ICHT EXTK A—Pennsylvania Division Overseas —NIGJIT EX' \ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M shc otar~3n&cpcn&cnt <# LXXXVII— No. 154 14 PAGES VON HINDENBURG DIES AFTER STORMY SCENE WITH KAISER Field Marshal Said to Have Fallen Argument W Serious Differences Said to Have Existed Between the Kaiser and General Con cerning the Proposed Drive on Paris; Interview Was Violent CONGESTION OF THE BRAIN, IS BLAMED Old Warrior Was in Retire ment Before War Was De clared; Made His Reputa tion by Defense of East Prussia and the Russian Campaign Amsterdam, July 13. —Field Marshal von llindenburg is dead, according to the news paper Les Nouvelles. His death is said to have occurred after a stormy interview with the German emperor at great headquar ters at Spa. The emperor and the field marshal are declared to have had serious differences of opinion concerning the German offensive towards Paris. The field marshal died from con gestion of the brain. The violent interview between Von Hindenburg and Emperor Wil liam occurred on May 16, Les Nouvelles says. It was followed by an apoplectic stroke which ulti mately resulted in the field marshal's death. The newspaper says its informa tion was obtained "from good sources in the occupied district of Belgium." In the past six months there have been several rumors of the death c.f Field Marshal von Hindenburg nnd there have been many reports that he has been in poor health. A dispatch received in London Friday from The Hague quoted a Dutch traveler from Germany as declaring a report that the field marshal was ill and unable to participate in the vork at army headquarters had spread all over Germany. German newspapers were not permitted to mention the rumor. The travelet itdded that General Ludendorff, the tirst quartermaster general, had taken over the field marshal's duties i's chief of the German staff. Other Reports Keeping step with reports of the lield marshal's health have been dis patches from Germany indicating the field marshal and the Emperor had had disagreements concerning the [Continued on Pare 10.] DR. ROYER OFFERS AID OF STATE IN HOUSING SURVEY Commends Telegraph Editor ials; Says Chamber Is on Right Track Announcement of intention to go right into the problems ■ attending housing in Harrisburg. was given hearty approval to-day toy Dr. B. Franklin Royer. the acting state commissioner of health, who has been a resident of this city for years and a student of its sanitary and other conditions. For some time past I have been reading the editorials in the Harris burg Telegraph regarding housing conditions with the greatest interest and the action of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce in determin ing to make a study of means of surrounding industrial workers in Harrisburg and vicinity with better housing is a most commendable form of actoivity. Healt hauthorities have come to realize tha tas much may be done by correcting the evils of housing as by any other line of public health effort. This department has an organized bureau of housing, working under an art of assembly passed by the Leg islature of 1915, which stands ready and willing to assist and co-operate with any community in a housing procedure likely to improve condi-1 tions. Our plan contemplates having I the local authorities in cities of the! flr st,second and third classes as-, surae responsibility for the work. THEWEATHER For HarrlnfcurK and slrlnityi INirtly cloudy to-nlxhtl Sunday (nlr nml nnrmrr For Eastern Prnnay 1 vanla i Part- LY RWBUF HIM; Kununy fnlr nnd HKMI> warmers mod erate north winds. CRAZY By Associated Press Amsterdam, July 13.—How the German emperor pictures the fu i ture of Germany is recorded by his favorite war correspondent, the faithful Earl Rosner. of the Lokal Anzeiger. One evening, after a busy day in surveying operations from a chain of observation posts, the emperor, chatting with his en tourage, spoke with glowing en thusiasm, says Rosner, of the time when the forces now let j loose on destruction, would again be plied in the service of peace i ful pursuits. He sketched far reaching advances in the tech nical domain, in physics, chem istry and scientific farming. The emperor forecast that all of Ger many's needs in nitrates would be covered by extracting nitrate from the air. The emperor then described "the marvelous possibilities" of 1 1 the new gas motors and how purified waste waters from metal ! works would serve to fertilize the fields so that deserts will blossom like roses and make arid regions selfsupporting as regards food. "With daring flights of fancy," continues Rosner, "the emperor i predicted the harnessing of the rays of the sun and the recovery of the ocean's innermost treas ' ures." [ This will all come to pass, the emperor assured his hearers, once Germany secures the "strong peace for which he is working." Pershing's Communique Tells of Enemy Failure Where Americans Fight Washington. July 13. General | Pershing's communique issued to day by the War Department describes operations in the various sectors oc i cupied by the American troops i through July 7 to 10. it follows in | part: "In the Chateau Thierry region a trench raid attempted by the enemy ' broke down with losses under our | fire. A hostile machine was shot down by our aviators in the region of ' Thiaucourt. A German patrol was 1 driven back with losses by an Ameri | can patrol in the Kelleau region. Along the Marne the activity of our i artillery was the only feature of in ; terest. An ammunition dump near Jaulgonne was exploded by our ar- I tlllery. "In Lorraine the enemv ehowed l no particular activity except in rna i chine gun fire. Our antiaircraft was successful in driving back his I airplanes. The Munsted sector was | very iiuiet. We drove off four enemy ■ planes. In the Woevie sector con- I dltions remained normal. In the I Thann sector there was no unusual occurrence. • "The German airplane previously reported shot down was brought down July 11, near Thiaucourt, bv Lieutenants Jones and Tobin. The machine fell in flames." CITY UNABLE TO PROTECT JITNEYS, SAYS SOLICITOR Mayor Keister Informed Har risburg Cannot Overrule Public Service Commission That the city has not the au thority to settle the controversy be tween the Harrisburg Railways Company and the Jitney drivers, against whom officials of the trac tion company filed complaint last week before the Public Service Commission, was the opinion handed to-day to Mayor Keister by City So licitor John E. Fox. The opinion of the city solicitor was requested by Mayor Keister, who received a communication from the Workmen's Nonpartisan League saying that the Act of Assembly of 1915, authorizing cities to regulate and license certain motor vehicles, diverts authority from the Public Service Commission to the city and gives the city the right to litigate the matter. The Act is to the effect [Continued on Page 9.] TOMORROW IS BASTILE DAY Buy War Stamps to Build Prisons for Hun Generals Start This Evening ——— j SINGLE COPV 3 CENTS ENEMY LINES ARE AGAIN PIERCED BY ALLIED ASSAULTS i French Win Brilliant Engage ment After Quick, hard Blow in Picardy , On the French Front in France, | Friday night. July 12.—The superb ly executed local action carried out i by the French to-day southeast of | Amiens not only gave them a large i batch of prisoners, but brought into j their possession the entire Rouvrel i les plateau, dominating the region j between the rivers Avre and Moreuil ; and the Xoye, through which the i main railroad from Paris to Amiens i passes and which has been in the i hands of the enemy since March. More than 500 German officers and men already captured, have been sent to the rear, and others are ar riving. Success has crowrfed further al lied smashes into the German lines' between Ypres and Rheims. Fdr more than two weeks the allies have beer, jamming into the German de ! fenses here and there and the re- I suits now are just as favorable as i at the beginning. For the first time since the at ! trition campaign was undertaken the ! French have struck with force in the | Pkardy battlefield. Along the Avre i river, northwest of Montdidier, the j French advanced their lines more I than a mile on a front of three miles ! and captured over 500 prisoners, j This blow, like the recent ones by i the British astride the Somme, has driven the enemy back on a sector j vital to the defense of Amiens, the objective of the first German offen j sive begun on March 21. Make Further Gains In capturing Caste! and strong for ! tified positions the French have 1 advanced almost to the western ' bank of the Avre. Further gains I southward toward Mailly-Raineval j wiil endanger seriously the German | positions west of the Avre to below ' Montdidier. west of which the [Americans hold Cantign.v. In an ad : vance toward Amiens the Germans I would either follow the Somme or jo up the valley of the Avre which • joins the Somme near Amiens. Between the Aisne and the Marne j the Germans apparently still do not | take seriously the French gains east of the forest of Villers-Cotterets. j Several villages and fortified farms, 1 including Corey and Longport, have • betn taken by the French this week but the Germans have made no se rious efforts to retake the positions and are being slowly forced off the high ground. Bad weather continues on the [Continued on Page o.] GHAKKK l>K\Ol NCIOS Kt KHI.MAW j By Associated Press Amsterdam, Julyl 13. "One or | two more such peace treaties and we | are lost," exclaims Herr Von Graefe, , a Conservative member of the Reich stag. in a fierce indictment of form-1 er Foreign Secretary von Kuehl-1 inann's "no indemnity, no annex ations" peace treaty of Bucharest. I BELGIUM HELD ONLY AS PAWN, SAYSHERTLING j Imperial Chancellor Declares ' Germany Does Not Want to Keep Invaded Kingdom BASIS FOR NEGOTIATIONS Reichstag Hears That Central | Empire Is Willing to Give l*p Country at War's End Copenhagen. July 13—Denial that Germany intended to retain Belgium was made by Count Von Hertling, the German Imperial Chancellor, in i the course of his speech before the ! Keiehstag main committee Thurs i day. | "The present possession of Bel gium only means that we have a pawn for future negotiations," the Chancellor said. "We have no in tention to keep Belgium In any form whatever." "War of Defense'' "What we precisely want as ex pressed by us on February 24," the [Continued on Page 10.] British Casualties For Week Dead By Associated Press liondon. July 13.—British casu alties reported in the week ended to day totaled 14,911 officers and men, compared with the aggregate of 17,- 336 in the previous week. , The casualties are divided as fol lows: Killed or wounded—Officers. [125; men, 1,934; wounded or missing —Officers, 408; men, 12,444. HARRISBURG, PA.,SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1918. MAY ASK AID OF GOVERNMENT TO BETTER HOUSING Chamber of Commerce to Study Situation and Take It Up With Washington The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce announced to-day that it is about to start a study of housing conditions in Harrisburg with the purpose of finding a solution to the rapidly growing prbblems of proper homes at reasonable rentals for Harrisburg people. "The matter of adequate housing facilities," according to a prominent manufacturer, "is a real war neces sity. The production of war ma terials here threatens to be serious ly pampered because of the diffi culty of procuring and holding men as a result of the shortage of houses." Shortly after the election of An drew S. Patterson as president of the chamber, he gave to the Telegraph an interview in which he recognized the growing need of additional bouses in Harrisburg and expressed the fear that the problem would be come serious with the growth of the war industries and the establishment here of lame war supply depots. Need Is Acute A statement issued by Secretary Jackson, of the of Com merce, is as follows: "A preliminary check of the local situation shows forcibly that the need of houses is distressingly acute and should be met, in some manner, at once. A canvass among many of the leading real estate men, property owners and manufacturers of the city shows that there is scarcely a single desirable residence property for rent at this time. One agent re ported 'the situation is critical. I am sure that we could rent two hun dred houses to-day if we had them.' Another agent said: 'The question of housing is of vital importance at present. I am compelled day after day to turn people away, and I do [Continued on Pago 10.] New Signs to Tell Patrons of Skip-Stop Location Printed signs with the words "Cars Do Not Stop Here" will be | placed at all stops on the rural lines of the Harrisburg Railways Com pany which are to be eliminated Monday in accordance with the plans approved by the Dauphin County (•'uel Commission. The eli mination*,' approximately sixty in number on the rural lines, are part of the fuel conservation program worked out by the fuel administra tion. The signs are being printed to-day and will be tacked to the poles to morrow so that Monday persons will not wait at the wrong points for cars. In the city the regulation wood signs will be ised because of the iron poles. The wood signs must be bolt ed to the poles. Harrisburg s Next HE HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH will begin shortly publication of a series of articles relating to.. Housing Conditions in Harrisburg and their Improvement as the result of a study by this newspaper, covering several months. Ihis must be the city s next big undertaking—the improvement of present housing an<l the erection of a large number of good-looking, commodious, ivell-constructed louses to rent or sell at reasonable figures. II e have paved our streets and extended our sewers, we have given our people filtered water, beautiful parks and playgrounds; we have provided for their use baseball diamonds and tennis courts, summer camps and golf links— uill-nigh everything that goes to make a modern city—save only decent houses for families who cannot afford to pay large rentals. , The situation is bad and growing worse as our population increases with the develop, ment of the War Department depots and war industries that are constantly bringing men and, families to the city. The war should not be permitted to stand in the way. But if it be found impossible for any good reason, to actually carry out a model building program 11011, at least we should get ready with our plans, so as to be amply prepared when the time '^Hom prop ' t>onS f or a housin 0 development that will make Harrisburg a real City of ■ 9^ l , r °jt' es are awake to the need. It is not only sentiment and decent regard for the rights of all men that are turning the thoughts of progressive communities everywhere to better living conditions. There is a hard-headed dollar-and-cent business side to it as welt. -A challenge not only to sound judgment, but to the idealism of the American business man, lies m what has come to be called the 'industrial housing problem' " writes e hosier Hoggson, an authority. "Behind these matter-of-fact words is a world of vital significance affecting the greater, more efficient, more beautiful America, for which forward-looking men are beginning to plan. The solution lies neither in sentiment alone nor m unmitigated business sense," but in a mixture of the two. Good houses, reasonable rentals and fair profits from rents do not form an impossible combination. Self-respecting woticing men demand decent homes. Rents for the better class of such houses are very high tn Harrisburg and many of the smaller dwellings are unfit for human habitation. I\o city is better than its people, and people may be judged by their homes J liis then, as the Manufacturers' Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce recentlu set forth, is Harrisburg' s next big problem. J ' * 4u , 7 i wll K be t>lC P ur P° se °f the Telegraph to show present conditions, to present plans j ha )' e been worked out elsewhere, to tell how the National Government has dealt with the matter, and to assist tn every proper way any effort or campaign for betterment inaugurated here. To that end it invites all those interested to communicate facts that may be useful tn reaching a solution or ideas that may move helpful. Not only should the < hamber of Commerce get behind this important movement but it should have the ener gr ic support of the Rotary Club, the Civic Club, the Municipal League, the Kawaiik Club and all other organizations interested in the welfare of Harrisburg KEYSTONE DIVISION I IS PLACED OF NEW ARM No Letup in Shipment of Men to France Where Divisions Have Been Placed in Bat tle Formation For Coming Fighting By Associated Press ' Washington, July 13. —American [ troops already overseas and those on shipboard enroute has passed the 1.100,000 mark. General March, i chief of staff, told Senate Military | Committee members to-day at their weekly conference. This represents an increase of more than 90,000 since last waok. 1 Three army corps of from 225,000 to 250,000 men each have been defi nitely organized from American di visions in Franco, General stated to-day at the weekly conference with newspapermen. Liggett Commands First Corps Major General Hunter Liggett, commanding the Forty-first (The [Continued on Page 10.] EVERYTHING SET FOR CELEBRATION OF BASTILE DAY Only Good Weather Needed to Make French National Holiday a Success Only good weather is needed to as sure the success of the Bastile day ob servance in Harrisburg to-morrow. The Washington forecaster calls for "Fair and Warmer;" and if this brand of weather is delivered Reser voir Park will hold the largest crowd in recent years. Officials of the Har risburg Railways Company to-day as sured the Bastile committee that its services on all lines leading to the park will be adequate. The speakers to-morrow will be Capt. Rouvler of the French army, who is in the United States with the High Commission, and State Librar ian Thomas Lynch Montgomery. Dr. Montgomery's talk will deal with the events leading up to the Fall of the Bastile---of the oppression of the French common people under Louis [Continued oil Page 9.] THIKVKS HOII POSTMASTER York .HprinKM, July 13. Thieves' broke into the home of Postmaster John L Bibb and stole S4OO worth of War Savings Stamps. SIOO worth of postage stamps and SIOO in cash. ONLY BVKNINU ASSOCIATED I'ItESS NEWSI'AI'EII IN HAH 111 SHII KG Six Hundred of Harrisburg's Best Youths Are in Pennsyl ! vania's Powerful Unit Now Ready to Meet the Barbar ian in France More than 600 Harrisburg boys are in France with the Keystone division, officially known as the Twenty-eighth, which apparently ! now has takenup its work at the ! front. The division is the old Penn ! sylvania National Guard and sailed I for Franco about the last of May after nearly a year of strenuous training at Camp Hancock, Georgia. In the division, which has been described as one of the best train ed in Uncle Sam's army, are hun dreds of officers and men from su burban and nearby Central Pennsyl vania cities, villages and hamlets. Thousands of the men served months on the Mexican border and were trained and seasoned in war work bc [Continued on Page 10.] ELEVATOR AND LIGHT SERVICE IS CURTAILED No Stops at Second Floor and No Office Lights at 6.30 in the Evening Stringent restriction of elevator service will begin Monday, accord ing to the regulations contained in the order of William Potter, state fuel administrator, which was re ceived by Ross A. Hickok, county fuel administrator, this morning. The ruling goes into effect Mon day, July 15. The regulations will affect the op- J eration of all passenger and freight ] elevators in Harrisburg. All pas-! stnger elevators must be shut down i [Continued on Page 9.] FLYER'S ERROR BRINGS DEATH' By Associated Press Toronto. July 13.—Second Lieu tenant A. W. Hill, of Maiden, Mass., under training here as an instruc tor in the royal air force, was killed at Armour Heights to-day while fly ing alone. The accident was due, ac cording to the official report, *o an error in judgment in the matter of flying speed, while he was practic ing a sharp turn. Hll's machine fell from a Height of 200 feet and was destroyed by fire. I LATE NEWS I Tr* . 1 I 1 f £ Ntw Yofk —Albert A. Sander and Charles W. Wun- ,V x nenberg, who were sentenced in March, 1917, 10 terms of || imprisonmnent as principals in the spying conspiracy will X be v itnesses I efore the grand jury in'a proceeding against M*' X W. L Wirbclauer. . 'X 4 FISHERMAN SEIZED WITH APOPLEXY T X- Chambersburg, Pa.—The body of Linn. McCunc, 40 'X X years old, was found face downward in Concocheague IX 4 near Stone Bridge. It is likely he was seized with ± an ap plectic stroke while fishing. Coroner Kinter to- 'X ▼ da.-, decided drowning was accidental and held no inquest, ay I S X rEST NIGHT ON MARNE ' DNT 4 f American Army in France .< fronts ,J J t! ' - . trict held by A merit ... _;■> 'Z x ' i 4, itoppud at the north bai 4 ; x tions net a single German she ine over, : "•••ry fire.was far below the normal. .▼ , T HER APPOINTED BY M M £ ; <4 v .TJ Phi adelphia—J. H. Fisher has been appointed trans- T Po assistant of the Pennsylvania Railn i, of which Z ! W* " h had been superintendent of . iran nor- -HP X tation. C. -If. Markham, director of the Allegheny rc- .J X ■ ' the appointment J. T. Carroll, W si tant general superintend motive 'S |j the Baltimore and Ohio, as m<scl .. 1 assist mt J T •' t I 4? ▼ manager <3*. a a ( • ■ .iditoi nr T .§ Ifc SOVIETS DESERT CAUSE IN RUSSIA <4! Moscow—Leon Trotzlcy, Bolshevik minister of war and marine, declared he had received news frpm the front T that unity had suffered as the result of Anglo-French ,? x § propaganda. P<irt cf'the Bolshevik force, the minister X .jfj z I? Z . "DRY" HALTS UNTIL LATE AUGUST •£ t| Washington—The Senate to-day formally agreed, by j]V T unanimous consent, to postpone a vote 011 the national ® T prohibition legislation until after the proposed three-day [<s Tj recess period ends August 26. T • EIGHT CAUGHT IN BUILDING WRECK jS 4 Montrr ■.! Eight * persons were killed and several jT ccr -'ed to-day by the collapse t : he top floor, !$• T stored,with empty shells, of a warehouse owned by Lym- iT X burner, Limited, munitions manufacture: s. in St. Paul >4* I stret 'i ..: ide.:. f;ed dead included Geo, Lymburner, X liephew the head of the firm. -T? * . T WILSON NOMINATES ARMY GENERALS 2 4 Wash:. igton—President Wilson io-d.. / made these T T Army nernuiations: Major general in line of the army, |i M'ljc: Gt cral William Crozier, Major Gt. ei.d Henry G. f X Sharpi uartermaster general with rank ol major general '§• T (or f. ur I ; , Brigadier General Harry I Rugers; chief T 4 of oi'ln ,:. e, with rank of major general, { •: four years, 4 <s Bri , Jier General Clarence C. Williatjis. Z X SIX PARISH IN STEAM IKE Art Atlantic Port—Six persons are reported killed and Z T fifteen others injured in an'explosion, followed by fire on T f a Sp t ;;i ;i 0 1 ■ *.f. rnship anchored in the 1 -rbor to-day. X X The i< •- >n was heard for miles. Sui ie chasers i m hurried t, the burning vessel and took tht injured men f ashore to hospitals. _ Z T NAVAL AVIATOR KILLED IN PL/ NH'S FALL ® X Chatham, Mass.—Ensign Andrews, a naval aviator, was *f X killed and Ensign Parks probably fatally hurt in the fall X T of a seaplane on the beach here to day. The machine *** F crarhed to earth and instantly caught firr. ± MARRIAGE UCENSES v ? V b, s £ Ble*ltun, and Miiry A. Wallace, Hnrrlabnrßi "fc ■"l.* F> ""■ ■1 l <thrle It. Holler. Hnrrliburfti Aajra<HH T ; Brbker and Hath OrrndorlT, Mlddlrtonni Krwln C. Rath. Rend ' vine, nnd Rdlth M. Keener. Hnrri.horm Wllllnm 1.. Rnlnton and *'.* s*' W Hnrrlburi John 1. Rath and Clara Conrad, +U \ NIGHT EXTRA
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