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THE COUNTY WIDE DRIVE STARTS IN ENCOURAGING WAY Bulk of the Money so Far Raised Was Obtained in Lebanon ONLY A FEW OF THE TOWNS REPORTED Thorntown, Jamestown and Mechanicsburg Send in .Splendid Gifts. With reports from Thorntown. Jamestown, Mechanicsburg. and part of Center township, the first day of the Red Cross drive netted more than three thousand dollars. These are thonv parts of the county which have sent in reports to headquarters have, and when all sections have been heard from, the total of the first 'lay will no doubt be swelled considerably. A telephone call received yesterday af ternoon from Jamestown bore the news that $400 was the result of thf first day's canvass in Jackson town ship. Very little active work was di nr in Sugar Cieek township yesterday hut $-rjiH was pledged in ft few minute.nt the meeting in the library at Thorn tnwn last night. As the result of thf meeting at Meehanicsburg last nigh' a total of over $100 was raised by resi dent of W a.JiingUn township. Ke ports from Center township last nigh' showed that approximately $2,000 wa subscribed in the campaign of the firs day. All but a small amount of thii was from lebanon, as the count) teams have not yet reported. Th largest sum donated to the Red Cros? yesterday was $2nl). A few hundred several fifty, and many twenty-fiv dollar subscriptions were received. The results of the campaign of yes terdav were telephoned in to Ihe na tiunal headquarters at Washington, I1 ('., last nurht and this morninir the fol lowing telegram was received by K M. Servics, the county captain of teams; Praise For Work. 1 Washington, D C E. M. Seivies, Chairman Amerua lied Cross Headquarters. J-ehanon Indiana. V ar Council appreciates your won derful v.ork. Still hope you can sen strong reports each day, to be eablei to Major General Pershing in France Centra! states now leading all the rest D. A. Reed. 80. War Council The banner team which reporter yesterday was the one captained hi Krncst I.cwis and which had for it territory the southwest part of th city. This team secured subscription for $771. nr.. The ladies in the workshop repor that the demand for goods is so grei that it cannot be cut fist enough. Yes cnUiv over ten dollars was clearer for the War Fund by sidling the Rei f'Mss flagf. Twenty-three dollars wai made from the sale of pennants. Tin five dollars with which the goods fo thp pennants was purchased was do nated by Mrs. May Wilson. Those ir charge of the workshop still repor that they are short of workers am! thai eve 1 j H'SiiibR ;.k can (,pa; t..n us hour of her time in a day is urged ti come and help. FEIGHTER SUNK. British Ship Sent to Hot torn With Valuable Cargo. fffy lh ttttrnntinHti fitita AerrirM BOSTON, June 20.The Bay State a British freighter of the Warren line, has been bent to the bottom by a (iermun submarine off tbe coast ol Ireland according to dispatches re reived here. The Bay State, valued at $l,2r0K), carried a cargo of sup plies to the British government valued at 12,000,000. I The dispatches contained no infor;l nation as to the fate of Captain Alex i antler Kenton and 45 member! of the ;! crew. j The Bay State hailed from Liverpool and displaced 8,064 tons. She wa a comparatively new vessel, having been built in Sunileitend in ) i'i 'The Vea.el tts 4:t fw-t ft ' ' I feet in t'- 1mm.-

ANOTHER MYSTERY.

Chicago Police Confronted With "Milling Girl" Problem. (By 'Ac Internationat .Vctff flerWre.i CHICAGO, June 20 - With the Ruth Cruger case in New York fresh in I their mind, Chicago police today were I confronted with another mining girl ' mystery. I The girl is Bernice K. Tuibctt, 1". j 1 freckled and possessing a wealih of! bronze hair. She completed her sopho- j ! more year in a Detroit high school I early in the month and came here to p-nd the .summer vl.n with her' wealthy aunt. .Mis. Henry T. Binirs. It-mice left Mk. Hung;' heme in Wilmeite, a suburb of Chicago. Slonday noon to go to a florist's shop. She never reach nook, wrist si th. .-.hop. Her pocketand jewelry were left in her room. pipkertons have been placed on tbe .'asc. The family lielieves tiie girl may have been abducted, or perhaps murdered. She apparently was happy ind content in ber heme here where lier slighest whim was gratilied. IS DISAPPEARING Principal Obstacle to Passage of Food Bill Will Be Found in the Senate. ( (Tic 'elr)onl .V Serried WASHINGTON'. June 20.-Oisi . 'ion in tiie house to the adtnini.-trii-:ion f nd bill is rapidly disuppearng. The principal obstarle to the ia-sage of tiie measure will tie encountered fn the senate, upon which ''earn nviulity will test if lite itksi.-.uie' blocked. Thi doe not mean that the chief muse critics have abandoned their iglit on the bill. But there is ah.;outely no doubi about the passive of he measure. Within a week the louse bill will Is? before the senate, "he ranks of those opponents of the oil who maintain that it is too dieatonal have not been augmented luring the progie n the house. f general debate i The administration, it was learned :oday. may ask congress to establish he official status of Herbeit C. : Hoover as food administrator- not lictator in order that he may pro-1 cerl unhampered with at least a part 1 f his work. ; A delay of ait weeks in the pas-' i.-ige of the food bill will render th , leasure almost valueless, in the opinon of Mr. Hoover. If such a He-j ay results, Mr. Hoover, it is repoilcl 1 ill consider that his usefulness will nave been Hestrojed ami dl resign ; 1a food adinisiiitrator. " 1 AT 1 : Explosion of Oil Starts a Blaze i That Spreads Rapidly. t8v tht Inttrnutwnol -Vcirt Herrlrf LAFAYKTTK, Ind., June 20.xplosion of seven cars of oil, so se--ere that it was heard for miles, start-; i a fire early today which threatened o wipe out the village of Kirkpatrick, j ighteen mile southeast of here. I Tl:e wreck occurred on the Clover! !.eaf railroad in the center of the vil-

age. Burning oil ,, scattered ou r j f ,r. VanNuys who will act as rhairIwellmgs and business houses, and ; man of a committee to be made up of nany people had narrow escape.i. One . thp ,tifr,,rent physicians of the city, an was injured, but not fatally. 1 Th.'re is a prescribed course in this Despite the efforts of a volunteer ' work for which the Red Cross will orand of fire fighters the Farmers' Fie-1 Her books. ator, containing much wheat, thei The home nursing committee will lover Uuf depot, a blacksmith ehopii. conducted by Mrs. Earl Adney who nd five residences were burned quick- i, , registered Ited Crosa nurse, y, and at noon there was little hope (Every one interested may taka this " saving the remaining elevator, the I work, but no one will b subjected to mly brick building in the town, 1 his country's call. All services is volWhen a fire truck from West Laf-. unteer. lyette arrived the volunteer fighters A mammoth Red Cross flas; has r risking their lives In dashing 1 been made in the workroom and Is hriish the burning oil, which was (now hanging hi tli rotunda of the ' for several hundred feci i court houw. The flag is tl isms ir-..ks. Kirkpatrick hn al-.,e ss the big AmSriran flaf wr.ich iA':,rtt fta aide. t

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wJ 10 I LLUUIU Ml AT THWI Enthusiastic Red Crosg Meeting Held Last Night. ABOUT ONE HUNDRED ATTEND GATHERING Money Pledged By Thrwe Present Gives Flying Start Toward Town's Quota. Five bundled ddiar!i was pleilged in five minutes by inendiers of the au4i.lue uf . nil.. meeting held last night in the basement of the public library at Thorntown, for the Ked Cross. About one hundred people were present at the meeting, about twentylive of whom were local people who went over in autoniobi'es. Rev. R. K. I'allitnan, pa.tor of the Thorntown Christian ehui.-h, presided. Rev. O. II. Caimiileiel, of this city, made the Ofiening p ecu. He began by stating that "the situation which we now face is ton big not to get into n He sii.'ke of the pride that we will feel after the war for having done our part, and that those of us who cannot go to the front can enlist our money and our work toward defeating tier many and serving humanity. prof. Fisher Speaks. l-'ot'owing Uev. Carnuehael's short talk, the chairman introduced the speaker of the evening, Prrf. M. L. Fisher, of Purdue University. r'rof. Fisher entered upon his address by stating that "we Americans are now face to face w ith stern reali-; ty." He emphasised the necessity oft gi ing mw and ?rmke againtft those 1 who state that they will donate to thej R d Cross later. He brought out that mor' ! Irwm memberships are needed, but that large siibscrit-t'ons will be reomri'd if the money needed is to lie rais.-d. Prof. Fbher spent some time in telling of the founding and of the hi.-tory of the Ked Cross and of the American Red Coss. He mated tli it the id-a ngmated in lH.r.9 during the Italian war for independence, and was instilined among Kuropean rations by the Treaty of Geneva in ISC!. It was not ' until lHsj that America poim-d in thi h'uet, and it is hut recently that thIt"d Cros has become an organisation ; of any importance in this country. Its! efficacy has been demonstrated in the! Johnstown flood, the San Francisco I earthquake, the Galveston inundation, the recent tornadoes, and ninny other; rata strophes. j 41 . Must Have Support, n imprmPli on his hearers that! tl),s orKanlI..tiOI1 caI,nut eSi,t without! MU,port, and that if the million orj more soldiers we are contemplating) K,,I()jjn 0 Kurope are to be care. for it must be through individual dona-j ti'-ns in the country to the sanctioned, r ent of the government, the Ked j ( ross society. After the speaker had completed hit; ad.ie,;;i. Iter. Callithan made a line talk pleading for local support. He issued call for pledges for subscriptions for imounls not lower than twenty. five dolh , ., and in a very .short ne fne l"i ,li.'d dollars had been pledged. fi- i individuals each suh-j scribed on" hiii'd.-ed ilollars. The rpiota lor Sugar Cre-I: township it$l, 247.50 , and with the living start secured in: the short time laf night. Thorntown j anil vicinity should easily over-sub-1 scribe this limount. 1 i;.H M... ...... ovs...:a .1.- t1 , ' , ' , ' . . '. , . . I chapter, made a brief talk explaining I fB work f tht ,ocu rhautPr SI,H m. ouruging the people of Sugar Creek' township to organije a branch at i Thorntown. First Aid Class. First nil! work will he in chore

VERY ANNOYING.

Austrian Cabinet Crisis Slim l p (iirriuji Official Circles. tHt I'M aieriuNHel Snrt gfrrtct.) AM.STKItDAM, June 2fl. The Autrian ruuinet criifl pncipitated by the Polish members of the Keichsrnlh is causing much annoyance to orticial circles in Berlin, according to a dispatch from the Herman capital today. Polish member" of the Reichsralh in speeches on the war budget violently attacked Crermany and their coup against the government was palpably a victory for the anti-Cer-man forces. A sensational article, intimating that Germany looks for the partition j of Austria-Hungary, is printed in the. Frankfurter Zeitung. It also indicates increasing friction between the two countries. The newspaper argues that the 10,000,000 Ormans living on j Austrian noil cannot be good Aus-! trians and good Germans siinuHane- ( usly. SHOWS BIG INCREASE. List of Submarine Yirtint Lars;.! Since War lUrau. fl the litternntinntd Vrir ttrrt lrf. l.ON'liOX, June 2(1. --It was report ed that the list of euhmarine vietirm to he made public tonight will record j the largest number of torpedoed vesels since the German submarine he-1 Ifan. ; "

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Held Up Express Car, Securing f 10,000. (H le Intrrnatltnul Win S.Tvicc. 1 ' CHICAGO, June 20. James Burgooj. foreman of the fr ight department of the Adams Fxpress company, was taken into custody today in connection ilh the holdup and robbery af t'OnUA front the money car of the ( bicxo, Burlington & (juiiwy Iraia in the West Side yardu last night. ifiU tfte tntrrnati'mat -Veir grrrtre.) CHICAGO, June 20.-Police and j private detectives were scouring the city today for two daHng bandits, ' who masked and heavily armed, held up an Adams Kxpresn car attached to! a Chicago, Burlington & Quimy flyei ' vithin tiie city limits last night an. I j escaped with $-'PI,000 in cunency and ; coin. 1 The only clew was the fact that the robbers used their own rnnihination dial to open the safe, this suggesting to tiie police that the men were, exemployes of the company. Messengers Jack A. Andrews of Hurlington, and Ward Smiley of Mon mouth, HI., who were in the express) car, offered no resistance, although i they were heavily armed. They were detained for questioning by police. 'Ihe robbers swung into the car soon after the train made up in the West Side yards, bad started for the Union Station. Both wore bandana handkerchiefs over their faces up to their eyes. They covered the messengers and ordered them to thi tittup (heir hands. Both men obeyed. Andrews had his coat off and there was one revolver in his hip pocket anil another in s holster attached to his belt. A repealing rifle stood near. The messengers were bound and gagi'd. , The robbers then proceeded lei. live

ly with their work. Attaching their i"' own dial to the safe in the place1' where the regular dial hud been re-1 w

moved for fancied protection, the nem opened the safe in about five minutes and took the currency and coin, uable jewels were, ignored. Going to the rear platform the men ' turned on the airbrakes. The train j was nearing the I'nion Station. As it ! slowed down, the men swung off, th -! one leaving several minutes before i the other. Police were not notified j until an hour and a half alter the express officials learned of the robbery, j With the messengers in charge of j their cars, all doors are supposed to ! lie barred, express officials say. i Smiley, who waa in charge of the i freight express car, had completed his work and stepped Into the "Omaha jewel" car to talk to Andrews. It was through the door between the two cars that the robbers entered. TO RECONSIDER, WASHINGTON, Juni 20. The enat finance committee this afternoon voted to reconsider the amendment to tire revenue bill agreed tc last Saturday to tax publisher five per cent on net profits. No it'ibxtiUd has yet beep decided npon.

BRITISH TROOPS

Recapture Advanced Positions From the Germans. GERMAN ARTILLERY BOMBARDS FRENCH Pours Violent Fire Upon Positions ori Aisne River and in Champagne. IJW thf iHternuUoattl .w KerWe-.) I.OXPON, June 20 British troops on the A i'eis front drove forw:ird last night rei-apturing from the Germans I posts east of Monrh.i WMj..h h...i i,wn i()st n Monday W!ir offi,.0 r(,tted t.sluy. These posts uie in the sector of Tnfantry hill, which the Germans tried in vain to take during their furious assaults last Sunday night and MonI day morning. j German artillery is violently bomt balding French positions on the Aisne , river and in Champagne, the war office announced today. The cannon1 ade was particularly severe in thej ' sectors of Laulfaiit mill, on the north The mans attempted an mfan-1 but it hroke down under ! try i An impnitant conference was held j here today between General John J. I I Pershing, the commander of the : i I'nitod States troops that will fight in; ' Fiunce. and Mar. dial JotTre. I SURVIVORS LANDED. merican (leslroy rs Save Kighty Victims of I'-hoot Artivilv. uM tw ri-f., iMi .v...;.--.; I.ONHON, June 2ft.--Bringing eighty survivors of two torpedoed bhip.s, two American de-trovers arrived at an Fngli.-h liase today. Tbe torpedoed vessMs were sent dowr far out in the Atlantic, tiie farthest wvit since the submarine warfare began. Belli ships had gone down w hen the ; American warnhios appeared on the ; i-cene and picked up the survivors who were drifting bout in boats. Four sailors lire, re killed bv submarine shellOF THE WHITEHOUSE , c:n hv sji.HY-io-etfeu IMudaveH When Russian Call, Cause Troulile. Hn tht IiHtrit'ltintml ,Vrir UtrHft

WASHINGTON, June 20. A near-, tiv, 0f the working classes and social- j not in front of the while house was)u,t4 of the Cnited States. The three pr.s ipit at' d today when the Russian i American representatives here de-! misfion entered the grounds to pre-j cared today that Russell represents! sent its credentials to President VVil- j nnithr-r I

sen. A KtTiit sitfn was he( aloft by j t'io RufTr.iK ick'ts at the ates. j The sitfn T-Kii: "T the iiunsian Mis-' sioii: l'rfncrtt Wilson ami envoy t are i-tvivintf Ilusi-ia. They say i are a (lenKwracy. IMp win ai Id war so tiiut (U'nwwraries may !,Jrv've. ! ' onen of America, tell you

Val-i'hat America is not a democracy. I Twenty million American W'omen are

''""nM the right to vote. President 'l"n is the chief opponent of their ration''1' enfranchisement. Help us mas this nation really free. Tell our C'vernment that it must liberate its uwn people before it can cluim free Russia as its ally." The sign was held aloft by Miss Lyda Burns of New York and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, When a crowd of 300 person that ,la'l gathered to we the Russian enV0V s the sign, they rushed to the women and tore it down "This is treason," one woman cried as she wrested one end of the banner from Misa Burns. "We give our sons and theti you do this." another shouted. The women

who held the banner were jostled but 1 things cost and give the producers libwer? net injured. eral profit but beyond that I am not W'hile the ricrtnui scene was being going to pay." enacted at one entrance, the Russian I He said that it waa true that the mission passed into the white house i navy had bought copper at i7 cents a grounds through another gate. The ( pound when the market waa 40c, but members of the mission did not see the market supply ia now exhausted t'-e sum that caused the outbreak, norland more must be obtained at a rea-

evj notice th disorder.

WEEDING OUT.

Many of Officer! at Fl. Harrison Are Beini Kent Home, iffy rae lnlrrnnHtim hew Sirrict.l FT. HARRISON, Indianapolis, June 20. Sorrowful young men of the Officer' Reserve Corp today packed their grips and left for home, declared phycically unfit for army service after enduring a fourteen-hour-a-day grind for five weeks. The army officers, in weeding out' the 4,000 men left in the reserve corps is giving a most rigorous physical examination. The Kentucky men in camp are looking forward to the visit of Govenor Stanley on Friday evening. He will be guest of the Kentucky men at dinner and address all the reserve cadets. Mayor Bell, of Indianapolis, renewed assurances to Gen. Glenn that every immoral resort has been driven out of Indianapolis, that questionable women are being closely watched and thst every effort is being made to prevent the sale of liquor to soldiers. The mayor asserts the city is clean, despite a report of the Military Training Camps Association that tbe war department threatened to take the camp from Indianapolis because of bad Thirty more officers and men of the medical department of the I'idiana National Guard have been ordered to report at Ft. Harrison next Tuesday for training. THE PEACE TERMS OF . THE U. S. SOCIALISTS f'-rmantent and Formation of International Peace League Are Mentioned. rAe sfcmefeisfii rfr.i STOCKHOLM, June 20.-l)isarm-ament, the formaiion of an international peace league and a policy of no annexations and no indemnities for the nations now at war lire the chief peace terms of the three socialists who came here t reprewnt the Cnited Shite at fhe intermttional ieace conclave. This became known today. The three Ameiicnn represent ativer. D. Pavidevitih, ioris Keinstein and .Max Goldfiirb, all came to Furope on the liner Oscar 11. How Reinstein was able to make thf voyage is a my trry as he bail 1 sport. The tin tiait atreaily ilravvn up their peace program before they met ; the liutth-Scaielinaviafi committee. . It is understod that, in addition to the! terms already named, the socialists! favor the formaiion of a special lea-j gue of nations to help rebuild thej nations that were the greatest victims 1 of the war. 1 n; The American representatives aie' opposed to a separate peace hut wanl : versal as soon as possible. They ! (believe that a peace parley should lie j brought about by agencies outside of! those concerned in the war. They say ! j that the arrangement of peace terms 1 (could not rightfully be entrusted to! i those who were responsible for the I various nations entering the war. j j The delegates ure much incensed j at Charles F.dward Russell, who was ! appointed a member of the Root com-' ' mission to Russia us a renrcsenta- i THE GAUGE OF BATTLE Secretary of Navy Demand.s Better Prices From Producers s of Commodities. (By tht Intrnntitat Xatt Ferrirt. WASHINGTON. June 20. Secretary of Navy Daniels today threw down th gauge of battle to the producers of commodities needed by the navy in the prosecution of the war. In conference with the federal trade commission he aaked that body to determine the cost of production of coal, copper, cement, iron ore and oil. He then declared: I am going to know what these lonabl prka.

URGES FEDERAL

TIIE COAL m Trade Commission Recommends Revolutionary Step. PREDICTS A COAL ,; FAMINE OTHERWISE Report Submitted to Congress After Exhaustive Inves- . tiKation. BY H. J. DODGE. tHll tht lti-'ll;nm Srr$ Serrto. WA.Uil.!flN, June 20.--IJ.T ing that the American people are facing an absolute coul famine next winter because of failure of the transportation system adequately to mov fuel, the federal irade coimnisnion today recommended to congress that tha production ami distribution of coal and the operation of rail and water transportation facilities be carried on by government agency. nieinlation which for the' first time in the history of the county would place; these colossal industries on a communistic basis was made only after that body had made an exhaustive inquiry into the fuel situation in tha United States. This situation, thei commission reports, has been found to ! involved to an intolerable extent in inefficient methods of production, inadequate means of trans(Mirtution, unscientific distribution and unbridled speculation. Itail Control Also, Government control of the fuel situation, the commission says, cannot he successful wtihout similar control of the transportation agencies, jju'it of a solution to the fuel situation, it is declared, w ill mean that tiie general public will be totally deprived of coal next winter or able to procure It only at a fabulous prices; public utilities' will have to suspend operation: industries on which the winning of tiie ar largely dejientls will he seriously hampered and the entire fabric of American activity will be Interrupted and demoralised. Chairmnn Harris, of the commission, dissented from the recommendation looking toward the pooling of the railroads and water lines. He de clared the task would be too enormous to he undertaken exre:1 "a a last expedient. He recommended thfc th president he authorized to order tbn transportation agencies of the country to give priority to coal, coke, and other commodities in the order of their importance for tbe period of the rr. The report of the Federal Trade Commission is one of the most sensational documents relating to American business written in a decade. MILL BLOWN UP. Two Men Killed in Blast at Duprmt Powder Plant. (Bv Ihe fntrrmoHfynol Ktva grvuv. UNION-TOWN, Pa., June 20.-Ar-thur Garner, 22, and Albert Walters, 22, were killed when the Corning mill of the Rupont Powder plant at f air Chance, six miles from Unmntown, was blirwn up early today. The cause of tne explosion has not been determined. HONOR ROLL List of Those Whs Havt Recently Paid Subscriptions is Advance. I.avina Eaton, R. R. 4. I.eroy Smith, R. R. 4. J. A. Sutphin, R. R. 2. F.mma Higgins, City. Cora Richey, R. R. 9. William Reeves, R. R. 4. Willard Wampler, R. R. 10. J. R. McCain, Culver. Martha Iawrence, R. R. 2. Andrew Moran, R. R. 3. Sanford Smith, R. R. 3. I.la Gott, City. K. E. West, R. R. 4. W. W. Atkins, R. R. 5. A. S. Doty, R. R. 9. Mrs. George Campbell, City. C. W. Ragsdale, R. R. 13. otto Mays, R. R. 1. Tbos. Campbell, City. W, T. Batman. R. R. 2. I. M. Routh, a R. 11. W. A. Lane, Huntington. Rey Lovingfoss, III. C M. Dickcraon, R. R 3.