+♦+ House-to- House Canvass in Red Cross Campaign Is Under Way HARRISBURG lUsHfe TELEGRAPH LXXXVI— No. 98 16 PAGES HAIG STRIKES GERMAN LINES TELLING British Army Reaches important Waterway Between St. Quentin and Cambrai; Gain Ground Along a Wide Front; Three Villages Fall Farther North Leaving English Troops Within Three Miles of Railway Center HINDENBURG PUT FORTH SUPREME EFFORT TO PREVENT ANOTHER GREAT RETREAT UNDER FIRE Battle Wages Fiercely With Machine Guns and Field Ar tillery Taking Terrible Toll of Both Sides; Situation behind Teuton Lines Remains Dubious and Uncer tain; Berlin Forces Strike Leaders Into Fighting Ranks ~ • While continuing to deliver hard blows upon the Herman j lines in the Scarpe river region, east of Arras, where their offen sive was resumed yesterday the British have pushed home a tell ing thrust in another sector of the great battlefield. Striking south of the Bapaume-Cambrai road, General Haig's forces gained ground last night along a wide front. Of greatest moment, however, Avas the success of the drive in reaching the important waterway between St. Quentin and Cambrai, the St. Quentin canal. The canal was cut at a point cast of Kpehy near Vendsuille. In reaching it here the British pressed to within approximately two miles of Le Catclet, a railway junction point on the canals to the south towards St. Quentin. Pushing along the Peronne-Cambrai railway farther north, General Ilaig's troops captured the villages of Bcaucamp and ' Villers-Plouch which places them a bare three miles from Mar coing, another important railway center 3 1 / 2 miles southwest of Cambrai. ' What is apparently the bitterest fighting of the present Anglo-French offensive is raging along the Wotaii line, the hastily organized position cast of Arras to which the Germans retired j when the northern end of the Hindenburg line was turned by! General Haig. The Germans arc putting forth a supreme effort tu hold this vital portion of their defenses, the crumbling of which 1 would expose Douai and Cambrai and bring into prospect another | great retreat. British Drive Wedges The British have driven two wedges into the German positions forming sharp salients in the region jf the Scarpe river and north of the Bapaume-Cambrai road. The head of the tirst salient has been thrust within four miles of Vitry, the most important point on the Wotan line, but the tenacity and power with which the Germans sire lighting leaves the issue for a time in doubt. The semi-open character of the lighting affords little opportunity for he use of the great howitzers, these monstrous engines of destruction r Continued on Paso (1] Battling in France Is Fiercest Yet Seen in War; Germans Rush Up Reserves By Associated Press London, April 24. —Reuter's corre spondent telegraphing from the Brit ish headquarters in France, to-day says: "The fighting now proceeding is the fiercest seen in this war. The Ger mans have thrown in large reserves *nd have brought up a great number of frefeh suns. "They probably realize that the battle now developing may assume a Jecisive character and they arc re sisting desperately. They arc doing just what we want. The German army is only to be defeated and broken by hard fighting and the re cent movement of the enemy justified some doubt as to whether they would stand further hard fighting. They cer tainly are doing it now and accept ing battle in the open. So far we have gained a good deal and have lost nothing. (THE WEATHERI For llnrrlMhursr nnd vicinity* Partly cloudy nnd continued cool wcttllier to-ni({lit nnd AVednc*- day. i For lOtiNtern Pennsylvania Over run! and continued cool went her to-niuht itnd Wednesdayi fresh nor thrust winds. Itlver The Susquehanna river and all It* brunette* will fall Hlowly or re main nearly stationary. A stance of about 4.ti feet In Indicated for llarriMburfjt YVedneaday morn lilf. fieneral Conditional A general fall of 2 to 14 decree* In temperature hn occurred over nearly all the country, except the Went tiulf State*. Oklahoma, Southwestern Vlr- Kliii2l and a few other scattered point* off limited area, where It In Momcwhat warmer. Temperatures 8 a. m., -in. Sunt It INCH, fttoß a. m. Mont Full moon. May *. Illver Staget 4.7 feet. Yesterday** Wen Hitches! temperature, 77. liOweNt temperature. .VI. Mean temperature, 6Ti. \ornuil temperature, 54* BLOW Berlin Deports French From Districts Wrested From Them by Allies Amsterdam via London, April 24. —A semiofficial statement issued in Berlin says the deportation of tlie inhabitants in the evacuated districts between Arras and Soiseons has been accomplished without hardships to the civilians. The statement adds: "The transport of their belong ings even delayed the transport of important war material. For this treason it was impossible in many cases to remove felled fruit trees, the wood of which represents imported material for our war industry. The trees were cut down in order that their leaves in spring and summer might not afford cover to marching columns against our airmen. "The male and female population between the ages of 15 and 60 were deported. Mothers with children under 3 5 remained with their chil dren. The entire 'lopulation of St. Quentin was transported to the rear. As far as possible they were allow ed to choose their own places of abode. < )b.iects of value were taken in charge by the German authori tives." Representative Swartz Puts in War Measure Mr. Swartz, of Dauphin, intro- ' duced in the House to-day, a bill to ) permit all corporations, created I under State laws, to invest surplus funds in government war bonds. The , bill is one of the several emergency | measures presented in the past ! week. Mr. Swartz also put in a bill em- ■ powering express companies to em- ! ploy special policemen. Capitol Park Ejectment Cases Are Up in Court An all-day session of argument i court was held to-day. On the list | were eleven cases, including two in which the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania was interested. Both were ejectment cases affect- j ing property owners. Philip B. Broude and Morris Kosenberg, in ; the Eighth ward. nil.n ox |IKK T.YI'II IIIKTHD.W Mrs. Elizabeth A. Mowry, aged 75, j died this morning at her home, 1127 I • 'apital street, after an illness of sev- I cral months. This was Mrs. Mowry's seventy-fifth birthday. She is sur vived by her husband. Napoleon 13. Mowry and three children by a previous marriage, Mrs. G. H. Fleck,! of York; Mrs. John Maeycr, of Pen- 1 brook, and Fred M. Triter, of this! city. Funeral arrangements have i not been completed. hoi si-: i\ \h;ht kssio\ The Housd- will bold its first Tues- : day night session to-night. Iess than . half a dozen bills were considered to- j (lay and the night session will be de- | voted to third reading bills. The j House adjourned at 1.15 p. in. until j .i a. lu. 1 HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT SAID TO BE TIRING OF WAR L . r***" ■ >- V:V •,.* - • ••-■>■ -••• - ••< ; - v --< - ■■%>. ZSABW ij* SESSIO>i Jluch interest centers now in the Hungarian parliament because of the apparently well-informed rumors that tlie Hungarian people are ft' ?? i° sacrifices made in the war. tor days the government has censored so closely all dispatches from the dual monarchy that suspicion is.growing that the situation is really worso than the reports from border countries say. It has been pointed out that virtually the same condition prevailed in Russia before the Duma deposed the Czar and his government. SECOND DRUGGIST IS ARRESTED FOR SELLING "DOPE" \V. E. Marshall Hold Under t $5,000 Bail For Federal Court William E. Marshall, proprietor of Marshall's Drug store, 629 Boas street, at a hearing before United States Commissioner Wolfe, was held under $5,000 bail for his appearance at the May session of the Federal court. He is charged by Kmilie Koos, Federal narcotic expert inves tigator with falsifying narcotic order forms and failing to keep records as required by the Harrison act. Marshall was arrested this morn ing by Detective llydo Speese. It is also charged by Koos and admitted to by Marshall that he furnished his brother. Dr. Resile Marshall, with blank forms which is also a violation of thet law. Yesterday H. E. Parson, druggist, was also held under $5,000 bail. Koos produced innumerable forms tilled in originals but not in dupli cate. In this way, Koos said, drug gists were able to obtain and dis pense drugs without accounting for them to the government inspectors. [Continued on Page 3] May 1 Fixed as Last Day Upon Which Bills May Be Read in House The House of Representatives to day fixed May 1 as the last day of the session of 1917, upon which bills can be introduced. There are over l.fiOO bills on the House list now. The resolution to tlx a time was presented by Mr. Eewis, Jefferson, and an unsuccessful effort was made by Mr. Shaffer. Columbia, formerly of llarrisburg, to substitute May 7. Fixing of a final day for new bills is a prelude to the close of the ses sion. KISS AXCiRY AT I.OSS London, April 24. Dispatches from Petrograd to-day State that the Russian Socialists are greatly exer cised over the sinking by a German submarine of the steamer Zara, which was taking home a number of Russian refugees. The Zara sail ed on April 11 and was torpedoed in Northern waters two days later. PRICES FORCED UP BY WESTERN MEAT PACKERS: Hold Products in Storage; I Beef Costs Ten Cents Per Pound More While officials of the State and ! Nation are making efforts to pre vent the shortage of foodstuffs, there is a shortage here in Harris burg especially in meats. Chicago and western packers are reluctant! to make shipments here and when shipments are made they are from two to three days late, local dealers say. The largfcs butchers in the city admit that the retention of beef and other meats in Chicago has cre ated a shortage. G. S. Vogt, a local [Continued on Page 3] Speaker Clark Opposes Selective Conscription Washington, April 21. Speaker Clark to-day oppose d the selective j draft and predicted it never would | pass Congress, in receiving a delega tion from the Nationa 1 Security league. Several hundred petitions, bearing a million names, asking Con gress to. adopt the administration plan were laid before the speaker. "Conscription never will pass. In my opinion." lie said. "I am for let ting the flower and youth of this country volunteer before we fasten the disgrace of a draft upon them. The War Department is Jumping around trying to bulldoze people into passing this bill, and I don't think they are going to do it' ♦, (Jlic Stnr- #ni>cpen&ent HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1917 GEO. S. REINOEHL HEADS BOY SCOUT CAMPAIGN MOVE Weil-Known 801 l Phone Of-, l'icial Chairman of Citizens Com mi I lee GEORGE S. REINOEHL Chairman Boy Scout Campaign Citi zens' Committee. George S. Reinoehl, division man ager of the Hell Telephone .Company, and one of the best-known men in Central Pennsylvania, has accepted the chairmanship of the citizens' committee that will have charge of the campaign to put the Boy Scout movement on its feet in Harrisburg for :i three-year period. The selection of Mr. Reinoehl in sures the "pep" and "ginger" that is necessary to make a campaign of the kind the success that it promises to [Continued on Page 10] PROHIBITION FOR WAR AROUSES IRE I OF LIQUOR LOBBY I Will Try to Put Mitchell Bill to Sleep at Law and Order Meeting There is a movement on foot to j have a meeting of the House Law | and Order .committee lute to-day I that may be the last gathering of : that much discussed committee this i session and the purpose of the meet ing among other things is to attempt to kill the Mitchell Prohibition bill. There is also a proposed amendment to that bill to make it operative only during the term of the war, and it is likely that the amendment will hard ly be considered in committee. The liquor forces are divided on the method to be followed in hand [Continued on Page 3] British Commission Works on New American Problems j < By Associated Press Washington, April 21. Arthur j James Balfour, British foreign secre tary, spent to-day in consultation with other members of the British commission on means to dispose of. the enormous amount of work which' has already developed. Officials of all the American admin istrative departments having to do with conduct of the war liavr Indicat ed to the British information which would he of value and Mr. Balfour personally Is trying to work out'the j tneatis of securing -and - distributing I the results of England's experience| •.o the best advantag VOLUNTEERS COST! ENGLAND MUCH IN MONEY AND MEN British Democracy Is Now Fanatical Over Universal Military Service By Associated Press Washington, April 24.—Lieut. General Bridges, a member of the , British Commission, declared here) to-day in a talk with newspaper cor- j respondents that the Uritish dernoe- i racy had become "almost fanatical" | over universal military service. The ■ volunteer system under which the I empire entered the war. General Bridges said, has cost the lives of most valuable citizens, .crippled in- ! dustria! mobilization and immeasur- ] ably set back England's efforts in the war. "War," said General Bridges, "is no longer a war of expeditions but is a case of nation against nation. Men, ! women and children are equally ! drawn into its vortex, the women and children being forced into in dustry and fed on half rations hi order to supply the men at the front. | War has become an immensely [Continued on Page (I] Representatives of Slovak League Will Endorse Stand of President at Meeting ■Resolutions endorsing President Wilson for his stand in the present crisis and pledging allegiance to tne United States will bo passed at a meeting of representatives of the Slovak League of America at Jed nota near Middletown, Thursday and Friday. About 500,000 Slovaks in this country are represented by these four men. Mr. Bergner, of Chicago, secretary of the Bohemian National Alliance of the United States; Ivan • Daxner, of Pittsburgh, secretary of the Slo vak League of America; Melan Gett ing, of New York, editor of the Slo vak Sokol, the largest paper in the United States representing this na tionality, and Joseph lluseh, editor of the Jednota publication, are the representatives who will convene to take action on the resolutions. This is the tirst time theso representatives have held a joint session and the immediate purpose is pledging their j support to the government. NATIONAL FOOD i GARDEN EXPERT ' COMES TO CITY I j Urges Co-operation in Tilling Every Available Inch of Land > | With a view of molding into one v ! harmonious working club all organ izations working in co-operation with f j the National Emergency Food Gar s den Commission, through which the - HARRIBBURO TELEGRAPH se-1 t cured seeds to be distributed by thai • Associated Aids, }(, 11. Groninger, | t representative of the commission 1 y spent the morning in consultation s with Secretary John Yates, of the " I Associated Aids. Ho brought data of j , all descriptions and is ready to [Continued on Page 10] Minister Will Wed No Slackers During War Timei 5 I Rangor, Pa., April 24. ln a ser mon preached the Kev. 1"). Herbert I Jones, pastor of the Mackery Memorial i Baptist Church, said: r hope that no young man will I come to me during the period of this | war and ssk to be married, as I shall ! surely refuse to perform anv cere mony if I feel the marriage is being sought to evade military service. If there are any here who are not native I born and who do not feel patriotic I enough to stand by the country of 1 their adoption let them leave for the ! place from which thev came." He said that-President Wilson had ! hren condemned for his patience, but that "he has proved his true greatness 1 Irt the manner In which lie has handled ■ Mr. Jones has • a nephew righting with the British irmv. § N *• ' . - . RED CROSS OPENS I GREAT PERSONAL MEMBER CANVASS House-to-Housc Drive Starts in Supreme Effort of Local Campaign i The "Spring drive" of the Bed | Cross campaign for 10,000 new metn j bers began this morning. At a council of war held last night ! in the headquarters of the llarris burg chapter, -'O6 Walnut "street, I plans were perfected for the whirl | wind house-to-house canvass, and j early this morning the army of soli citors spread out over the city. By j Saturday night not one house in the entire city will have been missed [Continued on Page I<iJ Sweden Cuts Off Sale of Distilled Liquors By Associated Pre'ss ] Stockholm, April 24. —The sale by j retail of all distilled liquors is for | bidden throughout Sweden from Apj-il i2l to May 12. While It is not ad j inittcd officially, there is reason to be- I lieve that the order has a connection ; with the great Mfiy Oay labor demon | stration planned by the unions. The official explanation of the ban [ on liquor is that the excise authori • ties desire to make an inventory of i the available spirits in the kingdom. llt is stated that the government | wishes, to estimate the amount likely to be produced next year with a view j to further restrictions on liquor sales. Roosevelt Division May Yet Be Sent to Front j Washington) IJ. C'., April 24. —l'eel ' ing that the offer of former President J Roosevelt to furnish and command i. | rev intent of volunteers ought to lit in - cepted, Senator Harding, .if Ohio, yes terday offered f.n amendment to the army bill drafted by several lt< publi can Senators which would authorize the President to raise by voluntarily enlistment four infantry divisions, none of the recruits to be men who would be subject to draft under the terms of the army measure. ! A restriction that no unit smaller i than a division shall be accepted for I Federal service virtually limits the entire amendment to Colonel Roosc velt, as he is believed to be the only mail not in the army who could raise Iso large a 'force. A division is 20,000 men or more. • MANY RECRUITS FROM HERE FOR ! OFFICERS CAMP ! Indications Point to Record Enrollment For Reserve Corps Rapid tire work will characterize the recruiting for the Reserve OfH | cere" Training Camps, fourteen of ' which will be held at various points !in the United States beginning on ' May X and continuing for three con secutive months prior to the train jing of the'first live hundred thou - jand to be culled into the field about i August 1. Applicants for the camp from Marrisburg and surrounding countrv will be sent to Fort Niagara, New York. Men from Pittsburgh, Phiiit | dclphia and other sections of south ern Pennsylvania will also camp at Fort Niagara, while the contingent i from the northern half of the State ! will be called to Madison Barracks, I New York. Plattsburg as a civilian training [Continued on Page 4] LAWS SON MISSING I-ondon, April 24. TJeutenant C. | | J. I.aw. of the. King's Own Scottisli | Borderers, second son of Andrew I Bonar I-aw, chancellor of the ex ! chequer, Is reported to have been I wounded in Palestine and to be miss j ing. j TO I/KM) FARMK|tS MOXKY Trenton, N. Y., April 24. The j executive committee of the State Orange to-day voted to accept the | offer of the Patriotic Fund Associa tion of New York to loun *260,000 to farmers in New Jersey fort greater crops. The money will be distributed in, J'MO loans and .bear interest at 4Vi per cent. | • . A -*• -- - ■J 4 • • ..4 .„ . Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION WAR COMMISSION j FROM FRANCE IS SAFELY LANDED! Most Notable Figures of French Republic on Amer ican Soil HEADED BY VJVIANI Marshal Jot'fre and Dean of Democracies Admirals in the Party By Associated Press Washington, April 24. The French commission has safely land ed in the United States. This offi cial statement was made early to day by the government: "Depart ment of State is advised of the safe arrival of the French commission." The commission which includes Marshal Joffro and former Premier Y'iviani, arrived early this morning [Continued on l'ngc 11] Last Day For Enemy Aliens to Give Up Arms By Associated Press New York, April 24. —The eoun-. try's alien enemies in New 'iork are notified that this is the last day of grace allowed them to surrender weapons, munitions of war, aircraft, wireless apparatus and other for bidden possession enumerated in the President's proclamation. United States Marshal McCarty made it plain, however, that there wiH be no seizurb and search of persons or houses except when the federal of ficials have reason to believe an at tempt has been made to violate the President's ruling. TWO STKAMICHS SINK By Associated Press l.ondon, April 24.—1t is officially announced in Norway, says a Cen tral News dispatch from Christiania that the Norwegian steamer Ueice lias been sunk by a German subma rine in the North sea and Norwegian steamer Skjold of 1,250 tons in the Atlantic. BRAZIL LOOKS tfOR INSURRECTION I AMONG ITS GERMAN SUPJECTS RIO JANEIRO, APRIL 4.—TELEGRAMS RE ■ OET f - FROM PARANA CONFIRMS REPORTS , THAT THE GERMANS IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL- . 'IAN STATES ARE CONCENTRATING IN THE 'STATE OF SANTA CATHEHINA. . IT IS BE LJEVED A GERMAN INSURRECTION IN THE SOUTH IS IMMINENT. TREASURY CERTIFICATE* SUBSCRIBED 1 Washington. April 4 —Arrwoneettttnt was rriade to-day that thr issue of Treawtry certificates offered l through the reserve banks would be increased from $200,000,000 to $250,00f1,00<) and that all of this sum j had already been absorbed. CAMP HILL AUTOMOBtLE RUN Harrisburg. The annual Camp Hill SociabiHtv I Run. Will be held this year on June 2 and i. The des tination is Washington but the rotrte is not finally se lected I STEAMER BEST GERMAN U BOAT New York, April 24.—A vivid account of a running fight m the Mediterranean between a German yrubms t rinc and a British freighter in which the U-Boat w struck three times, resulting In an explosion on board l the submarine and its probable destruction was relat ed to day by Captain Jame* CrulUce oti his arrival to day . . THREE KILLED I"N POWDER BLAST Birmingham, Ala., April 24.—Three powder work ers were killed in an explosion to-day in the Coalburg plant of the Aetna Explosive Comply. The cause of the blast is unknown. An investigation is under wav ' U. S. OFFICERS MAY GO TO FPONT Washington, April 24. American army officers I who are to .command the new armies soot may go to battle fronts in France to study th busir c f , eirn warfare in preparation for the work ' hey may do later I MARRIAGE LICENSES u™ r „ r „ J " m '" Kr,,n "' "'•Wtatow. Md.. and Florence May Lylc ,' lon! nrry "^ra'" , raK,,r "' " K-tHr y „ MUMt . Howard Ymifr, Shamokln. ami Glen Viola Kmerlrk *k._.t.i .John .lonian Khlndler, Wlconluro, and Ajwa Mn> rondo ftS!?!!" 1 I .mile 1., hndrra, l.jkexa, and Alain R. Hoffman, <"aro B viUe CANOEISTS FEAR GUARDSMEN WILL FIRE ON THEM Will Assure Railroad Police ' 'They Moan No Harm to Bridges AWARD E D MEDALS Winners of Opening Excur sion lo Get Prizes; Com pleting Prizes Following an enthusiastic meeting of the executive committee of the Greater Harrisburg Navy in the Park Department offices last evening, the committee in charge of the annual excursion down the Juniata and Sus quehanna rivers from Mifflin to this city, has started to complete ar rangements for this big event which is similar to the annual opening of the canoeing season in this vicinity. The executive committee of the Navy voted to offer three sets of medals to the three pair of canoeists who win the first three places in th'o [Continued on Page 11] Russia Places Further Restrictions on Sale of Intoxicating Liquors Petrograd, April 24.—The pro visional government has modilied , the rules governing Hie sales of ul eoholic drinks by the introduction of the following regulations: "First: The sale of alcoholic drinks containing a percentage of | alcohol in excess of one and a half degrees Is prohibited throughout I Uussia. "Second: Kxport to foreign coun tries of grape wines of every kind is permitted regardless of their per centage of alcohol. "Thirci: In wine growing districts the sale of wines produced locally |und not containing a percentage of alcohol in excess of 12 degrees is ! permitted. Sales of these wines out side of the wine growing districts is only permitted in towns and max be prohibited by the municipal authorities.
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