Commander of American Expeditionary forces 'Reaches With His Militai y Htaff HARRISBURG ||§l§li TELEGRAPH - 3nftcprn6fnt. LXXXVI— No. 137 22 FAGES PERSHING RE A C VOLCANO BLOTS OUT CITY; TROOPS MASSED IN BELGIUM U. S. OFFICERS GETWELCOME IN ENGLAND Major General Pershing Declares America Will Be Playing a Very Big Part in the Fighting Front in France; Ships Guarded Through Danger Zone by United States Destroyers Pf Associated Prcit London, June B.—General Pershing and his party ar rived early this morning at a port in Great Britain. 1 he American general and his party were received by the officers of the port, the general commanding the district and the mayor. They were escorted from the dock by a band and a guard of honor. London, June S. General Per shing arrived in London this after noon. He was welcomed by Waiter Hines Page, the American ambassa dor; Lord Derby, secretary of State for war: Viscount French, command ing the British home forces and other officers, including Lord Brooke, who will be attached to General Per shing's staff during his stay in Eng land. The expected arrival of General Pershing and his party had been kept a fairly close secret from the Lon- ( don public until to-day, but the many preparations for the visitors which had been going on in secrecy came into public view early this morninu. Several floors of rooms in a hotel had been reserved for the American party and the hotel this morning was completely transformed by the placing of numerous sign boards, the installation of bureaus of information, etc.. designed to make the most efficient possible use of the place as temporary American army headquarters. Guests of Government General Pershing and the twelve officers of his senior staff are to be Mr. Vanderlip Has Fine Impression of Harrisburg Frank A. Vanderlip, the dis tinguished Xew York banker who came to Harrisburg yes terday to help along the Liberty loan campaign, was deeply im pressed with Harrisburg and the way things are being done here. During the afternoon he was driven along the River Front and this is what he said: "You have handled your River Front in a most admirable way. It reminds me of the sturdy, per manent treatment of river em bankments in Europe. What a fine thing that you have been abl to preserve this beautifui view for your people." the growing use of the shrdl Mr. Vanderlip kindly- ignored ' the growing use of the river driveway as a traffic street. The great banker was likewise yu work and the enthusitsm which ' have made the Liberty bond campaign in this city unique. He had found no such organiz ed effort elsewhere. > ' THE WEATHER For Harrlahurg and vlclnltyi Part ly cloud?, probably thunder showern to-night and Saiurda.vi not much change In tenipcra lurr. For Faktern I'enna) Ivanla : Partly ovcrcnst with probably I oral thuiiilrrnhont-rM to-night and Saturdays continued mild |rm perature; moderate aouth wind*. River The Juniata will probably con tinue to fall* The upper por tion* of the Xorth and \\ e*t hranchca and their tributaries will probably fall this after noon, to-night and Saturday, and the loner portion* Satur day. The upper portion of the main river will riae rapidly thin afternoon and to-night and con tinue to riae Saturday. The lower portion of the main river will remain nearly stationary to-night and riae rapidly Satur day. A stage of about 8.3 feet la Indicated for Harrlsburg Sat urday mArnlnK. General Conditions The severe atorm that waa cen tral over Wlaconaln, Thursday morning, baa pnaaed northrast ward Into Canada. It haa caus ed thundershovrers, mostly light. In the laat twenty-four houra from the I'pper Mlsslsp pl Valley eastward to the At lantic coaat. Temperature! ft a. m. t 8 decrees. Sum lilaes, 4:2 ft a. m. Mooni Rlaea, 11104 p. m. Rlw Stage: 5.2 feet. . Veaterday'a Weather Highest temperature. 7S. Mweat temperature. 83. Menn temperature. 70. .Normal temperature, 68. | • guests of the British government at j • the Savoy. The remainder of the • | contingent will be looked after by j American societies in London. ! j The junior staff officers are also to have quarters at the Savoy, while the 1 officers and enlisted men comprising the special headquarters detail will • be quartered in the Tower of Lon- ! don. The civilian clerks will stop at the Imperial hotel. In addition to the establishment of an information bureau at the Savoy . the government has detailed a corps, of boy and girl scouts to act as mes- \ 1 1 sengers. A British Port, June S.—Major uen : eral Pershing and his staff arrived j here this morning after an uneventful ■ trip. All the members of his party w ere in good health and spirits. Their | shu was escorted into port by Amer- , 1 i ican destroyers. A hearty welcome was extended to ' the Americans by official representa- J ' tives of the admiralty, the war office I and the municipal authorities. The; i [Continued 011 Page 17] "Autocratic" Grocery Clerks Are Ordered to Be Nice and Polite Schaffhausen. Switzerland, June S.—: | A recent pronunciamento ot the Bava ; rian minister)- of the interior, which was recently received here, though | couched in polite and fatherly lan- j • guage, contains a threat to all food- j 1 storekeepers that unless they treat! their customers civilly, they will he debarred from conducting their bus- i iness in the future. Countless com- j plaints about the arrogance Df the ' I storekeepers, who ae variously de scribed as having become the "lords 1 jof creation." "•autocrats" and dicta- 1 tors" are responsible for tile order. 1 ■ The ministry's proclamation re ! minds all who sell food of any kind I that, because of the war and the state f | of affairs it has brought with it, they have become in a way public servants. ! 1 They are no longer purely private individuals, but members of the com- ; j nmn-.il economic machine. ' That being the case, continues the j order. • ach storekeeper must suhordi- j j nate his. own interests to those of the 1 state. He is not allowed to ridicule his patrons, ignore their wants, nor be impolite to them. j . Lowering Clouds Fail to Keep Down Enthusiasm at Grammar School Meet ; Overhanging clouds threatened 1 ! Harrisburg's Grammar School meet J tc-day. old Sol was kept busy push- i ! ms them away and it was a question when the first ecent was called this afternoon whether the program ) would be continued. Dark skies did c :not keep down the enthusiasm, how- 1 J ever. All grammar schools closed at ! .' .noon and the march to the island be ) gan at 1 o'clock. Each building was represented by a large student body, the teachers marching with thr re- E spective schools. Colors were promi-;® nent. and large flags were carried at jthe head of each school division, in I advance of the athletes who partici-. j pated thin afternoon. ' To-day's entry list included two! j hundred and five athletes, represent ing thirteen schools. Cameron, with 1 i orange and black colors, had 28 en- i 11 ! tries: Camp Curtin, blue and white,' -5; Forney, blue and gold. 25: Ham-j v I ilton, 21; Lincoln, red and blue. 25;!. jMaclay, 17; Melrose, black aftd gold, 23; Webster, green and white, 12; r Wiekersham, gold and white, 9: Wil-j lard, maroon and gold, 1; Woodward, I t slate and corn. 14; Shlmmell, purple j and gold, 16; Foose, blue and I e ; white, 8. The first event preliminaries in the, •' 100-yard dash was called at 2 o'clock. There were seven heats. At the same 1 time the field judges started the run-! T ning high jump. Other events on thel program included the one-half mile I, run, two-hundred-and-twentv-yard | dash. 12-pound shptput, one-hun-i s dred-and-twenty->ard low hurdles ! ■ four-hundred-and-forty-yard dash, I lunning broad jump, one-half mile I I relay, one-mile relay. ( COMMANDER OF AMERICAN EXPEDITION GS>T.JPERSf-ll>T<3. against (he l<alse r' r P hosts"Tn France *0 p. ni, , ed ., Sfa ( teS army fi r mSn. h,S S,aff ' makinS rrepar:l,io " *he America'a^Xt"- HAIG HOLDS I LINE TAKEN IN BELGIUKI ■ So far the Germans have reacted hesitatingly before the tre mc„dm,s thrust which the British have delivered into the lo„ K held jerman line in Belgium. Only weak counterattacks were reproted during last night, according to the unofficial accounts mm the battlefield,and C.,en. Haig's troops have held all n|ie ground they won which reaches at points a depth of nearly three miles. lie lorce ot the British drive is Only in part indicated by the reported during last night, according t otlie unofficial accounts in by the British net are bein S sent rearward and there yet remain to be enumerated the many puns taken Trie* to stem Torrent \ ast numbers of German troops are being rushed forward by Field Marshal \on Hindenburg in an ef fort to stem the British torrent which has swept over the heights dominat ing the Lille plain and threatens to sweep the Teutons from the great in dustriil section of Northern France I As every succeeding clash between the mighty .unties on the western front has dwarfed the one which preceded it, *0 the initial Phase of the battle of Messinep promise* to 1 a P re,u< l e to the struggle uhie his to come. Take Hattcrlen Several batteries are known to have fallen Into British hands, the correspondents say and prisoners tell of the destruction of scores of Ger man guns by British shells during the terrific bombardments that pre coded the attack. While the counter- | Bottle Washed Ashore Tells Fate of American Ship Long Missing London, June B.—A bottle contain-! | ingr a number of messages apparently ! written by members of the crew of ! the long-missing American steamship Frederick has been washed ashore at! the Orkney Islands. The messages evidently were written by two Amer- j leans and five Spaniards. One of j them was dated January 27, 1916. j They contained no information as to ' the circumstances under which the ship was lost. One of them said: "We are sinking in midocean." Others said the writers were dying. I HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1917 attacks so far delivered have not been m great force and have been to th r P " ls? '' wlth vy losses Germans, '-he dush of Ger man reserves into the frav cannot be much longer delayed and much fore uU attic? 'v l ° !' S '' v '' ecte d be .i . attack can be pressed fur ther into German-held territory Th „ a pm* Hreak Attack .i een renewed activity within the past day or two on thi French front in the vicinity of St Quentin. The artillerv hna ~ strongly engaged on both sides and' the Germans apparently were pre,far ! ing an attack last night. The French guns, however, broke nn ,u.. ~ Q" e "nU n8 and S ti h Fe r r 0 e ad I their' concentra't'eVl* attack on'VaJJd'in (Continued on 21) River Will Rise to 11 Feet Here Tomorrow; J State Officials Predict An unusual rise In the river fori !li t vf* Bon ° - th e year was predict-! Ed this morning by Ralph H. Hos-1 ; aws.'" su " •• <ss-; The upper reaches of the North IhSnna ru branches ° r Susque hanna ri\er rose rapidly vesterdav afternoon and began to recede this morning, it Is expected that a stage! iat a wnir. n en feet W,U reached' at \Mlkes-Barre. on tfie North' branch, and a stage of about eleven! i branch! Wmiams P° rt - on the West The Juniata river rose about three feet at Huntingdon yesterdav after-! noon, which will mean a stage ofi about eight feet at Newpdrt and It rivl^iu" 1 'h* 1 * the Sus "iuehanna iher at Harr.sburg will reach a stage of from ten to eleven feet late to- > a PP ro *'niately the | tb river front C °- LTete St6ps iU ° n *l SEVEN TOWNS OF 100,000 LIVES BURIED . Eruption Destroys San Salvador, Capital of Central Amer ican Republic; Residents Camping in Fields; Loss of Life Is Unknown By Associated Press San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, June B.—San Salvador, the capital of the republic of Salvador, with a population of more than 60,000, has been totally destroyed, accord ing to a dispatch from San Miguel, Salvador. No details as to the manner in which the city was destroyed havcl been received, but it undoubtedly was the result of an earthquake or volcanic eruption. A dispatch from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, says that in addition to the wiping out of San Salvador the towns of Quezaltipeque, Nejapa, Suchichoto, Paisnal, Armenios and Mejicanos also were destroyed. Mejicanos was a suburb of San Salvador. At 9.50 o'clock this morning there was still no communication between San Salvador and Tegucigalpa. City In Ruins An operator who reached the edge I of the destroyed 'zone reported at I i 9.20 o'clock this morning that San j Salvador was in ruins ana that every thing within a radius of thirty miles , had been destroyed b\ the earth quake. The town of Santa Tecla also has j been destroyed, according to this re port. Residents of San Salvador are camping in the streets and parks. At the time the report was sent it had been raining heavily for five hours. The disaster is supposed to have J been caused by an eruption of the volcano of San Salvador, at the foot of which the city is situated. San Salvador is about three miles j east of the volcano of San Salvador I and is the seat of government of the i smallest but most densely populated | of the republics of Central America. ' Ilo<'ko<l Repeatedly First record of the earthquake | there was in 1873, when the entire : j city was nearly leveled and fifty I persons perished. Since then the city 1 ! and the country surrounding it have j been rocked again and again, whole | cities and towns being razed and ; | many persons being killed. The city, which was founded about 1525, is located about 120 miles j ! southeast of the town of Guatemala j i and is on a small stream which flows into the Pacific ocean. I The city is connected by rail with | Acajutla and La Libeitad and con- j i tains a large university, the national | ; palace, the national library and as-j ' troncmlcal observatory and a botanl- ! ! cal garden. It has a large agricul tural trade. The country of San Salvador itself j consists mainly of a piateau about j 2,000 feet above the sea. broken by a j large number of volcanic cones. Its i population is 1.133,000 and the most ! lecent census places the number o.f inhabitants in the capital at 64,000. In virtually all previous cases when San Salvador has been damaged by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions j j many other nearby localities also have suffered. Many ot the shocksi j have been of the greatest intensity ! and a number of disturbance* in re- j j cent years have resulted in appeals : caring for the destitute. Some of the ; to the Red Cross for assistance in : shocks have continued for several j days at a time, buildings that with btood the first tremor.i going down i in those that followed. Many Volcanoes As the country's principal industry is agricultural and as mrch agrieul- ! tural property has been destroyed in previous disasters, losses to tiliers of j ' the soil have been tremendous. From | time to time railroad and wire com j inunlcation with stricken districts' I has been prevented because of the I completeness of the destruction done I by the quakes. 11 t The country of San Salvador con-!] tains about 7,225 square miles and i ban a coast line or about 160 miles M from the mouth of the Rio de la Pax i to that of the Poascoran. In the hav ji of Fonzeca. Its length is about 140 m miles and its breadth about 60 miles. The volcanic mountains of San |! Salvador do not form a chain, hut j are a series of clusters. The loftiest It volcanoes in the country are Santa , Ana. which is 8,300 feet high, and ', San Miguel, which rises to 7.120 feet i) The neighborhood of the capital has | been more sublect to earthquakes < than any other locality and the vol cano of San Miguel has been de- ' scribed as one of the most trearh- j < erous burning mountains in America ' , sometimes several vear. in complete t repose and then suddenly bursting I r man wixi bucrific fury. x No Deaths Reported in Dispatch of U. S. Minister to Washington Washington. June 8. Dispatches : from American Minister Long, at San ! ,4. sent at 9 o'clock last night j while the volcano of San Salvador was l erupting, said part of the city had I beei; destroyed by fire, but that it was ; under control. Great damage was don#. The dispatch said that about 6:35 p. m.. yesterday, severe earth shocks jbegan and continued until 8:45 with j varying degrees of intensity. At about 8:45 the volcano of San Salvador began to belch forth fire and i smoke apparently on the side toward LQuentzalteperiue. There was later one fvery severe shock, but the tremors of the earth continued with decreasing violence. At the same time there was I a steady shower of dry ashes falling over the city. 1 The report says damage to the American legation building will ren der it uninhabitable, but that all rec | ords are safe. It adds that all other city property appeared practically un tenable. One important central busi ness section had been destroyed bv pre, which, at the time of telegraph- ' ing. seemed to be under control. So : deaths were reported in the minis , ter s dispatfh a F being known at that , hour. It is quite possible that further 1 i volcanic eruption, fire or earthquake I might have wrought greater damage I after the sending of his dispatch. Shocks Cat City Off From All Communication 1 San Juan Del Sur, .June 8. San Salvador, capital of the republic of| Salvador, has been cut off from wire communication bv the disturbance of an earthouake shock, apparently ac- 1 eompanied bv volcanic action. At 7 o'clock last night the telegraph 1 operator at Tegucigalpa, Honduras 1 reported that the operator at San Sa l - I vador had informed him that earth- I quakes had been felt, though the shocks were also felt at Tegucigalpa, where the operator at 7:45 n. m lost communication with San Salvador on l ali wires. From Sensuntanpeque in north cen tral Salvador, flames were seen aris i iner apparently frnm a volcano in the ; neighborhood of San Salvador. Family Riddled. Then Hacked With Ax After Buildings Are Fired ! Flemington, N. J., June S.-Wil-j bam Queen, brother of United State* <'omniissioner John W Queen, of. Jersey City, his wife and 22-year-ohi i daughter, were murdered at thelf 1 home near here late last night. The .family was slain after the outbuild ings of their place at Mount Pleasant had been- set afire. The murderer escaped before neighbors who discovered the firei reached the farm. The bodies of tlnd three victims had been riddled wl&l shot, then an ax had been used. The bodies of Queer, /and Mri*< Queen, fully dressed, werS found ly ing on the ground near the barn I Miss Queen apparently had been shot! down as she ran from the house. Officials who were investigating I the crime to-day said that it appear ed the outbuildings had been set aflr , I and that when Queen and his wife ran out to rescue the horses in thr! i barn they had been killed. Neither the gun nor the ax was found. ' J Doy'fstowti. June R. Suspected ' of ha\in khowledge of the murder 1 of the Queen family. Marco Zacker ( was arrested here to-dav. He told I the police he had worked in a paper l ( mill at Biegelsvllle, N. J., which is! near the scene of the tragedy. i J Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION HARRISBURG $483,000 MORE INTO LIBERTY LOAN rUND Total Subscribed in the Campaign Is Now $2,740,950 1 With Only $469,000 to Come in Next 24 Hourt With Which to Bring Total Up to $3,000,000 Which Will Be One Million More Than Original Allotment; Big Reception For Mr. E. Moeslein; the Youngest Subscriber; Railroaders Come Strong; Allied Towns Generous j Up to noon to-day the Liberty I r '°" campaign conducted in Harris, burg had netted subscriptions to the amount of $:!,740,950. I The campaigners set out yester- I day to get $2,000,000 in Harrisburg , and surrounding towns, expecting to j raise that amount by to-morrow I noon, when the campaign closes, j That sum was passed in the first day and a total of $3,000,000 is now the goal of the workers. It was a jolly crowd that assem > hied at the R*a rd of Trade rooms i f°t* luncheon to-day. Success was 'in the air. Donald McCormick. of ; the Clearing House Association, called for reports from the division ] chairmen and the captains of teams. The reports were cheered to the j echo as* thousands were piled upon i thousands for a total of $483,000 j for the day. Many interesting inei ! dents marked the meeting. Youngest Purchaser I When Captain George S. Itein oehl responded for team No. 0, of j Division R, he drew attention to the I youngest patriot on record, the bond j being made out to Jehn T. Harris, j lid, who arrived to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Harris shortly after 11 o'clock last night . and for whom his father purchased j a bond first thing this morning. Mr. I Harris, by the way, is a member of C A'> :ATOKS AKKi L IN > i-.AN'CE C JNDRED 1 € OM THE NAVY, FLY- "1 IN 4 | I RDING TO' A STATEMENT IS- I , BY SECRETARY DANIELS. 1 | 5 TO REACH FRANCE. J I > WANT VIGOROUS WA I l I I C I ' defe # SALARY RAISER I bill ■ I c f I ? SELECT TWO MORE CAMP SITES i rigton-, June 8. —'Petersbui hil- i licothe, C I en of ,j sites to have been determined. i LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN LOAN ton, June 8 --- Senator Harding, Ohio, \ I■ an riiscloaed in the Senate to-day that lack of i Ipubli- confidence was retarding subscriptions to th ] Libert, I in and that in the interest of unity Senator lding information which "might call for in- B vestigatipns and shake the confidence of the Air., rican ■ people in the conduct of the war." # BECHTOLD BILL. 13 SIGNED f HafT burg. The Bechtcld bill, permittin ■ nicipal loans approved by the voters for one purpose t K . be trnsf< rred tp ether uses, was signed by the Gover* no; late to day. This bill was presented by Mr. Bech- # told, or Steelton, and might apply to the Walnut street f bridge loan of Harrisburg, i MARRIAGE LICENSES I i v. r 7„-a kV" - *i 11 Pe Jl Mlddlrfowni hlilnard Mlcliitel \\ Inn and Ifg' ' Hrri.l,ur, l| nH Me,. K%r Juld iJl.Tbeffc CtaJS ' UnrrlMburm tlarenre Henr> Dublin mid I.mini Kllcnbctl* I w ionlSci. ' Samuel Tjruu It linger and Elsie May Davit, of ten in No. it and was present. He was heartily congratulated by his teammates who turned in and rolled up a total of $106,300 for the day. in honor of the event. This, by the way, was the largest team subscrip tion for the day and a big banner bearing the words "We Are It" was placed on their table. When Frank O. Sites reported for team No. 4, of Division A, E. J. Stackpole, of the executive commit tee. drew the attention of the cam paigners by saying that while they had received quite a number of re ports of "slackers," there was a man on the postmaster's team who de served especial commendation for patriotism. He referred to E. Moes lein, a man who won the Iron Cross for valor in the Franco-Prussian war and who placed his devotion to the land of his adoption over and above his allegiance to the country of his hirth and for which he once risked his life, in France. Mr. Stack pole referred to the fact that Mr. Moeslein has one grandson at Port Niagara and is a subscriber himself to the Liberty Loan. Mr. Moeslein was given three cheers and a rising vote of thanks, after which he was asked to make a speech and he responded with an [Continued on Page 17]
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