2 Dr. Bagnell to Tell Pipe Bending Employes How Yanks Fight in France A patriotic mass meeting for the 2,800 employes of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company. and their wives will be held in the ■ Chestnut Street Auditorium Satur- - day evening of this week. Featur-1 ing the meeting will be a lecture-1 I address by the Rev. Dr. Robert Bag-, nell, whose topic will be "The Amer ican Soldier in France." The tentative program arranged calls for community singing, led by j the Municipal Band: Invocation by the Rt. Rev. Philip R. McDevitt. bishop of the Harrisburg diocese. 1 and address by Dr. Bagnell. Admit ' tance to the meeting, which is in tended for the men of the big local' industry and their wives, will be by; ticket. Crowder Calls 2,000 Stenographers and Typists Washington. Sept. 11.— Avail for 2.000 men qi ' fled for limited serv ice and capable of working as stenographers and typists was is-i sued to-day by the Provost Marshal General to-iluy. They will entrain September 23, and will come from j all states and District of Columbia. • The number ■>: limited service men | called to the colors is approximately I 60.000, the Provost Marshal Gen eral's otlice leported. out of a total so classified of 225.000. WALKED IK ill Ills FATHER Captain Clarence E. Myers, of the: Forty-second Engineers, who had been in France sinee last winter, walked! in on liis father. Marry J. Myers, chief compensation adjuster, in his office at the Masonic Temple. His father j thought he was in France, but the l captain, who used to be an assistant engineer of the State Highway l>e- 1 partment, had been ordered home to instruct men at Camp Humphries. Va.. ( on twenty-four hours' notice. He just let the surprise work out. Resinol Clears Away Embarrassing Pimples March 30.—"Some time ago pim ples began to appear on my fore head. and spread so that people remarked about them, and I didn't' like to go anywhere on that ac-1 count. I tried various creams,; soaps and skin remedies, but noth ing seemed to help me. A friend of mine who had the same trouble told me she cleared her skin with Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap, so I tried them. After the first ap plication all the redness and sore ness disappeared, and after two or 1 three applications my friends began to ask me what I used, my face j looked so much better. "Now 1 can go to places without; being ashamed of those awful pirn-! ' pies, and 1 will never be without 1 Resinol ointment and Resinol Soap." (Signed) Mis- Jessie Torrance, 67 Beach St.. Rutherford. X. J. All druggists soil Resinol Oint ment and Resinol Soap. I Where Can I Find Relief From Itching, Terrifying Eczema? This Question Is Ever on the Lips of the Afflicted. Eczema, Tetter, Erysipelas, and I other terrifying conditions of the '\ln. are deep-seated blood diseases, rnd applications of salves, lotions and washes can only afford tempo rary relief, without reaching the teal seat of the trouble. But just 1 -cause local treatment has done you no good, there is no reason to despair. You simply have not ?■•light the proper treatment, that is within your reach. You have the experience of others who have suffered as you have to i aide you to .a prompt riddance of I lood and skin diseases. No matter Ready Now—Our New Fall Stock of Pianos and Players Ppj Comprising the Leading Grand Pianos - - $525 Up Upright Pianos - - $325 Up Player Pianos - - $525 Up Reproducing Pianos - $925 Up Your Inspection and Selection Arranged to Suit You Victrolas- Edisons~ Vocations 0 Order nou ! A serious shortage threatens. Later on it may be difficult to get a genuine Victrola, Edison or Vocalion and prices are sure to be higher. Choose now from a'complete stock of all styles—s22.so to $275 —we will arrange settlement and delivery to suit you. J. H. Troup. Music House Troup Building ' 25 South Market Square WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG telegrajph SEPTEMBER 11, 1918. ALLIES BATTER STRONGEST OF ENEMY'S POSITIONS [Continued From Pago One.] I British stand far inside the Hindenburg line after having broken ! the Queant-Drocourt switch. . • j In this aggressive movement thd enemy last night sharply] | counterattacked near Moeuvres, just to the east of Queant, and at J Ecourt-St. Quentin, north of the Arras-Cambrai road. In both cases the British held their ground, repulsing the Germans in stiff : engagements. French Pushing Forward The French drive in upon La Fere, a northerly defense of the ! St. Gobain bastion, reported to-day to have made notable progress with the capture of the town of Travecy, ori the Hindenburg line ' two miles directly north of La Fere. The holding of this ground j would result in the outflanking of La Fere on the northerly side. The Germans also have been attacking desperately on the ! French front where the line runs north from the Aisne towards i the St. Gobain massif. They are attempting to drive the Franco- American forces there off the Mont Rouge plateau, the allied occu pation of which is threatening the flank of the line far to the ! cast. All their efforts, however, have been fruitless. ALLIES FACE OBSTACLES IN WAR NOT ON MAP Rapidity of Pace in Drive Forces Germans Behind De fensive Lines of 1917; Line Broken Between Queant and Drocourt By Associated Press \\ ith tlie French Army In France, i Sept. 11.—The rapidity of the splen ! did operation that wrested the initi ative of the battle from the Germans* and drove them behind their defen sive lines of 1917 to recuperate their forces and reconstitute their shat- : ] tered divisions no longer is the prop er basis for calculating the speed of , i progress. The Ailies now are in front of ob- j stacles that do not appear on ordin- j | ary maps by which the general , reader follows changes of the battle ! i front. No maps show them in all i their details, but enough isWtnown of! | them to reconstitute them in a gen- ] I eral way. Hindenburg Line First First is the Hindenburg line sys- 1 i tern of field fortifications which the ; | Germans built by the forced labor of j prisoners of war and French and Bel- ; g'ian civilians. It runs from Lens j 1 southeastward to the Aisne north j lof Rheims byway of Queant, St. j Quentin. LaFere and the St. Gobain | forest. It consists of an elaborate ] ! system of trenches, multiple lines of ; I barbedwire entanglements, concrete j i positions for artillery, blockhouses j i for machine guns, shelters for the irffantry and is further protected by Hooded stretches of country where j the means were available for that j ' purpose. Second I-lne to Meet The second line of defense runs { I how terrifying the irritation, no! matter how unbearable the itchlriSf and burning of the skin. S. S. S. will i promptly reach the seat of the j trouble and forever rout from the j blood every trace of the disease. * just as it has for others who have j suffered as you have. This grand j blood remedy has been used for | more fifty years, and you have 1 only to give it a fair trial to be re-1 stored to perfect health. Our chief medical adviser is an au thority on blood and skin disorders, and he will take pleasure in giving you such advice as your individual case may need, absolutely without cost. Write to-day. describing your case to medical department, Swift Specific Co., 434 Swift Laboratory,' Atlanta, Ga. BOCHE SOLDIERS REFUSE TO FIGHT Amsterdam. Sept. 11. The Twenty-fifth German regiment mutinied at Cologne on August 31, according to the Telegraaf. An eyewitness of the mutiny says the soldiers, on being ordered to leave Cologne for the western front, lefused to hoard a train. Another regiment was then ordered to force the refractory troops to board the cars, but they refused to fire upon their com rades. A detachment of the home defense guard. composed of | youths, then was ordered to un dertake the task, and a fight fol lowed in which eleven boys of the defense guard were killed and many others were wounded. 1 from the fortress of Lille to the j stronghold of Metz. generally parallel ! with the Hindenburg line, to the re : gion north of Rheims and at distances 1 varying from seven to twenty miles, j From Soissons north of Rheims it | runs southeastward joining the old I front north of Verdun and continuing ! from there to Pagny on the Moselle ! river south of Metz. There are sec ! ondary lines attached to this sys j tern, notably along the Escaut river I from Cambrai north between the val | leys of the Oise and the Scrre, and ; northeastward from La Fere along ! the Suippe river north of Rheims. Third Starts at Scarpe Itlvcr j A third line of defense runs from the Scarpe river, south of Lille to ! the Mouse, near Sedan, then south eastward to the iron region of the | basin of Brley, which it protects from i the west and the south, and joining | the second line at the Moselle. There | are secondary defense works to this ! line also in the region of Vervin's. Fourth I.inc Incomplete A fourth line as yet uncompleted is intended to furnish a further de j fense between the Escaut and the ; Belgian frontier and the Meuse at '• Givet. Each of these lines furnishes i a strong refuge for armies obliged Ito retire upon it. The lines also | offer to forces dwindling in numbers ; thq advantage of progressively short * ening file battle front." First Line Is Broken The first of the lines already has been broken between Queant and Drocourt. The development of this success rriay determine the question whether the Germans can oblige the Allies tp revert to trench warfare. I The enemy second line of defense al j most touches the Hindenburg line at Cambria, just below the breach the British forces have made in It. If they are able to join the two lines there the Germans still will have an uninterrupted defensive position in which the second line enters for only the distance from Lille to Cambria, ' being continued to the Chemin des Dames by the Hindenburg line. FIVE-CENT FARE SUFFICIENT, SAYS LABOR BODY State Federation Asks Public Service Commission to Probe Stock Value Maintaining that revenue derived from five cent fares is of such ex tent that it will return fair dividends on all physically represented of the Harrisburg Railways Com pany. the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor has sent a letter to Chair man W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commission, requesting nn investigation (.1 the physical valua tion of the corporation on the initia tive of the commission. This investigation is asked before' the traction company is granted the! privilege to put in operation on Oe- ' tober 1 "an amended schedule of I fares, varying from twenty to lifty # per cent, of an increase." Without excessive formality, the federation makes the astounding dec laration that (he $10,000,000 worth of stock claimed by the company is greatly in excess of the amount ac tually Invested in the corporation. More than $5,000,000 of this, the letter affirms, is "unrepresentative of any value." The public should not he compelled to pay increased fares that the company may pay dividends on stock, representative of any real value, the complainants declare. That such an investigation would not be without precedent and with out the authority of the commission, the letter point 3 out. An investigation of alleged water stock was made in the case of the Beaver Valley Water Company, it is said, and other state departments make investigations i without "waiting for the precision of! formal complaints" and the com mission would be perfectly within its; right to do the same, it is said in support of the demands for action on the part of the commission. What will bo done by the commis sion cannot be forecast. It is be lieved. however, that Chairman Alney will lay the matter before other members of the body before the end of the week. In case it is decided to make the investigation asked, it will be mere ly a continuance of a previous study of local transit conditions made about a year ago. At that time cer tain recommendations for the im provement of service in Harrisburg and immediate section were made by the commission. None of these j have yet been made, it is declared. ; The letter from the state federation I follows: "We understand that th Wi>