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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
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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
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•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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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