r* I w | • ~ Ti *r* r, % f _ _ Gcrr Art Taking M Tim Far fim Mane in Offensive to ®ki They Are JQwaite* HARRISBURG iSSglp. TELEGRAPH M =========== _ Kftar-Inftcpcnftent W~ # LXXXVII— No. 113 14 PAGES BLUE DEVILS OF FRANCE GIVEN REAL WELCOME BY THOUSANDS Hundred Men, Decorated For Conspicuous Bravery on Battlefield, Cheered as They March in Streets SUBURBAN TOWNS GET CHANCE TO SEE HEROES Great Mass Meeting For This Evening to Be Devoted to Tales From Men Who Bear Wounds The most spectacular and thrilling pageant ever .seen in Harrisburg is that planned for 7 o'clock to-night j when 100 of the famous "Blue Devils'" of France will march through the city streets and attend a mon ster rally at Chestnut street hall. Early this morning the city was awakened with the news of their arrival and from that moment the whole populace was said to have talked nothing else but of this heroic: band of French soldiers, scarred with myriad wounds, but gay cheerful, and wholesome as the flowers of spring and so confident that Ger many will be vanquished that hun dreds who had the good fortune to meet them took new heart. Captain Henry M. Stine is to be congratulated (or the businesslike, prompt manner ir which he took tare of the delegation and the Civio 1 Club ladies made friends for life with the heroes by opening their spacious apartmeius and wide lawn for their entertainment. The firs: impression one had of the demon fighters is that they are the real thing. They do not need their many I badges of distinction and many in signia of valor to tell you that they are brave and intelligent. The scene at the Civic Club wis one never to be forgotten. All the smart women of Harrisburg and mo3t i of the influential men gathered on 'he lawn to welcome these "Blue Devils" who are true to form, as the race track expression goes. Con spicuous above all, perhaps. Is a young man. over six feet in height, totally blind, whose eyes were burn- j ed out by a German grenade a: the Marne. Lieutenant Marcel Levie. Like j pearly all the others, he went into the war a volunteer and a private and helped stop the first German; rush. He will be on the platform to-night at Chestnut street hall ard ! is worth looking at. Captured by the Germans and being blind 'hey! did not want to keep him and so he was exchanged, resting In f itzer-! land some time. "How were the German eats?" thev asked him. "I can't say the exact word, but maybe 'rotten' would give you an idei, said he, smiling widely" Informal Greetings There was not long to wait for, Harrisburg's enthusiasm and hos-1 pitality. Numerous American sol-' diers in town hastened to greet these battle-scarred chaps from France [Continued on Page 12.] Forty Men to Leave For Columbus Barracks Tonight Forty men from Dauphin county and Harrisburg will entrain at S.lol this evening for Columbus Barracks. Ohio, from where they will be sen-, to training camps to take their places in the National Army. The men villi report at their boards at 6.30 for final instructions. All the men re-i ported yesterday for preliminary in- I structions, and no delinquencies to night are expected. A parade in honor of the Italiin • members of the contingent has been scheduled for to-night. Other mem- | hers of the quotas have been invited . to participate in the farewell demon stration. PLEDGE WEEK How much are you going to buy in THRIFT STAMPS EVERY WEEK \ ou are onlv lending y o i THE WEATHER For Harrlahurg nnd vicinity: Fair (o-niKht and Wednesday; alight _ ly narmrr Wednesday. For Kuatern Pennsylvania: Fair lO'Blßht find edneaduy; slight , I..V." rmer . i Ve- "" da >! gentle shifting wind*. General Condition* The atorm that maa central over the *l. Lawrence Valley, Mon day morning, cauaed thuader showera generally south and east of the Great I.akea. heavy la Pcnnaylvanln nnd the Interior of New York. Temperaturei 8 a. m, 71. Sum Riaea, Su'tV afl m.; acta, Bil3 p. ai. Moon: Flrat quarter. May 17. River Stage: 8. feet above low water mark. Vesterday's Weather Hlgheat temperature, 78. I.oweat temperature. M. Mean tenperatare, 71. >ormal temperature, 61. Blue Devils of France as They Lined Up Here With Officers Who Led Them in Attacks on Huns ' * SPpfflk 1 ■>. y* r ' ■ M B B m ftHriit Wll IP 11 wr -. v 7 P® " w<* *mr - *# J f -W A hundred Blue Devils of the most I famous of the French fighting forces lined up here this morning for a day's patriotic work. The officers and men all wear decorations for unusual ■ bravery and every man bears the scars of from one to six wounds. j Program Outlined For This Evening CAPTAIN HENRY M. STINE, ; who will have as his aids t two invalided officers of his i old regiment. Captain J. W. Hartman and Lieutenant C. I. '■ Trullinger, at noon announced the following order of exercises for the Red Cross demonstration this evening: Parade to form at 7 o'clock in 1 front of the Civic Club building. Front and North street, to escort French "Blue Devils" to Chest nut Street Hall; detail of police: [ Commonwealth Band: Veterans of the G. A. R.; Veterans of Foreign j Service: Spanish-American War Veterans and Reserve Militia to i act as escort. Line of march — Down Front'to State, on State to • the Capitol, where Governor Brumbaugh and Adjutant General j Beary will address visitors: up Third street to Verbeke. on Ver beke to Second, down Second to State, down State to Kront, down Front to Chestnut, on Chestnut to the hall, arriving there about 8 o'clock. 'POUND-A-MINUTE' BURKE TO SPEAK AT GREAT RALLY One of War's Most Famous Women Workers to Make Patriotic Address Miss Kathleen Burke. f amous Red Cross workers whose experiences- on the French, Italian and Belgian fronts have been such as are for , tunately experienced by few women, arrived in Harrisburg shortly be fore noon to-day from Lancaster, where she spoke last night; and con sequently she will positively be pres ent at the big Red Cross rally In , Chestnut Street Auditorium to-night. J. E. B. Cunningham will be chair-, man of the meeting. There will be an address by Lieut. LeMoal of the French ' Blue Devils. - ' There will be .an address by another French offi cer. And Miss Burke will tell her ; story. Plan Overflow Meeting Because of the tremendous de | mand for space at the auditorium to-night rivalling even that for seats at the Howard Heinz meting several months ago. it became nec essary Saturday to issue tickets for ' to-night's affairs, which were dis tributed among the auxiliaries in the various sections of the city. The doors of the Auditorium will open at 7 o'clock. An overflow meeting has been arranged for Reformed . Salem Church, adjoining the Audi torium. Miss Burke and the Blue Devils wil be seen at both meetings. No Chain Letters For Thrift Stamps Lncle Sam does not approve of chain letters for Thrift Stamps. William Donaldson, general chair man of the War SavingS committee for Dauphin county, to-day received a letter from Washington announc ing that the national authorities dis approved of the plan of having end less chain letters for the boosting of the War Savings. - For some time past there have been reports of such chain letters, but it is belived here that better work can be done by straight can vassing and getting people interest ed from the standpoint of national aid and thrift. CAILLAIX OX WITNESS STAN*I) By Associated Press Paris, May 14.—Former Premier Laillaux was brought into court from his prison cell to-day to tes tify in the treason trials growing out of the Bonnet Rouge affair. He was called at the request of counsel for M. Landau, one of the accused who was a reporter for the Bonnet Rouge. TAFT WILL BE CHIEF SPEAKER j AT GETTYSBURG Here on Way to Graduation; r Degrees For Senator Sproul and Rev. H. \V. A. Hanson 5 ' Former President William How-! j ard Taft will spend to-night in Har- j j risburg on his way to Gettysburg to- j I morrow where he will deliver thei I principal address at the commence- i I ment exercises of Gettysburg Co!-; I lege. Trustees of the college will meet | Mr. Taft at y.48 at the Union station: ; this evening and escort him to the ; ] Senate hotel where rooms will be en-| i gaged for hini. I The former President will be taken jto Gettysburg by automobile to , morrow morning and after his speech ! at the graduation will address the [Continued oti Page 14.1 | . American Flyer Downs Eighth Teuton Plane 9 i ej Paris. May 14.—Sergeant Frank L. j j Baylies, of the "stork" escadrille, has| . brought down another German ma r; chine, the eighth to his credit since; j February 19. The sergeant's home is' l in New Bedford, Mass. He formerly! I served in the American field ambu * | lance. I 'I r, - ; HARRISBURG BOY GETS HEAD WOUNDS FIGHTING IN FRANCE 11 J First of Score of Men Given j : by Harrisburg Telegraph to War Service to Reach Front Is First to Be Injured The first Harrisburg Telegraph employe has been wounded In the . war. He is Arthur Earl Owen. o£ , 508 South Thirteenth street, for six i years employed in the circulation . department of the Harrisburg Tele . graph, now of the 4 65th Aero . Squadron, who suffered a severe j head wound while in action and was confined to a military hospital s "somewhere in France" for a period ,j of seven days. He has just rejoined - his detachment. His leaving the . hospital was the first intimation giv. . en here of his wound. I Owen left the employment of the Harrisburg Telegraph last August and enlisted in the aviation section on the first day that the section was opened for enlistment. Incidentally it might be mentioned that Owen was the first Telegraph employe to cross the pond to do battle against the Hun. Robert R. Owen, a brother of the wounded Harrisburger. serving with Company I, One Hundred and Twenfth Infantry, was stationed here for recruiting service. He re- HARRISBURG, PA, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1918. BLUE DEVILS OF FRANCE ENLIVEN FLAGRAISING Impressive Exercises INtark Opening of Big Camp at New Cumberland ' New Cumberland, Pa., May 14. 1 With the presence of a large dele gation of French Blue Devils to en liven the scene, bands playing and 1 the enthusiasm of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in evi dence, a big American flag was swung to the breeze over the great ; Quartermaster's Department depot [Continued on Page 2.] Bandages Are Off President's Hand; Plays Some Golf By Associated Fress ' Wanhincton, May 14. President Wilson removed to-day the bandages j which have encased his left hand since he burned it four weeks ago by tak ing hold of an exhaust pipe in the j British tank that visited the White I House. The hand has healed, but the i burns have left ugly scars, which cover the entire palm. The President ; was compelled to give up golf, his j daily recreation, for two weeks but recently he has been plaving a one handed game at which he has be l come quite proficient. ARTHUR EARL OWEN cently' rejoined his regiment. For some months he had been detached from his command and stationed in Harrisburi; as a member of the Har risburg recruiting party. COUNCIL PLANS A ! WEEK DEVOTED TO ARMY RECRUITING Important Ordinances Arc Passed Finally and Be come Laws of City SEEK A POLICE MATROX jTo Select by Civil Service; Curb Markets Are Favored HIGH POINTS IN COUNCIL SESSION I'laus for opening recruiting week drive Monday evening. May 27, when city will furnish pro- j gnun. Initial pn-ssiiiir of ordinance j creating position of police ma- ; j tron. Final passage of ordinance re- j quiring owners of puMle garages j to furnish the police department j with daily reports of autos re paired and |>arts furnished. Final passage of ordinance os ; tuhlLshing curb and street market in Kelker, from Third to Fifth j streets. First market day Tues day. May 28. 1 Contract for water meters | awarded. George \V. Reily reappointed j to City Planning Commission for live-year term. Addition of S 1.500 to Health Department contingent to meet 1 smallpox epidemic expenses. j Council at its meeting to-day dis- I posed of a number of ordinances | which had been delayed for a few I weeks and also took action on a j j number of other important business j j brought before the commissioners j J for disposal. ] Sergeant Blake, of the Hurrisburg i recruiting station, spoke to the j j commissioners before the session opened, announcing plans for a big I recruiting drive during the week of i May 27. asked the officials i£ j the city would take charge of the | program. Later Mayor Keister pre j sented a motion to have Council act as a committee to complete arrange ments for the event. Garage Ordinance Passes A communication was received j from City Solicitor John E. Fox in which he advised against refunding $415, one-half the amount paid by ! i the Investors' Realty Company for ! paving in Xorth Front street. The company contended that under a I local court decision they were en titled to one-half the amount paid I as it was ruled the city cotold not ' assess property owners on one side i for paving the entire width. So- I licitor Fox, in his communication, said that the entire amount was ! paid voluntarily and the city, if it ] | should refund, may not be able to show a legal reason for doing so. The ordinance requiring public i garage owners to make daily reports to the police department giving full i descriptions of automobiles and re | pairs or parts furnished, was passed | iinally. It was amended last week. | Council also passed finally the or- ; | dinance establishing a street market lin Kelker, from Third to Fifth I streets, on each Tuesday, Thursday land Saturday morning, from 5 to 10 j o'clock. The first market day will Ibe Tuesday, May 28. The inspector of weights and measures is directed to collect the daily license fee for ( each stall which is $.lO. Matron Is Wanted Upon the passage of the ordinance creating the office of police matron, Mayor Keister announced that all applicants should communicate with R. Ross Seaman, clerk of the civil service board. The age limit is from 23 to 40 years. Dates for examina tlonc will be announced later. Mayor ! Keister said he intends to use the , matron when appointed to break I up shoplifting, dance hall troubles, j and also the practice of "street- : wolking." So far about fifteen ap- i plicants have been heard from but inly one has sent in a formal ap plication to the civil service board. With only ninety-seven cents in the Health Department contingent fund because of the expense of the smallpox epidemic. Commissioner Hassler asked Council for additional funds to meet bills which are com ing in. Recently $760 was trans ferred from a fund for payment of j salaries for officeholders who were I not ap'pointed January 1. To-day it was decided to take $1,500 from the ! fund for the collection of ashes and j refuse, transferring it to the Health i Department fund. The money will j be returned later in the year. So far the total amount provided for the epidemic has been $5,260. George W. Reily, of the City Plan ning Commission, was unanimously reappointed for five years. The contract for water meters which will be needed until May 1, 1919, was awarded to the Gamon Meter Company at a total bid of $4,017, the lowest received. British War Casualties For Week, 41,612; Dead 5,566; Heaviest of War BY Associated Press London, May 14. The total of British casualties reported in the week ending to-day is 41.612. They are divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 501: men. 5.065. Wounded or missing: Officers. 2 - 123: men, 33.923. Reports of British casualties usual ly are not available for some time after the actions In which they are sustained. The large total in the last week evidently represents losses suf fered when the fighting in Flanders and Picardy was at its height. Com plete records have not been Riven out but. it Is probable that the casualties reported In the last week are the heaviest British losses of any week of the war. The total last week was 38,691. America's Nava Makes Allies Supreme Strength of Grand Fleet Is Now Such That Battle With the German Navy Would Be Welcomed; U. S. Assistance Makes Possible Spectacular Sea Raids By dssociaieJ Press f; Loudon, May 14.—American naval ; aid has been of the greatest help to the British ileet, says Archibold Hurd, the naval expert, writing in the Daily Telegraph on the new sit uation in the North sea resulting from the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids, the extension of British mine i fields and the generally increasing i naval pressure against Germany. "W hen the war is over," he says, j i "that nation will form some con- j; ception of the extent of debt which j we owe the American Navy for the ' manner in which it has co-operated, I not only in connection with the con voy system but in fighting the sub- ' marines. "If the naval position is improv- ] ing to-day, as it is, it is due to the fact that the British and American < fleets are working in closest accord, i MANY PLEDGES TO BUY WAR STAMPS GIVEN IN DRIVE j Surprisingly Largo Number of Subscriptions Taken in First Day's Work Harrisburg's four-day go-to-it drive whereby it is hoped to pledge the district to buy $3,000,000 worth of war savings stamps—the Thrift Stamps and Baby Bonds—began this morning. The executive committee in ! charge of the campaign at noon was i not ready to announce a total of the j amount pledged to that time, but ! admitted that it was a surprise— I the right way. too. It is pointed out that the pur | chase of war stamps is quite as j much a part of Harrisburg's duty as the purchase of Liberty Bonds, memberships in the Red Cross and contributions to the Red Cross. Mayor D. L. Keister last night is sued a statement relative to Harris burg's duty in purchasing Thrift Stamps and calling on the city to do its duty. I The following persons were added | to-day to the General Executive | Committee of the War Savings j Stamps Campaign: Guy E. Booda, Lewis Balser, j George L. Brown. Clark E. Diehl, !John Hoffer, Arthur H. Hull. S. G. Jean, Paul Johnston, Harry S. | Kelley, Dr. C. F. Keim, Mrs. Henry I McCormick. Dr. David I. Miller, J. j Grant Schwarz. R. R. Rhoads, D. , E. Tracy and Mrs. D. E. Tracy. Mulberry Street Bridge as Strong Today as When Built, Expert Reports That the Mulberry street bridge is as strong to-day as it was more than ten years ago when it was built, and j that the gases from engines passing underneath have caused no chemical | decomposition of the re-enforced concrete were statements made to day by J. E. Greiner, of Baltimore, the engineering expert who was brought to the city by Commissioner W. H. Lypch to make a complete inspection of the structure and rsc ommend any possible improvement to prevent accident on the side walks when vehicles collide in the roadway. Mr. Greiner's report will prob ably be submitted next week in Coun cil. Before leaving the city early this afternoon he said a complete ex amination showed that the concrete ; had not been affected by the gases, I and that the bridge now is in the | best of condition with the exception ' of the roadway which is being rc ! paired by highway department I forces. Gen. Pershing's Veterans Tell of Good Work Done in France by the Y. M. C. A. Corporal M. H. Plant and Sergeant ! E. A. McNiff, two Pershing veterans, j nddressed the luncheon of the Y. M. I C. A. recruiting committee held in • the assembly room of the Central Y. I M. C. A. biuldi:i,f at noon to-day. ] "The Y. M. C. A. has been a gfod ! send to the men in the trenches." said Sergeant McNiff. He praised the work of the association telling of the service accomplished among the men in the trenches.' "We need men in the trenches as Y. M. C. A. secretaries. They should be men who tell us to go ahead. We don't want the 'don't-do-it' kind of men." said Corporal Plant who toid a vivid tale of a charge by the Teu tons and whose brief talk was filled with interesting narratives of his ex periences in France. Both of the veterans are but youths, and they i have seen eleven months' service in France. It was announced that the Rev. B. Li. C. Baer, pastor of the Mechanics burg Church of God. had been ac cepted as a Y. M. C. A. secretary and will leave in a short time for over seas service. MUST NOT PARK CARS Captain Thompson, in charge of the traffic department of the police department, announced this after noon that parking of cars along the line of march to be followed by t'ne Blue Devils in thotr parade to-night will not be allowed. FINES TOTAL *5,077.30 With the return of 1819.15 for fines and forfeitures from police court for April, the total amount collected and turned in to the city treasury o far this year 1*46,07 7.M. RVENIXG ASSOCIATED I'KLISS LVAIir riMTIAM NBWSft-Al'tiM IN HAH If IBRDIIU HOME EDITION [supported by an immense body of skilled workers on both sides of the Atlantic who are turning out de stroyers and other cral't for dealing I with the submarines as well as mines and bombs. "The Germans can have a battle whenever they want it. The strength of the grand fleet has been well maintained. Some of the finest bat tleships of the United Sttaes Navy are now associa'ed with !t. They are not only splendid lighting ships, but they are well officered and manned. "If Admiral Beatty were asked his opinion there Is no doubt of what he would say of the value of the aid which the United States has given in this respect. The conditions under which the Germans would engage us, therefore, are less favor able than two years ago." BEGINS RAILWAY PROJECT WITH A FIVE-CENT PIECE Bank's Crash Came in Wake of Promoter's Scheme to Build New Line C harged with having misappro priated the funds of the little Farm ers Bank at Lemasters, Pa., Clyde E. Kuhn, who started the uncertain project of supplying Pennsylvania's only railless county. Fulton, with a railroad: Knos D. Myers, cashier of the bank, and Edward J, Post and Samuel D. Shearer, associated with Kuhn in the building of the rail road, were haled before Judge Wit mer in the Federal Court here late yesterday. The government charges that the quartet wrecked the insti- [Continued on Page 2.] T< $ /" J . GkOUND GLASS IN ENGINE GREASE T J ♦s ; A ' ! x , v *s* £ 4* Jasf L U T| in a quantity of grease. Investigation of the occurrence 4 - 2 . f v.,r J ms> X *** "f* *f X 1 Hr ■ X &> ■F ttffc car, rendering its contents unfit for use. 4 I CAN" i; I'OR NATIONAL LANK ST A rNT 41 X Washington—The Comptroller of the Currency to *** •£ *£* ♦£ Xthe close of business on Friday, May 10. T T JAMES GORDON BENNETT DIES X rietor A X oi the New York Herald died at 5.30 this morning aft [<§•. having been unconscious for two days. 4* t T i •** T EC lOOFMAU ICI INC T* 4* *** X n of the statement sent out from C T 4 4* X u ' tlic. Ar.g'.o Ficnch armies V J b_ *V * * % * * 4# ♦** lo " ■ ( ; c: Ma 4 rice incid-it. „ # * EIGHT SHIPS IN SEVEN DAYS f e£ * Washington—Eight steel ships totalling 48,150 tons 31 * J were completed during the seven days ending May 11. * " ;e of * * J 57,100 of which seven were steel with a total capacity 4 % '"i of ;2,i00 tons. '* ! I WANTS LITHUANIA TO BEAR WAR BURDENS ► | | J Amsterdam—Emperor William has issued a proclama J ||H tion concerning Lithuania in-which he says it is assumed * * 4 t Lithuania will participate in the war burdens of Ger- •* 5 m;my * I I „ * < $ MARRIAGE LICENSES " HI David Smith, Mteelton, nnd Mary Plrlar, I.aacaateri Charles W. ft I'Clir, .Mt. Joy, and Martha W. Hunk. New <'••*• i*rland. s. ITALY'S TROOPS REPULSE WITH HEAVY LOSSES FRESHATTACK Austrians Foiled in Attempt to Regain Monte Corno, Commanding Approaches to Important Valley MEET FOR BLOODY HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT General Activity Shown on Entire Mountain Front Is Forecast of General Of fensive ; Lines Hold By Associated Press Italian Army Headquarters in Northern Italy, Monday, May 13. Italian troops repulsed with hoavy loss a desperate enemy attempt last night to redeem the loss of Monte Corno. It is believed that this was only tile first of a series of efforts to regain the lost ground owing to the value of the height which commands the approaches to the valley leading from Trent to Rovereto. The fight last night was in the darkness and was a bloody hand-to hand struggle over the rocky slopes of the mountain. The Italian posi tions, however, were maintained in tact. Thus far the fighting around Monte Corno has been of local char acter and not a part of any general offensive, althought the outposts show increasing activity all along the i .ountain front. WORKROOMS TO CI.OSI'. Because of the big mass meeting in the Chestnut street auditorium this evening .the Red Cross workrooms at the Harrisburg headquarters, will be closed.
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