French Press Ahead; Cross Vesle River; Americans Active in Patrol Duty; Repulse Germans HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH . . . otor*'3iifcptitdciit ' * LXXXVII — No. 196 14 PAGES Dal sLu*r e ot tha d Po,t off t ice a at <l Harri°.bui C i ltt ' iB HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEiPI EMBER 4, 1918. '' v nV: wsi' aV £ J iV iY.l ' 'ism '! I !> " m t\tocotl' s HOiyjE EDITION GERMAN ARMIES UNABLE TO CHECK ALLIED ADVANCES AT ANY POINT FRENCH CAPTURE ; 1,500 GERMANS IN STEADY DRIVE ON ENEMY'S CENTER Poilus Continue to Push Foe's I Armies Back to the East of Canal du Xord With Their, Successful Advance VESLE IS CROSSED AT SEVERAL PLACES , ! Important Villages Fall to General Mangin's Men Now Driving Forward Along the Ailcttc By Associated Press Paris, Sept. 4. —French troops yesterday and last night con- j tinned to push back the Ger-1 jans to the cast of the Canal du Xord and between the Ailette and the Aisne, says to-day's war office announcement. In their advance the French took the Chapitre wood, north east of Chevilly, and approached the town of Crisollcs, three miles j north of Xoyon. Xortli of the Ailette the T *ench reached the outskirts of Coucy-le-Chateau and Juvcn court, and south of the river, they drove farther east front! Louilly and attained the suburbs of Clantecy and Brave. On the Aisne, the town of Bucv-le-Lon£ was penetrated. Prisoners to the number of 1,500 were taken. Along the Vesle, parties of French troops crossed the river < at several points. LONDON, Sept. 4.—111 theiri push beyond the Drocourt-! Qucant line, British troops have reached the line of the Canal du Xord, says Field Marshal Haig's official state ment to-day. North of the Ar ras-Cantbrai road they have oc cupied the town of Ecourt St.. Quentin. North of Peronne the advance; has carried the British through, the Yaux woods, above Mois latts. Slight advances have! been scored at other points. Continuing their advance in Flanders, the British are ap proaching Ncuve Cnapelle and Laventie. In the same region t'.'.ey have gained possession of Saiily-sur-Lallvs and Nieppe. STOHK.S TO CLOSE Saturday next being Kosh Hasha nah. a Jewish religious holiday, the Jewish merchants of the city will keep their stores closed during the day. until 6.30 p. m. after which they will he open until the usual Saturday closing hours. HUNT UP CARDS AND PLEDGE YOUR GASOLINE SAVINGS EVERY SUNDAY FOR THRIFT STAMPS You'll Be Glad Some Day THE WEATHER] For IliirrlMhiiris nml vicinity: In rreiiMinK clouiiinc**, followed l> ruin lote to-niKht mid on 'ft-'hurM •ln.v; Nomcwhut rooler ,ThtiP dny: mode: te northeast nlndn. For Kiuitfrn Pennsylvania: Hiiin late tn-nlßht and on TliiirMilay ; ftomew hiit cooler Thursday; moderate northeant wind.*. River The SuMquehanna river and all it* hrnneheM will probably fall a lowly to-night. Temperature! 8 a. m.. <l4. Itlver Stone: 8 n. m., 3.6 feet above low-water mark. Yesterday'* Weather lllEchent temperature, 73. I.owewt temperature. 63. Moan temperature. 68. Aorrnnl temperature, 08, APPENDICITIS DOES NOT KEEP AVIATOR FROM JOINING UNIT Lieut. Lewis Attempts to Sail j For France Despite Need of Operation; Now Recovering] in Canadian Hospital and Hopes to See Action Soon Lieutenant William E. Lewis. Jr.. j who received his commission in the, English Royal Air Forces in Julyj after having undergone training since December. 1917, is in an Army hos-1 pital at Toronto, Canada, recovering, from an operatkm for uppendieit's. He spent the month of August at Mt. Gretna wi ai his mother, Mrs. W11 ] Ham K. Lewis. "09 Capital street, and was called back to Toronto by to'.c gram to join his command, about ' > sail. He suffered ah attack of up-i pendicitis before ho left this city, but hut refused to stay here for fear it would prevent "his sailing. Arriv- ] ed at Toronto, he was forced to rc-] main while hfh comrades sailed ."or' England, lie is now recovering from i his operation, and expects to return I to this city during his convalescence,] after whicn it is likely he will sail for France. Lieutenant Lewis is only 23 years old. and is one of eighteen to hoi commissioned frpni a class of 200! cadets. He enlisted in the.English] flying forces because the American j aviation serv ice had not been ic-1 \ eloped to any extent at the time of his enlistment. He was trained in no less than eight camps, from To ronto to Texas, in order to qualify as a pilot. Dips, loop-the-loops. vrilles, and aerial tumbles are nothing to him. and he tells about them a% though he were telling about a buggy, trip in the -country. Tfe Tfhs fallen 1 from the clouds into the lake nef.r his training camp twice, and once fell into a tree. He sustained no injur-, ies. His training has not ended with the completion of his course, in i'nn ada. Arrived in England he will re-i TOMORROW FIRST I OF REGISTRATION DAYS FOR VOTERS! Two Of hers, Sept. 17 and Oc tober 5; All Musi Be on Record The first of the fall registration days will be to-morrow, registrars, sittinsr at the polling places in etch of the city and county voting dis-: : tricts. Two more registrations will be held. September 17 and October! 5. All ele *ors> in order to vote atl, the general election November ai must register on one of these three] days. Assessors in the city and county] districts .sat to-day for the last time , to assess voters who because of] change of residence or for some oth-! cr reason received no tax notices atidj, arc not assessed. In the county the assessors sat at the polling places in the city it their residences. Asses- i sors in the city wards follow: First,h John W. sioathour. 587 South Front:jj Second, Klmer F. Cotnpton, 4281 South Thii.eenth: Third, Harvey J- Miller, 107 South River street:: Fourth, William A. Leach. 404 S|>ring; Fifth, John F. Adams, 1110, Green; Sixth. Robert K. Mclntyre,] 1,500 Perm; Seventh. Albert A. Poist, I 1813 Nor'h Sixth; Eighth, Milton C'.' White. 1204 Walnut: Ninth, Berton I H. Saltsman, 72-A North Eighteenth: l Tenth. Henry G. Peters. 21 IS Moore; Eleventh. James A. Rankin. 1912 Penn: Twelfth. James E. Seal. 16'8 North Third: Thirteenth, A. L. Mioh-j ener. 74 7 South Twenty-first; Four teenth. L. G. Dapp, 3030 North Third.! Hours for registration of voters to- i morrow will be from 8 o'clock in tho] morning until 10 o'clock in the even ing. In two city districts polling■' places were changed by court order: to-day as follows: Seventh ward.] Fourth precinct, moved to United | lee and Coal Company office, 1721] North Sixth street; Ninth ward. Sixth precinct, moved to 1408 Regina, street. Harold Yaple yesterday was named malority inspector by court order for the Seventh ward. Fourth i precinct. Registrars named by the countyi commissioners to fill vacancies in-] elude: Ninth ward. First. Harry il. V.igncr: Second ward. Fourth. Aug.] W. Ahlborne. Arrested on Charge of Highway Robbery | Charles Hump, alias Drinkwater, who was arrested In Sibletown by! Patrolmen Hicks and Roniig early j this morning on the charge of high-! way robbery, will be given a hearing; this afternoon. Disalvo Silvestro, an Italian, i charged that he was attacked by j Rump and another man at the corn-1 er of North and Cowden streets.) about 1 o'clock yesterday morning.) He said that Rump knocked him j down and stole a tie pin, valise and I $7 in money from him. 1 - 4°" : • >■ '• v. Av : -4> ; ? " ■ ' i H * . ' : . : V -■ C V fIHH Wmm LIEUT. WILLIAM E. LEWIS. JR. ceive supplementary training and then must spend two weeks in the trenches in France. Following that he will do his lighting in the air. Lteutcnrmt rewts-fs widely known here. Waving been graduated in the Uintial High school 1914 class. Ho was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania when he en'isted. lie was best known in Harrisburg dur ing his sencoi days'as a baseball player. RAIN POSTPONES CITY'S HOUSING FIRST OF WORLD MAY HOLD BACK SERIES BATTLES WAR CONTRACTS Steady Downpour at Chicago Harrisburg Escapes Drastic During Day; Fair Weather War Department Ruling Predicted For Tomorrow j Hitting Other Cities Chicago. Sept. 4.—The first of the | world s series baseball games be- j twean Chicago, champions of the b National League, and Boston, pen- 1 nant winner of the American I League, was called off to-day lie- ] cause of the steady rain. h Fair weather is predicted to-mor- ! row and the diamond is being pro- i tected by heavy canvas. The post- I ponement gives the Boston team a] day of rest after their hurried trip : from the east. * There were comparatively few per- I sons at the ticket windows early and i the postponement did not come as a j surprise. British Submarine Sinks German U-Boat Quickly London, Sept. 4. —The sinking of a ! GeiWian submarine by a British sub marine on patrol is reported by the Central News. The British craft sighted the German and made for her at full speed, firing two torpedoes, botli of which took effect. The Ger man U-boat sank within fifteen sec onds. YOUR OLD RUBBER IS NEEDED BY RED CROSS Great Pile to Grow on Posl Office Lawn in Three-Day Campaign to Open Tomorrow; Valuable as War Aid "S. O. t." , Mercer 15. Tate was handing out that mystic talisman thi/i morning "What does it mean?" he was asked. " "Save Old Rubber!" " replied Mr. Tate. "And why?' "For 'he Red Cross." This is the idea: There .ire t.ns of old rubber loaf ing around Harrisburg, doing no one any good. A junkman comes along once in a while and gives Little Wil lie. the son and heir of the house hold. a penny for a dozen old over shoes. The .iunkman conies out all right and Little Willie buys an ali day-sueker, so he's all right, too. Rut old rubber these days is worth reaij inoney.- So the Red Cross the last three days next week wilt receive rubber con-' tributions from the 85.000 people in j Harrisburg. Beginning Thursday! and continuing over Saturday o£ next GRAVES ARRIVES AT VLADIVOSTOK TO LEAD YANKEES More Than 1,800,000 American Soldiers Now on All _ fronts SOUTHERN TROOPS LEAD Michigan and Wisconsin Sol-1 diers Participate in Cap ture of Tcrny-Sornv By Associated Vrcss Washington, Sept. 4.—Arrival rt; Major General William S. Groves and! his staff at Vludlvostock to take com-] mand of all American forces light big ion the new eastern front, was an-, , nouneed to-day by General March, j General Grave? took with hinii from the United States forty-th*ee| officers and 1,388 men who will jr.,ti 1 the regiments from the Philippines j already on the ground. ■ General March announced thatthei I total embarkation of American sol-, . diers for all fronts, including the Si : berian expedition, had passed the 1,- I COO.OOO mark August 31. g.VMMiO to France in August In answer to a question, General! I March said it was estimated that] i more than 1~. 0,000 had landed in] ; France during August. The record j j for monthly shipment, he added, was ! 385,000. The chief of staff identified the' i American in it which participated in ! the Flanders advance as the Thlr-| ] tieth division composed of troops! from Tennessee, North Caro'ina and, j South Carolina. j The French advance north, of Sois-,, sons, resulting in the capture of j I Ternv-Eorny was participated in byi • posed of Michigan and Wisconsin] : troops, under Major General Ilaan. | ( umbra! Canadian Objective Taking ifp the mTfnaryTTfnitti, General M itvn said the object of the: ■Canadian drive across thh old! rl Qucunt-Drocourt switch line was] Carhbrai, which now was withini ■ | seven and one-half miles of the llrit- 1 I, ish advance according to official ail-j | vices. Officials of munition and other war material plants in the city and vi cinity. together with businessmen and others interested in the develop ment of Harrisburg as a great in dustrial center are showing in creased concern because of the lack of housing facilities since the gov ernment has just issued a decree that war orders to sixty cities in the country are to be cut to a minimum because of congesting housing and transportation conditions. That such an order may include Harrisburg is the fear of officials un less something is done at once to relieve the situation here. In all the munition plants workmen in some instances come from as far as York to their work. Philadelphia is one of the large cities included in the government order and even Bethle hem. where the large Bethlehem Steel Company plant is located, is cited. Chester, Easton, Erie, Kddy .stone. Milton, Butler and Sharon are other Pennsylvania cities named. Plants at Capacity Officials of local plants said that at present they have war orders [Continued 011 Page .] week rubber may be thrown on the triangular glass plot in front of the painted bulletin on the Postofflee cor ner. Third end Walnut. Contribution!) are naked consisting of old automobile and bicycle tires, rubber boots, rubber shoes, inner tubes, steam hose, garden'hose, rub ber gloves, hot water bags, gas he so —anything and everything that is rubber. When the three days are over -be Red Cross will have an auction. Junkmen will be asked to bid on the pile. Rubber sells at from 4 to 30 cents a pound, it should be possible to secure many hundreds of dollars for the Red Cross. Reading several weeks ago sold rubber enough to net the Red Cross $1,739.36. Harristourg should surpass that tigure. The committee in charge of the af fair held its lirst meeting this morn ing. It is composed of Mercer 13. Tate, A. S. Patterson, X,. jr. xeeft. Ezr6 Hershey, F. A. Downey, J Clyde Mytou and M. H. James, First Registration Day Is Tomorrow To-morrow is the llrst day on which voters ean register lor the fall election. Unless they com ply with the personal registra tion act. either to-morrow or on Tuesday, September 1". or Sutv urda.v, Oetoher they will he ■■liable to east their ballots for any olfieer at the fall election. All previous registrations arc void. An elector desiring to vote must appear at one of the poll ing places on one of the three days. No |M*rson ean vote who lias not paid a state or count) tax within two years. City assessors are sitting at their homes for the purpose of registering voters. County as sessors will also sit to-morrow for the same purpose, all of them having been at the polling place to-day to register voters. The hours on which the poll ing places will he open to-mor row and the two succeeding reg istration days are from 8 a. m. to I p. m„ from 'J p. m. to ti. p. m. and from 7 p. til. to 111 p. m. BOSSES HERE TO PLACE BONNIWELL ON SLIDING BOARD Palmcr-McCormick Faction to Run State Committee Meet ing With High Hand Federal officeholders from all overj Pennsylvania (fathered at the Board | of Trade building this afternoon to' make an effort to hies in iKP "Keystone eraey. There were men from Wash ington. too, and a fair sprinkling of men who would like to he there. Democratic National Chairman Vance ('. McOormick, otherwise chairman I of the war trade hoard: A. Mitchell Palmer, Joseph K. Guffey and others! holding federal places were all orT hand. Their faction was in over whelming force and it was very ap parent that the fictions of the last half dozen years would all lie parad ed again. Most of the men here professed ignorance when the name of Eugene C. Bonniwell, the party's candidate for Governor, was mentioned and as for the Fair Play party it was all newspaper talk. The program was to he Wilson. It is a big subject and safe. No Platform To-day Indications are that the Demo cratic fetate Committee will not adopt any platform to-day. Lawrence H. Rupp, the chairman, could not get here for the meeting and the com mittee in charge will likely be di scontinued on Page 14.] Ex-Senator Hiram Peoples Dies at Lancaster Home Lancaster, Sept. 4. —Former Sen ator Hiram Peoples, for five terms a Republican State Senator, died suddenly this morning at his home at New Providence. Lancaster county, at the age of 84 years. Death was due to infirmities inci dent to old age. Serving in the Legislature during the period between 1877 and 1898, he took an important part in the deliberations of the Fish Commis sion during that time. Since 1900 he has lived at New Providence where he has devoted much of his time to lish culture, having at the time of his death some thirty fish ponds wherein were bred black buss, blue gills and gold fish. He was known throughout the United States as a fish authority. While in the Legislature, he served on other im portant committees, his member ship on the Committee of Agricul ture being one of the most im portant. Debs Must Face Jury; Trial Set For Sept. 9 By Associate J Press Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 4.—Federal Judge D. O. Westenhaver yesterday overruled a motion tiled by attorneys for Eugene V. Debs, four times can didate for president on the Socialist ticket, to quash the indictment against Dehs for violation of the es pionage act Debs' trial is set for September 9. Debs was arrested here on Julv 1] charged with violation of the espion age act in speech at the Socialist state convention at Canton, Ohio. June 16. Feeling of Revolt Is Sweeping Over Germany Paris. Sept. 4.—A, dispatch from Berne to the Matin quotes a prom inent Swiss citizen coming from Ger many as declaring that in the last six weeks a formidable feeling of dis illusionment has swept over Ger many. If the German military situation does not improve. the informant said, trouble that may surpass the acts of the Bolsheviki in Russia menaces the German empire. WHEAT FLOUR BAN PARTLY RAISED IN NEW FOOD ORDER Housewife Need Only Pur chase One Pound of Sub stitute to Four of Wheat 'VICTORY FLOUR' COMING First Carload of Mixed Flours Is on Its Way to City Shipment of the new "80-20 Hour'' with its SO per cent, wheat Hour ami 20 per cent, sulisti- . lutes, will soon he received in ! 14 arris burg. One carload, con- j taming approximately HOD liar- | rels, is on its way to the city and ! 1 .is expected at almost any time j by the Wltnian, Sehwar/. Com- | pany to whom it is consigned. j Official interpretation of the new; wheat conservation regulations asj they affect the wholesaler, retailer and consumer were made public thisj morning by Donald McOormick. Dauphin county food administrator. Regulations governing bakers, hotels, | restaurants and clubs, exchange mill- I ing and other businesses will be is sued later. The regulations governing retail!' dealers are as follows: I : "The tifty-tifty regulation has been ! rescinded. "Retail dealers are now required i to sell one pound of substitutes with i each four pounds of wheat flour. New Substitutes "The substitutes which the retailer is now permitted to sell to the con sumer along with straight wheat j flour are as follows: "Corn flour, corn meal, barley; flour, rice flour, potato flour, sweet I ! potato Hour, buckwheat flour, oat j flour, peanut flour, peaTr"ITOIII\ inHo-i* flour, kaltlr and feterita flours and meals. "Pure rye flour or meal may also I he sold as a substitute, but only in the proportion of at least two pounds of rye with three pounds of wheat ilou r. "The retail dealer selling standard wheat flour is required to carry in [stock either barley flour, corn meal | or corn flour, and lie is not permitted ! to require that a customer shall take I any other substitutes with wheat I flour than one of these three: hut ! the customer may require, instead of . i these three, any other of the permit j ted substitutes which the dealer has lin stock. . i "The retail dealer is no longer re- j quired to purchase substitutes or! give certificate in connection with hisi purchases of.wheat flour. "'Victory Mixed Flours' may bej ! sold by the dealer without sulisti-, I tutes. "The quantity restrictions on the | sales of wheat flour by retail dealers to private consumers have been re-; moved, but the customer is limited i in his purchases to not more than a [ 60-days' supply. "It is desired to insure a supply [ ! of ready-mixed flours on the market j l and to have millers and dealers of | all kinds encourage the use and sale I of this Hour, so that the country may j lie on a mixed flour basis without the necessity of retailers making! ; combination sales of flour and sub-| ! stitutes. "No mixed flour shall he made or; I manufactured except of the ingredi-j ents and in the exact proportions | prescribed below: "Mixed wheat and barley flour, shall contain the proportion of four, pounds of wheat flour to one pound! ! of barley flour. I '"Mixed wheat and corn flour shall contain the proportion of four pounds ! of wheat flour to one pound of corn j flour. "Mixed wheat, barley and corn j Hour shall contain the proportion of • eight pounds of wheat flour to one I pound of barley and one pound of ' corn flour. i "Mixed wheat and rye flour shall | ! contain the proportion of three j pounds of wheat Hour to not "less than two pounds of rye flour. "Whole wheat, entire wheat or Graham flour or meal shall contain at least 95 per cent, of the wheat berry. "All such mixed flours, made in ac cordance with the foregoing regula- I tions, must lie labeled 'Victory Mixed I Flour' and the label must state the; j ingredients and their proportion. j • . "The Hour so mixed must he mill-; led in accordance wth the standard j I of the i'nifed States food administra-1 i tion. "All of the above 'Victory Moxed| I Flours' may be sold without accom-| : panying substitutes, hut at no greater, ' price from the miller, wholesaler 'ori ! retail dealer than in the case ofl standard wheat flour. "Pancake and self-raising flours; [containing substitutes may lie sold! ! without substitutes if containing 20 i ! per cent, or more substitutes than I I rye. "All manufacturers of 'Victory; Mixed Flour' must take out' inter-j I nal revenue license and pay special i internal revenue tax as heretofore."! ; Graham flour and whole wheat i I flour may be served without substi- I ' tutes. LENINE IS WORSE l.ondnn, Sept. 4.—The condition of ' Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik pre mier, against whose life an attempt ; was made last Friday, has become < highly critical, according to a dls- I patch from Moscow to the Central ! News. The crisis is expected within ! three days. Surgeons have removed I a bullet from Lenine's body. BRITISH PRESS HARD ON HEELS OF BEA TEN FOE Field Marshal Haig Takes Important Towns and Positions While Huns Hurried y Retreat to Lines Prepared For Last Stand \ By Associated Press 7he British have driven home their push through the Wotan line as far as the Canal du Nord and as yet their progress is not reported checked. Already the wedge they have driven into the German defenses in the sector between the railway centers <>f Douai and Cambrai is a menacing one to the enemy, who must stop the British 011 the canal line here if he hopes to save these bases —vital points in the German defensive system in the west. t German Ranks Disorganized Disorganization in the German ranks .is reported in unofficial advices from the front, however, and there seems to be more than a possibility that the enemy command will not be able to .recon struct defensive formations even in time to hold up the .British temporarily along the canal positions. The main force of the British push seems to be in the direction [Continued on Page 13.] jpG'EfcMANS FLEE BEFORE FRENCH <fr • | CAVALRY WHO NEAR GULSCAko § WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE—THE I? GERMANS ARE IN RETREAT ON THE FRENCH | FRONT EAST OF THE CANAL DU NORD FRENCH | CAVALRY WAS IN PURSUIT DURING THE | NIGHT, AND THIS MORNING HAD PUSHED TO | WITHIN TWO MILES OF GUISCARI). ON THE | NOYON-HAM ROAD. | COUNTY RED CROSS TO SHARE FINE 8 Philadelphia —Charged with having violated the fuel a regulations C. W. Stahl, a Lewistown, Pa,., coal dealer. wis ordered to contribute $2,000 to the Red Cross or be !;j prosecuted under the Lever act, the state fuel administia | tor's office announced to-day. The money will'be divided between the Dauphin county, Mifflin county and Phila | delphia chapter of the Red Cross. This is the most severe penalty yet imposed in Pennsylvania on a coal dealer for J disregarding the federal fuel rgulations. | PALMER MAKES CHARGES Harrisburg—A Mitchell Palmer addressing the- 93 l;j of the 113 Democratic State Committeemen meeting here this afternoon charged that a liquor dealer pamcd John Siiinot, Philadelphia, had asked him to support Bonni- Jt well for judge and in the course of conversation told him a B'-imiwell was jn the pay of Republican polticians when induced to run foi Gc.vu.iOi and be did so with Rcpui ! hcan approval. Sinnot said he would be in control | Bonniwell were elected. "It is 1910 over again," said | Mr. Palmer heatedly. "Personally 1 repudiate BonniWcll | and will have none of him." Jury Commissioner Brenner.. ]j: Allegheny county, replying said: "It is easy to sec Palmer j wants to defeat the ticket and elect Sproul." i ■];■ London—The Germans, arc contemplating a general j | retirement from the Vcslc region, where they have been i t facing the Americans and French along the river, accord ! ing to indications reported from the battle front to-day. ]!;! The recent Franco-American successes in the south ap ]j] patently have prompted such a move. MARRIAGE LICENSES Harry E. Frvcil, 'lnrrlMliurK* nnl Ifnnanli M. Mnnnlng, ll.iu ' phlni John It. I.ollifrl nnl Liiu"fi Mii.v HurrfNlmrm Ar il thur l>. Murray, Frunkllntn%n, nnl < iirollnr I. Slrndniiin* Harrl*- 2' Durgt Forreat 1.. Miillh ami Itlanrho KaiilVniaa, MechaiileNliurg.
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