* ' 1 TV i Gerisi(m Emperor Names State Secretaries to Fill the Three Vacancies Caused by Upheaval in War 1 HARRISBURG ifSSjpli TELEGRAPH M, ©jc Jstar Jn&cpcn&eiit • ■ ' LXXXVTI— 20 PAGES No. 220 Da &•"$& HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1918. , omi &wspafer m haiuushlluY^ 8 sin two cents HOME EDITION GERMAN RETREAT EXPECTED TO TURN INTO GENERAL RETIREMENT OVER A WIDE FRONT GERMAN LINES ARE CRUMBLING BEFORE THE ALLIED ARMIES British Pour Through Break In Hindenburg Line For Most Important Gains HAIG'S MEN FIGHT IN OPEN COUNTRY AFTER QUICK DASH BULGARS MURDER AS RETREAT IN MACEDONIA WAR Saloniki, Oct. 4.—Burning villages marked the trail of the retreating Bulgarian army in Macedonia, according to telegrams received here from the front. Bodies of slain civilians were found in the smoking ruins at many places by the advancing Allies. Advices state that this work of de struction surpassed even that which has been reported from districts in France and Belgium from which the Germans have been driven. Bulgarian deserters reached a point within six miles of Sofia according to a Zurich dispatch to the Journal, but were driven back by Bulgarian contingents. By Associated Press Washington, Oct. 4. —Capture of Blanc Mont and other positions in Champagne was reported to-day by General Pershing in his communique for Thursday, announcing further gains by the American forces fighting with the French. The communique follows: "American troops fighting with the French have driven back the enemy and taken Blanc Mont and other positions in Champagne. Between the Moselle and the forest of Argonne, we carried out the usual artillery and patrol activity, taking a number of prisoners." Saloniki, Oct. 4.—"We soon will direct our blow at Constan tinople, and the vanquished Turk will be thrown once and for all into Asia," declared General Franchet d'Esperri, the Allied com mander-in-chief on the Macedonian front, in replying to a demon stration to-day. Northeast of St. Quentin the British to-day are reported fight ing their way into the open country beyond the llindenburg line, after having pushed ahead five miles since Monday. From Lens northward and from Rheims eastward to the Argonne the Allies continue to bend back the German flanks. The breach driven through the German defenses south of Bcaurevoir is on a front of five miles. To the north the British are plunging forward east-southeast from Le Catclet while on the south the French are attacking successfully between Seque liart and Lcsdins. The German resistance is bitter, but there has been no let up in the strong Allied pressure. In the fighting in this area Thursday Field Marshal Haig's men captured 4,000 prisoners. British Push Through Broken Line With the British in the open country northwest of St. Quentin and the cavalry and tanks pouring through the breach the Ger man positions about Cambrai and Laon will become most pre carious. Through the opening in the line Marshal Foch would be able to throw troops to take both Cambrai and Laon in the rear. West of Lille the British continue to press the Germans east ward while extending their line south of Lens to Mcricourt, where a substantial advance also has been made. Between Lens and Armentieres the British have advanced an average of more than three miles on a twenty-mile front and east of the Bois Grenier arc within six miles of the fortress of Lille. Meanwhile the British and Belgians in Flanders are widening the salient cast of Ypres, which threatens the German positions on the coast and the network of railroads west of Ghent. Foe Still Holds Lille There are ho indications that the Germans have halted their retirement in the Lille salient. The enemy still is several miles west of the Deule canal which runs from north of Armentieres through Lille to north of Lens and which probably will'form part of the German defense system before Lille. Around'Rheims and east of the Suippe Generals Bertholet and Gourand are drawing closer the sides of the German salient east of Rheims. American troops have joined the French in their operations east of the Suippe and have assisted in the advance northwest of Somme-py capturing the strong positions of Blanc Mont and the Medeah farm. Farther east the French have taken Orfeuil and Bcmont Chateau. North of Rheims the French are working their way across the Aisne canal. It appears that unless the Germans withdraw from the Champagne salient they are in danger of being caught in a trap between the armies of Bertholet and Gouraud. Big Success in Albania In Albania the Austrians arc reported retreating in disorder, now that their base at Durazzo has been destroyed by Entente warships. American submarine chasers sank two Austrian sub (Continued on Page 2.] CHURCHES AND | SUNDAY SCHOOLS ' INCLUDED IN THE! CLOSING ORDER j Saloons Shut Up Tight by Drastic Quarantine Promul-i gated by State Health De- j partment; Schools Open ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS MUST BE CALLED OFF j Gatherings of All Kinds Un lawful Under Terms of Ihe 1 Spanish Influenza Ruling;' Situation Is Serious 1 All places of amusements and saloons in the city were closed to-day, all churches and Sunday! schools ordered to discontinue services until further notice; meetings, lodge sessions, public; dances and all other public gath erings ordered to be discontinued' because of the drastic action! taken by the State Department' of Health and the City Health Bureau to prevent a spread of! Spanish influenza. There are almost 1,000 cases', of the disease in the city now I with a number of them develop-! ing into pneumonia, Dr. J. M. J. Raunick. city health officer,} reported. The State Department! last night issued the closing' [order for the entire state, but left I the question of closing churches, Sunday schools and public! J schools to local health officials. H , Schools Remain Open Dr. Raunick announced that for! the present the public schools will not be closed as it is better to have] the thousands of school children in the buildings under proper medi- j cat supervision. All children who | are coughing, sneezing or otherwise show that they are suffering from! colds, grips or influenza are to be i sent home at once. Dr. Raunick j declared it will bo much better to have the children where they can be watched rather than to turn them | loose and give them an opportunity j to go into homes where persons are ; suffering from the diseases, or to | play with children who are ill. The decision to close all churches and Sunday schools M|as reached shortly before noon to-day at a con ference of prominent clergymen who met in the city health bureau offices. Private Schools Close The churches are to remain closed until further notice. Private schools where there are no medical super visors have been ordered to close. Medical inspectors for the city school district are conferring this afternoon with the health depart ment officials on proper methods to be used in the school room to pre vent contagion. Probably the most important step to be taken in con nection with this move will be to exclude ail children who are visibly suffering from the disease. Funerals Private All funerals must be private Dr. Raunick ordered, regardless of the cause of death. Only the immediate [Continued oil Page 2.] WAR"ANGELUS" BEGINS MONDAY, MAYORDECIDES Bells to Sound Signal For Minute of Pray.er at 11 O'clock All whistles and bells of local manufacturing plants have been re quested by Mayor Keister to join In the "War Angelus" every day at 11 o'clock when the residents of Har risburg will observe one minute of dally prayer. In accordance with Mayor Keis ter's proclamation of yesterday, all manufacturing plants have been re quested to souncj their whistles or bells. beginning Monday at 11 o'clock each day. The dally prayer will continue for the duration of the war. m The following committee from the Rotary Club, wheh began the move for a daly prayer service, con ferred with the Mayor: D. H. Wit mer, chairman: Shirley Watts and Dr. Harvey A. Sttne. Rabbi Lewis J. Haas, of the Ohev Rholom Temple, after a conference with Mayor Keister to-day, recom mended a service of prayer to be held this week to pray for the re covery of the soldiers in the camps who are nffllcted with Influenza. Every church and denomination has been requested to join In the move ment. i r Quarantine on Influenza Is Observed Here The effect of the state-wide j quarantine designed to check the ravages of influenza and j pneumonia is widely felt in j the city. How stringent is the ruling may be seen by the , following curtailment of ordi- j nary activities: AH churches and Sunday schools must he kept closed. j All saloons arc elosed until j further notice. Theater and motion pie- I ture places have elosed their doors. Tomorrow's football game between Technical High and Wilkcs-Bnrre cancelled. Drill of Harrisburg Re serves postponed. Funerals may be attended , ohly by close relatives Hostess House at Civic Club is dosed. Dance halls are kept dark. j All public meetings must ) be postponed. | Seventy cases' of influenza j has developed at the Middle- j town supply depots where the | soldiers now are being qtiar- | tered in tents so that the bar- j racks may be used for hos- j pital purposes. -■ SEVENTY CASES OF INFLUENZA AT MIDDLETOWN Military Supply Depots Hard Hit by Epidemic of Grip SOLDIERS ARE IN TENTS j Barracks Are Turned Into j- Hospitals; Red Cross Is Active Seventy of Spanish influenza have developed at the Aviation Ortt | nance Depots at Midcll.etown. The detachment of aero troops stationed there have been under quarantine for some time. They now are billeted in tents while the bar racks are being used as a hospital to care for the numerous cases of in fluenza. j Everything possible is being done j to check the epidemic of influenza t at the depots, which already has taken toll of a life. Sergeant Stuhr, 503 rd Aero Squadron, whose homo is at Minden, lowa, was the first vic tim. He died at 1.35 yesterday morning. The Middletown chapter of the Red Cross came to the aid of the stricken camp yesterday, furnishing the soldiers with pajamas and other articles. BUYS TOMATO CROP I Baltimore, Oct. 4.—The Federal government will spend 316,000.000 in I purchasing the entire tomato output jin Maryland. While the price has i not been finally agreed upon. It is understood that the minimum will be 1 $1.90 a case of dozen cans. U.S. TROOPS ON ALL WAR FRONTS NUMBERI,BOO,OOO Influenza in Camps and Can tonments Retarding Ship ments For France Washington, Oct. 4.—American troops abroad now number 1,800,- 000, members of the House Military Committee were informed to-day at their weekly conference at the War Department. Spanish influenza in camps and cantonments will retard shipments somewhat in the imme diate future, they were told, the de partment having adopted the policy of not sending men overseas who have been exposed or show symp toms of the disease. Crowder Calls 29,999 Grammar Grads to Train Washington, Oct. 4. Provost I Marshal General Crowder to-day called for 29,999 grammar school I graduates from forty-two states and the District of Columbia to entrain October 15 for technical schools. Of the total 980 will be negroes. Volun tary induction will be allowed until October 12. Under this call Penn sylvania is to furnish 2,490;. 1,500 to Pittsburgh University, 490 to Car negie Institute of Technology! 800 j to Penn State Colleger LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN HARD ! HIT AS RALLIES ! ARE CURTAILED! ! | New Plan For Increasing In terest in Big Drive May Be Worked Out to Meet Condi- { lions Caused by Quarantine j [MANY BONDS ARE SOLD j ! TO CITY'S WORKINGMEN | ! Lodges and Stores Coming to j Aid of Nation by Making Heavy Subscriptions; Hold Meetings in the Open Air The state health department's or ! tiers directing the abandonment of ! meetings of all kinds will result. In j ■ a reorganization of the Liberty Loan j | campaign iy Harrisburg, and tba j balance of county, in all | likelihood. Features of the drive ion the homes of Harrisburg next I week were to be noonday luncheons lat Chestnut street auditorium. Un i der the health department order j j these meetings may not he held- j A meeting of the executive oom-j i mittee and Liberty Lohn chairmen j ''for the district is to be held this| j afternoon at 4 o'clock, when the I procedure for next week will ho mapped out. Noonday gatherings of the hun dreds of team workers In the past have resulted in increasing the en thusiasm and putting more ginger in the workers. A campaign without i these meetings has never success fully been staged in Harrisburg. But.| the eity is determined to put over its] loan quota and the committees and I chairmen this afternoon will map a now campaign if one is considered! necessary. Pennsylvania Keeps Stride Harry Leonard of the Pennsylva-1 nia railroad, Philadelphia division,! this morning reported that up to last night total bond purchases on the division numbered 4,917 for n total of $301,Q50. Yesterday's sales were 1,176, for 384,700'. Henderson Gilbert's Liberty Troupers were moving to-day and holding their meetings in the opsn air, so that no health department rules were violated. They are ap pearing this afternoon in Mifflin, i McAllisterville, Port Roydl, Millers | town and Thompsontown. Marsh Run lias Meeting i Speakers at noon to-day waited ! at the mess hall at Marsh Run, and ! when the hundreds of workers I reached the open air after lunch | some good Liberty Loan* talks were i made. Then a score of solicitors j went through the crowd and sold bonds. Liberty Loan Xotes ! | Capital City Nest. Order of Owls, -j lias authorized the purchase of SSOO ' Liberty Bonds. Practically every ' member of the lodge has Indivi ' dually purchased from SIOO to SSOO worth of bonds. I Harrisburg lodge No. T. O. O. F-., I has authorized its trustees to pur ! chase S3OO worth of bonds. ] Keystone lodge. No. -1,070. Tnter i national Association of Machinists, | has bought 81,000 worth of bonds. Mrs. E. J. Stackpole and Mrs. Her man P. Miller to-day sold Liberty j Bonds at Market street lieadquar j ters. Until the end of the campaign | wives or daughters, mothers or sweethearts of soldiers will preside at a headquarters booth daily. Kaufman's store employes have bought over SII,OOO worth of bonds. Captain Vint, British artilleryman. COUNCIL DALLIES AS SHADE TREE WORK HANGS FIRE City Administration Shows Little Interest in Matters , of Importance At a meeting of City Council this week Park Commissioner Gross asked his colleagues for permission jto give a tree from the city nursery, which is congested with trees that ought to have been set out in the park long ago, to a family which wanted to plant the tree in memory of a dead soldier. Council gave Com missioner Gross permission. No shade tree commission has been created notwithstanding the months of discussion and the sev eral promises of Commissioner Gross and no steps have been taken to trim the trees all over Harrisburg which are hanging down and ob structing sidewalks. Mayor Keister thought there should be no objection to the peo ple planting memorial trees for the soldiers, but suggested that there should be a more permanent mem orial hereafter. As a matter of fact what other cities are doing in the way of tree planting has no effect whatever upon the present admin istration of Harrisburg. Some day, perhaps, the city will have an ad ministration that will show some interest in these things which under present conditions are treated with supreme indifference, U. S. WARSHIPS TAKE PART IN BIG RAID ON AUSTRIAN BASE Americans, British and Ital ians Take Part in Success ful Attack on Durazzo After Evading Dangerous Mine Fields and Submarines \AIRPLANES CO-OPERATE j IN DARING SEA BATTLE Intense Bombardment De- I "*• strops Foe's Supplies and Vessels Lying at Anchor; English Cruiser Suffers Slight Damage By Associated Press Rome, Oct. 4.—American submarine chasers destroyed j two enemy submarines yes- j terday during the bombard ment of Durazzo, it vyas offi cially announced to-day. London , Oct.—ln the leveling of the fortifications and depots at Durazzo Wed- i nesday the Entente squad ron, according to a Central j News dispatch from Rome, destroyed much material for | the Austrian army in Al bania. Rome, Oct. 4.—American, British and Italian warships have! i destroyed the Austrian naval ( base at Durazzo and the war-! ships anchored there, according! to an announcement made bv! Premier Orlando. The attack occurred at noon Wednesday when Itajian and Brit ish. cruisers, protected by Italian and Allied torpedo boats and Amer ican submarines, succeeded in pass ing through mine fields and avoid ing attacks by submarines got into Durazzo harbor. Intense Bombardment An intense bombardment followed until the base and the Austrian ships anchored there were com pletely destroyed. Italian sailors I torpedoed an Austrian destroyer and a steamer. ' , British and Italian airplanes co operated. A slight injury to a British cruiser by a torpedo from an enemy sub marine was the only damage suffered by the Allied squadron. GROOM. (10; BRIDE, 17 New Oxford, Pa., Oct. 4. Al though married on August 29, an nouncement has just been made of the wedding of Addison Erb and Miss Laura Musselman, the cere i mony being performed in the Re formed parsonage by the Rev. A. Nevin Brubaker. The bridegroom is 60 years old while the bride is only 17. PUBLIC LIBRARY CLOSED The Harrisburg Public Library was closed to-day until further no- I tice because of the influenza out- I break. i HEY, NEIGHBORS! HURRY UP! PUT LIBERTY BONDS BESIDE YOUR THRIFT CARDS &2TYou're Lending to Uncle Sam ' THE WEATHER! For Harrisburg and vicinityi Fair 1 and warmer to-night and Nntur- | day) loweal temperature to night about 50 degree*. For Kastern I'rnr.sylvnnlai Fair to-night und Saturday, except rain Saturday In north portion; warmer; light, variable winds, mostly north. River The lower portion* of the North und Went branch,* will rise this afternoon and begin to fall ! to-night or Saturday. The up per portion of the main river will rime slowly to-night and the lower portion Saturday. A ' stage of about feet Is Indl- i rated for llarrlsburg Saturday morning, with a crest stage of about 5.0 feet Saturday night or Sunday. fienernl Conditions The anticyclone that was central over the Upper Mississippi Val ley, Thursday morning, bns oversprend nearly all the coun try east of the Mississippi river, with Its center over Penn sylvania. Tempernturet 8 a. m.. da. River Staget 4.3 feet above low water mark. Sew York Troops Wreak Vengeance on Huns With the American Army Northwest of Verdun, Oct. -I. • When New York troops captured . the village of Abri-Bt. Louis last Friday thc.v were made victims of an act of German treachery. A number of Germans emerged from hiding plaees with uplifted hunds. When the Americans came nearer the Germans suddenly dropped their hands and, seiz ing hand grenades, threw them with deadly effect, killing and wounding a number of the New- York boys. Then more New York troops armed with flame throwers and gas projectors, went forward and tilled the village with flame ami gas. Not a single Germun es caped. • A WORKS BOTH WAYS lit-tiding, Pa., Oct. 4.—When word reached the State's W. C. T. U. con vention, in session here, to-day, all saloons had to close, because of Spanish influenza, the delegates re joiced. The celebration was short lived, however, as peremi*>ry orders to close the convention, which was to have continual! until next Tuesday, came a few mlniites later. DR. KEEN ILL Dr. C. E. L. Keen, city school df rector, is ill at his horde, 1849 Berry hill street, suffering from influenza. He has been confined there since Mon day evening. f I i i V "£ I I *S ' ? J i S *1 1 against.the firm of* Rosenwrraser Brothers indict- •-' \ * T depart . nt. . jj f I I ? 1 s 1 1 e > ' 'l 'i ' 5 ; 1 >. < ' - I { ' a V c* 'J ' i' 1 > v ' i f v _ ' ' ' K 'i * T !: ' i I here, engaged "in the manufacture of'gla&f utensils and rs~. .Jj Tcently plac-d in the non-essential list by the government. .1 I " L J • l . ' • . - ; I I Easel—The Bulgarian Socialist party wflT support 'M fthe • if: >o!v ■'•- ith <■. '-*/ ondh' .* . | I the government makps peace, according to the Sdfcia I wnewspa ir Narod of-Sofia. f MARRIAGE LICENCES John C. B. Berry and Minn C. Klllkiffrr. Hnrrlnbure; Horace rv. ST ( Merrlnon and Adn S. Rone, Wlronlnro. e . t hi—no -m. . . -m. .m. . _ -m. .m, wK AMERICAN TANKS SCATTER GERMAN TROOPS TRYING TO TAKE APREMONT Lurch Through Enemy Ranks, Spray Bullets and Spread Terror; Yankee Forces Take Champagne Front Towns U. S. FLYERS LET FALL .17/ 2 TONS OF BOMBS i jNcw York Troops Find Con crete Pillars Barring Way on Edge of Argonne Forest, Northwest of Verdun With the American Army In France. Oct. 4.—American troops went Into action yesterday morning on the Champagne front. A report from the French Army states they had advanc ed considerably by noon and had taken Blanc Mont and Medeah farm. Northwest of Verdun the American aviators were busy all day, carrying out bombing attacks on Conflans, Longuyon, Audon, Dommary, Bux'- eres, Vignoulles, Chambley, Etain, Arnville and Grandpre. Tliey dropped thirty-seven and one half tons of bombs. Abfleville, Gorze, Hayden vllle and Marcq also were bombed. In twelve days' flying on this front thirty-four successful missions have been undertaken by the American aviators. Yankee Tanks Cause Terror When German forces advanced [Continued on Page 12.]
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