Americans Continue Raids and Mi not Actions (■ . • HARRISBURG ifSljilll TELEGRAPH • £tar-3n&epcn&ciit m i LXXXVII— No. 65 12-EAGES COUNTY PLANS TO SEND CRIMINALS TO A WORKHOUSE Name Commissioner Cumblcr on Committee to Select Site For New Institution FEWER JAIL SENTENCES Reformatory to Take Place in a Large Measure of the County Prison To meet the requirements of an act of Legislature passed last year President Judge George Kunkel to day appointed Charles C. Cumbler, president of the board of county commissioners, to represent Dauphin county on the board of trustees from this district, to arrange for the pur chase of a site and the erection of suitable buildings for a county in dustrial farm workhouse and re formatory. The act divides the state into mine districts, placing the counties, and ! provides that the present judge of' each county shall name one mem-1 ber of the board of county com-1 missioners as a trustee. The third ! district of which Dauphin is a part, j includes the counties of York, j Adams, Cumberland, Perry, North- I umberland, Lebanon and Lancaster, i As soon as appointments arc made i in the other counties the board is j directed td select a suitable site of ] not more than 500 acres, but no S definite provision for organization is j made other than that the board of j trustees shall be a corporate body under the name of trustees of the | county industrial farm, workhouse | and reformatory. Inmates to Work In selecting a site the board is | directed to consider natural re- I sources for farming, fruit-growing, J stock-raising, brick-making prepar- \ ation of paving anil road material, i and shall have good railroad, drain- j age. sewage and water facilities. The labor for the construction of j buildings which are to be erected is ] to be supplied by the persons com- | mitted to the institutions or trans- ] ferred from county penal or re formatory institutions. After the buildings are completed I a superintendent and matron are to j be employed to take charge of the county farm. The law permits transfer of any prisoners sentenced on any charge i except murder or voluntary man-j slaughter in any of the counties in j each district, and provides that they I are to be employed at the work best I suited for them. Home For Inebriates A home for inebriates and drug 1 users also will be maintained at the farm. • All materials made at the work house and any produce which is raised and not used may be sold, the money to be used toward the ex pense of maintaining the institution, j The initial cost of the site and build- j ing work is to be paid by the var- I ious counties according to popula tion. Cost of keeping inmates will be estimated according to the num ber from each county in the district. In carrying out the provisions of the act scores of prisoners in county jails who were only an expense to the counties in the past will be put to work at the farm instead of be- I ing allowed to remain idle and im prisoned. • The man who bought The First Thrift Stamp in Harrisburg Saw a good thing S2.W Who was he? You all know him. THE WEATHER] For llfirrlfthurß and vicinity l Fair to-nlffht, with louent tempera ture about 40 degree*; Tuesday fair and warmer, For Kastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-nlfrht and Tuesday, warmer Tuesday; moderate. tfliJftinjf winds, becoming south. River The Susquehanna river nnl all Its tributaries will eontlnue to fall. A stage of about 7AI feet is Indi eated for Harrisburg Tuesday morning. General Conditions Tlaln has fallen along uml near the Atlantic roast from Virginia to extreme Southern Florida In the last twenty-four hours, be ing moderately heavy on the South Carolina const. Temperatures are 'J to 28 degrees higher than on Saturday morn ing In all districts cxecpt South ern California nml and In North ern Florida and the Interior of Georgia, where It Is slightly cooler. Temperature t S a. m.. 42. Sunt ItiseN, <1:02 n. in.j sets, 5t58 p. m. Moons First quarter, to-morrow, at 12t30 a. m. ltlver Stage: 0.2 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, ill. lowest temperature. 37. Meava temperature, 40. Norma! temperature, 38. ji 'FRENCH ADVANCE 800 YARDS WEST OF MEUSE RIVER Germans Arc Unsuccessful in Strong Attack on Six- Mile Front 80 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN Raiding Activity on British Front Hfis Died Down Noticeably • . French and German troops have been engaged In heavy lighting on both sides of the Meuse i nthe Ver dun sector. West of river the French have gained the enemy posi tions on a front of about 1,400 yards to si depth of SOO ytirdj, while east of the river the Geruians were un .-uccessful in strong attacks on a nx-\niie front. Punciay the Germans sent heavy forces against the Frinc* positions at f.amogneux, north of the Bois do cau -ores and near Heaonvaux. They entered the French line at various potnts. Violent French artillery tire inflicted heavy casualties on the at tackers and they were unable to hold onto the trenches they had gained. The front east of the Meuse lias been the scene of much violent artillery tire during the last month. Take Prisoners and Guns The French success west of the j j river was made at Malancourt, west | |of Dead Man Hill. In the Cheppy I j wood, immediately west of Malan | court, the French late Friday pene-! | trated German trenches on a front j of 800 meters to a depth of 300 ! ! meters. After destroying the posi tions the French returned with | eighty prisoners and seven machine iguns. East of Khciins, in the Cham pagne, German troops gained mo-! S mentarily a fooling in French posi- | ! tions west of Kaudesincourt, but j J suffered heavily under a French I | counterattack whiVll restored the | j situation. Raiding activity on the British front has died down somewhat and 1 ' (he Germans for the moment at least i | have given up their strong raids on I llhe Ypres-Arras. line. The artillery! | lire here and in the Cambrai area, ! however, is intense. British air men persist in their bombing .raids against military targets and have ac- I counted for twenty-three more Gcr i man machines. i Kittle Change in U. S. Sector On the American sector at Toul I and liiineville there has been no | change in the situation. American < j patrol parties arc still visiting the j j enemy lines and returning with i I favorable nformation. On the Toul : j front, the American artillery lire has j been very heavy, the gunners shell- j ing billets, troops anil works over i j an urea approximately six miles wide j land two miles deep. East of I,une- j 1 ville also the artillery bombardment! j has been heavy. Moscow Russian Capital I ITaving occupied Odessa and Nik- ; olayev, important naval and grain | ports, the Germans In southern itus- I I sia continue their advance north-! | ward from the Black Sea toward j Kherson, an important commercial I center and capital of the province! of the same name. The AU-Russian ! Congress of Soviets has declared Moscow to be the Russian capital and lit is said that all government and | I military effects have been removed j | from Petrograd. The Bolshevik! | leaders, although they urged and j j obtained ratification of the German I i peace treaty, are said to have little ! | hope that the treaty will bring peace | | and are calling upon local Soviets Ito form military organizations with which to combat the Germans. Enemy Finds It Costly to Hold Their Own With Sustained American Fire By Associated Press With the American Army in ! France, Friday, March 13.—Ameri- Ican artillery last night again bom j barded supposed gas projectors de ! tected in the German lines north- I wert of Toul. Photographs taken j later showed the complete destruc tivepess of their gunfire. The enemy replied rather weakly, but maintain ed frequent periods of firing during the night. There has been no infantry ac tivity except the usual patrol through No Man's Land and these reported no brushes with the enemy. . The German artillery fire lias beeli decreasing in intensity to a certain extent, indicating that the enemy finds it too costly to keen up with the sustained American fire. A few German snipers were busy durijig last night and to-day, but they got no victims. A high winjl Is interfer ing with aerial activity, although ob servation conditions are good. French Raiders Active; Bring in 130 Prisoners By Associated Press Paris, Sunday, March 17.—French raiders were very active last night and brought back more than 130 prisoners in four raids, according to an official statement from the war office to-day. The largest raid was made at Cheppy' wood, northwest of Verdun, where the German trenches were entered on a long front and where the French captured eighty prisoners. The other raids were made at Vauquois, in the Ardennes; near Malancourt. east of the Cheppy wood, and north of St. Mihiel. Trotzky Commassary of Petrograd Commune Washington, March 18. Ambassa dor Francis to-day confirmed press dispatches that Leon Trotzky. former Foreign Minister of Russia, had plac ed himself nt the head of a commune et Petrograd. The Ambassador re ferred to the communists ns a new name for the llolsheviki In Petrograd. Trotzky l now known'as the com missary of the Commune. HARRISBURG, FA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1918 It Wouldn't Take Long if We'd All Form a Bucket Brigade CALLJURORSFOR FIRST OF MURDER TRIALS ON LIST Richwine to Be Tried Before Judge Johnson Recuuse of McCarrell's Illness Shortly after, criminal court was opened this morning District Attor ney Michael E. Stroup called the case against Frederick Itichcreek, charged with the murder of Eph raim Silberman, an old .iunk peddler. Judge S. J. M. McCarrell, who heard the first trial of Kichcrook on the charge, was unable to attend court to-day because of illness, and Judge A. W. Johnson, of Lewisburg, pre siding in Courtroom No. 2, will hear the testimony. Four jurors had been accepted and sworn when the afternoon ses sion began. They were George H. Heagy, city; John H. Buck, Lower Paxton township; George H. Her zog. city; Grover C. Gansert, Mil lershurg. Sixteen others who were called were challenged, several of them because of objections to cap ital punishment for murder in the first degree. The prosecution may open late this afternoon. Harry G. Crane, city, was made foreman of the grand jury, and John Garverick, city, was excused. Of the jurors George W. Eisen berger, city, and Claude W. Keiser, Lykens, were excused, and Harry Knupp, Susquehanna township, did not answer when called. The grand jury reported at noon, returning fourteen true bills. The trial of Minnie Zimmerman, held on three charges of falise pre tense in ordering coal from a local dealer, was started before President George Kunkel in Courtroom No. 1. Mother Asks County Court to Pronounce Son Dead After Nine Years' Absence After endeavoring: several times to locate a son who has been missing since 1909, Mrs. Sarah K. Clemens, of Progress, through John C. Nissley, counsel, started proceedings in court to prove him legally "dead" in order to settle the estate of her late hus band, Iteuben Clemens, who died in 1914. Mrs. Clemens is administratrix of the estate and until the son, Jacob M. Clemens, is located or adjudged "dead" by t.hc courts final disposi tion of the real estate and personal property cannot be made. The proceeding is the first to be started in the local court under the fiduciary act of 1917. Heretofore it was required that a person legally entitled should make application for letters of administration on the es. tate of the supposed decedent. Tills Is abolished under the new act which requires advertising for four \yeeks in a county newspaper, a hearing not less than two weeks later, which in this case will be held May B. another series of advertisements and then a periort of twelve weeks must elapse before the (inal decree Is made. Clemens was last heard of in 1909. Five years later when his father died, efforts wore made to locate him by advertising in Harrlsburg. Potts town and Pittsburgh papers but he made no reply, < ' WAR GARDENS TO BE PLOWED FOR THE CITY FARMER Daylight Saving a Boon to the Amateur Tiller of the Soil ••Washington, D. C., "Mareli 18, 11118. '•Editor, Telegraph, llarrishnrit, I'a. "Congratulations on tbe line constructive fduoationnl campaign Jon carried on for the daylight Having: hill. This measure will mean millions of dollars for the war (gardeners nad thousands of extra hours of daylight In which to produce better food with which the city farmers can feed them selves. Passage of this hill Is the biggest victory of the war. "Charles i.othrop Pack," "National War tiurden Com." Good-by, ivaiser Bill! If you nev er hear another squawk from liitn, I knew that he is buried somewhere in a Harrisburg war garden. Shirley Watts, in charge of this industry for the Chamber of Commerce, will beat the daylight schedule by starting at j 3 o'clock to-morrow morning to bury I Hill, lone-hand. To-day he got in | sixty Cleveland caterpillar plowing j tanks. Look for all the world like | those big fellows that plow through the Huns. And to-morrow General [Continued oil Page 9.] Captain Bretz to Receive Honorable Discharge For Physical Disabilities Captain John T. Brets is to be honorably discharged from active I service, according to dispatches from | Camp Hancock. The decision is the i result of a physical examination, dis j closing the fact that his hearing is defective. Captain Ilretz commanded Company D. of the N. G. P.. when the guard left the city for camp. Lieutenant Harry Souders, another well-known llarrisburger, is now with the' Signal Corps and is much pleased with his work. Colonel Maurice E. Finney has been appointed to the command of the 103 d Headquarters Train and Military Police at Camp Hancock. Colonel Finney is now In Texas at the Officers Training School, but when ho returns he will assume the new command. Colonel Finney suc ceeds Colonel Thoi ias Biddle Ellis, who has received an honorable dis charge. . Colonel Finney, who is a llarris burger and widely known here, was formerly In command of the old Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry. He was rendered surplus by the reor ganization. Before the Texas trip, he was commander of the 28th Division Officers Training Camp. HICKOK TELLS HOW TO PLACE COAL ORDERS Early Delivery ol" Next Win ter's Fuel Supply Said Imperative Consumers to-day were urged by Koss A. Ulckok, local fuel adminis trator, to place now their orders for coal to be delivered during the spring for next winter. It is important, It was pointed out that the great ma jority of consumers be stocked up with approximately enough coal to see them through the next winter. A caution against hoarding, however, is given. Early orders will, Mr. Hickok said, insure deliveries and will aid trans [Continued on Page 9.] 4,000 Householders Who Failed, to Register Flour Regarded With Suspicion Tremble ye hoarder of flour! That was the sentiment to-day at the Food Administrator's oflh-e. Not that Harrisburg has been slack in mak ing its report.' Indeed, it is to be but just the there is some snsplcion that flour in bulk may be concealed and the ma chinery of the department was set in motion to-day to run down- the ru mors. At noon the total of returns from housekeepers was 23,363, which leaves about 4,000 to report before to-morrow morning. Of this number I 3,928 reported an excess of thirty [ days' supply, making a total of 178,- 468 pounds. "This Is not considered at all out of the way," said the ad ! ministrator. "It shows that people | are provident. They have been iic . customed fot; years to buying 110-ir in quantity, ahead. After nilnut . vestigiiion we have found *s. on? guilty of hoarding and Harrisburg, may be proud of herself. At the same time there may be some flout concealed which has not been fully exposed and we are after these sus pected persons." The Food Administrator has made a remarkable, quick and accu rate canvass by the help of the postal department. The mailing list ga.e precise information of every house holder, thus furnishing a knowledge which otherwise would have taken months to get. Five Hostile Airplanes Bagged by Italians By Associated Press Home, March 18. lncreased ar tillery activity along some sectors of the mountain front and along: the Plave Is reported In to-day's War Office statement. Austrian raiding -detach ments along the lower pari of the Plave line were driven off. The state ment adds: "Five hostile airplanes were brought down by our aviators. I,ast night a naval airship bombed an enemy avia tion ground." U.S. SOLDIERS WATCH FOR SPY WITHIN LINES j Sentry Sees Flashes of Light j j From Window Facing Enemy TELEPHONE WIRES CUT German First Lines North west of Toul Are Held Strongly By Associated Press With the American Army inj France, Sunday, March 17.—Anicr ! lean intelligence oilieers report uvi j dence leading to the conclusion that I possibly a spy may be at work vvttli [ in the American lines northwest of i Toul. Early to-day an American ! sentry saw Hashes of a signal light! i from a window facing in the diivc-] Hon of tile enemy lines, tie llred through the window and dashed m to the house, but failed to find iny ; one. Four hours earlier some im ! portajit telephone wires within the! j American lines were found to have been cut. Fntcr Enemy Trench An American patrol last night rn-i tered the enemy trench at one end ! of the-sector and penetrated thcni i i for some distance without difficulty. I j Much valuable information was ! gathered. As they were about ready j j to return they established contact' | with the enemy, who opened tire! I with a machine gun. The Americans ' jumped to a safe position and hurl ; ed grenades at the enemy gunners,) ' silencing the gun. Returning to the American side of ; No Man's Land, the raiders brought, back with them a German iitlej I breech, protected by a metallic cover! over the muzzle and a snap clip rov-; ! er, both of which operate quickly and] | efficiently. Officers declared it wasj I the best thing of the kind they .have i j ever seen for protecting rifles. The' mechanism was turned over to ihej i intelligence department with a rec-| I ommendation that a detachment be j furnished the American troops. I First Line* Held Strongly Another patrol on the other end I of the sector reported that the enemy' first line was held strongly. While i th'e raiders were inspecting the Ger man positions, the enemy fired upon them several times with rillcs and machine guns. The American artillery bombard ed effectively, billets, troops anil new enemy works at bahayville, St. B&U8- sant, the village of Montsec, Itiche court, in the Quart Do Reserve, along the Pannes-Monsard road, and a considerable body of troops north west of Buxiercs. They also smashed another battery of gas projectors which had been set up in a double line of trenches. The enemy lias shelled various parts of the American positions rath er heavily, many gas slells being mixed with high explosive ones. Air Crowded Witli Planes Several times during the day the air was crowded with airplanes and on one occasion several enemy ma chines were overhead at tbe same time. Airplanes from the rear of our ' lines, carrying American observers, ! maneuvered to get into a fight with j the enemy machines but were un- I successful. American antiaircraft I guns drove off a number of enemy | machines and kept the others high ■ | in the air. American observers obtained bad : ly wantev photographs and valuable information back of the German > lines. • Luncvllle Sector Active American troops in the Luneville sector have been subjected to fairly heavy bombardments during the past twenty-four hours, but have effec tively returned the fire." Patrols at two points established contact with the enemy last night and early to day. The Germans retired, j American soldiers still are holding the Mecklenburg trench, taken two | days ago. and which it now is per mitted to name. The antiaircraft ! guns east of Luneville were extreme ly busy to-day in driving off enemy airplanes. Bishop Would Send German Alliance to Front With LaFollette By Associated Press Philadelphia, Pa., March 18.—Mar ried clergy of the Methodist Episco pal Church in the Philadelphia Con ference were assured a minimum sal ary of SI,OOO, starting next year, ! through a plecTge given to-day at the j annual session of the Conference* ] The married clergy will not be the ! only ones to receive an increase. ( There will be increases "all along the j line." The minimum salary of pro | bationers will, be advanced to $750." Bishop Henderson stirred the con ! fcrence with a patriotic address, in I which he suggested that the German- American Alliance 'be sent to | front-line trenches in Prance end j that pacifist pastors be turned over' : to the Department of Justice. "If 1 had my way,"' he said, "I would mobilize the German-American Alliance and send its members to the v-cstern front under the leadership of Senator I,al''ollette." Scores arose and cheered madly. "If there is any preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church," the Bishop shouted, "who does not see his way clear to espouse the Allies' cause, if we can't regenerate him, then we will eliminate him and see that the Department of Justice hears about it." The liishop revealed that there was German blood in his own veins. "My mother was born In Germany." he said, "but every drop of blood in me is dedicated to the holy purpose of wiping Kaiserlsm off the face of this earth. I do not believe In stamping out the German In this country. I believe in stamping out pro-Germanism, but let us take the German language and usj It to spread patriotism among those who speak it" • , Single Conv ? Cents HOME EDITION GERMAN THREAT OF SPRING OFFENSIVE CAUSES N Weekly War Department Review Concludes That Enemy, Despite Vast Preparations, Will Not Take Offensive Unless Forced Into It; Confirms Opinion Many Offi cials Have Held For Weeks, Despite Forecasts 11 y Associated Press Washington, March 18. —Ger many's threat of a great spring of fensive on the western front no long er impresses American military men. In its weekly review to-day the War Department records the conclu sion that the enemj' In spite of his vast preparations, will noa take the offensive unless forced into it. This confirms the opinioii many officers j have expressed for weeks in the face of official forecasts to the contrary from both sides of the Atlantic. "While hostile preparations for an offensive in the west are not slack ening," the review says, "it is becom- 1 ing more evident that the enemy will launch the offensive only if compel led to do so by the exigencies of the general strategic situation." The nature of the information up on which the opinion is based is :iot disclosed. It is noted that fresh Ger man divisions have arrived in. the western front and the German lines are said to be approaching the point in destiny beyond which it would be impossible to go without choking communication lines and hampering free movement of reserves. Ap/ai> ently, hefwever, this concentration has come to bo regarded as a defen sive, not an offensive movement. Much of the statement is devoid J •* X f T ? J.. Dfiinv jjp 4ft IX ' !~:ned foi HK [4* ' ■ ".ncci. X 14* JL *¥ | I BOARD A IX liomas i ♦ * I i 4 •a > an- 2 J noun-. , t X f ' Pairh | ' I t | f X 1* S icig;. X ? id t > have A. had code correspondence with diplomats and high offi X cials of foreign governments, were arrested to-day b; T T 1 r/cr t H> *f ' • . JL i® ni j U. S. AWAITS HOLLAND'S REPLY "Washington— Plans for operation of the Dutch ship- £ ] A A ping which will be. acquired by the United States an* T Great Britain either'through voluntary agreement'or \ X 4 '.vile J government awaited the reply of Holland to the demanu T | f that she accede to the terms of the contract which Get *>■ X many blocked or suffer seizure of all her tonnage ir T American an<f~Biitish waters. ? IDAHO FANGE LAW CONSTITUTIONAL 4 T Washington—The Idaho law prohibiting the drivini T T ▼ of .sheep upon a cattle range was declared constitutional * j tc. jf* j ? i j ? MARRIAGE LICENSES % 1, !Hltru Ardciilrnk and Iftortia Mnxn, Harrlnbtirff. T to the activities of the Americ'tn troops now engaged on five separate fronts, one of the sectors lying close to the Swiss border. The ofllcial communication, however, adds noth ing to recently published press re ports of the raids and trench fight ing in which the Americans have been involved. Elsewhere on the western front the experts finds no evidence of impend ing major activities by either side. The period of inactivity, the state ment says is being prolonged. It notes, however, indications of Austro- German concentrations in the Ital ian theater which nay forecast as saults on Verona or Brescia as their objectives. Identity of U. S. Troops in Chemin des Dames Is. Disclosed by Newspaper • By Associated Press With the American Army in France, Sunday, March 17.—The American troops who have been in action along the Chemin des Dames are a division composed exclusively of New England units. The division contains units from all New England states, troops from Massachusetts having been especially active. The identification of these troops up to this time has been prohibited by the censor. The restriction was removed when it was discovered that The Stars and Stripes, a newspaper published by and for the troops of the American expeditionary forces, had contained in its latest edition a story disclosing their identity.
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