ffIGHT Slayer of fel HARRISBURG iSSgfflll TELEGRAPH jC <TIK otar'Jn>cpensent ; * LXXXVII— No. 121 22 PAGES GERMANY READY TO RENEW BATTLE. HASTENS FOR LEAD MANY JOBS GIVEN TO MEN WHO MUST 'WORK OR FIGHT' Big Industries Can Place Thousands at Work Nec essary For War WOMEN TO HELP CAUSE Non-Essential Businesses to Call on Aged to Help Fill Places When the exodus of hundreds of men engaged in Harrisburg in non essential occupations starts within the next several days as a result of the "fight or work" order of Pro vost Marshal General Crowder yes terday, the individuals will have lit tle or no difficulty to secure work in essential lines in the vicinity of Har risburg. Jobs necessary to the successful prosecution of the war are numerous in this city, it was learned to-day. Most of the numerous industries en gaged in the manufacture of govern ment supplies here are sadly under manned. Inquiries this morning among only a few of the industries engaged in essential work showed that all can find room for more em ployes. Little effect is expected to be seen in the non-essential lines for some time. The. Crowder order of yester day will not become effective until July 1, but several weeks before that time the big rush is expected to set in. Some few of the employes en gaged in the work listed as non essential yesterday will likely leave their places of employment with the completion of this week or as soon thereafter as their places can be filled. The real rush, which is ex pected to upset the city and tem porarily wreck havoc in various lines of work, however, is not to be expected for several weeks. To Call in Women Could we take a short Hip Van Winkle siesta of several months' length we would see many changes startling to the eye when we awake after July 1. In the non-essential occupations we would find men, long past the age of real activity, and women filling the positions once held by the eager and ever alert young men. The city, with its stores and other places of business now teem ing with activity, would scarcely be recognized. "This is the age of the old man. He is coming into his own again." Such were some of the numerous re marks expressed yesterday and to day. And it might well be added that it is likewise the age of the woman and of the youth under draft age. Domestic service will be entirely revolutionized. No longer will young male faces be seen over sales coun ters in merchantile establishments. Eatincr and drinking places, too, will be affected. All of them will have older men and girls filling positions. The same classes of persons will be found serving as elevator operators and other attendants, doormen, foot men and other attendants of clubs, hotels. stores, apartment house buildings, office buildings and bath houses. Industries Need Men Tn Harrisburg, hundreds of men will soon start scouring the city for jobs listed as essential occupations that they may not automatically be called to appear before draft boards and be examnied for induction into the United States service. Pool rooms and other loafing places throughout the city will be prac tically emptied. But in Harrisburg it will not be difficult for the men to find essential jobs. Hundreds of men will be able and many will find work with the Penn [ConUnued on Page 6.] WILL JOIN WITH ELKS IN FLAG DAY PARADE A number of local organizations including the Kiwanis Club, will unite with the local lodge of Elks in cere monies observing Flag Day, June 14. The Municipal Band will lead the pa rade of the organizations on the prin cipal streets of the city, and the ex ercises will be liOd in Reservoir Park. Captain H. M. Stine will be parade marshal. THE WEATHER] For Harrlnbaric and vicinity i Partly cloudy to-nlcht and Saturday) warmer Saturday. Far Eastern I'rnnnylvnnlai Part ly cloudy to-night and Satur day! warmer Saturday. Tomorrow Is End of First Pledge Week for War Savings forget to buy BRITAIN CONFIDENT OF WAR'S OUTCOME HUNS HURRY TO BEAT AMERICAN ARMY TO FRONT Lloyd George Declares U. S. Effort So Far Is Offset by Russian Collapse BEATING THE U-BOATS War Settles Down to Race Be tween Hindenburg and Wilson Edinburgh, May 24.—"We are on the eve of a great German attack," said Premier Lloyd George in an address delivered here to-day on receiving the freedom of the city. "Those who know best what the prospects are feel most confident about the result. Speaking of the time necessary for the United States to prepare for full participation in the war. the premier said that, after all her exertion, America at the present moment did not have what was equivalent to one fifth f the fighting strength which the enemy laad received owing to the collapse of Russia. He added that it took time to train and equip armies and that Amer ican help could not be reckoned on for some time. Race With America The premier's statements about the submarine situation were most opti mistic. He said that in April the output of shipping for the first time exceeded the losses "For the Germans, as well as for [Continued on Page 21.] ITALIAN FLAGS" FLY IN HONOR OF 3 YEARS OF WAR Parade Here This Evening to Show Patriotism of Italy's Sons in United States Italian flags are to-day being flown in large numbers from various stores and residences throughout the city in observance of the third anniversary of the entrance of Italy into the great world war. Mayor Keister yesterday issued a request that as many Harris burg persons as possible fly these flags as a token of respect for the lit tle republic and the work it is doing in this world war. Thip evening prominent speakers will address a big patriotic rally In the Chestnut street auditorium at the* completion of a large patriotic pa rade in which approximately 500 Italians and many others of allied sympathies are expected to partiei [Continued on Page 10.] Governor Ready For Bids For White House Wool, Aiding Red Cross Governor Brumbaugh this after noon announced that he is ready to receive bids by mail for the two pounds of wool clipped from Presi dent Wilson's White House sheep several days ago and donated to the Red Cross. Each of the forty-eight governors in the TJnited States has received two pounds of the wool. In some instances the executives will conduct public auctions, but Gover nor Brumbaugh will have a mail l auction, and the highest bidder will get the wool, it is now on exhibi tion at local Red Cross headquarters. 10 Section Hands Who Work Overtime Are Fined by Alderman By Associated Press • | I,ancastcr, Pa., May 24.—Ten men employed as section hands on the Pennsylvania railroad near Quarry ville, were fined by Alderman Stauf fer of this city, for working over time. m They were accused under a provis ion made since the government took over the railroads, which requires employes to leave the property after their wrk is done. The men dallied on the grounds, some working half an hour. m SINGLE: COPY, - CENTS GERMANY IS READY TO RENEW BATTLING ON WESTERN Continuation of Present Calm Not Expected Much Longer With Both Sides Prepared For Whatever May Occur MORALE OF BEST HUN TROOPS HAS BEEN HIT Allies' Mastery of the Air Pro ductive of Much Damage to Enemy Billets; Tons of Ex plosives Dropped Heavy fighting operations on the western front still are in the stage of anticipation. Continuation of the present calm much longer is hardly possible with both sides prepared for a renewal of extensive opera tions. The Germans are known to have completed their preparations and the allies are confident in their ability to meet the shock of enemy attacks, wherever and whenever they may come. What really is going on behind the German lines is uncertain, but it is known the enemy has large num bers of men along the front from Ypres to Rheims. His artillery is in position and weather conditions have been favorable, but the Ger man leaders are not ready to test their fate, or, at least, they have given no indication of doing so. The German morale is reported to be much weaker than before the attack of March 21. Tons of Bombs Dropped Meanwhile the allied mastery of the air is productive of much dam age to German billets, airdromes, artillery concentrations and other military targets. For more than a week now British and French air men have been dropping ton after ton of bombs in the areas immedi ately back of the German lines. In aerial fighting the German fliers have been bested and on Wednesday British aviators accounted for fifteen enemy machines while losing three of their own. Raids into Germany continue and British bombing squadrons have again visited Mannheim, on the Rhine, where two fires were caused. An electric power station near Saar brucken, German Lorraine, was damaged severely and more explo sives have been dropped on railway stations at Metz. American Aviators Downed Berlin claims that three American airplanes have been brought dow-n on the Lys battlefield. This is the first indication that American air men were with the American troops on this front. Infantry raiding operations and artillery firing is at a minimum along the entire front from Switzer land to the North sea. Activity on the American sectors has been be low normal. Italy begins her third year of the war to-day. As in France, the enemy withholds his offensive operations heralded as certain some weeks ago. On the mountain front there has been no fighting of moment, while along the Piave the Italians have re pulsed another Austro-Hungarian attack against the new bridgehead at Capo Sile. Prisoners Taken by British Aid Huns in Patrol Raids; Hostile Artillery Active Ijondon, May 24.—"As a result of a raid carried out by the enemy yes terday north of Hill 70 (north of Lens), a few of our men are miss ing," says to-day's official statement. "Early last night the enemy attempt ed another raid on one of our posts in Aveluy Wood, but was driven off. "We carried out a successful raid shortly after midnight southwest of Laßassee, and captured a few pris oners. A few prisoners were secured by us in a patrol encounter north of the Ypres-Comines Canal. "The hostile artillery was active last night west of Lens and in the neighborhood of Givenchy and Fes tubert. Our positions in the forest of Nieppe section were bombarded with gas shells." DR. BKHNEY IN KKANI'E Word has been received in the city of the safe arrival in France of Dr. B. 8. Behney, a captain In charge of a dental unit which was stationed at Camp Hancock. Georgia. Dr. Behney was given a higher commission while in camp shortly before sailing. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1918 AMERICAN FLYERS TO GUARD PARIS By Associated Press Paris, Thursday, May 23.—An American escadrille, composed of aviators chosen from among the best American pilots, in th*s fu ture will help to defend PHVS against enemy air raids. Offer of this help was made spontane ously by the chief of the Amer ican aviation service and accept ed by the French government. An official announcement says the American offer was made af ter a German air raid some time ego. It wis proposed to ize an American escadrille espe cially detailed to defend the French capital. Million Russians Held by Huns Are Invalids By Associated Press Moscow, Friday, May 27. —One million of 3,100,000 Russian war prisoners held in Germany and Austria-Hungary are total invalids. In Germany there are 1,800,000 and in Austria 1,200,000. Half of the invalids aj;p tubercular, most of them in the last stage sof that plague. Many of the remainder are suffer ing from other serious contagious diseases. MILK PRICES TO REMAIN AT 12 CENTS A QUART Food Administration Satis fied With Conditions After an Investigation There will be no increase in milk prices in Harrisburg during the sum mer and fall, according to the Dau phin County Food Administration this morning. The food administra tor at the same time announced that there will be no decrease in the re tail price of twelve cents a quart and seven cents a pint, which has been considered unreasonable in some quarters. Dr. Clyde L. King, dairy expert and representative of the State Food Administration, after a series of con ferences with representative dealers and producers in the city, this morn ing made the statement that the prices now charged consumers are not exorbitant. He declared that a decrease in the retail price now charged would cause a milk famine in the city by the end of the sum mer. Productive Costs High A decrease in price rates would mean that the farmers of the county would have to dispose of their stock at the current rate of feed prices, ac cording to the food administration expert. Dr. King substantiated the claims of the dealers and dispensers that Harrisburg is not being charged an inflated price rate for milk. At the same time Dr. King sound ed the warning that an increase over the twelve-cent rate now being charged would be unwarranted un less an unlooked for and material advance Is made In food prices. The decision of the food adminis tration representative settles a dis pute that began last winter when the milk dealers of the city announced their new price rates. At that time there was talk of boycotting, and the dispensers threatened to enlist the aid of the food administration to make the dairymen lower their prices when the consumers object ed to the necessitated raise to twelve cents on the part of the dealers. Prices Fixed The following principles have been approved by the food administration distributors and dairymen at their conferences: I—The dealers have agreed that their charge for distributing milk from December X. 1917, to December [Continued on Page 16.] NEW HUN UNITS PLACED BEFORE AMERICAN ARMY Eighth Bavarian Reserves Arc Stationed Opposite Gen. Pershing's Men ENTIRE SECTOR IS QUIET U. S. Headquarters Reports Little Activity Along the Front in France By Associated Press With the American Army in I France, Thursday, May 23. —"The day has been quiet on all points oc cupied by our troops," says the of ficial statement issued to-night from I American headquarters. German troops, which faced the Americans along the Toul sector for several weeks have been withdrawn and sent to the battle area of North ern France. They have been re placed by the Eighth Bavarian re serves. Broadway at the Front Seldom has a theatrical entertain ment been staged in a more unusual setting than one given this afternoon in a location which enabled several hundred hot and dirty American troops just out of the trenches to get back for an hour or so to the atmosphere of Broadway. An open air prize ring was the stage. The performer who to-day trod the boards of this unique stage was | Miss EJsie Janis, now on a visit to I the front to give entertainments for I the fighters. She told stories, sang I new songs and danced and for the ! most part appeared unconcerned lover the unusual conditions sur ' rounding the performance. CITY'S NEW CURB MARKET IS TO OPEN TUESDAY On Success of Experiment Depends Whether Others Will Be Started The Kelker street curbstone mar ket. authorized by City Council, will open Tuesday, as Harrisburg's only curbstone market, according to an nouncements issued this morning by Sealer of Weights and Measures George B. Nebinger. The authorization of this market came as a result of an agitation "by many citizens that the cost of living might be kept within the means of the poorer people and with the di rect purpose of promoting food con servation in Harrisburg. The closing of tile Kelker street market also had Its influence in bringing about Its establishment. Upon the success of the experiment depends whether similar markets will be opened in other parts of the city. The opening of the Kelker street market will revive an Institution that died in Harrisburg several dec ades ago. With the Increasing cost of living mounting continually high er, other cities have again established markets, which have worked success fully, hence the agitation for such a [Continued on Page 21.] G. Chal Port, State Fire Marshal, Is Seriously 111 G. Chal Port, state lire marshal, is seriously ill at the Huntingdon Hospital. He became ill suddenly at his home in Huntingdon last even ing. Mr. Port, who is well known in Harrisburg and is one of the most popular officials on Capitol Hill, has been in poor health for some time, spending some weeks last winter in the South in an effort to recuperate. Recently he has been able to attend to his duties and his sudden lllnp*s last night was of such nature il * for a time it was feared he woual not survive the night. He is slight ly improved to-day. PRISONKR TAKKN AWAY George Brown, colored, who escap ed from a reformatory at Powning town, where he was committed for incorrigibility by the Dauphin Coun ty Court, was arrested again yester day by an officer of the city school district. He has been taken to the house of detention. Brown said when he escaped from the institution he rode to Reading on an automobile and walked to Harrisburg. DID NOT MEAN TO SLAY, MISS LUSKASSERTS "Never, Never, Never," She Cries to Jury to Deter mine Her Fate Waukslica, Wis., May 24.—"1 can not remember," Grace Lusk told the jury which will decide her fate on a charge of slaying Mrs. Harry New man Roberts when asked regarding the shooting on the witness stand to-day. "Did you intend to shoot Mrs. j Roberts?" she was asked. "Never, never, never," she cried. "Did you intend to take Mrs. Rob erts' life?" "Never. Why should 1?" |v In telling of meeting Dr. Roberts on the evening of the tragedy, June 20, 1917, Miss Lusk said she told him he must tell Mrs. Roberts and ask her for his freedom. He promised to do so that night, she testified. The next afternoon, having failed to keep an appointment she had made for the morning, Mrs. Rob erts came to her home. Miss busk said, and declared her husband had told her "that Miss Lusk was the biggest fool he had ever known and that she had chased him until he never had a moment's peace." Miss Lusk said she went upstairs to get some of the doctor's letters and, seeing the pistol, she brought that down also, intending to take her own life. When Mrs. Roberts saw the letters, the witness said, she said abusive things. "Mrs. Roberts asked me if I did not know that Dr. Roberts did not care for me, that he was just mak ing sport of me, '"as he had many other women. She told me of a girl who had died in a second rate Wauk aha boarding house as the result of an operation. She said that I would die that way, but not in Wauksha, as she would drive me out of town," said Miss Lusk after a brief recess was taken. , She said she then told Dr. Roberts on the telephone and, told him to come to her home. Asked what were the last words she remembered Mrs. Roberts say ing, she said the doctor's wife com pared her to a dog—a person of no standing. Walter L. Corrigan then began the cross-examination for the prose cution. PORKERS WAX FAT; ARE HAPPY IN THE PIGGERY Five Hundred Grow Rapidly When Fed on Garbage Collected in City Almost 500 pigs are being fattened on a big farm about one and a half miles northeast of the city and are thriving on the tons of garbage col lected in the city daily and hauled to the piggery In six large wagons and an auto truck. So much Is being col lected that it will be necessary to add 100 more pigs to the stock and to put into service another large auto truck. Months ago when the old waste collection contract was almost closed city officials were searching for a [Continued on Page 12.] Angry Citizens Wreck Restaurant; Mob Manager Birmingham, Ala., May 24.—The Thompson restaurant, operated by John R. Thompson, Inc., of Chicago, was practically wrecked this after noon by a crowd of angry citizens because the company yesterday re fused to join other city restaurants in voluntarily eliminating wheat products. Manager Wood was chased by the crowd. Later a committee of three citizens took him to police headquarters, where he is being protected. Latest Primary Returns Philadelphia, May 24.—Latest returns from last Tuesday's 'pri maries received up to this aft ernoon are as follows: Republican Governor —6,434 districts out of 7,039 gave Sproul 341,608; O'Nell, 137,568. Lieutenant-Governor—6,o4o dis tricts gave Beldleman 214,218; Scott, 175,160. Secretary of Internal Affairs— -6.571 districts gave Woodward 188,075; Houck, 179,498. Democratic Governor —5,706 districts gave Bonnlwell 69,129; Guffey, 54,498. Lieutenant-Governor—32 out of 67 counties, including Philadel phia. but not Allegheny, gave Logue 34,789; Holsteln, 32,650. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPER IN HARRISHITRG f LATE § x t X X • V ju II 4 * * £ ! k ) T '" 'J ► X > ? 3y ¥ X n X im '• V v f T * • X > > T PELIN BROUGHT DOWN . J J *■ • || p 4* • • 7 n * "i * t -n '* X £ J x * * 4* '<■ * 4 • *P •*(* T 0 v ' i+i ®§* 41 JL ' • I T ,* * | • X • 4* ":8 * * *f* 11 * L : to • H I 4 • * * ® I 1 4 *§" $ GEORGE SAW EVIDENCE | r 5 -f ,▼ 4 oubt that there had been a eonspi.-ac? 'X X h ' seen J t he '<B| X - " ith it. <!9 T' .LLESLEY UNIT ARRIVES IN FRANCE i 4* hat the 9 * ' ' ! a nce ® me of 3 4* ♦£ *fr a .! m. <4* fe 4* 9 5 :SEf M i * g camps for irses may j, ' f^e Z "I*. . r.tlj 14 | • fSff <4*' of T * r 3^ 1* 4 4*', *i> RED CROSS TOTAL $74,269,825 S ton—At Nat rtei Jjj * J the early total in the 3100,600.000 drive had reached N £ 4 4 *JL 4 | large oversubscription before the drive ends. The con T £* ,-p * • 1| lounced to the commission tc J j WANTS 3,000,000 MORE MEN IN ARMY * ' T* 1 <f * < - . „>rt *. i ty g X a resolution by Senator Reed, of Mi - : 4*. en 1 150 MUTINEERS EXECUTED; 1,000 IMPRISONED ! ! 2 * :\issia * ' i j from the east to the western front, refused to pro 11 Jceed and fifty men were executed and 1,000 imprisoned j * said a Russian wireless dispatch: to-day to the state de- 1 I X . tment. Other German troops in the vicinity heM | I X ns in favor of the division. * 1 § MARRIAGE LICENSES, jj A f"" 11 ' KilMl nnd Vlr*n McKay. Harrlabnmi Kred E. Hoffman, * ' T Grata, and Floru May Meltsel, Plllowt Klnicr J. KrUtrr, Union coun- * 1 4 *>'■ nnd Bthel llordrr. Mlllrrl>uPKi Hlrhnrd M. Krlchert nnd Klvn „ f f Mary Hrohnt, • Hnrrlxhurai Thomax H. <*rhoprrt and Edna M. NIGHT EXTRA
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