U-Boal Sinks Oil Tanker, Frederick R. Kellogg, Off Atlantic Coast; Other Ship Escapes in Fog . HARRISBURG lillllll TELEGRAPH M * ffljc otatln&cpcnsent & I LXXXVII No. 17S 12 PAGES s, ?°CENT. pv HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1918. ON *N * HYH I ISVII P |'< SS HOME EDITION CROWDER CALLS BOYS, 21 SINCE JUNE 5, UP TO SIGN AUGUST 24 The Provost Marshal General Wishes to Fill Quickly De pleted Ranks of Almost Ex hausted Class One 150,000 YOUTHS ARE AFFECTED They Will Be Drafted Into the Army Within a Month of the Recording of Their Names By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 14.—Registra tion on Saturday, August 24. of all youths who have reached the age of 21 since the second registration last June 5, was ordered to-day by Pro vost Marshal General Crowder. under a proclamation by the President. The purpose is to add quickly to the al most exhausted class 1 to meet army draft calls in September. About 150.000 young men will reg ister. Most of them will qualify for class 1, and therefore, will join the army probably within a month after their names are recorded. Organized labor's emphatic opposi tion to any work or tight provision in the new manpower bill extending the draft ages, is expressed in a letter from Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of I-abor. received to-day by members of the Senate Military Committee. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 14.—Regis tration of youths who have reached 21 since June 5, 1918. will be held August 24. according to a telegram received from Provost Marshal Gen eral E. H. Crowder at state draft headquarters to-day. This registra tion. it was pointed out in the tele gram. should not be confused with that pending under new legislation for some time in September. All local draft boards In this sec tion began to-day to arrange for registration of young men who have become twenty-one since June 5 to take place on August 21. The sys tem will be similar to that in use in June. These men are to be regis tered so that they can be put into class 1 at once. There will prob ably be registration days later in the year to register those who will be of age between now and the end of the year. Washington, Aug., 14.—With a broad work or fight amendment de signed to prevent strikes and a new provision for education at govern ment expense, after the war. of youths under twenty-one serving in the military or naval service, the administration's man-power bill, ex tending draft ages so as to include all men between eighteen and forty five years of age. was ordered favor ably reported to-day by the senate military committee. The Reed amendment for free education of boys under twenty-one, affects both Army and Navy volun teers and those who have been draf ted. Under its provisions, upon ap plication, the youths would be given "an education at the expense of the government at approved educational institutions, the period of such edu cation being equivalent in point of time to the period by him served in the Army or Navy, but shall not exceed two years." "Application for such educational privilege," the amendment provides, "shall be made within six months after discharge, and the applicant shall begin his studies promptly af ter his application shall have been approved." Still another amendment offered by the Missouri senator would per mit soldiers and sailors, regardless of age, who have either volunteered or been drafted, to receive commis sions. They also would be made eligible for admission to officers' schools. ' ~ "S EVERY MEMBER OF THE CITY'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS A WAR STAMPER &3T Join the Parade I THE WEATHER] For Hnrrlsbnrg and vicinity: Fair to-nlgbt; Thursday probably thundershowers and somewhat cooler. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair to-night, warmer In northeast portlont Thursday probnbly thnndershowers and not quite go worm- light, southwest winds. River The lower portion of the North Branch will rise slightly. All other streams of the system will probably fall slowly or remain neurly stationary. A stage of about 3.8 feet Is Indicated for Harrlaburg Thursday morning. Temperature! 8 a. m., 72. River Stagei 8 a. m.. 3.8 feet above low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest tempersture, 84. Lowest temperature, 72. Mean 1 temperature, 83. Normal temperatnre, 73. I William Can't Come Just Now; He's Busy GENERAL DROPS ! RANK; PRIVATE IN O. ARMY Texan Resigns Commission as Brigade Commander in . Mexican Army Camp Wadswortli, Spartanburg, S. C., Aug.. 14.—From the rank of brigadier general in Che Mexican army to the grade of private and acting sergeant in the American Army, sounds like a long drop, but htere is one American who has made the jump and is proud of it. He is J. E. McCandless, a member of the casual detachment, provisional depot for corps and army troops in Camp Wadsworth. Private McCandless, who used to [Continued on Page 12.] German Quarrel Raging Over U. S. Entry in War | Washington. Aug. 14.—Violent I controversies are raging in Germany ! as a result of the second Marne bat j tie between the Liberals and pan ! Germanists over the question of j who is responsible for America's en trance into the war. A dispatch from Switzerland says both sides are re fusing to accept responsibility for American intervention. The Liberals are accusing the pan-Germanists of having provoked the unrestricted submarine warfare. The latter protest and affirm that no matter what the cause America's en trance into the war-was certain. AIDED DESERTER FROM ARMY; JURY INDICTS WOMAN True Bill Against Pair Who Conceal Draftee; Chops Off Fingers in Camp When Don Strausser. of Wayne township, Mifflin county, was draft ed into the National Army and sent to Camp Meade, he amputated the fingers of his left hand with an ax and was sent to the camp hospital. He escaped from the camp hospital to his home township, where he was harbored by friends. The sheriff of the county captured him after a hard fight in which Strausser tried to jump from the roof tf a house to the ground and hide in the moun tains. Statements to this effect were nade before the grand jury of the Federal court yesterday afternoon when a true bill was brought against Mrs. Kosa Hassenplug and her son Samuel, on the charge of harbor £ Continued on Page 12,] GERMANS HOLD PLEMONT;GURY FRENCH PRIZE Fall of Rove, in Fierce Battle, Automatically Means the Evacuation of Lassigny By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 14.—1n comparison - with the quick advance of the first ; four days the battle in Picardy now j may seem to be stagnant, but never theless the French have pushed near er to the Chaulnes-Roye-Lassigny ! Noyon line to which the Germans are | clinging desperately. The wooded | hills between the Avre and the Oise are difficult to traverse. Tuesday's fighting put the French more than a mile north of Cam bronne, close to Attiche and Carrnoy [Continued on Pago 12.] Archbishop Asks Miners to Work on Feast Day Pottsville, Pa., Aug. 14.—Request of Archbishop Dougherty that miners of this region work Thursday next, August 15. which marks the feast of the Assumption, will be complied with by the miners of the Schuylkill districts. It will be the first time in the his tory of this region that the miners have not observed the day, one of the most Important in the ecclesias tical calendar. MILITARY DRILL FOR CLASSES OF ACADEMY PUPILS Headmaster Announces Inno vation Is Made to Meet an Almost Universal Demand Headmaster Arthur E. Brown, of the Harrisburg Academy, announced to-day that provisions are being made for military drill, to meet the government requests along this line. It is impossible at this time, to an nounce definitely the plans for equip ment. The pupils will be measured for uniforms after the opening of school. The plan is to have but one uniform this year. The Academy ground lends itself admirably to drilling purposes. The central Front street plot is sufficient ly spacious for the drilling of a large number of pupils. The Academy athletic field, also, is suited to this purpose. On rainy days the gymna sium and the new Junior school play room are both available for military drill. This Innovation will meet the al < Continued on Page 3) OIL TANKER SUNK BY U-BOAT; SEVEN OF CREW MISSING Frederick R. Kellogg, Bound From San Pedro For Bos ton, Sent Down By Associated Press ! New York, Aug. 14.—Gernian sub j marines, approaching the very gates jof New York harbor sunk the oil I tanker Frederick R. Kellogg off the | Ambrose Channel last night. Thirty j five members the crew, brought j here to-day, reported that seven I others are missing. These survivors were picked up by an Anmerican steamship. The Frederick R. Kellogg was a tank steamship of 7,127 tons gross register, valued at more than sl% 500,000. Under command of Cap j tain C. H. White, she was on her I way from Tampico, Mexico, to Bos ! ton, with a cargo of approximately | 70,000 barrels of crude oil. j The ship was owned by the Petro leum Transpoic Company, and was launched a year ago this month at Oakland, Cal. An Atlantic Port, Aug. 14. A German submarine, sighted oft the tip of Cape Cod early lata night, fired a torpedo at the steam trawler Walrus, which missed by a narrow margin. Captain Clayton Morrisey, of the fisherman reported on arrival here to-day. Because of the fog [Continued on Page 12.] AUTOMOBILES ARE NOT TO BE TAXED OUT OF_BUSINESS Word Comes From Washing ton Efforts Will Be Made to Prevent Hardship Word reached the local automobile dealers from Washington that there appears at present to be little danger of the proposed war taxes on auto mobiles being burdensome. Neither is there much prospect of the tax on gasoline reaching proportions that will place serious hardships on the trade. The passenger automobile has come to be so important in the busi ness life of the community that to seriously interfere with it would be [Continued on Page 12.] PATROLMAN RESIGNS Patrolman Clarence 8. Hoffman. 1520 Penn street, has resigned from the city police force to accept a po sition as motorman for the Harris burg Railways Company. He was ap pointed to the force under former j Mayor Royal FRENCH GO FORWARD IN DRIVE ON PICARDY; HUNS LOSE LASSIGNY GERMANS ORDER FINNS TO MARCH AGAINST ALLIED ARMYJN RUSSIA Ultimatum Has Been Sent to Finnish Government, Says Report From Stockholm Which Reaches Lansing TIME LIMIT OF TWO WEEKS SET British Officially Recognize j the Czeeho-Slavs as Allied Nation; Trotzky & Co. Must Explain Bolshevik Threat By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 14.—A report from Stockholm reaching the State Department to-day from sources con sidered reliable, says the German government has addressed an ulti matum to the Finnish government requiring that the Finnish army pre pare to march against entente forces on the Murmansk coast within two weeks. London, Aug. 14. —The British gov ernment has issued a declaration formally recognizing the Czecho slovaks as an allied nation and the three Czecho-Slovak armies as an al lied force regularly waging warfare against the Central Powers. It is reported from Moscow byway of Berlin, that the diplomaUc repre sentatives of the entente have hand ed a collective note to War Minister Trotzky demanding within three days an explanation of Premier Len ine's threat that Russia would de clare war "against Anglo-French im perialism," the Central News stated yesterday. Amsterdam, Aug. 14. —The Bolshe vik government of Russia, as late as August 6, considered itself still at peace with the United States, al though at war with Great Britain and France, according to a note de livered on that day by Foreign Min f ister Tchitcherin to Consul General Poole at Moscow, as quoted by the German semi-Qfficial Wolff Bureau. The Bolshevik minister said he had placed at the consul general's dis-, posal the Russian wireless station and asfted Mr. Poole to inform his government that an unjustifiable at tack was "being made upon the Bol shevik government. M. Tchitcherin protested against the allied landing in the north. Army Officers Go to Washington For "Dry" Conference 1 Officers of the ordnance depart ment depot at Middletown have gone t to Washington to discuss with the | War Department the proposal to i make Harrisburg and nearby towns "dry" zones. This is the result of ' failure of the local police depart ment to co-operate with the federal authorities in halting the operations of bootleggers and in keeping down disorder. Most of the trouble has been on this side of the river. Major Morava at New Cumberland, having very lit tle trouble, due largely to the fact that he has very few soldiers sta tioned there. But more are coming and he has been quoted as saying that he would be glad to see the sale of liquor stopped. Major Gray said he would not be surprised if an order came from Washington closing the district to the sale of drink. MEYERS FUNERAL IS ATTENDED BY PROMINENT MEN Officials and Others Active in City and State Honor Pub lisher and Party Leader Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell. Dem ocratic candidate for Governor, and John J. Breen, of Philadelphia, his campaign manager; ex-Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds, of Bed ford; Thomas H. GreeVy, Democratic leader of Blair county for many years, and other prominent men at tended the funeral services of Hon. B. F. Meyers to-day at his resi dence, 11 North Front street. Of ficials and men active in many walks of life in this city were in attend ance and there were also present a number of old residents of Dauphin county who had been associated with Mr. Meyers in newspaper work, bus iness and politics. The services were conducted by the Rev. Rollin Alger Sawyer, rec tor of St. Stephen's, of which Mr. Meyers was long senior warden, and [Continued on Page 4.] KEYSTONE MEN DRIVE CHARGE HOME IN FACE OF AWFUL FIRE Four Hundred Iron Men of Fighting Guard of Pennsyl vania Drop in Four Hours' Baptism of Bullets 28TH ADVANCES BIGHT TO VESLE I | Paris Now Is Fifty Miles Away From Nearest Hun Lines? Says General March in His Semi-Weekly Review By Associated Press WaMhlnKtoai, Aug. 14.—The 131 st infantry of the 33d United States di vision, has been engaged in the light ing north of the Somnie and par ticularly in the repulse of an enemy counterattack at Chipilly, General March said to-day at his semiweekly conference with newspaper corre spondents. This regiment alone cap tured three officers, 150 men and seven 105 milimeter guns. General March briefly reviewed the situation in the Picardy salient, where the lines now have reached the gen eral position of the front in 1916 be fore the Hindenburg withdrawal. At no point is the enemy now within fifty miles of Paris. The Picardy salient has been trim med away on a front of titty-three miles to a maximum depth of fifteen miles, the chief of staff said, and the line on the Aisne-Marne front has remained stationary. American troops have recaptured Fismette, on the north bank of the Vesle, from which they were driven. Discussing the work of the 2Sth division, comprising Pennsylvania Guardsmen, in the Aisne-Marne sali ent, General March said the only re port upon its casualties received was I that 400 men had been hit during four hours on July 30 in the advance to the Vesle. The 131 st regiment is composed of Illinois National Guardsmen and is attached to the 66th brigade of in fanttry in the 33d division, command ded by Major General George Bell. The troops were trained at Camp Lo- I gan, Texas. Nearly 500 Men Lost on Troop Ship Sunk in Mediterranean Paris, Aug. 14.—Four hundred and forty-two men are missing as a re sult of the torpedoing of the French steamer Djemnah in the Mediterran ean the night of July 14-15, while bound from Bizerta to Alexandria with troof>s on board, according to an official announcement last night. Four days later the French steamer Australian al#o was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. A report of the torpedoing has been received from Berlin, where it was announced, and has been con firmed here. The Djemnah was an old steamer built in 1875 at La Ciotat. She was 397 feet long, 39 feet beam and 30 feet depth. She is registered as owned by the Msssageries Maritimes of Paris and Marseilles. Bohemians on Verge of a General Revolt; Huns Kill 74 Czechs By Associated Press Ixmdon, Aug. 14.—Turmoil in Bo hemia has resulted in the execution of seventy-four Czech soldiers and wholesale arrests in many raids, newspapers of Munich and Dresden say, according to an Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Zurich. Munich newspapers say it is be lieved that even a slight Incident will bring about a general "uprising. British Losses Drop 1,246 on All Fronts Within Last Week By Associated Press London, Aug. J4.-f-Biitißh casual ties reported in the week ending to-day totaled 8.620. compared with an aggregate of 9,866 reported in the previous week. These are di vided as follows: Killed or died of wounds: Officers, 215; men, 1,441. Wounded or missing: Officers, 647; men, 6,317. Mayor Fines Speeders; Gives Cash tto Bride Altoona, Aug. 14.—"1 remit this fine and I want you to go home and give . it to the bride as a wedding gift," said i Mayor Rhodes, handing over J15.80 : to a chauffeur who had appeared to i pay a flpe that had been imposed for; violation of the traffic regulations. | The chaufTeUr had Informed the' Mayor he had been married last; Thursday. Germans Fall Back From Lassigny Mas sif to Plemont Followed By General Humbert 1 s Army, Which Now Is Five Miles From Noyon w t By Associated Press London, Aug., 14.—The town of Lassigny, on the south ern part of the Picardy battle front, for which the French have been struggling over the hills to the west and south, has been captured by them, the Pall Mall Gazette to-day says it understands. The reported capture took place this morning. New of the fall of the town has not been officially confirmed. Paris, .Aug., 14.—General Humbert's army moved for ward two miles yesterday; and took the St. Claude farm, which makes the hold of the French ,on the southern part of the Thiescourt plateau secure. It is said the French are advancing steadily on Noyon; and while the stubborn defense of the Chaulnes-Roye road .has delay ed operations, the storming of the Noyon positions is impend ing. Huns Falling Back The Germans are now in Ple mont, about a mile southeast of Lassigny to which they retired following a new advance by the French. At Plemont the Ger o RAILROADERS BACK, GET MORE PAY Wr- ..ton —Higher .wages recently , minted railroad shopn ' ave resulted in recalling to : 'ay employ ment more than 5,000 workmen who had left previously to accept jobs with higher pay. On orders from thq Frank McManamy, manager of the railroad administration's mechanical department, the forces of car repairmen at Conway yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Pitts burgh. has been quadrupled to eliminate the bad order car situation here. ARMY PILOT DROPS TO DEATH Rantoul, 111.—Lieut. J. W. Johnson, a cadet at Chanute I aviation field, was killed to-day when his plane fell 1,000 feet at Clifford, near here. Another aviator was * only slightly hurt. t j Fort Worthf Texas—Cadet William R. Turnstall, son 1 of John R. Turnstall, of Brockfield, Ma?s., was killed to- i day wh n his airplane collided with another machine < several thousand feet in the air. The second.fhachine j landed cafely and the cadet occupant escaped uninjured. • j ' " ' I INTE - NED GERMANS DOWN Wil li TYPHOID j Ashe die, N. C. —Half a do.zen German civilians in- | terned at Hot Springs. N. C., are reported dead of typhoid f fever and 165 ill, as a result of drinking ujiiiltcred water I from FfepCh Broad River, with the hope that their illness | would prevent the War Department fr<Jm transferring ]j ' ' f • II them to the military prison carpp at Fort Oglethorpe, jj Georgia. _ ___ +ej*it m'lLMm. Jj FATALLY BURNED AT STEEL PLANT Harr'sburg—Phillip Kovic, 243 Meyers street, Steclton, ] a laborer was fatally burned this morning at the Beth- ] lehem Steel plant when he was caught by an electric 1 crar.e. H'e was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital where j he died at 1.15 this afternoon. j Reading, Pa.',—While, William C. Feather, aged 54, | membc of Wolfersberger & Feather, undertakers, at I Wernersville, was embalming ar body' to-day, he toucjicd 1 a drop light, which had evidently been heavily charged j from the effects of last evening's storm due to crossed j wires, and was instantly killed. __ j MARRIAGE LICENSES Gay Edgar Hrtrlrk and Helen Marcel la I'ee, Daaennnon. mans found positions all ready to receive them and were able to offer strong resistance. The. enemy took Plemont during the fighting early in June and their old trenches there still are or ganized with wire entangle ments. The French army on the southern end of the Picardy bat tle line was at least five and a half miles from Noyon, accord ing to latest detailed reports. British Advance Halted Farther north the British army commanded by General Rawlinson is known to be en countering desperate resistance along its whole front. It is vir [Contlnued on Page 12.]
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