, which is undertaking an
extensive health program in Nova
Scotia. He will reside in Nova Scotia
during the work, which is a combi
nation of Canadian and Bay State of
ficials and business people.
Governor Sproul Is speaking before
the Erie Chamber of Commerce to
day. He went from Easton to Buffa
lo, and thence to Erie. It is his first
visit to Erie since he has been Gov
ernor.
Maurer Gives His Side
of Strike Situation
James H. Maurer, president of the
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, to
day released copies of a long letter
sent by him yesterday to Governor
Sproul in answer to a letter from
the Chief Executive on September 30
Maurer's letter was written, he says,
in answer to a statement of the Gov
ernor's in whtch he says he believes
that in a Chicago speech, Maurer had
conveyed what "is a wrong impres
sion of conditions as they exist in
Pennsylvania."
Maurer, in his letter, submitted af
fidavits which involve more than a
dozen Pennsylvania cities, which he
says is submitted that Governor
Sproul may "have the evidence of
the other side." In conclusion he
called on Governor Sproul to "protect
our civil rights, restore to us our con
st'tutional guarantees of peaceable
assemblage and free speech, and
j compel an impartial enforcement of
i the laws, instead of vicious and erira-]
[lnal discriminations now. practised."
OTHERS TAKING
OFF IN WAKE OF
AERIALLEADERS
"Flying Parson" and Major
Spatz Holding Big Lead
in Air Derby
Sidney, Neb., Oct. 16. —Lieu-
tenant IJ. W. Maynard, the "fly
ing parson," leader in the army
transcontinental air derby, re
sumed Ids eastward flight from
the control station lierc at 7.15
a. m., mountain time, to-day.
Snow was falling when Lieu
tenant Maynard "hopped off."
His time from Cheyciutc, Wyo.,
to Sidney, reported last night at
33 minutes, to-day was placed
at 40 minutes by the official
starter at the Sidney air station.
The distance front Cheyenne to
Sidney is nincty-tlirce miles.
North Platte, Neb., Oct. 16.-
Lieutenant It. W. Maynard ar
rived here at 9 a. m. (Central
time).
Later the official time for
Lieutenant Maynard's arrival
was given as 9.13:15. He left
for St. Paul, Neb., at 9.43:45.
St. Paul, Neb., Oct. 16.—Lieu
tenant Maynard arrived Itere at
10.47. Lieutenant Maynard left
the control station here at 11.14.
Minco la, N. Y., Oct. 16. Three
more entrants In the Army air race
across the continent and back were
ready to take off here In the wake
of Major Carl Spatz, leader on the
westbound second lap.
With his nearest competitor, Cap
tain Harry Smith, put out of the run
ning by the burning of his plane at
Buffalo last night. Major Spatz, who
spent the night at Rochester, held
a 276 mile lead on the westward
trip.
The three fliers who hoped by
getting off to-day to overtake him
were Lieut. E. C. Kiel, Lieut. M. E.
Queens and Lieut. R. Worthington.
Major J. C. Bartholf, the only other
San Francisco entrant to reach
Roosevelt field, has obtained permis
sion to fly to Boston Saturday to
witness a football game. He will
not start back to San Francisco
until Monday.
San Francisco, Oct. 16. Three
contestants in the Army's trans-con
tinental air race who have com
pleted the flight from Mineola, N.
Y., to San Francisco, were expected
to-day to join the five who yester
day were on the final lap of their
5,402-mile flight. Those ready to
leave here during the day were Cap
tain H. C. Drayton and Lieuts. E. M.
Manzelman and L. S. Webster.
Lieut. Alexander Pearson, Sr.,
reached Reno yesterday on the first
day of his return trip, while Captain
J. O. Donaldson, who had promised
to meet him in Reno for dinner,
was held up here nearly an hour be
cause attendants filled his motor
with ordinary cylinder oil instead of
castor oil. A few miles out he made
a forced landing in the marshes be
tween Benicia and Suisun, just east
of here and was helped start again
by a number of school girls. He
spent the night all Sacramento.
Lieut Colonel J. N. Reynolds, Who
arrived from the east yesterday and
Lieut. Col. T. S. Bowen, have an
nounced they will not make the re
turn flight. Lieut. H. W. Sheridan,
also among yesterday's arrivals, an
nounced he would be ready to start
back as soon as he could under the
rules governing the race.
Lieut. Maynard Is
Breaking Air Records
on His Return Flight
By Associated Press
Chicago, Oct. 16.—Almost half way
across the country on his return jour
ney in the army airplane reliability
and endurance race, Lieutenant B. W.
Maynard, the "flying parson." to-day
was well in the lead of the four oth
er homeward bound flyers who had
doubled back after soaring from
coast to coast. Lieutenant Maynard,
having reached Sidney, Neb., was al
most a day's flight in the van of his
nearest pursuer from San Francisco.
Lieutenant Maynard yesterday
broke ail records for flights from San
Francisco to Sidney. Neb., his over
night stop. He announced he expect
ed to spend to-night at Chicago.
Through snowstorms yesterday. Lieu
tenant Maynard made 136 miles in 66
minutes and then dashed an addition
al 93 miles through the skies in 33
minutes.
The death total in the race to-day
stood at seven, leaving 39 pilots in
the contest. Lieutenant French Kir
by, pilot and Lieutenant Stanley C.
Miller, observer, were killed yester
day when their plane fell at Castle
Rock, Utah.
Of those remaining in the race,
six have completed half their trip by,
landing at the Mineola Aeld and nine
westbound flyers have reached San
Francisco. Twenty-four others still
are on the first leg of their flight,
scattered at various control stations
across the country.
The weather for to-day over must
of the course probably will not be
what the fliers regard as the most
favorable, according to the weather
forecast. Over the eastern section
cloudy and cooler weather will pre
vail, with unsettled weather from
Chicago on westward, the weather
reports said.
Captain Smith Is Out
of Race, Officials Say
By Associated Press
Washington, Oct. 16. Captain
Lowell H. Smith, leader of the west
bound return flight in the transcon
tinental airplane races, is definitely
out of the contest and will return to
ftis post by rail, it was stated to-day
at air service headquarters here. His
machine was destroyed accidentally
by fire last night after he had made
a safe landing at the Buffalo control
station, but the ruling made was
that inasmuch as the flight was to
test reliability of planes primarily,
Captain Smith could not be per
mitted to continue his flight to San
Francisco in another ship.
IDENTIFY BALLOONIST
By Associated Press
Detroit, Oct. 16.—A body picked ap
yesterday off Cape Hurd, Lake Huron,
by Eagle boat No. 44, has been iden
tified as that of Observer Verheyder,
who with Captain Dammann, has beon
missing since their balloon, partici
pating in the national championship
race, was found wrecked oft Cove
Light, October 4.
APPROVE SUBURB
The City Planning Commission at
a meeting to-day approved plans for
an addition to Seven Maples, near
New Cumberland, as prepared for
the ctwner, Levi. Brandt.
Rakeubburg r&tfSAl telegraph
Miners Continue Strike
Plans Under Assumption
Conference Will Fail
Indianapolis, Oct. 16. Plans for
a strike of bituminous coal miners of
the country on November were con
tinued to-day at International head
quarters of the United Mine Workere
of American here, the officials proceed
ing on the assumption that nothing
would come of the conference in Wash
ington called by Secretary of Labor
William B. Wilson in an effort to avert
the threatened walkout
The official strike call, issued by Act
ing President John L. Lewis, was sent
out yesterday afternoon to the more
than 4,000 local unions and plans for
making the strike effective are taking
form at headquarters.
Mr. Lewis left late yesterday after
noon for Washington In response to the
request of Secretary Wilson for a con
ference. Wr. Wilson said last night
that Thomas T. Brewster, president of
the coal operators association, would
represent the employers at the confer
ence.
Mine workers officials hero admitted
that should negotiations be resumed
with possibility of final agreement, it
was likely that the strike would be
called off pending the final outcome,
even If the deliberations extended be
yond Nov. 1.
Wood Choppers of Y.MLC.A.
to Get Busy on October 25
At the weekly luncheon of the so
cial committee of the Central Y. M.
C. A. to-day, Secretary Robert B.
Reeves expressed his appreciation
and that of the directors for the
opening night of the social season
which the social committee put on
last Friday evening.
Mr. Reeves said that In his two
years' experience as the secretary
of the Haryisburg "Y," he had never
seen a bigger, better or more suc
cessful evening than last Friday.
The committee discussing the
"Wood Chopping Afternoon" for
this year, decided to hold it on
Saturday, October 25, a week from
this Saturday. The affair last year
was such a great success that It was
decided the season would not be
complete without It, and according
ly arrangements are now being
made. V. Grant Forrer has arrang
ed the wood and chopping blocks,
and it only remains for the brawny
arms of the chappers to get busy.
As last year, the Kiwanls Club will
try to prove to the Rotary Club how
much stronger they are at wood
chopping. Hot bean soup, rolls and
coffee will be served the choppers
and observers.
BROWN INSTALLED
Bp Associated Press
Wllllamsport, Pat, Oct. 16. Ele
vation and installation of officers
this morning marked the close of
the ninetieth annual grand encamp
ment of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania, which
had been in session here for two
days. The officers were elevated and
installed as follows: J. A. St rite,
Chambersburg, grand patriarch; J.
Reed Irvine, Bedford, grand high
priest; Robert Gorman, Philadelphia,
grand senior warden; Edwin L.
Rttter, Philadelphia, grand scribe;
J. Henry Beitle, Philadelphia, grand
treasurer; William H. Brown, Har
risburg, and Ralph Cox, Erie, grand
junior wardens.
GIRL WHO SPIED
IS REFUSED SSOO
[Continued from First Page.l
order to do so. For her services she
said he promised to pay her S6OO.
Mrs. Anna Albright, her mother,
told practically the same story. On
cross examination, however, John R.
Geyer, counsel for Lenney, brought
out the fact that Mrs. Albright had
spoken to Lenney about her husband's
actions and wanted Lenney to tell her
about Albright. She denied that an
agreement had been made with Len
ney that he should report her hus
band's actions and in return her
daughter would watch Mrs. Lenney.
The Cross-Watch
Lenney said he had not hired Miss
Albright to watch his wife. He'said
Mrs. Albright and her daughter came
to his motion picture theater in the
spring of 1916, and at that time Mrs.
Albright asked about her husband and
in return tor further information
about him offered to have her daugh
ter watch Mrs. Lenney.
Miss Albright was one of the prin
cipal witnesses in 1916 in a case
against Mrs. Lenney. At that time on
i cross-examination she was asked
about about payment for her services.
Frank J. Roth, court stenographer
during that trial, and also reporting
the civil suit yesterday against Mr.
Lenney, was called to the witness
stand by Mr. Geyer.
He produced his stenographic rec
ord of the trial in 1916 and read som3
of the questions asked Miss Albright
ac that time and her answers given
under oath on the witness stand.
In reply to a question about wheth
rr she expected any pay for her ser
vices she had replied she did not, and
asked whether she gave them gratu
itously she had replied in the affirm
ative.
To refute this evidence Miss Al
bright was recalled to the stand by
her attorney W. Justin Carter. She
told the jury she did not expect pay
for her testimony at the trial, but
did expect pay for her work in wach
ing Mrs. Lenney. She also said she
did not understand the meaning of
the word "gratuitous" at the time it
was used in a question asked her in
1916.
Awarded $093.
Before President Judge George
Kunkel to-day an action brought by
C. W. Shaffer vs. F. C. Neely, was
being heard. In Courtroom No. 2,
the suit brought by Henry J. Gard
ner, of Gardners, vs. the Keystone
Motor Car Company, was being heard.
Mr. Gardner alleged that on July 21,
1917, the machine he was driving was
struck by an automobile driven by
one of their employes. Mr. Garner's
car was badly damaged and he, to
gether with some passengers, was in
jured.
A verdict of $695 was returned in
the action brought by J. C. Hoover vs.
Brooke Hughes, in favor of the de
fendant The ownership of cattle was
questioned in the action, Mr. Hoover
claiming them. Mr. Hughes, however,
said he was the owner and also had
spent large gums for feed for the
cows. The Jury gave hl m title to the
stock in addition to the verdict of
$695.
BATHINGBEACH TO
ACCOMMODATE 5,000
[Continued from First Page.]
During the afternoon, Mr. Man
ning spent some of the time In River
Front Park. He said that if it is
desired, concrete bathhouses can be
built under the banks, with a walk
on top, about half way from the
walks in River Front Park and the
present concrete walk and steps. He
also studied the park for locations
[for boathouses.
I Later Mr. Manning went to Wild
wood and^Jteservolr-Parks,
FLAGSTAFF TO
SHOW PROGRESS
OF PEACE FUND
War Workers Plan to Raise
$70,000 For Memorial in
Quick Fashion
WHAT IT IS FOR
Door bells all over the city will
jingle in the last war campaign
next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Solicitors with their fountain
pens, lapel buttons, receipts and
window emblems will canvass
for the last time. It is to raise
$70,000 for a permanent memor
ial for the veterans of Harris
burg. The memorial will be erect
ed at Thirteenth and Btate streets.
This memorial has nothing to do
with the Btate memorial bridge.
It is a separate project, to be
erected solely in honor of the
Harrisburg veterans, by the peo
ple of Harrisburg. Subscriptions
of one dollar and upwards will
be taken. Pledges for amounts
exceeding $5 will be accepted
also.
Harrisburg's patriotism in the last
campaign of the war will be regis
tered in accurate degree during the
campaign on a "thermometer" to be
placed on the front of the Dauphin
building. Second and Market streets,
the headquarters of the War
Memorial Committee.
The thermometer will be a re
plica of a part of the memorial
which the fund is designed to erect
at the corner of Thirteenth and State
streets. It will represent a granite
and bronze ornamental base, topped
by a flagpole. As subscriptions
come in for the fund, they will be
represented by a flag, which will
rise to the top of the flagpole ac
cording to the growth of the memor
ial fund.
The replica of the monument will
be placed on the Dauphin building
within a few days, so as to be ready
for the aggressive campaign.
The campaign will be a strenuous
one, as the entire fund is to be rais
ed between Monday evening and
Wednesday noon of next week when
the workers will meet in the Chest
nut Street Auditorium to make thetr
reports.
The Devine and Yungel Shoe
Manufacturing Company subscrlbod
SIBO to the fund, thereby "cover
ing" all their service men.'
The following soldiers complete
the list "covered" within the past
twenty-four hours:
John H. Adley, Myra Badorf, Ray
mond L. Beard, Esther D. Brenne
man, Ross H. Boas, John H. Bras
selman, James Stark Carey, Mrs.
Argyle I. Cole, Walter J. Devine,
Harry D. Frank, George E. Finney,
John Clarence Funk, Clarence K.
Geiger, Harry C, Griffin, Jay C.
Haekenberry, Richard /F. Hamer,
Frances C. Hamilton, T>. D. Ham
melbaugh, Laura H. Heinz, Charles
W. Jones, Grant King, Morris Kautz,
Alfred C. Keys, James F. Lutz.
Harry T. McFadden, William A.
McCarthy, Chester P. Motter, Vance
McCormick, Byron P. Nissley, Wolfe
Rosenberg, Herman Rosenberg, Ed
ward Saul. Albert H. Yungel, Fred
erick W. Wyble, Walter Zarker.
TO IMPROVE MAIN N
STREET OF PENHROOK
Upon petition by Borough Council
the County Commissioners agreed to
day to pay $2,000 toward Improve
ments and repairs to Main street,
Penbrook. The part to be improved
includes the entire highway from the
eastern to the western borough lim
its, a distance of 3218 feet.
Materials will be furnished by the
borough with funds provided by the
county and borough. Machinery and
labor will be furnished by the State
Highway Department. The work will
be completed this fall.
CONTRIBUTIONS GROW
By Associated Press
Allrntono, Pa., Oct. 16.—The report
on home missions, presented by the
Rev. G. W. Spotts, Tremont, at to
day's session of the Eastern Synod
of the Reformed Church showed $159,.
875 paid in last year, an increase of
$25,000 over the previous year. The
mission has a membership of 20,457.
The conference adopted the reports of
the committee on ministerial relief
and of the advisory board of Sunday
Schools. The Rev. Charles E. Creits,
of Reading, was appointed synodlcal
chairman. Young People's Day is to
be observed in all Reformed churches
oi< the third Sunday in October.
NO MORE NUTRIA
By Associated, Press
New York, Oct. 16. The Argen
tine Government has decreed the
prohibition of hunting for the coypu,
a beaverlike rodent which yields the
fur known as nutria, as the Bpecles
is about disappearing because of the
large amount of commerce in these
skins during the last three years, the
Argentine-American Chamber of
Commerce here announced to-day.
Nutria fur has been extensively used
in garments worn by the women of
America.
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE
By Associated Press
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 16.—Flying in
the transcontinental air derby over
this section of the course was held
up by unfavorable weather to-day.
Rain was falling heavily at Curttss
field and telephone advices from
Rochester, were that Major Carl
Spatz, present leader on the return
flight from Mlneola to San Fran
cisco, would be unable to leave un
til flying conditions improved.
Deaths and Funerals
Funeral services for Bertha M.
Brownawell. aged 26 years, who died
yesterday at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Emma J. Brownawell, 2014
Derry street, will be held Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from her late
residence, the Rev. M. E. Shafer,
pastor of the Redeemer Lutheran
Church officiating. Burial will be
made in the East Harrlsburg Cem
etery.
H. A. DICK DIES
Meclianir-sburg, Pa., Oct. 16.
Henry A. Dick, for many years a
prominent businessman of Mechan
icsburg, died at his home In West
Main street, this morning, after an
illness of five years from paralysis.
He was 71 years old. Mr. Dick was
I born at York, Pa., and moved here
from Wertzville In 1901. He con
ducted a furniture and undertaking
business up to the time of his ill
ness. He was a member of Trinity
Lutheran Church, the Rescue Hook
and Ladder Company and the Royal
Arcanum. He Is survived by a son,
Murray L. Dick, assistant cashier of
the First National Bank, of Mechan
icsburg. Funeral services will be
held at the home on Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the
Rev. H. Hall Sharp, pastor, of Trin
ity Lutheran Church. Burial at
OCTOBER 16,1919.
RIVER DEVELOPMENT
WILL BE TAKEN UP
Warren H. Manning, City's Consulting Architect, to Outline
Future For Susquehanna Basin
The initial step towards develop
ing the Susquehanna Basin for re
creation purposes will be taken this
evening when Warren H. Manning,
the Boston engineer, who has ad
vised Harrisburg in most of its big
improvement projects, and prom
inent citizens will outline compre
hensive improvement plans before
the annual banquet of the Greater
Harrisburg Navy.
Several committees have been
working hard to make to-night's af
fair which will be held at the Penn-
Harris at 6.45 o'clock, one of the
most successful meetings of its kind
Lettish Troops Fight
Way Across the Duna
By Associated Press
Copenhagen, Oct. 16—Lettish forces
have fought their way across the
Duna river at Riga and operations
are now developing favorably, ac
cording to a dispatch recolved from
Libau last night by the Lettish press
bureau here.
A state of tiege has been declared
throughout all Lithuania and the
mobilisation of three classes of sol
diers, has been ordered, it is an
nounced in a telegram received here
from Kovno. Russian troops, under
command of Colonel Vlerkolitch, have
been concentrated in Lithuania and
with the help of Germans have occu
pied telegraph and telephone stations
and converted schools into barracks.
The Lithuanian flag has everywhere
replaced the Russian colors.
Sinn Feiners Defy
Orders and Meet
By Associated Press •
Dublin, Oct. 16.—Defying the or
der of the government and the com
mander-in-chief in Ireland, the
twelfth annual convention of the
Sinn Fein was held at midnight in
the Mansion House. It lasted three
hours. Despite all precautions taken
to prevent the meeting the complete
order of business was carried
through.
An order issued last night by the
chief secretary and the commander
in-chief of the forces in Ireland pro
hibited the assembling In Dublin of
the Sinn Fein, Irish volunteers and
the Gaelic League.
ITALIAN PARK IS
FAVORED BY PLANNERS
, [Continued from First Pagc.l
it is to be the next city highway of
importance to cross the Pennsylva
nia Railroad and traffic there in fu
ture years will be heavy. Sixth street
is also to be eighty feet wide above
Division street and numerous other
changes are made, according to the
plan which in full is as follows:
Strike OfT Streets
"The city to strike off of the city
official plot the following streets:
Shamokin stret, from Division street
to the Pennsylvania Railroad; Juni
ata street, from Division street to the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
"The following streets from Di
vision street to their northern boun
daries as they are now located on
the city map: Jefferson street, Sixth
street, Fifth street. Third street,
Green street and Second street.
"The city to place on the city
official map the following streets:
"Sixth street, eighty feet In width,
the center line of which is to be lo
cated as follows: Beginning at the
center of Division street at a polnv
where it Intersects the center line of
Sixth street as located south of Di
vision street; thence northwardly
to a point on the northern property
line of the heirs of Nettie McKee
Graham, said point being the center
line of Elizabeth street as laid out
on the plan of Ninlnger; thence
northwardly along the center of said
Elizabeth street and along the cen
ter of Elizabeth street as laid out on
the plan of Hoffer & Alrlcks to the
northern line of property of Hoffer
& Alricks, as laid out on the said
I plan; thence in a direction where
said center line would meet the cen
ter of an eighty feet wide street, laid
out by Shreiner; said street, how
ever, to extend only to the northern
limits of the city of Harrisburg.
"Third street, beginning at the in
tersection of Third street and Di
vision street as said Third street Is
marked on the city official plot south
of Division street; thence extending
northwardly by a curve line to the
top of a bluff overlooking Italian
Park; thence northwardly by a
straight line to the intersection of
Third street as laid out on plan of
- Feldhelm, at a point on the north
ern line of the property of the heirs
of Nettie McKee Graham, said street
to be sixty feet in width.
'Green street, one hundred and
twenty feet In width, the center line
of said street being located as fol
lows: Beginning at the northern
line of Schuylkill street at the center
of Green as it is now located on the
city official map; thence extending
northwardly along the center of said
street to Division street; thence
northwardly to Katherine street; the
center of said Green street to be the
eastern line of Green street as it is
now located on the plan of River
side; thence extending northwardly
along the eastern line of Green
street as located on plan of River
side to Vaughn street; thence ex
tending northwardly in a direction,
the center line of said street would
meet the center line of Green street
as laid out on plan of Estherton at
a point on the southern boundary
of said plan, said street, however,
to be placed on the city map only
to the northern boundary of the
city.
To Drain Park
"Division street, extending from
the Suequehanna river to the east
ern boundary of the City of Harris
burg; said street to be eighty feet
in width, and the center line of said
street to be ten feet north of the
center line of Division Btreet as It
is now located on the city official
map.
"The city agrees to either drain
or to confine in the shape of a pond
or lake the water area of the land
known as Italian Park, and to con
struct and maintain said Italian
Park as a public park of the city
of Harrisburg, the said park to be
fully developed as a park within
three years from the date of the ac
ceptance by the city of the said
park land.
"The heirs of Nettle McKee
Graham agree to deed to the city
the area approximately shown on
plan of Warren H. Manning as the
location of said park, and to release
damages to the opening of the
streets, which the city hereby agrees
to jlm4a Lhe city oflfcjial ma,"
yet held In the city. It will be per
haps the first time that any really
organized effort to outline river de
velopment plans has been made in
this city.
In addition to launching this
movement for greater recreation fa
cilities on the river, reorganization
of the Navy to give it a better work
ing force, will bo accomplished. New
officers and committees will be
elected and plans for the Kipona
next year will be touched upon.
Medals and trophies will be awarded
the winners of the various contests
during the Kipona on Labor Day.
American Embassy
Sacked by Bolsheviki
By Associated Press
London, Oct. 16. A detailed ac
count of the sacking of the Ameri
can embassy in Petrograd last July
is published here' for the first time,
the information having come from
what is said to be an authoritative
source.
The Bolshevik commissary, Karo
lov, took possession of the embassy
in the morning of July 10. Every
cupboard and press was searched,
doors being burst open if the keys
could not be found at once. The
commissary stated that they were
searching for concealed provisions,
valuables or firearms. Their search
was fruitless.
In a second search a week later
Red soldiers stripped the place of
practically everything. When the
soldiers had finished, the crowd burst
in and looted what had been left.
Members of the Red Army then took
up their quarters in the embassy,
which they have virtually turned into
an inn.
I _ , is
i Sale Extraordinary p
| Friday and Saturday Onlyp
i Reductions or More fi ;
I THREE GROUPS OF SUITS j ]
For Women and Misses |
To be perfectly frank, our stock of high-class suits is il
X larger than we desire and to reduce it and do so quickly X
II we will take a drastic reduction and give you the benefit ||||
X of getting a high-grade suit in the heart of the season at the x
111 l price of just ordinary garments elsewhere. Our reductions |||j
[['J are far greater than they appear, as our prices are so much ...
ini lower than elsewhere at regular prices that it will make your ii|i 1
111 l saving in many cases 50 per cent, on what you would be 111
jjlj required to pay for the same suit elsewhere. So we can jj";
Ijjj only say this, if you are interested in a suit that is distinc- ...
Il'ii tive and different, that is tailored as good as the best and jjij
llll made of desirable materials and colors; if this class of a III:
suit will interest you, then you owe it to yourself to attend jjjj
II this sale Friday and Saturday.
ill] 15 Suits that sold (fOQ CA ill
1 up to $60.00 foy.ju i
120 Suits that sold CA I
I up to $95.00 soy.DUi
118 Suits that sold (J*A tAA |j
j up to $150.00 JpVD.UU
X These suits are the pick of the season styles and materials *
II such as Peach Bloom—Duvet Superior—Tricotine—etc., and §
... are trimmed with the finest quality furs—Squirrel—Hudson §<
|. Seal—Mole—Beaver, etc., and are the equal of suits that fll
111 l you will see elsewhere for as high as $200.00.
j! This sale is for Friday and Saturday only.
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INITIAIt iNtiEFE H
INTO NEW OFFICE
Kiwanis Club Honors Presi
dent Who Was Elected
to High Post
A humorous "Initiation" by mem
bers of the Harrlsburg Kiwanis Club
of th?Tr president, L. F. Neefe, Into
the office of vice-governor of Penn-..
sylvania clubs, furnished plenty o* A
entertainment to-day at the noon-day
luncheon of the club at the Penn-
Harrls Hotel. Mr. Neefe was elected
to the office at the recent Altoona
convention of the body.
Charles R. Beckley played the part
of the crystal gazer and told th*
members of the club of alleged •*-
pedients adopted by Neefe to
his election. His past and future
were told and outlined in vivid and
humorous details.
The attendance prize at to-day's
luncheon, donated by an unnamed
member, was won by Paul Fur man.
The silent boost, a knife sharpener,
was donated by Frank J. Wallls.
Preliminary arrangements were an
nounced at to-day's luncheon for a
big Kiwanis business show. This
event will be staged during the week
of February 3 in the Chestnut Street
Auditorium, which has been secured
for the entire week.
Plans are being made for a ladies'
night on Thursday, November 6. At
that time luncheon will be served in
the Penn-Harrls at 6.45.
Demands Names of Red
Suspects in Labor Ranks
By Associated Press
Chicago, Oct. 16. —John Fitzpat
rick, president of the Chicago Fede
ration of Labor, said to-day that he
would demand of the War Depart
ment the publication of the name of
every alleged radical member of the
j Federation suspected of fomenting
I disorder in connection with the steel
strike.