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LXXXVII— Xo. 228 12 PAGES KM& HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1918. *x s haiuusbijllo'"'' HOME EDITION BOND BUYERS IN CHORUS DENOUNCE CITY'S SLACKERS IN FOURTH DRIVE Wage-Earner Thinks It Out rage Steps Are Not Taken to Compel Those Who Hold Back to Aid Nation in War FARMERS WHO CHARGE 65C FOR EGGS SCORED Banks Are to Be Asked For Names of Subscribers So That Those Who Do Not Buy May Be Known The one outstanding feature of to day at Liberty Loan headquarters was the extraordinarily large num ber of reports of "bond slackers." and the increasing large number of complaints from bond owners who declare that while they do not object to "doubling the third" they think it absolutely ridiculous 'they "double the third" while thousands of ilarris burg men and women have not bought bonds at all. lteports of these "bond slackers" ranged all the way from families very well to do. to individuals not well to do. but able to afford at least one $5O bond. Mne man reported to headquarters to-day is a high-salaried tradesman whose wife owns a valuable property within two minutes of Third and Market streets. This man was asked why he didn't buy a bond. "When we invest our money." he said, "we want something stand ard." And then he added: "If I were keeping photographs of all the presidents of the United States 1 would never include that of this man Wilson, who got us into a war we had no business in." Attention of Liberty Loan head quarters was called to a Green street family in which there are six wage and salary earners. Not one of the six bought a bond. Wage-Lamer Complains A wage-earner to-day went to iberty Loan headquarters and de livered himself of the following: "I think it is an outrage that something is not done to make all the people of Harrisburg hold up their end of this war. I earn about $3O a week. I have a total of $7OO worth of bonds in all the loans, not all of them paid for yet. 1 think 1 am holding up my end. But when 1 hear of prominent people who are buying $2,500 worth of bonds, and men making tine salaries who aren't buying any bonds, and farmers who haven't bought a bond in all four is sues, but charge t>3 cents a dozen for eggs, then I get boiling mad. "I want to know what your execu tive committee is doing. I want to know if there isn't some way you can make these false alarm Ajneri cans come through?" If there was one complaint of that sort at Liberty Loan headquarters to-day, there were a hundred. Secretary Clycfe Myton has a lons list of "bond slackers." their street numbers and occupations, furnished him by amateur sleuths who are de termined that the city will get over the top on the Fourth Loan. AH the various teams and commit t Continued on Pago B.] HBG. RAILWAYS CO. BORROWS TO BUY U. S. BONDS THE Harris burg Hallways Company executive . commlt ,ee thi.- morning voted to borrow 525.U00 nitli which to buy Liberty Bonds. This is in addi tion to the company's original subscription. "The company has no money with which to buy bonds.*' said President Frank B. Musser, after the meeting, "aiul it has never before borrowed money for in vestment purposes. The executive committee met in special session this morning and it was the con census of opinion that the com pany ought to do what the tkw ernment is asking individuals to do—to mortgage its future earn ings ami pay for the bonds out of savings." Chairman Patterson, of the Lib erty Ixian committee, said he hoped other corporations would see the wisdom of following the railways company. The 1 tanks arc ready to finance corporations as well as individuals in the purchase of bonds and he thought it an excellent plan to pay for bonds out of future earnings, just as hundreds of individual Investors are doing. J ITHEWEATHEIL] For Harrlhiirg nnd vicinity: Fair to-night nnd Tueda> : not much change in temperature; light frokt to-night. For Hantern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night and Tuedny; cooler to night In northeast portion: front in north nnd went portion*. River The Susquehanna river and all li* branches will continue to fnll slowly. General Condition. A disturbance now pawning oIT the A'orth Atlantic coaat haw rauned loeal abnwerw along the Atlantic eoawt from .\orth Carolina to w F.niclnnd. Temperature: S a. at., no. Hirer Sinter: 4.3 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's W rather Highest temperature, 74. lament temperature. 34. Mean temperature, 4. Aoruul temperature, 35. The Peacemaker BANKS PLAN CASH! FOR DISTRICT IN BIG LOAN DRIVE Those Who Desire May Get Ample Funds to Pur chase More Bonds Every bank in the three counties ! of the Harrisburg Liberty Loan Pis- ' trict has made arrangements whereby they lend Liberty Bond purchasers money for the purchase of bonds at 4 1 . per cent, interest, with the bonds j thus purchased held by the banks as collateral. It is the most generous plan yet offered for the purchase of Liberty I Bonds and one calculated to remove j the last obstacle In the way of the' man who desires to purchase bonds I in quantities exceeding the amount | of cash he has on hand. The interest on bonds thus pur- j chased pays the interest on the loan I from the bank. In other words, the I bond buyer who patriotically mort- j gages his future for the purchase of j bonds is allowed to clip the coupons j from his bond while the banks are j holding them as collateral to pay j the interest on his debt. As he pays ; the debts from his income, the num ber of bonds he clips becomes smal ler. and tjye interest paid to the bank decreases. Donald McCormick. District - Lib erty Loan Chairman, said this morn ing every bank in the district is lending money at the rate of 4 ! per cent, which is the interest paid on i the bonds. The period for which the ; money is lent is 90 days, but the loans can be extended at the same rate of interest at the end of the 90 days if necessary. . This announcement is said to be the most important one made by the banks since the loan opened and ■ opens the way for every wage-earner in the district to mortgage a per- 1 centage of his 'future earnings in I order to do his duty in the Fourth I Liberty Loan. Double Electrocution Exacts Penalty For Two j Dauphin County Murderers ' Bollefonte, Pa.. Oct. 14.—A dou-J 1 ble electrocution took place at the ! Western Penitentiary' at Kockview j' early to-day, when Andrew Carey' and Charles Kvler, Dauphin county",;' both colored, were sent to the elec-,' trie rffftir for murders committed,' less than a year ago. Andrew Carey was convicted on a charge of murdering James Arthur Watts, about 11 o'clock on the morning of February 25, this year. I in the latter's home in Adams street. Steelton. Carey after the shooting i escaped, but was captured near ! Hummelstown. t'harles Kyler, colored, was found guilty of murder in the first degree on a charge of stabbing Walter t 'lifton Shaffer early on the morning [ of January 26. The murder occur- j red just as Shaffer was walking out' < of an uptown saloon MOTHER OF DEAD SOLDIER ASKS FOR SUPPORT OF LOAN Home Folks Can Make No Sacrifice Equal to That of Bovs in France — —*'^l ffk Wr^m fl MRS. ELIZABETH k. SCLLIVAN Mrs. Sullivan is the mother of Sylvester P. Sullivan, one of the first Harrisburg boys killed in France She lives at 526 North street and is a Liberty Bond owner. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Sullivan, moth er of Sylvester P. Sullivan, one of the first Harrisburg boys to die in France, to-day Issued the following appeal: "To the People of Harrisburg: "My boy gave his !l£e for Amer ica. Thousands of other American boys have done the same. Millions more are ready to go to France to drive the linn back. They are go ing to make it sure that he will nev [Continued oil Page B.] Berlin Denies Story of Intended Abdication; Kaiser to Hold On Berne, Switzerland. Oct. 14.—The Wolff News Agency of Berlin to-day, issued an ofliclul denial of the re port -which had becoe current in! Germany that Emperor William in-) tended to abdicate. GRIP EPIDEMIC IS EXACTING HEAVY i TOLL OF DEATH, Drastic Action May Be Taken to Keep Funerals Private Thirteen deaths and 260 more 1 ' cases of influenza have been report- ! ;ed until noon to-day to the city : j health bureau offices. According to 1 ' Dr. J. M. J. Kaunick, city health j I officer, the disease is spreading rap- 1 ' idly throughout the city. The toll |of deaths to-day from pneumonia ! I equals that of Saturday and yesterday I together. Six died on Saturday and I : seven yesterday. • Because of the steady increase in 1 the number of cases physicians of | the city are considering a plan to ■ establish zones so that all of the j ; victims can be treated. At present I some of the doctors have more than | j sixty calls a day listed at their of- i flee, taking them to all parts of the | I city. Jt has been suggested that j !by establishing zones the visits to ; ] homes of victims of the disease J : could be made more quickly, thus giving treatment to everyone in the j i shortest possible time. 79 Dentils in Week Last week there were seventy- • [Continued on Page 10.] BRITISH OPPOSED TO PEACE lit BICKERING Ixindon. Oct. 14.—While certain developments are taking place, the | I Central News Agency says it learns, jit can be said that the British gov-! j ernment will resolutely oppose the I franting of any armistice to Ger i many unless absolute guarantees, 1 , both military and naval, are forth- j ' coming. j No temporary armistice, nor any! i armistice at all, unless accompanied [by Gerany's unconditional surren j der, is the dominent note in most I of the comment on the peace situa tion in this morning's newspapers. VOICE OF PROTEST RAISED AGAINST FOE Council of National Defense Warns Against Pacifists Who Will Be Satisfied With Patched Up Treaty With the Barbarian Kaiser _ . I Spencer C. Gilbert, of the execu- cf the local council. The telegram : tive committee of the State Council Hows, _ -..-.Art „„ r i v ' "Desperate anxiety to substitute j of National Defense. recel\ed earl. tl . m j Btice j or a uie<t victory is the j this afternoon a telegram from j -.spiration of the two German notes. George Wharton Pepper, of Phila- Ihe President, as interpreted by . . ~ . , lf tha p-nnavi tecretary McAdoo. may be counted I delphia. chairman o t 1 |)ou B t ern |y j 0 oppose the German vanla Council of National Defense, -..in nd to commend to our Allies j' identical with others sent every aim- nothing but the unconditional sur- j 1 liar council in the United Htates. . „ , aueut which he asked the approval j [Continued on I'll*© JO.J li UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ONLY BASIS FOR END OF WAR; ST. GOBAIN FALLS TO FRENCH HUN DEFENSE GONE , By .Associated Press IWIUS. Oct. ll.—still another victory had been added to the long trail of glory blazed by the allied armies. The l.aon plateau at last has been won, crowning the Cuinbrai-Sc. (jucnliii and Cham pagne offensives. The result Is nothing less than the ruin of the entire defensive systems built up by tile German general stall' since UIH, for the i-omcrstone of it was tlu* I-non plateau. It was on the I -non plateau that the German line was pivoted. It was to turn it that the offensives of Ityir* and 1511 it were carried out. It was against it that the campaign of 11117 was premature 1 ;, broken. It was from it that the sixth great drive of the Gcrmuiis towards Paris was started. Its fall is the prologue to the total lib eration of France. V , PEACE TERMS WILL BE DICTA TED WHEN FOE ADMITS DEFEA T Allies Not Being Fooled by Desperate Effort of Kaiser to Save His Skin; German Army Mast Give Up Arms Washington. Oct. 14.—Germany's] j reply to President Wilson reached i the Swiss legation in official form by cable this morning. .It was in German tevt. a translation of which was identical with that received by wireless Sunday. Instead of taking the note directly to the White House as he did Prince Maximilian's peace | plea, Frederick Oederlin, Swiss ] charge, communicated with the j State Department, i In the meantime. President Wil ! son had called Secretaries Lansing land Ilaker to the White House for !a conference. The President and Mr. Lansing had been cohsidering the German communication since Saturday night when the unofficial j text reached them, and Secretary Baker, just back from France, was prepared to give first-hand informa tion about the situation at the bat tlefront, which has brought about the German eagerness for peace. To Give Quick Answer Colonel E. M. House, who accom panied the President last night on his return from the New York Lib erty Loan trip, joined in the confer ence. The only official Intimation that has conie regarding the probable course of the President is that he is sure to act quickly and positively. Everywhere in "Washington, how ever. the confident belief prevailed that whatever might be the form of that action, it would not contem- UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ONLY ! MEANSTOPEACE Statesmen and Newspapers Join in Demanding That No Armistice Be Granted UNITED STATES SENATOR BORAH, in a special article on the German peace proposal, published by the New York Times, ! says: j "Fifty years ago, about, France ' lay bleeding and dismembered at 1 the feet of this [Hohcnzollern] | dynasty. The same cruel and fright j ful methods had characterized that j war. I quote a single paragraph from an article written at the time ' by a citizen of a neutral country: " 'Every city has been practically sacketl, ransacked on system; its ; civilians plundered, Its civil officials I terrorized, imprisoned, outraged or [ killed. The civil population has '■ been, contrary to the usage of mod- ( 1 em warfare, forced to serve the in vading armies, brutally put to death. I ! reduced to wholesale starvation and ; i desolation. Vast tracts of the rich est and most industrious districts j |of Europe have been deliberately; stripped and plunged Into famine, solely in order that the invaders might make war cheaply. Irregular [Continued on I'age B.] j plate a cessation of hostilities nor negotiations for peace with the tier man government, except upon con- | j ilitios amounting to unconditional ' j surrender. | It is assumed that since Saturday i ! night at least informal exchanges ' ; have taken place between Washing- ! •ton and the capitals of the co-bellig- j jerents. Informed of the views of the j allied Premiers, the President may i j determine before the day is over 1 whether his reply to the German re- , ; quest that he propose an armistice | and peace negotiations shall be a i j refusal to make any such proposal I j at the instance of the present Ger- j , man government, or a renewed j {statement of the conditions under! I which peace must he restored. May Toll Congress It was suggested that the Presi- | j dent might ask for a joint session |of the House and Senate to com ! munlcate his decision and the rea- I sons for it to Congress, the country j and the world. i Secretary Daniels joined the j White House conference. The Presi dent and his advisers were together for iy>arly two hours, then the cab- I ; inet officers and Colonel House j | walked over to the State. War and j Xavy building, leaving the President i alone in his study where nearly all j :of bis notes and utterances "have ; I been drafted. SENATORS FIRM" AGAINST GERMAN! BID FOR PEACEi I 1 Lodge Asks Body to Oppose Further Talk Except of Absolute Surrender By Associated Press I Washington, Oct. 14.—Discussion of Germany's peace reply in the Sen- 1 iate was opened to-day by Senator jNew, of Indiana, Republican, who; j declared that nothing short of un conditional surrender of the Ger- | many army will.meet the demands jOf the American people. | Senator Thomas, of Colorado, ; Democrat, introduced a resolution stipulating that no peace pact be en tered Into by the United States with Germany without a specific recogni- i [ tlon of the rights of self-government ifor the Slavonic and Polish peoples. I | Republican Deader Dodge to-day j | introduced a resolution to declare it' .the sense of the Senate that no fur-1 ther communication be had with the j German government on the subject |of an armistice and that no commu- j ntcatton be had with that govern-I ;ment except on the question of un- 1 [conditional surrender, j Senator" Dodge made no comment ion the resolution at the time of its introduction. Wilson Not to Weaken Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, after ' conferring with President Wilson i to-day said: The President will take no action that will weaken in the ! smallest degree the success of the ; American and the allied armies in i |the field. . "On the contrary," Senator As- j : hurst added, "what he will do will : rather strengthen the military situ jation." | This was the first statement by anybody who has talek with the President, The Senator said * the country should not be worried: that of course the President knew the views of Clemenccau and Dloyd-George and was prepared to take the proper: step in accord with the Allies, I j Allied Army Wins Ground In Launching Surprise Attack In Flanders By Associated Press WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FLANDERS, Oct. 14.—British, Belgian and French forces attacked at dawn to-day on a wide front in Flanders. The Allied troops are driving in the general direction of Ghent and Courtrai. The blow in Flanders by Marshal Foch was a master stroke. If the Allied progress is continued, the Germans throughout a wide stretch of territory, taking in the most important part of the Belgian coast, including possibly the important German submarine bases, as well as the forces in the entire Lille salient, will either have • to get out or face a second Sedan. GERMAN forces have abandoned Laon and the whole St: Gobain region. Ihe French, after reoccupying Laon, have pressed on until their line now runs from the Oise river above La Fere to the eastern end of Chemin des Dames. Ihe French war office statement reads— "Pursuing tlie enemy, our troops resumed the advance this (Sunday) morning over eut-up roads, which the enemy evacu ated in hot haste, leaving quantities ol - material, shells, barbed wire and railroads intact. At 10.15 o'clock our advancing guards reached the ljion-I.a l'Vrc railroad, where fiicy were met by a vio lent machine gun tire coming from Hcsn.v-et-l.olsy and l.a Mon tague, which were occupied by enemy roar guards. At 11 o clock all the St. Hohaiu forest was clear of Hermans and the French flag was floating on the l.aon cathedral. Our soldiers tound over U. 500 civilians, who welcomed them with joy. "Continuing tlieir advance, our troops debouched front die I-non forest at Satuoussy which was taken. Marclmis also uas occupied." Caught by Allied Advance When the Germans began to fall back out of the bag into which they wore being slowly caught by the rapid advance of [Continued on Page 12.] f 1 ? row, cars on the lines of the Har- $ I f x 1 *<i I \ eastboun.3 trips, instead of the west corner, it was an- | B bounced late this afternoon. V o cor. I IDLE '.tsville.—There is no improvement in the influenza f •repair shops arc working with ten per cent, of their f forces. a 1 I £ ? J He as 69 years old. ? I f I * 1 i| I the big emerg • \ Pto lag st ily, we must have volunteers," said he. "Call" t 1 the Red Cross have your automobile, ■ g Leither a part CO n. The nee t J !3 Urgent.'' I I f f I 7* T "DP " ZONE i Washington.—A favorable report was ordered by the J* , Senate-Judiciary Committee on the bill authoriz- 1 ; mines. Afi ■ J'TRY ACQUITS ROTHENBER'G ; I New York.—A jury trying.'Morris Rothenberg, indict- £ t * -x >.y] murder c? Harry Cohen, alias | Harry ?hc Yott," on the eve of Cohen's promised die- A closures regarding underworld gambling conditions, ac- jf •quitted Rothenberg to-day on a motion by the District I AtUn tey. ? : - \ f MARRIAGE LICENSES i John K. Hotlt, nnri Tnntlnol. Ilrukncn, Harrll>ur|. I'hlllp C ( Rank* and Mary J. Humphrey, I'rnhrmk. f '' •"w. n - Hf^n