Von Arnim, Stunned by Punishment Inflicted by All HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M CTljc otar* Independent * 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 Arnitn 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 French positions southwest of Ypres nor has it apparently brought any nearer the evacuation of the flattened "V prc> salient. After the intense fighting 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.one Position* Apparently the Allied commanders are content to hoid 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 Kemmel 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 fighting. 11, S. Artillery Busy American artillery on the Picardy front has been busy shelling enemy targets, but there has been no infan try activity. On the Toul sector American aviators have brought down a German machine, the third In threo weeks. In Mesopotamia General Marshall has advanced north-northeast of Bagdad, • captured two towns and nearly 900 prisoners. The Turks avoided battle at Ivifra, 100 miles northeast of Bagdad, and fled toward Kirfuk, 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 Tuzhur mantli, about thirty miles northwest of Kifra. The pursuit toward Kirfuk continues. Prussian* Demand IlluhlM 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 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 with safeguards, is r.ot passed. A motion to postpone action was de feated by five to one. This Is May Day, gt-nerftlly 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 "Peace Offensive" Reports come through Holland that newspapers in Cologne announce Pope Benedict will make another peace proposal on Whitsunday, May 1!>. and that It will contain concrete offers of mediation. Similar Infor mation is declared to have reached Berlin, where it was received sym pathetically. There hav e been other reports recently from Germany that the Pope was preparing to move again for peace. It has been held in Allied capitals that Germany would launch a "peace offensive" if the of fensive of the west failed of an early victory. ( Elliott-Fisher Men are buying THRIFT STAMPS in bunChes. j'-jg' Almost every employe buys weekly. America's First Heroes of War to Come Home Fifty men who entered the trench- the cross. They are, back row, left es, October 22, 1917, to fight the to rigljt: Sergeant R. H. Guyette. Germans have come back to the Sergeant Joseph Pethush, Corporal United States, and among them were M. H. Plant. Front row, left to right: men who did so well that they were Corpcftal H. Whited,- Sergeant Owen decorated with the French War C. Hawkins and Sergeant E. A. Mc- Cross. They are here shown wearing Niff. .... American Aviator Killed in France Bids Family Rejoice By Associated Press CHICAGO. May I.—lieutenant Dinsmorc Ely. V. S. A., of AVin nctka, a North Shore suburb, who was killed in France ill aviation service on April 21. a few days before Ills death wrote a letter to liis father. I>r. James O. Ely, which was received yesterday. It closes thus: "If anything should happen to me let's have no mourning in spirit or in dress. I,ike a Liberty Bond. it is an investment, not a loss, when a man dies for his country. It is an honor to a family, and i that the time for weeping? "I would rather leave my family rich in pleasant memories of my lift; than liumlted in sorrow at my death." I>r. Ely sent the letter to Mis. Ely, 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 sinking it in a quiet nook of tlio lake, which Mas the favorite retreat of young Ely. U.S.BIRDMENBAG 1 HUN FLYER OVER! AMERICAN LINE Enemy Airplane Is Peppered With Machine Gun Bullets High in the Air By Associated Press With the American Army in 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. Kicken bacher, of ColumbUs, Ohio, after a duel over the American line on the Toul sector. Captain Ilall served as a private in the British Army at the outbreak of the war and later joined the French aerial forces. He is the au thor of "Kitchener's Mob." Bullets Fl.v l ast The American birdmen first en gaged the enemy machine over the American lines. lieutenant Ricken bac-her. well known as an automo bile racer in the United States, swept over the Boche and opened fire with his machine gun, while Captain Hall, [Continued on Page 6.] LIEUTENANT W ALLO COMMAND OF HELPS STEM GERMAN RUSH 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 H. Wallower son of E. Z. Wallower, of Harrisburg, took part in the great British de fensive against the Hurt drive in France and for four days and nights was in command of a detachment of British troops whoso officers were fill killed or put out of .action. His thrilling experiences are gathered from two letters received by liia father to-day. one from Dr. Paul VanDyke, one of young Wallower's friends in the faculty at Princeton now connected In an executive capa SI2VGI.E COPY, 1' CENTS 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 Battle front, 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 been laying a heavy fire on enemy batteries and positions around n certain village which has been vir tually wiped out. The German artil lery is less active thin on the days immediately following the Ameri cans' appearance on this sector. The Germans are throwing some cas 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. I-ieutcnant Wallower was detached from the American engineer corps and attached to the British artillery along the active front ir. 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 Face 6.] lIARRISBURG, 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 Rc ceievd Information of In tention Sympathetically By Associated Press The Hague, May I.—Pope Bene dict intends to issue a new pAce 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. Rcrlin 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 Nac-h --richten. of Munich, Bavaria. accord ing to a London dispatch of April 23, said that the Pope would make a peace offer as soon as the western offensive had assumed a new phase. The Bavarian newspaper declared [Continued oil Page 12.] Third Loan Figures Reach $2,509,814,600; "Buy Another" Slogan Washington, May I.—Total sub scriptions to the Third Liberty Loan 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 Mc- Adoo and tot%l 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 Liberty bonds, he agreed to buy a SSO bond on the instalment plan. In accord ance with the standard suggestion of the "buy another" solicitors. Since this appeal is sounded particularly by four-minute speakers at theaters the President said he would enter this subscription some evening this week when he 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 another 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 ran do it on the in stalment plan, I 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 finance the investment." "The Mayor is right," said Andrew S. Patterson, chairman 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. Let's 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 Keister was the first to "buy another bond" and Andrew S. Patterson was the second. Nation Calls 8,985 More Men For Army Training; to Mobilize on May 16 Washington, May I.—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 he 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 unasslgned until after the 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 City Made Junction Point For Northern and Southern Trips; Opens Beautiful Stretches of Southland With Good Hotels and Fine Roads Frank A. Dudley, president of thei 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 Telegraph 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 Tutwiler 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-sized city of three or four thousand inhabitants will be estab lished within a few miles of Harris 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 th,e 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. His 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 Pngc. 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 in the first degree by a jury which was out a little more than two hours. Counsel for the defense may be granted four days' time to file a motion for a new trial. Kyler was convicted of a charge of stabbing W. C. Shaffer early on the morning of January 26. [Continued oil Page 10.] Rev. Dennis J. Dougherty Is Named by the Pontiff as Archbishop of Philadelphia The Right Rev. Dennis J. Dough erty, Bishop of Buffald, 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 19X5 as successor to Bishop Colton, having been bishop of Jaro and Is'euva Segoria, Philip pine Islands. His health became impaired in the Philippines and It was necessary for him to return to this country. He has long 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, Roanoke, Kristol, Knoxsviile, 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 Lexington, Berea Gap, Cumberland Gap, Knoxvilte and thence to Birm ingham. This is one of the attrac tive routes going south as well as passing over a very attractive chain of mountains. The Louisville route extends to Indiana and tnen south by way of Mammoth Cave, Nashville and then to Birmingham. The Tennes see route extends from St. Louts southward byway of Cairo. From [Cqntinucd on Page 3.] CITY REAL ESTATE BOARD TO PROBE HIGHRENTCHARGE Members Give Out Names of Owners Against Whom Complaint Is Made Following the 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 llar 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 H. Jackson, the 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 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 nn epochal day for the national prohibition campaign in Harrisburg—spring registration for voters In cities of the third class. Marl lest reports to headquarters of the Dauphin County lJatiflcation 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 waging the battle to do away with the saloon. There can be no excuse for any one failing 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 if the voter was registered last'fall, [Continued on Pago .] GERMANS HAVE WORST DAY IJOIIIIOII, May J. —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 they have not hitherto displayed. 1 THE WEATHER For Harrlaburg and vMnllyi Fall* and much cooler to-night, with frost | loweat temperature about .•Ml denreeai Thursday fair, con tinued cool. For Eastern Pennnylranla i Fair, cooler to-nlftbt with froat, prob ably heavy | Thumdaj fair; mod erate northweat to north wlnda, becoming variable Thuraday.. River The Suaquehnnna river and nil ita branchea will rlae slightly or remnln nearly atatlonury. A stage oI about K. 7 feet la Indi cated for Harrisburit Thuraday morning:. Sunt Rlaea, fliOS a. m.t acta, Ti5S p. m. Moon i Fall awi, May 10, ONLY EVEXI.Mi ASSOCIATED I'HKSS SEWSIMI'EII l\ IIAIIIIISIIIIIIG 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 Buy Maximum of Five Pounds A slight relief from the sugar shortage in Pennsylvania lias effect ed a modification of the regulations regarding the sale of sugar, accord ing to a telegram from State Food Administrator Howard Ileinz to the local food administrator this morn- Ing. At the 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. The 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 live pounds, depending upon the size of the families, may be sold. To consumers residing in rural communities. live to ten pounds, according to the size of the families, may be sold. Until this [Continued on Page !>.] Belgians Work Under Hun Whip; Mortality Terrible London, May 1, via Ottawa.— Twenty-tlve 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 Maubeuge alone, according to Router's Limited. The' mortality in the camp of the de ported Belgians, it reports, is ter rible. The numbers sent back 1 as unfit are replaced by fresh recruits. 3i * * * X -4. . *r* y riSH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, MAY A I> I AWA —-'THE FRANCO-BRITISH BAT- T X TERIES CONSTANTLY ARE SHELLING MONI T I '• EL. UNLESS THE ENEMY CAN PUSH X ZON BEYOND THIS ISOLATED STRONGHOLD *£ X HE HILL TOP MAY BECOME VIRTUALLY A *JJ 5 DEATH TRAP. THE ADVANTAGE OF KEMMEL T XTO THE ENEMY IS A TACTICAL ONE. HE I M ' T 31 ON AND CAPTURE THE WHOLE CHAIN OF T * T § ♦f* 4 X X XPLOSIVES ARE FOUND AT BASE OF TOWER •* T EL Paso, Tex.—Four sticks of dynamite, thirty feet X mof coiled copper wire land detonating caps were discov- *!•" 4 v er day 1 c* 9no >, $2,950. Ji -.t. > >ui ty orkers re T | . ! i.di: 5 '56,' f') ; ten--.' 2 drive in that county. jfjj-v 4 * X NO MORE GUARD UNITS OVERSEAS X T Washington— lndication that the War Departmen |* has decided not to accept any additional National Guar X X units in the forces sent abroad was seen to-day in an orde 7 < T telegr-a; hed to the Governor of'l i mcsot;- in instructing ♦! *f* i. *x*. hirt to c : iand the Second Minv ; infant: L, 1* T ± .f. J* MARRIAGE LICENSES 5 Samuel l.rr MlMllnc. I'lt txblirKh, mid Idn Florfiiff MrKrr, niiilm Muniurl 11. l,ofvrf. I.nncnster, nnd line Anne Kvnnn. Clnir flrlil; I'hlllp llirbard llrndcr and Mundr 11. MtnlTrr, litirrtaliiirif. f HOME EDITION. MAN WHOSE SHOT BEGAN THE WAR DIES IN PRISON Murderer of Austrian Ileir to Throne and His Wife Succumbs in Prison OTHERS PAID PENALTIES Kaiser Seized Opportunity to Open His Drive For Euro pean Conquest London, May I.—Garzlo Prinzlp, 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. I 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 bullets from a revolver at the Austrian lieir apparent, the first striking the Duchess of Hohenberg, 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 liovic, a typist of Serbian national ity, had thrown a bomb which the Archduke warded off with Tiis arm so that it exploded some distance from his automobile. The bomb in jured six persons. Gabrinovic was sentenced to twenty years' impris onment. Four other conspiratois were sentenced to death by hanging, one to life imprisonment and one to twenty years in jail.