14 BRITISH CAPTURE RUMAUCOURT, ON BANK OF DU NORD Cross Canal Near the Somme, Short Distance North of Peronne Ijonrion. Sept. —The British have secured a nold on the west hank of the Canal du Nord by tak ing Rumaucourt, to the north of Balns-leß-Mar<iuion. according to ad vices from the battle front to-day. Farther south along the canal they are reported to have captured Inchv-en-Artois, Demicourt, to the east of Doignies. and liermies, three miles notheast of Rertincourt. Near the Somme the British, the advices state, have crossed the canal at Haut Allaines. slightly more than two miles north of Veronne. From liermies southward, the British line is indicated as running to the west of Kuyaulcourt. a mile anil a half east of Rertincourt. Midwav between N'ieppe and Satlley. in the Lys salient, the Rrit ish have captured the village of i Croix-du-Rac. British troops wore reported this morning to have taken the town of Moeuvres. three-attd o ne-luilf miles southeast of Qiieant. but the capture of the place was not confirmed. The Germans are in ftdl flight in the region of the Canal du N'oril and appear to he more than ever disorganized. A thou sand more prisoners were ivip tureil last night by l'ielil Mar sha! llaig's forces. British Bound t p '2,tUit) Prisoners and 2? Field Guns British Headquarters in France, j Sept. 4.—Enemy rear guards yester day succeeded in engaging the Brit- j isli advancing troops here and there and in fighting delaying actions which were usually of short dura-1 tion. But they did not check the gal- • loping up of our batteries which fre- j quently tired at point blank range i into the struggling columns retreat-! " ing to the eastward. j In the rapidity of his withdrawal j the enemy did not have time to de stroy the crossings over the north | Canal du Nord and last night our j patrols wore reported by airmen to, he holding two bridges well in line] with the British advance. British troops appear to have; reached the outskirts of Moeuvres; where stiff lighting is probable, as] at that point the front and support j trenches of the llindenburg line are linked up by a redoubt which covers . about a square mile. Rut as Ruiss.v | and Inchv are held by the British it! should not he difficult to turn the po- i sition by coming down the rear of ■ • the enemy. I During the day the British third j army rounded up 1.946 prisoners and 22 field guns. Farther north the 1 Canadians and English collected an- j other 7 20 prisoners. Retires After Fifty-six Years' School Work ] Chicago.—After tifty-six years of service, Mrs. Clara 11. Mahony s;;d thinks schootteaching is a well-paid and interesting profession. She re tired a few days ago at the age of seventy-six. "Not because 1 didn't want to teach anv more." she explained yes terday, "hut because 1 have always had a horror of staying too long, and having others feel they wanted to get rid of mo. 1 wanted to quit while they wanted me to stay." She smiled happily because she has done t his. "Teaching as a profession Is wall paid, now that the salaries are raised, but an alderman came to my school the other day—you know 1 ha* e been principal of the Komcnsky School thirty-two years—and said he thought we teachers had a snap with five hours work a day, and three months vacation. "1 told him we would nil be in asylums or hospitals if we did not have the vacation, and that is why it 'was given to us. When men who just peep into a school say it is a snap, it shows what little concep tion they have of our work. "Since 1 began teaching interest in school has increased on the part of the children, because they are taught physical culture, domestic science, art and manual training. * They arc more animated throughout the day's work and their interest is doubled. It's the biggest improve ment made in fifty years. "Another thing that is being dis couraged constantly is the overdress ing of schoolgirls. My district is Bo hemian. and most families are friendly, but even so there are some heartaches because of clothes. "To a schoolteacher there is but j one aristocracy, and that is of j brains. Teachers always favor the I brightest pupils." NEW FALL SUITS That Can't Be Surpassed READY MADE ,sls S3O MADE TO MEASURE S2O „ SSO ———- New Fail Furnishings Shirts, Neckwear Hosiery, Underwear OPEN EVERY EVENING HOLMAN /" AESELER V^O. 228 Market Street WEDNESDAY EVENING, RVSISSBtmo tSKfe TELEGRAMS SEPTEMBER 4, 1918. BRITISH PRESS HARD ON HEELS OF BEATEN FOE [Continued From I'ago One.] of Cambrai, along both the Bapaumc-Cambrai and Arras-Cambrai roads, and in the terrain lying between these highways. In this area they are reported to-day to have captured the towns of Inchv-en-Artois and Moeuvres. This represents an advance of between three and one-half and tout miles since yesterday be yond the southern section of the famous "switch" line at Queant. Canal Crossed North of Peronne Farther south the British likewise have reached the line of the canal well down to Peronne, on the Somme, making their front along this artiticial waterway cover an extent of more than twenty miles. As a matter of facf they are repored to have even crossed the canal along its southern length, just to the north of Peronne. British Are Near Cambrai l ite menace to both Cambrai and Douai may be indicated by the fact that the British are within five and a half miles of the outskirts of the former city and not more than six miles distant from Douai. At Inchv-en-Artois they arc a little more than two miles from the Bourlon wood position where General Bvng tem porarily was anchored in his drive at Cambrai last fall, marking what was virtually his nearest approach to the city. In Byng's drive, however, the British approached Cambrai on only a narrow front, whence a German counterattack on the flank ousted them disastrously, whereas at present the advance is on a far wider front and is offering no apparent opportunity for an effective counter blow, especially in the present repored state of German disorganization from the constant pounding'the enemy armies have received all along the front from Rheims to Arras since mid-Ju'ly. To the north the Germans still are retreating and the British have occupied additional towns in the Lys salient. The enemy's reported retirement in the sector south of la Rassee has not been confirmed, however, and the Germans apparently still are holding the greate part of the coal mining city of Lens, in this area, although the British are understood to be in the western section of the towns French Make Important Advance On the French front General Mangin's army has made im portant progress in the direction of the forest of St. Gobain, which defends Laon. His forces have reached the edge of the important town of Coucy-le-Chateau and have pushed further eastward in their flanking movement to the north of Soissons. While the western front battle is in full swing, with the Ger mans hardpressed, news comes of an attack by forces of the Cen tral Powers on the center of the allied line along the Yardar river in Macedonia. This move may be an attempted diversion on the part of the central empires as its development would threaten the Allied base at Saloniki and the territory of Greece. The attack does not appear to have had important results, however, as the British War Office announces that the enemy was driven back bv a counter blow. AT no place along the battle| line extending from Sois-j sons to Flanders lias the: enemy been able to resist the! allied armies in sufficient! strength to cause a halt in the offensive movement. The Ger mans after repeated defeats at various points have given ground' apparently content to cover their; retreat with rear guard actions, j Where, if at all. the Germans' plan to make a determined stand is problematical. The failure to counter attack for the possession of the Queant-Drocourt line gives added credence to unoffi cial reports that still another line has been prepared—a switch line from Brebieres to Moeuvres — and that here a valiant effort will be made to stent the tide of the battle. The British already have reached Rumancourt, a short distance from this new line, and both from the north and the south they are approach ing it. Mangin Pushes On While the greatest progress continues to be made southeast and east of Arras momentous events apparently are impending north of Soissons. Here General Mangin has for several days >een pushing forward in a slow but steady advance until he now holds the key position to the Vesle front from which, if their movements are an indication of t Hat Helps to Identify Man Killed by Train Kenosha, Wis.—The mangled body • of a man found along the tracks of the Chicago, North Shore and Mil-1 waultee Electric Railway on June l-' 1 was identified as that of William I Johnson, formerly of Winthrop Har-j hor. Johnson formerly was widely known in Kenosha. He had been' missing from his home more than | three weeks atid his wife established ; the identiiii ation from a hat found | near the body. Deserter, Pardoned, Runs Away Again Detroit, Mich. —Gerald Drouillard. of Windsor, who recently was ar-j rested in Detroit on a charge of de-1 sertion from the One Hundred For'y lifth Canadian battalion and also for forging a passport, has again desert ed from London, Ont. Drouillard was pardoned on the charge of forging has passport on rendition that he rejoin his bat talion. YANKEES TURN CAPTURED GUNS ON GERMANS AT JUVIGNY By Associated Press Willi tlie American Army in I France, Sept. 4.—During the east-J ward advance from Juvigny two I'O.i ' millimeter guns captured by the Americans were returned by the American artillerists upon the on-1 emy. The big guns were in perfect working order, and all the Americans j had to do was to switch their muz- j zles in the opposite direction to; which they had been pointing. A; great supply of ammunition for the j guns also was taken, and soon after their capture the 105s were 'oar- ; ing against their former owners. Many German machine guns also are being turned upon the enemy, the | Americans operating them, having; j their plan of maneuver the Ger mans plan to retreat bad* of the Aisne or to the Chemin des Dames. Hindenburg Line Endangered The Germans have been forced out of the Ailette river sector and the main defenses of the Hin denburg line are endangered. A thrust by the Franco-American forces at this place would be a serious menace to the German lines south and east of Soissons. Furious Battle Near Lens The British continue to make progress in the Lys salient where Richebourg and St. Vaas have been captured. In the vicinity of Lens a furious battle Is in ! progress for the possession of ( that city. Lens is one of the strongest points of the German defenses in the north. Baralle Soon Under Fire South of Queant, east of which I the British have advanced to Baralle the enemy's position at ] Cambrai is endangered. Baralle is eight miles west of Cambrai | and at the rate of the British ii advance soon will be under ar tillery tire. The British line ! west of Cambrai is almost where it was last March when the Ger i man offensive began. South of | Queant to Peronne the British jhave advanced while farther i south from Peronne to Noyon | the French have crossed the Canal du Nord and occupied j Salency. Municipal Coalyards Is a State-wide Plan Topeka. Kan. — Establishment of : municipal coal and wood yards i throughout the cities of Kansas doi ng the coming winter to take care I of those who cannot lay in their fuel , supplies is planned by nearly all of, j he larger cities. The yards are already in operation ; in Leavenworth and Lawrence, and I the plan will be extended to every I ! ity which may find a need of this ' i lature. 1,000-a-Year Federal Position Is Spurned Wliitinsvillc. —There is a Govern-' , ment job hogging in Whltinsville| \ which nobody seems to want. The position, paying SI,OOO a year, with prospects of increases to $1,500, is clerk-carrier at the post office. For the third time the candidates were minus when examinations for the position were announced. The lure of war wages is said to be attracting the men of the town elsewhere. been given a special course of train ing pridr to the battle, practicing] with guns and ammunition captured north of the Marne. Just beyond, Juvigny during their advance the] Americans captured a German dress ing station and several wotfnded Germans and rescued two wounded Americans. The rescued Americans had had little food for two days and virtually, no attention. The Americans did not complain, however, as the German wounded were not given much atten tion either. This was due to the confusion of the retreat and the great numbers of wounded Germans who poured Into the station as the Amer icans advanced. COUNTY USERS OF SUGAR HEW CLOSE TO REGULATIONS Grocers and Bakers Fall Into Line, Too, Reports Indicate Dauphin county householders and retailers are conforming strictly with ] the sugar regulations of the Food ! Administrator, a report compiled at the offices showed this morning. The reports for August show that 319,445 pounds of sugar have been used by the householders for can ning purposes. This is in line with the desire of the Federal Food Ad ] ministrntor, who has urged that I housewives can and preserve as ] much as possible, to insure an ade i quate domestic food supply next ; winter. Fsc Less Than Allowed I On the other hand, the household ! ers have held themselves stringent j ly to the'regulations allowing only I two pounds monthly per person. } With an estimated 210,00 persons in the county, 140,845 pounds of sugar were sold other than that which was j sold for canning. The 4 40,845 pounds, besides repre senting the domestic requirements, I also includes the amount issued to 1 bakers, public eating places, small manufacturers and other large users. It means that the amount sold to retail grocers for distribu tion among domestic consumers was much less than 4 00,000 pounds, or in | other words less than the two pounds per person monthly allow ance of the government. Householders who limit their fam ilies. including the sugar used for baking and cooking, to less than two pounds monthly, are not the only patriotic sugar users, it was said at the food administration office. Gro cers are insisting on selling to their customers only as much as is ac tually needed, even though that is sometimes less than the two-pound allotment. They also limit customers to their actual needs when buying sugar for canning. Many of the can ning certificates redeemed at the ; food administration offices are for 1 five pounds or even less. Bakers have also fallen in line. A ; Derry street baker was reported whose allotment was V,600 pounds ! tor each of the months of July, Au gust and September. This baker re ceived his July aJlotmcnt of 1,600 pounds and by careful economy made it last two months, thereby j saving the food administration 1,600 pounds. The total amount of sugar taken from wholesale stocks during August and used domestically for canning and household uses, and commer cially, was 766,290 pounds. ORGANIZING FOR FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN Headquarters to Re Opened Tomorrow at 210 Market Street; Plans Readv The organization work for the Fourth Liberty Loan drive will be gin to-morrow. The headquarters for the drive will he opened in the morning in the store of Henry Gil bert and Son, 219 Market street. The entire first floor will he occupied by the Liberty Loan committee. J. Clyde Myton, organizing secre tary, will have charge of headquar ters. as during former drives. Don ald McCormlck. secretary of the Har risburg district, will also make the room his headquarters during most of the time the campaign is being conducted. The organization work beginning to-morrow will include the prepara tion of lists for the- home drive. ( Frank C. Sites will retain the post of chairman of the home committee. Every home will he vlsiied as dur ing the Third loan, and every resi dent of the city and county will be tabulated, whether he buys a bond or not. The drive will open with the in dustrial canvass. George S. Rein oehl is chairman of In industrial committee, and will scrape all the loose dollars from every industrial extahlishnient in the eitv. Henderson Gilbert is chairman of the stunts committee. Some stunt is planned whereby in a graphic man ner each day's subscriptions can bo tabulated in public view- It is hoped to arrange to have the district, city and county totals each day. Committee members ara being -se cured rapidly to cover every part of Harrisburg and the three counties comprising the district. The com mittee chairmen report that most of the members are on the committee because they consider it a privilege to serve, and not because they are asked. A dozen requests to serve as solicitors were received in one day. The committee luncheons will be held as formerly at the end of the drive when the reports are coming in. Arrangements have been made to finance the luncheons. A corp* of clerks vyi" !, e on hand to aid in the work of preparation, so that when the dfive opens officially on Septem ber 2R. all will be in readiness to raise the quota with a rush. SHEI,IIXG HHKTMS CATHEDBAIi Some additional lisht is shed on the German destruction of the masr nifieent edifice that has been de scribed as "frozen music," in an in terview that Cardinal Eucon, Arch bishop of RhPims, in-anted the editor of Everybody's. Howard Wheeler, who reports it in the September number. "As you know." the Arch bishop told Mr. Wheeler, "the Ger mans have stated that the French army had been usins the towers of the cathedral for observation pur poses and that irons had been con cealed there. The fact is that the French leaders. fearinK that harm would come to the cathedral, re frained ;t all times from usine it for any military purposes whatever. When the bombardments were com menced. I immediately wrote a let ter to the Pope, in which I solemnly swore, on my honor as a man and as a prelate of the church, that never had I abandoned my cathedral since the hesrlnninK of the war, and that never at any time had it been used for military purposes. All to n° avail. The bombardment still con tinues and at recular intervals my old cathedral is battered piecemeal ,—and it breaks my heart." BUSINESSMEN OF CITY TO UTILIZE SHIPS OF NATION Chairman Hurley Asks Cham ber of Commerce to Act in Movement j Harrisburg merchants and manu | facturers shortly will take the first i step to utilize the great merchant I marine of the United States being I built by the Emergency Fleet Cor ' poration Steps are to be taken to j use the ships of the Merchant Marine to increase local prosperity after the war. | Tlie Chamber of Commerce has been j requested by Edward N. Hurley, I chairman of the Emergency Fleet j Corporation, to appoint a Merchant ! Marine committee to begin at once j studying methods to utilize the thou ] sands of ocean transports and rttrgo I carriers. A Merchant Marine com j inittee will he appointed from the I personnel of the chamber within a very short time, it was announced to-day. Committee Mill Boost The committee will drive home to local merchants and manufacturers the unexcelled chance offered by the new Merchant Marine to increase ! their markets to embrace every coun- I try in the world. .Chairman Hurley i promised the businessmen in his let- I ter to the chamber that American i cargoes will he carried by the new ' ships at rates corresponding to Amcr- I lean railroad rates, the cheapest in I the world. Fast American passenger ! and cargo carrying liners will run j regularly to every port in Latin ' America, the Orient. Africa and Aus- I tralia. I According to plans announced to the local chamber by Mr. Hurley, I local products can be delivered to I customers in foreign countries on ! terms cheap enough to win lasting ! trade. Raw materials can be Im- I ported cheaply enough to extend lo | cat products and trade, he added. Flans to He Clear The work of the local Merchant | Marine committee is to study the j plans and lay them before business men so clearly that they will regard the new merchant ships, of which i there will be 3,000, as a continuation jof the railroad systems. The farmer, | it will be pointed out, must Visualize ! ships carrying his wheat, cotton, I breeding animals, dairy products and j fruit to new world markets. The i manufacturing men must think of customers in Latin America as being as accessible as those j in the next state. The boys, it is added, must think of ships and foreign countries when they choose a calling. President A. S. Patterson will se lect a committee from representative manufacturers and shippers. Jesse R. Grant Takes Widow as His Bride i* r :-i L • .... m *li;s:sT% J?. a QSANT a Jesse Hoot Grant, son of ex-Presi dent Ulysses S. Grant, has been mar ried to Mrs. Lillian Burns Wilkins. a widow, of Inwood, N. V. The wed ding took place in New York recent ly. the couple leaving immediately for their honeymoon. Mr. Grant, who is 60 years old. and his former wife were divorced in Heno a few days be fore his second marriage. BOSSES TO FACE JUDGE BONNIWELL [Continued front First Page.] rected by the state committee to re port later. \ ance C. McCormick, Democratic National Chairman, was selected to temporarily preside at the opening of the State Committee meeting in the absence of Major George R. Mc- Lean, the state chairman, who was detained at Washington. Major Mc- Lean recently entered the Army and will retire. "Passing Tlu-otigli Crisis" Mr. McCormick said in opening that the party is "passing through a crisis" and that he wanted to de liberate with the Democrats. Mr. McCormick said there should be a Congress that believes 100 per cent, in the President. "The people of this country have got one thing to do, forgetting politics and everything else, and that is make every effort to win the war," said the chairman. "I am not of those who be lieve that Republicans are not as pa triotic as Democrats. To win we must unite in every effort." The chairman made a strong plea for a Congress that would be "with the President." and said he felt that the nation should and would do as it did in the Civil War —refuse to "swap horses" while crossing the stream. The election of a Congress not in sympathy with the President, he held, would be hailed by every German newspaper. "What would the Allies thing of it?" asked Chair man McCormick, who then said that when the war is over the party must have the credit for an elficient ad ministration. His whole effort was to make a Democratic claim speech. Referring to Chairman Hays' re mark that the Republicans wanted to put nuils in the Kaiser's coffin and stones on his tomb, Mr. McCormick said "the Democrats will not be sat isfied until they kill the Kaiser." A. Mitchell Palmer, Joseph F. Guf fey, William J. Brennen and other prominent Democrats submitted proxies. J ENTENTE NAVIES RIDE OCEAN ON MIGHTY ERRAND American Destroyers Have a Big Part in Moving Sol diers Overseas I By Associated Press London, Sept. 4.—Some idea of the work of the ICentente Allied navies in Kuropean waters is shown by inter esting figures on the part taken by American destroyers from one base in April, Muy and June of this year, which The Associated Press is now permitted to disclose. These destroyer, m which form only a part of America's fleet in kuropean waters, escorted 121 troop ship con voys, consisting of 77J shipps, in that period. At the same time they es corted 171 merchant convoys, consist ing <\f 1,763 ships. When it is considered that the navy in that period did only 27 percent of the convoying and that th* figures represent only the work of destroy ers at one base, it may he seen what a tremendous tusk the Allied navies are performing. There are at present 155 ships fly ing tlie British flag carrying Ameri can troops exclusively. In August more than 250,000 Amer ican troops arrived In Kurope. Of this number the American navy con voyed 34 per cent., the British 05 per cent, and the French one per cent. An average of 2,000 personal let ters daily now are arriving at the 1 nitod States naval headquarters in London. Ninety per cent, of these letters have to he re-addressed. It is understood American naval aviators have begun seaplane opera tions from bases on the Irish coast. GERMAN KMfItKSS WORSE By Associated Press Zurich. Switzerland. Sept. 4.—The health of the German Empres.x, who luast week heeame ill with heart trouble, is slightly worse to-day, ac cording to the Munich newspapers. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart Simplicity Rules the Trimming of the New Autumn Hats The hundreds and hundreds of models in velvet, panne velvet, hatters' plush, pile fabrics and duvetvne will add fresh laurels to the fashion fame of our trimmed hats. Ostrich is the rage —ostrich bands, curled and uncurled ostrich, ostrich crowns, plumes and the new glycerine ostrich trimmnigs. Fancy feathers, wings and embroidered and appliqued effects give an infinite variety of rich trimmings —but no hat is crowded with trimmings like in the old days. Simplicity is the rule, and when one sees the splendor of the velvet shapes it is not wondered at that a touch of this or that is all that is needed to complete the picture style beauty. An incomparable showing of stylish models at $5.00, $6.00, $6.50 and $7.50. Every hat a real achievement in beauty and value. Patterns hats by the score —Cupid hats. Hyland hats, Rawak hats, Halsev hats, Aitken hats. 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LONG Soldier Home From the Front Tells How Pennsylvania Lads Defeated Huns How the 112 th Regiment pushed ahead in the Chateau Thierry light ing was told to members of the Ki wanis Club at their weekly luncheon at noon to-day by Lieutenant James T. Long, a member of the organiza tion, who comes fresh from the front. In his address, Lieutenant Long gave many vivid stories of the lighting with the Boche. "An hour before the German ar tillery barrage opened the Allies be gan their barrage, and the slaughter was tremendous." In telling of one of the combats his regiment was engaged in, Lieu tenant Long said: "If I ever prayed, 1 prayed thdt night! I prayed for daylight!" After this terrible light ing the regiment entered Chateau Thierry six hours after the Boche left it. The lieutenant related that by some odd freak of fortune a piano was left on the outside of a French house in the town. As the regiment marched through the dreary, ruined town they heard an American soldier playing ragtime. It straightened the soldiers out like an arrow and they were good for another fifty niilcs, he related. A certain French town was captured and recaptured three times. Finally the Hun took it and the next day the Americans waded in. "We took seven German prisoners and buried the rest of the two German companies the next day," he said. Finally the regiment went behind the lines for a rest. "I hadn't a bath for two months," the lieutenant said. On August 11 he went back to regi mental headquarters and finally came to America. J. Harry Messersmith won the at tendance prize at this week's Kiwan is luncheon, the prize being $lO worth of repairs at T. C. Black's garage. It was announced that next week's prize will be two Baby Bonds given by J. Q. A. Rutherford. Ser geant Blake, of the local recruiting staton made an address in which he sounded a note of optimism and pre dicted victory for the allied troops. AMERICAN RIFLE FIRE DRIVES OFF GERMAN RAIDERS In Vosgcs Region Enefy Uses i Tear and Sneeze Gas Shells By Associated Press * r ' With the American Army In< France, Sept. 3.--There was consid erable patrol activity on the Ameri can'front in the VosgeS region last| night. An enemy raiding party of! fifty approached the American?! trenches at one point. The raidersi were driven off by rifle tire. The ar-i tillery was active on both sides in; this sector, the enemy using tear and sneeze gas shells. In the Woevre district an Ameri can patrol penetrated the enemy lines after cutting seven strands of barbed wire, other patrols met small German groups an ddrove them off *" without difficulty. The enemy artillery and machine gun activity in the Woevre increased slightly. London, Sept. 4.—The clearing of' machine gun nests around Terny- Sorny is being continued by Americans despite the stubborn op-; position of German patrols, says tliei Daily Mail's correspondent in a dis-| patch from the headquarters of thei American army in France. Contlnu-i ing the dispatch says: "The Americans finally gained thet ascendency and consolidated their! positions near Terny-Sorny. General' * Mangin two days ago visited thai American general commanding this 1 unit and expressed complete satis faction over its achievement pointing! out how important the sector north ward from Soissons is and how thm Germans had brought fresh troop* forward to hold the • positions. The Americans were pleased with praise from such a source and on their part they say that the l'"rench cav alry and tanks greatly aided their success."
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