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LXXXVII — Xo. 183 12 PAGES sl "j u r L KSTs 1 " Y HARRISBURG, PA., [TUESDAY E\ ENING, AUGUSI 20, 1918. on !ewip i i'bh ?n s mVk i!rsVuuui 288 HOME EDITION
FOCH'S NEW DRIVE MAY THROW ENEMY
INTO RETREAT TO CHEMIN-DES-DAMES
PENNSYLVANIA
IS CALLED UPON
TO SEND 27,000
MEN TO CAMP
HcaviestDraft Yet Made Upon
This State Is to Move Be-,
tween Thursday of This J
Week and September (i
MANY MEN NEEDED FOR
SPECIAL WAR SERVICE |
Pennsylvania was to-day called |
upon by the provost marshal gen-:
eral to furnish almost 14.000 men toj
be sent to Camps Dix, Sherman, j
Meade and Greenleaf in the first six'
days of September. Over 1 3,000 men j
will he sent to various camps In ad-1
dition between Thursday and the first j
of September. These men are now be- j
ing gotten together.
The new calls are for the en
trapment on September 1 of 7 49:
colored men qualified for general j
military service for Camp Sherman
and for entrainment between Sep- j
tember 3 and H of 8.000 men for|
Camp Greenleaf, Ga., and 1,500 fori
Camp Meade, all white and qualified I
for general military service; 3,200 j
men for Camp Dix and 500 for Camp j
Sherman, white and to be taken from j
class 1, group C, qualified for spe-j
cial or limited service. Special warn- j
ings are given that special and gen
eral service men are not to be en-|
trained together.
Commencing Thursday, 749 color-1
ed men are to be started for camp j
and in the five-day period commenc
ing August 20, 10,000 white men are
to go to Camp Lee. The end of the
month 1,400 special service men are
to go to Camp Greene. In addition
009 grammar school graduates are to
go to three colleges and there are
t ails out for court stenographers and I
draftsmen.
It is estimated that close to 425!
persons will be affected by the order!
of the provost marshal general forj
induction of clerks at state draft j
headquarters and chief clerks of ajl I
local, district and medical advisory |
boards into the army either as pri- i
vates or noncommissioned officers, j
These men will be taken from class 1 ,
men qualified for special or limited j
military service.
Major Murdock to-day announced j
that the government proposed to vig-1
orously prosecute the wilful deserters
under the draft law and that local:
police authorities will be asked to'
co-operate. The local boards have j
been directed to prepare lists of men:
who must get into useful occupations'
as soon as possible and to forward to!
state headquarters all delinquents. j
MAYOR TAKES VACATION
Mayor Kcister is absent from the
city in his vacation. Next week he!
will attend the convention of the
Third Class City League at Erie I4e
will make a short address on the 10-,
cal police force. In his absence Al-j
derman Householder is conducting
police court hearings.
STEAMER SINKS U-BOAT
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. 20. (Havas)—News-j
papers of Oporto. Portugal, report;
that an unidentified steamer out-!
bound front Bordeaux sank a subnta-J
rine near the Spanish coast. Details:
are lacking
EVERY QUARTER
You Put
Into
WAR STAMPS
Provides Cartridges \
and
HELPS END The WAR j
THE WEATHER]
For Hnrrlshurg and vicinity] Fair,
continued cool to-nlghti Wed
nesday fair) slightly warmer.
For Eastern Pennsylvania] Fair,
continued cool to-night l Wed
netdny fair; slightly vvnrmers
light, variable winds becoming
aouth.
Klver
The Suaquchnnna river nnd nil Ita
lirnnehea will probably continue
lo fall alowly.
General Condition*
A general full of 2 to JO degrera
In tempernture hna occurred In
the Atluntic Mtntea.
Temperature: 8 n. m., 36.
Hirer Stage■ 8 n. ni„ 3.0 fret above
law-water mark.
Sunt Rlaea: tlilT n. m.j aeta, 7:13
p. m.
Moon: Full moon, Auguat 31.
Yesterday's Weather
Hlgheat temperature, 76.
I.onest tempernture. 37.
Menn temperature. 66.
Normal tempernture, 72.
CIVIC CLIB CONTEST
The Civic Club Fly Content will
cloae Sep tew her 28. Prlsea of
fered
Now y Why in the World Should He Think That?
SUBSTITUTES FOR HAIR CUT gets
ANTHRACITE ARE STA !, T A ™" ICAG °
Chicago, Aug. 20.—One dollar
STRONGLY URGED
iJlllvFilUUl UltU-Ul/ f barbers accept the suggestion
. | >f the Barber Supply Dealers As
_ , _ ! lociation. a national organization
Loal Conservation Plan Meet- t vhich is holding its annual rneet
,, . ng here. A statement made pu ti
ling to I 111 l City 1 nrough ic to-day in relation to the sug
. * . . tested advance in rates safd:
(..Ollling t.nsis "Hair cutting always has been
lone at too cheap a price and
Along with the announcement ! " ost of °" r r> s !o|, ' e feel * h 'f, 18
. i >ne branch of the work that
that Harrisburg householders have ; should be paid for at a decent,
ordered incie coal for next winter's | respectable rate."
needs thar. the city is allowed, Ross
A. Hickok, county fuel administrator, !
this morning said that the Coal Con- ; w pm o|T|l llTimff
servation Committee will hold a I,K I llp r WI I H X/'Y
meeting in the near future to study j a-i*-* i V/i J. ? II 11
the best, conservation methods, anil ;
to make public means whereby the] UfXTI? I7AI) ATYniVTf
householders can eke out their coal pflllPi P 1 111 ll!Vllll
supplies in case of extreme cold | 1 11 IV/ 1 1' U1 " * A " U
" C. th M r Kaltwas.ser. manager of the RITM TO (WFIf EIK
Harrisburg Light and Power Com- IHJITI lUUF V ILEUO
pany, is chairman of the committee. ,
His committee will attempt to in- I
struct the people how to make the Two Lieutenants Alleged to
best of the coal situation.
Mr. Hickok made public the Have Left Dancehall Under
course of action which should, be
pursued by householders who ha,ve Influence of Liquor
not received their coal supplies. Con-
servation is the keynote of his advice T I. . A . , ... ...
to householders. \ In s l" te of the fact that the clt y
Wood For Safety police force has been under fire for
He declared that the first move the past week because of its appar
is to educate the people to the proper ent failure to co-operate in the ef-
forts of local military authorities to
[Continued on Page 10.] curb bootlegging, Charles Sambs,
"No Friends of Mine," [Continued on Page 2.]
Says Steamer Captain Cost of Electric Sign
Who Rams U-Boat { an j Window Lighting to
„. By Associated Pr e „ Be Advanced Sept. 7
Washington. Aug. 20. The Navy;
Department, announced to-day that . ,
the captain of an American steame; Sign and window lighting rates in
had reported that his vessel rammed I Harrisburg will be advanced under
and probably sank a submarine about a supplement to the tariff of rates
o; i ,= r^e ni h,',ui A '^ l '?L 1 'v-r, a h r - Wi vM Pr of the Harrisburg Light and Power
Quarter Snoal, oft the Northern Vtr- 4fl „* H\ZA ..Tuu D ..hn
glnia coast. The captain stated the ' ompany just filed with the Public
submarine was struck on her port Service Commission. The new rates
bow, bringing her alongside. become effective on September 7.
The submarine crew hailed in The new rate for sign lighting, will
Vi y ,* n 1 l . h S y be 01 cents for the number of watts
were friends, the captain said, but he j .. „
replied they were no friends of his. connected, for the first fort>
He kept on his course, he said. The hours use per month and .005 cents
steamer now is in port with a badly per watt in excess of first forty hours
•damaged bow and a quantity of per month. The unit rate now is
be rank thV aubmaTlne. 0 ' aptaln thlnk ," | eight cents for a two-candlepower
In making the announcement the P e ' nlont h.
department did not name the ship. The new window lighting rate will
Hecause of the American skipper's he .01 cents per hour for each watt
circumstantial report and the tangible of connected lamps for first forty
evidence furnished by tJie dAm&gcd hou pr' use nor month Oft®* npntq
bow, the story is given credence not j ® JIZ. i . i . " nls
accorded most cf the accounts of sub- P er *attdni excess of first forty hours
marine iMtrrct'-nii veeoiiing the P er month. The prapent rate is
Navy. eight-tenth cents per watt per month.
HIGH SCHOOLS TO !
BE OPENED FOR j
MILITARY DRILL!
Problem Now Is to Secure j
Competent Instructors For l
Training Youths
The only difficulty that now exists
in the establishment of a system of
military training in Tech and Cen
tral High schools, is that of secur
ing competent instructors.
Dr. F. E. Downes, superintendent
of the city schools, this morning de
clared that the schools will be open
to instruction of its youths this fail
who want to take the drills.
This statement of Dr. Downes; to
gether with the endorsement of mil
itary training given by Robert E.
Enders, president of the board sev
eral days ago, makes the inaugura
tion of a system of training at the
local high schools almost a foregone
conclusion. But the difficulty of se
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YANKS REPULSE RAID
By Associated Press
YVasliington, Atig. 20.—A German
i aid on the American lines south of
Toul, in a comparatively quiet sec
tor, resulted in losses to the Ger
mans, General Pershing reported to
day in his communique.
YANKEES TAKE 60 PRUSSIAN
MACHINE GUNNERS WITHOUT
FIRING SINGLE SHOT AT FOE
Captives Were Waiting to Surrender at First Opportunity;
Americans Say Men Taken Virtually Deserted Posts
By Associated Press
With the American Army on the
Veale Front, Aug. 20.—Sixty Prus
sians have been taken prisoners by
the Americans near Ftsmette, north
of Fismes, without .either side firing
a shot. The Prussians were machine
gunners and all that remained of a
company which had been in line less
than a month.
American detachments went out a
few nights ago, the location of the
machine gun positions having been I
reported by a prisoner. According to I
the Americans, the Prussians were'.
GERMAN SOLDIERS SEE
PERIL IN YANKEE ARMY
Semiofficial Statements Seek
to Hide Danger to Nation
in Ever-Growing American
Forces Now Taking Place in
Front Lines
OLD GENERALS FRANKLY
POINT OUT SITUATION
By Associated Press
I Amsterdam, Aug. 20. —Profession-
al soldiers like General Von Blume
and General Von Liebert, unlike so
many other German war critics, do
not seek to belittle tht significance
of the appearance of the American
army on the west front.
General Von Blume, who is on the
retired list, writes an article on the
subject which appears in the Rhein
lsclie Westfaelische Zeitung. He
frankly admits that "we have to
reehgnize that the Americans, all in
all, have done very smart work and
it would be a very serious thing if
the German army command had to
| face an American fighting army of
i millions. This prospect the German
public must on no account be permit
ted to ponder over."
Almost immediately after the ar-
I tide appeared a semiofficial state
ment was issued to the effect that
the "exaggerated reports going
about rega ding the size of the Ainer,
WOMAN LEAPS TO
GROUND AS FIRE
ENVELOPS ROOM
Mrs. Samuel Young Is Badly
Hurt in Fall; Husband
Receives Burn
A woman is in the Harrisburg Hos
pital with a suspected fracture of
the hip, and her husband is suffering j
minor burns as the result of the tire j
which did about 11,000 damage to the ;
house at 425 Kunkel street shortly
before 5 o'clock tills morning.
Mrs. Ellen Young is the young
woman in the hospital. She jumped \
from a second story back- window j
following the explosion of the oil.
stove in which she had ignited a tire j
shortly before five o'clock. She suf- '
fered contusions of the back, and \
contusions of the hip which hospital j
physicians say may be a fracture, j
Fire Chief Kindler says she sum- j
moned her husband, Samuel Y'oung,
when the explosion occurred and he
received minor burns and singed his
hair in his efforts to extinguish the
tire. An alarm was turned in at 4.55.
j and the tire was not under control
' until almost an hour later.
| The damage to the property and
furniture exceeds SSOO, and may reach
11.000 when a complete estimate is
I made.
According to the fire chief, Mrs.
Young was preparing to cook
' breakfast over the oil stove. There
was an explosion, and she ran up
stairs for help. When she turned
around to come down the stairs, the
smoke pouring up the stairway
blocked her passage. She ran to a
hack window, and jumped to the yard
below.
The hospital ambulance was sum
moned and took her to the hospital.
At a late hour this morning it was
said she would recover.
The flames spread quickly from
the stove in the kitchen to all parts
of the back of the house. The in
terior of the house was badly dam
aged by fire and water. The furt.l
ture was also ruined by the effects
of the blaze.
Japanese Marines Land
at Nicolaievsk, on Amoy
By Associated Press
I/onclon. Monday. Aug. 19.—Via
Montreal. —Heavy fighting has been
in progress on the Ussuri front, says
Renter's correspondent at Vladivo
stok, and Czeeho-Slovak outposts
have been forced to retire. '
A contingent of Japanese marines,
the correspondent adds, has landed
at Nicolaievsk on the Amoy.
waiting to be taken prisoner. The
Intelligence officer who requested the
Prussians said nearly all had agreed
to surrender If the slightest oppor
tunity arose.
The Americans who took the pris
oners do not claim any credit for the
capture, declaring the Prussians vir
tually deserted their posts.
A German prisoner taken
told an intelligence officer he be
lieved that if the line gets back to
[ Germany proper the fighting spirit
of the German soldiers will be greatly
'.-stimulated-
KULTUR FINDS
WAR "CROOKED" j
By Associated Press
Stockholm, Aug. 20. —German J
,var correspondents report that I
:hey inspected guns taken from
:he Seventy-seventh American
-egiment and found them to be
ihotguns each carrying live cart- |
•idges loaded with buckshot.
They declare the use of such
guns is contrary to the Geneva
convention.
ic&n army in Europe merit no cred
ence and only exist in Yankee imag
ination and entente propaganda."
The statement said further that "the
tonnage question, which already is
acute, will become still more serious
for the entente when America has
to ship her crops to Europe."
General Von Liebert, who form
erly was German commandant at
Lodz, and who now is military critic
of the Taegliche Rundschau, of Ber
lin, tells the public that the Ameri
can army actually has become a big
factor and the debarkations in
France are proceeding regularly.
General Von Liebert laments the
"moral perversion" which brought
the Americans to the front and says
"the French and British owe their
recent successes to their transAtlan
tic ally, without whom their offen
sive would have been doomed to dis
appointment."
BRITISH DRIVE
ENEMY FURTHER
FROM CALAIS
Huns Fail in Threat of Driv-j:
ing Englishmen Through
to English Channel
With the British Army in,;
France, Aus. 20. —By withdrawinglj
their forces in the Merville sector ;
of the Lys salient the Germans defin- ;
itely have given up one of the points !
from which a drive for Calais log- j;
ically would be launched. This is ;
taken to indicate the German high :
command has, at least for the time •
being, abandoned hope of reaching ;
the coast and now, perhaps, is chief- ;:
ly concerned with getting the Ger-;!
man lines back to a place of groat- ;
er security. , !
Withdrawal Expected
The withdrawal here had been ex- ;
pected for some time and it coritin- 1 ;
ued last night and to-day even on a:;
slightly oroader front than that of ;
\ yesterd.ay. The retirment marked the .
1 conclusion and failure of the effort !
which Germany launched early in ;
! the spring to "finish off" the British '
| army by driving through to the sea. j
Other withdrawals continue and 1
the British, taking advantage of the j
opportunity, have at various places j
pushed forward where the enemy J
has left small garrisons. The Brit- j
ish also nave battered in the Boehe '
at places where he was not quite j
read to retire such ac between Vieux i
Berquin and the .Hazebrouck-Baii- 1
leul railway. Here a local operation J
gained all the objectives, the Brit- J
ish advancing their positions some J
[distance and capturing one officer <
and 181 of other ranks.
British Advance South of Searpc <
South of the Scarpe River the;,
British still further advanced their J
line, while their positions south 'of.j
the river Somme were improved by '<
local actions. An enemy attack !
which developed here yesterday was 1
a complete failure in every respect. J
the Germans suffering heavy cas- J
sualties.
While the Germans managed to •
penetrate the British positions at
two points they were quickly hurled '
out and th 3 line this morning was J
completely restored. Not a single ij
foot of ground was gained by the! j
enemy. I <
Between the Somme and the Ancre | <
Rivers the British line have been J
steadly improved in the past few j j
I days and lapt night the positions of'j
the enemy west of Bray were sue- j S
cessfully raided.
Aside from a desire to get out of i
the ground which has been extretne- ' j
[ ly unprofitable for them to hold,
and where the British, by reason of J
the insuperior positions, are able to j
; pound them day and night, the Ger-, 1
mans, in retiring, possibly have an- J
other motive, namely, to establish J
a strategic defense against the oper- J
.tions of the tanks, should they any-!'
where be attacked by the British. i;
Mine Strike Enters Its
Second Week Without a
Sign of Conciliation
By Associated Press
Willlnmstown. Pa., Aug. 20. The
strike of the Irlvers at the Williams
town mines of the Susquehanna Col
lieries Company to-day entered upon
Its second week without either side
showing the least sign of weakening.
As a result of the strike of the forty
drivers, practically the entire plant of
900 employes is closed. One thousand
tons of anthracite coal of various
grades are mined on average days at
the Wtlliamstown mines.
The drivers, now receiving $3.11 for
their eight hours' work, demand an
increase of $1.89 for their toll. The
mine operators refuse to grant this
increase, and other workers refuse to
fill the positions ot the drivers, - • Ij
HUNS MENACED
FROM SOISSONS
TO THE AISNE
French Gain Two Miles and Capture
Important Villages as the Tenth
Army Strikes Powerful Blow
Against Hun Positions
By Ass< ctatcd Prest
LONDON, Aug. 20 (4.45 p. m.). —Accord-
ing to the latest advices reaching London, this
morning's attack by the French extended over
fifteen miles. Good progress has been made
everywhere, according to reports, and the ad
vance on this front since Saturday now is over
four miles at its maximum depth.
London, Aug. 20. —The French Tenth Army again
attacked this morning on a front of ten miles between
the Oise and the Aisne and reached a maximum depth
of two miles, says a dispatch from the battlefront.
The advance of the French troops endangers the
whole German position at Soissons and on the. river
Aisne.
It is possible that the Germans now will withdraw
to the Chemin-des-Dames.
Before 9 o'clock this morning the French had cap
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|| "FLYING CIRCUS" REACHES DETROIT . |
||; Detroit—The "flying circus" of eight airplanes, piloted 2
||; by American and British aviators, arrived here from w
a: Toledo this afternoon. The proposed exhibition flights,
!|: over the city have been postponed until to-morrow, the
i|; aviators attending a public meeting this afternoon at the lj
J: local board of commerce and a dinner given by business I
!|; men this evening. .1
LITTLE SUGAR USED HERE
!jf H: rriihurg—Statement .vas officially rvide at meeting j
§ of ihilk dealers that 'Harrisburg had used less than fifty , |
per cent, of its sugar allotment under food ruling, illus- \
•V
5 trating patriotic co-operation of city in conservation.
YANKEE AIRMAN MAY BE ALIVE N j
Paris —Official confirmation of the reported death of i
i; | Lifcut. Alan F. Winslcw, of River Forest, HI., an Amer-
I) ; ican airman, is lacking. Headquarters of the American
| aviation service has been unable to confirm the report
! ! that he was killed. The American Red Cross has received 1
j: : rc advice concerning him.
ji WORMLEYSBURG COAL SITUATION
M ■' IN COURT OF 'SQUIRE MATTER j
3 j West Fair-view —It is understood a number of Worm- j
■'!: leysburg's most prominent citizens were called before
2 Squire Matter of West Fair-view for a hearing last even
ing on the charge of pilfering coal from cars on railroad !
ill sidings at Wormleysburg. It is said many Wormleys- j
i; |; " !
!; : but-g households are without coal, and that the most prom- i
l; ; - ■-.!
| | inent citizens were resorting to the extreme method of !
j: I. pilfering their coal in order to insure .some supply. Squire
j: i Matter declined to make public the result of the hearing,
j* | merely saying it was deferred. He would not rpake public
the r.imes of the. defendants.
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|| | STATE SELLS $40,§00,000 IN WAR STAMPS
Washington -Ohio, New York and Illinois were the
bann< r states in the sale of war savings. stamps ir July, ;
: their sales amounting respectively to $15,719,000, $12,-
II 342 000 and $12,274,000. Pennsylvania had sold S4O,- j
111 I 000,000. ' ■; '
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ii : .
MARRIAGE LICENSES
, J t John I. Tenkuiun nnd Catherine 'l'. I'arkcr, Baltimore, Hd.