Teutons Co itinue Hammering Way Through Rumanians as French Win in V HARRISBURG WMmm TELEGRAPH V,, -)10 HY CARRIERS CENTS A WKKK AO. --tO SINGLE COPIES a CENTS. LXXXV— , TEUTONS SLOWLY BRING JAWS OF TRAP TOGETHER ON RUMANIANS Tchernavoda on the Danube and Vulcan Pass on Tran sylvania Border Taken by Germans Who Are Closing in From Two Sides LAST RAILROAD LINE CAPTURED French Succeed in Holding Gains Made in Sweep North of Verdun; Have Possession of Fort Douau mont Which Is in Flames The "process of closing In on Ru mania from both sides is being: con tinued by the armies of the Central Powers. Tchernavoda on the Danube and Vulcan Pass on the Transylvanian border have been captured. The loss of Tchernavoda by the Russ-Ru manian forces to Field Marshal Von Mackensen's victorious armies is con ceded by Petrograd which announced the evacuation of this important town, from which stretches the only bridge across the Danube from ■ Dobrudja, carrying the railway line running into interior Rumania. Important entente forces evidently remain on the Dobrudja side of the Danube as Petrograd mentions the continued retreat of Russ-Rumanian troops northward along the Black sea coast. Berlin comments that the loss of Tchernavoda deprives them of their last railroad communication. Opens Another Route The Austro-German success on the north likewise is important as open ing another route into Rumania from Transylvania for General Von Falken hayn's forces. This pass penetrates the Transylvania Alps half way be tween the iron gate of the Danube and Rothenberg Pass below Herr manstadt. Petrograd announces a success for the Russians near Dorna Watra, flose to the junction of the frontiers of f Bukowina, Hungary and Rumania, £ where the Austro-German forces have been driven from a series of heights. Reporting on the French advance at Verdun, Berlin says the attack gained ground as far as Fort Douau mont, which was in flames and that the was continuing. German submarine attacks on Nor wegian shipping continue. To-day five additional Norwegian vessels arc re ported sunk. The French have maintained the important ground they won yesterday in their coup north of Verdun, the War Office announced to-day. Last night parts of the regained ter ritory which includes Fort Douaumont and stretches along a front of more than four miles at points nearly two miles inside the former German lines, were subjected to a German counter attack. The French held their ground, how ever. according to Paris, repulsing the German assaults, which were de livered in efforts to recapture the Haudromont quarries, west of Douau mont, and the Damloup battery southeast of Vaux. The commander at Fort Douaumont is among the pris oners taken by the French, which a preliminary report placed at 3500 men. For Vaux is still in German hands but the French lines run beyond it on both sides. Rain is interfering with operations on the Somme front. Only artillery actions are reported in that area. To-day's French official report an nounces an important military move in the Balkans where Italian cav alry from Southern Albania has formed a junction with cavalry and artillery from the entente front in Macedonia. This gives the entente an unbroken front of 150 miles across the southern Balkan peninsula from Avlona, Albania, on the Adriatic to the mouth of the Struma river, east of Saloniki, on the Aegean coast. Ready to Move on Trenches Berlin military critics point to the capture of Predeal. reported yester day as marking the loss by the [Continued on Page 10] THE WEATHER Fpr Hnrrlshnrg anil vlrllitri Ilaln nn.l warmer to-night; I hur,din partly clouds. For Etfrn Knn;ligulii: Itain nnH Marnier to-night; Thurdnv partly cloudy In wmt and Mouth, probably rain in northeast por tions frexh. pofculhly ntronc, Mouth to went Minds. River The main river Mill full lvrlr to night and probably Thursday. *ome of the trlliumrlc* may rltte a* a result of rain In the' ne*t I m euti-four to thirty-nix bourn. % Mtaiee of about 4.8 feet U indi cated for llarrlburii Thursday morning. (icneral Condition* A disturbance of unknown Inten sity appears to lie approaching the South A tlantic coast. It kn> ■ <'UM*d rain on the Florida cast where the Kinds hme freshened aommliai. The South- Wft disturbance lion united with the disturbnnce thnt Man motlng down from Manitoba, Taftday morning, forming a storm of ron siderahle energy and magnitude now central over the I.ake Su perior region. There Han been a general rise of 2 to :>0 degree* In temperature over the I'pper Mississippi \ alley and nearly nil the eastern half of the country. If la 4 to 2-1 degreea cooler In the Middle MtssUslpnl Valley. Temperature! 8 a. m., 42. Sum Mines, I2T a. m.; set*. Sill p. in. Moon■ Xew moon, October 26, 3537 p. m. Illver Stage: 4.8 feet above ion vvater mark. Yeerday"a Weather Highest temperature, HI. I.owest temperature, .141. Mean temperature, 48. Annual temperature, 31. STREETS ABOUT i CAPITOL SHOULD BE WIDENED (Governor Says "It's Up to Har risburg to Persuade the Legislature" ADVOCATES SCHOOL LOAN City Is "Educationally Sick" Declares Brumbaugh at C. of C. Meeting i Governor Brumbaugh's maiden | speech as a member of the Harrisburg jChamber of Commerce, President J. , William Bowman's condensed report I of the Chamber's activities during the period of his incumbency, a brief j summary of the past and prospective j for the fut.ure by Secretary Edward L. McColgin, and the election of live new directors were the outstanding j features of the annual meeting of the i greatly enlarged Chamber of Com i merce which had been postponed from j the time of the recent complimentary ! dinner to the Bethlehem Steel King. Charles M. Schwab. The speakers touched upon the Capitol Park Extension, the new mil lion-dollar hotel, the proposed 51,250,- 000 school loan, the growth of Har risburg educationally and industrials, and urged through a still larger and all-inclusive Chamber of Commerce tho continued civic and commercial development of the growing citv of Harrisburg. The retiring board of directors. Henderson Gilbert, David Kaufman, George A. Shreiner. Warwick M. [Continued on Page 12] Five More Neutral Ships Sunk With Loss of Life I.ondon. Oct. 25.—The sinking by German submarines of five more Nor wegian steamships, valued at about a,C00,000 kronen, is reported in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Christiania. Shipping shares dropped consid erably on the Christiania exchange to-day. The steamers Alix and Rising and the schooner Theodori, together with the Swedish schooners Antoinette and Henriette. are among the latest sub marine victims, adds the dispatch. The Tidens Tegn, of Christiania, states that one boat with six men from the Norwegian steamer Ravn, reported sunk by a German submarine in the Arctic on October 2, has been lost, while another boat with eleven men on board is reported from a lonely part of the Russian Muruian coast after drifting thirteen hours. Two American Marines and Haitian Colonel Are Killed in Engagement Washington. Oct. 25. Official re ports on the killing of Captain W. W. Low, and First Sergeant Frank L. At wood of the Marine corps in the Dom inican republic yesterday while at tempting to arrest a bandit, were re ceived to-day by the Navy Depart ment from Col. Pendleton, command ing the American forces. First Lieutenant John Marston, 111, was injured by a fall presumably dur ing the fight, although the dispatch gave no details. The bandit. Ramon Batista, was killed. The dispatch does not say where thfe fight occurred. It adds that conditions otherwise are quiet. DEATH OF BATISTA IS SMALL LOhS TO ILVITI New York. Oct. 25. The death of General Ramon Batista, a rebel leader in a fight between his forces and Am erican troops in the Dominican Re public yesterday was characterized by William W. Russell, United States minister to the republic upon his ar rival to-day as "the smallest loss that could come to that country. Batista has been a thorn in the flesh of the present Dominican government for some time," Mr. Russell said. Reformed Synod Plans $1,000,000 Annuity Fund ork. Pa., Oct. 25.—An overture to the General Synod of the Reformed 'Church in America to set aside the next trienniuin as a period for raising $1,000,000 for annuity fund for relief of aged ministers and their wives was adopted by the Potomac Synod here to-day. The General Synod will be overtured to consider a more uniform i system of relief. Details for the cele ; bration of the 400 th anniversary of the Reformation, next year, were left to a committee. Prohibition Special Will Make Stop Here Frank J. Manly, Prohibition candi date for President, will be in Harris | burg November 1, n:ien a Prohibition rally will be held In the courthouse. He will come fith his partv aboard I the Prohibition Special and will be | here about two hours, from 7.30 to : 9.30 In the evening. COTTON IS HIGHEST SINCE CIVII, WAR DAYS New York. Oct. 25.— Cotton in the future market sold to-day above 20 cents a pound, the May option rising 22 points to 20.01, the highest price it has touched since the Civil War. FLOUR $lO PER BARREL Chicago, Oct. 25. The wholesale price of high grade family flour was advanced to $lO a barrel to-dav, the highest price since the Civil war, an Increase of thirty cents In two days. .11 T.N EC RS PLAN PARADE Final arrangements will be made next Wednesday night at the Penn sylvania Federation of Labor head quarters. for the booster parade and demonstration to be given on Satur day night, November 4, by labor union men interested in the Jitney 'amend ments. Thrrfe bands, a drum corps and plenty of red (ire will be features of the parade, which will end with a mass meeting. IIARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25. 1916 WILSON—THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND