City and Nation Unite in Solemn War time Observance of Memorial Day
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
LXXXVI— No. 129 12 PAGES
BIG ARMIES
STOP BATTLE
IN DEADLOCK
Pronounced Pause in Activities Gives Impression That
New Phase of War Is to Come With Great Drive on
One of the Fronts
KAISER PICTURES DECISIVE TIME
OF WAR AS BEING "NEAR AT HAND"
General Cadorna Pushes on His Campaign For Trieste
Where Desperate Fighting Marks the Campaign
Between Italian and Austrian Armies
There has come such a pronounced pause in the major ac
tivities of the great war as to give the impression that prepara
tion for a new phase in the development of the conflict may be in
progress.
Only the Austro-Italian front where General Ladorna is deter
minedly pushing his campaign for Trieste, is any sustained offen
sive movement going on. I lie great battles which developed last
month on the front in northern France have come to a halt. Even
counterattacks by the Germans have virtually ceased along the
British front, while on the French front they have lessened in
number and violence. The recent pronounced aerial activity also
lias subsided.
W hen the next blow is to be delivered can only be surmised.
Indications are multiplying that the Germans are looking for some
new development. They have mentioned the Russo-Rumanian
front at the place of expected attacks. The trend of the news
from the entente side of that front, however, has not been such
as to lead to the belief that an effective stroke could be delivered
upon the Teutonic lines there at present.
Emperor William in addressing his
troops on the front in northern
France recently exhorted them to
stand fast in the decisive time he pic
tured "near at hand." Apparently
thus, a renewal of the Franco-British
attack, possibly on a larger scale than
ever, is anticipated.
As for some time the fight
ing on the western front yesterday
and last night was of a local charac
ter. London reports only trench
raids. Paris announces the repulse of
a German attack on a narrow front
near Mont Blond in the Champagne
and an important raid by the French
at the famous Hill 304 in the Verdun
region.
Thousands Honor Memory
of Late Ambassador
| By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 30.—Memor
ial Day took on a deeper meaning
in Pittsburgh to-day as thousands
tiled past the bier upon which the
body of the late George W. Guthrie,
ambassador to Japan, lay in state
in Memorial Hall. Citizens of all
ages and stations passed in contin
uous processioon for nine hours. It
was Pittsburgh's tribute to the man
who once served as the city's mayor
and who has been termed "the city's
foremost citizen."
Perfectly Satisfied to
Get $16.50 of $1,400 Back
Henry Null, of Tower City, last]
evening made a complaint of robbery
in the Strawberry and Cowden sec
tion. Null complained of the loss of
a round SI4OO. When searched he
still had $16.50 in real money, and
SI,OOO in stage bills.
An investigation was made but
nothing disclosed to substantiate the
tale of loss. This morning he was
overjoyed to receive his fit.BO and
departed apparently perfectly satis
fied.
CONFERENCE POSTPONED
Amsterdam, May 30.—According
to news received from the Dutch
delegates at Stockholm the Socialist
conference has been postponed until
July 15 or possibly later. Every
thing depends upon the arrival of
the French and Italian delegations.
PROTEST HATES INCREASE
By Associated Press
Washington, May 28.—Shippers :
from Vermont to Texas to-day added
their protests against the proposed
15 per cent, freight rate Increase at
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion hearings.
THE WEATHER]
Kor Harrlsbnrg nnl vlelnltj i Fair
itn<l continued warm 10-nighf
anil to-morroir.
Yeaterdajr'a Weather
HlKhmt temperature, <lO.
l.TieNt temperature. 80.
Mean temperature, 58.
•Normal temperature, M.
DECORATION
DAY GAMES
New York trimmed the Phillies
,to-day in a pitchers' battle, score 3
to 2 . Lavender was touched up in
the eighth inning for a bunch of
blngles. Boston shut out Brooklyn,
score 4 to 0. Rudolph held the
Dodgers to five scattered hits.
In the American league rain pre
vented a morning game at Chicago.
The Athletics were given a dose of
whitewash by the New York
Yankees, score 6 to 0. New York was
in a hitting mood. Detroit handed
a jolt to Cleveland, score 4 to 1.
Boland pitched gilt-edged ball scat
tering his hits. Boston won a close
game over Washington score 4 to 3,
Bader pitching good ball. The scores
follow:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Chicago St. Louis-Chicago
postponed; rain. One game this af
ternoon, at 3 p. m.
At Cleevland— R. H. E.
Detroit ....100001 1 1 0-r-4 8 2
Cleveland ..10000000 o—l 6 3
Batteries Boland and Spencer;
Bagby and O'Neill. Umpires Con
nolly and McCormick.
At Philadelphia— • R. H. E.
New York ..3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 o—6 8 1
Pl'ila 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o 5 3
Batteries Cullop and Alexander.
Walters; Falkenburg, Myers, Seibold
and Schang, Haley. Umpires—Hilde
brand and O'Loughlin.
At Washington— R, H. E.
Boston . ...01010101 o—4 8 l
Washington .0 0000111 o—3 10 2
Batteries Shore, Bader and As
new; Gallia, Ayers and Henry, Ains
worth. Umpires Evans and Mor
iarity. •
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Boston— R. H. E.
Brooklyn . .00000000 o—o 5 3
Boston . ...00 03000 Ix—4 8 1
Batteries Coombs and Miller;
Rudolph and Gowdy. Umpires
Rigler and Orth.
At New York— R. H. E.
Phila 00010100 o—2 5 1
New York ..01 000002 x—3 4 2
Batteries Lavender and Kille
fer; Anderson, Perritt anil Rariden,
McCarty. Umpires Klem and
Bransfield.
Berlin, Wisconsin, Is
Tired of Its Name
By Associated Press
Berlin, Wis., May 30. —A moye
ment to change the name of this
town is expected to assume definite
form to-morrow when steps are to
be taken to place the question be
fore the voters in the near future.
The agitation for a change has been
in progress ever since the Unit&d
States entered the war aginst Ger
many. The Indian name "Mascou
tin" is said to be favored by many,
(his being the name of the tribe of
Indians who first located the town
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HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1917.
THE NEW DEDICATION
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—Public T.edger.
that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
NATIONAL GUARD
CALLED TO STOP
BIG RACE RIOT
Negroes Arm Selves For
I Pitched Battle With In
furiated Whites
By .Associated Press
East St. Louis, 111., May 30.—The
second rtlght of antinegro riots here
reached its climax after three white
men and two n.egroes had been
wounded by bullets, several negroes
beaten and half a dozen negro homes
burned, then subsided suddenly and at
midnight the was comparatively
quiet. Rioting started Monday night
alter a meeting of the city council, at
which labor leaders protested against
the wholesale importation of negro
laborers into East St. Louis.
Small mobs formed quickly last
night but wero soon dispersed. Dis
turbances began about 7 o'clock in the
outlying districts and were confined to
these sections. Six companies of Na
tional Guardsmen under the command
of Colonel C. E. Clayton, Fourth Inni
nois Infantry, formed a cordon about
negro districts and dispersed groups
of men wherever sighted, but as the
lights had been shot out, small mobs
formed and clashed with the negroes
at frequent intervals, despite their
vigilance.
Close the Saloons.
Two laborers were wounded slightly
when they entered a negro district.
Thomas Ritchie, private detective for
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was
hit by a charge of shot from a shot
gun in the hands of a negro whom he
had challenged in the company yards.
His wound was not serious.
One of the wounded negroes prob
ably will die. but the other suffered
only a tlesli wound. Whenever shoot
ing started, the guards rushed to the
scene and dispersed the troublemak
ers, who offered no resistance to the
officers.
Several false fire alarms were
turned in, and six negro homes werer
lired by whites and burned to the
ground. None -of the negroes who
were beaten was badly hurt.
Saloons and picture shows were
closed at 6 o'clock last night. Camps
for the six companies of guardsmen
were established to-day.
Telegraph Observes
Memorial Day; Flower
Boxes Cover Building
Following a custom of years, the
HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH ob
served Memorial Day by decorating
the front of the TELEGRAPH
Building with flowers and vines and
confining to-day's issue to one edition
in order that members of the TELE
GRAPH Family might participate in
the exercises of the day.
The windowboxes were planted
and placed by the Berryhill Nursery
Company. They will remain In place
until the first frost. The TELE
GRAPH Building was the first in
Harrlsburg to be so decorated. Scores
of private residences displayed win
dow and porchboxes for the first,
time to-day.
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These swords which, are rotting with rust . ft|
Once flashed in the eyes of a world! iji
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gjj The little green mounds point the way.
M T he footpath of duty is steep
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It is we who must hold it aloft, Iff
Sublime and unstained, at the end.
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And the rivers run red to the sea,
But Columbia's footstep is firm fig
Iji b'or justice and world liberty!
—ANNA HAMILTON WOOD.
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U. S. Army Engineers
Reach Paris on Way to
the French Battle Line
Paris, May 30.—The United States
Commission of Engineers has arrived
in Paris. The party consists of Major
William Barclay Parsons, Major W.
J. Wilgus, W. A. Garratt and Captain
A. B. Barber, Immediately on its
arrival the commission called on
United States Ambassador Sharp,
who made arrangements for its re
ception by the ministry of war to
day.
The engineers were escorted
through the British lines by Colonel
Henry W. Thornton, the former
American who is manager of the
British Great Eastern Railroad. The
Americans traveled from Boulogne to
Paris by automobile. On their arrival
here Major Parsons said he and his
colleagues were keenly desirous of
getting out where the big guns were
roaring and that they would do ev
erything in their power to expedite
their business in Paris in order to
hasten their departure for the field
of action.
HARD-BOILED SHIRTS AND
STIFF COLLARS ARB GOING
Chicago, May ' 30.—Doom of the
starched collar and glossed shirt
bosom was forecast In Chicago to-j
day as a war measure. Haberdash
ery manufacturers, anticipating
probable action by Congress, are ad
vising their patrons that unstarched
goods will be the proper style for
war times.
The suggestion came from Eng.
land where a governmental caution
against waste of starch, an import
ant food item, has been Issued. .
.
ifnbent
Congressional Leaders
Confer on Points in
Big War Tax Measure
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C„ May 30. Con
gress was not in session to-day. both
houses having adjourneil over the
holiday, but leaders took the opportu
nity to survey progress on war meas
ures.
Chairman Simmons, of the Senate
finance committee, in conference with
Treasury officials, pointed out that
the principal questions of the war
revenue bill yet to be determined re
late to the administration's proposed
automobile license taxes, excise taxes
on coffee and tea. higher second-class
postal rates and taxes on public utili
ties. Secretary McAdoo is urging the
committee to report out a bill carry
ing about 11.500.000.rt00 as provided 'in
the House measure, but committee I
sentiment apparently is in favor of
reducing It to around sl,srtu,uoo,ooo,
the difference to be raised by short
term bonds.
Conferees of the Senate and House
on the $3,342,000,000 war budget bill
to-day still had further changes to
consider, notably the provision to
regulate the acquisition of an Ameri
can merchant marine, for which 1750 -
000,000 Is authorized.
PARINGS FOR SEED
By Associated Press
New York, May 30.—Enough po
tato parings are being saved bv the
chef of a popular uptown restaurant
to plant one-fourth acre of ground
on Staten Island as un experiment,
to determine what kind of crop can
be obtained from such seed, the may
or's committee on food supply an
nounced 'o-day. The experiment will
be in charge of a park department
farmer. ,
RUSSIAN ARMY
I ASKS ALLIES TO
I SEND MUNITIONS
Delegates From Front Calls
on Nation to Stand by
Government
NEED MUCH STEEL
Soldiers Declare They Have;
to Fight With Their
Hands
By Associated Press
Petrograd, May 30. The con
gress or delegates from the front,
after a debate on the war, has unan
imously voted the following resolu-j
tion:
"First, the army in the trenches
declares that it is indispensable to
take every measure to put an end as
quickly as possible to the interna
tional carnage and conclude peace
without annexations or Indemnities,
on the basis of the right of all na
tions to dispose, of themselves, pro
claiming at the same time the watch
word, 'Whoever wishes for peace
must prepare for war'; second, the
army, pointing out that the Russian
soldiers have been lighting hitherto
under conditions infinitely worse
than those of the allies, that the
Russian soldier, has had to march
almost unprotected against the ene
my's bullets and break with bare
arms the barbed wire entanglements,
which the allies and the enemy pass
freely after artillery preparation, de
clares that the Russian front must
be provided with munitions and
everything necessary to maintain the
principle, 'the more metal the less
gun fodder.' "
In conclusion the congress declares
that the army appeals to all to whom
free Russia is dear to rally around
the council of soldiers and work
men's delegates ancUthe provisional
government and not to permit "ad
venturers to let the army become
manure for foreign fields."
ARMY WANTS ASSURANCE
B Associated I'rcss
Paris, May 30. Marcel Cashin,
one of the Russian Socialist dele
gates attending the meeting of the
National Council of the French So
cialist party, writing in the Pari-1
sien says:
"Sure from now onward that the j
war objects of the Russian republi- 1
i an government are the same as its
own, the Russian army wishes to
feel the same certainty as regards
the allied governments. Premier Ri
bot's speech in the Chamber of De
puties will be very useful from this]
point of view, but more must be
done. It will be necessary for the
combined allied powers in complete
agreement, to express thmselves in
the same way."
War Clouds Cast Special
Gravity Over Memorial
Day Exercises in Capital
By Associated Press
Washington, May 30. War
clouds cast a special gravity to-day
over Memorial Day exercises here in
which President Wilson, Cardinal
Gibbons, Chief Justice White and
many other high government offi
cials participated.
Down Pennsylvania avenue and
the Potomac to Arlington Cemetery,
marched veterans of two past wars
at the head of a column of National
Guardsmen and regulars who may
see service in France with a year,
adorning buildings along the way
were a number of Confederate
ners, set flying for the confederate
veterans reunion here next week,
and the old Union soldiers marched
beneath them with no sign of rancor.
President Wilson arranged to at
tend the exercises at Arlington this
afternoon, but did not count on mak
ing an address. The ceremonies at
Arlington were the principal feature
of the day.
Special pontifical military mass
was held at St. Aloysius Church by
Cardinal Gibbons ana was attended
by Knights of Columbus councils
from Raltimore, Chief Justice White
and other members of the Supreme
Court. This was followed by a pat
riotic celebration before the Colum
bus monument in front of the Union
Station, with former Governor
Glynn, of New York, the chief speak
er. Spanish war veterans held ser
vices about the Maine Memorial at
Arlington.
First Whole Carload of
Watermelons Arrive;
Prices Lower Than Usual
My, doesn't It sound like the real,
good old summer time, and doesn't
it make jour mouth water'.' A whole
carload of Florida watermelons came
to town yesterday and are now in the
warehouses of the Harrisburg Ban
ana and Fruit company.
"Old High Cost of Living seems
to be unknown down Florida way,"
said a representative of the company
to-day. "Never at this, season of
the year have we been able to sell
watermelons for forty or fifty cents
wholesale. Many of these melons
will retail at from fifty to sixty cents
each. Every year the Florida people
are forcing their melons to market
a little earlier and the prices in
dicate that this spring the crop must
be large than usual."
Harrisburger to Go With
Yale Unit to France
Another Harrisburg boy will leave
Saturday to drive an ambulance In
France. He Is C. L. Bailey 111, son or
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Bailey Jr., 2103
North Third street. Young Bailey,
who Is a freshman at Yale, will leave
as a member' of the Yale Ambulance
unit. The unit will sail Saturday.
He is a graduate of the Harrisburg
Academy and the Chestnut Hill Acad
emy, Philadelphia.
Upon their arrival in France they
will spend several weeks In a factory
In Paris before leaving for active duty
on the front.
Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION
MEMORIALDAY
SOLEMN WITH
NATION AT WAR
Even Greater Tribute Paid Those Who Died in
Defense Of U. S.; G. A. R. Veterans Are
Given Wonderful Ovation in Parade; Citu
Mourns as Bells Are Tolled
Never since the observance of Memorial Day
began far back in 1868, has the day meant so
imuch to ljoth young and old in the Unite t
oStales, as this great country is rapidly completing
i ' ,rc ' )ai at '" ns or act ' ve participation in the
\ 10-day as the veterans of the historic Civil
War filed down the city streets to the cemeteries to pay tribute to
then departed comrades, it was evident that the ceremonies were
the most somber, yet the most impressive ever observed in the
city.
W ilh a deeper and truer meaning a new vision came to-day
to the younger generations as they saw before them, ,the Boys in
Blue, living examples of patriotism and loyalty to the flag. The
piesencc of the war scarred veterans, with bent shoulder, dimmed
eye and grayed head, filled the young men and young women
with a more pronounced and more sincere love of country and a
greater patriotic devotion to the flag.
Desire Emulation
During: the day circulars were
handed out on the streets by the
Grand Army men, bearing this
charge:
"Young man, your country needs
you. The boys of '6l-65 present to
you THE FL.AG unsullied, keep it
so. Don't bo a slacker, but enlist im
some branch of the service. Compli
ments of the Patriotic Instructor of
Post 58, G. A. R."
Aside from the serious nature of
(he observance, programs of sports
and other amusements were partici- '
pated in by the younger folks.
Leaves Strong Impression
But this year the wonderful devo
tion of the old soldiers for the com
rades who have answered the,call of
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| U-BOAT MENACE LESSENS
I London, May 30. The weekly report of British
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1 marines and the admiralty is taking full advantage of 1
NEW YORK TO ENROLL 600.000
j , New Yoi k. May 3
V to-day b; tilt, i. .f r)< p.. ; • V : ; ~,.-n ~f
j the 600,000 men in New York City, who are to register
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; the Trieste front jf, announced in to-day's official state*
jh. ment. The Italian lines havt been
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< i BRAZIL MAY ARM SHIPS
Rio Janriro, May 3U. Foreign Minister Pecanha
j receive! a * e. of the Brazilian Lloyd St<
ship Company yesterday for the purpose of consider-
I ing measures to safeguard Brazilian shipping, lit is
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jj VILLA FORCES WIN BATTLE 1
Presidio, Tex., -May 30. A Villa force attacked
a i Ojinaga, Mexico, opposite, here early to-day, surprising l
V, the Mexican government soldiers in the Karruon there
1 | and causing them to flee to the American side, i
J 1 their arms in Mexico Ail women and children at
| Ojinaga fied across the line into Texas when the at
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MARRIAGE LICENSES ,
Carl Honikt mid i'lilmi May Kinney, llummeUtownt Harry Ed
ward Mpliplng, 1.l ne vi lie. anil t'ntherlne Kll<nleth Hrtiht, Harrla
huric; Harry Homm I'iikc anil Kmmit Mntlliln lilfrkncr, Allentonnt Bd-
Wl,r l Spoltuwood Dfpeu and EMlicr Kinnui Schnyler, HarrhburKi Cu
par Hay Mower), l.emojnc, nnd l.fiurn Miiricaret llruncr, II nrrinburff;
Lharlea Joeph Hall, Jr., and Roa Alice Hockenhury, Mt. Union.
Death, left an impression which will
be more lasting than ever before.
Each year since 1868 the Boys in
Blue formed in line, then with larg
er numbers in the ranks, and march
ed to the burial grounds, posted the
flags and strewed the flowers and re
turned home. Kach year the num
ber grew smaller, but the men, even
as they grew more aged never failed
the tryst—to honor the comrade who
had gone before.
To-day but a mere handful remain.
I In 1865 thousands after thousands
of troops rolled down Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, for the final re
view, went to their homes and receiv
ed an honorable discharge rrom ser
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