J ll* I Rf*y* ft I\ I f| W # . f f # t mm 1 f\ H V I Alaea n tary I Declare rresmH wh - mienstty of March Or %ht by Germans HARRISBURG lf§l§ll| TELEGRAPH ®K otar-ln&cpcititeiit I LXXXVII— No. 122 20 PAGES 280,000 MEN ARE CALLED FOR THE JUNE DRAFT TO NATIONAL ARMY Apportionments to Be With held Until Camps Are Se lected For Training of Great New Army CAPACITY OF CAMPS TO DETERMINE CALL At Least 20,000 More to Be Placed in Service For I Special Units; Ship Many Abroad by Associareo Frets Washington, May 31. —Offi- cial announcement was made to-day that 280.000 men will be called to the colors during Tune. They will be ordered to report June 24 bu it has not yet been de termined to what camps they can be assigned, so the list of apportion ments is for the present being with held. The quota is based on estimates of the space available for the men in camps and cantonments. If the rate of shipment of troops across is raised still more men may be called. In any event the probabilities are that enough men will be called for special service to round the number out to 300,000. "Mercuries" Don't Know How to Take Uniforms "I've been forty years in the TYestern "nion Service, an' I wont ; >m," said an incient cour ,vf of the local W. I*, to-day when the manager announced that, all "pavement pounders" should wear a new uniform which includes lee gings. "I look like an ostrich with them leggin's on." A mild riot ensued in Third street when the whole gang were informed of the amazing order, although the younger whizzers felt very cocky when they tried on the brand new olive green garb with its saucy but tons and smart leggings. MuUneers expressed themselves vehemently at the change. "We got to pay 4 0 cents a week for the rent of a uniform. You can never call y'r clothes y'r own." wailed one. "Look at that old man. He's got to pay full measure for that extra sleeve he don't need." The new clothes are for summer use only and the company figured that its em ployes would relish the chanse. Some do. "Hully cheel" whooped one vouth ful Mercury. "Dev'll t'ink I'm one o' them cloud busters wit' this uniform on." TO rnOTBCT ARMV >lll Es By Associated Press \\ahincton, May 01.—Every horse and mule in the American Expedi tionary Forces soon will be equipped with a now type of gas mask, which, it is declared, will make them im pervious to gas attacks. The masks are coming from a specially-equipped factory at the rate of 5,000 a day. the Gas Defense Service announced to day. and going rapidly to France. Arthur D. Bacon says THRIFT STAMPS ought to be in every home. £STHe figured the interest. i THE WEATHER For Ilarrlxburg and vicinity: Fnlr :ind wnrnirr to-night ami Sat urday. For Kantrrn Pennsj It unini Part ly cloudy and narmrr to-night: Saturday fair and warmer; gentle sooth wind. Hirer The main river "111 rle exrept the lower portion. A mage of ahMt 7.0 feet la Indicated for Hnrrisburg Saturday morning. General Condition* J Cloady. showery, cool nrather has continued la the Middle At lantic and New England States. The weather mm generally clear at time of observation this morninK, exrept along and near the Atlantic const. Cloudiness will decrease and there will probably be aannblnr late this afternoon la Harriabarg ami vicinity. Temperature: 8 a. m., 37. Sua: Rises, 5s2S a. m.; seta, 8:10 p. m. Moon: l.nat quarter, Jane 1. niter Stme: 7 fret above low water mark. Yrtrrday'a Wrathrr Hichrat trmprroture, 64. I.owrst trmprrature, .17. Mran temprratarr. *lO. Normal temperature, 6. There's Been a Slight Error in the Announcement /r7 f /m\Yv\S thought YOV (X rMa\ v"L Said this vjas, i KU I—| TOBEAFUNERivL -| f\\ If/ American Ace Thrilling Air Battle Lieut. Rickenbacher, Singlehanded, Bests Five Huns and Rescues Another Flyer Whose Machine Is Crippled in Collision; Yankees Do Brilliant Work By Associated Press With the American Army In ! Kroner. Thursday, May 30.—There I was much aerial activity on the front northwest of Toul to-day and two. if i not three, German machines were j shot down. Lieutenant Edward Rickenbacher, the former automobile racer, not only j brought down one machine, but res cued Lieutenant James A. Meissner. : of Brooklyn, after his machine had i been damaged. Singlehanded. Rick enbacher attacked two Albatross bi planes and three monoplanes. After lie had fired a hundred rounds into one of the biplanes it fell crashing BIG RECRUITING • DRIVE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK Army and Marine Corps Com pete For Services of Har risburg Men A new recruiting drive is being j planned for Harrisburg. This drive. 1 scheduled to tftart on June 6 and j continue for one week, is being held i in lieu of this week's curtailed drive. This latter drive was called off after meetings on Monday and Tuesday I evenings after the War Department I had issued orders to add recruiting ! stations to cease recruiting activities until after June 5 because of the I congested conditions on the railroads and in the various camps and can- j tonments due to the movement of j tContinued on Pagr 6.] Divorced in Lebanon, Soldier Hastens Here to Take New Wife Divorced to-day in the I.ebanon j county courts, Uriah G. McElrov, 26, i of this city, called at the marriage, license bureau and tcok out a certifi-! cate to wed Salome Bloser, 18. als'ol of Harrisburg. McElroy told the 1 clerk his divorce was granted to-tfay. : McElroy and Miss Bloser werej married by Alderman Charles Em met Murray. The groom leaves to- j night with a contingent of drafted, men for his training camp. THREE WOMEN AUTO VICTIMS Hiintingdton. W. Va.. May 31. Three women were killed and threa! persons injured, two seriously, VPS-' terday, when a large automobile in; which they were riding crashed I through the guard rail of the Ninoj Mile bridge on the Ohio river north i of this city. All the victims werel > residents of Huntington. ' il.\ai.E COPY, it CENTS to the ground. The lieutenant | turned and attacked another, which I sought safety in flight. Meanwhile, the remaining German machines had descended too low for Rickenbacher | to attack. As he was returning to behind the American lines. Lieutenant Ricken bacher saw four German airplanes coming toward him. He turned and ' saw Lieutenant Meissner. who was j flying high, attack one enemy ma | chine just as a second hostile air plane attacked Meissner. Meissner's machine collided with one or the [Continued on Page 12] •WEST SHORE SOLDIER KILLED I IN WAR OVERSEAS How ard L. Spidel, Son of Marysville Couple, Killed ( in Action on War Front One more boy of this district has j fallen a victim of the Hun. He is • Private Howard L. Spidel, of Marys- I ville. To-day's casualty list includes | the name of Howard L. Spidel, Union Furnace, Huntingdon county, (as killed in action. Young Spidel. j who had been residing at Union Fur ] nace, came to Marysville early last spring and lived with his brother, j Harry Spidel, Ann street, while work j ing as a laborer on the Pennsylvania j railroad. Last April he enlisted in j the Lfnited States Infantry. I The parents of Howard L. Spidel. j Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Spidel. live in South Main street, Marysville, and ! this morning they said that they be j lieved the man mentioned in to-day's ! dispatches is their son. Their son is j known to have been in France as a I member of Company A, 2Stb Infan i try. Dispatches several months ago ■ told that he had been slightly wound led in a previous engagement. He ' was 21 years old. Spidel is the first Perry county . man to lose his life in this conflict. Sweden Releases 400,000 Tons of Ships to Allies, State Department .Hears Washington May 31.—More than | 1400,000 tons of ships are -released | to thje United States and the allies by < I Sweden under the terms of the com- Iniercial agreement signed at Stock-1 holm by representatives of the two wua notified to-day. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1918. BREAD SHORTAGE IS BEING MET BY LARGEBAKERIES To Stop Out-of-To\vn Ship ments if City Supply Runs Low Harrisburg will suffer no bread shortage due to the closing of the three Bernard Schmidt controlled bakeries, according to the men who to-day took up the task of supply ing the entire city. Despite the fact that the three Schmidt plants pro duced over 105,000 "counts" (bread, rools. etc.) daily for Harrisburg and .suburban trade, more than one-half of the supply produced in this sec tion, Harrisburgers will get all the bread they need. The West Shore Baking Company and the Standard Baking Company are bending every effort to see that there is no bread shortage in Har risburg. Each of the plants are run ning full capacity twenty-four houi-3 each day and seven days each week. In case the bread supply produced by the two plants is not sufficient to [Continued on Page 18.] Harrisburg Boy Escapes Shell Fragments in Raid Word reached here to-day That Guv W. Showers, a Harrisburg boy. serving on the western front in the Ambulance Corps, narrowly escaped death yesterday when a Hun airman dropped bombs in the vicinity of young Showers. The attack occurred when Showers, with other American sol diers, was unloading wounded men from the ambulances. They were peppered by flying bits of steel. Showers is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Showers. 434 South Third street, a graduate of the Technical High School in the 1913 class and later graduating from the Philadel phia College of Pharmacy. He was employed at the drugstore of City Commissioner E. Z. Gross. Showers enlisted at the local recruiting sta tion on May I*> of last year and re ceived his training at San Antonio and later Fort Hamilton, N. Y. He is serving as a private in the Twelfth Ambulance Corps. Lieutenant Killed in Auto Crash on Way to Camp Gettysburg. May 31.—Lieutenant Brenton. aged 22, of Council Blurts, lowa, a member of the Three Hun dred and Third Battalion at Camp Colt, here. was almost instantly killed late last night when the au tomobile which he was driving smashed into a bridge railing in the vicinity of York Springs. Lieuten ant Brenton. accompanied by Miss Lillian Kissinger, of town, visited In Harrisburg during the day and ow int? to trouble with the steering wheel were driving slowly, toward Gettysburg. The force of the col lision knocked the lieutenant against the steering wheel, killing him in stantly. The body is being prepared to be sentd to his home in lowa. ALLIED LEFT FLANK IS DRIVEN BACK BY HUNS ENEMY GAINING GROUND ON THE ! AISNE FRONT French Maintain Positions Near Soissons by Pow erful Defense RHEIMS LINE IS HOLDING Heroic Resistance Keeps the Crown Prince From Advan cing at Dangerous Point By Associated Press Paris, May Sl.—The German lone range bombardment of Paris was resumed early tills morning. Keeping the tide of their advance in the center flowing strongly, al though seemingly less swiftly, to ward the Marne. the Germans simul taneously have executed a stroke on the allied left flank that has extend ed the battle line westward and vir tually linked up the present battle field with that of the Somme. The attack was delivered along the Ailette river, northwest of Soissons. Sweeping forward in the salient that projected between the Somme and the Ai#ne battlefields, the Germans i drove the, allied line back so that it now runs northwestward from the vicinity of Soissons, through Epagny and Blerancourt to the Oise river, 1 apparently at its point of junction with the Oise canal, about eight ! miles east of Noyon. Near the Marne The Noyon area was included with in the field of the German offensive in March when the French estab lished new lines along the Oise and the Oise Canal to the east and south west of that town after being driven back below St. Quentin. The Ger man drive down the Oise Valley to ; ward Paris was then checked. The j present offensive movement here suggests the possibility of its re- I sumption. j The advance in the center has now brought the Germans within two miles of the Marne at one point, | Paris dispatches report. The wedge here appears increasingly narrow, I however, and on its flanks below Soissons and Rheims the enemy is ; reported firmly held. Huns Fail at Soissons The French war office announces the breaking loivn of enemy attacks in the Soissons area and to the south, while on the allied right the line ex tending northeastward toward Rheims from the neighborhood of [Continued on Page o.] Americans Raid Hun Trenches and Inflict Damage on the Enemy By Associated Press With the American Army in i France, May 31.—American forces | northwest of Toul carried out a suc cessful raid against the German lines late last night. The American troops went over the top along a front of 500 yards. At the same time the American ar tillery opened fire. The men ad vanced behind the barrage while the guns pounded the enemy lines and rear areas. Engineers blew up the enemy en tanglements. The infantry swarmed through the defenses, where there was fighting in which the Germans sustained losses. Two prisoners were taken by the Americans. One of them attempted to escape on tho way across No Man's Land and was killed by a Massachusetts corporal. Parents Get Word of Drowning of Son, in Service, in Curtis Bay Charles E. Hippie, aged IS, was drowned in Curtis bay yesterday. Hippie wan in the military service and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Hippie, 117 Dewberry street. The drowning was purely accidental, dispatches advise. The body will be brought to Har risburg and funeral service* held at the fiome of his parents Monday morning at 10.30 o'clock. Burial will be In the East Hsrrisburg ceme tery. The Rev. Dr. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor of the Reformed Salem Church, will officiate. I Mr. Hippie Is survived by his ! father and mother, a brother. John I H. Hippie. Mnglestown, and a sister, I Mrs. Carrie Richcreek, Middletown. CIVILIANS MURDERED London, May 31.—The Germans, in their reprisals against peasant disorders in the Ukraine, drenched several villages near Kiev with gas, according to a Petrograd dispatch to the daily Express. Thus, adds the message, whole com munities were asphyxiated. v HOSPITALS ARE AGAIN ATTACKED BY BARBARIANS Nurses, Babies and Civilians Killed by Bombs Dropped by Hun Flyers By Associated Press \\ itih the Rritish Army in France, May 31.—Another big Rritish hospital was !imM by German airmen early yesterday morning, and onee more many medical workers and some pa tients were killed or wounded. The hospital caught lire after a large section or the building had I been demolished by a bomb. A ! lew women nurses were among the slain and their bodies, to gether with titose of a consid erable number more of the per sonnel and patients are buried I in the ruins, according to the latest reports. With tlie American Army In j France, May 30.—German airmen | made a pretentious raid on the area j behind the American lines in Picardy last night. Bombs were dropped on all sides of one of the largest hos pitals in a town many miles to the rear of the front. American and French wounded soldiers were carried to cellars and caves by American nurses and members of the American Red Cross. Only a few persons were Injured by flying glass, as most of the win dows in the hospital had been shat tered by bombs dropped the previous night. Several private housfs were wrecked and a number of civilians, including several babies, "were killed and injured. On Bis Scale That the raid was planned on a much larger scale than recent ones over this territory is evidenced from reports made by many Americans in villages over which the raiders passed. The Germans came in wave formation and then scattered widely. One squadron dropped bombs a few hundred feet from an American Held hospital and at the same time one of the long-range guns shelled a vil lage a few hundred yards away. The first alarm was sounded at 11 o'clock. The dropping of bombs and the firing of many anti-aircraft guns ! began almost immediately. Later j there was a brief pause, after which the raiders returned, to remain al most until dawn. Nurse* suffered A new American hospital had been opened only yesterday in a certain village. A bomb fell in front of it last night and shattered windows. I but none of the patients was in- Ijured. In some instances the bombs fell within thirty and forty feet of a hospital building, but, fortunately, tilt-re were no direct hits. A French nurse, her mother and two little sis [Continued on Page 6.] Traces of Disease Germs Are Reported in Tests of City's Milk Supply j. The report of city food inspectors | and the city bacteriologist on tests ■ of milk, cream and ice cream sam | pies shows that of the twenty-eight j milk samples eight showed the pres ! rnce of disease germs and five were | below the. butter fat standards. J Dealers whose milk contained germs 'follow: J. Aronson, 8,500 per cubic centimeter: Brenner & Son. 600; G. ! M. Carroll, 1,100: Aaron Gordon. 400: {C. A. Hoak, 1,700; D. J. Horwitz, ! 1.G00; C. E. Low, 100; Pennsylvania | Milk Products Company, 100. Those : below butter fat standards: E. B. Kbersole, B. Foster, H. Katzman, J. Metrovitch, two samples. Of the fourteen cream tests, only one was below the butter fat stand ard. The sample was taken at the Crystal restaurant. C. E. Sheesley was the producer. Nine of the eighteen Ice cream samples showed the presence of dis ease germs. They were from the following dealers: Anna Aumiller. 1,700 per cubic centimeter; E. S. Brenneman, 3,000; George Collins, 100: G. W. Connor. 1.500; S. Feraro, 1,400; Hershey Creamery Company, 2,000; Palace confectionery, 8,300; Russ Brothers, 9,700; C. R. Wolf, 4,000. Kaiser Feeding Eighty Divisions to the Cannon By Associated Press l.endon. Thursday, May 30.—Forty German divisions are engaged in the Aisne battle and forty more divisions are in reserve, says a dispatch from Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters. It Is possible, the dis patch adds, that the enemy may | strike another blow for Aimens or Dunkirk, but for the moment he ap pears to be throwing his entire strength Into the conflict of the Aisne. Soissons was reported to have been In tlamea Wednesday evening. OKI.Y EVENING ASSOCIATED i'UKSS NEttSfACKH IN lIAIIItISHIIRR ALLIED CHIEFS SEE NO CAUSE FOR WAR ALARM Situation Now Is Compared "NY itli Period Before Bat tle of the Maine By Associated Press I'aris, May 31.—The extreme point of the German advance is Le Char mel, about two miles north of the river Marne, according to an outline of the battle front as marked out by newspaper correspondents, the Havas Agency says. The lighting front, it is declared, runs as follows: From Chavigny, north of Soissons, it describes a circle west of that city and rejoins the river Crise south of Soissons. Then it goes to Berzy, fol lows the Soissons-Chateau Thierry road until npitr Hartennes where it bends southeast to Grand Bozoy. Thence southward, leaving Mulchy le-Chateau, it passes Xanteuil-Notre D.ime and advances toward the Marne to Courcy, Breey, Courpoil and Le Channel which marks its ex treme southern point. Through Vezilly, Brouillet, Savigny and Tliillois it runs northeastward to the environs of Rheims. Allied Chiefs Confident The newspapers do not attempt to minimize the importance of the Ger [ Continued on Page 6.] ® 4\*H* , irir&j&k ® 4 Kim , v \"--n~\- f "I* ( V 4 *! seems ncvitable. The Germans are nearing the Marnc V * *T® -J* the main com- h X munica between Paris and Verdun. Although the X * f the German advance has slackened, owing to the *!• * ( ] ♦j"* L arriv'i the allied reserves, it is recognized that the & • T j ;o {•-. e.cnt fur?her development H| X enemy success. x RESENTS HORSE TO GENERAL MARCH j? f association of Lafayette College i| X to-day J esented General Peyton C. March with a horse. X * * e animal, selected after months of search. •jr I* RICAN AMBASSADOR IS VICTIM 3* ' * Colonel Joseph E. Willard, the American 4 | is one of the latest victims of the epidemic of £ jjjj £ the disease resembling grip which h*s swept over Spain JT 1800 R. R EMPLOYES WALK OUT fr , , —Eighteen hundred railway employes at 2^*| ' J* Si!', ie shops of the Rock Island railway walked out to-day. T t • * j J U. S. HYDROAIRPLANE SREACH HAVANA T | * * Havanna—Two United States naval hydroairplanes X Anv: 1 >ort X <3 £ £ ELISHA LEE P. R. R. HEAD f * Philadelphia—Elisha Lee, acting vice-president ci ft.A . Railroad ,was to-day appointed federal T * *t | nager of the road by Charles H. Markham, regional wj .X director for the Allegheny district. At the same time J nouncement was made of the appointment of A. W. Jf* i X ! lor.t of the Baltir. c;u Ohio as T the f manager of that road. 4 TORPEDO BARELY MISSES STEAMER ? X An Atlantic Port—Officers of a steamer arriving here ij § § day from a foreign port reported that the vessel was ed on by a German submarine in mid-oceon and that a jju ' if* ;r dthe boat by two feet. The crew prepared .TP . • -tern g' ,i was trained on .r.e 1 ub- f £ &> X IT:as ■ • a ylioi. could be fired the submersible X J T di - and did no reappear. j| t HARRIAG t K(ll B. Hnrrlit, lliirrlnliuric. and llnry 10. Unnilo. Toivrr Cltyi < Vrlnta <J. MeElrar •! Salome llloner, Hnrrlliuri[i l>nul T. Hlrkn, ♦/- A. Hnrrlahurn. nnd l,nnlr T. HiirrldKe. llnmmelKtOM n i \\ niter K. > ™ Ilurn* and Mildred M. Tliomn*. Hiirrlntiurui Percy R. Me<>lnnei4 and <4 VVellle B. I'oulk, HurrUburst George I;. l>lA'enliii<h, linrrlahuru. nnd Huth M. LeVnn, I'enlirook. HOME EDITION YANKEES MOW DOWN ENEMY TO HOLD VILLAGE German Infantry Driven Back in Disorder by Wither ing U. S. Fire HUN TANKS TAKE COVER American Artillery Smothers Opposition Fire About Captured Village By Associated Press With the American Army in France, Thursday, May 30. German artillery in the course of the night severely bombard ed the new positions or the Americans at Cantigny, west of Montdidier. They tired as many as four thousand high explo sive shells in a brief space of time. Several attempts made by the Germans to come over were repulsed with heavy losses by the Americans. Four tier man counterattacks yesterday nsainst the American troops at Cantigny, west of Montdidier. were repulsed after sharp liglit ins:. In one of the attacks made against the Americans in Cantigny the Ger mans tried to use tanks. The enemy infantry had 1:5 mote thar shown itself than the American artillery opened a heavy flr?. Both the foot soldiers and the tanks weie driven back in disorder. The new American positions in ' [Continued on Page fi.]
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