• •• 1 * ■ ; t . ... . y'^ 1^3 '- v 4 - IWV ' w Contending Armies Pause While Reinforcements Are Hurried For Next Movej Picard# Shakes jfe HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M, ' • . * ®l)£ Star-ln&cptn&cnt %r i LXXXVII— No. 95 14 PAGES .GREAT ARMIES DEADLOCK AS BATTLE ENTERS SECOND MONTH YANKEE GUNNERS BRING DOWN TWO HUN AIRPLANES Ambulance Men Do Heroic I Service in Battle by Gath ering Up Wounded WORK UNDER HEAVY FIRE j Americans Fight Well in Most! Severe Engagement, Al though Outnumbered By Associated Press With the American Army In Franco, Sunday, April 21.—Two low flying German airplanes were brought down Saturday by American machine gunners during the German attack in and about Seicheprey. northwest of Toul. The machine gunners who bagged the Germans had been ordered to retire, but they remained in their position and fought effectively against the enemy aviators. During the engagement the Ger mar-s concentrated their artillery Hre on American telephone and telegraph ■wires, which were cut many times. Couriers were forced to pass through two or three barrages in order to maintain communication. In the meantime men ot the Signal Corps, in face of a heavy bombardment, re stored the wires almost a? fast as the enemy shells disrupted them. Bleu For Treachery- Ambulance men ventured into No ! Man's Land during the thick of the j light .and did heroic work in gath- i erir.g up wounded. One German who j had offered to surrender attempted to explode a bomb on the pround as three Americans approached him. Another soldier, however, discovered the trick and hurled a grenade at the German. One of the German's legs was blown oft and he died later, a prisoner of the men he attempted to blew up. A village near the front lines which the correspondent visited to -day tells a mute tale of Saturday's lighting. There are huge shellholes in the streets and par's of the church and other buildings have teen blown eff The enemy fire became so hot here that Salvation Army girl* who had been serving coffee and doughnuts to the Americans were forcxd to leave. The girls protested, saying they were nor afraid of the Germans, and want ed to stay in thoir dugcut, but the officers did not wish to take the re sponsibility. As they left the girls were cheered by soldiers returning from the front lines. Advance In Wave* German forces which attacked the American positions west of the Ren ners forest, northwest of Toul came across No Man's Land in three waves. They liad been especially trained for this operation. The Amer'cans, al though greatly outnumbered f.-iught for every inch of the way. giving ground slowly and pouring a deadly machine gun, rifle and automatic fire inro the advancing enemy The German barrage be*!fin just betore sunrise, after a heavy bom bardment on the American front, and real positions in the courst of the nUht. In an attemnt to put the American batteries ou f of action, the Germans used an unrsuslly large ni.inber of g<n shells, b'lt the Amer ican artlllei-y repliei vigorously, hut ling huad.-eds of s'lello ecross the Teuton lines. A counter barrage ioi dewn by the Americans caught the advancing Germans and killed a number of them before they had opportunity to rt'ach the American trenches. The Germans entered the shell-torn village of Seicheprey in the forenoon, but only remained a short time, be ing driven out again by a brilliant, counterattack made by the Amer ican infantry. Tht. commander of one unit hold ing an outpost reported at one stage of the attack that his men were slowly giving ground, but that they were "fighting every inch of the way." The Thrift Stamp Habit Helps Buy Liberty Bonds You can do both easily. THE WEATHER For Harrlxharg and vlclnltyi Fair nnd slightly cooler to-nlKht. . nllk foneat temperature nhont to degree*! Tuesday fair. For Rastern Pennsylvaniai Fair nn< slightly cooler to-nlxhti Tacaday talri fresh Trent winds. River The Jiorth Branch. I-oyrrr West Branch and the main river will rise somewhat. Other stream* of the system will fall slowly or remala nearly slntlonnry. A stage of ahout ft feet Is Indicat ed for Harrlahurg Tucadny morning. Temirrralurri 8 n. m.. 41. San! Rises. 8il a. m.s sets, 7i37 p. m. River Stagei 8.5 feet above low w (iter mark. "The Three Must-Get-Theirs FATALLY HURT WHEN STRUCK BY DOCTOR'S AUTO J. W. Myers Dies After Being Run Down by Dr. A. L. Shearer J. W. Myers, a veteran railroader, widely known in Harrisburg, was in- j jurcd this morning about 10 o'clock j in a collision with an automobile] owned and driven by Dr. A. L. Shear-1 er, a physician at SOS North Sixth street. The tragedy took place in I Sixth street, about midway between j Peffer and Delaware streets, when | Mr. Myers stepped ofC the sidewalk; to take the trolley car, according to j spectators. News of the accident j brought a big gathering of persons; who knew Mr. Myers, and every [Continued on Page 10.] Third Loan Figures Show $1,456,585,190 Washington, April 22. — Half ori the three billion dollars minimum! sought for the Third Liberty Loan remains to be subscribed in the re-J maining working days of the cam paign. Early reports to-day to headquar-j ters indicated that the total had been 1 raised above $1,500,000,000. Reports' already in show $1,456,858,190. This 1 covers only part of Saturday's busi-! ness and represents an increase ofj $85,000,000 over the total reported' Saturday night. Highway Gangs Begin Street Repair Work Forces of the city highway de- ' partment. started to-day on the re- j pair work on city streets. Commis sioner Lynch said the men would complete Sixth street, to North street, and would then be trans ferred to Front street. A number of holes in streets are being filled temporarily with binder until per manent improvements can he made. Commissioner Lynch also an- j nounced traffic would he permitted across the bridge in North Cameron i street, crossing the asylum creek. It is likely the careful study of conditions on the Mulberry street bridge will he started to-morrow by i H. G. Perrinsr, the Baltimore en- I gineer. who has been given charge j of this work by the Arm employed by Mr. Lynch. SINUI.FI COPI, il CENTS KNOWS BONES AREI IN CELLAR WHEN BLACK CAT COMES Family That Recognizes Sign Finds "Human" Ribs in Corner Has any body seen n big black cat! | in the neighborhood of 12.8 Verbeke ' I street ? ! Neighbors are searching for the j j cat, because it was instrumental in ; bringing to sight what might have 1 been a crime forever hidden from j the eyes of justice, j At least so says the family at 128 Verbeke street, where Mr. and Mrs. j Raymond Bierbower and family live. [Continued on Page 7.] His Bill Questioned, He Declares He's Losing Money I The County Commissioners to-day ! | sent letters to Justice A. L. Landis I ; and Constable J. S. Wagner, of Union j Deposit, to appear before the board ; to explain charges made on a bill ; handed in by the constable in the j 1 suit against Jacob Brightbill, a case I J heard in a recent session of court. I i The county officials declare the 1 constable's bill for sl7 is higher than i it should be for legal fees for stib- j ] penning witnesses and other similar! work. Wagner, however, stated to j ! Ed. 11. Fisher, chief clerk, that the i j bill should be $24.69 as he had omit- I | ted items totaling $7.69 more. Be-j ; cause of the charges above legal fees ! | which the officials declare have been j made, both the constable and jus- , tice will be asked to make an ex- 1 | planation. I MARINE RECRUITING STATION AT GORGAS' DRUG STORE Dr. George A. Gorgas, a Third street druggist, hasbeen appointed in the service of the new American merchant marine, it was learned to day. Dr. Gorgas said he was appoint ed two weeks ago. but up to this time has not received instructions as how to proceed. tt is understod the Third street ! store will be the station In this dis- I trict. THIRD LOAN* BONDS HERE The First National Bank to-day ' received the first of the Liberty 1 Bonds of the Third loan. The bonds j are-somewhat different in style from t thoHc of the First loan and bear ! four coupons. HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 191S, PATRIOTIC ARDOR IS AROISED AT MASS MEETING Tremendous Crowd Expected to Hear Prominent Speak ers This Evening The audience which this afternoon crowded the auditorium of the Board of Trade Building', listening to the discussion of the nation's war aims by Bishop McDowell, of Wash ington; Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale, and W. A. Law. Philadelphia banker, is only a small percentage of the tremendous audience which will hear these speakers to-night in Chestnut Strecet Auditorium. Presi dent Andrew S. Patterson, of -the Chamber of Commerce, is presiding this afternoon; and the Bev. Dr. Lewis S. Mudge, of Pine Street Pres [Continued on Page 10.] Credit For 'Kingdom News' Disclaimed in This City lii(liaiui|H>lls, April 22.—Twenty persons, ten of them women, were arrested here yesterday for alleged distribution of copies of the "King>- dom News," containing an article headed„"The Finished Mystery and Why it Was Suppressed." A petition addressed to President Wilson is printed in the paper, with blank Jines for signatures. It de clares "any interference by the clergy with independent Bible study is intolerant, un-American and un christian. Copies of the "Kingdom News" were circulated in Harrlsburg yes terday, but members of the local international Bible Students Associa tion declare they know nothing whatever about the distribution. A member prominent in the organiza tion said it was her belief that the "Kingdom News" was a special edi tion or a special publication and not. a regularly published paper. No information ns to the names of of ficers of the organisation here would be given. STEAMSHIP ASHORE By Associated i'> ess P.ariK'fiul City, N. J., April 22. The Norwegian steamship Vinrlal from a South American port for in Atlantic port with 15.000 bags of coffee canic ashore on Barnegat Fhoal during a heavy fog early to day. Members of the coast guard brought the Vindal's crew of ilfteen men ashore. AMERICANS WIN ! BACK POSITIONS LOST TO ENEMY French Reinforcements Pouring in Behind Hard-Pressed British Lines and Take Places With Haig's Men Near Ypres; Second Month of Great Battle Begins With Allied Armies Intact and Prepared For Next Blow — By Associated Press Having withstood u violent German infantry attack in force the American troops on the sector northwest of Toul have driven the enemy from the positions he gained Saturday and have re stored the situation completely. The American main positions held out against the enemy but he occupied advance position ele ments from which he was ejected Sunday by the Americans in a counterattack. To the east the French lines also have been re-established. Indications arc that the Germans intended to make the attack the start of an effort to attack the French and Americans in force and perhaps .wipe out the American sector. General Pershing's men however, fought desperately and retired from Seicheprey only before overpowering numbers.' Berlin Claims a Victory After the French and Americans had driven the Germans from the occupied advanced posts the enemy did not attack again and Sunday was comparatively quiet cast of Mt. Mihiel. The German offensive which persisted throughout the day and into the night was preceded by most violent artillery fire but the Americans were undismayed and stuck to their guns and trenches to meet the enemy storming troops. Two German airplanes were brought down by American machine gunners. "Reinforcements Ready Berlin, in its official statement de scribed Saturday's action lengthily. Admission is made that the fighting was severe and it is claimed that 183 Americans including five officers and 25 machine guns were cap tured. Heavy losses it is said were inflicted by the Germans. That the effort failed of its purpose is in dicated by the announcement that tho attackers returned to their own position under cover of night. Ber. . lin makes no mention of French troops having been engaged in this region. On the Picardy and Flanders battlefield the Germans have not resumed their attacks and appar ently arc waiting for the high com mand to decide where to strike next while fresh troops and new supplies are being brought forward. Second Month of Battle Meanwhile French reinforcements BRITISH ADVANCE ON TWO OF BATTLEFRONTS Ijondon, April 22.—The British ad vanced their lines slightly last night lr>. local operations on both of the principal battlefronts, the war office announces. Advances were made near Villers Bretonneux and Albert, on the Somme front, and Robecq at the tip of the Flanders salient. A strong local attack by the Ger mans on the front north of Alher' was repulsed after the enemy had captured one of the British ad vanced posts. Viglitlng Is Sharp The wrprement follows: "Early in the night a strong local attack accompanied by heavy shell ing, was made by the enemy against our positions in the neighborhood of Mesnil, north of Albert. After GERMANS LAUNCH FUTILE ATTACK AT AVELUY WOOD IN THE MOONLIGHT By Associated Press With tlu* British Army In France, April 22. —Taking advantage of the moonlight the Germans at 10 o'clock last night made a strong but unsuc cessful attack against the British po sitions north of Aveluy wood on the front above Albert. Heavy fighting continued until 4 o'clock this morn ing. The Germans apparently have taken one British outpost and lost ground themselves elsewhere in the wood. The assault was preceded by a heavy bombardment and the gun fire on both sides kept up most of the night. . , There was active artillery fighting throughout Sunday east of Arras and on both sides of the Scarpe. The bombardment at Vlllers-Bretonneuu and the surrounding territory was continued. The British improved their lines In the neighborhood of Villers-Bretonneux. Baron Bi'chthofen, the fani/ous German aviator, was shot down and killed last night back of the British lines along the Sornnie front. The German "flying circus" lead are pouring in behind the British lines. French troops are now with Field Marshal Haig's men on both the northern and southern legs of the salient south of Ypres. Near Itobecfi, on the southern leg, the British*have driven the Germans from some ad vanced posts. In this area where strong German attacks were re pulsed sanguinarily last week the enemy artillery is most active. Ar tillery duels continued violent along most of the Picardy battlefront where the Germans are using guns of th biggest 'calibers, j To-day the German offensive be gins its second month without hav ing separated the British and French and with the British army still in tact. Where the next blow will fall is uncertain, but the all'ies are pre pared to meet it as they have met the others. It is probable the Ger mans are not willing to end the Flanders attack without making an other effort to drive in the northern leg and get behind Ypres. Enemy activity south of Arras also has been noticed. sharp fighting, in the course of which the enemy succeeded in rapturing one of our advanced posts, the attack was repulsed. "We improved our positions slight ly during the night in the Vlllers Bretonneux, Albert and Robccq sec tors. "A number of successful riids were carried out by us at diffewpt points south and north of Len?. re sulting in the capture of prisoners and machine guns. "There has been considerable ac tivity on both sides on different sec tors of the British front. The enemy's shelling has been directed chiefly against our positions astride the Somme and Ancre rivers, in the Lens sector, in the neighborhood of Festu bert, and in the Nieppe forest." er will be buried with military hon ors to-day near the spot where he crashed and an impressive ceremony is being planned by the British of ficials. Germans Bring Up Great Number of Reinforcements By Associated Press Ottawa, April 22. —The lull in the fighting in France is not expected to last long, notwithstanding the incle mency of the weather said n neuter's dispatch received here to-day from London. "The Germans are being openly and enormously reinforced, but the allies also have strengthened their forces and It is not likely that the next thrust will he any more effec ts e in achieving a decision than that of a month ago when the German people were told to expect a speedy triumph" the message adds. "Th expectation of this side. Indeed, Is that the battle may last well through the summer." OM.Y EVKSI.Mi ASSOCIATED fltl'.SS NEWSPAI'KII IN IMIIKISHIIIM; 25,000 PERSONS EXPECTED TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS llouse-10-House Canvass to Hit Every Man and Woman EVERY ONE IS HELPING Men of Means Must Buy Ac cording to Their Income HONOR TOWNS The following: towns in the Harrisburg district are entitled to Honor Flags, for having- pur chased their allotments.of Liberty Bonds: Marysville. Dauphin. Mount Holly Springs. Newport. Newville. In the case ' of Newville and Newport, both towns have bought more than double the bonds al lotted theni, and are entitled to stars on their Honor Flags. Totals of bond sales In the va rious counties in the Harrisburg '"strict up until Saturday night arc: Perry county $222,100 Juniata 75,400 Cumberland SIO,OOO Dauphin, not including Harrisburg and Steel ton 382,330 j "We're all ready for the thorough j canvass of the homes of Harrisburg ! beginning Wednesday morning," said i Chairman Frank Sites, of the Liberty | Loan Homes Committee, this morn ling. "While we arc in need of ap ; proximately fifty volunteer workers ;for our teams, the captains of which | have not beeen successful in filling 'them, I am in hopes that these vol- I wnteers will present themselves be 16re Tuesday noon." ! The drive on the homes begins j Wednesday morning, but the team workers will have their preliminary ! get-together Tuesday noon in the \ new postoffice building, Locust and I " [Continued on Page 3.] ® * iit 4 " " * *?* M* 4 " AKTIT SHAKES AGAIN § J San Jacinto, Cal.—Two more shocks shook Hcmet -nd -:fl t f T San Jacinto to-day at 9 * <£ T bricM tctterine* walls and wicck~ec r-•• n tc 'W* ? £ 4" cariou-iy were locseijed by the new shocks and fell, add- U X in<; tto the general ruin in the business districts. jj IT yc | *** GUATEMA-LA WITH ALLIES X * Guatemala City— national assembly at its Session Xj I 0 j T to-day declared the republic of Guatemala to occupy same *K| • siticn toward the European belligerents a. does the £ United States. ▼ \ If JOFFE RUSS ENVOY TO GERMANY 4 Moscow—Odolph Joffe has been named Russian, am T t bassador to Germany and is leaving to-night with his 4* id 4 . t rtaff. On his way to Berlin he will meet Count Von Mir bach, German ambassador to Russia T' & DUKE FREDERICK II DIES ' ♦* | Amsterdam—Duke Frederick 11, ruler of the G- j X duchy of Anhalt,.is dead at the Ballenstedt castle. *r *< r> J J X DISLOYALTY TRIAL BEGINS * IT Newark, N, J.~Fred W. Wusterbarth, foimcr pot f T master at Lakcview, N. J n and for 37 years .a natun £ IX American, was placed on trial here to have h *f* It ship IK- h.i • sail". iicri • ct ; '•* f § JL 3, 1 J wiIl ( do nothing to help defeat Germany."- He lost the: Jr 4* post-mastership because of alleged seditious utterances. t MILITARY SEIZES RAILWAYS 9 T f t London—The military authorities have taken cr t I control, qf the principal Irish railways, the pott . X ? and telephone exchanges, according to the cprresp jndcr.' X Cc rk of the Daily Chronicle. Z AIK DICTATOR PROMISED <!f JL iT Washington—A readjustment of the aircraft pregta S has beer, decided on definitely by-President W ' '*f* Secretary Baker has been directed to cart, .i. out II .jfjV ■ t was indicated to-day that a njan not heretofore men) H X will be given full charge of production- 4" t MARRIAGE £ 4* (hwlfr 11. lounkln, In nip JKkam. . C„ IIIMI In,in. is. Hafley. J. 10nt Stmunhnrii I'nul K. Klnrr unit Klhrl >l. Miinnlnit. Hatrria- T 5B lluTlnliura; Jlini'i J. Sullvmi it ml l.uln 11. i'ruxrll, Milton I Uohert ♦'£• .1. I'. llMMffcrerm < nmp Mfmlf, nail Mr>- li. Kli-tu-rrrk. !S'c* Can- i T lirrlnnrfi (Itorgf O. Gordon mill Urrlhn 11. Akra, Kntmuti Thamaa " HOME EDITION TWO CALIFORNIA TOWNS WRECKED BY EARTHQUAKE Business Districts of San Ja cinto and Hemet in Ruins and Honied Razed BUT SINGLE LIFE IS LOST Wells, Dry For Years, Show Sudden Free Supply After Earth Rocks Los Angeles, April 22.—More than one-third of the business district of San Jacinto and a smaller portion of that of Hemet, both in Riverside county, about seventy miles cast of here, are in ruins and scores of residences in the two little towns Wrecked by a series of earthquakes which caused all of southern Cali fornia to tremble late yesterday aft ternoon. The property damage is estimated at from JIOO.OOO to 5100,000 in the two places. Half a dozen other towns and cities, including Los An- Keles, suffered minor damage, con fined mainly to plate glass windows and shattered cornices. The earth quake was felt over a wide area in the west. Its most northern ex tremity apparently was Fresno, Cal. Tremors also were felt at Phoenix [Continued on Page 10.] German Liberals Urge More Crowns For Kaiser Ey Associated Press , Amsterdam. April 22. Berlin newspapers report that the national liberal party leaders have deckliAl unanimously to send a telegram in Emperor William recommending that lie accept the crowns of the former Russian governments of Esthonia . t:nd Livonia. WIUJ HVSII GRAIN TO iti:lX;i.\NS By Associated I rcis Washington. April 22. —Food ship ments to the civilian populations of the allied countries will be suspended for ten days to move three million bushels of grain to the Belgians who are declared to be in desperate straits.
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