ft,. . W , £ - . L is to Confer./• *.met?ca*§ WwVnsw^ , • )lk ■ HARRISBURG "iflilplli TELEGRAPH jff[ \ ®ie olac- Independent. LXXXVII— No. 226 20 PAGES &■?& HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1918. "UMSSSB slN t#o c c°knts HOME EDITION 8-HOUR DAY IS GRANTED TO ALL WORKERS ATTHE STEELTON MILLS Time and Half Time to Be Given Employes of Bethle hem Steel Company, Ef fective October 1 EMPLOYES MAY FORM . LABOR COMMITTEES General Manager Bobbins An nounces Plans Designed to Remove All Working Trou bles Until End of the War The Rcthlehcm Steel Com pany's plant at Steelton to-dav was placed on an eight-hour basis. This announcement to gether with a statement that employes may organize commit tees to take up all labor problems with the management was made this morning by Frank A. Bobbins, Jr..j general manager. Employes working; more than i eight hours a day will be paid time and half time. This will mean an I enormous increase in the corpora-' tion's payrolls because of the ] thousands of men aqected. Big l'ay Increase In the mills most of the men work | at 12-hour tricks. The new rate of time and half time for the last four ! hours will mean a big increase In! wages. In the various shops many| employes work ten. eleven and in some cases thirteen hours: The ruling that men may organ ize shop committees to confer with 1 the management at all times on all questions was taken by the men to jnean that labor troubles in the future will be eliminated. The Notice The notice follow: "Effective October 1 all employes' of this plant in hourly turn, tonnage contract and piece work rates will he paid on a basis of time and a half I time for work in excess of eight: hours on any day. "It js also desired to provide em-1 ployes ways and means of meeting' with and bringing before the man- j ageinent problems affecting their working conditions and to accom- j plish this the company proposes to establish a system of employes rep-! resentation consisting of represen- 1 tatives elected by the employes to serve on various committees to deal with all phases of their working con ditions. \ j "The general principles of this: system have been developed and will be immediately submitted to the employes "Signed, "FRANK A BOBBINS." i Father J. J. Smythe, of Mt. Carmel, Appointed Rector at Sacred Heart The Rev. Father J. J. Smythe, of the Church of Our Lady, of Mt. Carmel at Jit. Carmel will be the new rector of the Sacred Heart | Church at Harrisburg, It was an- ! nounced to-day. The Rev. Father JI. J. Morgan. I of Conewago. will succeed Father j Smythe at Mt. Carmel. The Rev. ■ Father Joseph Schmidt, formerly of j Carlisle, will succeed Father Hor- j san at Con&wago. Father Schmidt ! was assistant to Father Welsh at : Carlisle. LOOKING AHEAD ' Val Fisher, managing director of The Advertising World, of London, says: This is a time when every man ufacturer, every businessman, should look ahead. Good will cannot he built in a day, even advertising. The war will not last always. We have all seen the mis takes of being unprepared for war; It Is almost as great and serious a mistake to be unpre pared for peace. What are you going to do with your acres and acres of enlarged factory space now employed in the making of war products all over America if you don't build good will now for the goods you are going to make when the war is won'.' How are you going to keep the smoke coming out of your factory chimneys after peace is declared, if you don't keep your name constantly be fore the public now, and build a demand for your peace-time products that will Insure a satis factory business the minute you stop making munitions or other war supplies'.' The businessman can no -more stop advertising now and begin again after the war Just where he left off than he can stop eating for the present and resume when the war Is over. ___ THE WEATHER For Harrlaburg and vlrlnllyi Fair to-night and finturdny) not much ,'hnngr In temperature. For Eastern Pennsylvaniai Fnlr to-night nnd "nfordnyi not much change In temperature) light, went winds. u , Hirer The Susqnehanna river and nil Its hrnnehes will continue to fall slowly. \ stage of nhout i. feet la Intllented for Harrlaburg Saturday morning. • - What Is Your Stand? v *■"' "v CITY WILL FIGHT FOR LOAN TO LAST DITCH FRENCH HEROES HERE Strenuous Effort Must Be Made If Harrisburg Is Not to Hang Its Head in Shame Because of Defeat YANKS WIN IN BATTLE; WE ARE LOSING AT HOME When the city bells rang for noon to-day the Liberty Loan campaign was over so far as the teams are concerned which have 'been can vassing the city for the last four days. Some other method must now be employed to sell Harrtsburg's quota of bonds. That the city has not been thor oughly canvassed seems to be indi cated by the fact that in front of the bulletin board at the Courthouse last night four solicitors sold sll,- 150 worth of bonds to men who said they had never been asked to buy. These sales were in SSO and SIOO lots. Jlore than $1,000,000 worth of bonds remained to be sold when the [Continued on Page 18.] "COLOR LINE" HAS DEVELOPED AT DICKINSON i President of the Institution Drops Two Colored Stu dents From Rolls i I "We have decided that it would, j perhaps, be better If you would go jto a colored school. There are a | number of Southern boys coming here to-night and they might make it unpleasant for you." J "If you say so," was the reply, ."there Is nothing else for me to do I but to go, but I was working for a degree, and you know what that 'would mean to me after the war." Thus was William Jefferson, a senior at Dickinson College, dismiss ed from the institution by Dr. Jlor |gan, the president, and thus the student accepted the situation. It's a story of two ambitious, en ergetic and self-respecting colored jboys and what happened to them iat one of the oldest institutions of learning in the United States. Wil li iam and Edward Jefferson are the on Page 12.] GO OVER TOP IX IAJAX | Providing their loyalty to the na tion, Linglestown, under the chair manship of O. B. Leese, Paxtonia, under the leadeship of R. S. Care and the district north of the city, including Rockville, under Carl W. Davis, went over the top in the Lib erty Ixjan drive to-day. It was an- j j nounced. Penbrook, under H. u. ! I Plank, has also gone over. I Battle-Scarred Veterans Are Greeted Here by Men and Women Who Have Bought Bonds to Support Army j EVERY MAN DECORATED FOR VALOR ON FIELD Sixty-three heroes came out of the .West this morning and for the entire ;day made Harrisburg their stopping (place on the way back to the land j where their names are spoken in ; whispers, and their deeds recounted j with bated breath. ] Five officers and 58 men of the j French Legion of Honor, who have carried the standards of the French Republic forward against the Ger j mans on every battle sector from i Belgium to Alsace Lorraine, who i stopped the Germans in the num erous drives for Paris, and saved civilization for France and the the world, for one whole day they remained in Harrisburg, answering the questions of hundreds who gath ered to see them, and telling the [Continued on Page 18.] NEED OF AMERICA IS MEN AND CASH. SAYS GEN. MARCH American Troops Sent Over I Seas Pass 1,900,000 Mark; Makes Loan Appeal i Washington, Oct. 11.—American troops sent overseas have passed the | 1,900,000 mark, General March an ' nounced to-day, coupling his state ! ment with an urgent appeal to the | country ,to support the Fourth Lib | erty Loan. The present is no time to hang j back, General March said for the j maximum resources of the nation and I men and mrniey must be "hurled at j the Hun" to make victory certain, land while the movement of soldiers . across the water is continuing the War Department Is preparing another two million to follow the first two million. \ear Vital Point Taking up the battle situation on ' the west front, Ganeral March said ■with the capture of Le Cateau by the | British the Allied forces were within ! fourteen miles of the railway Junc | tion of Aulnoye, which Is a vital strategical point for the enemy. The Liege-Maubeuge railway and the lat eral road through Sedan at which the American Army is striking on the Meuse meet each other at Aul noye, and these two lines are the main arteries for German supplies and troop movements In France. 141.1HH1 Slightly Wounded The first courier from Genera! Pershing carrying the hospital rec ords of the expeditionary forces for slightly wounded men has arrived. General March said, the lists includ ing approximately sixteen thousand names. This number, he said, was the accumulation for all the period I up to the time it was decided to bring I the lists by courier. SCHOOL TURNED INTO HOSPITAL i FOR EMERGENCY BYDR.RAUNICK | j Orders Placed bv City Health Bureau For 150 Cots For Use of Patients Unable to Receive Home Treatment | LITTLE CHANGE SEEN IN LOCAL SITUATION j Stores Will Close Saturday Evenings; Call Issued For Nurses Who Need Not Have Professional Experence Dr. J. JI. J. Raunick, city health officer, to-day established the city's first emergency hospital for the treatment of victims of the influenza epidemic, the ravages of which have been unchecked despite the drastic steps taken by city and state au thorities. The open air school at Fifth and Seneca streets is the site j selected for the emergency work. The first patients probably wilt be taken to the building this even ing. Four' Die at Hospital Four deaths from Spanish influ esza. and thirteen more cases of the disease, were reported at the Har risburg Hospital this morning as having occurred since yesterday. The dead are: Antoni Donatella, admitted at 9 o'clock last evening, died at 5 o'clock this morning: lived at S2O South Second street, Steelton. Jtrs. Peter Vlhos, 237 Hoas street, died at 1.05 this morning. William Patterson. 147 Balm street, admitted at 8 o'clock last evening, died one hour later. Patrick Kearney, aged 50, Front and • Swatara streets. Steelton, ad mitted at 4 o'clock yesterday, died at 8.50 this morning. Dr. Raunick decided this morning to open the hospital after It became apparent that the epidemic is wildly spreading and that the regular hos pitals cannot take any more suf ferers. Orders were placed this morning for 150 cots to be delivered to the school-hospital and Dr. Raunick and the Harrisburg Chap ter of the Red Cross made an irr i gent appeal for volunteer nurses. Capable Women Seeded Tt is not necessary that the volun teers l>e registered nurses or fir?t aid workers. Any woman capable of taking care of the sick and who is competent to receive and carry out instructions can be of much service at the hospital. At least a score of volunteers will be needed at the out start. Dr. Raunick said, and if a sufficient number is not obtained the City Health Bureau will make | an appeal to the State Health De perament as has been done by some j other cities. Organization of the emergency [Continued on Phro 18.] HARD WORK TO AVOID DISGRACE : V ■* BOND SALES TO DATE Before to-day. To-day Industrials.. $2,170,350 $82,150 Homes 1,811,050 468,150 County (out side city).. 1,292,100 754,900 | Perry county 135,950 74,650 I Juniata Co. . 67,000 93,750 ! Totals $5,477,410 $1,473,600 j GRAND TOTALS, DISTRICT ; Prior to to-day $5,477,410 | Today 1,473,600 Total $6,951,010 CITY TOTALS j Prior to to-day $3,981,400 j To-day 550,300 Totals $4,531,700 SALK BY TEAMS Hunter Division Previous To-day's Sales. Sales. ; Johnson $15,300 $1,350 | Cozolli 19,600 14,750 : Repp 19,350 8,050 . Stevens 14.550 19,500 McDonald 3,200 2,250 | Seeley ........ 11,950 2,350 Totals $84,150 $48,250 I'nss Division j Holler $164,700 . $8,400 j Seaman 17,900 10,600 | Saussaman 31,150 28,000 i Schell 10,700 11,300 ; Miller 20,000 13,100 | Boyer 25,600 10,650 Totals $170,050 $83,050 McCormiek Division Taylor $31,150 $11,500 'Brandt 174,600 43,900 j Pitch 19,100 1,950 Essick 61,550 4,550 | Barnes 140,850 10,300 Stine 47,300 21,750 | Total $474,250 $83,600 Bacon Division Kinter $21,400 $4,350 | Eager 67,450 2,900 ■ Armstrong 26,150 4,450 Robinson 12,750 6,850 , Kinnard 35,000 4,150 i Lewis . 22,550 4,650 I Total $185,300 $27,350 Hodman Division j Wm. Strouse .. $28,300 $18,350 | Burtnett 27,750 16,450 i Witman 24,900 5,200 Raker 16,500 18,150 Olmsted 19,550 14,800 Neiffer >5,500 3,600 Total 143,500 $76,500 i Dapp Division Benj Strouse ... 1 16,500 34,550 ] Redmond 24,300 12,000 1 Blough ' 265,250 34,850 Lundis 20,700 ...... Allen 157450 22,'irto : H. P. Miller .. 81,000 2,400 Total $665,250 FROM DOUAI TO VERDUN THE ENEMY IS RETREATING WITH HIS ARMIES BADLY CRUSHED HEADLONG FLIGHT By Associated rrcss WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN" FORCES SOI'THI'.AST OF CAMBRIA, Oct. ll.—The great battle now being fought In this region is on a front of nearly thirty miles to-day, having been ex tended to the north. The British are gaining every where. There •s virtually no enemy infantry opposition. The only resistance worth mentioning is eonllng from the enemy machine gunners. The hulk of the enemy artillery seems to have fled to far east of the battleground so as to be out of range. North of the LeCatcau-St. Itilnire line, the Germans are in head long flight, according to tile last reports from airplane observer.-. The Douai salient has been made still deeper, and the news that the Germans arc beginning to evacuate that city may be expected at any time. 600 DIE WHEN FOE SINKS GREAT SHIP No Time Given to Launch Lifeboats; Women and Children Go Down in Lateet Sub Horror Dublin, Oct. 11.—It is believed 600 lives were lost in the sink ing of the mail steamer Leinster by a torpedo in the Irish sea yesterday, it was stated to-day at the office of her owners. Only about 150 were saved, it was added. After the Leinster had been struck by the lirst torpedo and In her dis abled condition was an easy prey, the submarine lired a second to pedo. This missile struck the vessel amidships, entered the engine room and caused an explosion of the ship's boilers. Many Thrown Into Sea There was some confusion as the passengers tried to enter the boats and many persons were thrown into the sea. As soon as information re garding the Leinster's plight reach ed Kingstown tlfteen tugs and de stroyers hastened to the place. Survivors say the submarine fired the two torpedoes without warning from a range of about 150 yards. Details of the lost and saved have not yet been obtained. Captain Birch, ' the Leinster's commander, was among those lost. It is known that two stewardesses were drowned. Second Torpedo Fatal Fourth Engiaecr Jones said that if the second torpedo had not struck the Leinster all on board except those who had been directly killed by the first torpedo, probably would LT. JOHNSTON MISSING AFTER BATTLE IN AIR Fate of Harrisburg Aerial Officer Said Doubtful by War Department. j The grim but not unhopeful news | from the Adjutant General's office in j Washington came last night to Paul Johnston, treasurer and general [manager of the Johnston Paper Company, of this city, that his brother, First Lieutenant Donald Johnston, attached to the air service in France, had been missing since September 12. Lieutenant Johnston, who sailed overseas in the middle of I last July, went abroad as a casual aerial officer, unattached to any I squadron. He enlisted in the aerial service in June, 1917, in California. ! The brief telegrum from the Ad ! jutant General failed to say what particular engagement was respon ! sible for the undoing of Lieutenant ! Johnston, but promised to forward 'such particulars, together with in formation as to whether the officer : is alive or dead when they are avail able. The last heard from Lieutenant Johnston was six weeks ago when a letter written in French from him was received by one of his brother Paul's children. Prior to that time two or three letters had come from the lieutenant. Upon receipt of the message last night, Mr. Johnston im mediately wired the contents of the telegram to Robert A. Johnston, father of the missing lieutenant, who is making a short sojourn at Atlan tic City. Lieutenant Johnston, who was 27 years old and unmarried, enlisted in California, attending first the ground school at Berkley University, [Continued on Page 18.] Coming Sunday Will Be Gasless; Maybe Last Washington, Oct. 11.—The gasless Sunday order will not be modified in time to permit use of motor cars on October 13, but fuel adminis tration officials are hopeful that day will be the last. During the last six months, although production in creased twenty-seven per cent., con sumption also Increased ' and the stocks on hand were Improved only four per cent have been saved as there was plenty of time to launch the boats. The ex plosion of the second torpedo, bow ever. lie said, blew the ship up like matchwood. Joses saved himself by jumping, lie was in the water one hour and was clinging to a raft when rescued by a destroyer. The Leinster was the fifth channel boat sunk by German submarines. The rescuing ships picked up scores of persons from the water where they were clinging to upturned boats, rafts and broken timbers. The survivors were brought to Kiugs town. All were in a desperate state as a result of their hour's exposure in the rough sea. A number of dead bodies also were landed. Wreckage Kills Several A member, of the crew says the explosion of the second torpedo blew the funnels to pieces. • Some of the wreckage fell on the deck and killed several perstfns. A majority of the passengers on the forward deck were thrown into the sea, according to the same witness, who said some of the boats were smashed in being launched and that others capsized. Francis Osborne, judge of the High Court of the Sudan, says he saw the first torpedo approaching. When it struck the ship the vessel began to settle by the head. He went over the side and slid down a rope as others had done and entered a boat. While the lifeboat was toss ing close to the ship the second tor pedo was fired. AMERICAN ARMY SMASHES INTO ENEMY LINES Yankee Infantry Sweeps For ward For Important Gains Northwest of Verdun With tlio American Army North west of Verdun, Thursday, Oct. 10.— American force# struck the German lines east of the Argon'ne forest to day. They captured the villages of Sommerance, Chevieres and Marcq. The ridge of Dame Marie were stormed after hard fighting. Mbro than one thousand prisoners were taken during the day. These include one colonel and two battalion staffs. Fighting opened this morning with the infantry sweeping through the northern portion of the Argonne forest for a maximum distance of nearly five miles. Little opposition was encountered. As the Americans advanced they found that the Germans had block ed and destroyed the roads. At 2 o'clock this afternoon they were in Marcq and Chevieres, having taken the La Folie farm and the Richard farm and advancing on the Negremont woods, the only piece of forest land between them and Grand Pre. Half an hour later they had cap tured Sommerance and had ad vanced north of that village. By this attack the Americans have taken a firmer 'grip on the territory north of the broken Kriemhild line. Although there were detachments of German machine gunners and in fantry to be met, the Americans found that the German artillery fire was very light. They had little dif ficulty in advancing. Fires were caused by enemy slhclls at Fleville und Chevieres. BUYING W. S. S. HELPS SAVING FOR U. S. BONDS Zt-tfTPut down your name at 6 p. m. Kaisers Grip on France Is Finally Loosened After Battle of Many Weeks AMERICAN TROOPS SWEEPING FOE BACK FROM MANY TOWNS London, Oct. 11.—German troops to-day began the evacuation of the famous Chemin des Dames, in the re gion north of the river Aisne and south of Laon. JI lie grip of the Germans 011 NorthcrfT France has been loosened and the process of herding them back to tlieir borders is proceed ing at an increasingly rapid pace under the Allied lash. Already, since the beginning of the July offensive, which ini tiated the loosening process, the Allies have pushed the enemy back, a maximum of 45 miles from the Ancre near Albert, to the tip of the present Anglo-American wedge at Le Gateau. 25 Miles to Farthest Border A scant 25 miles more will bring them 011 this line to the Bcf gian frontier south of Maubeuge. But long before that point is reached the pressure 011 all sides, if continued at the present rate, wil have resulted in the clearing of the enemy from virtually all French territory and a great part of Belgian soil. The Germans already are carrying out a general retreat. Ludendorff Outgeneralled General Ludendorff patently has been desirous of withdrawing to a shorter line where he 'could reorganize his forces. But the steady, unrelenting pressure which Marshal Foch has applied all along the front has made it impossible for him to detach himself for such an operation. He cannot break contact with his adver sary, as he would like to do, and consequently is obliged to fall [Continued on Page 18.] . President Wilson was in direct opposition to the fc" | . s of to London by a neutral who left Germany a few days ago. | ' r, i i I f ' * i 1 1 - ' t ' 1 I i I ' | ; 1 C ■ *•£ ? I SEVEN OF CREW LOST I v j < • ? ' % i ) ; , w , ( ( 1 d"htg ran into a trolley $ ' A fu- I i ' ine : 1 ' <• u lv ; ' 1 this after i tf noon. 1 * } , ; FRANCE APPROVES WILSON REPLY t \ Paris—President Wilson's reply to the German peace VM , e was approved to-day bj if the committee on A fore.gr. .-nair-, c f 'V? Cb'rr.b-- rf Deputies.' *'' l ' ' LES RELIEF J •I * sh Regency. Council] now in session at Moscow, his T assurance of the removal of the burdens of occupation ' 'that still erist. ' ' , l MARRIAGE LICENSES i <L Rnymonil H. Klinefelter nn<l Annie M. Strife. I.oucr SnnUrn *• " tiviiMhl|M Will in ti Hull Hubert nd llrntrlee K. Fryer, >uiilury.
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