V w Von Arnim, Stunned hyPunlshment_ Inflicted hy Allies, HARRISBURG (SSpSgl TELEGRAPH M LXXXVII— No. 103 14 PAGES ENEMY ADVANCE IS HALTED IN FLANDERS HUN COMMANDER IS REFORMING HIS BATTERED ARMY Allied Forces Play Waiting Game For Coming Attack REPULSE IS DISASTROUS Strong Artillery . Bombard ments Mark Fighting on Principal Fronts By Associated Press Stunned by the severe punishment inflicted by the British and French, the Germans in Flanders, have given up for the moment their attempt to gain further hill positions west of Mont Kemmel. Meanwhile, it is pre sumed that General von Arnim is reforming his battered forces and bringing up new reserves to hurl against the granite Allied defense. German occupation of Mont Kem mel. although a strategic loss, has not enabled the enemy to encroach further into the British and I rench positions southwest of Ypres nor has it apparently brought any nearer the evacuation of the flattened pres salient. After the intense lighting of Monday, in which the Germans strove desperately to enlarge their gains on the high ground north of the Lys, there has been only local fighting. Huns I,o*e t'onltiona Apparently the Allied commanders are content to hold on to their pres ent line and to let the Germans make more attacks in an endeavor to drive them back. In their disastrous repulse the Germans not only failed to gain, although using larger forces than the defenders, but they were driven from some positions they had held since the capture of Mont Kcmmel last week. Along the Flanders front and in Picardy 'strong artillery bombard ments continue. The Germans have been throwing great numbers of shells into the French positions around Hangard, south of the Somme, probably in preparation for still another attempt to drive the French back to the Avre. A German attack in the Noyon sector brought the enemy into French positions, from which, however, they were thrown out in spirited lighting. V. S. Artillery liimy American artillery on the Picardy front has been busy shelling enemy targets, but there lias been no infan try activity. On the Toul sector American aviators have brought down a German machine, the third in three weeks. In Mesopotamia General Marshall has advanced north-northeast of Bagdad, captured two towns and nearly 900 prisoners. The Turks avoided battle at Kifra, 100 miles northeast of Bagdad, and fled toward Klrfuk, about 160 miles north and on the main road to Mosul, appar ently the British objective. A re treating column was attacked and more than 500 prisoners taken. Brit ish cavalry then captured Tushur mantli, about thirty miles northwest of Kifra. The pursuit toward Kirfult continues. Prussian* Demand ltluh<H Declaring that plutocratic suf frage, giving political rights to wealth, is no "longer possible in our nation," Chancellor von Hertling has informed the lower house of the Prussian Diet that it must pass the electoral reform bill or give up more j rights to the people through force. The Chancellor threatened the Prus sians with revolutions if they did not! meet the demand speedily Appar-] ently the Chancellor feared grave disorders if the reform bill, which, he admitted, was hedged around j with safeguards, is rot passed. Aj motion to postpone action was do-! feated by five to one. This is May Day. generally a time for strikes in continental Europe. There have been no inklings of pos sible strikes within th- central em pires except a call by the German Socialists of Austria several days ago for a peace strike on May 1. Scent "Pence Offensive" Reports come through Holland that newspapers in Cologne announce Pope Benedict will make another peace proposal on Whitsunday, May 19. and that It will contain concrete offers of mediation. Similar infor mation Is declared to have reached Berlin, where it was received sym- i pathetically. There have been other' report:* recently from Germany that the Pope was preparing to move J again for peace. It has beet) held in , Allied capitals that Germany would' launch a "peace ofTensivo" if the of- • fensive of the west failed of an | early victory. -I ,, Elliott-Fisher Men arc buying THRIFT STAMPS in bunches. Almost every buys weekly. America's First Heroes of War to Come Home v "Of i Fifty men who entered the trench es, October 22, 193 7, to tight the Germans have come back to the United States, and among them were men who did so well that they were decorated with the French War Cross. They are here shown wearing American Aviator Killed in France Bids Family Rejoice By Associated Press CHICAGO, May 1. —Lieutenant Dinsniore Ely. I. S. A., of W'in netka, a North shore suburb, who was killed in France in aviation service on April 21, a few clays before Ills dcatli wrote a letter to liis father. Dr. James O. Ely, which was received yesterday. It closes thus: "ll' anything should happen to me let's have no mourning in spirit or in dross. I .ike a l,ibcrty Bond. it is an investment, not a loss, when a inairdies for his country. It is an honor to a family, and is that the time for weep ins? "I would rather leave my family rich in pleasant memories of my life than numbed in sorrow at my death." Dr. Fly sent the letter to Mrs. 151 y, who is at the, family cottage in Donaldson, Wis. There the family held a funeral service for the soldier last Sunday, placing his effects in his canoe and covering all with the national colors and winking it in i) quiet nook of the lake, which was the favorite retreat ol' young Ml.v. U. S. BIRDMEN BAG HUN FLYER OVER AMERICAN LINE Enemy Airplane Is Peppered With Machine Gun Bullets High in the Air By Associated Press With the American Army iu France, Tuesday, April 30.—A Ger man airplane was brought down in enemy territory last night by Cap tain Norman Hall, of Colfax. lowa, and Lieutenant Edward V. Ricken bacher, of Columbus, Ohio, after a duel over the American line on the Toul sector. Captain Hall served as a private in the British Army at the outbreak of the war and later joined the Krench aerial forces. He is the au thor of "Kitchener's Mob." liullcts I'ly Last The American birdmen first en gaged the enemy machine over the American lines. Lieutenant Ricken bacher, well known as an automo bile racer in the United States, swept over the Boclie and opened fire with his machine gun, while Captain Hall, [Continued on Page B.] LIEUTENANT WALLOWER IN COMMAND OF BRITISH UNIT HELPS STEM Young Harrisburg Engineer Takes Charge When English Officers Are Put Out of Action and For Four Days Leads Tommies in Drives Against Hun Advance Lieutenant Herbert 11. Wallower- f son of E. Z. Wallower, ot Harrisburg, j took part in the great British Ue- j fensive against the Hun drive in! France and for four days and nights j was in command of a detachment of I British troops whose oflicers were ell j killed or put out of action. lli*i thrilling experiences are gathered' from two letters received by his father to-day, one from Dr. Paul A'anDyke, one of young Waliower's friends In the faculty at Princeton j now connected in an executive capa-l BINUI.IC copy, 2 CENTS the-cross. They are, bade row, left to right: Sergeant R. H. Guyette. Sergeant Joseph Pethush, Corporal M. 11. Plant. Front row, left to right: Corporal H. "VVhited, Sergeant Owen C. Hawkins and Sergeant E. A. Jlc- Niff. AMERICAN GUN FIRE SMASHES HUN POSITIONS U. S. Battlefront Sector Be coming Stabilized With Days of Digging In By Associated Press With an, American Army on a French Battlefront, Tuesday, April 30. The situation along the Ameri can sector gradually is becoming stabilized. There have been no in fantry encounters in the past forty eight hours, although small patrol parties or outposts have met in the darkness and mist. Despite rain and poor visibility the American and French artillery have been most active in shelling enemy back areas. A certain American bat tery has beerf laying a heavy fire on enemy batteries and positions around a certain village which has been vir tually wiped out. The German artil lery is less active than on the days immediately following the Ameri cans' appearance on this sector. The Germans are throwing some gas shells. Weather conditions prevent aerial activity on either side. city with the American University Union in Europe, with headquarters at Paris, and the other from the lieu tenant himself. lieutenant Wallower was detached from the American engineer corps and attached to the British artillery along the active front in France, with Professor Trowbridge, one of his for mer professors of physics at Prince ton. who organized a new unit to lo cate the enemy's guns by sound [Continued on Page .] HARRISBURG, FA,WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1918 POPE BENEDICT WILL PLEAD FOR PEACE HOLY DAY Document Will Be More Pressing and Concrete Than Former Offers SEEKS AID OF NEUTRALS Berlin Reported to Have Re ceicvd Information of In tention Sympathetically By Associated Press The Hague, May I.—Pope Bene dict intends to issue a new peace offer on Whitsunday (May 19), Co logne newspapers announce. The document, it is said, will be of more pressing nature than formerly and will contain concrete offers of media tion by the Pope with the possible co-operation of neutral sovereigns. Berlin Reported Sympathetic Similar information of the Pope's intention, it is said, has reached Berlin, where it has been received sympathetically. This is not the first report ema nating from Germany recently that the Pope is about to make another peace move. The Neueste Nach richten, of Munich, Bavaria, accord ing to a London dispatch of April -Ji, said (hat the Pope would make a peace offer as soon as the western offensive had assumed a new phase. The Bavarian newspaper declared [Continued on Page 12.] Third Loan Figures Reach $2,509,814,600; "Buy Another" Slogan Washington, May I.—Total sub scriptions to the Third Biberty Boan reached $2,500,000,000 by early re ports to-day. This afternoon the amount reported was $2,509,814,- 600. With four days remaining the number of subscribers is 2,500,000 more than the 9,500,000 of the sec ond loan and nearly three times the 4,500,000 of the tirst loan. Under the stimulus of the active canvass of the few days, and the "buy another bond" movement, the treasury hopes to raise the subscription roll to the 20,000,000 sought by Secretary M<- Adoo and total subscriptions to a billion or two beyond the $3,000,- 000,000 minimum. The "buy another bond" appeal reached President Wilson to-day and although he had already subscribed for nearly $20,000 of Third Überty bonds, he agreed to buy a SSO bond on the instalment plan, in accord ance \vith the standard suggestion of the "buy another" solicitors. Since this appeal is sounded particularly by rour-minute speakers at theaters the President said he would enter this subscription some evening this week when ho attends a theater. He added he hoped a million or more other Americans would "buy another bond." 'Buy Another Bond' Move Has Support of Mayor President Wilson's "buy anothee bond" movement has a strong sup porter in Mayor Keister, of Harris burg. "Buy another bond sounds good to me," said the Mayor to-day. "If President Wilson can do it on the in stalment plan, 1 know of no reason why humbler citizens should shrink from it. Buy another bond, for cash, on the instalment plan or borrow the money to do it. Only buy another bond, if it is at all possible for you to linance the investment." "The Mayor is right," said Andrew S. Patterson, cha.irman of the loan committee in this city. "Hundreds of people are buying bonds on the in stalment plan and others are bor rowing money to do it. I-efs buy another bond, as many of us as can, and show the President we are with him on this as on every other win the-war move.™ Mayor Keistcr was the first to "buy another bond" and Andrfew S. Patterson was the second. .Nation Calls 8,985 More Men For Army Training; to Mobilize on May 16 Washington, May 1. —A call for 8,985 additional draft men was is sued to-day by the Provost Marshal General. They are to be sent to to twenty-two Institutions, scat tered throughout the country, for two months' course of training in various mechanical studies. The men will be mobilized May 16 with the exception of those from Virginia, who will be called May 23. They will receive training as auto mechanics and chauffeurs, machin ists, blacksmiths, sheet metal work ers. general mechanics, carpenters, electricians, radio operators, con crete workers and telegraphers. They will be unassigned until after tile completion of their courses. State draft headquarters has not received any word regarding the special call for drafted men to be given training In mechanical lines. In anticipation of such a call the headquarters has been urging local boards throughout the state to com plete their classification cards, show ing occupation of men on the draft ed lists. NEW SOUTHERN AUTO TOURISTPARTY ROUTE HAS TERMINUS HERE Cily Made Junction Point For Northern and Southern Trips; Opens Beautiful Stretches of Southland With Good Hotels and Fine Roads Frank A. Dudley, president of tlie United Hotels Company, which will operate the Penn-Harris, was in the city between trains to-day on his way home from a meeting in the South, where was organized the Southern Tours Association, which will have Harrisburg as its Northern termi nal. Mr. Dudley interviewed by a Tejegraph representative said: "The Southern Tours, which is the automobile route between the north and south extending from the middle northern states to the Gulf of Mexico, under the name of the Southern Tours Company, was or ganized at the Tutwiier Hotel, Bir mingham, Alabama, under the laws of that state. The maps, survey and routes were approved by the organi zation. They consist of Cumberland and Shenandoah Valley route, start ing from Harrisburg at the north and extending in southwesterly di rection by the way of Gettysburg, A GOOD SIZED CITY IS TO GROW ABOUT MARSH RUN PLANT Government Great War Ware houses Being Built Along Permanent Design A good-Mined city of three or four thousand inhabitants will be estab lished within a few miles of llarris burg and that in very short time when complete forces arrive at the Marsh Creek plant where is now be ing built the United States quarter master supply and warehouse prop erties under the direct management of Major Wensel Morava, Quarter master Corps, U. S. National Army. In an interview granted to-day to a Telegraph representative, Major Morava outlines precisely what is being done and what will be ac complished. Major Wensel Morava is a man of mature years, head of his own vast construction company in Chicago, identified with the Illinois Manufac turers' Association, the American Society of Mechanics, the Builders' Club of Chicago, who, like many other patriotis, volunteered to help the government in this crisis, llis services were eagerly accepted by the government and the post here was selected for him. He is a type of the patriots of wealth who are sac rificing everything to work without pay for Uncle Sam and his energy is so marked that the great plant on Marsh. Creek will go up like magic under his guidance. "This government establishment," said he, "is similar to those being built at Columbus and Louisville. Marsh Run was chosen for a site be- {Continued on Pago. IJ.] KYLER IS FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST' DEGREE MURDER Jury Considers Colored Man's Case Little Over Two Hours Charles Kyler, colored, was found guilty of murder irt the first degree by a jury which was out a little more than two hours. Counsel for the defense may JJ® granted four days' time to tile a motion for a new trial. Kyler was convicted of a charge of stabbing W. C. Shaffer early on the morning of January 28. [Continued on Page 10.] Rev. Dennis J. Dougherty Is Named by the Pontiff as Archbishop of Philadelphia The Right Rev. Dennis J. Dough erty, Bishop of Ruffalo, has been appointed archbishop of Philadel phia, succeeding the late Arch bishop Prendergast according to a cable from Rome last night. As head of the archdiocese of Philadelphia, the new archbishop will be the head of the Roman Cath olic Church in the Pennsylvania dis trict. Bishop Dougherty is widely known in church circles in the eastern part of the country. He was transferred to Buffalo in 1915 as successor to Bishop Colton, having been bishop of Jaro and Neuva, Segoria, Philip pine Islands. His health became Impaired in the Philippines and it was necessary for htm to return to this country. He has Jong been re garded as in line for honors in the church. Bishop Dougherty was born Au gust 16, 1865, at Ashland, Schuyl kill county. Pa., and educated in St. Mary's College, Montreal, Can., and at the Overbrook Seminary before going to Rome, where he distin guished himself at the American College. He was ordained to the priest hood in Rome in 1890, and upon his return to this country was appoint ed a professor in the Overbrook Seminary by the late Archbishop Ryan. In 1903 he was sent to the Philippines as Bishop of Neuva Segoria. Subsequently he was trans ferred to the See of Jaro, Frederick, Harper's Ferry, lloanoke, Bristol, Knoxsville, Chattanooga to Birmingham with side trips to Hot Springs., White Sulphur Springs and Luray Caverns. This route also is reached from Washington either by going north to Frederick and then southwest or southwest byway of Charlotteville. The Blue Grass Rout. The Blue Grass route starts at Cincinnati and goes south byway of Berea Gap, Cumberland Gap, Knoxville and thence to Birm ingham. This is one of the attrac tive routes going south as well ns passing over a very attractive chain of mountains. The Louisville route extends to Indiana and then south by way of Mammoth Cave, Nashville and then to Birmingham. The Tennes see route extends from St. Louis southward byway of Cairo. From [Continued 011 Page 3.] CITY REAL ESTATE BOARD TO PROBE HIGHRENTCHARGE Members Give Out Names of Owners Against Whom Complaint Is Made Kollowing tlie receipt of a letter last night by Mayor Keister to the effect that house rentals in Harris burg are being increased beyond reason, President Gipple, of the Ilar risburg Real, Estate Board, called a meeting of that body for to-morrow evening to take up the matter. It was to protect the public from the greedy property owner and to keep the real estate business in good repute as well as to promote the in terests of real estate men that the Real Estate Board was organized and the members will go into full details of the charges made to-mor row evening. It was said to-day that from the lists of rent advances issued by the Mayor it looked as though most 'of [Continued on Page 11.] New Secretary of Chamber on the Job Warren U. Jackson, tlio new secre tary of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, arrived In Harrisburg- to day and took up his new work. He spent a portion of the day with President Andrew S. Patterson, get ting acquainted, and will be at his offices daily from this out. ANTI-BOOZE MEN REGISTERING FOR SPRING PRIMARY Churchmen Get Out Thou sands Who Will Vote For "Dry" Candidates This was an epochal clay for the national prohibition campaign in Harrisburg—spring registration for voters in cities of the third class. Karliest reports to headquarters of the Dauphin County Ratification Committee told that the enrollment was heavy and the prospects were that the anti-booze forces would get out their full vote. Never before in the history of the city had there been such enthusiasm and system In imaging the battle to do away with the saloon. There can be no excuse for any one falling to register, it was pointed out, for the polls will be open until 10 o'clock to-night. There is no need to register to-day it the voter was registered last fall. [Continued on Page <!.] GERMANS HAVE WORST DAY London, May I.—via Ottawa—As the details of Monday's fighting are received confirming the fact that it was the worst day the Germans have experienced since the opening of the great offensive, the English news papers, hitherto reticent in view of the fluctuation of the battle, now comment on the operations in a tone of confidence they have not hitherto displayed. THE WEATHER, For Hnrrlnhurg and vlclnltyi Fair anrl much pooler to-night, with fro.it! lowt temperature about uetcreeN; Thursday fair, eon tlm ed eool. I''or lantern Pennsylvania i I'M If, cooler to-night with front, prob ably heavy) Thursday falri mod erate northnrnl to north winds, brooming variable Thursday. Hirer The Susquehanna river and all Its branched will rise slightly or remain nearly Htatlonary. \ (•tame of about ft.7 feet IN Indi cated for HarrlsburK Thursday mprnlng. Sum Rises, fliOS a. M.i net*, 7i52 p. m. Moon; Knll ■una May 10, ONI.Y KVIO.M \<; ASSOCIATED I'IMiSS XEWSI'AHKII ISi HAltlllSHlilUi USE A QUARTER LESS OF SUGAR, IS NEW REQUEST Supply Will Be Sufficient For Canning Season if Con servation Is Practiced SITUATION IS IMPROVING Large Families Permitted to liny Maximum of Five Pounds A slight relief from the sugar shortage in Pennsylvania has effect ed a modification of the regulations regarding the sale of sugar, accord ing to a telegram from State Food Administrator Howard Heinz to the local food administrator this morn ing. At tile same time assurance that there will be sugar to supply all de mands during the canning season was given by the State Food Admin istration. Tiie Food Administration, however, urges that only two pounds be purchased at a time, so as to give no suspicion of hoarding. Retailers have been authorized that they may sell sugar in slightly larger quantities than hitherto. To consumers residing in towns and cit ies, two to five pounds, depending upon the size of the families, may be sold. To consumers residing in rural communities, Ave to ten pounds, according to the siz e of the families, may be ' sold. Until this [Continued on Page 9.] Belgians Work Under Hun Whip; Mortality Terrible liondon. May 1, via Ottawy.— Twenty-five thousand Belgian men and boys have been compelled to work on military operations, under the whip of German sentries, behind the German lines in the regions of Valenciennes and Matibeuge alone, according to neuter's Limited. The mortality in the camp of the de ported Belgians, it reports, is ter rible. The numbers sent back as unfit are replaced by fresh recruits. X §' T M § :MMEL HOLDS DOWN OR GERMANS F | I HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. MA- £ j M "TAWA.—THE FR TISH BAT M t **► 4* T 4. KEMMEL. UNLESS FHE ENEMY CAN PUSH X 9 i T £ OND THIS ISOLATED STRONGHOLD **> F J THE HILL TOP MAY BECOME VIRTUALLY A £ . j j 5 DEATH TRAP. THE ADVANTAGE OF KEMMT I M 1 ENEMY IS A TAC" TL F ,W COMMITTED TO AN ATTEMPT TO PUSH IFCLL CAPTURE THE .WHOLE CHAIN OF * 3 A ■ - S ' ' 14* ** T EXPLOSIVES ARE FOUND AT BASE OF TOWER j .1 Paw, Tex. — Four sticks of dynamite, thirty feet T | 4* copper wire and detonating caps were discov- ,<] *T* i 2* 1 late yesterday buried under the base of the steel L J V 5 4* ' ! 'Utl'! 3 y* r the tower. " < T +1 f £ ' IT ' BUY ANOTHER BOND' .GOING WELL * F . city . > into the bank to 'BUY Another Bend' in re- *** ♦ spemse to the President splca,' li S.Patterson, L 9 I be- JjR T lieve the movement is destined to BE highly successful.'.'* X ' ' *r ! 2 T T 3COUTS SELL $32,300 WORTH OF BONDS T 3 *l* |T t:i p. ... uts sold "j? IX a total of $32,300 worth of bonds The total of sales to | |T 1T day were 19 bonds, $2,950. Juniata county Workers r >*v m •v** *£ |2 ported a total sale of $256,700 as a result of the intenbivf. i| 9 X di cin that county.' *f|| 9 - T'FL f NO'MORE GUARD UNITS OVERSEAS J T Washington—lndication thit the War Departmer **• J ■#* has decided not to accept any additional National Guart >& X unit'.- the forces sent abroad v. ecn to-d •■in an ordei T'd| telegraphed to the Governor of Minnesota in instructing jji 1 X hi.*, • disband the Second Mint >ti infantry. li — 4, • t MARRIAGE LICENSES J Snmurl l.cr IIIMIInc. IMttnliiirsN, nml liln Florence |L X S. niiiini Snmurl 11. I,rlrvrr, l.aneai>lrr, ami Itm Anne Kvma, Clear- *T Arid; I'htllp It lobaril Urndcr and .Maude 11. Shaffer, llarrlMlnars, If® l ■•mm HOME EDITION MAN WHOSE SHOT BEGAN THE WAR DIES IN PRISON Murderer of Austrian Heir to Throne and, His "Wife Succumbs in Prison OTHERS PAID PENALTIES Kaiser Seized Opportunity to Open llis Drive For Euro pean Conquest JiitiulMii, May 1. —Garzlo Prlnzlp, the assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austria-Hungarian throne, and his wife, at Sarajevo, Bosnia, died yes terday in a fortress near Prague of tuberculosis, telegraphs the corre-, spondent at the Hague of the Ex change Telegaph Company. ■Prinzip shot to death the Aus trian archduke and his wife while they were on a visit to the Bosnian capital on June 28, 1914, and out of this double murder the European war developed. Prinzip, who was' a student, was found guilty and sen nteecd to twenty years' imprison ment. Prinzip fired two explosive bulleta from a revolver at the Austrian heir apparent, the first striking the Duchess of Itohenberg, the Arch duke's morganatic wife, in the ab domen, and the second taking effect in the neck of the Archduke. Both bullets caused death within a short time. Earlier in the day Madeljo Gabri novic, a typist of Serbian national ity, had thrown a bomb which the Archduke warded off with his arm so that it exploded some distance from his automobile. The bomb in jured six persons. Gabrinovic wan sentenced to twenty years' impris onment. Four other conspirators were sentenced to death by hanging, one to life imprisonment and one to twenty years in jail.
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