HARRISBURG &M 530. TELEGRAPH X' 99J BY CARRIERS (I CENTS A. WEEK. O. L&O SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. LXXXV— BRITISH SMASH WAY TO COMBLES; FORCE GERMANS BACK INTO OPEN FIELDS Gen. Haig's Forces Battling Desperately to Get Full Pos session of Town Very Valuable to Kaiser; French Reach Cemetery South of Village and Capture All of Fregicourt; Only Protection of Teutons Are Shallow Trenches Hastily Dug Under Fire ZEPPELINS IN NEW RAID ON ENGLAND CAUSE DEATH OF 29 Six Aircraft Participated in Invasion; Berlin Admits Allied Advance on Somme Front Over Six and One-Half Miles, Including Combles Sector; Concedes Success of Rumanians; Russians Lose in Galician Attacks; Entente in Macedonia Campaign British and French troops to-day reached the town of Combles on the Somme front after having virtually pocketed the place in a struggle of many weeks' duration and are fighting to gain complete possession of it. Attacking from the north British troops have forced their way into the place, London reports, and and are overcoming the German resistance there. On the south the French have reached the town's edge and have penetrated the cemetery. In addition they have further closed the small opening left in the Combles pockets by capturing all of the village of Fregicourt, a mile to the east. The Combles salient, doggedly maintained by the Germans, has long been a serious hindrance to the allies, hampering them in their offensive toward Bapaume and Peronne. Its elimination, however, seemed imminent after yesterday's combined thrust by the Franco- British forces which carried them to Morval on the one side, and Fregicourt on the other, leaving as a line of retreat for the Germans only a roadless gap a mile and a half in width, swept by the allied guns. Bombs dropped in last night's Zeppelin air raid on England, carried out by some half dozen of these German aircraft, caused the death of twenty-nine persons, it was officially announced in Lon don to-day. While the great battle on the Somme front was at its height the Germans last night attacked the French lines at Verdun, driv ing in between the Thiaumont work and Flcury east of the Meuse. Paris to-day announced that the French guns were effective in check ing the German assaults. Combles, a town of some 2,000 popu lation before the war, had been ren dered of small strategic importance to the Allies by their long continued en circling movement. It has been of notable value to the Germans, how ever, because as long as they clung to it the Franco-British freedom of ac tion in pushing their offensive move ments toward Bapaume and Peronne, on either side of it, was hampered. Turned into a strongly fortified po sition by German defensive ingenuity, it has persistently held fast like a rock in the course of a turbulent stream that has had to be blasted loose beforfe the channel was fully opened up. This process has only been accomplished by long continued, severe and costly effort on the part of the Allies. Driving in from the south, the French successfully swept by Harde court, Maurepas, De Forest and finally reached Fregicourt, a mile east of Combles. More slowly, but none the less surely, the British have pushed their advance on the north of the Ger man salient. Their struggles to reach and hold Ginchy and GuiUemont were expensive in time and men, but finally the ground north of Combles and some distance to the east was occupied put ting the town in a pocket of which the opening was constantly being nar rowed by the drives of the entente armies. (Continued on Page 4] THE WEATHER Harrisburg nntl vlclnltri. Part ly cloudy nnd viurmer to-night and WcducNday. Eaatrrn Pennsylvania. Partly DverrHHt and warmer to-night and Wednesday. l.entlc variable nlnUa becoming south. lllver The lower portion of the North branch and the upper portion ol the main river will Hue allghtly. All other atreama of the n.vatein will fall ■ lowly or remain nearly stationary. A stage of about XT feet la Indicated (or Harrlaburg Wednesday morning. General Conditions The pressure Is low over the Plain* States nnil nlonjt the north ern border with the principal de p Tension over western Canada i It is high southeast of the Inke region and oer the Northern Pacific States. There tins been a general rise of 2 to 12 degree* In temperature over nearly nil the country in the last 24 hours except n part of the I'a elfle slope. New England, the Sua quehannn valley and In a few other widely separated localities where falls of 2 to IB degrees are report ed.. Heavy frosts occurred this morning In the upper Nuxquehan na valley with minimum tempera ture 3S degrees at Scranton and 30 degrees at Blnghamton. Temperaturei 8 a. at., no. Sum Rises, 5,58 a. M.i Sets, .V 5.57 p. ni. Moon i. New moon, September 27, 2.34 a. m. River atage, 8. feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 67. Lowest temperature, no. Mean temperature. 58. Normal temperature. 63. * " '• - —- —' 1 in m Both French and British Smash Their Six Zeppelins in New Raid on England Exact Toll of Twenty-Nine Lives l.ondon, Sept. 20.—Twenty-nine persons were killed in last night's Zeppelin raid, it was announced officially to-day. Ths Zeppelin raid of last night, the second within the last week, was made by several airships between 10.30 o'clock and midnight. They crossed over the east and northeast coasts and uropped bombs in the northern counties. The official ac count of the raid issued last night said that probably six Zeppelins took part in the attack. British and Germans Fight North of Somme in Open Fields; Trenches Blasted British Front in France, Sept 25. via London, Sept. 26. —This has been another great day for the Anglo- [Continued on Page 4] Six Drown When Ship Sinks in Great Lakes After Violent Storm Oswego, N. Y., Sept. 26.—Six mem bers of the crew of the steamer Rober val of Ottawa, were drowned yester day, it was learned to-day when three members of the crew reached here exhausted in a lifeboat. The boat was partly filled with water and the bow was cut off. They said they had been afloat for nine hours, having rowed to Oswego from the scene of the wreck. The men said their ship encountered a violent storm and was overwhelmed by the seas. She loaded with lumber for the Diamond Match Company. MILK CONFERENCE TO-MORROW Will Discuss Proposed Shipping Regulations City health officials and milk deal ers of Harrisburg will meet to-mor row morning at 11 o'clock at the Harrisburg Academy of Medicine, 319 North Second street, to discuss the proposed regulations of the milk and cream supply which is shipped to the city. Yesterday after Superintendent Wil liam M. Condon, of the Harrisburg hospital, reported at the meeting of the Board of Managers, that the ty phoid fever epidemic has cost that in stitution m*>re than SI7OO. Fifty-six oases are being treated there, necessi tating the employment of additional nurses. FORTY- SEVEN AERIAL BATTLES Paris, Sept. 26. —On the Somme front yesterday there were forty-seven aerial engagements. The war office announced to-day that five German aeroplanes were brought down and others badly damaged. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916. GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH ABOUT TO START ON THIRD AGRICULTURAL TOUR attßflS ' - f£| Governor Brumbaugh Is shown in the foreground, Just before leaving: Market Square at 7.50 o'clock this morninc ;n his third agricultural tour. Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Fatton, is standing in the rear to the right of the rovernor. BUSINESS MEN ASKED TO BOOST WHARTON SCHOOL Urged to Encourage Young Men and Women to Attend Uni versity Extension An appeal to the city's business men to urge young men and women in their employ to take advantage of the op portunities afforded by the Harrisburg branch of the University of Pennsylva nia Wharton school of accounts ajid finance was made public to-day by Wendell P. Raine, secretary of the Harrisburg branch, who is now regis tering students for the coming school year at the offices of the Chamber of Commerce in the Kunkel building. Mr. Raine points out that with the training given by the university's busi ness pchool, employes become better money makers, and his appeal is based not on sentimental reasons, but on a pure dollars and cents basis. His ap peal is as follows: "Harrisburg is one of the four Penn sylvania towns that enjoys the advan tages of business training of a univer sity standard. Three years ago Whar ton school business courses were es tablished by the University of Pennsyl vania in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton; two years ago in Reading and Harris burg. Of the more than two hundred (Continued on Page Three) BISHOP CAN NOT COME THURSDAY Failure to Receive Papal Bulls From Rome Holds Up Installation The Rt. Rev. Mgr. M. M. Hassett rector of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral, this afternoon announced that the coming of Bishop Philip R. McDevitt, to Harrisburg, has been indefinitely postponed. It was learned only to-day that the [Continued on Pasc 12] Corporal and Seven Men March Over Into Mexico; Apology Made by U. S. Washington, Sept. 26. The United States has apologized to Mexico for the act of a Texas cavalry corporal and seven soldiers, who crossed the border September 21, the war depart ment announced. In addition, the corporal will be tried by court-martial. Colonel Joseph A. Gaston, of the federal army, sta tioned at Marfa, Tex., and command ing the Big Bend district, has been instructed by General Funston to make an Investigation "as promptly as possible" and to report to him what action is taken. The war department made public the following telegram from Colonel Bell to General Funston, reporting the incident: "Major Long, Huidosa, wires: 'Corporal Rogers, Troop B, Texas cav alry charge patrol seven men, crossed river Into Mexico September 21; this without authority or reason and con trary to standing orders. Patrol fired at by about ten Mexicans; returned this side. One American horse killed. Have ordered written report and cor poral tried and directed Major Ander son to express regret to Colonel HioJas.' " GOVERNOR PARTY OFF ON FARM TOUI Nearly 200 Officials and Guests in Forty Cars Will Make Trip Governor Brumbaugh and a party numbering nearly 200 State officials and guests left Harrisburg this morn ing for the third and last of three farm tours designed to bring the State government and townspeople in gen eral into closer touch with the agri cultural conditions and farm life. Stops were made at Lancaster, York, Chambersburg, Fort Loudon and the night will be spent at Bedford Springs, the Governor remaining in York [Continued on Page 9] Pennsylvania Railroad Begins Work on Great New Freight Depot Work on the construction of the great new Pennsy freight station in South Harrisburg was officially be gun to-dav when a permit was granted by City Building Inspector James H. Grove for the erection of the big train shed and warehouse just below Mul berry street in Second. The splendid r.cw depot buildings will cost, according to the permit, Just $325,000. The freight station permit inelden [Continued on Page 10] REPUBLICANS OFF FOR STATE RALLY Harrisburg Bepublican Club Prepares For Opening Recep tion of Campaign The Harrisburg Republican Club last night elected the following dele gates to the Pennsylvania State Lea gue of Republican clubs, meeting in York, to-day, to-morrow and Thurs day: Senator E. E. Beidleman, City Commissioner W. H. Lynch, City Treasurer Harry P. Ovcs, former Rep resentatives D. I>. Keister and Will iam S. Tunis, Charles E. Pass, A. D. Peace, I>. R. Metzger, William D. Block. David Wilbert, C. C. Miller and Charles K. Hess. The club also decided to give a rContinued on Pago 12] "High Food Cost Due to War"—Secretary Redfield Washington, Sept. 26. The war is blamed by Secretary of Commerce Redfield as the chief factor in causing a thirty-five per cent increase in the cost of living. "There is waste in war," Mr. Red field said in an interview on present economic conditions, "the men in the trenches are using more shoes, more hats and more clothing than they do in normal times. The demand for meat has grown because the millions of men in the field demand more meat than usual. "There is shortage in the supply of wheat in the United States, as the supplies of Hungarla and Rumania are not available and the Russian wheat crop is choked up. This ac counts for the flour Increase. "The increased price movement Is world-wide. Conditions everywhere are abnormal. Half the world is at war and the old order of things Is upset. It is a very natural conse quence that prices should advanc®." SACRIFICES SELF . TO SAVE OTHERS HUMILIATION Vice-President of Big Firm Tells of Being Surprised in Hotel With Blackmailer Chicago, Sept. 2 6.—Announcing that he had concluded to "accept personal humiliation" to save other men and women from being drawn into the blackmailers' trap Edward R. West, vice-president of the C. D. Gregg Tea and Coffee Company of New York and Chicago, admitted to-day that he Is the "A. R. Wesley" who was surprised in a New York hotel with "Alice Wil liams" by representatives of the band of Mann Act blackmailers recently ex [Contlnued on Page 10] RETURN'S IX ALREADY Boston, Sept. 26. The Massa chusetts record for early election re turns was broken to-day by the town of Carver which turned in Its report to the press for the State primaries at 10:45 a. m. State Auditor Alonzo B. Cook, who seeks renomination by the Republicans, received four votes and his opponent. Joseph H Brown three. No Democratic ballot was cast. Thero Is rivalry among the cape towns for the distinction of being the first to report on election day. UNIVERSITY CLUB FORMAL OPENING Men Prominent in Business and Professional Life Are Speakers The formal opening of the Univer sity Club of Harrishurg took place at the club rooms, Front and Market streets, last evening. One hundred and fifty club members met one an other, many of them for the first time, and the atmosphere of good-fellow ship was present that augured well for the future of Harrlsburg's young est club. Many of the more promt nent men of the city, in all depart ments o? business and professional life, were present and expressed them selves as highly pleased with the plans and possibilities of the organization. Josiah H. Penniman, Vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, was [Continued on Page 3] British Hold Bremen Is Assertion of Dr. M'Kenzie Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 26. The Gorman merchant submarine Bremen, with a $25,000,000 cargo, has been captured by the British and Is being held at Falmouth, according to Dr. R. Talt McKenzie, director of physical education at the University of Penn sylvania, who arrived here yesterday after serving sixteen months In the medical corps of the British army. Doctor McKenzie bases his assertion on what he considers reliable infor mation which he received shortly be fore he sailed from England a little more than a week ago. The method and place of the capture are regarded as military secrets In England, he says, and for that reason the story of the Bremen's fate has been kept out of the British newspapers. COUNCIL DELAYS ACTION ON GROSS FINANCE APPEAL Park Commissioner Isn't Sure About Some Items and Asked For Postponement BOWMAN RAISES QUESTION Says Money Isn't Available; $2,736.72 Asked to Finish Outdoor Season Because City Commissioner E. Z. Gross didn't quite unaerstand some of the items for which he asked ad ditional park appropriation to carry on the departmental operations to the end of the year, he asked Council to day, to wait another week to decide whether or not he can have what he needs. Council cheerfully agreed and the ordinance authorizing the turning over of a balance of $2,736.72 of the fines and forfeitures balances to the park maintenance fund, was laid over until next week. Park Commissioner Gross then left [Continued on Page 9] Police Don't Believe Story of Accidental Shooting While out gunning this morning near Summerdale, C. A. Horton, aged 16, of Enola, shot and painfully in jured his companion, William White man, also Enola. The stories told about the shooting to Enola authorities did not corres pond, and Horton who left Harris burg was arrested here and held on a warrant from the Cumberland county authorities. charging him with felonious assault and battery. Whiteman was hurried to "the office of Dr. E. Carl Weirick at Enola. The rifle shot entered the right side of the face between the eye and ear, and flattened against Whiteman's skull. It is alleged by Enola authorities, that the two boys were quarreling. When it was learned that Horton left for this city, Harrisburg police were notified and Detective Murnane ar rested the youth as he stepped from a Valley Railways street car. Horton will be given hearing this evening before Justice of the Peace G. H. Horning. T - * " fc - w i C Easton, Pa., Sept. 26.—Anto Luttenberger, a Bushkill | I township farmer, has been arrested charged with the mur ■ der of his daughter. Grace, six years old. The day after the 1 I death of the child the parents said that she had been killed ~j C i fall from a cherry tree. County authorities claim that '3 J'on the day*the child died the father kicked her, and then < i rew her across the bedroom, her head striking the Wall. 1 with such force that the skull was fractured. A sensational "] j i iture of the case was that Mrs. Luttenberger accused her I : husband of the murder in a squire's office. There is another v jl 1 story that it was the mother who caused the child';; death I \ j Iry striking her over the head with a rolling pin. J I JCTS 810 MAJORITY IN FENNJ ] York, Sept. 26.—A. telegram of regret from Theodore,. J \ I 1 I gates to the Pennsylvania State Lesgil® of Republic* ; "Please .I warmest sympathy with the work being done 1 I and express my f"l3 expectation of an enormous majority I Pennsylvania for Mr. Hughes." ,41 VILLA HEADED TOWARD PERSHING 1 Field Headquarters, Mexico, Sept. 26, via Radio to Co- j lumbus, N. M.—Villa and his bandit command arc moving -I noiihward toward the American expeditionary force, ac cording to reports received to-day at Field Headquarters g from a source believed reliable. Vflla is reported to have '? crossed the Northwestern railroad at San Andres, twenty- \ iouthwesrt of Chihuahua City after ' , if'"* c.. I': 1 !:, : •< a:-J C;-',; n N wops. I " CHARLES A. FORD DIES SUDDENLY Harrisburg. Word was received this afternoon , <>A. C. Kushwa, 131 North Second street, of the death of- : | I Charles A. Ford, former superintendent of transportation 1 1 I for the Pennsylvania Steel Company, at Steelton. M Ford died of heart failure yesterday at his home in Hawley, 1 , Pa. Mr. Ford moved his family from Steekon just a few 1 weeks ago. He way. yardmaster of all yards on the Erie ' , Railroad system between New York City and Chicago. j . ;i MARRIAGE LICENSE Newton MrKamry, Steelton, and Marx Brown, Mlddletown. Harrr Urojr Konn, Camp Hill, and Dora tCllaabatli Morsan, Enola. ( EHV-" 14 PAGES CITY EDITION POLICE SEEKING WOMAN 'RAFFLES' TO SOLVE THEFTS Officers Believe Robber Who Steals Only Jewelry and Mil-, linery Is Female LEAVES CIGARS BEHIND Apron Is Dropped as Intruders Depart From Allison Hill Home Is there a woman 'TalTles" aiding in the burglaries in the city during the last few weeks? This is the question confronting th city police who have been making un successful efforts to catch the thlev'es who have entered dozens of homes in Harrisburg during the last few months. Lately, however, the raiders havw been passing up cigars, men's furnisl^ [Continued on Pace 12] Olivet Calls Pastor From Portland, Ore. The congregation of Olivet Presby terian church, Derry and Kittatinny streets, by a unanimous vote have called the Rev. Alfred L. Taxis, ol Portland, Ore., as their pastor. The result of the first ballot gave Mr. Taxis ninety-four percent, majority, a rec ord to be envied, which was imme diately followed by an unanimous call. The Rev. Alfred L. Taxis, who is comparatively a young man, is a grad uate of Princeton Theological Senil nary, with a degree of Bachelor ol Arts. His work In Portland, Ora., has been very successful, tirst as a mis sionary in the back woods district, and later as pastor of the Anabel Pres byterian church in Portland. H comes very mighly recommended, both as a forceful pulpit orator as well as a successful organizer. The congre gallon at Olivet are very fortunate ID securing his services. The Rev. Harvey B. Klaer of th" Covenant church of this city moder. ated the meeting at which J. W. Mc< Donald and C. Frank Class were di rected by the congregation to prose< cute the call before the Carlisle Pres ? bytery which is in session to-day ami Wednesday at Mercersburg.
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