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HARRISBURG iSsSlk TELEGRAPH
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"RAILROAD OFFICER
SHOT DEAD TRYING
TO ARREST NEGROES
John L. Beisser, Lemoyne, Murdered, and Harry C. Chubb,
1024 Market Street, Another P. R. R. Policeman, Dy
ing From Bullet Over Heart; Slayers Were Trespass
ing on Tracks West of Wormleysburg
TWO ASSAILANTS SAVED FROM
LYNCHING IN NICK OF TIME
I
Mob Armed With Shotguns, Bricks and Clubs Chase Pair of
Southern Trainriders; Police Rush Accused Men to
Harrisburg Police Station to Prevent Crowd From
Taking Law Into Own Hands; Victim Identifies One
Who Did Shooting
While attempting to arrest two Southern negroes this morning
for trespassing on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just west of
Wormleysburg, one special railroad officer was murdered and another
fatally shot.
Special Officer John L. Beisser, aged 36, of Lemoyne, was shot
through the heart and died almost immediately. Harry C. Chubb,
aged 33, of 1024 Market street, also a railroad officer, was shot just
over the heart, and through the left leg. He is in the Harrisburg
Hospital in a dying condition.
Archie Miller, aged 24, of Charles
ton, S. C., and Joseph Fletcher, aged
17, of Gainesville. Fla., are under ar-1
rest charged with the murder. T. 'H.!
Fenlcle, of Marysvllle, brakeman on I
the Pennsylvania railroad, saw the 1
shooting, and he organized a posse to I
chase the negroes who were captured !
along the Susquehanna river nearl
West Fairvlew.
The mob was armed with shotguns,
gfc bricks and clubs, and railroad offl
• cera from Harrisburg with difficulty
prevented a lynching. They rushed
the two negroes to Harrisburg police
headquarters.
When Chubb was brought to the
hospital, the negroes were taken there
and the railroad officer said that
Miller did the shooting. When ques
tioned at headquarters. Miller ad
mitted that he had shot several times,
but declared that he did not know
whether he had killed anyone.
Both men admitted that they were
armed with .45 caliber Colt revolvers,
but said that they threw them away
when the mob closed in on them.
Squire P. C. Coble of Wormlevsburg,
who aided in the capture saw Miller
and Fletcher trying to hide in the
bushes along the river.
Officers Rush to Scene
Railroad officers from Harrisburg
as soon as they learned of the murder,
Jumped into an automobile and rushed
to West Fairview. just in time to pre
vent any violence. Those in the ma
chine who brought Miller and Fletcher
to Harrisburg. were Captain Paul L.
Barclay, Lieutenant Edwin J. Oran
ford, and Officers James Morrissey, Jr.,
and Augustus H. Haines.
According to Fenicle, who was with
his train. Officers Beisser and Chubb
■walked up to the negroes and asked
them to stop. Miller pulled out his
revolver and fired, according to the
brakeman. Both of the officers drop
ped, and Miller and Fletcher fled.
Members of the crew blew the whistle
of the train to attract the attention of
the people in the neighborhood, and
Fenlcle rushed Into tho town and
gTabbed a shotgun, spreading the
news as he ran. The posse started in
a few minutes, and after a short
chase located and held both the
negroes.
At police headquarters Miller de
clared that he and Fletcher Just ar
rived here to-day from the West. He
said that after leaving the South, they
went to Buffalo, then west to Chicago,
and were on their way to Jersey City.
Both admitted that they carried re
volvers, but declared that they did
so for protection. Miller told the offi
cers that he and Fletcher were about
to leave on a freight train this morn-
THE WEATHER]
For Harrisburg and vicinity: Rain
and slightly colder to-night; Sat
urday fair and much colder.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain
and somewhat colder to-nightt
Saturday partly cloady and much
colder; strong south and south
west winds.
River
The main river and the lower por
tions of the North and West
branches will rise slightly. Other
streams of the system will prob
ably remain nearly stationary. A
stage of about 4.0 feet is indicat
ed for Harrisburg Saturday
morning.
General Conditions
The eenter of the southern storm
has moved from the Lower Ohio
> alley to Lake Michigan during
the last twenty-four hours with
Increasing energy. It has caused
rain generally over the eastern
half of the country in the last
twenty-four hours and. In con
nection with the cold, high pres
sure area In the West, snow In
the Ipper Minslsslppl and Lower
Missouri valleys.
Temperatures have risen 4 to l de
grees In the Middle Atlantic and
New Fngland States, the Upper
Ohio Valley, Bast TenncMee and
In the Interior of North Carolina
In the last twenty-four hours.
Temperature: R a. in., 64.
Sum Rises, C:22 a. m.\ sets, ri!8
p. m.
Moon: New moon, October UO, 3:37
p. m.
River Staget 3.7 feet above low
wnter mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 70.
Lowest temperature, 4.1,
Mean temperature. f>B.
Normal temperature, C 3.
ing. When searched only a few pen
cils and a knife were found in thoir
pockets and railroad officers are plan
ning to take them to West Fairview to
aid in the hunt for the revolvers.
When taken to the hospital to be
Identified neither made any statement.
Miller declared at police headquarters
that he "was willing to pay the pen
alty," but could not give any reason
for shooting.
Despite the claims of Miller that he
had not been In this section of the
.country before, H. G. Morton, one of I
the Enola shop foremen, asserted that
he was almost positive the negro had
applied for a Job about a month ago.'
Formal Murder Charge
Squire Coble, of Wormleysourg, no
tified Dr. J. H. Deardorf, of Mechan
iesburg,coroner of Cumberland county,
•of the murder, and haa started his in
vestigation. No time has been set for
the inquest, but a formal charge of
murder will probably be preferred at
once against Miller.
Hospital physicians late this after
noon were making every effort possi
ble to save Officer Chubb's life. Miller
and Fletcher will probably be turned
over to the Cumberland county au
thorities to be held pending the action
of Coroner Deardorf.
Crowds Follow Auto
An angry mob of railroaders and
citizens followed the automobile that
brought the colored men to Harris
burg. No effort was made to collect
bridge tolls at the west end of the
bridge. The big crowd rushed through
the gate and kept close to tho auto.
Railroad police who had been call
ed out to aid in searching for the ne
groes were lined up at the bridge en
trance, and several were on the bridge.
Fearing that the mob would get hold
of the prisoners they ran along with
the crowd, keeping everybody away
from the automobile.
Once when the auto slowed up on
the bridge the crowd caught up.
There were some ugly words used by
some of those In the crowd, but no
effort was made to interfere with tho
officers In charge of the colored men.
Southern Xegroes a Menace
Residents of the city and nearby
towns are greatly alarmed because of
the outbreak of serious crimes In
which Southern negroes are the load
ers.
The first murder to attract tho at
tention of the people was In Juno
when Officer Lewis C. Hippie, of the
city police force, was murdered at the
Market street subway. Elwood Wilson
and James White, both Southern ne
groes, are Jail awaiting trial charg
ed with the murder,
Charles Smith, of Steelton, was
stabbed to death on Wednesday after
noon In a fight In the Eighth ward,
and James Frazer, another Southern
negro, will probably be given a hear
ing to-morrow charged with the crime.
Tom Pakowieh, of South Second
street, Steelton, is In the Harrisburg
Hospital with a bullet wound In his
abdomen, Inflicted when he resisted a
negro who attempted to hold him up
on Monday night. John Robinson,
also a Southern negro. Is being held
pending the result of the foreigner's
injuries. Pakowlch is not expected to
iiVCi
CHARGED WITH MURDKR
James Fraeler, colored, was officially
charged with the murder of Charles
Smith, a Southern negro, in a verdict
returned by the coroner's Jury at an
Inquest held In the courthouse last
night. Eye-witnesses to the cutting,
which occured In the Eighth ward,
Wednesday afternoon, told of the ar
gument In the Washington Hotel, be
tween Frazler and Smith.
All York Daily Papers
Raise Prices to Two Cents
York, Pa., Oct. 20.—The publishers
of all York dally newspapers to-day
announce an Increase lti selling
price of newspapers. The Die.. ~*ch,
an evening newspaper, goes to twr
cents per copy and ten cents per week
delivered.
The Dally and the Gazette, hoth
morning papers, announce a price of
two cents per copy and eight cents
per week. The ahnormai price of
whifp paper Is given as tho cause for
tho Infreasß
HARRISBURG, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1916.
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS DRILLING FOR PAGEANT
TO BOOST $1,250,000 LOAN FOR MUCH-NEEDED BUILDING
CENTR AL HIGH
STUDENTS GET
MILITARY TIPS
I
j;
Hundreds of Youngsters Re- j
ceive First Lesson in Unique ;
"Preparedness" Program
WILL "PREPARE" PAPAS
I
So They'll Understand How to
Vote on School Loan Ques
tion in November
Grace and Will and Clarice and Phil, j
more than a thousand of them, got j
initial instruction to-day in Harris-'
burg's own domestic lesson of "pre- j
paredness." j,
The Graces and the Wills and the :
Clarices and the Phils are Central i>
High school's boys and girls and they J
will march in a big parade Novem- j
ber 4 as a real "student demonstra-i'
tioij" of Hafrisburg'a ned for a new
high school—figuratively and liter
ally to "prepare" papa to vote for the
new high school loan.
All day the classes of a hundred
odd, marched and wheeled, and "right
dressed" and "left dressed" and "hep-I
ped" and "fronted" and "columned
right" and "columned left" and did i
all the other mysterious military i
things that help to make one Btepj'
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Two of Alaunia Crew
Lost When Cunarder Is
Sunk; Passengers Safe
New York, Oct. 20. —The Cunard '
Line announced here to-day word had ;
been received that all but two of the, j
crew of the steamer Alaunia, which 1
|was sunk yesterday by a mine in the;
i English Channel, had been saved. The I
I message read: "All passengers saved, j
I As far as can trace, all crew safe, ex
icept two."
j Another message received, the offl- j
cials said, reiterated information that!
'all passengers were landed Wednes- j
[day at Falmouth so that they were not ;
| involved in the disaster.
; CHANNEL STCDDKD WITH MINKS j
1 Washington, D. C., Oct. 20.—Charts
j compiled by the navy hydrographic ]
! office from announcements of the ,
[British Admiralty showing the latest!
mined areas reveal a number of ex- ,
(tensive fields where mines have been
sown leaving only a tortuous channel, |
i the course of which is known only,
|to Admiralty officers, from Falmouth
!to London. Warnings of these areas
have been given to mariners, advising!
them to obtain special pilots from the i
Admiralty service to insure safe navi- j
gation.
With these precautions to safe- j
(guard shipping, navy officials hefe find j
it difficult to understand how the
Alaunia could have been sunk except
by a mine which had broken from j
anchorage, or one dropped by an
enemy inlne-layer.
Birth Control Clinics to Be
Established in Many Cities
New York, Oct. 20. Mrs. Margaret I
Sanger, of this city who was arrested |
and convicted but not punished while
in Portland, Ore., recently for advo- !
eating birth control, announced to- j
day that clinics for the dissemination !
of information on that subject soon |
are to open in San Francisco, Cleve- j
land and other western and Inland
cities.
! The police here are searching for a
j clinic which is being conducted in the j
j East New York section of Brooklyn J
; and which has been advertised by dis- ;
I tribution of hand bills In English, |
| Yiddish and Italian. The teaching of |
birth control here Is a misdemeanor]
I undqr tho law.
Mrs. Sanger said to-day she believed
I the police would find the clinic in a
| few days. "We are prepared," she
] added, "not in any aggressive or in- !
I solent way, but dispassionately, to
I fight tho matter through all the courts
I in the State."
COLD WEATHER DELAYED
Warm Wave Moved In Ahead of
Cool Sjjell
Harrisburg's next cold spell will start
some time to-night and by Saturday!
or Sunday the 'temperature will lie
hovering about the freezing point. An- '
r -"T>cenient was made yesterday that'
thfc '.emperature would drop during,
last 'ght. Thin would have hap
pened li v f-r a storm which came up 1
unexpected., 1 rom the South and
moved In ahra. if -ho ccld v-iv-
It was unusual'. - warm lust .Irbt
for this time of the year. This wan. !
spell will pass off to-night and tho
cool ws'-Uhor will mo\c in. |
MANY NEWSPAPERS MAY
HAVE TO SUSPEND BECAUSE
OF NEWS PRINT FAMINE
New York, Oct. 20.—1n a careful
statement regarding the news print
situation —the paper upon which news
papers are printed—G. F. Steele, sec
retary of the News Print Manufac
turers' Association, says the bottom of i
the reserve supply of news print has I
been reached. He declares that the ;
only remedy to bring the demand i
within the limit of the mills is to re- |
duce the size of advertisements, in- j
crease rates and economize in every
direction in the consumption of paper, j
| No hope is held out of any improve
ment and Mr. Steele agrees with other i
experts familtar with conditions that
many newspapers will fall by the way- i
side. There has been no increased pro- j
duction of news print and prices will
continue to soar. Weak publications
cannot stand the Increase.
RALLY HEAR PLANS
Twice Adjourned to Find
Larger Qunrtersy Moss Meet
ings in Full Swing
City and eounty committeemen in
the city met last evening at the Re
publican headquarters In the Wyeth
building in response to the call of City
Chairman Harry F. Oves and County
Chairman William H. Horner. The
headquarters were overcrowded and
courtroom No. 2 in the courthouse was
thrown open for the meeting. This,
also, proved too small and the com
| mitteemen finally adjourned to the
main courtroom. Every seat was
! taken and there were those who could
! not find seats. It was the largest gath
jering of the kind previous to election,
j City Chairman Oves called the
( meeting to order and addresses were
; made by Congressman Aaron S.
[ Kreider, candidate for re-election,
| and by Charles E. Pass, of Harrls
j burg.
Announcement was made of the big
j rally to be held Wednesday evening,
! October 25, when Philander C. Knox,
j candidate for Senator, will address
j a great gathering of citizens in Chest
|nut street auditorium. All of the Re
: publican clubs of the city will take
1 part in the "walk-around" preceding
the meeting and will act as an escort
for Mr. Knox. Ladies are especially
: invited to attend the Knox meeting.
The Republican campaign is now
,in full swing. Mass meetings will be
held this evening at Swatara Station,
I Fisherville and Halifax. To-morrow
j evening, candidates and others will
address gatherings at Linglestown and
Grantville. Monday evening the newly
' organized Penbrook Republican Club
| will be hosts to the candidates when
(they go to that town for a series of
j addresses.
Appeal to U. S. to Take
Initiative in Stopping All
Submarine Warfare
Amsterdam, via London, Oct. 20.
! A demand for the stoppage of subma
rine warfare coupled with an appeal
I to the United States to take the initla-
I tive toward that end is voiced by the
i Telegraaf, which says:
"Ten days have elapsed since the
submarine war was carried to the
j doors of America and nothing has
j been done. Are we to understand
j that our ships are allowed to be torpe
i doed right on the American coast?
j We say in all frankness to America
| that submarine war must be stopped
, and Germany must be told that mis-
I takes, which all the world know are
no mistakes, will no longer be toler-
I ated. Let America speak the redeem-
I ing word lest she rue deeply in the
I future having neglerted a task plainly
; to be expected from the mightiest neu
; tral.
Deutschland Sailing Is
Canceled After All Hope
For Bremen Is Abandoned
London, Oct. 20. An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam
says that a telegram received there
from Bremen confirms the report that
j the German ocean Navigation Com- 1
; pany ha:< received no news from the
j commercial .submarine Bremen and
that she is regarded as lost. Grtat
anxiety prevails alo-g the families of j
| the rrcw, virtually all of when reside !
in Bremen and it Is expected difficulty i
will lie experienced In obtaining crow.-
for other commercial -.u'.tmrinet
which may undertake trffg '.fait!'
v oyi'.gns. '• '
According to this Infnrr.iQtlui: tlit ;
ailini of tlif De-Ut"h!uid c ar.o'.bei
npiott; Iho AtUintie im li I
iar.ee. . •
With the reserve stock exhausted
and the demand still in excess of the
supply, publishers bidding against each
other, the manufacturers of paper can
see no remedy.
Instead of the news print supply be
ing increased, a number of mills have
advised their customers that on and
after December 31 they will cease to
make news print and produce the more
profitable commercial papers.
Still further showing the trend of
events, the St. Louis Republic has in
creased its street sales price from 1 to
2 cents and the home delivery price
from 11 to 15 cents a week. Whole
sale prices were advanced in pronor.
tion. Other newspapers throughout
the country are doing the same thing.
There is no other course to pursue.
HUGHES ENDING
HIS THIRD TRIP!
New England and Ohio Will Be '
Visited Next; Defines
l.usitania Stand
XTtica, N. Y„ Oct. 20.—Charles E.
Hughes, homeward bound, passed
through Utica to-day, concluding his
third presidential campaign trip. Mr.
Hughes was due to arrive in New York
at 2 p. m. to-day.
The nominee expected to remain in
| New York or vicinity, possibly at
I Montclair, N. J., for several days be
i fore starting on his fourth trip next
week. The itinerary of this trip has
not been made public, but it Is under-
I stood that tentative plans provide for
! his visiting New England and Ohio
| again. The campaign will close with
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Four of Six Convicts Who
Escaped From Sing Sing
in Truck Are Captured
Ossining, N. Y„ Oct. 20. —Four of
I the six Sing Sing convicts who escaped
| yesterday in an automobile truck were
! back in the prison to-day, and Calvin
Derrick, acting warden, has placed
upon the Mutual Welfare League the
| lesponsiblllty for the men's act in flee
| ing.
i Frank Lutz, convicted of murder,
| who is a member of the executive
I committee of the league, and Thomas
Hyland, sentenced for life as a mur
j derer, were caught early to-day near
I Elmsford. William Tammany, serving
j fifteen years for robbery, was appre
| hended a few hours later near Pocan
tico Hills estate of John D. Rockefeller.
Marquis Curtis, a life-term convict,
was arrested during last night's search
on Mr. Rockefeller's property. He
was shot when he refused to surrender
and is in a serious condition.
William Anson and Alfred Stein
hauer are the two convicts still at
J large.
Deficient Gasoline Pumps
Mulch Motorists of Millions
Washington, D. C.. Oct. 20. Short
measuring gasoline pumps, according to
an investigation by the Federal Bureau
of Standards, are mulcting motorists of
millions of dollars a year. In Illinois
alone the loss Is not less than $500,000
a year. Tests In many cities have con
firmed previous conclusions, and actual
tests of the types of pumps used by
retailers at the bureau here have
| shown 80 per cent, of them to give
■short measure for various reasons. Some
of them are susceptible to manlpula
| tlon by the dealer.
j "This tendency toward deficient
measurement," says an announcement
! by the bureau, "Is worthv of careful
1 consideration, as it results in the ag
gregate In enormous monetary losses to
i the public.
"It is safe to say that in all localities
not under an efficient and competent
weights and measures administration
and in a large majority of those which
do have a relatively competent adminis
tration. til* condition of measuring
numps Is such that the motoring public
Is being subjected to regular and con
tinuous shortages In Its purchase of
gasoline."
WOMAN COMJKMNFD AS SPY
Paris, Oct. 20.—A court-martin! at
Marseilles lias urnnlirtouMy condemned
to depth for snying Madame Comeno
Spnches. >vh" before her marriage was
Marie Liberdall. of Dusseldorf.
Sf\ TXC'US IX MINNESOTA
Hu'-fi. Mln". <>(•. 20. Snow'
that. beo-m, fnll'-i-r lpst n'g'it con- 1
tlv'"-i< to '••• " i*'■ <h~ Iron nip;es np,|
rrs r*i~ xvert'lu rf ?Mnen*p covered to'
u ■' -it'" f -on '-v- T s'x inche-s. |
I n-.",-, o U rl<- winter with 1
rf ->e"' fo f-w ••■*:*te ™*'' fit is'
r " " a atest j
limber y.ait kno.wt in the Stale.
TO TREAT SEWAGE
IN INTERCEPTORS
VIA LIME BARREL
City Promptly Adopts State's
Suggestion For Safety of
Lower River Towns
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS
Chief Engineer Emerson and
Mr. Lynch Do Some Light
Sparring
City Council, in extraordinary ses
si 9 n . this morning adopted the State
Health Department's suggestion for
temporarily treating Harrisburg's sew
ago by passing on first reading an or
dinance appropriating $3,000 to pro
vide for the construction of simple
disinfecting plants near the mouths of
the big intercepting drains.
By resolution it also directed the
city bacteriologist to make necessary
tests of the sewage after the injection
|of the disinfectant to Uetermins the
I quantity required.
I The appropriation measure will be
| passed finally at the regular session
Tuesday, and at that time, too, the
Lynch ordinance appropriating SI,OOO
for the services of a consulting engi
neer to prepare plans for the perma
nent sewage disposal plant will be
on the final reading calendar.
Erect Temporary Plants
In the meantime the construction
of the temporary disinfecting plants
will be proceeded with.
The solution of this 1 phase of the
typhoid problem presented a few days
ago by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State
Health Commissioner, was reached
after an hour's discussion of the sub
ject.
Dr. Dixon had warned Harrisburg
of the Importance of immediately, if
temporarily, disinfecting the sewage
emptying into the stream because of
the effect of the city's typhoid epi
demic on towns below Harrisburg
which use the Susquehanna for drink
ins; water.
ICmerson Attends Conference
At to-day's special session C. A. Em
erson. chief sanitary engineer of the
State Health Department, and Dr. J.
M. J. Raunick, city health officer, were
| present. Chief Engineer Emerson as
sured Council of the State's earnest
desire to co-operate in every possible
way with the city.
The temporary plants suggested by
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NGE HOUR TO SUIT COVER
tlarrrsburg.— Thr hour of the r.:u business
| of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce has been changed
' from 8 to 6.30 Tuesday, October 24, in order that Governor
|Bi ~':ribftu..h might be present and ndd< t-, true.-: upon
P his interest in the plans cf the Park extension and
I new Hip'n School pl.in- .
| • RUPLEY WITHDRAWS .
L Harrisßurg.—Aruthifr R. Rupley, of Carlisle, Wash
ington party candidate for Congress in the Eighteenth dis
l trict, filed his withdrawal as a candidate at the State Capitol
r to-day.
I
r APPOINT MEDICAL BOARD MEN
Governor Brumbaugh to-day reappointed Drs. I. D.
r Mctzger, Pittsburgh, and C. L. Johnstonbaugh, Allentown,
! as members of the State 'Bureau of Medical Education and
p Licensure and named Drs. H. W. Arthur and T. A. Ilogan,
P Pittsburgh, members of the Board of Dental Examiners.
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: MIDDLE WEST IN GRIP OF COLD WAVE
I Chicago, Oct. 20.—A foretaste of winter was given
I midwestern states fro mthc Canadian border to Texas to
\ day. The coldest spot on the may wab at Devil's Lake,
* North Dakota, where the mercury registered six degrees,
p Snow blanketed Northern Minnesota. It icll in Illinois.
I lowa and was predicted for Chicago by night.
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I
! COLORED LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE AROUSED
Harrisburg.—Dr. Charles Crampton, president of the
Colored Law and Order League, gave out a statement this
' afternoon in which he said: "The law-abiding,colored peo
ple of Harrisburg regret most deeply the shooting of two
officers of the law by murderous colored men from Southern
States.. They urge that the law in thi3 case be vigorously
i
and quickly enforced. This league has adopted resolutions
1 and has appointed representatives to assist in curbing and
putting down the outbreak of lawlessness in recent months.
i It will go the limit to that end."
MARRIAGE UCENSES
)
Ivan Kolvuntc amtl tOltxnliet It lloncuj Storlton,
WIIMUII Mtartx Kiiemulv <tml Alive Wllhertn Cooper, city.
?n..u-l SI, ilockcr unit Irene Mnrjguerttc linker, city.
•24 PAGES CITY EDITION
GERMANS REGAIN
TRENCHES WON BY
ALLIES RECENTLY
Take Offensive on Somme
Front With Success; Destroy
Three Armored "Tanks"
SERBS CONTINUE DRIVE
Make Progress in Macedonia
Offensive on Monastir; Greek
Situation Is Critical
Teutonic successes reported in to-*
day's official announcement from Ger
man army headquarters include the
capture yesterday on the Somme front
in Northern France of the greater part
of the trenches taken by the British
on October 18, between Eaucourt
D'Abbaye and Lebarque, three miles
southwest of Bapaume.
British attacks last evening north
of Courcelette and east of Lesars ara
declared by Berlin to have failed. The
destruction of three of the new Brit
ish armored cars or "tanks" is also
reported.
Teutonic forces on the eastern front,
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Reception to New Bishop --
at Cathedral Hall Tonight
Bishop Philip R. McDevitt returned
to-day from Portland, Maine, where
he preached the jubilee sermon for
Bishop L. S. Walsh of that place.
Bishop McDevitt stopped over in
Philadelphia last night and came to
Harrisburg at noon.
At Cathedral Hall, North street, to
night, the new Bishop will be the
guest of Harrisburg Council, Knights
of Columbus, at a public reception
to be given by the Knights in his hon
or. The hall has been elaborately
decorated for the occasion.
The reception will start at 8 o'clock
and will be informal. Music will be
furnished by Weiger's orchestra of
Steelton. Chairman J. W. lloden
j haver of the committee of arrange
ments, with David E. Tracy and I*. C.
Gainor will escort Bishop McDevitt to
the hall.
These members of the committee
will receive the Bishop on his arrival
at the reception hall, Edward Koenig,
Patrick A. Kennedy, P. A. Bradley,
T., G. Martin, A. H. Kreidler and
I Charles Burns.