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LXXXVII — No. 180 14 PAGES
BANKS MEETING
PATRIOTIC CALLS
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
Three and a Half Millions
Subscrbed in Short Term
Certificates
GET READY FOR DRIVE
William Jennings Is Again!
Named Chairman of Dau
phin County Committee
A report of the number of short!
term certificates taken by the banks'
of the Harrisburg Liberty Loan dis
trict shows thut during: the first four,
issues, a total sum of $3,513,400 has;
been subscribed.
These short term certificates are;
the certificates that are put out byj
the Federal government in issue*;
twice monthly, to be subscribed by;
the banks and exchanged for Liberty;
Bonds of the fourth issue. It prac-j
tieally means that during the first'
four issues, approximately three and
a half millions of the next Liberty'
issue have been subscribed by the!
banks. The plan was devised by the'
Treasury Department in order to,
alleviate the necessity for a sudden;
drain on the bank's resources.
City Cannot Fall
Four issues of short term certifi-j
cates have been completed. Four
remain to bo issued. The amount
purchased by the banks of Dauphin,
Perry and Juniata counties during
the tirst four issues were announced
as follows:
Dauphin, first issue. $783,000; sec
ond. $981,500; third, $703.ooo;
fourth. $700,000; total $3,210,000.
This means in effect that that;
amount* in Liberty Bonds of the!
fourth issue cannot fail of subscrip-;
tion in Dauphin county.
Juniata, first issue. $28,000; sec
ond, $35,100; third, $8,000; fourth,
$25,000; rota] $96,400.
Perry first issue. $81,000; second,
$48,500; third, $48,000; fourth. $29.-!
500; total, $207,000. The total for
tli# dictrict is $3,513,400.
Heady For Drive
Preliminary plans for the floatin"
of .the Harrisburg district's share of
the Fourth Liberty Loan were an
nounced by Donald McCormiek, dis
trict Liberty Loan committee chair
man. this morning.
The Harrisburg district in the!
Fourth Loan will comprise Dauphin.i
Perry and Juniata counties. For-!
merly Cumberland county, excluding!
Shlppensbtfrg, was included in the 1
district. Cumberland county, includ
ing Shtppensburg. will be a separate!
district in the fourth drive, with
c.eorge E. Lloyd, Mechanicsbnrg.
formerly county chairman, as district
chairman.
Mr. MoCormick announced this
morning (hat William Jennings has
been appointed to retain his position
as Dauphin county chairman.
Quotas Called For August
30-31 Go to Camp Greene
Harrisburg will furnish ten men
to go to Gamp Greene. N. C., August
30 and 31. No. 1 district will fur
nish three men, No. 2. three men and
No. 3. four men, while Dauphin No.
1 will send two men, No. 2, two men
and No. 3 three men. Cumberland
No. 1 will send one and No. 2, two
men: Franklin No. 1, three and No.
2, four.
Fulton. Juniata and Perry will each
send two men: Mifflin one. Hunt
ingdon four, each of Lebanon's two
districts five men: t'nion one, North
umberland twenty-four, Lancaster
city seven, I,ancaster county twelve,
York eity nine and York county
fourteen and Schuylkill thirty-four.
To Make Slight Ch&nges
in City Housing Measure
When Dr. J. M. J. Raunick. city
health officer, returns from his va
cation a conference will he held with
City Solicitor John E. Fox and John
Moliter. chief of the bureau of hous
ing, State Department of Health, to
decide finally on the housing ordi
nance to be introduced in council.
Recently a short conference was
held by Dr. Raunick and Solicitor
Fox when a number of minor chang
es in the ordinance were considered.
After these are the measure
will be gone over again.
TOMORROW IS PAY
DAY FOR MANY MEN
Why do so many forget
W. S. S,
S&f The Women Don't
THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg an<l vicinity! Fnlr
to-night and Saturday; not
marh rhnngc In temperature.
For Fudtern I'ennnylvuniui Fair
to-night nnd Saturday; moder
ate temperature; light, north
went wlndx. becoming vnrluble.
River
The Sunquehannn river nnd all Ita
branches will fall slowly or re
main stationary. A stage of
about 4.0 feet Is Indlcr'.rd for
Harrisburg Saturday morning.
Temperature 8 a. in.. 64.
River stagei 4.1 feet above low
water innrk.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temprrnture, 81.
I.owest temperature, 88.
Alenn teinpernture, 74.
Normal temperature, 72,
AND HE IS GENERALLY SO TALKATIVE
'fjfl i
jp
RED CROSS MOTOR
MESSENGERS ARE
NEEDED IN FRANCE
Harrisburg Women in Service
Will Have Opportunity to
Volunteer to Go Abroad
"Harrisburg Motor Messengers
will make a strenuous effort to do 1
their bit," said Mrs. Samuel F. Dun
kle, captain of the local Red Cross
Motor Messenger Corps this morning
when she learned that an appeal has
been made for 300 Motor Messengers
to do service as ambulance drivers in!
France. Of this number it has been
asked thut twenty-five come from
the Pennsylvania-Delaware division.;
It may be that a number of local
Motor Messengers will volunteer for
service.
The first intimation of the appeal
for Motor Messengers came to Mrs.
Lyman D. Gilbert, president of the
Harrisburg chapter. American Red
Cross, this morning in a letter from I
J. W. Sharp, Jr.. acting director of
the motor service, the local chapter I
was asked to launch the campuignj
[Continued on Page 16.]
Mike Lawler Gives Self Up
After Successfully Eluding
Arrest For Many Months
Michael Lawler, wanted by rity
and county authorities since early in
the year, to answer a charge of dis
tributing punchboards and other
gambling devices in small stores, yes
terday surrendered himself at the
office of Alderman A. M. Landis and
furnished S3OO bail for a hearing to
be held next week.
City police during the winter visit
ed a number of stores, arresting pro
prietors for having punchboards and
ether gambling apparatus in opera
tion. One of the persons prosecuted
was Jacob I. Brenner, when when
called for sentence in.court, said that
Lawler had furnished him the gamb
ling supplies, saying to him that in
case of any tines they would be paid,
no expense to Brenner. The court
ordered the authorities to locate
Lawler. hut-the latter left the city
before he was arrested. According
to county officials he was traced to
Buffalo, X. Y.. but a day or two ago
returned to the city. The warrant
for his arrest had been in the hands
ot city police since his disappear
ance. ■
YANKEE ARDOR
UNSURPASSED
By Associated Press
Willi tlic American Army in
France, Aug. 16.—Deepest admi
ration of tl American troops
which have ueen fighting with
the British and French in the
Picardy offensive was expressed
to-day by General Humbert, com
mander of the Third French
.army, during a talk to war cor
respondents.
"The Americans fight," he said,
"with an ardor that is unsur
passed."
SINGLE COPY
* TEXTS
SUGAR SHORTAGE
TO BE RELIEVED
: BY NEW ORDER
Part of Stock Held by Whole
salers to Be Released to
General Public
Donald McCormick, county food
administrator, „ this morning an-
nounced upon his return from a con
ference with Howard Heinz, state
food administrator, that a portion of
the 800,000 pounds of sugar held in
stock by local wholesalers had been
released for use in the county. The
sugar has been held in stock by or
[Continued on Page 6.]
Twenty-five Per Cent,
Substitute Continued
Until End of Year
At a meeting of the bakers of
Dauphin county in the office'of Dr.
H. H. Metzger, federal food admin
istrator for Cumberland county, at
Carlisle, a from State Adminis
trator Heinz was read advising the
bakers that the. 25 per Vent, wheat
substitute rule will be continued in
effect at least until the close of the
present '.'ear.
Most of the bakers are using rice
Hour, corn flour and corn starch as
substitutes and very good quality of
bread is being produced. The whole
situation was gone over by the bak
ers, who reported business conditions
as generally satisfactory, considering
the enforced restrictions resulting
from the war. •
PENNSYLVANIA'S WIN NEW
GLORIES ON RIVER VESLE
Stubbornly Resist All Efforts to Drive Them From Fis
mette; Wounded Rescued Under Heavy Fire
By RAYMOND G. CARROLL
Special Correspondent of the Public Ledger and Harrisburg Telegraph
Officially Accredited to the American Expeditionary Forces Aboard
SPECIAL CABLE DISPATCH
Copyright, 1918, by Public Ledger Co. and Telegraph Printing Co.
With the American Troops Cutler
Fooh, Aug. 16.—Like policemen who
boot in the door of a wrongdoer's
house, the Americans have planted
themselves in Fismette, a tiny French
town across the V'esle from Flames,
and refuse to budge, notwithstand
ing a rain of enemy gas, shrapnel
and high explosives and furious in
fantry counterattacks, all of which
have failed.
Our greatest difficulty is In bring
ing up supplies and sending back the
wounded, tor the river crossings are
under the rnnge of the German artil
lery. In the fighting there have been
many deeds of valor, particularly
early Monday, when the enemy
threw 2,000 picked Guards troops,
armed with machine guns, trench
mortars and flame-throwers. In vain
upon 400 Americans under Major
Alan G. Donnelly, of Pittsburgh, who
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1918
FARMERS TO BE
ASKED TO RAISE
MORE WHEAT
Farm Agents to Seek Co-op
eratiin of Agriculturists
in National Plan
Dauphin county farmers have
been asked to plant three per cent.
more wheat this fall than ever be
fore.
j It is a part of the National Food
I Administration's efforts to supply
i the wheat needs of the allies dur-
I ing the war. The farmers of the
| county will be urged to do their
I part by planting 1,000 more acres
lof wheat than ever before. That
! number of added acres means that
i every farmer's share would be a
[Continued on Page 6.]
Wage Differences Settled
at Steelton Plant With the
Strikers Back in the Mills
The employes of the 44-inch and
28-inch rolling mills at the Bethle
hem Steel Company at Steelton. who
! walked out Wednesday morning be
j cause of wage grievances, are at work
• this morning, it was announced by
! Superintendent Robbins, general
j manager of the plant.
It was said that the men had walk
i ed out because wage inert, -res which
were promised by the company did
j not materialize satisfactorily. At the
] offices this morning it was said that
I all wage differences had been ad
justed to the satisfaction.
formed an Iron ring around Fismette
which hod been previously captured
by the troops led by Captain Lucius
M. Phelbs, of Erie, Pa., and Harry F
Miller, of Meadville, Pa.
It was in this earlier operation
that the pioneer troops who threw a
bridge over the river were directed
by Captain Fred McCoy, of Orovo
City, Pa., who went on with his men
to Chateau Diablc and got it. At the
same time, smashing up the center
of our attack from the river, came
another # dptachment, led by Lieuten
ant R. E. Shearer, of Carlisle,
which captured the tannery and
straddled the railroad in the out
skirts of the town until Phelps and
Miller, with machine guns and
trench mortars, got across the rlvor,
whn all hands drove into the town,
[Continued on Page 16.]
FOE DESPERATELY CLINGS TO
LINE IN PICARDY AS ALLIES
PUSH AHEAD RELENTLESSLY
Roye Endangered by
Steady Advance of
Allied Armies
Under Haig
FOCH'S LOSSES
ARE VERY LIGHT
Situation in East
Grows Menacing
For the Huns
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. 16, 1 P. M. —Roye is
being held in a vise-like grip by the
French. Stubborn resistance by the
Germans is being crushed by the
French, who slowly are encircling the
town.
The French advance at Villers-Les-
Roye makes the fall of Roye inevi
table, it is believed by military men.
Possession of the town by French
troops would make necessary a recti
fication of the German lines and an
enemy retreat to the Nestle-Noyon
would be probable.
The Germans are clinging desper
ately to a range of hills east of Ribe
court. They also are stubbornly de
fending the Lassigny-Oise canal, the
loss of which would entail the eva
cuation of Noyon.
Allied pressure has been effectively
resumed against the German line in
the region of Roye, on the Picardy
battle front.
The enemy Is clinging deter-J
minediy to this town as a bulwark]
of the positions he took up after
being driven back from the Amiens I
region. Both the French and the
British are pushing closer, however,
and amking prolonged tenancy of
the place doubtful.
Rondon last night reported the
British line advanced northwest of
the town, in the neighborhood of
Damery and Parvillers while to-day
Paris reports a forward movement
on the part of the French, west and
southwest of Roye, on a front of
about two and one-half miles.
Roye is fast becoming the vital
apex of a salient which will soon
invite a ctossing allied stroke if the
French-British pressure can be ef
fectively maintained as it has been
recently.
Fighting activity in Picardy is
confined to local actions. There are
no signs that the heavier combats
of earlier in the we?k are about to
be resumed, although the artillery
on both sides continues active.
On the line between Chaulnes and
Roye, where the Germans are said
[Continued on I'agc IB.]
First Woman Car Cleaner
Hurt in Local Yards
The first woman car cleaner em
ployed in the local railroad yards to
meet with injuries while employed
at her duties is in the Harrisburg
Hospital to-day as the result of in
juries sustained in an accident a little
before 6 o'clock this morning. Her
injuries are not serious and she will
recover.
Mrs. Susan Peffley, aged 49, 1615
Wallace street, is the victim of the
accident. She cleans cars. In the
yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in this city. She was at
work at the yards near State street,
when a passenger car ran into her.
The car was being switched and was
not going at a great speed, but the
woman was knocked to the ground.
AMERICAN DIES IN
TERRIFIC AIR BATTI.E
Paris, Aug. 16.—Lieutenant Walter
B. Miller, of New York City, a former
member of the Lafayette escadrille
and who was transferred to the Amer
ican service was killed ki an aerial
combat on August 3.
His patrol, consisting of eight ma
chines. was attacked by a German
squadron of thirty airplanes. Lieu
tenant Miller fell inside the American
lines. The other members of the pa
trol escaped after a fierce struggle.
PATROLMAN IS MARRIED
Harrison Bathurst, member of the
city police force, and Miss Mary Ma
garo, of 112 South Second street,
were married late this afternoon by
Alderman Hiltqn.
BRITISH TROOPS
MAKE RUSS GLAD
By Associated Press
London. Aug. 16.—The popula
tion of the Murmansk region re
ceived with Joy the British force
that landed fhere recently, ac
cording to an allied diplomat who
has arrived in London from Pe
:rograd.
"Old men and women wept
with tears of Joy. crying: 'At •
last Russia will be saved!" " he
salfl.
"The peasants, workmen and
aristocracy know Oermunv is
their enemy. Many men In Pe
trograd who held high positions
in the old Russian army have
told me that they know now that
the only real- friends of Russia
are the allies."
DWINDLING MAN POWER
WORRIES HUN LEADERS
Ludendorff Calls For Weed
ing Out of Auxiliary Units
to Provide More Men For
Fighting Lines Now Hard
Pressed by Allies
TRY TO MEET GROWING
U. S. ARMY IN FRANCE
With the British Army in Franco,
Aug. 16.—Germany has acknowl
edged that her manpower, once so
freely wasted, now is dwindling in t
proportions great enough apparently
to cause considerable anxiety to the
hign command. The toll taken, par
ticulerly in recent fighting by the
allied armies, and the prospect of
being confronted by ever-growing
American forces has caused General
; Ludendorff to issue most imperative |
orders for a vigorous, immediate |
comb-out in the German army in ]
order to recover from auxiliary units j
all men capable of entering the
trenches.
In the comb-out. says the? order |
issued by Lrocndorff, first considera- j
tion will be given to men over 43 ;
who have served in the front lines j
longer than six months. He an- \
nounces the:t commissions have been
appointed to investigate the entire
situation, including men of every
rank. All men available for the in
fantry must be sent to depots in Bel
gium, the special purpose of the high
command being to get more infantry
reserves.
Appended to the order are special
instructions to Field Marshal von
Mackensen and General, von Schlotz
to make "a greater demand upon the
local personnel" instead of using
Germans in the auxiliary services as
reinforcements.
BRITISH PUSH FORWARD
FOR FRESH ADVANCE
London, Aug. 16. —South of Albert
the British have advanced their line
slightly in the region northeast of
Morlancourt, says the official state
ment to-day from Field Marshal
Haig.
On the eastern bank of the Ancre
local fighting took place last night
on the outskirts of Thiepvall wood,
west of Thiepvall.
Farther to the north more prog
ress has been made by the British,
who have pushed their patrols east
ward on the three-mile front between
Beaucourt-sur-Ancre and Ruisieux
au-Mont.
CANADIANS SCORE
FRESH SUCCESSES
With the Canadian Forces in;
France. Aug. 16. The Canadians
captured the village of Varvillers
yesterday in an operation w.hich en
abled them to straighten out their
line in that sector- A number of
machine guns and prisoners were
taken. TTte latest report was that
our troops were holding the village
and reinforcements have gone in
.there in support against the strong
post the enemy has in the vicinity.
Enemy artillery activity indicates
a stiffening of resistance. Hostile
aircraft has been considerably
strengthened on the whole of this
Amiens-Montdidier front.
Some thirty-four enemy divisions
have been engaged, including eleven
fresh divisions and two tired divi
sions from the enemy reserves. The
enemy has used up every battalion
of two of the four divisions holding
his line In front of the Canadians,
those being the 79th and the 118 th.
ENEMY ARTILLERY
IS VERY ACTIVE
With the British Army in Franco,
Aug. 16.—The enemy artillery was
active last night from one end of the
British front to the other. Theactiv
ity was especially marked along the
new Somme battle front, ( in the Es
sarts sector and in the region of La
Bassee on the northern front, where
there was a heavy gas bombardment.
There was no development of ac
tivity by the enemy infantry any
where, however.
All along the Somme' front the
British are continuing various slight
forward movements to gain advan
tages of position. It was in move
ments of this kind that Damery and
Pnrvillers came yesterday into Brit
ish hands.
The situation north of the Ancre
has not yet been clarified, the
enemy's intentions being obscure.
There are no further reports of wide
spread withdrawals in this region, al
though the enemy seems to have
abandoned several of his spiall for
ward positions. On the- other hand,
British patrols that cfossed the Ancre
last night were fired upon and forced
to return.
RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT
ROOSEVELT'S GRAVE
Paris, Aug. 16. —Religious services
beside the grave of .Lieutenant Qucn
tin Roosevelt, near the spot where he
fell to his death in an air combat
last month, were held here to-day by
Bishop Brent, of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, and the Rev. Charles
S. Macfarlnnd, of the Federal Council
of Churches of Christ in America.
ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED I'ItESS
NEW SI'APE It IN H All II ISIIIiKG
GERMAN LOSSES
NOW ESTIMATED
AT 6,000,000 MEN
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. 16.—The total Ger
man losses from the beginning
of the war to the end of July,
1918, are understood to be six
millions, according to the morn
ing papers.
The figures include 1,400,000
killed up to the beginning of the
German offensive of last March.
From March 27 to June 17 the
Germans are said to have lost
120,000 killed alone.
FRENCH ADVANCE ON
FRONT WEST OF ROYE
i
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. 16. The French
troops have made an important ad
vance on a front of two and one-half
miles of Roye, according to
the war office statement to-day.
The French program was in the
legion of Villers-les-Roye, about
two and one-half miles west of Roye,
St. Aurin and Armancourt.
In Champagne the French took
prisoners and also checked a German
raid.
STItOCPSt'ELEDIi ATING
Michael 10. Stroup, district attorney
and member of the law firm of
Stroup and Fox, this city, is celebrat
ing his birthday to-day. He is re
ceiving congratulations from his
many friends at his summer home in
i lOlizabethville.
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| ALLIED FORCES WIN MORE
V- 1 AGKS AND TAKE OLD LINE ) [
! WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE—AL
t LIED FORCES , C f.UPIED VILLERS-LES-ROYE M
| AND ST. AUKi AND REACHED THEIR OLD |
if LINE OF'TRENCHES EAST OF ARMANCOU&T ;
; YESTERDAY. 1" TIIER NORTH THEY'PRESS- |
:j ED FORWARD T WARD THE CIIAULNES-ROYE |
i j LINE, TAKING DAMERY WOOD 'IN THE EVE- ij|
1 BERLIN v 'l AUSTRIAN UNITY |
Amsterdam —The', irjiplete agreement existing between SR
Germany and Axistria-Hijngary again has been demon- 8J
itrated at the meeting of the emperors at German main *
8 headquarters, and ' ial statement from Berlin to-day j;
: declares. 11
| | RUSS AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY LEAVES j|j
■ > Amsterdam— Adcph Joffe, the Russian ambassador to 11
; ; Berlin, has left Mot c w and was expected to arrive in H
; Berlin Thursday. 11
AMERICi DOWNS BALLOON |:
1 Withe the Amcri. n Army in France —During the aerial I N
| '.. hting cn Weil; lay ap American airmen attacked IN
German balloon, f icing his it to jump with JfS
£ his parachute. An enemy airplane attacked an Ameri
5 can balloon but was driven off by fire from the ground jP|
; v. ithout forcing, ' onist to h ;|j
i VAI MEN GET RAISE |
Harrisburg—Th Railways' Company to-day an- )[j
i I Yiounced ah increase < f wages* for motorman and conduc j
the folio'- •
| second year men 37 entp, all over two years 38 cents. 1 |
i[• This will add about $50,000 a year to the expense of the jft
i j company. j|
IMETIN, FRENCH DIPLOMAT DIES
A Pacific Port—Albert Metin, head of the French econ- j j
omic mission in the United States, former minister of
labor in France an -.mister of bl .kade, died here at j k
11 midnight from a streke of apoplexy. /
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Alvln Mnritnn and Annie 1.. Miller, WIcnlaeo) Frank B. Ger
nln, Sunburr, and Mnltel It. Connelly, Hiirrlaburfc.
HOME EDITION
Hun Offensive Plans
Wrecked By Foch's
Smashing Plans
in Last Month
INITIATIVE IN
ALLIED HANDS
Retirement Means
Abandonment of
Victory Hopes
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 16.—The with
drawal on the western front by
the Germans in the past few
days, it is believed here, indi
cates that the enemy intends to
abandon the offensive.
Military observers say there is
every idication the Germans intend
to stand on their present line. There
is a possibility, however, that they
may fall buck to the Divette, a
small tributary of the Oise and
which joins it south of Noyon. The
French now hold all the high ground
in that region.
It is said the British are so close
to Chaulnes that the enemy cannot
use the town. Almost all the rail
communications in the Peronne re
, gion have been rendered useless by
the Allies.