10 LOCAL DRAFT BOARDS BUSY Are Swamped by Registrants!; From Out of Town Who Seek Cards Local draft boards are being swamped with out-of-town regis trants who want to be registered so they can mail their cards to their own local boards in time to be properly tabulated Thursday. September 12, the registration day of America's man hood between IS and 45 years of age. Approximately 500 men have been registered at the three city boards. The temporary residences of the men are not contined to Harrisburg or Dauphin county. From many points on the West Shore, and from the gov ernment construction jobs at Marsh Run, as well as Middletown, the work men who have been imported for the jobs are coming into Harrisburg to j place themselves on the registration lists. Fifty men were registered every du.v at the office of one local board the latter part of this week. City Draft Board No. 1 was compelled to secure an extra clerk to handle the heavy registration this morning. Frank P. Snodgrass volunteered his services in that capacity, and was on duty in the oftice in the Courthouse ull morning. j The men registering this week are from almost every large town and | < ity in the I'nion. front Maine to Cali- j fornia. Boston. Mass.: Seattle, Wash.:) • San Francisco. Cal.; Augusta, Me.". Winstor, Salem. X. C.; New Orleans. La.: Harrisburg. Tex.; Detroit. Mich., and Chicago are a few of the cities scattered over the country to which the cards tilled out by the board of ficials in this city during the week will be mailed and classified. ALLIES WIN ALL GROUND LOST TO HUNS IN SPRING [Continued From I'agc One.] j ward on a front of more than 15 miles. They have driven in : hard upon the left flank of the German line protecting Cambrai along the Canal du Nord, occupying the greater portion of! Havrincourt wood and capturing several additional towns to the [ southward. • French Near La Fere South of the Somme the French are reported to have effected! a gain to an average of two miles on a twenty-mile front. Theyi took the important town of Tergnier, only two and one-half miles' from the Hindenburg line at La Fere, and swept over several towns northward towards the British front in their progress. It was beyond the Oise, however, that General Petain's forces! made their most important gains. General Mangin's army has a] difficult task before it here where the Germans are established' in the extensive forest of St. Gobain, the key point of their de-j fensive system. The French already have pushed through the outlying lower forest of Couchv, however, and by taking Barisis have begun to press in upon the St. Gobain massif itself. St. Gobain Threatened At points along this front the French apparently have reached ground beyond the former German defensive line. The official j statement from Paris shows them on the edges of the upper forest j of Coucy also a part of the St. Gobain bastion defending Laon,! and they are unofficially reported to have pushed into a big! stretch of entirely new ground in this area. The Germans arej desperately resisting here. On the Aisne the French have taken the Conde fort and Conde-| sur-Aisne whence their movement threatens the Germans who still! are clinging to the river to the east along the front held by the | Americans. Thus it seems that there can hardly be more than a momentary halt by the enemy here and the reports from the j American front indicate the allied lines already are moving ahead,' particularly to the east towards Rheims, where a movement is in! progress to force the Germans out of the angle south of the j Aisne where they are yet holding. Nearly All Ground Lost In Flanders the British have gained more ground, driving in farther towards the Messines ridge, in the vicinity of the townj of Messines, and edging eastward farther south towards La j Bassee. As a whole, through the campaign inaugurated by Marshal! Foch on July 18, and in particular through the Franco-British' drive during August, the German stroke of March 21 has now been; virtually canceled. The Germans have been pushed from all; the territory they conquered by the great offensive they opened! on that date except for a narrow strip between La Fere and; Cambrai. Allied Force Superior Along his old line the enemy now is facing an allied force that is under a unified command and that instead of somewhat fear fully awaiting a powerful German stroke is on the aggressive and powerfully reinforced by the imposing mass of American forces that has been transported to France since the early spring. HASTE marks the flight of the Get mans all along the battle front from the river Aisne to the old enemy defense before Cambrai. The Allies now are within striking distance of Cambrai and St. Quentin, while I.a Fere is in more immediate; danger and Laon is within range j of French guns. Americans Along Aisne On the Aisne front the French j and Americans have reached a j critical stage in their advance and j indications point to a stiffening of i the German defense in an effort to! stave off the evacuation of their j strong positions on the Chemin des| Dames The Americans occupy i positions in the woods and hills | south of the river Aisne on an ex-j tended front. On the Americans' left the French have taken Coucy-j le-Chateau and are in possession of j their old trenches dominating the! Chemin der Dames. At this point! the French are approaching posi-1 tions of vital importance to the Ger mans if they plan to further resist j the allied pressure towards Laon. | French Hold Ham In the Noyon sector the French now hold the important junction point at Ham and the further retreat [ of the Germans in the direction of French Press on Between Somme and Oise British Advance Near Peronne at Night By Associated Press Parte. Sept. 7. —On the front be tween the Somme and the Oise the Vrench continued to press forward last night, overcoming the resist ance of the German rear guard, according to to-day's war office re pro.t Pushing east of Ham. the French ha.e occupied the towns of Dury and Ollezy, more than three miles t>< vond Kam. l/ondon. Sept. 7. —British . troops advancing last night on the front to ghe southeast and northeast of Pe SATURDAY EVENING, HARHiaBTJRG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 POOR DIRECTORS PICK CHAPLAIN Succeeds the Rev. O. J. Far ling, Who Resigns After Long Service Directors of the meeting °"^j a y succeed the Rev. * . „. . uti.ng, wnose resignation has just been accepted. The Rev. Mr. Furling has been chaplain since 1898 and only resigned, he said, be cause of his advanced age. Frank R. Snavely, one of the di rectors, announced that a meeting of the committee, to consider es tablishing a county contagious dis ease hospital, will be held next week. Action will be taken on the plan to remodel the present hospital which has been used by the city to isolate smallpox patients. Will Probated—The will of Thomas Coleman, late of the city, was probated to-day and letters tes tamentary issued by Register Roy C. Danner to Maggie Lewis. Building Permit—A building per mit was issued to-day to Harry A. Sherk for the erection of four two story brick houses on the south side of Herr street, west of Eighteenth street. They will cost $14,000. This was the first permit of the year for more than two dwelling houses to be erected at one time. the old Hindenburg line between La Fere and St. Quentin is anticipated. To the north the British have ad vanced to a depth of seven miles southeast of Peronne on a line from I Monchy-Lagache and Vraignes. In I this advance the British met a stiff] resistance only around Nurlu and Equaneourt where they took advan-| tage of the natural defenses of the | high ground. Slight gains also were ] made by the British in Flanders; I where Wulverghem, Neuve Chapelle ■ and Bussu were captured. Noyon Salient Nearly Clear The recent advances by the British and French have nearly cleared the Noyon salient and with St. Quentin menaced und j La Fere in immediate danger I of capture the Germans EUce the necessity of preparing a now defensive line to the rear of the old Hindenburg line. To the south and east where the terrain is more favorable the Germans apparently are taking advantage of tills handicap to the French and Americans in delaying their further retreat back of the Chemin des Dames. Their suc cess in sueli a maneuver de pends largely upon the power of the French in the vicinity i of Klieims. In fact a hammer ! blow by the French north and j west of the Cathedral city may j not le an unexpected maneuver i j on the part of Marshal Focli to [ start another retrograde move ment of the Germans. | ronne captured the towns of Han court. Sorel-le-Grand, and Metz-en | Couture, says to-day's war office ! i announcement. Fighting their way towards the left flank of the German positions . along the Canal du Nord from Hav rincvurt northward, the British pen etrated the western part of Havrin i court wood, taking prisoners as tiiey ' progressed. i In Flanders the British are push-* ing towards Messines, near the southern end of the Messines ridge, i and advanced their lines last night i a short distance in the direction of ' the town. j^AMUSE]fe|MENTS|^ ORPHEUM To-night, for the last time—"Hearts of the World." Wednesday, matinee and night. Sep tember 11 "Bringing Up Father _ at Home, b riday and Saturday and Saturday matinee, September 13 and 14—Oli ver Morosco oiters "The Bird of Paradise. MAJESTIC High Class Vaudeville. .COLONIAL I To-day—Edith Storey in "The De- I mon. ! M ? nd .ay and Tuesday Alice Brady ,'n The Death Dance." i Wednesday, Thursday and Friday i tiara Kimball Voting in "The Sav ! age Woman." REGENT ! To-day Cecile B. DeMille's "We | Can't Have Everything." | Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday | "Crashing Through to Berlin." VICTORIA To-day William S. Hart in the ! Gun tighter," und a Keystone com- I edy, with "Fatty" Arbucklc and I Mabel Normand in "The Bright I Lights." ! Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday i Catherine Calvert, in "Romance of the Underworld." j Edith Storey, in "The Demon." is i the attraction at the Colonial to-dav. "The Demon" is what the At the duchess colled her, but the j lolunlal duchess called her, but the I . naturally a duchess can't |be impudent to a princess and get i away with it. Not if the princess is such a one as Perdita was. and es j Pecially when she discovered her i , and master" in the person of . Jim Lassel, who really had the money ; that belonged to her. but when he ' found out who she was he just turned the money right over to her. She I took the money with the uncanny re mark. "Very well. I will take it. You | have bought me. now I will buy you." | Edith Storey is the Demon. j | To-day Is the final showing of the | big comedy-drama. "We Can't Have Everything." pro- I "We Can't Have duced bv Cecil B. Everything," nt DeMille, 'under Art tbe Regent craft auspices, at _ , the Regent Thea j ter. Included in the program is the ! Weekly Telegram Screen, showing the ! different current events happening I throughout this country and the fight ing front. This weekly is one of ex i ceeding interest, showing, as it does, ] in picture form the news we read in ■ the papers. There is generally a good [ comedy on the program at the Regent ; and good music supplied bv the big Regent pipeorgan. Next week there Is an unusual pro grant booked for the Regent, includ ing, as it does, the biggest war pic ture yet released. "Crashing Through to Berlin." and William S. Hart, in his latest vehicle of the Far West. "Rid dle Gawne." This is the first show ing in Harrisburg of either of these pictures and botli should prove ex ceedingly interesting and educational, 'Crashing Through to Berlin" because of the historic facts it gives, follow ing up the news of all the important events that have happened in the big war up to date, and "Riddle Gawne" because of the interest always dis played in a Hart release. Owing to the tremendous cost in the production of the picture "Crashing Through to Berlin." the management is forced to make a slight advance in the price of admission, but In the Hart picture the regular admission will be charged. William S. Hart will be seen to-day at the Victoria Theater in 'The Gun Fighter," a story William S. Hart in of both regon "The Gun Fighter" eratlon and self sacrifice. Hart has the role of Cliff Hudspeth, with Killer.," a relentless individual, with something over twenty entries in a gruesome little notebook, which re cords the enemies he has disposed of. One day. after Hudspeth and his gang had vanquished a rival clan of out laws with considerable bloodshed, "The Killer" is greatly surprised to be taken to task by a young girl, who accuses .him of being a cold-blooded murderer. In a rage he kidnaps the girl, but finding he is unable to either terrify or conciliate her sends her home again. The great episode of the play concerns a later adventure wherein "The Killer" sacrifices his own life to save the girl from danger. In order to perpetuate the popu larity of that most beloved and witty Irishman, "Father" Bringing Up of "Bringing Up Father at Home" Father" fame. Man ager Gus Hill has provided an entirely new musical comedy along new lines. The latest stage version of the world famous George McManus cartoons is entitled "Bringing Up Father at Home." It is in three acts and will be seen at the Orpheum on Wednesday, matinee and night. A company of thirty people has been engaged, including twenty five beautiful and talented young wo men. who, it is understood, form one of the most inimitable singing and dancing choruses ever organized. John E. Cain will be seen in his original role of "Father." while Lida Kane re turns to impersonate "Mother." a part which she created originally five years ago. A welcome addition to the ranks of Gus Hill stars is Blanche Xewcomb, daughter of "Bobby" Newcomb. who in the heyday of his successes wore the crown as America's foremost comedian and laugh-getters.. In an nouncing the other details of this ex ceptional theatrical event, attention is called regarding some of the fea tures and innovations introduced. There will be unique specialties, ex clusive musical numbers, ensembles, novelties and surprises, besides a scenic investiture calculated to add to the reputation of Mr. Hill as one of the most successful producers of things different in a theatrical way. "The Bird of Paradise." Richard Walton Tully's love story of the Ha waiian Islands, pro "Tlie Bird of duced by Oliver Mo- Pnrndlse" rosco, will begin , its engagemeht at the Or pheum next week. Friday and Satur- Scene in Cecil B. DeMills' "WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING" Showing Today at TUP KEGKNy BIG WAR PICTURE AT THE REGENT "CRASHING THROUGH TO BERLIN" A Wonderful Picture Showing Important Battle Scenes One of the best war 'pictures yet to be shown In Harrisburg is booked for the Regent theater for next Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday. This is "Crashing Through to Berlin," the picture that was released just a month ago on Broadway and is still running in the big theaters there at $l.OO and $2.00 prices. Its first show ing in this section will be at the Re gent Theater. "Crashing Through to Berlin" is a stupendous war picture ' costing the Universal Film Corporation thous ands of dollars to produce due to the fact that it shows actual scenes of all the important happenings since the beginning of the war. Every scene shown is authentic to the last detail. day and Saturday matinee. Mr. Tully has written the story of the lives of two men and two women; one. a little dark-skinned princess, meets a white man, they fall in I°Y® and marry. She boasts she can hold her white husband's love through her lips and her arms, but learns, like many others, that love of that nature is not lasting, and when he tires of her, she returns to her people and her native religion and gives herself as a human sacrifice to save her people from destruction. On the other hand, the other woman, an American, meets a drunken beachcomber, becomes in terested in him. and through her good influence he takes his place among his fellownten again. These four peo ple form the basic theme of Mr. Tully s plav and while the storv is tragic, he has' introduced many flashes of humor both native and American. Manager Morosco has made five women tle"Ha in the part of I-una, the little Ha waiian girl, and this season lie will present Miss Rita Romilly his latest "find" in the role made famous b> five successful actresses. The cast has been carefully selected. Manager Morosco giving the production his per sonal attention. One of the attractive features of the plav is the quintet of Hawaiian singers 'and players. whose weird melodies were brought into vogue through the popularity of this com attempte Woman Who Shot Lenine Is in Critical Condition Amsterdam. Se7tT~7.—Dora Kaplan, a member of the Social Revolutionary party, who last Friday attempted to assassinate Nikolai Lenine. the Bol shevik premier, is in a critical condi tion at a hospital in Moscow as the result of rough handling by a mob after the attack. The Bolshevik commissioner of Jus tice, the dispatch adds, has ordered that everything he done to save the woman's life for the purpose of trac ing the "plat which undoubtedly ex isted." To Protect Relatives of Hero Dead From Shylocks Washington Sept. 7.—Two years imprisonment for persons who seek fees from relatives of dead soldiers for collecting back pay and allow ances is proposed in a bill by Rep resentative Treadway, of Massachu setts. ordered favorably reported to day by the House Military Committee. Lawyers in Washington and else where, Mr. Treadway told the com mittee, have begun a systematic search for relatives of fallen soldiers, with a view to profiting by unneces sary service in connection with money due from the government. It gives a sketch of the murder of the Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand, of Austria, and his consort in Serajevo, capital of Bosnia in Serbia. Austria demands the right of a judicial in quiry in Serbian territory which Ser bia refuses. Serbia is backed by Rus sia. Austria declares war on Serbia July 28th. Russia then mobilizes her army to protect the rights of her ally Serbia. Germany immediately declares war on Russia and demands from France a definition oj her attitude on neu trality. France's reply is an order to mob'hze her armies. Germany de clares war on France. Geimany on August 4th invades Beiguim. England enters the war. After almost a year of fighting the ELWOOD AVERY IS MADE A CAPTAIN Assistant to Major Gray at Middletown Field Wins Double Bars CAPTAIN ELWOOD AVERY Announcement has just been is sued of the promotion of First Lieu -1 tenant Elwood Avery, engineer, tis [ sistant to Major William B. Gray at | the Middletown Ordnance Depot, to j be a captain ir. the Construction Di vision of the Quartermaster's Corps. Captain Avery will mantain his con nection with Major Gray's organiza tion. Born on March 25, 1876, Captain Avery comes from a family of war riors, his forebears having partici pated in every war that the country has been engaged in since colonial times. A graduate of the Everett, Mass.. High school, he was grad uated from Ruft's College in the class of 1898. Shortly after his graduation he be came connected with the City Engi neers' Department, Everett, and then was employed by the Metropolitan! Water Board, Mass., on the cou-| struction of the Wachusett reservoir. | Following that he was connected for! two years in the bureau of sewers, Borough of Brooklyn, New York city. With the expiration of this con tract, he was employed by the Board of Water Supply, New York city, where for six and one-half years, on | design, location and construction ofj Catskill aqueduct, as engineer in charge of section 3, Esopus Division.; Resigning ir. 1912, he engaged for five years in general contracting, tin-; til in the summer of 1917, he became: a member of the Staff of Supervising Engineer at Camps Meade and Mc- j Clellan, as division engineer in charge of water supply. He was commissioned in the Engi-I neers' Corps in July, 1917, and re-1 ported for active service during late! December. He trained until March I 1, of this year, at Camp Lee, Va„ j after which he came here as Major Gray's assistant at the ordnance de-' pot. BURNED BY CINDERS Joseph Starr, employed as a fireman at the Middletown Ordnance Depot, was badly burned about the face and hands yesterday afternoon, when two cars loaded with hot cinders burst J Into a blaze. Starr attempted to get on one of the cars to extinguish the blaze. He was seriously burned. The cars came from the Steelton plant of the Bethlehem Steel Com pany. They were filled with cinders i to be used in the roads. Lusitania is sunk. President Wilson notifies Germany that such actions will not be tolerated by the United States. American rights must be protected. About this time Italy joins the entente allies against Germany. Outrage after outrage against Amer ica finally forces the United States to declare a state of war against Germany. Various developments from time