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I.XXXVII— No. 231 12 PAGES HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1918
LILLE FALLS TO THE BRITISH ARMY;
KAISER'S ARMIES FACING DISASTER
IN RETREAT FROM BELGIAN COAST
FOE WA VERS UNDER
TERRIFIC POUNDING
OF ALLIED TROOPS
Smashing Victory Won by Marshal Haig
in Northern Flanders; Retirement
of Foe Is Almost a Rout
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AMERICAN TROOPS WIN GROUND
IN ONE OF WAR'S BIG BATTLES
By Associated Press
British Headquarters in Flanders, Oct.
17. —The Germans on leaving Lille
which was captured to-day by British
forces, did not set fire to the buildings in
in the city or cause any explosions.
London, Oct. I 7.—The city of Lille has been
captured by the British.
Haig Launches New Drive
Allied pressure on all sides of the salient of
which Lille was the center compelled the enemy
to give up the city, the largest town of France cap
tured by the Germans and for four years an im
portant unit of the enemy defense system.
The fall of Lille comes almost simultaneously with
#he launchnig of an offensive by Field Marshal Haig
against the new German defenses south of Valenciennes.
His troops to-day are starming forward south of Le
Cateau across the Selle river, where they were halted last
week.
In Flanders the Allies have gained important new successes,
while from the Oise to the Mouse the Allied pressure is main
tained strongly. In the angle north of Laon the Germans ap
parently are retiring from between the Oise and Serre rivers.
German Retreat in Flanders Nearing
a Rout; 17 Divisions Fleeing
Paris, Oct. 17.—The whole of the German army of General
Yon Arnim is in retreat from the North Sea to the region of Lille,
having been beaten back and overthrown by the Allied attacks
to-day.
The retirement is assuming the proportion of a Rout. Seven
teen divisions comprise the army of Yon Arnim.
The Prussian Guards, ceding ground inch by inch, are dying,
but not surrendering, in an effort to save their right wing.
Resistance by the Germans is crumbling all along the battle
front except in the region of the Argonnc and northern Cham
pagne. There American troops under Generals Liggett. Cameron
and Bullard and French troops under General Gouraud are en
gaged in desperate fighting. *
Americans Ford River and Stagger Through
Deep Mud to Beat Huns in Big Battle
R\ Associated Press
With the American Forces Northwest of Verdun, Oct. 17.
The capture of Grand Pre by General Pershing's forces was
accomplished under terrific hardships and with a heroism not
hinted at in the brief official announcement of the taking of this
stronghold of the Germans north of the Argonne forest.
The American attack began at 6 o'clock in the morning. The
men moved forward in the shelter of the forest, reaching the Aire
at four points agreed upon where the stream could be forded.
Without attracting the attention of the Germans the Americans
then waded into the cold water which reached to their waists and
even higher, and pushed across the stream.
On the northern bank they found broad mud flats into which
they sank half way to their knees. The Germans-by this time
had discovered their approach and opened a bitter machine gun
tire but the Americans pushed steadily on. Beyond the mud
banks which were crossed slowly and with the greatest difficulty
the Americans found the Germans and closed with them in a
desperate bayonet hand-to-hand fight. Rifles often were used as
clubs and each man struggled to down his individual opponent.
At 11 o'clock the Americans had completely overcome the
enemy, had driven him into the woods north of Grand Pre and
w ere in possession of the important railhead.
King Albert Leads Victorious Army
on to Ostend, Big Enemy U-Boat Base
W London, Oct. 17.—Belgian forces under command of King
Albert, which crossed the Yser river are marching on Ostend, a
seaport on the English channel.
The Belgians also made progress in the region north of
Thourout and advanced in the direction of Thielt.
Paris, Oct. 17.—The fate of the German defenses along the
Belgian coast and in the great Lille industrial area has been
sealed by the continued advance of the Allied armies under King
Albert on the thirty-mile front in Flanders. The significance of
the evacuation of the Belgian coastline is far greater than the
gain of Flanders territory with its many airdromes and subma
rine bases.
German Line Can Be Outflanked
The extreme right wing of the German defenses in the west
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Not a Doggone Thing!
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SWINDLERS WORK ,
SMOOTHLY; FILCH
$93.42 FROM TWO
Shabbily Dressed Young Man
Tells Victims Fellow Who
Left Has Money
The smoothest piece of swindling
yet reported to the police caused J. !
[Edward Wetzel, chief of police, to j
issue a warning to merchants to-day. j
The proprietor of a grocery store ;
in the 1400 block of Derry street and
the proprietor of another grocery i
store, at Sixth and Cumberland !
streets, are the victims. The swind
lers fliched the first merchant of
*66.71, and the second one, who is
a woman, of $26.71.
It is done in this way, the chief ,
said: A well dressed man entered the
stores and bought a slice of ham in
each. As he turned to leave, in both !
instances, a shabbily dressed young '
man entered.
"Why weren't you at work to- |
day?" said the well dressed man.
"My wife was sick," says No. 2. :
"Well, come around to-morrow, your
job is always open," says No. 4. n
When No. 1 goes out the shabbily .
dressed man says, "I wish I had the
money that fellow has. He lives j!
right around the corner."
After No. 2 is gone, the well dress- [
ed man returns in a great hurry. !
"Has my wife been in here?" he :
says. The storekeeper of course';
doesen't know his wife. "Why that's]:
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WHY CERTAINLY! IT'S SAFE
AND SANE TO WEAR GAS MASK!
Knight of the Grip Who Sells Tombstones Docs Not Want '
to Try His Own Wares While Influenza Rages
"Hey. how d'ye get that way!"
In the busiest hour to-day Market
street was stirred by the shrill cry
of a dozen messenger and newsboys
who were following a stout traveling
salesman. Just alighted from a Pennsy
express.
"It's a gas mask" yelled a score
of voices as the crowd fell to titter
ing and kidding.
"No, It's one o' them feedbags
shouted a truck driver, pulling up
to get a view of the stranger who
carried a couple big satchels, plentl
fwAR ENDING IN
ANTI-HUN STYLE
Amsterdam, Oct. 16 (Wednes
day).—"The war is coming to an
end, and in such a manner as no
man in Germany desires," said
the Vorwaerts of Berlin on Mon
day.
"Let us say it candidly," the
newspaper continues. "During
all these terrible four yeurs the
aim of our efforts and sacrifices
was to prevent such an end."
BIG MEETING TO
DISCUSS DEEPER
SUSQUEHANNA
Major Gray, Invited to Speak
by Rotary Club, \Vrites
of the Possibilities
When the abatement of the in
fluenza epidemic permits, the Harris
burg Rotary Club, acting in connec
tion with organizations of Columbia
and other river points will bring Ma
jor William Gray, to Harrisburg,
to speak on the deepening of the
Susquehanna river in order to make
it navigable for dfeep sea vessels.*
Gray has agreed to come to
the city when possible if the Wat-
Department agrees, to discuss the
project, which he outlined briefly at
a meeting of the Rotary Club In Har
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fully -marked with express slogans
from different countries, showing
him to some traveler.
"What's it for. Mister?" begged the j
crowd, pointing to the gauze white |
mask which covered his nose and part
of his face.
"Flenza. you boobs" he Anally bit I
off. "Don't you know every body's j
wearin' 'em now! Hey, how do you
reach the hotel?"
"Travels for a tombstone factory"
related the hotel clerk as the wise
drummer groped for the registry
book
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jFATHER AND TWIN
| BABES EXPIRE IN
SOURBEER FAMILY
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Mother, Desperately 111, Not
Advised of Her Husband's
Passing Out
Death, births, then death ugain,
iall occurring within an hour, con
tinued to make to-day the saddest
|in the life of the heretofore happy
[Sourbeer family nt 423 Crescent
j street.
t j Herman R. Sourbeer, aged 34
I years, a conductor on the Philadel
phia and Reading railway and head
of the afflicted family, died of nneu
imonia at 2.53 o'clock this morning
He was followed in death by two
[infant children, a boy and girl, at 4
:o clock, who were born at almost
the same hour. .Mrs. Sourbeer, whose
[condition is grave, has not been told
1 c ,\ e o1 er husband for fear
of disastrous results, though she
s , lives of her babies were
snuffed out when they entered the
world. The latter were taken from
the house this morning.
To-day sympathizing friends of
: the Sourbeer family went in and out
of the Crescent street home on er
; rands cf ministry and consolation to
the three bereaved children of the
dead father and desperately ill moth
er. The oldest of these is Helen, ten
years of age, and the other two
Jeannette and Charles, aged eight
land six years respectively. Miss Lil
jlian Rybenske, a volunteer Red]
jCross nurse, assigned to duty at the I
stricken household, gave details of I
| the tragedy to a Telegraph reporter'
[this, morning.
j According to the latter, Sourbeer '
N was taken ill a week ago last Tues
jday on his return from work at 4
[o'clock in the afternoon. His run
I took hint to Allentown and back'
, again to this city.
I On coming from his train that dav
he complained to his wife of feeling
"very sick" and immediately took i
to his bed. Diagnosed as influenza I
! his case rapidly developed into pneu
,mohia and his decline was rapid'
1 once the symptoms of the latter dls- '
I ease set in. The fact that he was a
robust man, standing some six feet
;two inches in his stocking feet, and
'had never known any serious ill
ness before, did not seem to thwart
ithe malady in his case. When Tie
! passed away early this morning, and
even an hour before the end came,
I Sourbeer was in a delirious condi
tion and much effort was expended
in keeping him abed. He died in this
condition. No attempt, of course
was made to tell him of the birth
and death of his children. j
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ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPIES HAlir PniTIAM
NEWSPAPER IN 11 AItItISUURG TWO CENTS HUML fcUl 1 IUIN
FINAL EFFORTS
BRINGING CITY
NEARER QUOTA
Subscriptions to Fourth Lib
erty Loan Coming in
Rapid Fire Order
ONE PURCHASE REFUSED
Hotel Man Called to Account
For Doing So Little For
Government
If Harrisburg and Harrisburg dls-j
trict citizens continue to*buy bonds;
the way thev have bought them to- !
day and yesterday the city and dis
trict will go over their allotment be
i fore Saturday.
Chairman Donald McCormick for
the district. William Jennings for
Dauphin county and Andrew S. Pat
terson for the city to-day issued
this statement:
"Subscriptions have begun to come
in a marvelous manner.
"We are proud of the way the
district is coming along.
"If it comes along for two days
more as it has for the last two days
I we will be the first city and the first
j county and the first district in the
I state to oversubscribe the quota."
Today's Totals
These figures liud been re
ceived up until noon to-day:
Sold to last Friday ..$1,531,700
Homes, since Friday . 318.850
Industrial, since Fri
day 180.000
Hoy Scouts, (est.) . . 50,000
Girl Scouts (est.) .. . 5.000
Totals $5,003,150
Still a ssi.ooo.ooo Shy
The city's quota is $6,130,000. so
j the amount of bonds which must be
Isold to make up the ditferenee is
considerably over a million dollars.
But.the Industrial committee prom
ises $70,000 more, and Frank Sites
says the Homes workers will have
$3*5,000 more, while the Boy and
Girl Scouts are still hard at work.
The Pennsylvania railroad is on a
"doubling up" campaign and the
Pipe Bending employes promise
$35,000 or $40,000 by this afternoon.
The Harrisburg National Bank
and the Harrisburg Trust Company
yesterday announced that they have
$1,000,000 which they will lend to
Harrisburg people with which to buy
! bonds, at the same rate of interest as
Liberty Bonds bring. There was a
great demand for these bonds to-day.
Keturn His Subseription
Liberty Loan headquarters this
morning returned to Harry Miller,
one of the proprietors of the Cen
tral Hotel, 311 Market street, the
; blank on which he had agreed to buy
i a $5O Liberty bond and the $2 which
|he had paid on account. Headquar
: ters wrote Mr. Miller that if $5O
; was all the bonds he wanted to buy
| it preferred to take no subscription
jat all from him.
John C. Jessup, secretary for the
I industrial committee, called on Mil-
I ler the other day in an effort to se
! cure a bond subscription from the
j hotel and saloonkeeper.
Mr. Jessup says that. Miller made
the following reply:
Wants to Open Saloon
"I can't afford to buy a bond, but
I if the health authorities would allow
j me to open my saloon then 1 could
make money and buy a bond."
j Miller ridiculed to Jessup the sug
| gestion that he is worth $50,000 or
! $60,000. He is one of the owners of
j the Market street property. •He
' said he "had a little money, but it is
i tied up."
The letter sent to Miller this morn
! ing by Liberty Loan headquarters is
; as follows:
i I received this morning sub
\ scription for $5O for Liberty
| Bond, with $2 cash enclosed.
We return herewith both sub
scription ami money. We have
decided that If you feel that
you are unwilling to do more
for the country in whleli you
live and have prospered ma
terially under its beneficial laws,
j we do not care to accept your
subseription.
This mutter has been care
fully considered by members of
| tlic committee who arc sufli
cicntiy familiar with your finan
cial ability to help at tlic time
when the country needs it. Very
truly yours,
JOHN C. JESSUP.
No answer had been received from
Miller up until 2 o'clock this after
noon.
MACEDONIA DEVASTATED
Athens, Oct. 17.—The devastation
and the ravage committed by the
Bulgarians in eastern Macedonia
have caused the directors of the
newspapers of Athens to protest to
the world and to invite represepta
i tives of the press to visit the ruined
area and see conditions for them
selves.
j This City Would Never
j Have Been State Capital
; if Its People Had Not
Loaned Money to
UNCLE SAM
Has the Spirit
Changed?
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I THE WEATHER
For Harrisburg nnd vicinity; Fair
to-night nnd probably Friday;
somewhat warmer to-night.
For Knatern Prnnaylvnnlni Fnlr
and ivnrarr to-night; Friday
pnrtl.v cloudy; moderate south
west to south winds.
River
The Susquehanna river and all Ita
trlbutarlea will probably con
tinue to fall alowly. A atnge of
about 4.1 feet la Indicated for
Harrlaburg Friday morning.
DOLLARS, MEN AND
GUNS IMPERATIVE
NEED IN OUR CRISIS
Washington, Oct. 17. —"Ger-
many is bending. More pressure
and she will break," says Secre
tary Lansing in a statement to
day warning the nation that the
war is not over and that the
Fourth Liberty Loan must be a
success at a time when every dol
lar as well as every man and
every gun counts more than evcy
before.
Reports on Liberty Loan sub
scriptions gathered shortly be
fore noon to-day by the Treasury
indicated today's receipts proba
bly would bring the totul up to
$3,600,000,000, leaving 2,400,000,-
000 to be subscribed in the re
maining two days of the cam
paign.
REGISTER DANNER
DIES AFTER HARD
BATTLE J)R LIFE
Pneumonia and Influenza
Prove Fatal to Prominent
County Official
Roy C. Danner, aged 34, register
of wills for almost seven years, died
nt 3.55 o'clock this morning at his
home, 1851 North street, from pneu
monia, which developed from influ
enza. He had been confined to his
home since early last week. Until
late yesterday physicians attending
him hoped for his recovery, but his
condition changed for the worse late
in the afternoon, ending in death
j early to-day.
The first death to occur at the
Emergency Hospital was reported
to-day when George Seward, of West
Fairview, succumbed to pneumonia.
He was brought to the hupltal last
night in a critical conditinon. Fifty
three other patients are now being
treated there.
Elected in 1911
The death of Register Danner
came as a surprise in city and coun
ty official circles where he was wide
ly known as reports yesterday indi
cated he would recover. He was
born July 4, 1884, in West Fenns
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I r o -* •' 1 - -his afternoon
i enance court had been post- . (
!poned t' ' ■'. c ] no ,j at€
as to the sitting of other courts. /.
. HUN GUNS KILL TWO AMERICANS
A 1 v ere ' one man was -
wcurrjc 1 a--' •' ge "• i "f.! in the German '
bombardment of Dunkirk yesterday with a long range
gun. '
MARRIAGE LICENSES ~~~
Frank B. Snolnnrt. I.cbnnon count*. and Kdna S. Hoovrr. Dau
phin count*-, Mnr.hnll 11. Drnn, Wnt 1111 l Sldr, and Bio Itelle M. |
Wnllotrrr. HnrrNhursr. •
FIND BODY OF
MURDERED MAN
ON RIVER ROAD
Mysterious Automobile Seen
at Point Where Body
Was Found
BULLET HOLE IN I1EAI)
Believed to Be Gettysburg
Guide, Because of Papers
Found in Pockets
The body of an unidentified man,
believed to be George J. Bushman
of Gettysburg, shot in the head, was
found about 8 o'clock this morning
near the Coxestown Hotel lying in
the weeds along the river bank
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The hnHv Was murdered.
Eisenhour^ an W e a f° u ml by G.
Highway Department °* 4 State
o'clock this morning It w ®! 4 S
among the weeds n !! Tv S ,y lng
bank. Coroner Eoklne river
dlately summoned an/ th w ? 8 Im m e .
taken to the undertake dy " :,s
c H. Mauk corner ? P ar| °rs ot
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Army Air ChiefCoes
on Voyage in Balloon
.. . . , By A "ciated P rcss
," "ii'gfon, Oct 17
eral William u /'• Major Gen
tion of the Army Air S hle f of opera
passenger in a free heii Vlco - w us a
Major J. r. McCov ," 2 "iloterl
Potomac Park o,i ' _ n " h rose f> ,
northward and bo U mr r ? headi '
nounced destination an u,|:
M '" y SK
t./o" ,,, ;' , 'rd'ecr°e < a t se l i M T h Although
of deaths here to-di)v tl • nu "lhet
and pneumonia, there wT '""uenza
new cases, the health S. f!V mp in
nounclng. 'l.BBB in the !a.t ' f/ s " n *
four hours against 1 Hfttt vil !3 v *
while the fatalities 4&g^g2S%