CROSS-CONTINENT RUN IS COMPLETED Pathfinder Twin-Six Passes Through Gettysburg on Coast to-Coast "High Gear" Run Staff Correspondent.) Pathfinder the Great, the "High Gear" twin-six transcontinental car. enroute from San Diego, Cal., to New York, passed through Gettysburg yes terday, on the last 200-mile lap of her long journey. At Caledonia Park, mid. way between Gettysburg and Cham bersburg on the Lincoln Highway, she ■was met by J. J. Garvin and A. E. Brough, of the Pathfinder Sales com pany of Harrieburg and a group of newspapermen. Before starting on the tedious ocean-to-ocean grind, both the inter mediate and low gears were sealed by .officials of the Automobile Association of America and at no stage of the mountainous trip was it necessary to resort to any but high gear; a remark able feat and one never attempted be fore. Over the Rockies, across the Great Divide, through the heavy des ert sands and alkaline dust, and all the •way "on high" is the noteworthy ac complishment of this car, in the hands of two alert, clear-eyed and well-tan ned young men, neither of whom ap pear to be a day over 22. The car is being driven by "Walter A. Weidley, son of fhe builder of the Weidley motor used in the coast-to-coast car, while "Heinie" Scholler is acting as mechan ician. However, from the "minutes" of the trip which are being kept by these two nervy young men, Scholler has had but little opportunity to ex hibit his ability as a mechanician, not withstanding the fact that the car has carried several hundred pounds of emergency parts, but not once has any part of the entire mechanism been broken or replaced. On only two oc casions on the long journey have they experienced any tire trouble—and yes terday was one of them. The first puncture occurred near Reno, Nev., and the second, shortly after leaving Bedford Springs Sunday morning. This leaves two of the four tires with the original San Diego air which has car ried them exactly 5,400 miles accord ing to the speedometer reading in Get tysburg yesterday. Mr. Garvin, together with a party of newspapermen acted as an escort of the "High Gear" car into Gettysburg where they were greeted with a great tooting of automobile horns all along the streets of the Battlefield town. When the big car pulled up to the hotel to register there was a battery of cameras—everything from the staff photographers huge Reflex, down to the most minute vestpocket size— turned upon them, but the young driv er and his companion merely smiled as though quite accustomed to similar scenes along the route. Atter registering his car, young Weidley insisted on seeing part of the great battlefield in his high geared wonder and while passing through the National Cemetery, with i»s thousands of unmarked graves, remarked to a newspaperman that "it makes a fellow feel as though he's almost guiltv of treason for not being down in Mexico instead of burning up gasoline here." After a trip through the historic field, the big traveler resumed its jour ney, with Philadelphia as its next stop, and on to New York to-day, finishing up a 5,600 mile trip in just 23 days, thus making a new world's record for a high gear run. Tuesday morning the driver of the big car expects to take her to the Slieepshead race track, just outside of New York, and turn off a few hundred miles in fast time, just to show that there's speed as well as endurance within that long, gray hood. ALLIES GAINING - TERRITORY [Continued From First Page] outskirts of Maurepas, the Germans again launched heavy counter attacks. They achieved no lasting success, ac cording to Paris, being immediately driven out of trenches which they mo mentarily penetrated near Monacu farm, just north of the Somme, and succumbing to French counter attacks at Hemwood, near by. Russians Drive Forward The great Russian drive on the east tern front is continuing in undimin ished force in some sectors. In North eastern Galicia, in the region of Brodv, which was captured last week by Gen eral Sakharoff, the Russians are keep ing up their pursuit of the Teutons which have been pushed back to the Graberki and Sereth rivers, Petrograd announces. Dispatches from Cairo announce that the Arabs who are fighting against Turkish rule in Arabia have captured the Turkish town and fort of Yembo, on the Red Sea, the port of Medina. A Zeppelin airship that appeared off the English east coast this morning •was engaged by a British aeroplane but disappeared while the British air fighter was temporarily disabled, Lon don announces. Sinking of the Italian steamer Dan dolo, a vessel of nearly 5,000 tons, is announced through London. Teutons Fall Back on Their New Defenses at Kovel as Russians Gain London, uJly 31. —Furious hand-to hand encounters and cavalry dashes have succeeded massed infantrv and artillery operations along the hundred mile front in Volhynia and Northern Galicia which the Russians smashed Saturday. According to Petrograd, the Russian advance all along the line is proceeding with the Teutonic forces rapidly falling back to new defenses near Kovel. General Brussiloff's troops now hold virtually the whole of the Stokhpd line. Only at isolated places have the Germans and Austrians been able to hold out against the terrific onslaughts of the last'threa days, and these they are expected to abandon as soon as the A w^r MONDAY EVENING, TRANSCONTINENTAL CAR AT GETTYSBURG J. J. Garvin, local Pathfinder representative, greeting Walter Weideley, driver of Pathfinder the Great, Twin Six, "High Gear" coast-to-coast car out side of Gettysburg yesterday. Deft to right car: "Heinie" Scholler, mechanician; C. B. Hobbs, of the Pittsburgh Press; Walter Weideley, driver; J. J. Garvin and A. E. Brough, of Pathfinder Sales Company. danger of flank or rear attacks be comes more pronounced. Russian Wedge of Steel The wedge of steel which the Rus sians drove through the enemy's line at Hulevitchi, almost due east of Kovel, has compelled the forces of Von Linsingen to withdraw from the salient formed to the south by the curve in the Stokhod. "The with drawal had been planned for a long time," is the naive admission made by Berlin. The Russian armies continue to push forward at the ether points where the opening of breaches in the Teuton lines would seriously menace important dis tricts and towns. Northwest of Buczacz, south of Brody and in the direction of Stanislau the Austrian lines are being subjected to the most powerful pressure and in spots have crumpled in before the Russian on slaughts. South of the Dniester, where the battle Is on in earnest for the first time since the Roods of early summer prevented the continuation of actions, the Russian wave has flowed over the Austrian advanced lines and is pound ing furiously at the second lines east of Tlumach. The double victory of the Czar's troops at Brody and west of Lut3k, coupled with the renewed offensive of General Letchitsky on the Dniester, has put Von Bethmer's forces along the Stripa in a position from which they will have difficulty in extricating themselves if the warning is not heeded soon. Already, apparently, the Austrians are exposed to flank assaults. In the north General Sakharoff is nearer Lemberg than Yon Bothmer, and only the speedy retirement of the latter toward the Galician capital, with the defense of which he is entrusted, can save him from rear attacks and pos sible envelopment. The rerl danser to the Teutons in the Russians' double drive lies in the interdependence of Kovel and Lem berg. As soon as one falls nothing can save the other. Consequently the Aus trians and Germans cannot concen trate their forces at one single point. They must confront the Russians with just as powerful forces in front of Kovel as before Lemberg. Their de fenses must be just as strong as at the towns themselves, for a front cannot break at one point Without imperiling all other points. Screw of Vise Is Turned Tighter and Much Harder Berlin, July 30 (via London, July 31). —Slowly byt steadily the screw on the vise In which Germany finds itself is being turned tighter and harder. The entente powers are straining the last nerve ic *ho attempt to crush in the German rsmparts east and west. In the west the Allies cannot record much progress. In the north the blood of to-day is mingling with the dust and ashes of the dead of the past in the terrible fighting around Pozieres, especially for the possession of the cemetery. There the long sleep of the dead is being rudely disturbed by the hail of shells which scatter the bones and dust of the sleepers to the four winds and the soldiers have before them an impres sive picture of what they may soon be. The British, with characteristic English bulldog tenacity, are throwing themselves again and again against the stubborn, almost immovable German lines near Pozieres and Longueval, while the massed German artillery is turning the portions of woods held by the English, especially the edge of Del ville, into a hell unimaginable and literally pounding the face off the Eng lish advance. And still the British come on. Ir. the east the Austrians have prac tically evacuated Brody. Brody is sixty miles from Lemberg. The left wing of the Austrians had fallen back and taken position behind the swamps of Baldurka creek, while the right wing extended northeasterly and barred the road to Brody. With the constant new reinforce : ments General Sakharoff pressed through Bielawice and Koniuszkow with such force, and so pounded with his artillery the Austrians and Hun garians in their sand trenches, that S after an exhausting day the latter were 1 compelled to fall back when the Rus sians toward evening penetrated their lines. With that the road to Brody ; was open for the Russians. Brody is an open, unfortified city of I 18,000 inhabitants, lying on a iow, I sandy flat. The Austrians fell back i behind the Lemberg railway line on the southern edge of Brody. Sakharoff j pressing after. The Russians evacu i ated Brody Just a year ago, after the | Germans and Austro-Mungarians un der Mackensen retook Przemysl and | Lemberg. Pope Bemoans Failure of His Peace Appeals Rome, via Paris. July 31. The j failure of the Pope's appeals to the warring nations for peace was ad mitted by the pontiff in addressing a delegation of the Youth of Rome yes terday. The delegaton prayed for peace in accordance wth the Pope's appeal to the children of the whole world to appeal to God, on the last Sunday of the second year of the struggle to end the war. The Pope remarked that the war which was ravaging all the earth was not visible on all faces, although such carnage made an ever-present call ror mediation and patience. Yet he said, adults were unable to forego the at tractions of life and that was why he turned to the children who are nearest and dearst to God by their innocence and weakness. French and British Charge North of Somme in First Real Hot Wave of Summer By Associated Press With the British Army in the Field, July 30, via London, July 31.—French and British soldiers made to-day's at tack in sweltering midsummer heat. The first real hot wave of the season struck northern France last night, and this morning British and French in fantry co-operated in an action north of the Somme, In front of Gulllemont and Maurepas. For the last few days the one word on everybody's tongue has been visi bility, which has come into universal use since Admiral Jellicoe's first fleet dispatch. Formerly artillerymen spajfe of good or bad light. Persistent bad light or low visibility which did not permit the gunners to register their targets, had delayed an important in fantry action. Yesterday the light be came better as the heat grew tropic and the offensive operations were re newed. Every day the Germans have been incrreasiqg the number of guns and men in the Gulllemont sector, which Is among the last portions of high ground they hold. By prisoners taken ten German battalions, or 10,000 men, have been identified on a front of 2,000 yards where the Germans are still in their old second line fortifications with maze trenches and deep dugouts built long ago and strengthened since the offensive began. The Germans appear to regard this sector of critical impor tance since the British broke the sec ond line on the adjoining front for a length of two miles on July 14. Take Railroad StaUon Part of the British attack struck from the bloody Trones wood and the other part on the flank while the Ger mans tried to man machine guns as usual after a British bombardment. The Germans resisted the British bit terly fighting under the boiling sun as if every inch of ground was pre cious. The British got possession of the railroad station which they had reach ed in a previous attack and this time, according to last reports, was still holding it. Some of the attackers got into Guillemont and reached the church where the Germans, swarming in dugouts, outnumbered the advance party which fought against their foe on all sides. It was one of these hand-to-hand and hide-and-seek con flicts in the village ruins of indescrib able ferocity; The British had to re tire from the edge of Guillemont, but made good a considerable advance southward on the flank of the town where, through the hot night, fighting continued to maintain their gain. Carnage Fearful Perspiration made white water courses in the dust of the men's faces to-day and their eyes looked out through masks so thick that their faces seemed to be covered with some kind of armor. Motor trucks passed like phantoms in thick clouds of the road. Gunners, stripped to their skin, kept on serving their guns at top speed. Breathing came hard in the mixture of dust and shell smoke. Soldiers who reached Guillemont speak of the fearful carnage among the Germans from the British gun fire, v owing to the masses of Germans con centrated under the British bombard ment before the infantry attack. They said they could hear the moans of the German wounded for water above the bombing and rifle and machine gun fire. With the news of the shooting of Captain Fryatt fresh in their minds the British went into the charge in a fury, swearing they would avenge his death. CAPTURE YEMBO By Associated Press London, July 31. An Arab force despatched to the Hejas coast of the Red Sea. after the fall of Jeddah has the Turkish town and fort of Yembo, says a dispatch from Cairo to Reuter's Telegram Company. The troops in the Turkish garrison were made prisoners and guns and mu nitions were captured. Apparently, the dispatch adds, the grand sheriff of Mecca is putting his house in order. He Is arranging for the publication of a weekly official Journal news and opinions may be conveyed to the people. He has appointed an Arab to collect the customs at Jeddah, has nominated doctors to study hygen in the army and has named a competent police in structor. TWO AMERICANS ARE KILLED BY RAIDERS [Continued 1-Vom First Page] Lewis Thompson, Troop F., Eighth l-'cavalry was seriously wounded. Were After Horses More than 200 shots were fired dur ing the engagement, it is reported. The Mexicans it is believed crossed the line to steal horses. They were dis covered by American outposts and were attackd by the cavalry patrol. The Mexicans, mounted on good horses attempted to flee but were intercepted and forced to flght. General Bell, Jr., commanding the El Paso military district said that he had learned of the engagement only through unofficial sources. Other reports reaching here said that efforts to identify any or the Mexicans had been unsuccessful but that it was believed they were mem- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH At the NeW Store of Win. Strouse Beginning Friday, August 4th, and continuing throughout August The New Store of Wm. Strouse will be open every Friday until 9 P. M., Beginning Aug. Ist closing Saturday at IP.M. : Right now—in the very heart of the Straw Hat Beginning to-morrow, Tuesday, every straw hat season is the time to buy. Every shape-every style our choice selection is marke(J Half p rice _ $1 . 50 —every size is here and your choice is best if made v early. Straws, at 75<*; $2 Straws, at $1; $3 Straws, at $1.50 PANAMAS, ALL SHAPES $5.00 PANAMAS AT $3.85 $6.50 PANAMAS AT $3.85 | OUR FIRST SALE OF MEN'S SHIRTS ENDS NEXT SATURDAY-- Prices on all Shirts have been sliced to rock bottom, and now (while sizes and selection of patterns are still complete) is the best time to buy. 50c Shirts, at 39<? $2.00 Shirts, at $1.45 $4.00 Silk Shirts, at .$2.95 SI.OO Shirts, at 700 $2.50 Shirts, at $1.85 $5.00 Silk Shirts, at $3.65 $1.50 Shirts, at $1.15 $3.50 Silk Shirts, at $2.65 $6.00 Silk Shirts, at . . .., $4.65 #THE NEW STORE OF WM. STROUSE bers of one of the Villa oands recently reported operating south or the Rio Grande in that section wnere there have been several stock stealing raids within the last few weeks. One of them resulted in a small American de tachment crossing the border in pur suit of the raiders. Bandits .Wiped Out Reports to General George Bell, Jr., commanding ths El Paso military dis trict, indicated the bandits had been killed. American patrols reported that a small detachment of Mexicans had crossed the Rio Grande and appar ently were making their way toward an isolated section about fifty-five miles down the river. It was believed they were either smugglers or stock thieves. A small detachment of Troop F, Eighth Cavalry, was sent in pursuit. The Mexicans were surprised and it is believed that none escaped. Captain H. C. Cushing, commanding Company C. Eighth Massachusetts In fantry, at Fort Hancock, reported the Fackler's Annual August Furniture Sale Starts Tuesday, August Ist Preparation for this sale has been more extensive than ever before—more furniture, greater variety and, considering market conditions, far more attractive values, our entire regular stock is marked at reduced prices. These reductions are from 10% to 50%. Numerous special attractions will be announced from time to time. But it will pay you to secure your needs now, before the stock is broken. By paying a reasonable deposit, pur chases will be held until October 1, so see our window display and note the large reductions on high-grade Furniture. Dining Room Furniture Living Room Furniture 8-piece Mahogany Suite—slss.oo. This sale $112.00 3-piece Mahogany Suite, upholstered in muleskin—s9s.oo. 9-piece Mahogany Suite—s23o.oo. This sale $160.00 This sale, $65.00. This is an' exceptional value—sofa is 9-piece Solid Quartered Oak Suite —$226.00. This sale, 60-inch. $130.00 3-piece Genuine Leather Suite, Jacobean finish—s4s.oo. This 10-piece Early English Suite —$150.00. This sale, SIOO.OO sale, $33.00. Table to match—sl3.so. This sale, 9-piece Fumed Oak Suite—sl34.oo. This sale $114.00 $10.50. A very large 3-piece Fumed Oak Suite—slso.oo. 9-piece Jacobean Suite—sl27.so. This sale $107.00 This sale, SIOO.OO. The sofa is 78-inch; chair and rocker Bed ROOm Furniture are ' ar^e anc * upholstered in best quality 3-piece Circassian Walnut Suite—sl7s.oo. This sale, $130.00 3-piece American Walnut Suite—sl46.oo. This sale, $124.00 ( L'clVenpUrio 3-piece Mahogany Suite—sloo.oo. This sale SBO.OO A very large stock of all grades at large reductions. 3-piece Quartered Oak Suite—s7o.oo. This sale $60.00 Tapestry Bed Davenports—s6o.oo. This sale, $45.00. Ma 4-piece Old Ivory Suite—sß6.oo. This sale #69.00 hogany Davenports. .$50.00. Thi§ sale $40.00 We have a large assortment of suites or odd pieces at great 3-piece Davenport Suits, upholstered in craftsman leather or savings. See the 4-piece Circassian Walnut Suites in tapestry—great values. window —note the great value—sl6s.oo. This sale, Library Tables, in all woods—the largest assortment we have $123.75 ever shown at prices which will move them out quickly. J_vll/rv O Harrisburg, Pa. few details he was able to obtain to General Beil. Col. Slocum Held Blameless in Raid on Colombus By Associated Press Washington, July 81. Extracts fro mthe final report of the inspector general's department on the Villa raid lat Columbus, N. M., made public to iday by the War Department, show that Colonel Herbert J. Slocum, of the Thirteenth Cavalry, has ben exoner-1 ated from all bame for the surprise; attack upon his headquarters and the town. It was this raid that brought rea tions between the United States and the de facto government of Mexico to a crisis, and led to the dispatch of Gneral Pershing's punitive expedition Into Mexico. The bandits, several hundred strong and led by Villa him self crept upon Columbus under cover of darkness, boldly engaged the small force of cavalry there and looted the JULY 31, 1916. town before the troops under Colonel Slocum succeeded in driving them off. The inspeuctor geeral's report is based upon voluminous testimony heard from Officers and men of the Thirteenth, civilians of Columbus and i any other persons who could be found | with information on th subject. Parts j of the testimony were given out with the substance of the inspector gen eral's findings. Unless there are un- I expected developments the report probably marks the closing of the Coumbus incident so far as the army is concerned. ROTARIANS WILL BOOST THE "NAVY" [Continued From First Page] Gus M. Stelnmetz, managing editor of the Telegraph, was chairman of the luncheon, and introduced "Ad miral" E. J. Stackpole and "Vice-Ad miral" V. Grant Forrer, who told all about the plans of the new Navy for the transformation of the Susque hanna river basin, the construction of municipal boathouses and the estab lishment of public bathing beaches. The whole luncheon was marked by "naval demonstrations," the singing of sea songs and "pirate" stories by Ed. Black and others. Each member re ceived a little bark canoe -with his name on one side and this inscription on the other: „ 14 "The Greater Harrisburg Navy in vites the Harrisburg Rotary Club to participate in its first annual regatta, Monday, September 4. Here's your boat. Paddle your own canoe and come." President Howard C. Fry, in the role of Secretary Daniels, decorated the "Admiral" and "Vice Admiral" with naval' hats of their rank and presented each with a periscope, by the aid of which ne expressed the hope that the new navy would be able to keep submarines from coming up the Susquehanna. The club responded enthusiastically to the invitation and voted to have a float with the members and friends aboard on the night of the carnival. 11
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