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LX XXVIII—
SMASHED BY HUN
FIRE COMPANY C
NEYER FALTERED
Sergeants Led the Way When
Every Officer Was
Shot Down
DIES A HERO AT 18 YEARS
Brief History of War Is Writ
ten by Brave Com
mander
A brief little history of the deeds
in battle of Company C. 112 th In
fantry, written by its commander,
Captain R. R. Friechbaum, of
Chambersburg, who succeeded Cap
tain H. H. Stine in command of the
unit to-day reads like a novel. The
plain, bold statements of how the
men met the enemy, beat down every
obstacle and pressed always on
through the Hun lines show perhaps
more than anything elso why the
Kaiser's once mighty war machine
crumbled to bits.
Company C, of the old Eighth
Pennsylvania National Guard, was
tlie foundation upon which the or
ganization was built. It was largely
recruited here and in Chainbersburg
by Captain Stine. The battle toll
shows that 2tj men were killed and
160 wounded in action.
Every commissioned oflicer was
either killed or wounded, but the
company never faltered. The top
sergeant assumed command and
when he was shot down another man
took liis place and the work went
on without a halt. Captain Kriech
baum's brother was killed along with
a number of other good men, one,
"Winfield Carey, died at the a'ge of
IS, with li is commander's praise that
not a better soldier fought in France.
The record made by Company C,
writes Captain Kriechbaum, is the
same made by every company in the
division which won the name of
"Iron" and decorated by Pershing
with the Red Keystone. Captain
Kriechbaum's letter follows:
Dec. 10, 1918.
' Capt. H. M. Stine.
Jlarrisburg, Pa.
Dear Captain:
Your letter of Nov. 7lli, was re- '
reived to-day and 1 was more than
glad to hear from you.
Your letter lias been read by quite
a number of, old C Company boys,
am going to send it to Sergeant
Storey, who is keeping the company
records ut division headquarters.
You ask about several of the boys
who were killed and I am sending
you a complete list of C of the Bth
boys who were killed.
Clarence D. Armstrong and Cor
poral Kitterhouse were killed neat-
Chateau Thierry on July 13. Arm
strong was killed by one of the first
shells that came over in the bom
bardment that preceded the Boche
offensive of that date.
lie was killed while asleep. Cor
poral Kitterhouse was instantly kill
ed about 4 a. m. same date by a shell
thut made a direct hit in the dug
out he was occupying.
Corporal Bishop was killed in
Chateau Thierry by shell fire while
we were moving through the town
after the Boche.
The Hun had left a sacrifice gun
in the Bois de Barbillon and it con
tinued firing on one street corner
until it was captured.
MeSherry was killed by minne
werfer fire in the Forest de Fere at
l.a Croix Rouge Fuse on the morn
ing of July 26.
MeSherry was one of the bravest,
finest boys who ever lived.
Fooling Wounded
T was at the edge of the woods
looking down over the clearing to
ward the farm, using my glasses to
locate machine guns that were hold
ing us up, whfen the Boche opened up
with his minnewerfers and of course,
I laid down and hugged the ground,
a man at my side had his juglar
xein cut and a shell struck under
the clump of bushes I was trying to
hide behind and tossed me in the
air. I took off my coat and tried to
find a wound, but there was nothing
wounded but my feelings.
After the bombardment i went
back where my P. C. was and found
four C Company men dead, all
members of headquarter sections.
When I found MeSherry dead the
teais ran down my cheeks and I
was not ashamed of it, as he was
never nervous, always ready to carry
a message anywhere, cheerful, con
stantly joking when things were at
Ihe!r worst, and in general doing
things that kept up the spirits of the
men.
/ At Fismette, on the morning of
August 9. Companies F H and C
crossed the Vesle river and took the
town.
Theodore Crist was killed while
carrying a message from his platoon
to me, M. G. fire. %
A Ilcro at IN
Winfield Carey was killed by ma
chine gun fire the same morning.
Carey, us you know, was only 18
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THE WEATHER
For Harrlubnrg and vicinity, tin
■ettled, probably light ruin or
light anon to-night anil colder,
with lowest temperature about
.10 degree*! Friday purtly cloudy
and eoldcrt fresh northwest
winds.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Prob
ably rain or snow nnd colder
to-night! Friday partly oirrrant
nnd colder! fresh norlhwest
winds.
Itlvrr
The Susquehanna river nnd all Its
hranehrs will rise, except the
.lunlatn and the upper partlons
of the North nnd West branches,
vvhlrh will probnhly begin to
fall to-night. A stuge of nhout
fi.s feet Is Indicated for linrrls
bnrg Friday morning.
\T „ 9 1/\"D A C 17C Dailv Except Sunday. Entered as Second Class
iNO. - lO r/VUL3 Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg
GERMANS ORGANIZE ARMY TO MEET
POLES MARCHING AGAINST BERLIN;
RAID OF RICH LANDS NOV/IS FEARED
IA rmy of 30fi00 Men
Is Marching on i
Hun Capital
PADEREWSKI IS i
LEADING FIGHT
Germans Retreat in\
1 Face of Superior
I Numerical Force
By Associated Press
! Copenhagen, Jan. 2.—A Pol-
I ish army of thirty thousand men
! is marching on Berlin, according
i to a dispatch received here, quot
i ing rumors at the German
j capital. Gustav Noske, mem
' bcr of the Ebert cabinet in
j charge of miiltary affairs, is
said to have ordered the Fifth
German division to meet the
j Poles.
Polish Troops Enter
Frank fort-on-t he-Oder
j London, Jan. 2.—Polish troops I
| liave entered Franfort-on-the-Oder,
j fifty miles east of Berlin, says a:
! Berne dispatch to tlie Express,
which adds that the Poles have oc
t cupied Beuthen in Prussian Silesia
I and Bromberg, in the province of
j Posen, 69 miles northeast of the|
Posen city.
One dispatch says that Igtiace
Paderewski, the famous pianist is
leading his countrymen in street
lighting in Posen.
Poles Plan lo Raid
Rich German Countra
Geneva, Jan. 2.—The Polish army i
! which is marching toward Berlin has j
'as its object "a tearing raid into |
j Germany," according to the Polish I
! agency at Lausanne. The infantry i
is well armed and is supported by ar- j
tillery and cavalry. The infantry al- j
I ready accupied important railroad j
centers, including Kreuz, Driesen and |
Poznuu, and has captured a large I
amount of railway stock with little
resistance. The Germans are re- j
arming demobilized troops and fight- (
ing is expected, although some of the ]
demobilized soldiers are refusing to !
serve.
The agency says that as the Ger- i
man railways are disorganized, there !
is a possibility of a well-organized ;
Polish army reaching Berlin.
For Ways That Are Dark
and Tricks That Are Vain
This Thief Is Peculiar
For ways that are curious and un- ,
accountable, the sneak thief takes
the prize, declared police this morn- i
ing. litre's a man stole four wheels j
off a wagon, left the wagon standing, |
ami made : way with the wheels. I
The first formal complaint of mis-1
demeanor which came to the ears of
police in the new year, was made I
by Mux bane, 1022 Market street,;
this morning, when he renirtcd the j
curious 'heft of the wheels rom ins j
wagon. 1 alio said he left Ins deliv- |
ery wagon slanting in front >' his I
stable, located in the Jonestpvn road,'
bast night. This morning the wagon '
was tlitre, out the wheels woe gone I
Police are searching for the wheels. !
Yankee Fighters Need
Letters From Home More
Than Ever, Y.M.C.A. Says
By .Associated I'rcss
Harts, Jun. 2.—Letters from liome
were never more needed by American
soldiers and sailors than at present,
.according to a statement issued to
day by the headquarters of the Y.
M: C. A. here. It is urged that rela
tives of men in the service continue
writing to them until their return
has been definitely arranged tor.
This statement was made after it
had been learned that many soldiers
and sailorH hud recalled letter sav
ing that, now that the w-\r is over,
and the men aic soon to return >o
America, there is no lurthe; „o
keep on writing.
Darlington Cited
For French Honor
Washington, Jan. 2.—Bishop J. H.
Darlington, of Harrisburg, Pa., is in
cluded in the coterie of distinguished
Americans named to high rank in the
French Legion of Honor.
According to the announcement
Bishop Dnrlington has been made
an officer of tire legion. Other of
ficers named were: J. P. Morgan,
James Grier Hibben, president of
Princeton University; Simeon Flex
ner, of the Rockefeller Institute, and
James Beck and Oscar Cauchois, of
New York.
Dr. Henry van Dyke, .of Princeton,
formerly Americun minister to Hol
land. has been given the rank as
commander of the legion.
Sign Him Up Before He Gets Over His Headache
MILD WEATHER
TO BE REPLACED
BY COLD SNAP
Tail End of Blizzard Raging
in the West to Hit
Harrisburg
The mild. spring-like weather
which Harrisburg has been suffering
rather than enjoying, soon will dis
appear. according to the forecast
made at noon to-day by E. R. De
main. local representative of try fed
eral weather bureau.
Yesterday was the warmest Janu
ary 1 in many years. The highest
temperature was 38 degrees, almost
summer heal. While this condition
here was helping ir. the spread of
the grip.
Mercury Falls
To-day the thermometer begun to
fall and the drop will continue until
the freezing point Is leach.
The temperature will continue' to
fall to-morrow, the lowest probablv
being 13 degrees. Although the sky
will continue to he overcast and there
may lie some rain or little Hurries
of snow, such storms will be scat
tering. and the precipitation has
practically ceased, it was announced
to-day. f.'loiidy weather will continue
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IOINCII. TO PASS
BUDGET TOMOUKOW
Council will meet in special session
to-morrow ufternoon, at 3 o'clock, to
pass finally the appropriation ordi
nance for this year, and the measure
fixing the tax rate ut ten mills. The
budget total is 1966.000, or $91,000
higher than in 191 X.
BUILDING RECORD DROPS IN
CLOSING DAY OF THE WAR
High Cost of Materials and Labor Caused Big Decrease in
Operations Throughout the Country
Harrisburg s 19918 building rec
ord. like that of all other cities In
the country, took a big drop, due
largely to the restrictions enforced
during the latter par of the year, and
the high c-osi: of materials and labor.
While in 1917 the city set a new
high record for building during war
times, last year It was just the re
verse, and with the exception of two
big school building developments,
lltie new work was done. A few res
idences were built, many frame and
HARRISBURG. PA.. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1919,
WILHELM VERY
ILL WITH FEVER
Amsterdam, Jan. 2.—William
Ilohenzollern, the former emperor
of Germany, is Very 111, according
to advices from •Amerongen. He
cannot leave his rbom, it is sail],
and is suffering from a bad cold.
It is slated that he has a high
fever. An emlnont specialist from
L'trecht is in constant attendance.
Only the former empress, the spe
cialist and two attendants are
permitted to enter his room, It is
reported.
PRESIDENT GOES
TO BE GUEST OF
ITALIAN NATION
Will Be Received by King; to
Call on Pope and at the
Methodist College
Home. Jan. 2, 10.13 A. M.—
President Wilson and his party
ui rived this morning ut Alodnuc.
on the Franeo-Itnlfii'.i frontier.
Home. Jan 2.—American Ambas
sador Thomas Nelson Page, in com
pany with the military and naval
attaches of the American embassy,
left here yesterday to meet President
Wilson nt the Italian frontier.
The visit of Mr. Wilson lo Rome
was the chief topic of conversation
at official New Year's receptions he.o
to-day."
Greetings were given by King Vic-'
lContinued on l'ngo It.]
brick garages erected and bulld'ngs
remodeled.
During 1918 permits wore Issued!
for construction work costing $912.-!
81.5. In 1917 the total reached $2,-i
006,f> 15, and in 1916, $1.830,9923. Inj
February and March of luet year the!
permits were issued for the erection !
of un addition to the Camp Curtlu
school and the construction of the!
Edison Junior High School. The
total cost of operations | n each
month of 1918 follows: January,
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WINE SHORT AGE
! IS NOT FEARED
i BY CITY DEALERS
i ;
j Champagne' Still May Be Had
i , " Here at Ten Dollars
a Quart
1 Ylier is no immediate shortage
'of imported bubbling champagne
i and sparkling burgundy in Jlarris
| I'llrg, even thqugh much of the rap
: idly depleting stock in (lie country
i was absorbed during New Year's
j and Christmas ■ revels, according to
i local dealers to.duy.
j It is said that particularly the last
' drop of imported foreign-vintage
] wines in New York and Phlladel
| phla gurgled down the throats of
j New Year's celebrators at the rate
]or from $lO to $3O a qunrt. In Har-
I risburg the New Year's celebration
: was managed in a different way, and
-I dealers' cellars were not depleted.
| hocal dealers say that they have no
| trouble getting foreign liquors,
I whieli sell here for from $6 to $lO a
I quart
It was estimated that there were
i about 8,000 cases, Joo.ooo bottles
I of foreign vintage wine in the coun
try the day before New Year's, and
not half that much is left to-day.
How soon the entire stock is absorb
ed. dealers saj, depends upon the
appetites of the followers of Bacc
' hus.
Imported liquors are not so wide
ly sold and consumed here, and
. therefore the stock on hand will go
.! a long way. Thus fur dculcrs have
' had no troublo securing additional
! quantities. Jlcst of it comes from
New York, however, where the stock
j is said to have been poured out in
toasts to the New Year. Whether
j there will be a sudden shortage when
present stocks are gone, local deal
j.erk could not- guess, because of con
fusion in the" trade ut the prospect
j of lnyneditite prohibition.
Berlin Revels in New
Year's Celebration
Hy Associated I'ross
Berlin, Jan. s.—Berlin tangoed
j her way out of the old year, fox-]
(trotted into 1919 and scared away|
j Bolshevism with confetti. It was the -
i first dancing indulged in here s'neel
• the outbreak of the war. und revel- j
[ lers made the most of It.
■ In the downtown suction of the;
j city the crowds approximated those :
lof peace times. Po Ice reports show j
them to have been well-behaved. The, 1
only disturbances were caused by a
demonstration of unemployed wait
ers, wh6 attempted to force a gen
eral walkout.
ON LY KVBMNO ASSOCIATED I'ItESS SINGLE COI'ICU MAHir cniTIAM
MSWSPAPBIt IN lIAItI-.ISIIUnO TWO CKNTS XlUlTlt till 1 IUIN
NEW POST OFFICE
ALREADY IS TOO
SMALL FOR CITY
Postmaster Sites Would Have
New Quarters in Pcnnsy
Station
STILL ABLE TO GET ALONG
Force of Clerks Learned How
to Manage in Cramped
Temporary Quarters
That the Harrisburg Pout Office by!
no means meets requirements of this'
growing community has long been i
evident to discerning persons who
arc familiar with conditions. To
day Postmaster Frank Sites sug-
Kesteil a shift in the establishment
which would solve all problems and :
Bivo the Capital City an even better
service than it has to-day. The fact
is that the post office service here,
as in many cities, requires unneces
sary truckitiß. the mail and parcel
post being- lugged all the way up j
from rnilrond stations and then
hauled back. One difficulty is that,
the recently reopened buildinß was |
planned more than live years uno.
"If the Pennsylvania Hailroad!
builds a new station, facinß on Wal- I
nut street and the Capitol Park,"
observed Mr. Sites to-day, "we sure- I
ly hope that the Post Office will have j
its headquarters In the pluce, thus'
following the puse set in other cities j
and giving Harrisburg a modern,
up-to-date exchange for this essen-1
tiul activity."
Uncle Sam realized that the postal
service was by no means as efficient |
as it should be when lie located the;
New York station right near the j
great Pennsylvania railroad stvue-1
ture. The same change was made i
in Washington. and Harrisburg!
should get in the king row, if it is:
going to keep up the progress now j
under way.
The local office is one of many!
victims of the government's system |
of turning over post office building ■
to the Treasury Department, instead
of giving it to experts of the Post |
Office Department who know pre-1
cisely what is wanted, and. who like
the planners of the Penn-Harris, can i
till the bill.
The original appropriation for the
office here was too small, only $125,-
000, intended to add a story in 1,0- ,
I euust street. in 1913 Pennock &|
I Company, of Philadelphia, started I
I operations. When Postmaster Sites
i took hold he saw that witli parcel
post and other demands required a
larger appropriation and througli
Congressman Kreider was able to get
$75,000 more; the plan being to
build two wings. If an appropria
tion of $400,000. the amount given,
to York, bad been secured when the
contract was given out a tine -mod
-1 em structure might have been put
lup here. But the same now, with
' the increased cost of materials would
cost a million.
The city of York was fortunate in
having Samuel Lewis, then secre
tary to Congressman Lat'ean, who
personally saw that Ihe plans for the
new building there were very mod
ern, and in fact almost perfect.
"1 have no fear that we will not
be able to bundle the work here
for ten or fifteen years," declared
Mr. Sites to-day "under the present
circumstances. 1 am convinced of
this because we managed to get
along four and a half years in the
temporary quarters .and that, too.
although busiiiess increased from
! $372,000 in 1918, to $015,000 in
1917, due much to the introduction
lof parcel post. 1 was his later In
| novution which makes it essential
I the post office be close to-the rail
| road, for we are now handling much
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'Ford Motor Company
Declares Big Dividend;
$4,000,000 For Seven
j By Associated Press
| Detroit, Jan. 2.—A 200 per cent.
| dividend was declared by the dlrec
' tors of the Ford Motor Company at
, their annual meeting December 31,
it. was announced here to-duy. The
dividend, which represents a dis
bursement of *4,000,000 among seven
stockholders is payable 100 percent.
, Januury 1, and 100 per bent. Feb-
I ruary 1.
Pleas of Guilty to
Be Entered by Many
Walter Headrtck, who escaped
from prison while serving a sentence
for the larceny of an automobile and
was located in Ohio and brought
| back to this city, will be called for
I sentence next Monday on a charge,
|of breaking jail. Headrick will en-
I ter a plea of guilty, the District At-
I torney's office announced.
Other pleas which will be heard on
j Monday follow: Uobert Williams,
1 larceny: Harry McClaln, public tnde
• cency; Frank Dean, assault and bat
| tery and resisting and officer: Wil
| iiam Shaffer, operating a motor vc
j hicle without the consent of the own
er; Joseph Smith, larceny, false pre
' it use and forgery: Samuel Schreffler,
I r.onsupport.
II A HIM W. KKKNV TO
GUT *l,*oO CITY JOB
Harry W. Keeny, one of the assist
ants to City Assessor James C.
'1 hoinpson during the last few months,
when the triennial assessment of
property was made In Harrisburg,
will be recommended for reappoint
ment us Hsslstnnl city assessor-, it Is
understood. The. position was ere-'
ated by City Council in the 1919
budget ordinance and will pH.v an
annual salary of $l,BOO. Mr. Keeny
was formerly connected with a large
real estate firm In the city for a num
ber of yeara. His appointment prob
ably will be recommended to Council
at an early date.
NEW.HEAD OF THE
STATE EDUCATORS
I)r. F. E. DOWNES
CITY MAY BE PUT
ON U. S. AERIAL
EXPRESS ROUTE
Middielown Field Being Sur
veyed For Possible
Station
It is expected that the I'nited
Stales aviation depot near Middin
town will soon'become an aerial sta
tion for government air service. It
is 110 secret tjpnt' the officials at the
aviution plant are seriously ' consid
ering under instructions from Wash
ington the laying out of a landing
Held adjoining the uviation depot.
It is believed that the Susquehanna
river lino will make sucli a landing
place desirable and easy of approach,
it is also believed that the depot will
continue as a permanent government
activity inasmuch as thousands of air
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' toirk&ilfi' tAifciHnfc *i- tr tiek&vWiilr* THflMh*****
|jP ci- • 4
jbwas predicted/to-day with the temperature probably T
X -vuching five degrees below xero in Chicago to-night. The y
this morning-was four above. ||
| REVENUE BILL GOES TO-CONFERENCE |
I . Washington—Without roll call and with only a few ft
T scattering ,negative votes house leaders to-day • forced* J
J the >War, Revenue; bill to'conference wtihout holding it T
up' for debate < on derfl finds for votes on certain Senate li
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4 i ALL TROOPS OFF SHIP BY NIGHT •
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X nightfall of the entire t (
4 -npor i of 2,480 homecoming American troops from * 1
4 i
Xthe. transport Northern. Pacific strande'd off Fire. Island, ■
I*P triccted thi{s afternoon by officials at the office o£ " 1
y " ■
! -fi fict At' ■ . V .( S. #i
li : ROBINS6N AGAIN HEADS POLICE • A
■X -dent of Police James Robin- T
... pf Public f
V = h< hunt for the
TP':;-" .'b< this -hr Monday T
_Nnig e while serving |
A'-" ■■ ' '■ ' the rrvy and Wil- X
? 'e, •' . L,p-nntendent. '
5. SCORE HURT IN TROLLEY WRECK 4
fj ♦*-
X tsons were injured in A X
Jjrear-en'd .'collision • between trolely cars to-day the t
TPpL/ rk 1 Shipbuilding Compahy., • Only 4*
T ne of those hurt was reported in a serious 'condition. The j*
to'h vebeen due to an open switch
$ MARRIAGE LICENSES |
-b (hrlMlnn I Irlcli and Mnrln Vrldleta, Hnrrluburici ( hnrlr* M, X
5 Acluon. Mifflin totvnuhlp. nnd Gertie A. Mrnlirr. \mlun lon>Kl|ii J
T C'Mnberlitnd county! Wlllhin A. Hill, Ntrrllon. and Ktlsnketk w
.y I'nynr, HnrrUburni Vnjo Urltro and Mary Krutalck, SlMltM.
ai4>4-4'4-rl"i"A"i"A"i-l-Jr-Iflift4 I.
DR.F.E.DOWNESIS
CHOSEN LEADER OF
STATE EDUCATORS
Applause Greets Choice of Su
perintendent of City School*
to the Presidency
LONG ACTIVE IN WORK
Schoolmen Pass Many Resolu
tions Before Final
Adjournment
Dr. Frederick E. Dowries, efficient
'superintendent of Harrisbura
schools, was this morning unani
mously elected to head the Penn
sylvania State Education Associa
tion for the ensuing year. Th
j choice was made at the final sessioni
|of the sixty-ninth annual meeting
of the association in the Technical
[ High School Auditorium. Dr. Downes
I lias been active in affairs of the state
! association during his time as all
educator in this stute and round and
I round of applause at the announce
ment of ills selection give great cvl
;do nee of his popularity among
j teachers and other educators of the
; state.
Dr. S. E. Weber, superintendent oi
> Scranton schools, retiring president,
! was elected to serve as first vice
j president during the next term,
j Other officials selected at the morn
! ing meeting were: Second vice
| president, Mrs. Walla May MacDon
iald, assistant superintendent ol
Chester county schools; secretary,
J. P. McC'askey, of Lancaster; treas
urer, John C. Wagner, Carlisle,
• member of the executive committee
i Miss Alma U. Itlce. of Slippery Hock;
; members of educational committee,
! D-. Frank P. Graves, of the t.'ni
; versity of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Chosen
Philadelphia was chosen as tin
' meeting place for the next session oi
i the association by a big majority
; Lancaster and Erie were other cities
j mentioned, but received only small
votes. The session will be held dur.
I ing the lust week jn December, ltfltt,
The proposed increase in teachersl
| salaries met with the heartiest ap
i proval of the association, which
j adopted unanimously the .oport ol
i
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