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Allies' Left Wing Reported to Be Routing
HAKRISBURG dSKft TELEGRAPH
LXXXIII — No. 232
PUBLIC INSPECTION
OF NEW IW, C. I.
THUBW, OCT. 2!
Everybody Will Be Invited to Visit
New Association Home Now
Near Completion
PLAN MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN
"Rainbow Teams" Will Pul Forth
Efforts to Make Organization
Absolutely Self Sustaining
"Public Inspection dav" at the new
Toung Women's Christian Association
building will t>e Thursday. October 22.
Announcement to this effect was
made this morning by Miss Klla M.
Ptitt, association secretary. Miss Stitt
also stated that the new building at
Fourth and Walnut streets will be In
formally occupied by the Y. W. C. A.
before the end of this week.
On "public Inspection day" all Har
risburg will he iniitcd to visit the new
structure and to see just what was
done with the hundred thousand dol
lars raised in the whirlwind oampaign
to whl> - h nearly everybody in the city
contributed. Miss Stitt stated that
the directing heads of the association
are particularly anxious that every
contributor to the building fund,
whether big or little, and every citizen
of Harrisburg and its vicinity inter
ested in young women's work shall
visit th» association's new home on
inspection day. Miss Stitt said to
day:
"The building is well worth seeing.
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THE WEATHER
For Hnrrlnhurs aud vicinity: Fair
to-nljcht and Tliiirndny; not much
change In temperature.
For Fantern Pennsylvania: Fair to
night and probably Thursday; not
much <»hansre in temperature;
moderate westerly wlnda.
River
The msln river will continue to
fall slowly 'to-nlpght and Thura
day. A atasce of about .ft of a foot
la Indicated for Ilarrlaburgr
Thuraday morning.
General Condttlona
A disturbance in the Gulf of
Mexico, apparently central off the
\labama coast and moving alow
ly northward, hna cauaed general
ralna In the East Gulf States and
In Georgia and Florida. The dla
inrbance central north of I«ake
Superior. Tuesday mornlns;. has
moved southeastward to the New
England coast attended by light.
■ raftered showers.
A general rise of 2 to 18 degrees
has occurred In temperature
since last report. except In
Florida and Hlong the East Gulf
• oast and in llchlgan. Northern
Washington. Alberta. Rrltlah Co
lumbia and over small areas.
Temperature) S a. m.. 44.
Sun: Rises, 6:29 a. ni.i seta. 5:09
p. m.
Moon: Full moon, October 4, 12:59
a. m.
River Stage: Six-tenths of a foot
above low-water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, <IH.
I.owest temperature. 3S.
Mean temperature, 52.
Normal temperature, 61.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
James William Mitten and Mary C
Brenneman, city.
Graver J. Beck and Elizabeth Davis
city.
Leon F. Miller and Marv A. Kelker
city.
Register on Saturday
In makin? week-end plane. >(r.
Voter, don't forget that Saturday
Is the last day for registration.
If you iave performed thin duty
of a good citizen your masrietHT
Is Hear. If you have not. remem
ber that you cannot vote unless
you have registered in person.
The registrars sit from 8 a. m.
to 1 p. m.. from 2 to 6 p. m. and
from 7 to id p. m.. so that there
Is ample opportunity for regis
tration and recreation on the
same day.
Late News Bulletins
PARSONS QUITS PENNA. STEEL
Roland C. Parsons, 323 Pino street, Stccltnn, shipping superinten
dent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, will leave Monday for Xew
Vork where lie will become an inspector for the Public I tilities Com
mission. His place at Steel ton will lie filled by K. I). Wright, of Chicago.
Torreon. Me\„ Sept. SO.—t General Villa lias left for Aguas Callentes
where lie expects to meet General Obregon head of the itpaiv commis
sion from < arranza. \iilla has received hundreds of messages from
army officers urging hint to make a peaceful settlement with Carranza.
New York. Sept. HO.—Captain R, Goetsclie. In command of the Dan
ish steamer 1 lilted states, in to-day from Cliristiansand. said that ho
had picked up a wireless in the North Sea containing the Information
that thirty British warships were ou their way through the Cattcgat to
help the Russian fleet In the Haiti*' sea.
Berlin. Sept. SO. by Wireless.—Reports made public here from Con
stantinople declare that owing to the lielllco.se attitude of British war
ships cruising near the Dardanelles, Turkey has closed this waterway.
Chicago. Sept. 30.—Powder exploding to-day In the plant of the
Pain Fire Works Coni|>any, wrecked the building and killed three per.
soma.
Washington. Sept. 30.—Asking that the t'lilted States recognize no
government in Mexico which does not grant religious liberty, a delega
tion representing the American Federation of Catholic societies of
America called on President Wilson to-day. The President promised to
do everything possible for those in danger.
Washington, Sept, 30.—Official dlsiiatclics received by the FYench
embassy to-day duplicated la part last night's official statement of the
Bordeaux War Office and gave ns> confirmation or the reported defeat of
the German right wing. A brief (cablegram from the foreign office dated
September announced more liberal conditions for business men un
der the moratorium. ,
Scranton. Pa., Sept. 30.—Helen Christie, despondent, killed herseir
with poison this morning at her home here, evening licr neighbor,
Mrs. Anna Heinle, also despondent, suicided with poison. William Steln
gal, of South Scranton, leaving a letter alleging unfaithfulness or his
wife, shot himself through the lungs last night and is dying at the State
hospital.
Washington, Sept. 30.—Clarence D. Baxter, of Paterson, N. J„ lias
lweii selected by President Wilson for collector of customs of jhe Domi
nican Republic to succeed Walker W. Vlck, who recently resigned. The
nomination Mill be sent to the Senate this neck.
PEHITEBS URGED
TO SUPPORT KUNKEL
BY PUBLIC LEDGER
Influential Independent Newspaper
Supports Him For Su
preme Court
BEST FITTED POR THE PUCE
"Unbiased Study of Situation
Gives Decided Preference
to Kunkel"
The Philadelphia Public Ledger to
day comes out strongly in favor of
the election of Judge George Kunkel
to the Supreme Court bench. The
ledger recommends Judge Kunkel to
the voters of the State, regardless of
party, In the following editorial:
"The public must depend on the
press to learn the respective merits of
judicial candidates, as no political
party, under the nonpartisan act. can
fairly assume responsibility for a can
didate. An active campaign by a
judicial candidate is hardly compatible
with thp spirit of the law.
"There are two nominees for the
Supreme Court on the ticket in No
vember—Judge Frazer. of Pittsburgh,
and Judge Kunkel. of Harrisburg; one
to be voted for.
"An unbiased study of the situation
gives decided preference to Kunkel.
While the geographical situation
should not be the controlling factor,
nevertheless it must be considered.
Southwestern Pennsylvania has now
three members in the persons of Jus
tices Potter. Mestrezat and Elkin.
Western Pennsylvania has four mem
bers of the Superior Court- —Judges
Head, Porter, Kephart and Hender
son. If Frazer were elected. Pitts
burgh would have three judges on the
two appellate courts. Philadelphia but
one in two courts—Judge von Mosch
zisker. Excluding Philadelphia, twenty
two counties of the southeastern sec
tion of Pennsylvania, west of Hunt
ingdon and south of I.uzerne. did not
have a representative on the Supreme
bench from ISSO. except about eight
years, when Rerks was represented.
Since 1868 Allegheny county has been
continuously represented in the Su
preme Court and in the Superior Court
since its creation. Of the 7,600,000
people in the State. 4,200,000 live east
of the Susquehanna and its branches,
yet nine of the fourteen judges of the
two appellate courts are from a terri
tory west of the Susquehanna. In the>
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PINCHOT TAKEN
SERIOUSLY ILL
IN THELAKE CITY
Washington Nominee For Senator
Suffers From Ptomaine Poi
soning in Erie City
Sfecial to Tht Telrgrnfh
Erie. Pa., Sept. 30.—Gilford Pinchot,
candidate for United States senator, is
critically ill from ptomaine poisoning
at the hotel Lawrence here and will
have to abanaon the remainder of his
campaign trip. Following his ad
dress here last ulght, he fainted in the
bath room adjoining his room at the
hotel. He was found by his bride and
a physician summoned. A nurse was
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No registration
NO VOTE
The man who does not register
will not be able to vote on Novem
ber 3.
Saturday, October 3
is the I,AST DAY on which to
REGISTER.
Pay taxes and register.
HARRISRURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1914.
WILL THEY BALK?
HUSH FOO MILEAGE
BOOKS AT OFFICES
OF PENNSY TODAY
Tomorrow the Price Will Be Boost
ed $2.50 and Business Firms
Want to Save Money
Hundreds of firms and individuals
this morning made a run on the Penn
sylvania Railroad ticket office for
mileage books. This Is the reason—
beginning with to-morrow mileage
books will cost $2.50 more than they
do to-day, but books purchased to
day are good for one year.
Business firms who have large
1 forces of traveling salesmen on the
! road, or whose representatives spend
much time traveling over the Pennsy
! lines, figure on a large saving in ex
penses by buying mileage books at the
old rates. Clerks nt the Pennsylvania
I Railroad ticket office have been busy
j for two weeks disposing of the old
! mileage books. In two hours to-day
fifty mileage books were sold.
After to-day the new 1,000-mile
I hook will cost $22.50 Instead of S2O
[net. The new books are interchange-
I able on twenty-five railroads of the
| Kast and as far West as Youngstown,
Ohio, on some railroads.
Th» Reading has not contemplated
any other change In its passenger
rates. Tb" Pennsylvania was consid
ering other increases, hut it has not
filed any notice of increased rates
other than the mileage books and has
made no change in its plans.
Civil War Veterans of
City to Go to Lebanon
For Annual Reunion
At least a hundred members of the
local posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic will attend the annual re
union of the Central Pennsylvania
O. A. R. Association, to be held at
Lebanon, October 15.
They will leave Market Square at
8 o'clock on the Hummelstown car
and will make a through trip to Leb
anon. On their return the cars will
leave Lebanon at 10 o'clock. Tyrrell's
Mllitarv Band, of has been
engaged by the Ilarrislnirg veterans
to furnish music for them in the
parade.
"SHOW ME." SAYS MAYOR
Scranton. Pa., Sept. 30.—The Rev.
George Wood Anderson, pastor of the
fashionable Kim Park Church, who ;
last Sunday told members of his con
gregation that many saloons are wide
open in the city on the Sabbath, has
been asked to produce the proof of
this assertion by Mayor K. B. Jermyn,
who to-day issued a public letter de
fending Scranton's fair name and scor
ing the minister.
WARSHIP TORPKIM>KI>
London, Sept. 30, <J.2» A. M.—A dis
patch to the Times from Milan gives
under reserve a report that while two
Austrian warships were attempting a
sortie from Cattaro one of them was
torpedoed.
BELIEVED LUTHERAN
SYNOD WILL PROVIDE
| FUNDS FOR DERMIS
Needs of Missions and Schools Un
der Discussion at Session
This Morning
C. L. FLECK,
Riegelsville Man Who Will Speak at
Evening Session
Plans for giving financial assistance
to Lutheran educational institutions in
Germany and to provide funds for the
maintenance of German foreign mis
sions in India. Africa and China dur
ing the European war were, discussed
at some length this morning in the
sessions of the East Pennsylvania
Synod of the Lutheran church now on
in Zion Church, Fourth street, near
Market.
The Rev. Dr. F. G. Gotwald, of
York, chairman of the synod's board
of education made an urgent appeal
for the appropriation of funds for the
relief of the American-German Luth
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RUMANIA TO DECIDE
By Associated Press
London, Sept. 30, 2.22 p. m.—The
Rome correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph Company reports that a
message received at Rome from Bu
charest says that King Charles has
summoned the cabinet In special ses
sion to-morrow to decide the attitude
of Rumania toward the war.
PROPER CREDIT OMITTED
Through' an inadvertence credit was
not given The Light, the organ of the
National Purity Federation, for the
Interesting article on white slavery In
the United States, which was prepared
by J. Clarence Funk, of this city, dur
ing his service as a representative "of
the Department of Justice, and which j
was reprinted in the Telegraph last i
evening. Mr. Funk wrote the article!
some months ago for the magazine In '
question and his conclusions were ofl
'more than usual interest. i
IK OLDEST
PASSENGER AGENT
ON RETIRED LIST
Has Handled Biggest Lots of Pas
sengers of Any Man in
Company's Service
James Timmons. passenger solicitor j
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Coni-j
pany, the oldest traveling passenger I
agent in the United States, ends his!
active duties to-day.
For forty-one years Mr. Timmons
has been in the employ of the Penn-■
sylvanla Railroad Company. During
his service he has handled many thou
sand passengers; has been a big fac
tor in movement of troops during war
time*; and for twenty-two years has
looked after the transportation of the j
Carlisle Indians during football and:
track seasons.
"Jim" Timmons, as lie is better
known, has been an attache of the |
department of A. E, Buchanan, dlvi-'
sion passenger agent for the Pennsyl- j
vania Railroad. Mr. Timmons retires j
by his own request, having three years i
yet to serve before the compulsory re
tirement age is reached.
James Timmons was born in Au
burn, X. Y„ August 9, 1 84S. His fath
er was the late Thomas Timmons, for
many years prominent as an engineer
on the Xew Central. He was edu
cated in the Auburn public schools.
When quite young "Jim" ran away
from home and followed the United
States army during the war of the
Reebllion. He sold newspapers and
at various times hired out as office boy
for Union officers. During the stay of
the Union forces in Tennessee, Young
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Germans Repulsed
With Heavy Losses
Special to The Telegraph
London. Sept. 30, 2.20 p. m.—A dis
patch to the Reuters Telegram Com
pany from Amsterdam says that the
Telegraaf has received this message
from Antwerp;
"From various points the garrison
made sorties and repulsed the Ger
mans with heavy losses. The bom
bardment of Forts Woelhem and St.
Catherine by the Germans continues.
A single attack has been delivered by
the Germans on Forts Liezele and
Breedonk."
WILSON" AGREES TO DELAY
Washington. D. C., Sept. 30.—Presi
dent Wilson to-day approved a legis
lative program for Congress which in
cludes postponement of consideration
of the ship purchase bill until No-1
vember 15, following the Fall elec
tions.
DEMOCRAT!! FIGHTING
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 30. A fight on
the "Organization." by a few so-called
"Progressives," jromlsed to enliven the i
sessions of the Democratic State con- I
ventlon here to-day. The attack of the ;
anti-organization men prior to the in
vention had been directed chiefly |
against Kdmund C. Shields, chairman j
of the State Central Committee, but Mr. i
Shields and his supporter-- declared they j
bad not the strength to control the
roily*.- I
12 PAGES • POSTSCRIPT.
ALLIES AND GERMANS
ARE STILL BATTLING
FIERCELY IN FRANCE
Confirmation of Rout of General Von Kluck's Army Is Still
Lacking; Paris Statement Says French Forces "Have
Made Slight Advances"; Germans Admit Their In
ability to Throw Back Allies
%
The t urnitig movement directed against the German right wing
by the allied armies is developing rapidly according to an announce
ment by the French war office this afternoon.
It is related that a vigorous assault on Tracy-le-Mont was re
pulsed with heavy losses to the Germans. Tracy-le-Mont is the
elbow of the fighting line that in a general way stretches from that
point east and north. The official statement says this action moves
more and more towards (he north.
I here is nothing in the Paris announcement or in other official
statements to-day, however, to confirm last night's assertion by a
Paris correspondent of a London news agency that the German
right wing had been broken.
1 he French war office claims also that slight progress has been
made between the Argonnc region and the Meuse and that the allies
have advanced east of St. Mihicl. No notable movement has occurred
on the center and the situation on the right is reported vichanged.
An official German announcement coming by way of London
states that there has been general fighting in the German right but
nothing of a decisive character has transpired.
CENTER OF LINE IS QUIET
German headquarters also report the center of the battle line is
| quiet, Die French advance in the vicinity of Verdun and Toul has
been renewed, it is said.
A German official statement issued last night al c o described the
fighting in their right wing as indecisive. The allies operating
against the forts on the Manse were repulsed, it is said.
Merlin confirmed the assault on Antwerp and said that attacks by the
Belgian garrison had been repulsed. Russian assaults in the govern
ment of Suwalki, Russian Poland have failed, it is declared.
Dispatches from Petrograd says that a fierce engagement be
tween the armies of General Rennenkampf and General Von Hindcn
bitrg has continued since Sunday morning along a line extending from
Grodono to Druskcniki 011 the Seve river. The Russian corps arc
pitted against unusual numbers of Germans. Russian reinforcements
are reported as strengthening their lines.
The Russians have established a civil government at Lemberg,
capital of the Austrian province of Galicia.
An English correspondent in Belgium says that 150,000 troops
I are engaged in a desperate battle along the line from Termands to
j Aerschot.
RUMANIA CABINET TO MEET
A report ffom Bucharest says that King Charles has summoned
the cabinet to meet to-morrow to determine the attitude of Rumania.
Earlier Bucharest reports published in Paris claimed that the king
wished to support Germany but that his ministers rejected the propo
sition.
Messages from Antwerp says that the German bombardment of
the forts of Antwerp continues and that the Belgian garrison has made
j-orties repulsing the Germans who suffered heavy casualties. Bel
gians marching on Brussels are said to be in contact with the Ger
' mans.
A correspondent at Cettinje reports that the Montenegrins have
seized the Austrian entrenchments twenty-nine miles southeast of
l Sarajevo, capital of Boznia.
Tokio announces that Japanese have occupied Lao-Che Harbor,
1 near sing-Tau.
With the reserves called out Italy will have an army of 1.310,000
'men, according to a report from Venice.
Unofficial Dispatch
Tells of Rout of Army
of General Von Kluck
London, Sept. 30, 12.13 A. M.—A
Paris dispatch to tlie Kxchange Tele
graph Company saya:
"It is stated here to-night (Tues-
I day) that the German right has been
| entirely broken and is now being pur
| sued by the allies.
| "All the automobiles In northern
i France have been requisitioned for
• the purpose of pursuit.
"Armored motor cars with mitrail-
I leuses are also being used to pursue
the retreating enemy.
"The official communication issued
at 3 o'clock demonstrates unmistakably
that the Germans havo been sur
rounded in the Somme department, the
French front extending farther east,
"It is officially stated that Peronne
has been recaptured."
The above message has been re
ferred to the British official press
bureau, which, while not objecting to
its publication, takes no responsibility
for its correctness. (
Famous Musicians Driven
to Distress Through War
London, Sept. 30. Writing: from
Copenhagen, M. Hartwlg. the corres
pondent of the Standard, says:
"The report that Fritz Kreizler, the
famous violinist, who Is a lieutenant of
the Austrian army, has been wounded,
makes it Interesting to know how other
celebrities In the world of music are
occupying themselves during the period
of enforced inactivity caused by the
war. Ignatz Friedman, pianist, who
had been guaranteed 7,500 pounds sterl
ing (about $35,000) for a concert tour
through Germany and Russia, will now
go to Italy and try his luck as a com
poser. His wife Is a Russian of the
Tolstoi family, and he will not expose
her to a longer stay In the German
capital.
'"Ferrticlo Busonl, the pianist and
composer, has shut himself up in his
rooms in Berlin, declaring he cannot see
anybody. He had engagements for the
coming season worth $50,000 which
were all canceled. Klsenberger. who
fled from Belgium, where he earned a
fortune as a teacher of music, has left
everything behind and is now earning
Just over three pounds sterling a month
by playing every night at a small res
taurant in Berlin. Ho was arrested as
a Russian spy and detained several
days because he did not have his papers
with him.
"tjoopold Oodowsky, the pianist, who
recently purchased a castle near Brus
sels. fled almost penniless. Zador, a
baritone, who made about £15,000 In
the United States last winter, is on the
safe side In Berlin. He has. so his agent
says, unlike many of his colleagues, in
vested his money safely.
"Joseph Weiss, one of Germany's best
pianists. Is playing at a third-class
music hall to set a bar* livid*."
Important Railroad
Junction Occupied
by Kaiser's Forces
Special to The Telegraph
Amsterdam, via London, Sept. SO.—
The Get mans have begun their attack
on the first line of defense of Antwerp,
according to dispatches received by
the Amsterdam papers.
Moll, which is an important railway
junction near the Dutch border, was
occupied by the Germans Sunday, and
to-day the Germans, who again occupy
Malines, began a bombardment of
Lierre, directly in front of Antwerp.
They also continued their bombard
ment of Forts Waehel and St. Cath
arine. It is believed heavy Austrian
artillery is being used.
Lierre, a manutacturing city nine
miles from Antwerp, according to a
message to the Handelsblad. has been
under shell fire since early morning.
The people at first, hid In the cellars,
but subsequently (led to Antwerp, be- «-
ing joined by fugitives from the sur
rounding villages. It is reported that
many houses have been destroved and
some of the inhabitants killed and
wounded. One shell fell on a hos
pital, killing nine persons.
Fierce Battle Being
Fought Along Niemen
By Associated Press
London, Sept. 30, 4.10 A. M.—A
dispatch from Rome to the Exchange
Telegraph Company dated Tuesday.
says:
"A Petrograd message atatea that a
[fierce battle between the army of Gen
eial Rennenkampf and that of the
i German General Von Hlndenburg has
been raging since Sunday morning
along a front extending from Grodno
to Druskeniki. on the Nlemen river.
Four army corps have been engaged
on both sides and the Russian* are be
ing constantly reinforced from VUna.
Tho Russians have already repulsed
the Germans at several points.
Indiscreet? Not He;
Here's Proof of It
Special to The Telegraph
Paris. Sept. 30.—The strictness of
the censorship may be judged from an
article In the Echo de Paris which
begins:
"There Is no danger of my beHir
indiscreet. I know no more than any
body. But I believe that without say
ing too much I can say"—
Then follow six lines of blanknesa.
The censor evidently had tbo laat
word.