Steelton New Items TO REWARD BOY SCOUT WORKERS Will Get Medals For Sale of at Least Ten Liberty Bonds Boy Scouts of Steelton who were successful in disposing of ten or more Liberty Bonds in the third is sue have been voted medals for their patriotic endeavors. These emblems will be presented to them this even ing with special ceremony in the First Reformed Church. In honor of its men in the United States service, a service flag, the gift of the men's Bible Class, was unfurl ed in the Grace United Evangelical Church last evening. An address, full of patriotic thrills, was delivered by James L Young, of Mechanicsburg. Special music was rendered by the chotr under the direotion of George Smith. , In the First Presbyterian Church, the pastor, the Rev. C B. Segelken. delivered the first of a series of pa triotic sermons. His subjject was "The Cry for Peace." In this series of war sermons, hie subjects are: September 29, "The Cry for Justice;" October 6. "The Cry for Help;" and October 13. "The Only Source of Help in the Conflict." BAND CONCERT FRIDAY Two fine tympanies or concert kettle drums were received by the Steelton band on Saturday. Chris Serafimoff. once a member of the Royal Bulgarian Band, will handle the instruments. Next Friday the band will give the concert that was postponed last Friday evening be cause of rain. If the weather per mits, next Friday's concert will be the last of the open air engagements of the band this season. CONDEMN ACTION Local members of the National Croation Society passed resolutions yesterday at a public meeting con demning the action of minority dele gates to the national convention of the society in Chicago in attempting to sidetrack the Jugo-Slav propa ganda in the organization. The meet ing yesterday was held in the rooms of the Croatian Sokol, 551 South Second street. BAPTIZE IN RIVER The Rev. A. K. Weir, pastor of the Centenary United Brethren Church, baptized five persons in the river here yesterday, it being the first ceremony of the kind for a numben of years. The baptism took place on the island opposite Francis street. | YANKEES TAKE ~ HAUMONT; GET * 25 PRISONERS Sharp Fighting With Mem- j bers of Jaeger Battalion Out of Metz Defense By Associate! Press With the American Army in l France, Sept. 23.—American troops raided the enemy lines in the neigh borhood of Haumont village, in the center of the new line across the St. Mihiel salient, Saturday night. They captured twenty-five prisoners. The unit attacked Haumont itself. It had sharp fighting in the village taking twenty prisoners and killing! and wounding about forty. The; prisoners were members of a Jaeger ' battalion formerly stationed at Metz. I American patrols have discovered I enemy trenches and a machine gun I emplacement south of Donmartln, which is in the Kriemhild line. The' enemy continues work all along this' front. Washington. Sept. 23.—American raiding parties in the Woevre pene trated the enemy's line at two points, inflicting numerous casualties and bringing back twenty-five prisoners, says General Pershing's communi que for to-day, received iast night at the War Department. WAR PLANT FIRE KILLS 382 Amsterdam, Sept. 23.—Three hun dred and eighty-two persons have been killed and many others injured in a fire and explosion in an am munition factory at Woellersdorf, near the Austrian capital, Vienna newspapers report. Most of the vic tims were girls. • Our country's need and your personal need are harmonious- | 1y served when i you eat POST TOASTIES They delirfh-fc -the taste —They save sugar and wheat:. MONDAY EVENING, Habrisburg TELEGRAJ?H SEPTEMBER 23, 1918 MOVE MR. SMILEY TO BETHLEHEM Made Assistant Works Audi tor of Six Steel Com pany Plants The local plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company is undergoing some changes in its personnel which af fect the accounting department and rolling mills. W. Herman Smiley, works ac countant at the Steelton works, has been made assistant works auditor of six Bethlehem plants. He will be stationed at the Bethlehem offices of the company after October 1. He held the position of works' account ant here for about one year. Succeeding Mr. Smiley as head of i the accounting department here will be W. H. Peters, assistant work ac countant at the Lebanon plant of . the company. The new superin tendent of the finishing mill and the West End shipping yard is A. C. Burk, who succeeds R. C. Parsons, who resigned Setpember 16. The merchant mill department will have for its new superintendent Joseph Weidman, who succeeded D. M. Smith. The change was made September 1. MISSIONARY LEAVES Anticipating four years as a teacher at Muehlenberg Mission, Li beria, West Africa, Miss Gertrude Rupp, of Pine street, sailed last Thursday for that country. The mis sion is situated in Monrovia. 'Miss Rupp formerly spent two years at the same mission, returning to this country only a few months ago. SEE AIRPLANE The whir of an airplane engine quickly brought big crowds into the streets early Saturday evening. They saw a hugh biplane flying eastward at high speed. It seemed to be following the line of the Reading Railway through the Rutherford yards and Hummelstown. MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Pierce were ten dered a miscellaneous shower Satur day evening at their new home in Lincoln street. Games and music were the features of the evening. A buffet luncheon was served. TO AUCTION RUBBER Old rubber, bottles and papers, collected by the local Red Cross, will be sold here at auction Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Steelton Chapter headquarters in North Har risburg street will be the scene of the I sale. KAISER'S POSTER" TO SPUR LIBERTY LOANINAMERICA Displayed in Germany While Million Yankees Line Up Against World Foe By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 23.—A poster is sued by the Imperial German gov ernment in an effort to belittle the United States' contribution to the war and bolster the failing spirits of ts people, has been reproduced by the Liberty Loan publicity bueau and two million copies will be distrbuted in this country during the Fourth Lib erty Loan campaign which opens formally next Saturday. "Can America's entry make a de cision in the war?" is the poster's title-. And with diagrams showing a small American army and a small merchant marine, the pamphlet in ferentially answers "no." "Russia's army of millions could not down Germany," argues the pos ter. "America threatens to send transports of one-half million men, but it cannot ship them." These words are inscribed on a scroll held by a cadaverous looking Uncle Sam, alongside a Russian sol dier appearing immense in compari son. At the time the poster was display ed throughout Germafiy last July more than one mllion American fight ing men already were in France and this number soon will be doubled. In hundreds of communities to day the Liberty Loan speaking cam paign started in an effort to gain momentum for the opening day Sat urday when subscriptions will be re ceived. SERVING NATION AT HOME AND ABROAD - / Lieut. Bishop Robt. Schreffler Harry Martin J. H. Young Sergt. Nagel A. B. Woodcock E. H. Bucher C. W. Moore That thfc unsatiable Hun often | times ignores the actual areas of war to inflict his frightfulness upon non combatant women and children, old men and infants, Is tellingly reiterated in a remarkable letter just received by the friends of Private Thomas E. Bennett, Company D, Fourteenth Engineers, serving with the American -Expeditionary Forces in France, whose Harrisburg home is at 2526 Lexington street. The letter, mailed "Somewhere in France" on July 2Sth, is addressed to Private Bennett's "Friends at Home." An aerial battle between enamy and Allied aircraft, witnessed on a clear, moonlit night by Bennett, who was doing guard duty at the time, in which the real Teuton objective was the shelling of a peaceful city some miles away, is the bpsis of Ben netts' oharge that the enemy is still on the job of killing women and chil dren that the war might be won for Kultur. "Some days back," begins the sol dier's letter, "I was in a certain part of France. It fell to my lot to do guard duty upon a post that ex tended along the top of a hill ad jacent to our camp. While walking posts between the hours of 12 mid night and 2 a. m., the enemy's air craft was flying overhead hunting a place to drop their bombs. The moon was shining brightly and in a few moments the anti-aircraft guns be gan the defensive and the battle was on. Two of the enemy's planes, con tinues Bennett, "succeeded in get ting through the barrage and into a city some distance beyond our camp, where, from time to time, they drop ped bombs, carrying out the Huns' policy of frightfulness. One of the planes got back through the barrage while the other was brought down, paying, in part, the penalty of his crime." '"While the battle was on," writes the soldier, " the earth trembled and the sky was alive with flying death and when the bombs burst, the eky resembled a beautiful sunset. After the noise of battle, all became quiet, and the good old moon looked down upon the earth and saw. not munition plants, supply dumps, soldier camps and the implements of war destroyed, but as the Red Cross ambulance came up to the destruction, the nurses heard from out the wrecked homes, which now were a pile of debris, the '4 'art-breaking cry of infants for their mothers, and in French, the call of the little son, "Oh daddy, take me out;' the groan of the parent or grandparent as they struggle to loosen their bodies, so as to aid their loved ones." "Shortly," the description contin ues, "all Is still and one by one whole families are removed from the debris, silent in death. One of the bombs struck a roominghouse nineteen young women, factory hands, two mothers and five children—was the KAISER'S PUBLICITY MAN SAYS GERMANS WILL DEFEND METZ "We Will Never Let French or Americans Through Here," They Say; Admits "Hurrah" Spirit Is Gone and Men Hope Only to Resist Onrushing Allies By Associated Press Amsterdam, Sept. 28. "We never will let Frenchmen or Americans through here," was the promise given Emperor William by his troops when he visited the Alsace-Lorraine front on September 19 and 20, according to Karl ltosner's Sunday dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger. The purpose of the visit was to thank the troops for having bravely held out and, according to a possibly significant remark by the emperor's chronicler "at the same time giving them inspiring words for the fresh fighting on the threshold of which we are perhaps standing on the southwest of the empire. The empor first visited the section between Mulhausen and Colmar, where "in sight of the Vosgcs front on whose heights and slopes the German positions run and within SERBIANS GAIN 40 MILES IN 8 DA YS Cut Railway Line to Prilep, M ain Avenue of Communication For Germans West of Vardar; Number of Prisoners Increases Daily By Associated Press London, Sept. 23.—Serbian troops have cut the main railway line be tween Uskub and Saloniki and are on the western bank of the Vardar river, says the Serbian official state ment of Sunday. West of the Vardar the Serbians have cut the railway line to Prilep, which 'is the main line of German communication in this region. Serbian infantry units now are in the mountainous regions and ad vanced twenty-five miles in one day. The number of prisoners and the amount of war material captured in creases daily. The and Bul garian sectors now are feeling the loss of their communication line. toll and out of the reported casu alties, all were young children, wo men and old men and but four sol diers in the whole number." News of the safe arrival overseas of Robert Schffler, son of Mr. and Mrs. George \V. Schreffler, Lykens, Pa., was received this week by the parents of the young soldier. "Bob," as he was familiarly called by his friends, was a well-known athlete in the upper end of the county, his record on the track being 10 seconds flat. He entered the service last summer and was stationed in New Jersey prior to sailing for France. He is attached to the Three Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Casual Detachment serving with the A. E. F. in France. Other parents advised of their son's safe arrival over there are Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Monroe, 1731 North Sixth street, father and mother of Charles W, Monroe, of Company B, Thirty-Fourth Infantry. Private Monroe was formerly a yard engineer employed by the Pennsylvania rail road and was popular with the young er set. A former resident of Harrisburg, First Sergeant Bryan O. Mogel, ac cording to word received by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Mogel, 1513 South Cameron street, has arrived safely in France. Sergeant Mogel is a member of Company K, One Hun dred and Twelfth United States In fantry, Twenty Eighth Division. Mogel, who was made a sergeant for heroic conduct in battle, Berved with the old Eighth Regiment that did duty along the Mexican border. First Lieutenant Aaron L. Bishop, son of Mrs. William O. Bishop, 1631 North Second street, this city, who is connected with Base Hospital No. 33, somewhere in France, entered the service in September, 1917, and was stationed at Camp Anniston, Ala., until a short time before leaving for overseas. Busily engaged as a motor me chance somewhere in England is Ed win H. Bucher, son of Mr and Mrs. A. S. Dillinger, who is with the Three Hundred and Thirty-third Aero Squadron. Bucher's specialty is re pairing airplanes. Letters received by his parents state that he is well and happy and wishes to be remem bered to his friends. Other Harrisburg Sammies in France are Private Arthur B. Wood cock, of the Tenth Construction Com pany, Air Service. A. E. F., whose home in this city is at 1128 North Sixth street, son of Walter H. Wood cock of the same fiddress and Private Harry Martin, No. 5 South Thirteenth street, son of Mrs Nellie Martin, who is doing his bit over there with Base hospital Unit No. 6. John H. Young, son of M. B. Young,' of 1619 Berryhill street, this city, at tached to Battery F, Three Hundred and Forty-First Field Artillery, A. E. F., Is another Harrisburg youth with the colors. hearing of the dull roaring cannon Are, Emperor William, conducted bv 1-ield Marshal Duke Albrecht of W urttemburg, the commander-in chief of the army group, went from division to division, cainp to camp and hospital to hospital." "The emperor passed aong the en tire Lorraine front, but instead of visiting stafTs, he called on small units, brigades, regiments and bat talions. It is true that the 'hurrah' feeling of the commencement of the war has vanished, but everywhere one meets with the same unshakable calmness which never for a moment doubts of a victorious resistance" The correspondent reveals the fact that the brigade commanded by Prince Oscar, the Emperor's son is stationed on this front. He. says Prince Oscar has returned to the field notwithstanding the after effect of his wounds. Er.envy reinforcements have been forced tr retreat. Since September 15 the Sermons he*-*® ferv miles. Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator Ad. , / N NO ADVANCE IN Pit ICE BITES-STINGS^ Wash the parts with warm, salt water— f~c3ubk (m then apply— Irlmb ■ itttl* Body-Guard inYjur Home'' X /'-afcy VASSWO^R 'J So—soc—sl.oo *■ i METZ, IMPORTANT GERMAN BASE OF WEST, IN PERIL City of 60,000 Lays Astride Moselle and Seille Rivers; Fort Important London, Sept. „ .—Offensive oper ations toward Metz strike at one of the most important German bases in MvhTVL, ho city and the twenty has ho 5 f °l ta com PHse what formidJl re warded hs one of the most . fortresses in the world, iron l s e centel- o f important which before the war fa nee and Germany with bv Li Uvo - thlrds of the ore used hi lron manufactories. hilf^n 3 ° n the Mos elle. ten and a do! mi west of the French bor =oiV T y lays astride the Mo of the sm' lS e " as on bo,h Bides i.io d Seille. Part of the city is on nir?b S the Moselle. To the east, nL a , ■ northwest are the iron and coal fields of French and Ger man Lorraine. Deprived of these fields, Germany could not conduct the war another three months, it is asserted. H o&ief iron field of the Rhino of Uorraine, includ n. B ' h Bassin de B*ey (the center is the M " le village of Li? the greatest iron-producing region in the world, it is located mainly in Alsace-Lorraine and over laps into Belgium and Luxemburg, it extends along the Franco-German frontier for thirty-five miles, almost up to Pont-a-Mousson. Germany s possession of the major portion of this productive area fol lowed the signing of the Treaty of Frankfort in 1871. Previous to the present war Germany obtained from ■, e nni Sn on her side of thc frontier 21,000,000 tons of her total annual production of 28,000,000, while France got 15,000,000 out of h. total production of 22,000,000. Germany Got French Share Since her occupation In 1914 of the mines on the French side of the fron tier Germany has added to her min eral wealth the 15,000,000 tons an nually obtained by the French, bringing her total production from Lorraine alone, up to 43,000,000 tons a year. The only practical road to this im portant region, military authorities agree, is the valley of the Moselle. At the head of the valley and bar ring the way lies Metz, ranking with Strassburg as one of the two great bulwarks of the German southwest- La frontier - Metz is a city of 60,- 001? population, its chief industries being the manufacturing of weap ons, clothes, shoes and hats. As a fortress Metz has been im- P i? rta l t sir ? ce the Roman era. Since that time it has never succumbed to frontal attack. Its present system of fortifications includes twenty eight detached forts which encit'ele the city proper. The outer chain of defenses, built within the last two decades and undoubtedly perfected since the outbreak of the present war. extend to Thionville on the north and Gravelotte on the west. West and southwest of Metz the course of the Moselle is lined with high, wooded hills. The German fortress also is protected by heights and woods northward. On the south, however, the terrain is more open with few hills and little wood. From the American lines south west of Metz the nearest forts are Forts Haeseler and De Sommy on the right bank of the Moselle and Fort Kronprinz on the left bank. Fort Do Sommy is less than five miles from the French town of Arnaville, on the Franco-German border. The forts surrounding Metz were similar to those at Liege, which were notable for their disappearing turrets. Ger man guns, however, overcame these forts. The fall of Metz not onlv wduld probably seal the fate of the iron and coal fields, but, through the sev erance of railway lines, imperil the German line west to Laon and thence northward to the Belgium coast. All reports of a possible Ger man retirement In the west have in dicated that Metz would form one • f the bastions of the German de fense. Special Notice The New Store I STORE HOURS I PLEASE give your WM ICE ££ J- Old Clothing to the IT J. • £ llviu Satin-flay. 8.30 a. m. to 10 p. m. Committee for Belgium cause to help the poor rpi fliiijw I people of Belgium who *■ HFGCi Lmii wi ---ft I Stvl© have lost their all. Let 'wf us show our friendli- r jPp V ness toward those who OI H < / T fllll© such a cowardly way. 1/. i / jL t Ik. n The Red Cross work- IYiIICI ma / iJGFVIC© house. Kindly have your ! pa T?e geS cSSm ] ittei th im Bovs! Rnv' We Consider the appreciate the services 'iioyw SCHOOLBOYS anyone to help pack. Mothers and Fathers, when you buy your boys' suits, just remember that no ■hmuhmhhi [ honest-to-goodness boy has time to wonder what will happen to his clothes if ~ l£ „ \ u,f ° r the school cellar or does any one of the thousand PjiftjZCtdb thln & s a teller" simply has to do. \f "" Bu y ° ne °f these sturdy suits, built especially for boys, and let the youne- BLOUSES s J ers go their wa y- You'll find these suits are made to stand the severe use thev always get. Prices That Cannot Be Equaled £L'rrr3u° 57.30 SIO.OO $12.50 $15.00 W e Specialize On Our SIO.OO Suits WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR BOY SCOUTS fS/faSfr"! Boys' Sweaters a "' Dr ' SS STOP ' L ° OK and LISTEN V> AhSk . rhe f ' a > s and nights are getting *7 n ffi \ <■=? *£? 9°°' R° without a Sweater. THE BOYS' SHIRT /OC kto 3 . •'I VT We have just what you want, any that is cut Just like a man's, -*■ • shade you want—all sizes and wears just like a man's and — _ - > W T 2V V , ' sto P nd see our bl£ Is manly looking, O T . gH* *3 S fil/ display at a great saving. 751 up |mJIOU /r $1.50, $2.50, 53.50 and up LLJI _ 0.,.. r _ te _ st <> r e . WM. STROUSE LOCAL BOYS ON CLYDE W. GREENAWALT Two local boys were reported yes terday to have been wounded in ac tion, another missing while a fourth, died from wounds. Harvey C. Sites, Mechanicsburg, R. F. D. No. 6. died from wounds. Pri vate David Daniel Swavely. 1708 Re gina street, was reported missing In action. He is 21 years old, and a member of the Headquarters Com pany of the One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry. Private Clyde Worth Greenawalt, of Lemoyne, was wounded severely. He also is a member of the One Hun dred and Twelfth Infantry. Corporal Wilbur N Potter, Com- RED CROSS WILL TURN ROOMS OVER FOR LOAN WORK Get Reuest Today to Permit Use of Their Head quarters That the American Red Cross is go ing to back the Liberty Loan cam paign to the limit was shown this morning when the local chapter re ceived a request which virtually amounted to an order from the Penn sylvania-Delaware Division Head quarters asking that the headquarters of the Harrisburg chapter be ten dered to the Liberty Loan Committee for meetings and display of posters. It was also asked that the Red Cross Motor Messenger Corps tender their services to the committee. While the two buildings occupied by the local chapter are pretty nearly filled, Red Cross officials said this morning they would do everything in their power to help the committee of campaigners, and it is possible a committee meet ing will be held in the building The full text of the bulletin signed by Charles Scott. Jr., division man ager, follows: "The War Council of the American Red Cross wishes to place the whole organization of the American Red Cross back of the effort to make the next Liberty Loan a success, and we know that we may count on you and you fellow officers and on every member of your chapter to co-operate effectively to this end. "The plans of the government for the formation of campaign commit tees In various parts of the country are most complete and should afford everyone the opportunity he is look ing for to be identified actively with this work in the most effective and helpful way. We have always had the help of the whole country in our campaigns and we' should be the first to step forward and devote ourselves to the great national purpose of the Liberty Loan when the time comes. CASUALTY LIST D D. SWAVELY pany I, One Hundred and Twelfth, has been wounded In the left should er. Corporal PotteV, is aged 21, and formerly a brakeman on the Penn sylvania railroad. It will rest with you to see how best you can help in your locality. The assistance of the Red Cross organiza tion should be through the Liberty Loan Committee, and as a part of it, and not through the Red Cross organization as such. "The use of chapter headquarters and workrooms for meetings, for the display of posters and for the distri bution of campaign material should be tendered the Liberty Loan Cora- UNIVERSITY OF Wharton School PENNSYLVANIA of Finance and Commerce Evening Courses Wharton Courses Answer Three Vital Questions of Business Men and Women First. What specific business shall I choose to increase my opportunities for advancement? Second. How can I be prepared to meet success fully the demands of my present place in busi ness? Third. How can I—employer or em ployed—get the broadest vision possible of future business possibilities? Courses are offered in— • Accounting Advertising & Selling Insurance Commercial Law Money and Banking Government Regulation y/SSgSSpilSv Registration every evening, except Oct U l7 ay ' ° c k ' Sessions begin writo b o lle h nS ° r further lnfor matlon Representative—C. K. KNIGHT Chamber of Commerce Dauphin Bldg. mittee. Where there is a Red Croi Motor Corps, it could be of help." Complete Satisfaction awaits you at the store "that is different." In the first place, when you buy your New Fall and Winter Outfit here, you take heme with you our guarantee, which means that you must bo pleased with your pur chase. Secondly, it means . more satisfaction to you to know that by taking ad vantage of our Dignified Credit Plan you don't pay out all your ready cash, as the small amount down which youj pay at the time you makej your purchase and subse quent small convenient payments you make week ly or monthly are never, missed by you. \ ISO North Second Street, Corner Walnut 7
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