andYpres; Guns Roar South ofA^as Ilk HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M ®he Stnr JJnbcpcnbcnt W <l* LXXXVII— No. I+3 18 PAGES BOLSHEVIKI GOVERNMENT RE • MOSCOW SAID TO BE CAPTURED GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS IS PROCLAIMED EMPEROR ARMYOFW.S.S. WORKERS TAKING CITY OVER TOP Big Effort on Today in Re sponse to the President's i Proclamation __ WILL MISS NO HOMES! Postal Forces Give Material Aid in Campaign; Post master in Charge That the armies of democracy | which are now opposing the forces of autocracy on European battle fields may have their every need fully supplied, hundreds of men and women are to-day scouring Harris burg and Dauphin county, as thou sands of others are doing throughout the United States to secure War Sav- 1 ings Stamps pledges to aid in se curing tunds necessary to carry on the war to a successful conclusion. Mailmen in large numbers arc hard at work and private citizens ot every! rank an 1 tile have been welded in- 1 to an efficient force for to-day's work. To-day's campaign is being waged by these collectors that' Harrisburg may be certain of I reaching its goal of $2,000,000 and Dauphin county its quota of $3,039,- WHO before the end of 1918. Tlmj campaign is. being conducted pursu-1 ant to proclamations issued by Pres-; ident Wilson setting to-day as Na-! tional War Savings Stamp day. Proc lamations have also been issued by! Governor Brumbaugh and Mayor Keister. livery Home Visited Every' home in Harrisburg is be ing visited and no residences in; smaller towns and hamlets will es-j cape. Isolated homes that have had the call brought to them in some! manner will be few and far between, j Uncle Sam's mail service and the telephone wire will be used, but per-! sonal calls will be made in greater l numbers. Postal forces in Harrisburg and Dauphin county are aiding material ly in the campaign. In Harrisburg! mail carriers are to-day collecting pledge cards left in 20,000 homes, every one in the city, with the! pledges for the purchase of "Baby| Bonds" during the remainder of! 1918. The pledge cards had beenj delivered earlier in the weeft to thei various homes of the city. The car-i rier.s are especially keen in this con-i test, a prize contest being conducted! for the carriers that make the best! record in selling stamps and in se-i curing pledges. Rural delivery car riers are aided materially in the' work in rural communities while' [Continued on Page Say Farmers Are Packing Eggs For Sale Next Winter Complaint is being made that! some farmers instead of bringing' their eggs to market are packing them in waterglass to be sold next winter as fresh eggs. This is keep-l ing the price up and is said to be in conflict with state law on the sub-j ject. There is talk of an investiga-' tion by the food administrator. DIES AFTER FIGHT Jacob Springer, 45 years old, of Middletown, died late last evening in the Middletown iocxup. Springer is alleged to have insulted a soldier from the Middletown camp, which resulted in a fight and caused Springer's arrest. The body Is at I the morgue of Deputy Corner Brestle, at Middletown. THE DAY to Back up Pershing and Sims &2f"They are on the line; where are you? I THE WEATHER For IlnrrlaburK and vlclnltri Probably h(>pr to-nluht mid Suturduyt wnrmrr Saturday. For Kuatrrn l'ennaylvaalai Prob ably thimrra late to-nluht and on Saturday; Mariner Saturday; moderate aoutheaat to outh winds. River The Susquehanna river aud all lt lirancheN will probably rnntlnur to full alonly to-niitht. A Muto ol about 4.3 feet IN Indicated for IlnrrlaburK Saturday niornhiK, Central Condition* There ban been a general rlae of 2 to 10 degree* In temperature over the euateru half of the country In the la*t tnenty-four hour*. Temperature i 8 a. m„ 62. Sum Rlae*, 5i35 a. in.; set*, Si 2."> p. in. Moon; Flrat quarter, July 1. River atagei 8 a. m„ 4.5 feet above lon-water murk. Teaterday'a Weather HlKhcat temperature, 78. I,weat temperature, 58. Mean temperature, 8. normal temperature, 73. i IV. S. S. THE PLE What is this pledge they would bid me sign? .4 promise true with this heart of mine To stand by the land which has sheltered me • To loan of my substance, endlessly; To uphold my flag with a steady hand: When days look darkest, to understand. What is this pledge they would bid me sign? -4 binding contract with Father Time To rid the sea of its hidden death: To choke into silence the cannon's, breath; To help in drying the whole world's tears; To free little children of anguished fears. What is this pledge they would bid me sign? .4 step in the stairway of things divine; .4 lesson in going without to-day To save in the bigger and broader way; .4 chance to remember the dear lads gone And lift up their burdens to "carry on." ANNA HAMILTON WOOD. Written for the Telegraph. HUNS CONCEAL POINTS NEXT TO BE ATTACKED Austrians Willing, After De feat, to Let Initiative Pass to Italians Allied capitals look for another enemy blow soon. Some military observers believe it will come on the front between Montdidier and Ypres, although as yet there arc no out ward indications as to when aivl where the German stroke will be undertaken. The fighting lull on the western front is being interrupted with only raids and local attacks. On the Italian front the Austrians. reeling from the shock of the repulse on the Piave. seemingly are content to al low the Italians to have the initia tive. For the past few days the Ger man artillery fire has been violent 01. several sectors, each of which j might be selected for an attack. These sectors are south of Arras, the northern and southern legs of the Lys salient and south of the Aisne. The Germans may, however, attein, t to surprise the allies by at tacking where they hope they will no; be expected. Aerial activity is above the aver age. The Germans have raided Paris two nights in succession. No great damage was caused Wednefc dav. On Thursday slight material damage and several casualties re sulted. Allied bombing squadrons ore active against German military targets behind the lines. The Brit ish are making nightly raids into Germany, especially against manu facturing and railroad towns be tween Jletz and the Khine. Austria Unsettled Unsettled conditions in Austria- Hungary may keep the Austrians from immediately resuming the of fensive in Italy. The food situation continues so serious that, reports from Switzerland say, martial law may be proclaimed throughout the duai monarchy. Reports from Berlin through neutral countries indicate increas ing pan-German anger against the foreign secretary, Dr. Von Kuehl mann, for his speech in the Reich stag. The secretary is reported to have offered his resignation and it is taid the emperor will accept it. Yankees Repulse Raiders* in Vosges; Fronts Quiet Washington. June 28.—Aside from the repulse of hostile raiding parties in the Vosges, General Pershing's communique for yesterday says there is nothing to report from the Amer ican fronts. The communique follows: "Section A—Aside from the re pulse of hostile parties which ;>t tempted to raid our positions in t.ie Vosges there is nothing to report. "Section B—The commander-in chief has awarded the distinguished service cross to Private Joseph Reit zan, field artillery, deceased, for th<* following act of gallantry: At Coul lemelle, France, on April 27, 1918, under a heavy bombardment, volun tarily went to the assistance of other soldiers who had been burled in a dugout by enemy shell lire and was killed while engaged in this heroic action." " TRAFFIC POST AT FRONT ANIJ MARKET City Commissioner Lynch has di rected the placing of a truffle post at Front and Market streets. This has become one of the most dan gerous of the intersections owing to heavy travel across the Market street bridge and in order to protect this section a red light will be placed on top of the post. ainglk copy ■i CENTS I POSTAL EMPLOYES TO GET A BOOST IN ' SALARY, MONDAY Every Clerk and Carrier to Benefit by the New- Salary List Thirty-three thousand dollars ad ditional annually will be paid to Har risburg post office employes In in creased salaries under the provisions of the Madden post office bill which becomes effective on /Tonday. The increases will be found In employes' envelopes for the first time when they draw their July salaries. One hundred and fifty employes are af fected. Every Hftrrisburg employe receiv ing less than $1,200 yearly under the present law will receive an increase in salary of S2OO per year. All em ployes receiving over this amount for the year's work will be given in creases of ten per cent, on their present wages. The minimum salary for a regular carrier of the automatic grade now is SBOO per year, which amount he receives for his first year's service. These carriers of the automatic grade, so-called because they re ceive SIOO additional for each year that they have been in the service until the maximum salary is being paid them, will henceforth receive SI,OOO as the minimum salary. The maximum salary, formerly $1,200, will be likewise raised S2OO. The yearly increase of SIOO will remain the same. Substitutes on the Harrisburg force will likewise benefit by the new hill. Previously they were receiving thir ty-five cents per hour for actual work, but henceforth they will be paid at the rate of forty cents per hour. Harrisburg Man Reported Killed With Canadian i Army in Flanders The name of M. H. Brown. Har-I risburg, appeared in the casualty list issued by the Canadian armv| headquarters to-day. The list stat ed that he was "presumed to have! died." Until late this afternoon the! address of the Harrisburg man could not be ascertained, as it is not con-i tained in the directory and a canvasl of the Browns listed in the tele-' phone directory failed to locate the relatives of the dead soldier. GIGANTIC UNIVERSITY PLANNED FOR YANKEE TROOPS ABROAD Colossal Scope of Undertaking Unparalleled in World His tory; Higher Professional Courses to Be Taught By Associated Press Cleveland, June 28.—1n response to a telegram from- Anson Phelps Stokes, of New York, representing the American University Union in France, asking Superintendent of Schools Frank K. Spaulding to become one of a Commission of three American edu cators to organize a gigantic school and university system for United States soldiers overseas, the Cleveland Board of Education yesterday granted Dr. Spaulding a year's leave of ab sence. In presenting the matter to the board, Superintendent Spaulding re vealed plans approved by General Pershing whereby the American HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 28. 1918. I FOURTH OF JULY ! FUND OF SIO,OOO LACKSJUST $125 Figures Include Cash and I Subscriptions Assured Com j inittee; Over Top Likely (INVESTMENT, IS ARGUED I. I i Mayor Keister Believes Dem onstration Will Prove Alien Loyalty or Otherwise Ninety-eight hundred and seventy- I I live dollars, just $125 less than the I | SIO,OOO desired to cover expenses of' the Independence Day celebration in I I Harrisburg, already has been raised, i | it was announced following a meet- I i ing of the chairmen of the various | 'committees at the Harrisburg Cluh |at noon. These figures include cash jin hand and assured subscriptions. I i Tlie amount would be oversubscribed ' before the day is over, in the opinion j of officials. Committees' Query I Is your patriotism worth ten cents? j This is a query that is being put by ! committeemen. The celebration is | I being held for 100,000 people in Har- i burg and vicinity and surely each one | i of them should be willing to pay one I ' dime to show their patriotism to the ' J United States, the chairmen believe. I i Hal risburg's Independence Day ! ! celebration is being held, like many! throughout the United States, jin answer to a request issued by President Wilson, reinforced by de j sires of the Council of National De- I fense. This celebration will be the first {public demonstration ever given on behalf of the entire foreign-born element in Harrisburg. It is an in | vestment,' committeemen say, that [Continued oil Page 10 ] Numbers Drawn For Draft Mean Little Until Classification Is Made Men who registered June 5 of this year as being 21 years of age are to-day sending back to the local draft boards their questionnaires. Others who did not receive their blanks until yesterday afternoon will not do so until they have been ad vised by lawyers, who will give their services free to those not clear as to just how they should answer all the questions. Until the local boards receive these questionnaires and classify the regis trants according to their answers, the order in which the men will go into service cannot be ascertained. The names of these drawn yester day will be placed at the bottom of the first draft list, each according to his class, so that it will not be pos sible for any of those drawn yester day who may be placed in the first class to be called for duty until all of the men in the. first class under the first draft are drawn for service, which means that few If any will be summoned for the next two or three mouths. Men who tried last night to find tSokes. of New York, representing the bers drawn yesterday were entirely at a loss. The only way this can be ascertained is after the questionnaires are all filed with the local boards and the classifications made. Then by counting all the men in the first class down to their own names the order of the registrants may be found. This will require a week or two at least. Fred. B. Harry Enlists In United States Navy Kred B. Harry, hatter and furrier at Third and Strawberry streets, to day enlisted in the United States Navy and was ordered to report in Philadelphia next week for further physical examination. Mr. Harry is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the hoard of trustees of the Country Club of Harrisburg, a member of the Colonial Country Club and is promi nent in Masonic circles, being a knight of the Mystic Shrine. The business probably will be conducted during his absence by a manager. Army, throufeh the V. M. C. A is about to enter upon an educational undertaking, colossal In scope and without parallel in world history. It is planned to make it possible for every American soldier in the Expeditionary Forces to spend a large part of his spare time in school. Dur ing the period of demobilization after peace has bfen achieved, hun dreds of courses will be offered to prepare the soldiers to re-enter civil pursui s The courses will ranee from those of illiterates to law, en gineering. medicine and various technical and professional lines According to the telegram. Super intendent Spaulding would suit foA France in August. May Be Russia's Next Emperor * W > * Grand Duke Nicholas has been proclaimed Emperor of ' Russia ac d°/, n K ,-h?,f n f U^' onllrn \ Cd r l reP ? rt l ° " aay ' wus ut one tinie coniman dei-in-chief of the great Russian ar my and is a member of the former ruling house of Romanoff. lurmer PARIS SUFFERS MUCH LOSS IN LATEST AIR RAID Chief of Fire Department Is Killed While Directing Res cue of Bomb Victims, Paris, June 28—Eleven- persons were killed and fourteen others in jured through the explosion of bombs dropped by German airmen in last night's raid over the Paris district. Apparently there were several groups of enemy machines .which took different courses in an effort to penetrate the defensive barrier lire. Several succeeded, as bombs began to drop almost immediately. The damage is reported'as con siderable. President Poincare sent the vic tims messages of sympathy. There were several cases of care less onlookers being wounded by shell fragments from antiair craft fire . M. Teyssiere. chief of the PaHs tire department, died of suffocation, while directing the rescue of victims ot Wednesday night's raid. Planning Commission Considers Big Problems on the Housing Question Serious consideration is being given by the City Planning Commis sion to the many important prob lems growing out of the housing conditions in Harrisburg and the in creasing need of more dwelling?. Other cities are threshing out simi lar problems. Also the Planning Commission is about ready to act with respect to changes that aro necessary in the development of the Fourteenth ward. A comprehensive plan of treatment has been adopted for the territory from Division street northward and between Sec ond and Sixth streets. Under the plan proposed Third street will be diverted along the bluff east of what has always been known as Italian Park and the . little lake will ne dredged and made a feature of the! landscape in that section of the city. It is understood that a confer ence with the Pittsburgh owners of the property will be arranged so that a definite scheme of treatment may be finally adopted. that in the de velopment of that section of the city the new lines will be observed in all building operations. Edwin S. Herman, president of the Planning Commission, has given mOch.thought to this and other mat ters affecting the growth of the city and he Is giving constant attention GERMANY GETS DEATH NEWS OF RUSS EMPEROR fchitcherin, Russian Foreign Minister, Wires.Darmstadt Official of the Murder By Associated Press j Paris. June 28.—The court mar- I shal at Darmstadt, Germany, has re. . ceived a telegram signed "Tchitch erin" announcing that Nicholas Ro- J manoff, the former Russian cmper i or, has been assassinated, says a dis- I patch to the Matin from Berne. The i assassination took place between j Ekaterinburg and Perm. Ihe dispatch from Berne gives j weight to the increasing number of | reports of the assassination of the former Russian emperor. Darmstadt is the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the former Empress Alix is a sister of the reigning Grand Duke. It is not unlikely that the Russian government, through For eign Minister Tehitcherin would in lorm the Hessian court of the death of Nicholas Romanoff before mak ing it public' through regular chan nels. liOiuloii, June 28.—The Frankfur ter Zeitung reports that M. Tchitch j erin, the Russian foreign minister, has telegraphed the Russian minis ter at Darmstadt that the former Russian emperor was murdered a few days ago between Ekaterinburg and Perm, says an Exchange Tele graph dispatches from Copenhagen. Engineers Find Old Vanderbilt Piers Are Too Weak For P. & R. Engineers who have examined the piers of the proposed Vanderbilt railroad bridge across the Susque hanna river at this point report to the Philadelphia and Reading Rail way Company that they will not be fit for use. The company had an inspection made as to the possibility of using them In connection with its new bridge'over the rivfer here, Work on which is to be started the com ing' fail. The piers appear to the eye to be as good as when first erected but the pointing has been knocked out and the workmanship Is deteriorat ing. It has been suggested that pos sibly they might bo used as the basis of a foot and driving bridge. The city engineer and City Plan ning Commission will look over the plans for the bridge before they are finally adopted in order that un-j neCcssury marring of the River' Front and downtown street plan* I may t> 4 prevented. ONLY KVUMMi ASSOCIATED I'KBSS NEWsPAi'Hit in HAiuusnuna Lenine and Trotsky Have Fled For Murm and Safety, Says Rumor MORE EVIDENCE OF EX-CZA R IS MA DE P ÜBLIG German Troops and Former Com manders of the Cossacks Said to Be Working Together in Moscow By .Associated Press London, June 28. —According to unconfirmed reports to-day i the Bolshevik government in Moscow has been overthrown, says | a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Copen- o hagen. Moscow, the reports add, has been captured by General supported by German troops. General Kalcdines is said to have co-operated with General Korniloff in the capture of Moscow. j Advices from the same sources assert that Grand Duke i Nicholas has been proclaimed emperor. i -Nikolai Lenine, the premier, and Leon Trotzky, the minister | of war, are said to have fled to the Murman coast. The Exchange Telegraph Com- enoe to a Berlin dispatch quoting j pany publishes its message contain- 'he Tuges Zeitung of that city as fol | ins the reports of the Bolshevik lows: I overthrow and the accompanying (irancl Duke Ascendant I details "with reserve," and points "it is believed here that the Bol out that the information . emanates shevik government will soon be mainly from German sources and overthrown and that Kerensky is | therefore should be received with the man of the future in Russia." I l ' a " , . ion - The advices declare that the sup j Ihe Copenhagen newspapers, the | agency dispatch adds, give promin- [Continued on Page 5.] I "5* 14* '<H " ■ |4 HARRISBURG MAN IN CANADIAN CASUALTIES , rjj OTTAWA—IN THE CANADIAN LIST OP 7 * j4* CASUALTIES THE NAME OF M. H. BROWN, OF J j J HARRISBURG, PA., APPEARS TO-DAY. THE X.J j4* HARRISBURG SOLDIER, SAYS THE CITATION, IS T PRESUMED TO HAVE DIED. % WOMAN SUFFRAGE GOES OVER + jip j Washington—lndefinite postponement of a vote in the 4* I , Senate on the woman suffrage resolution, blocked yester :4* day, virtually was decided upon to-day by Senate Suffrage ▼. J L|t' leaders. ;<£. '4 JUSTICE FOX HERE T. | 4* . <i ,1 ■ § Hamsburg—E. J. Fox, the new justice of the Supreme *V- Court, came to the Capitol to-day. X % 4* Philadelphia—Announcement was made to-day that *s® <£ Ji 4, the Evening Telegraph, one of the oldest afternoon papers '2' 1 in the country, has been purchased by Cyrus H. K. Cur- T tis, owner of the.Evening Public Ledger and other pub- •§? '\.j X lications. The Evening Telegraph will cease pdblication to-morrow. a H r '3ii 4 WASHINGTON AWAITS OFFICIAL NEWS 1 <•%* L | Washington—Reports of sensational developments in L Ru& ia are treated by officials here the utmost re- J\| 4 serve and with a disposition to believe nothing until in formation comes through direct and official channels, In t J* regard to anything that comes out of Berlin or from any ■ 1 German source, State Department officials are frankly (j IT. skeptical. | J CHASE INNOCENT BULGARIAN FROM PLANT 5 1 Stcclton A near riot wa.. occasioned in the steel works X jf to-day when an Austrian and a Bulgarian had a light. It *r :*§* was bruited about that the Bulgarian was saying some- 2 jj jXi thing unpatriotic and he Vas chased from the mill. The T I*7* case was investigated by fedenl agents later in the day, <1 | but the Bulgarian was said to be without blame. I, ' \± NEW BOND ISSUE IS $8,000,000,000 + :| Washlng-totv—Without a dissenting vote and with X I virtually no debate, the House to-day passed the bill T authorizing an additional bond issues of $8,000,000,000 |j T MARRIAGt LICENSES f i Snmufl Kucninnoff nml Aimimla Helman. Stcdtoni Hliner A. "f 9 "V* Cluuer wuil Nellie J. Sljem, llarrlnburßi Hubert 1,. DrtnbuuKh JL fi* nml Annn M. UaNehore, Hiirrla uirn K. K. I)., No. 4, HOME EDITION
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