—— —— f EXTIIA-i4i?i€ncflns Massed For Bit* Drive theHMT IXOIIT EXTRA, : HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M * k . ®lje Jstar-2fnjrepcnknt - LXXXVII— No. 193 18 PAGES ?h U E ND P A O Y IT * HARRISBURG. PA.. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1918. " N )IBWSPAPEB IS'^AIUHSBIJIIS 1188 A 1 T WO 3 CENTH HOME EDITION HAIG SEIZES MT. KEMMEL, KEY TO WHOLE OF FLANDERS FRONT September 12 Fixed by President as Registration Day BATTLEFIELD ON YANKEE FRONT VAST PANORAMA OF DEADLY FIRE German Armies Offering Most Desperate Resistance Re cause of Danger of Franco- American Advance Along Dangerous Salient SHELLS ARE BURSTING LIKE HEAVY SURF iuns Told by Commanders That Americans Kill All Prisoners; U. S. Fighting Men Battle Against Enemy Center * By Associated Tress Paris, Aug. 31.—The posi tions won yesterday by the American troops northwest of Soissons, La Liberte points out, give them a fine view along the Chemin des Dames. The Americans now can see the towers of the Laon cathedral. With the American Army in France, Aug. 31.—Between the Ailette and the Aisue and far to the southeastward ; ">ng the lire of the Yesle the battlefield is one vast panorama of tire. Here at '.he moment the Germans are offer ing the most desperute resistance since the issue in this sector has a gTaver strategic bearing than any where else along the whole'front. Enemy Hold Threatened With General Mangln's men al read> across the Ailette on either side it the village of Champs, the jr,tmy's hold on Coucy-le-Chateau is :hreatened. Coucy-le-Chateau is Highly important to the Germans as i distributing center of troops fall ing back from Noyon and those Ighting stoutly on the left bank of lie Ailette. From the crest of the plateau lorth of Soissons shells can be seen jursting like surf against the Ger tiun lines. American troops, in the corner, are • ill lighting to clear the difficult mtanglement of ravines before hem. There lias been no close ightirrg in these valleys *s yet Philosophic Hun A philosophic wounded prisoner vas encountered to-day in the road lear the battlefield. He said; "They told me that the Amer ratis murdered their prisoners. When asked if lie hud oelieved hat charge, he answered: "One docs not make *i great latidn out of men like that." "en Battered Yankees )rine Off 'io Germans Willi the American Army in •raifcc, Friday Aug. 30.—German roops attempted, to raid American dvanced posts in the Yosges sector arly to-day. Their artilUry cud line throwing activity hud caved in jie American dugout, burying twelve ien and wounding two others lightly, before the enemy made liis ttuck. The ten unwounded men dug bemselves free as soon as the ar llery fire stopped. They drove off ctween thirty or forty Germans and Hied at least one. The body of ilir man will be brought to the .lr.erh'un lines for burial as soon as can lie rescued from the German luchine guns which are keeping up steady lire all around it. nd buildings at Conllans., Several S. Flyers Drop ombs on Enemy With the American Army on the orruine Front, Aug. 31.—American emitting machines yesterday morning accessfuliy attacked railway yards [Continued on I'age 7.] THE WEATHER] I For Hnrrlnburg and vlclnltyi Thunilenhoner* this nfternoon or tn-nlghti Sunday fnlri mod erate temperature. River The main river will continue to rlae slowly thla afternoon and to-night and probably begin to fall Sunday. ENEMY RETREAT IS HURRIED BY BRITISH GAINS Foe Forced Out of Positions For Which They Paid Terrible Price in April; Advances of Two Miles Is Made at Vital Battle Sectors With the British Forces in France, Aug. 31.—Brit ish successes on the Lys salient sector of the battle front have caused the Ger mans to start a retreat from the neighborhood of Kem mel to opposite Bethune. The withdrawal is progress ing rapidly. Field Marshal Haig's men to-day are attacking near Marrienes wood, between Bapaume and the river Somme, which position is strongly held by the enemy. Mt. Kemmel, the height domi-j natitig virtually all the northern: ■fide of the Lys salient in Flan ders, again is in the hands of the British. Dispatches to London st'ate that this famous hill, for which the Germans paid a ter rible price in April and which was defended to the death by the allies, has been captured. There have been no reports, however, of an attack being made on this hill, and it seems prob able that the Germans retired from it and that the British quickly moved in. Thers are evidences that the enemy's re treat from the Lys salient is be ing accelerated, the British hav ing taken the station of Bailleul, as well as Mt. Lille, to the east, and being in possession of the bank of the Lawe river from Vielle Chapelle to Lestrem, on the southern side of the salient. Haig's Advance Rapid In certain vital sectors of this battle area, the British have gained from one to two miles during the past day. While there is every evidence that allied pressure against the German lines from Soissons to Arras con tinues, the desperate attempts of the enemy to cover his retreat seems to have brought about a virtual pause for the moment. At only two points —southeast of AVras and northwest and north of Peronne—have tl)e al lied forces move ah^id. Capture Villi Point In the former sector, north of the Arras-Cambrtß road, the British have occupied the St. Servins farm, close to the highway, and have moved into the village of Eterpigny, to the northeast. This village is on the east bank of the Sensee river and its capture marks the passage of that small but important water way at a vital point. The British official statement says the town of Clery, which is located on the Somme to the northwest of Peronne, has been taken from the Germans. Advices reaching London to-day, however, state that Mont St. Quentin, a mile and a half north of Peronne, has been captured by the British. This repprt would seem to indicate that Peronne is being sur rounded by the British, Field Mar shal Haig's men having forced their way across the Somme to the south of Peronne yesterday. Hard Work at.Soissons There s hard fighting going on north of Soissons, American and French troops striving to capture the high plateau that dominates the Aisne and Ailette valleys and also endeavoring to force their way far ther toward Coucy-le-Chateau, an important concentration point be tween the Olse and the Ailette. The Germans are fighting hard in this sector, however, and appear to have checked the allies for the time being. J>rtvcn Front Villages London, Aug. 31.—German troops have been driven from their positions east of Clery, on the Somme north west of Peronne. and the British ad vance in this locality is continuing, says to-day's war office statement. British forces have entered the village of Dranoutre, south of Locre, on the north side of the Lys salient. On the south side of the Lys salient, the British have occupied the [Oontlnued on Page 2.] AERIAL RAIDS STRIKE TERROR flv Associated Press GENEVA, Aug. 31.—An ini- I portant meeting of reprcscnta- I lives from eleven Khinc towns began yesterday at Saarbrm ken. The conferencee was railed to discuss means of protesting to the government against allied air raids. It was decided to appeal to German lieadquurtcrs to come to some arrangement for both sides to abstain front air attacks upon open towns. i Services For J. D. Cameron i Will Be Held on Monday! Funeral services for Senator James Donald Cameron will be held from his Harrisburg home, Front and State streets, Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Kev. L. S. Mudge, pas tor of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Harrisburg Cemetery. Senator Cameron, who was Sec retary of War in Grant's second ad ministration and for twenty years a United States senator, died at his summer home. Donegal, Lancaster county, yesterday. He was in his eighty-sixth year. WEALTHY CLUBMAN DIES OF MYSTERIOUS STABBING fly Associated Press Chicago, Aug. 31. William E. Bradway, wealthy clubman, is dead at a hospital as the result of a mys terious assault last Thursday night, it was announced to-day. He was stabbed over the heart as he was about to enter the home, but influen tial friends succeeded in keeping the story quiet until his death at mid night last night. GROCERS PLAN TO CLOSE THURSDAYS DURING WINTER Fuel Administrator Endorses Movement to Save Light and Fuel I Shorter houf-s throughout the win ter and the continuance of the Thurs day afternoon closing plan in vogue throughout Harrisburg during the past several months as a light and heat conservation measure, is wanted by many Harrisburg grocers for the coming winter months. At a meet ing on Monday evening the plan will be considered. Believing that they could Just as well serve their patrons with shorter hours and one afternoon a week closed, while they would at the same act in a manner benetlcial to the country's best interests, many dealers belonging to the Harrisburg Retail Grocers' Association petitioned Ross A. Hickok, Fuel Administrator for Dauphin county, asking that he pass an edict making such hours compul sory on dealers of at least Harris burg. Administrator Hickok felt that he [Continued oil Page 2.] Three Motor Messengers Ready to Serve Overseas Three Motor Messengers, members of the local Red Cross Corps, have applied for enlistment for overseas service and other members of the service contemplating applying, It was announced by MTR. S. F. Dunkle, captain of the Harrisburg corps, as the result of a meeting held at tho ,-home of the captain yesterday after noon. The names of the applicants were not made public. At the meet ing it was decided to change the pres ent uniform of khuki for the regula tion government uniform of oxford gray, and vith these uniforms as their garb, to begin sanitary drill and mechanical Instruction as prepara tion for overseas service. ' 63 LOST AT SEA WHEN U.S.CARGO VESSEL IS SUNK BY TWO U-BOATS Twenty Members of American j Naval Guard Believed Dead j I in Sinking of Steamer Jo-, sepli Cudahy, Seven Hun dred Miles Off Coast CAPTAIN TAKEN ABOARD ONE OF PIRATE CRUISERS Only Thirteen Men Report ed Rescued; Ship Went Down Quickly When Struck Twice in Vital Spots by Torpedoes By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 31.—The United States cargo steamship Joseph Cud i hy was torpedoed at sea about 700 miles from I he English coast August 17 and sixty-three members of the crew are reported missing. Thirteen were rescued'. Two submarines made the attack! and two torpedoes struck the ship, tho first attacking the fuel tank and] the second the engine room. The captain of the Cudahy reported that he was taken aboard one of the [ U-boats and questioned. Of the missing twenty-two were members of the naval armed guard, only two of the guard being reported rescued. The ship was torpedoed about 12.30 o'clock at night and apparently went down quickly. How many, if any, of the sailors lost their lives in the explosions has not been reported. LOCK HAVEN PICKED OX AERIAL MAIL ROUTE By Associated Press Lock Haven, Pa., Aug. 31.—Lock : Haven will be one of the landing i places on an aerial mail route bo | tween New York and Cleveland to :be started next week. Paul O. Brou ! sius, postmaster, has completed | plans for a landing fields on the links i of the Clinton Country Club, two | miles from here. The line will be i started Thursday or Friday. It will j follow a direct route from New York j to Mauch Chunk, Lock Haven, War ' ren and Cleveland. THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN WILL RESUME STUDY City and County Schools to Open Next Week; Rural Districts Need Teachers Schoolchildren in the city and county numbering more than 25,000, officials estimate, will resume their studies next week, the rural districts and boroughs opening on Monday, while in the city the classes will organize on Tuesday. In a few out lying sections the buildings were opened this week. More tha-, 11,000 boys and girls in the city v.ill return to school on Tuesday, many hundreds of the older ones going to the two High schools. The new open air school will be opened also. In the county districts more than [Continued on Page 2.] WAGON STRIKES GROCER William A. Wiesemann, who con ducts a grocery store at 33 South Third street, was struck by a horse drawn truck of the Adams Express Company this morning while riding a delivery bicycle in Market street near Second. He was not injured, but was knocked to the pavement and the groceries in the baisxet on the bicycle were scattered about the street. WAR STAMPS ARE GOING UP ONE CENT TOMORROW MORNING Start Your Card Tonight MAN-POWER BILL IS SIGNED BY WILSON Proclamation Calls Upon All Americans to Enroll For War Service; President Explains Act's Provisions and the Crisis Washington, Aug. 31. Presi dent Wilson to-day signed the man power act biinging all men in the United States from 18 to 45 vears of age, within the army draft and immediately afterward issued a pro clamation fixing Thursday, Septem ber 12, as registration day. In case of illness on the registra tion day, arrangements for tardy en rollment may be made with local boards and men who expect to be absent from their homes may regis ter by mall, sufficiently in advance that the registration record reuohes the board by September 12. If a YANKEES THROWN INTO ONE OF WAR'S MOST FEROCIOUS ATTACKS ON HUNS General Mangin Commands Some of Finest American Divisions and Elite French Troops in Terrific Battle Along Vcslc River PICKED FOE OPPOSE GREAT ALLIED FORCE Paris, Aug. 31.—While the center of the eighty mile battle line was relatively quiet, enemy resistance increased yesterday on both wings. He was unable, however, to arrest the progress of the allies. At the northern end General Home and General Byng gained important ground for future operations by taking Bullecourt, the most solid position in that sector. Last night's British official statement [Continued 011 Page a.] BOTH RAILWAYS COMPANIES WILL INCREASE FARES Harrisburg Rates to Be Six Cents; Valley, Seven; Ef fective October 1 Increases in fares on all Harris burg Railways Company lines from five to six cents, and on all Valley Railways Company lines from five to seven cents, both effective October 1, were announced to-day. Notices of these changes in tariffs have been tiled by attorneys for the companies, with the Public Service Commission. In making the advance in fares of ficials of the two car companies give as reasons the constant advance in the cost of materials with the neces sary wage increases for employes in order to maintain a sufficiently large working force to man the street cars. Attorneys for the Harrisburg com pany to-day filed a new tariff with the Public Service Commission in creasing the initial fare from five to six cents and making certain changes in existing rates for carrying freight and shipped packages. Un der the new tariff the transfer priv ileges remain as before and there is no change in the transfer points. Announcement of the proposed in crease was made at the company's offices to-day just before the new tariff, which becomes effective on thirty days' notice, was filed with the commission. For several months past the neces sity of an increase was pointed out by officials of the company, but li was only recently that a definite con clusion was reached and attorneys driven instructions to prepare the necessary papers. In- commenting on the company's action. President Frank R. Musser pointed out that the increase was made reluctantly by the directors of his company. Ever advancing costs of materials and the increases in the wages of the men made necessary by the high living costs and increased taxes are given as the reasons for the {Continued on Page 2.] man has -to permanent residence he is to register at the place he is on September 12 and those out of the country on that day are required to enroll within live days after their return. 13,000,000 to Enroll At least thirteen million men will place themselves subject to call for war service under the new registra tion, it is estimated, although only thoes without dependants, in good health and otherwise qualitied for [Continued on Page 2.] U.S. TROOPS ARE BEING MASSED FOR PERSHING'S COMING DRIVE Concentration of Men Under American Flag Formerly Brigaded With French and British Going on With Great 0 Rapidity MANY AIRPLANES ARE j BEING SENT TO FRANCE Washington, Aug. 31.—American ! troops brigaded with the British and j French forces are being withdrawn j as rapidly as possible to join the First j American field army under General Pershing, General March said to-day I in his weekly conference with mem bers of the Senate military commit tee. The chief of staff threw no new light on the part Americans are playing in the present offensive, hut the impression was given that the program of concentrating the Army for action under General Pershing was going forward satisfactorily. General March said the last figures on men actually landed abroad show ed 1,220,000 in France on August 7. Several hundred thousand have been landed since then, however, and last week General March announced that the number embarked had passed 1,500,000. Shipment of De Haviland airplanes which were temporarily held up on j order of Secretary Baker, so certain changes could be made in them. General March said, were resumed this week. Reports received up to to-day by the War Department show that 1,- 003 De Haviland planes had' been completed and made ready to turn over to the government this week, and 76 5 had been shipped or wefe already enroute overseas. The general reiterated that the | fighting on the western front is go- I ig satisfactorily to the Allies. Thirteenth Ward to Float Service Flag For Its Men in Army Businessmen and residents in the Thirteenth ward have contributed a sufficient fund to purchase a large service flag in honor of the men from that district of the city who have entered army service and are nbw either in training camps in the United States or on the firing line in France. Compared with other dis tricts of the city the ward has con tributed a proportionate share of man power for the United States j Army and some of the boys have al ready been mentioned in letters home for bravery. The fund for the flag has been given to William T. Hollands, 1917 Derry street, who will purchase one as soon as he ascertains how many men from the ward are in service. He has made an appeal that parents, wives and friends of soldiers furnish him with the names, addresses and units of all men injCt ward who are in any branch of the army, navy or marines, so that the total number can be determined. As soon as this is done the flag will be purchased and floated at Nineteenth and Derry streets. The Thirteenth ward boundary is' Rudy street on the north and Rudyl street extended; east by Poornouso! Road; south by Philadelphia and 1 Reading railway and west by a line: 18b feet east of Eighteenth street. All persona residing within this dls-1 trict who know of men front that) section who are in service are re-j quested by ' ir. Hollands to furnish the names to him at once. LATE NEWS I BRITISH 'ADVANCE'S ARE SLOWED UP H| With the B 'l.!-- Trance—Advances "fur- I : I i+tje front but thev generally have been sligiii. The . ] itfvely quiet throughout the j HI I delivered vicious counteratta* ks wit H ■ •j; I e Arras front there have fcc s I jtacHs, delivered apparently hv fre I I I I .0 in:'. ; r hj&yy .-asUaltiea on. the eneniy. Ia ..." ;■ - m these places rnanv Germans were killed and wounded and ;|tfl 1< st a considerable member of prisoners. H 12,778.758 MEN 'EXPECTED .TO ENROLL Washingtoß-L-An official by the War De- ■ ■ H •: •>•' u. ,t census. . :ici the :. : 1-8 "-lj|= ■ opjn some; officers may be exceeded. I BOSTON WINS AMERICAN TIT- E I . ■ ■ from PhiladelphiaMn the first'game of a double Ik- | to one, Ruth pitching. ShotSld Boston lose all its remain- j B ■ j'S 1 INFANTILE PARALYSIS SPREADS I : I \ I • -da." add to the gravity 'of • |j sfl 1 I lay at Or Hill and had been sick f I 1 I and church services are all annulled. Children 18 arc 8 .1 " n will net even be admitted to churches to-morrow. LENIN u WOUNDED BY ASSASSIN | I cndon —Criminal attempts have been made.on the 9 of Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, at Moscow, ac- 1 cording to a Russian wireless message received here to- 8 'M front the Russian capital under date of August 30. j •-} ■■ . : I.or-l n —lt f 'in Berlin, according to a dis- . | patch from At g to the Central News, that Chan- Iy , 11 re*; 'C, owtftg to his ad- ■ iv pk W. S. Wolf, th - 'j t ' : i BOYS STEAL RIFLE CARTRIDGES 1 Harrisburg—Five boys charged with stealing 600 . jjfl !' • fix- the buii k" r>t Nin* tccr.th and Mantua streets, used by the Morton 'I ruck air > h d Tractor Com.?:. now lankrup', were held for juvenile | court at a hearing in police court thia afternoon. The c: "idges are valued -at. $l2O. The boys are Earl Ilarker Oscar Heffelfinger, Theodore Ney, Clayton Shell. Casper , '1 Moore. They live in the neighborhood. JITNEYS NOT UNDER. GASOLINE ORDER ; -1 Harrisburg— O. G. Wickersham, counsel for Harris- j, 39 burg jitney drivers raid to-day that the operation of jit- d neys is essential and that the new gasoline regulation will <. ,J| not affect their operation in his opinion: - * I LONDON POLICE STRIICE SETTLED < ' I London—The strike of wembers of the London police ; , I force has. been settled, according 16 en annotmcerhrv tjj T - <'''■■ Telea-raph Company, !!' ,| MARRIAGE LICENSES } Frederlok C. PlWf and Anna M. Santo, Hnrrlaburgi Henry '.3 Yokt, Jr., Johnntowu, nnd Flora 1.. Jonea, Hnrrlnhurat Im ( . Kelner I ,-t nnd Amy D. Fnwber, Allentowni John K. Miller nnd Mary O. A Fertile, Hnrrlnburjti I.orln W. Hlah, HnrrlaburK, nnd Adn K. Me- -i < lain, l.laitleatowni KlttooU K. Knpennhnde nnd Sue May Walter*. t k Went Fair view | William H. Etaweller nnd I'rudenee C. Wlnarard, Mlllernburm Andrew S. Hall, MeKeea Half Fnlln, nnd Helen E. - Freed, Liverpool. :j
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