Huns Turn on British Southwest of Cambrai; Hinde Endangered; Haig Troops Repulse l jfe HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M 0!or fnftcpcnfteiit ' * LXXXVII— FRENCH ARE RAPIDLY NEARING ST. QUENTIN AND LA FERE BASES Poilus Unchecked in Determined Drive For Stronghold of Foe's Line GERMAN ARMY HARD PRESSED Yankees Gain Better Positions South of the Aisne ' By .Associated Press Fast progress was made by ♦.he French yesterday in closing in upon both St. Quentin and La Fere, important strongholds along the southern section of the Hindenburg line. They are within two miles of La Fere and within three and a i half miles, of St. Quentin. In the region of La Fere the French are pushing toward the north of the formidable St. Gobain bastian, defending Laon. They have made a considerable on this powerful position by direct pressure, in! the Servais sector to the south of La Fere. Poilus Push Forward The Servais station was cap tured yesterday and by taking Briquettay, further south, Gen eral Petain's troops have ad vanced to within little more, than a mile of the town of St. Gobain, on one of the highest points of the bastian. Near Laffauv, around the bend in the line to the south of the bastian, the French made some further progress to the north of the town. ' Strike at Keystone The headway thus made in en circling the St. Gobain positions constituted the most important feature of yesterday's operations, because of the fact that the objective in this sector unquestionably is the German base' at Laon, the keystone of the whole German defensive sys tem. A more spectacular advance by the French armies, however, was effected further north. Having forced on Sunday a pas sage of the Crozat canal, on the line opposite the La Fere-St. Quentin front. Monday witnessed a rapid development of the forward push, until by evening advances of well to wards five miles beyond the canal had been scored at some points. Five Towns Fall Five towns were taken in this re gion including Essigny-le-Grand, directly south of St. Quentin and but three and a half miles distant. To the north, beyond the Sommc, Etrll lers and Roupy were taken, while in closing in on La Fere the Liez fort, northeast of Liez, and important wooded land within two miles of La Fere were captured. On the Franco-American front, just to the south of the Aisne, there was an improvement in the allied position, in the Glennes region. * British Also Advance On the British front Field Marshal Haig's troops made headway in their turning movement south of Havrin eourt, where the left flank of the German positions behind the Canal du Nord, defending Oambrni on the west, is being assailed. A German counterattack on the new British positions along the Hindenburg line near Gouzeaucourt, southeast of Havrincourt, was completely re pulsed. In Flanders the British are con tinuing their pressure in the direc tion of Armentieres, and last night they achieved advances north and west of that town. Northeast of Neuve Chapelle they nlso moved 0 forward THE WEATHER For Harrlsburg find vlclnltyt Fair to-night find VYriliirxdiiys not much change In temperature. For Fiiittern Pennsylvania i Fair to-night, slightly cooler In southeast portions Wednesday fair, continued cool; gentle to moderate north and northeast winds. River The SuNfiiirlinnmi river and all its branches will fall slowly. Temperaturei 8 a. m., 54. River Stagei 8 a. m., 5.7 feet above low-water murk. Yesterduy's Weather Highest temperature, 78. l.owest temperature, 50. Mean temperature, 113. I Jtormul temperature, U7. No. 200 14 PAGES Dtt, iLtM HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1918. oni * v K w S ve a ™h .VT;A.m , .B.u I ,Vc ,fi " "tw^ctotb 8 HOME EDITION Hungarian Count Cries Peace by Wilson Plan By Jttsocialed Press BASEL, Sept. 9 (Monday).—President Wilson's program as a basis for the negotiations for peace are endorsed by Count Michael Ivurolyl, president or the Hungarian independent party. A tils patch from Budupest quoting from an open letter written by Count Karolyl to his electors to whom lie recommends an early peace, says: A decisive military victory, despite Its successes, is a dream which it is useless to pursue. The prime condition of peace nego tiations is the democratization of nations and the abandonment of imperialists' theories. A second condition is that we should not become slaves to the idea of a "middle Europe," either military, economically or politically, and that we should not strengthen our alliance with Germany which would form the lirst step towards the realization of this central Europe. "We ought to accept as a basis for negotiations President Wilson's program." LEONIDAS EQUALED BY BRAVE YANKEE Inveigles Men to Safety, Then Fights Alone at Fismette; Re lief Failing, lie Crosses Vesle River; Six Keystone By RAYMOND G. CARROLL Special Correspondent of the Public Ledger and Harrisburg Telegraph Officially Accredited to the American Expeditionary Forces Abroad. Special Cab le Dispatch Copyright, 1918, by Public Ledger Co. and Telegraph Printing Co. With the American Troops tinder • Foch, Sept. 10.—Lieutenant Horst I Lutz is an undersized young Ger- | man, captured by our troops on > Thursday along with another enemy officer an<j sixty German soldiers at the French village of Muscort,- nestling in a ravine dropping down from the Soissons plateau to the val ley of the Aisne river. Under the prod of our intelligence section Lutz revealed, first, that he led one of the enemy companies which made a fierce attack August 27 upon Fismette; second, that there was an American officer in this particular encounter who showed bravery and resourcefulness which equaled that of Leonidas at Thermo pylae. This disclosure was the opening of a chestnut burr of rare Yankee courage; only our American Leonidas lives. He was neither cap tured nor killed. His name is Lieu- GREAT Y. M. C. A. WAR DRIVE TO BE LAUNCHED HERE Workers to Be Enlisted Tues day Under Mrs. Jennings' Leadership Harrisburg will lie one of the first slopping points for the "Flying Wedge" of organizers who will tour the state for the eastern department of the Young Women's Christian As sociation under the direction of the War Work Council. Miss Helen Steel, of Oil City, who is awaiting her passports to go to France, with the Overseas Theatrical Lea guy, will arrive in Harrisburg Tuesday where she will hold con ferences with Mrs. William Jennings, who has been named as chairman of district No. 15, by the War Work Council of the national board. The counties included are Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Franklin, Cumberland, York, Adams, Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin. The plan of organization will im mediately enlist- hundreds of women in the active war program which the Y. W. C. A. has planned for this section. There will be county and district chairmen appointed, a chair man will be named for each town and' city, and a chairman-at-large will be delegated to traverse tlie rural districts. Miss Steel will explain how the Y. W. C. A. has made the azure em blem the insignia of war work which has been carried everywhere in America and France, and has almost penetrated into No Man's Land from the first line trenches. She will tell how the Y. W. C. A. is doing for the women of this country and France, what the Y. W. C. A. is doing for the men. It is caring for the women of the industrial armies of both coun tries at the request of the two gov ernments. Jitneymen to Permit Soldiers to Ride Free The Harrisburg Telegraph's "Give 'em a Lift" plan got a big boost to day, when Edward Brubaker, presi dent of the Harrisburg Jitneurs' Asso ciation, secured twenty membership cards and announced they would be placed on all jitneys operated by as sociation members. The cards, which are displayed on the windshields, announce that any soldier is entitled to a free ride, by merely holding his hand. At a meet ing of the Jitneurs last evening, it was also decided to retain the five cent fare, despite the new tariff which goes into effect on the lines of the Harrisburg Railways Company. Men With Him; Orderly Tells Story I tenant Benjamin E. Turner, of Chi cago, who has a wife at Pacific I Grove, Cal., and a mother at lOU | Northern avenue, New York City. He is a modest ex-sergeant of the army, very strong, unafraid of death, who scarcely one month ago was given his commission and as signed to active duty north of Chateau Thierry. Ferocious Surprise Attack Begins in previous cables I have told how tiny Fismette, across the Vesle river from Fismes, was a bloody cockpit, changing hands repeatedly. We firmly hold it now, the blue-brown line of heroes having passed well beyond its shell-riddled walls. On the morning of August 27, however, there were just six Ameri can officers and 190 American sol diers, in the form of a crescent around the outskirts of the town, [Continued on Page 12.] DATE OF OPENING OF PENN-HARRIS IS NOT YET SET Labor Problems Hard to Solve at the Great New Hostclrv "It is impossible to forecast the exact date for the opening of the new million-dollar Penn-llarris hotel," said E. A. Johnston, one of the of ficials in charge of construction when questioned hy a Telegraph rep resentative this morning. "I believe, in view of the present conditions, (hat we are making exceptionally fine progress and we hope to lie ready within the next few months." Progress on the construction work bus continued steadily, ulthough dur ing the past few months the labor and material scarcity has been a serious problem. All above the sec ond floors have been plastered and the painters are now busy on these floors, painting the inside and the windows. On the typical floors prac tically ill 1 plumbing fixtures have i been set and all trimwork has been ■finished up to the ninth floor. The i work on tlie tenth floor will be finish ed this week, he plasterers are finish ed with the typical floors and have begun work on the second floor. The lounge and dining room plastering has been practically completed. On all typical floors the marble and tile setting is almost finished. Elevators Running Two passenger elevators are now running and a service elevator will be in running condition by Saturday, Superintendent Johnston predicted. The Reliance Fire Proof Door Com pany has begun work of installing tire proof doors. Both the Walnut street and Third street fronts are now being cleaned and the refriger ating system is being installed. The big oven is completed and all re frigerators have been placed. Ornamental iron work will be in place within the next few weeks. The cement floors in the basement will soon be completed and the men expect to start on the sidewalk con struction to-morrow, it was an nounced. Boys Set Fire to Gasoline Pump in Street Quick work on the part of the em ployes of the Ensinlnger Motor Com pany, Third and Cumberland streets, shortly before noon to-day extin guished a blaze which enveloped a gasoline pump in front of the store. The pump was set afire by email boys playing near It according to passersby. The damage was trilling, j Enemy Effort Spent Says Marshall Haig in Thanking A rmy For Victories FOE IS BEATEN ON EVERY FRONT AllGroundßegained and Enemy Defense Is Shattered By Associated Press London, Sept. 10.—"We have passed through many dark clays. | Please God these never will re turn," says Field Marshal Haig, commander-in-chief of the Brit ish forces in France, in_,an order of the day. The commander then says: "The enemy now{ lias spent his effort." The text reads: "One month now has passed since j the British armies, having success fully withstood all the attacks of the enemy ,once more took the of fensive in their turn. In that short space of time by a series of bril liant and skilfully executed actions we have repeatedly defeated the same German armies whose vastly ( superior numbers compelled our re treat last spring. What has hap pened on the British front has hap pened also on the front of our allies. Everywhere Advancing "Less than six months after the launching of the great German of fensive which was to have cut the allied front in two, the allipd armies everywhere to-day are advancing vic toriously side by side over the same battlefield on which, by the courage and steadfastness of their defense, they broke the enemy's assaults. "Yet more has been done. Al ready we have pressed beyond our old battle lines of 1917 and have made a wide breach in the enemy's strongest defenses." Glorious Accomplishment "In this glorious accomplishment all ranks, arms and services of the British armies in France have borne their part in the most Worthy and honorable manner. "The capture of 75,000 prisoners and 750 guns in the course of four weeks' fighting speaks for the rtiag nitude of your efforts and the mag nificence of your achievement. Thanks All Hanks "My thanks are due to all ranks of the fighting forces for their in domitable spirit in defense and their boldness in attack, to all comman ders and their staff officers under whose able direction such great re sults have been attained, and also to j all those whose unsparing labors be hind the actual fighting line have | contributed essentially to the corn ; mon cause. To have commanded I this splendid army which at a time I of grave crisis has so nobly done its i duty fills me with pride. Dark Hays Gone "We have passed through many dark days together. Please God these never will return. The enemy | has now spent his effort and we rely | confidently upon each one of you to | turn to full advantage the oppor -1 tunity your skill, courage and reso j lution have created." , $5,000 IS NEEDED TO RUN CITY'S ELECTRIC PUMP | Expense of Running It Paid From Station Fund, Al most Exhausted Commissioner S. F. Hassler will ask Council, probably at the meeting next week, fcx permission to transfer $5,000 from the water department's [Continued on Page 2.] Fred E. Jones Dies of Wounds After Battle Fred E. Jones, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Jones, 2251 Swatara street, died from wounds in France on July 22, an nouncements received by his par ents from the War Department say. Jones, who was only 20 years old, was serving with Company C, Eight eenth Infantry. Enlisting in March, 1917, he was sent to Fort Slocum, N. Y., and thence to Nogales, Ariz., from whence he was sent to France in August, 1917. He was formerly employed at the lfarrlsbrug Pipe and Pipe Bending Company. He is survived by his parents, five sisters and five brothers, one of whom is now in training at Camp Meade, Md The family formerly resided at [ Hagerstown, Md Men 19-20 and 32-36 To Be Called First By Associated Press , Washington, Sept. 10. —Provost Marshal General Crowder announced to-day that the first call to the colors of men who register Thursday will intlude men in the 19 and 20 year old classes and in the classes from 32 to 36 years inclusive. Ques tionnaires will go first to registrants within these specified age limits and local boards will be ordered to classify them first in readiness for calls beginning in October. Young men in the 19 and 20 year classes, General Crow der said, will be accepted for induction into the students' army training corps, but he pointed out that the authorized strength of this corps is only 130,000 men, whereas the total number of registrants below twenty will be over 3,000,000. SCORES OF SALOONS WILL NOT APPLY FOR LICENSES NEXT YEAR Three-Fourths of Harrisburg's Hotelmen Expected to Quit Business in February Because of Brewery Shutdown; Reduced Revenue From Whisky Not Sufficicst Three-fourths of Harrisburg's bar rooms will not apply for licenses for next year, it was estimated to-day. The Federal regulation prohibiting the manufacture of beer after De cember 1 and the absolute prohibi tion after July 1 is responsible. With the expiration of the li censes next February, only the larger of the hotels will seek new licenses, it was said in hotel circles to-day. Counting the fees and Federal li cense, the cost is about stioo. The smaller bars would not, with the loss of the beer revenue, make enough profit to warrant the ex penditure, it was said. According to the opinion of many SUGAR ADVANCES CENT AND A HALF BY FOOD ORDER Old Stock on Hand Must Bo Sold at Former Price The price of sugar has been ad vanced one-and-a-halLcents a pound retail on stock received after last Monday morning. The price to householders will probably be eleven cents. Some grocers will sell it for ten-and-a-half. The present price is nine and nine-and-a-half cents. The increase was fixed by the Fed eral Food Administrator. It affects only the sugar delivered to whole salers in the city after last Man day. The sugar held by wholesalers prior to Monday must be sold to 're tailers and thence to the trade at the old price. This means that grocers must charge only the old price on sugar bought from whole salers who had it in stock before Monday. To liccp Tabs The food administration has the amount of sugar held by both whole salers and retailers registered all the time, so that it is known at the food administration offices which grocers may charge the advanced price, and which wholesalers are selling old ] stocks of sugar. It is understood that only one of ! the three large wholesale houses has I any stock of sugar left on hand I from that held prior to Monday. Other houses receiving sugar since then will sell it at the new "price. Stocks of sugar are automatically registered with the Food Adminis trator through the medium of re turned certificates from grocers. EARLY CHRISTMAS BUYING IS URGED ON FOLKS OF CITY Imperative Because War Has Reduced Selling Forces in Stores Advisable In previous years, early Christmas shopping is imperative In Harrisburg this year. Harrisbxirg department stores and toy dealers are preparing for an early season and [Continued oil Page 2.] Dr. Bagnell Back From Europe, to Reach Home by Tomorrow Evening Dr. Robert Bagnell will reach his home here Wednesday evening after a tour of the French camps as a rep resentative of the committee on pub lic information, it was announced this morning. Dr. Bagnell arrived in New York City on Saturday morning. He went to France on a special mis sion, speaking before the soldiers In the various camps and giving other talks under the joint auspices of the Y. M. C. A. War Work Council and the <?ortimlttee on public information. While no announcement has been made, it is probable that Dr. Bag nell will preach in his church, the Grace Methodist Church, on Sunday. He will tell of his experience among the boys in camp and afield. hotelmen, the supply of beer in the city will be exhausted within ten or twelve weeks after the breweries shut down December 1. With beer gone, most of the revenue of the ordinary saloon will cease. While hotel proprietors were loth to be quoted, it was generally accepted as a fact that the revenue from whisky sales will not show a great profit between the time beer is exhausted and the coming of ab solute prohibition. The additional tax of $8 a gallon on distilled spit - its and the genernl feeling against booze is expected to make the num ber of drinkers of the ever-mount ing whisky drop off to an inconsid erable number. WORLD SERIES PLAYERS STRIKE AT GAME TIME Refuse to Go on Boston Field i Until Grievance Is Answered By Associated Press Fenway Park, Boston, Sept. 10.— j The Red Sox and Chicago Cubs I I touched off a bombshell toward game J time to-day by refusing to go on the held unless the national commission | rendered an immediate decision to j their demand for a readjustment of j the world's series division of the, money receipts apportioned to the j players. A committee of the players had I met the national, commission earlier, in the day. The players then came to' the park and held a meeting in their' dressing rooms. After a long talk 1 they decided to call the commission i at once and say that they would not' go upon the field until a decision was' rendered. At 1.55 o'clock not a play-! er had appeared upon the field, and j there were reports that if the com-, mission's decision was against a re.. adjustment of the players' share in' the game that the Sox and the Cubs! would not go on with to-day's game.! The commission had promised to| take the matter under advisement, | but insisted that there had been no| ! formal guarantee and that any; change in the division of the proceeds] ! would have to be submitted to thei club owners for ratification. The commission gave out figures' of the probable divison of the play-! ers' pool of $69,527.70 as follows: i Winners' share, $23,152.72; losers'] share, $15,435.15; teams finishing! second in the respective leagues toi get $1 5,469.91; those finishing third,] $9,251.95, and those linishing fourth, 1 $6,187.97. The commission told the players over the telephone that the rate of, apportionment had been suggested] by the commission to the two major j leagues, was adopted by the two leagues and, therefore, the commls-1 sion had no authority to make any! changes. Chairman Herrmann .told | the players that if they decided to strike under the circumstances they shduld at once go to the gates of the! park and ask the management to I stop the sale of tickets. This the] players had not done at 2.15, when! [Continued on Page 2.] Pennsy Veterans Meet Here With a Curtailed Program Because of Warj Between three and four hundred! members of tho Veterans Association! of the Philadelphia Division of the: Pennsylvania railroad attended the fourteenth annual meeting of the or-; ganization held this afternoon in the, P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. War time con-i ditions caused a number g>f changes] in this annual session, the most im-I portant of which was the changing! of the place of meeting from Colum- • bia to this city. The banquet, al-; ways a feature for the vets was also j lacking to-day, in order to conservo! food. N. W. Smith, Jr., superintend-] ent of the division will probably be! elected president of the association,] to succeed Wlliam B. McCaleb, who!- is now superintendent of water com- 1 panies for the Pennsylvania system, j Prof. Francis H. Green, a member of the faculty of the State Normal : School at West Chester lectured on '• "War Conditions in France." A trib. ! ute was paid to the twenty-seven j! members who died during tho last! ] year. After the business session the ] veterans enjoyed an old-fashioned j ] smoker. NEIGHBORS SA VE WITMAN FAMILY AS HOME BURNS Maid Is Suffocated in Early Morning Fire that Destroys Residence of Whole sale Grocer; Harris Brothers Heroes DROP CHILDREN FROM WINDOW WHEN STAIRWAY IS CUT OFF Inside of Home Nearly Destroyed When Smoke Awakens Members of the Family in Nick of Time One woman was suffocated and five members of the Wit man family averted death only by a hair's breadth in the fire which early this morning par tially destroyed the home of H. M, Witman, 2101 North Second street. A stove in the cellar is thought to have started the fire. Two of the three children of Mr. Witman were saved when neighbors standing On the lawn beside the house caught them as they dropped to the ground. Mr. Witman and the nurse were saved by neighbors who hoisted a ladder to the second floor win dow. A third child had to crawl )artially out of the window while she awaited rescue in order to avoid smothering by the smoke which poured in .dense volumes from the window. All escaped in their nightclothes after being CANADIAN RAIL MEN STRIKE Montreal —The Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employes called a strike to-day demanding that the com pany recognize the brotherhood by the Dominion Express Company of Canada. It was claimed that one thousand i 1"icl .alked out, The the majority of its employes had refused to join the strike. ATTACK HUN SHELTERS AT BRUGES London —British naval air forces between September 1 and Sepember 7 made four attacks on German subma rine shelters and workshops on the docks at Bruges, Bel gium, says to-day's British Admiralty statement. The Ostend docks and a motorboat depot at Blankenberge also were attacked with good results. BURIAN SUGGESTS WAR CONFERENCE Amsterdam—An exchange of views between the Cen tral Powers and, the Entente was tentatively suggested by Baron Buna n, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, in an address to visiting German newspaper men, accord ing to a Vienna dispatch to-day. BRETZ CREDITORS MEET Harrisburg —That Harry M. Bretz, of Bretz Brothers, hardware dealers, now in bankruptcy, knew that seme of the cattle on one of the farms were removed shortly before appraisers came to fix values, did not tell appraisers nor notify trustee, Thomas C. McCarrell, was brought out this aitcrnocn by J. J. Conklin, attorney for some of the cred itors, in examining Mr. Bretz. Bretz also admitted he made po inquiry about the stock. Permission was granted toMr. McCarrell to sell at private sale a property in Camp Hill owned by one of the firm members. WTLLIAM P. STEVENSON DIES Lewistown. Pa.—William P. Stevenson. 66 years old, of McVeytown, member of the State Forestry Commis sion, and former Mifflin county representative in the Legislature, died this morning at his home at McVeytown, of a complication of diseases. He was superintendent of the Pennsylvania Glass Sand Company and president of the McVeytown National Bank. MARRIAGE LICENSES Daniel If. Wrltor mill Annie Slnirp, York; John Hublnleh imd I.jubn 11. lllMKinu, Steeltom Ituben 11. Ileern, Jr.. lJnol:i, tint! I.lllliin 11. Wnllnei*, Mnrvavllle; l*enro*r O. Miller nnd Minnie A. Itmer, Lykcn*; Morrlw V. MeCnhe. ItnrlilMhurK. mid fnrrle K. lift*', lur lUle; John H. Nye, II it rrlxl>ur*;, nnd Alive It. t.'utely, Winchester, Ya. ar6used from their sleep by the heat and smoke. Neighbors Save Lives But for the quick work of three men living next door the Witman family would have perished. Mr. Witman said after the fire: "If we had remained in the house ten minutes longer, there would have lxten no hope for us." Mrs. Laura Lockhart was the woman who was suffocated. She was employed as maid. She came from Philadelphia, but has made her home here for several years. She will be buried in Harrisburg. Maid Was Confused Mrs. Lockhart slept in a room on the third floor, in the rear of the house. It is thought her door vv: s locked. When liremen reached a. i two hours after the lire was disco - ered, she was on her knees with h : body thrown over a chair, while she apparently had tried to cover her face with her hands when the chok ing smoke fumes wakened her. It is thought the the smoke and crack ling flames wakened her from a sound sleep, and she was too con fused to find her way to the door and unlock it. Had she been able to reach the door, it is known that the [Continued on Page 14.]
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