Enemy Planes Control Air in American Sector; First Shipment of U. S. Battle Planes to France ■ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' M LXXXVII No. 45 14 PAGES ADVANCE ON PETROGRAD UNCHECKED BY RED GUARD SLAVS FAIL TO DELAY LATEST GERMAN DRIVE Hun Troops, Having Occupied Dvinsk, Are Advancing Toward Pskoff, 180 Miles From Petrograd; Teuton Airmen Join in Raids; Many Are Killed; Red Guards Offer Slight Resistance By Associated Press Berlin, Feb. 21. —Via London.—The Russian town of Rovno has been cleared of the Russians, the war office reports. Trains with about 1,000 cars, many laden with food, have been captured, as well as airplanes and an in calculable amount of war material. The war office announces that 1,353 guns and be tween 4,000 and 5,000 motor cars have been captured from the Russians. The Germans have passed through Wenden, 55 miles northeast of Riga, and are now near Wolmar, 70 miles northeast of Riga. German regiments from Moon Island crossed Moon sound and marched into Esthonla. occupying Leal. Other forces, advancing along the shore of the Gulf of Riga, reached Pernigal and Lemsal. I London, Feb. 21.—German troops, having occupied Dvinsk, J arc advancing toward Pskoff, 180 miles south-southwest of Pctro- 1 jfrad, according to a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. They also 1 have occupied Hapsal, Estlionia and their cavalry is pushing toward Mohilev, the former Russian general headquarters. The Novaia Viedomstv, the dispatch adds says the Germans' have occupied Molodechno, an important railway junction north west of Minsk. According to the Pravda the Austrians have be gun an advance o nthe Ukrainian front. Petrograd, Wednesday, Feb. 20. Dispatches received here indicate continued German movements along •11 fronts toward v Yitebsk, Minsk, Pskoft and Keval. German airmen are reported to have raided Regitsa on Monday. Many bombs were dropped and sev eral persons were killed. The raiders disappeared toward Dvinsk. Just two hours after the armistice ended German troops entered Dvinsk..lt was 2 o'clock on the aft ernoon of February 18, that Ger man patrols unexpectedly appeared around the city and seized the rail way station and other central points. Only small skirmishes with fleeing soldiers took place. Ths. Red Guards offered no resistance, while the ar tillery and infantry were demobiliz ing and wholly unprepared to tight. Attempts to evacuate, the city were unsuccessful. Much heavy artillery and large quantities of ammunition fell into the hands of the Germans. Civil population had no opportunity to escape. The commissaries or the local Workmen's and Soldiers' Council tried to escape disguised as soldiers, but they were seized by the Ger mans. HARRISBURG has gone over the top on EVERY DEMAND yet it is not saving money AW Buy Thrift Stamps That's the answer. THE WEATHER For llarrlnburg nnil vicinity) Fair nnil continued cold to-night hihl 1 rliliij ; lotTfNt trniprralare to ■tight about 5 decree*. For Knntern renun> Ivnnln: Fnlr. continued cold to-night and Fri day: diminishing nortknrat ulnnn. River The lee noricr In the Went llrnnrh at Xmllit, movfd out Wrdnrn dny night, Manning Wllliuinn liort on a atnge of 21.4 feet. The Ice jam at l.ock Haven nu atlll Intact thin morning, but the water behind It han been reced ing alnce the lower gorge ntov -d. The lee from the broken gorge hna reached the main river anil nan panning Sellnn *roie at H n. m. to-day on a atnge of 13.7 feef. It will rearh Ilarrlnburg late tbl H nfternoon, Attended by a sharp rlae of aev eral feet In the river. A maxi mum atnge of about HI feet In Indlcnted for llurrlaburg about 7 or K p. rn. By Ba. m„ Friday, the atnge will be about 13.2 feet. Temperutarc: H u. 111.. JO. Hum ltinen, 0i35 a. QJ.: art a, 5133 p. m. River Stage: 10.5 feet above low water mark. Moon 1 Full moon, Febrnary 25, HUNS MET SLIGHT OPPOSITION IN RUSSIAN DRIVE Occupation of Dvinsk Monday Was Complete Surprise to the Population From the Gulf of Finland to thei southern border of Volhynia the I German advance into Russia is pro gressing. The main objectives are! said to be Reval, on the coast of Es thonia, Pskoff, between Dvinsk and! Petrograd, and the important centers' of Minsk and Vitebsk. Hapsal and Werder, in Esthonia southeast of Reval, have been occu pied. The invaders also are nearing Pskoff, Mohilev and Minsk. The im portant railway junction of Molo dechno, fifty miies northwest of Minsk, is reported to have been cap- [Contiiiticti on Page 2.] Council Tours City to View Ash Situation Council with other city officials made an inspection trip over the city in autos this afternoon to see con ditions which have developed be cause ashes are not being collected. Residents in many of the outlying districts are removing the ashes themselves hauling them to vacant lots or dumping in streets close to their homes. Private collectors who are working now also are dumping waste on vacant lots in residential sections it is claimed. Commissioner Lynch suggested the tour on Tues day, declaring something must be done at once to provide for the re moval of the waste, and for a general cleanup, as many of the streets are almost impassable because of the piles of ashes which have been dumped there. Peter Laubenstein Dies in His 94th Year Peter Iaubenstein. apod 9a. died this morning at the home of his son. Cap tain E. I-aubenstein. :52* South Six teenth street. He is survived by his son and a daughter. Miss Mary enstelA. Mr. was widely known in the city. h uneral services will bo hold at the residence of Captain Kaubenstein vs South Sixteenth street. Saturday af ternoon, at 2 o'clock, the Kev. Ellis N. Kremer. pastor of the Reformed Salem Church, and the Rev. 11 w A Hanson, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church, officiating. Hurial will be made in the Prospect Hill Cemetery. Mr. Laubenstein served in the Civil War and was, at one time, captured by General Mosby, the famous guer rilla. He was the father of Captain Kzekias laubenstein. a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and cap tain of Company D, Kighth i:ocinint He is also the grandfather of William I. laubenstein. who served in the Spanish-American War. was on duty in the Philippines, and who was a member of the Governor's Troop. The grandson is now on recruiting duty for the United Statfes Army. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1918. YANKEES A T MERCY OF HUN FLYERS; U.S. RUSHES AIRPLANES Control of Air in France Be-, longs to Enemy; "Send Air planes," Is Cry of Officials at the Front By Associate J Press With the American Army in ! France, Feb. 20.—Control of the air! in the American sector belongs to the j enemy. Any officer at the front will make this declaration—all have made it. The control is obvious. ■ German airplanes come and go over! the American lines almost at will. Every time the Germans come 1 over their patli • through the sky is | followed by fleecy shrapnel puffs.! but the chances of hitting an air plane with anti-aircraft shells is so remote that the enemy aviators calmly fly along as though on a pleasure tour. Every now and then airplanes on this side attack tho enemy. They always do this when they get a chance. But the Boche is clever while flying and manages to come over and take pictures, make observation and do virtually whatever else he desires and then calmly sails home without interrup tion. Nearly always he is at an altitude of about three thousand me ters where he is comparatively safe from anti-aircraft fire and knows it, , It is not permitted to name anyi on Page 12.] I HIS 54 YEARS' EXPERIENCE KEEPS HIM OUT OF U.S. A RM Y Jack- of Many Trades Despite Ilis Twenty-Two Years to Remain at Home on the Farm Here's a man too valuable at home to send to the Army where the Hun shell might end a long career. At least that's the opinion of draft board officials, so Albert Fay Iloth rock, a Mifflin county farmer, will continue farming mayhap until the war ends. When Rothrork asked for defer red classification in the draft he came to the fcolumn wherg each reg istrant was to give an account of what he can do and how long he has done It. This was his record: THE TRUCE OF American Planes Shipped to Front Ahead of Time Set THE ffrst American battle planes have gone to France, almost four months ahead of time. The shipment, though small, will be followed by a steady stream of planes, each equipped with a Liberty motor and repre senting the latest improvements known to the flying world. If this war is to be won within the memory of any living man, it wiir be won in the air, was the remarkable statement by Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the Air craft Construction Hoard, in a re cent article in the Telegraph. America will do her part. U. S. Rushes First Planes to France to Combat Hun Flyers Washington, Feb. 21. —The first American-built battleplanes are on their way to the front in France. Equipped with twelve-cylinder Lib erty motors and representing the latest product of combined Allied in genuity, they have surpassed in tests all records for speed and climbing for planes of their type. They are being delivered virtually four months ahead of schedule. Oth er battleplanes will follow immedi [Continued on Page 3.] Automobile and truck driver, three years. Farmer, twelve years. Horseman, twelve-years. Morseshoer, five years. Student, five years. Teacher, four years. Teamster, ten years. In all ISothrock has had lifty-four years of experience in such work, eiiouxh to make him believe him self "expert" In farming, horseman ship and teamsterins:. Kothrock Is 22 years old. RAILROAD BILL IS FORERUNNER OF MORE POWER Government Control of Other Utilities lo Be Campaign Issue B v Associate J Press Washington, Eeb. 21.—Senator Lewis, of Illinois, speaking in the | Senate to-day declared the adminis ! tration railroad bill is a forerunner |of government control over various public lenities and predicted that i the question would lie the great ; domestic issue in the next presiden ; tial campaign. "•Let us not deceive ourselves as to : the meaning of this measure," Sen ator Lewis declared. "This is the be ginning of the government taking ] the railroads as a government , agency. The roads will never be per mitted to return to the former state : of personal control for private bene lit. At the same time this country [Continued on Page 2.] Must Defend Outraged Liberty, Prince Leopold Assures German Troops By Associated Press '< London. Feb. 21. —An intercepted ! | German wireless message, according [ !to a Keuter dispatch from Petro- ! ! grad, quotes Prince Leopold of Ba- I i varia, the Austro-German com- | mandcr on the eastern front, as say- ' : ing tolhis troops: "Russia is sick and is trying to ; contaminate all the countries in the ! world with a moral infection. We must fight against the disorder Jn [ oculatetl by Trotzky and defend out raged liberty. Germany is fortunate in being the incarnation of the sen timents of other order-loving peo pies." Police Round Up Loafers Under Mayor's Ruling Police are vigorously enforcing the edict of the " Mayor against loafiing and panhandling in the city. Offen ders without visible means of sup port are being roped in upon sight I by the police, and heavy fines im posed at the police court hearings. Twenty %h fines were imposed In three Instances yesterday, and one' man Sva discharged upon the prom ise that he would get to work. Police are constantly on the outlook for of fenders and declare that many well known offenders have got to work since the order went out from the executive office. ! RIVER EXPECTED TO REACH FLOOD STAGE BY NIGHT Great Masses of Ice Being Carried Down Stream by High Water jFEAR DANGEROUS GORGE 1 ! Cold Weather to Continue, With Futher Drop in Temperature The river will reach a sixteen-foot high Mater stage this evening when the crest of tlie flood bearing ice ' from the west brandy will pass this j city. It is expected that the ice will | pass the city without damage. Flood i stage for Harrisburg is seventeen I feet. j The ice remains gorged at Pequea, ' and it is a question if the great j field of ice bearing down from the • west branch will pile up on the gorge and cause disastrous condL jtions, or whether it will have suffi cient force to push the gorge to the ! bay. | The gorge at N'esbit broke early I this morning. At 7 o'clock the gorge | between Jersey Shore and Lock I Haven broke. Some of the ice gorged I again, and remains piled up at ! Brown's Tower, a point five miles j above Jersey Shore. The rest of tho I ice passed Willlamsport this inorn | ing on a IT 1.4 flood stage, without I doing'much damage. | Lock Haven remains flooded to ! day, with live feet of water in the j business section, and the railroad j tracks covered with seven feet of | water. Citizens of the town were | confined to the second story of their i homes last night without light and j heat, owing to the fact that the high j water put the light and power plant : out of commission. Conditions are i worse than at any time since the : 1889 flood. It was reported to the officfc of the j State Water Supply Commission this morning that with a temperature of ! ten degrees in Lock Haven last night j the ice in the street has frozen to I such an extent that people can step I out of their windows and walk on ] it. There is much -suffering from I the cold reported. Near-Zero Weather Sends ! Householders Scurrying to Coal Dealers For Fuel A severe cold wave that, gripped the city last night and promises to continue for several days, tinds Har risburgers again suffering with an inadequate anthracite coal supply. Dealers report that people who dur | ing the recent mild weather have i managed to get along with a small j supply of bituminous and wood, are ! rushing the coal offices for hard coal j again to-day. The supply of coal on | hand is short, and is being sold in the usual quarter and half-ton lots. Five cars of coal came into the city yesterday and seven cars the day before. Twenty-three cars of coal is j the supply of hard received this j week. The lowest temperature of the i day was 10 degrees above zero. The j mercury will fall five degrees lower to-night, P'orecaster Demain said | to-day. i Announcement was made to-day j that when the central coal bureau I office is established in this city, dealers will still continue to take or | ders in their own offices for coal, but ; all orders taken that way will be sent j to the central office to be filed with j the others. The central coal bureau I will be established here within, I twenty days, a dealer said this morn-' | ing. Jewish War Fund Mounts Upward as Teams Close Their Intensive Campaign ! This is the last day of the Jew j ish campaign whereby originally it ; was hoped to secure $15,000 for I war welfare and relief work. The grand total about noon to-day hov- I ered near the $22,000 mark. Final j cwunt of subscriptions will be made to-night at the Rosenberg law of fices, and a figure is hoped for which Will surprise the central committee in New York, It Is a remarkable thing that Har risburg has never "fallen down" in ja war campaign. Many other cities | of Pennsylvania time and again have failed to "come through" to the ex | tent originally intended, but Har- I risburg in two Liberty Loan, two j Ked Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Knights jof Columbus campaigns went | through the entanglements in ex | traordinarily fine shape—and now in I tho Jewish drive repeats the per formance. Every member of the ten teams of solicitors is on his toes 10-day. There are 050 Jewish families in the city. Of these perhaps 300 have been seen by the team members. If it is physically possible the balance will be Interviewed before nightfall. Sues Husband's Parents For SIO,OOO, Alleging They Alienated His Affections Alleging her husband's parents are responsible for alienation of his af fections, causing him to desert her, Mrs. Florence A. Lawrence to-day through her attorneys filed a suit against Mr. and Mrs. John F. Law rence, asking for SIO,OOO damages. It is claimed in the statement which has been filed that Mrs. rence was married to Charles X. Lawrence, in August, 1914, but after the wedding his parents by "persua sion, threats, entreaties and intima tions," caused the family troubles which ended about three months ago when the couple separated. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION AVIATION PLANT AT MIDDLETOWN DOUBLED IN SIZE Quartermaster's Depot Plans For Adjacent Site Backed by Commerce Chamber GO TO NATIONAL CAPITAL! Committee of Harrisburgßus-j nessmen to Wait on I*. S. Officials The government is going light ahead with plans for more than doubling the size of the aviation de pot on ground adjoining the pres ent buildiitgs near Middletowp. This is separate and distinct from the big quartermaster's depot planned for that locality, for which the War Department some weeks ago leased nearly 400 acres adjacent to the tract on which the aviation warehouses stand. Just how big the additional structures will be has not been an nounced and when the work will be started js largely a matter of weather conditions. It became known to-day that sen fContinued on Paso 2.] Lutherans Certain of Going "Over the Top" in Drive Campaign officials conducting the I.utheran drive for SIO,OOO were au thority for the statement last night that half the fund had been raised by the various teams. Keen rivalry between the teams has kept them from submitting reports of their ef forts, so that exact figures were not /.lailablu this morning. All teams will make their reports by Saturday. ROCK K11.1.S I'Ollt By Associated I'rcss Sherbroke, Que., Feb. "1. A rock sliding down the shaft of the copper mine at Kustis. Quebec, late last night, when twenty miners were com ing to the surface in a ear. killed four of the men and injured four others, one perhaps fatally. fy&irirHrtr+irHr iHritir*k !*' . f 4 \ T j J ADMINISTRATION BILL REVISED J Lfc Wash ington--In -accordance with the plan for a com- 4* IT promise on the v/jir reorganization legislation, the ad- JL iL ministration bill extending President Wilson's authority jT to co-ordinate government : > cies was revised to-day S Iby the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee and will be re- ▼ ported next Monday to the full committee. R. R. BILL MAY PASS TODAY T Washington—Both houses of. Congress worked con- Z tinuously to-day on the admipistra'tion bill for federal V control of railroads during the war, and, in the Senate flit passage of the. measure before adjournment to-night T, seemed assured, but not without efforts to amend it. •* RED GUARD SHOOTS GENERALS Petrograd— General Yanoushkevitcb,•'former chief of V *tr the general staff, on his way to prison by a *£ member of the Red Guard. When told he was bcinr *s*. * ♦** •taken to Petrograd the general, .according to the guard, endeavored to seize .1 revolver for the purpose of com- £ I T mittirf| • rcupon the guard shot him. J I* j |T . INDICTED CLOTH FRAUDS T $* New York—Eight clothing manufacturers, two em- I 44 W) I pl< quartermaster s department of A 4 the Army were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury her *?* | to-day. charged with being concerned in c\t n.-ive army [ 4j uniform cloth frauds. ? HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE T e| *s7* |4n' Ilavrisburg —Raymond Leese was to-day arrested at £> IY the Hotel AJva, on a charge of desertion and nonsupport §t information being brought by his wife who i;; now living <s T with her r.randp rents in Middletown. It i* claimed that *P 9 ?\ 4* Lcct.c wa. living ai the Hotel Alva, w.th Lillian Sluni At £* I baugh, registered as h-.s wife. $ LIBERTY BONDS SHOW STRENGTH •* 4 4 -New York—Lfbcrty Bonds showed a sudden burst of ♦£ X stren, th in the : tock market to-day. The second 4s ad- *£■ i"r* vanccd 1.10 per cent, and the first 4s 0.G4 per cent, dur- ing the first hour of trading, bringing them both up to the *r quotation of 97.20, the first time they have . old on the Mm * ! ' asi 101 lUAttMA (it * •fi* . Kdnard W, Mcmer*niltli "nil Charlotte 1.. Mrnub. ICllsnbeth- ■. y vlllei John C. Clmbb, Junlalu enmity, anil timer Y. Arnold. Mil- 1 lemtowai Frank 1.. Uunn. Thnniiixuii tu n. mi.l Anna K. Amrj. i HlchflrM I Warren F. I'utternon nml Mnbel Kbrrlr, llarrlnliiiru; *7* Victor l. Coble and Fraaeen M. I.avert), Mrrhiinlcbur*i Itaymond ~i t 11. Snyder and Salome M. Miller, tirntai ltulph K. Fllcklnifer nnd >- T Jennie F. Smith, Sfwport. WAR WORK FIRST ON PROGRAM OF STATEY.M.C.A. Delegates Here For Throe- Day Session of Pennsyl vania Organization MESSAGE FROM CANADA Business Session Open to All Members Interested in Association How the Y. M. C. A. has widened its activities in the last year to cover the war work being done by the as sociation, is to be shown at the fif tieth annual convention of the State Young Men's Christian Associations being: held in Zion Lutheran (Ihurch this afternoon, to-morrow and Sat urday. Speakers in close touch with the war ,work and kindred activities opened within the twelvemonth, will tell of these activities. E. Tomlin son, camp secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Hancock, is one of these speakers who will tell in this even t Continued on Pace ll.] Penn-Mary to Become Main Plant of the Great Bethlehem Steel Company By Associated Press Baltimore, Md., Feb. 21. Charles Schwab, after inspecting the Penn-Mary plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company, here yesterday, an nounced the plant would be developed until it became the main plant of the nethlohcm Steel Corporation. Jle said $25,000,000 already has been spent on different improvements at Sparrows IV.int. To finish the nw construction work an equal amount would be needed.
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