PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS IN THICK OF NEW VERDUN FIGHT Men From Western Part of State Captured Town Thought Impregnable; Make Brave Record Under Enemy Fire WiUi the American Army at Ver dun, Oct. s.—The Pennsylvanians have inscribed upon their colors during the last week of hard fight " ing around Verdun the names of the •} A two largest towns captured by Amer icans, Montfaucon and Verennes. while they also gained the honor of forcing their way up the valley of ®he Aire, which was held by the Prussian guard, who tried to bar the way. This would have been honor enough for the Keystone state, but the Pennsylvanians also fought in the eastern edge of the Argonne forest, in connection with the New Yorkers, who made the main attack there and recaptured once and for all time the famous village of Mal- L ancourt. which was mentioned daily | in the great Verdun battle of 1916, and which was Won and lost a dozen times. Experienced French officers had grave doubts as to whether Mont faucon would be taken, for towering on the heights, it was a citadel in deed. But the Pennsylvanians, com manded by Major Harry D. Parkin, of Pittsburgh, acting regimental commander, was the first to enter, with the troops of Major J. Bayard Atwood. of Pittsburgh, not far away. As their commander said. "Our men would go anywhere they are led. no mutter how hot the fire." These particular troops had never been in heavy fighting before. They took for their motto the last words of an officer who died beyond Mont faucon when the first German coun terattack came: "We will lose every man before we give way an inch!" Fought Without Artillery They did not give way an inch. Although on the first day they had a heavy barrage to smooth the way for them, there were times later when they had no artillery protec tion, but went ahead anyway, with simply their rifles, bayonets and bombs, wjiile the scouts, command ed by Lieutenant Murray E. Goetz, of Woodlawn, Pa.. former com ' mander of the Pennsylvania State University cadets, crawled forward to send back reports of the enemy's whereabouts and strength. The first day it was comparatively easv. They found the enemy de fenses wrecked by shellfire and took many prisoners, but later it was harder and an advance of 100 yards was won as fiercely as that of a mile on the first day. The great trouble then was machine guns, which were secreted in strong nests and made much trouble. These had to be gone after by especially daring and in genious men. Lieutenant Joseph Home, of the big department store family of Pittsburgh, was continually leading his men at the machine guns and wiped out many nests, drawing the attention of all to his utter disre gard of danger. In fact, every one of the men scented endowed with superhuman powers. Carried Wounded on His Hack Lieutenant T. W. Culverson, of Pittsburgh, a former ambulance driver in the French army, carried the wounded to the dressing station on his back, dodging bursting shells. He had to throw himself fiat three times on one trip to escape iteing blown to bits, but using his early ambulance experience managed to i it with a human burden on his lul j^p *• *! mir Our boys on the war fronts are giving a mighty i IT encouraging account of themselves -M j§| And the more they're supported at home the harder they'il push To halt now would be fatal They are awaiting your command for orders w . >f Will it be "Halt" or "Forward"? The Amount of Your Liberty Loan Subscription Is Your Answer We will be pleased to ki tXr accept your subscrip- Bj^Tß X twn. ?T: ' ■ 14 South Market Spuare nlf 1 * 1 OFFICERS: * \ (V . : Kdward Bailey, President. A. Fortenbaugh, Vice-President. gjS . Geo. W. Reily, Vice-President J. R. Henry, Secretary-Treasurer. r*i f jA SATURDAY EVENING, haiuusbobg TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 5, 1918. back, so that neither he nor the wounded was injured. Lieutenant Charles A. Hoffman, of 620 South Dallas street, Pitts burgh. a member of the old Penn sylvania National Guard, went | through Montfaucon on the run nnd there fired his first shot in the war from his automatic revolver. It killed a German officer who was try ing to rally his men. Hoffman has a fine pair of German glasses as a trophy. He then went on and reorganized his platoon on a hilltop nearly two | miles beyond Montfaucon under a j heavy fire. This hilltop was an es ' pecially hot place, and the Germans i counterattacked there after a hot ! barrage, but Major Parkin had ! made such a good disposition of his i men that it was utterly repulsed. Lieutenant Hoffman had been j searching for Lieutenant Paul Eck | ler, of New Kensington, Pa., who j was supposedly staying with head quarters as a one-pounder expert. ' He found him up at the front line leading a platoon whose commander had been hit. Lieutenant J. Edgar Murdock, of Greensburg. Pa., crawled forward in a constant enemy fife and return ed safely to report that there was a gap between the Pennsylvanians and the troops on the left, thus leaving an opportunity for a danger ous German flanking movement. WAR VETERANS~TO FEATURE RALLY [Continued from First Page.] tention to his individual prospect— meaning himself or herself. "I think this is the most impor i tant committee in the entire history |of the Liberty Loan campaigns. It ! is a mighty large committee, but |it is not unwieldy. I ask of these nearly 200,000 committeemen that ! they go after their prospects dili ! gently—presenting the Liberty Loan arguments that we all know so well." Grand Union Tea Company to day announced that it is a hundred per cent, organization except for the fact that two girls employes who are jsick have not had an opportunity to ' sign for bonds. The Harrisburg Kresge store to : day purchased $2,300 worth of ' bonds. Bonds Arc Here Every bank ip Harrisburg now | has Liberty bonds of the fourth is ' sue and subscribers who wish to ' pay cash may get them at any time. | The bonds arrived early this week, i Purchase of bonds was going on briskly in the majority of the Instl ' unions to-day. The intricacies of the Liberty Loan campaign, and the detail with which the subscriptions are being handled, I have rendered it necessary to en gage a number of volunteer helpers. I The Elliott-Fisffier Company vester ! day sent four book typewriting ma- I chines to the office in Market street, | with young women to man them. Get Supplies To-niglit Chairman Frank C. Sites' homes 1 workers to-night between 7.30 and j S o'clock in the federal courtroom I will receive their supplies for next week's drive. All of these workers are urged to be on hand. D. D. SWAVELY, !1 LISTED MISSING, I IS IN HOSPITAL Central Pennsylvania Boys on Casualty List Reported Seriously Wounded D. D. SWAVELY To-day's casualty list, carried the : cheering news that David Daniel j Swavely. 1708 Kegina stret, previ- : ously reported as missing in action, j is in a hospital. The casualty list of j September 23 carried the statement : that he was missing. He is aged 21 j. years and is a member of the Head- j quarters Company of the One Hun dred and Twelfth Infantry. Frank Attley Westfall, Mechanics- ' ( burg K. D. No. 2, has been severely i . wounded in France, according to j ] last night's casualty lists. Telegrams : from the War Department say that ! ] he was wounded a day after his 1 j brother, John Westfall. was killed. 1 . Frank fought beside his brother ■ j when the other fell on the field of ' : action. Both of the Westfall boys enlisted j in June. 1917, in the old Eighth ; , Regiment, going into training at | , Camp Hancock and sailing last May. I i Private Charles William Fiukhis 1 341 South Fifteenth street: Private I , Benjamin Franklin Grayblll, 646 j j Calder street, and Harry W. Grove, j , 218 West South street, Carlisle, are j listed on the casualty lists. Private J i Fackler, son of Mrs. Fannie Faclt- j . ler, was wounded in action. Private i i Graybill. son of Mrs. Naomi Gray-j --hill, was also severely wounded. I 1 REPUBLICANS OF CONGRESS BACK OF | THE PRESIDENT No Comparis' n Between the \ Present War and Roose velt's Plea For Support Wasliiiigton, Oct. s.—ln the Con-1 gressional campaign of IS9S, Colonel Roosevelt, then Republican nomi nee for governor of New York, and Benjumin Harrison, former Repub lican president, urged upon the vot ers of the country the necessity of the election of a Republican Con gress in order that President Alc- Kinley s war administration might be upheld. These two Republican lead ers. in common with scores of others, argued that the election of a Demo i cratic Congress, coming at a time when tho terms of peace between the United States and Spain were being discussed might " encourage those European powers that were at heart hostile to this country, to throw their influence with Spain and cither prolong hostilities or force a peace treaty upon the Llnited States that would not be desirable. Just at present. Democratic lead ers are trying to draw a parallel be tween the situation then and the one existing. However, instead of there being a similarity between the con ditions of 1898 and 1918 there Is a striking contrast. The Republicans, although in a minority in both House nnd Senate, have given, unstinted J support to i very war policy asked by I President' Wilson. In many cases, particularly where the raising of out armies was at stake, the Republi cans have been the leaders in support of President Wilson. At no time have they attempted to cripple the ad ministration by refusing to vote reve nues asked by the administration leaders to finance the prosecution pf the war. Democrats l ight War Revenues In striking contrast to this pa triotic support of a national adminis | tration in time of foreign war is ihe I record made by the Democratic | party during the Spanish-American war when the $600,000,000 war reve -1 ttuc bond bill asked for by the Mc kinley administration to supply fi nances to prosecute the Spanish- American war came up for passage in June, 1898. Only six Democrats out of a total of 130 in the House of Representatives were sufficiently pa triotic to place country above party and vote for this war revenue meas ure. The Democratic record in the Senate was not far different, as out of thirty-four Democratic Senators only seven cast partisan lines aside and voted for the hill that was nec essary to provide war funds. Despite the efforts of Democratic leaders to capitalize the war by mak-; ing it appear to lie a Democratic' partisan affair, and despite their re fusal to permit the Republicans to sit \ in the councils which frame war policies, 'lie Republican minority in I >otli branches of Congress have seen i fit to submerge partisanship and to I overlook the narrow partisan atti-! tilde of the Democratic leaders. This is a striking contrast to the record made-by tho Democratic nti-i nority during tho Spanish-American wiir. Then tile minority p.arty was' a party of opposition to' all war, measures and policies. For that rca- ! son Colonel Roosevelt and former President Benjamin Harrison were! Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. justified, in the campaign of 1898, in urging the totcrs to refuse'to turn the control of Congress over to the Democratic party. But it is perfect ly clear there is not the slightest parallel between the attitude of thei Democratic minority in Congress! during the Spanish-American war and the attitude of the Republican! mihority in Congress now. Drives Car 1,800 Miles to Visit Friends in Perry Blain, Pa., Oct. s.—The Young People's Society of Christian Endeav or of the Zion's Reformed Church, are presenting a gold emblem pin to each member that has gone to the army.—Mrs. Frank Moore and daugh ter, Jane, of Harrisburg, are guests of -the former's aunt, Mrs. Creigh Patterson. —E. K. Weaver Is home from Burnham.—Frank Comp, who drove his car from Delmont, South Dakota, a distance of eighteen hun dred miles, visited friends here this week, accompanied by his cousin, Ed ward Comp. of Dakota.—Miss Maude I. Smith has returned from a trip to Harrisburg.—Mrs. Annie Woods lias returned home from a PIMPLY? WELL, DON'T BE People Notice It. Drive Them Off with Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets A pimply face will not embarrass you much longer if you get a package of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. The skin should begin to clear after you have taken the tablets a few nights. Cleanse the blood, bowels and liver with Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the successful substitute for calomel; there's no sickness or pain after taking them. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets do that which calomel does, and just as effec tively, but their action is gentle and safe instead of severe and irritating. No one who takes Olive Tablets is ever cursed with "a dark brown taste," a bad breath, a dull, listless, "no good" feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad disposition or pimply face. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil; you will know them by their olive color. Dr. Edwards spent years among pa tients afflicted with liver and bowel complaints, and Olive Tablets are the immensely effective result Take one or two nightly for a week. See how much better you feel and look. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. A pin Co without ii roof which iIOCN not Interfere with tn-Hte or Mpcech. shk£ Roofless^ I'lntcs Repaired While You Walt RACK'S de of t f^es 310 MARKET STREET visit to her sister, Mrs. Roy R. Al len, at Merlden. Conn.—Mr. and Mrs. Noah Getz. of Lancaster county, vis ited the latter's mother, Mrs. Mary Zimmerman over tho weekend.—Mr. Avviso agli Italiani I Doinenica 6 Ottobre 1918 alle 3 pomeridiane vi sara un Grande Meeting nel Reservoir Park I dove interverra un rappresentatante dell 'Ambasciatore d ltalia e una Compagnia dia valorosi I Alpini Italiani I venuta espressamente n America a richiesta del governo degli Stati Uniti per visitare le prinipali citta di questa nazione nella presente cam pagna del Quarto Prestito della Liberta. S II rappresentante dell 'Ambasciatore . spieghera agli Italiani quanto Tltalia lia fatto e sta facendo nella guerra Europea, il valore dei suoi sol dati prima nell 'avanzata dentro I'Austria e poi nell 'arrestare le orde barbariche Austro-Tedesche sul Piave. Venite tutti, o Italiani, ad ascoltare il rappresent ante della vostra liazione, e a vedere gli Alpini del vostro esercito cbe tanti prodigi di valore compirono sulle montagne della Alpi. La colonia intera e pregato di Trovarvi nella Seconda strada ed Chestnut alle ore 1 p. m. per marciare in carpo al punto di riunione. | and Mrs. A. D. Garber and daughters, | Esther and Anna, of Florin, were I here to attend the funeral of Mrs. I George Mumper on Tuesday.—S. C. Klstler, of Newport, visited his aunt. Mrs. Jacob Snyder, over Sunday.—S Mrs. Fannie Klstler has returned home from Newport.—Mrs. Elizabeth Henry paid a visit to her son, the Rev. Luther E. Henry at l'enbrook. 3
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