Fate of Wartime ■Prohibition Now Is Up to United States Senate Along With Food Pill HARRJSBTJRG |§if|tfill TELEGRAPH LXXXVI— No. 151 12 PAGES ARMY UNIT TO BE RAISED BY ROTARY CLUB Organization of City's Businessmen to SpOnser Company of Harrisburg Boys Who Will Be Attached to Regi ment Forming at Gettysburg; Plan Great Things For Them The Rotary Club of Harrisburg, at the suggestion of Captain Harrell, of the Regular Army, will raise a Rotary Club contingent of 150 men to be made a part of one of the Regular Army regi ments now in training at Gettysburg. This was decided at a two-hour meeting of the club at noon to-day and arrangements for a free concert by the Fourth Regi ment Regular Army band in the Orpheum Theater Wednesday evening of this week will be worked out at a meeting of the club at the Orpheum this evening Only Rotarians will be admitted to-night but the club has issued a general invitation to the public and to young men in the draft age for the concert on Wednesday night at 8.15. Will Stand Sponsors The Rotarians will stand as spon sors or the young men joining the Rotary Contingent, will keep in con stant touch with them in the army and the board of directors of the </lub, acting with the public affairs committee, meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon to work out a program by which the club will stand behind these young men during their en listment. To lie Kept Together Big advantages will be offered to those who Joint the Rotary Con gent. The men will be kept all to gether in the same regiment and will be drilled by trained officers of the Regular Army. The club is prepared to do great things for its "boys.'' Already a number of the club mem bers are in the service, but most of the members are beyond the enlist ment age. They are influential busi ness and professional men of the community who are anxious to Jo their bit and they have chosen this as one of the ways. Arniy Officers Speak Among those who addressed the Rotary meeting to-day were Captain E. H. Weston, one of those who put on the big Liberty bond campaign here some time ago, but wh® since has received a commission in the regular army. He said that Captain Harrell had with great difficulty pro cured the permission of the War Department for a Rotary contingent and he spoke at length of the ad vantages the men would receive as a result. While men up to 4 5 and as young as 18 are being recruited, he said, it was expected that the larger number would come from the draft contingent and that joining now, therefore, is simply beating the government to enlistment in the service. Captain Weston said that the Mo tor Club had offered the free use of automobiles to the local recruit ing office this week, in the work of bringing out Harrisburg's share of the 70,000 volunteers for which the President has called before the end of the week and that many other organizations could be called upon for help. "The Rotary Club never has fail ed in anything it has undertaken," he said, "and It is for that, reason especially we have asked you to per form this service." Splendid Display of Ramblers Attract Notice One of the most beautiful scenes in the city's extensive parkway system are the rambler roses in full bloom at Cameron Park. Thousands of bushes planted along the edges of the parkway are covered with crimson flow ers, giving the green foliage of the bushes and many smaller shrubs in the park added color and beauty. The roses are plant ed on both sides of the park, practically the entire length from Cameron street to the Cameron extension driveway. Much fa vorable comment on the con dition of the plants has been ex pressed. Many people are going to the park expressly to view the display. THE WEATHER] For Harrisburg and vicinity! Fair to-night and probably Tuesday) slightly tvfirmer Tuesday. For Eastern l'ennsy Ivnnln: Fair to-niKht and probably TaMdn>| somewhat warmer Tuesday) Krntlf, variable nlnda. River The lower portion of the main river will fall slowly to-night and begin to ride Tuesday; the upper portion will rise slowly to-nlKht and Tuesday. All tribu taries will fall except the l.ower North Branrh, whleh will rise this afternoon and to-night and heKln to fall Tuesday. A stnge of abont ft.3 feet In Indicated for Harrisburg Tuesday morning;. General Conditions The disturbance that was central over the l,oner Missouri Valley, Saturday morning, has passed off northeastward. It cnused showers and thunderstorms since last report over the grcnter part of the north half of the country east of the Mis sissippi river. It Is 2 to 14 decrees cooler than on Saturday morning In the Middle Atlantic and Southern New England States. Temperatures S a. m., 04 degrees. Sum Klses, 4i30 a. m. Mooni Full moon, July 4. River Stage t 5.4 feet. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, M. I.ow est temperature, Mft. Mean temperature, 74. Normal temperature, 72. Colonel Beery Speaks Colonel lieery,' Adjutant General Stewart's right hand man, also made a plea for the contingent, telling of his own success in" picking a young Harrlsburger who in two days alone recruited the nrst truck company of the Pennsylvania Guard from among the young men of the city. The suggestion was enthusias tically endorsed and particulars will be worked out at the meeting this evening. C Floyd Hopkins offered the free use of the Orpheum both for this evening's meeting and for the concert Wednesday evening. Patriotic nongs were sung by C. B. Schackley at to-day's meeting, accompanied by H. M. Wolfe, on the cornet. The club song in chorus a new patriotic song, "We Are Some Big America," one of Mr. Wolfe's re cent compositions. Need Fighting Men "What we need is men, red-blood ed virile men. Infantrymen not afraid to charge and break the German lines. Not mon.ey nor guns, nor am munitipn, we have those and we, with our resources will never fail to get them, but men, we are short of men and every day men delay the coming forward and joining the ranks of the depleted regiments which may mean weeks lost," is the way Captain W. F. Harrel sizes up the present military situation. "Big guns may pound and thunder until Doomsday, but if there are no men to follow up the openings they liave made, the bombardment is practically useless," said Captain Harrell. He also said a battle had never yet been won by the thunder ing of big guns, but the men who charged and swarmed the trenches and took a man's chance of death. "Once our men break the enemy's line," said Captain Harrell, "in the first great drive only one of ten may [Continued on Page 12] Russia's Great Need Is For U. S. Locomotives By Associated Press Washington, June 25. "Locomo tives. locomotives and still more loco motives,"' are the fundamental needs of Russia to-day. according to Pro fessor I.omonosoff, railroad minister with the Russian mission. "Quite frankly, I can say to you, our Ameri can friends," he said, "give us loco motives and we shall give you mili tary success." Russia needs at once 1,000 ten i wheel locomotives to put her idle cars in operation; another thousand with an appropriate number of cars to free the congested freight terminals, and another 850 annually to meet the de ficiency between Russia's manufac ture and her needs for renewal and new construction. The United States, the Professor said, is Russia's hope in this huge program and negotiations are now in progress which are most promising. JiEdRO IS LYNCHED By Associated Press I Punta Gorda, Fla., June 25 Sheep Trent, a negro, was taken from of ficers to Cleveland. Fla., four miles from here last night and shot to Weath. He had been arrested for an attempt to assault a white woman Saturday. Trent lay in wait for the woman in a dark street, but she out ran him and gave the alarm. REUGIANS TO TOUR IT. S. By Associated Press Washington, June 2'5. The Bel gian diplomatic mission has tentative ly arranged a trip through the Unit ed States extending to the Pacific coast. Invitations have been received from scores of cities and it Is prac tically settled that the mission will make the most elaborate tour of any of the foreign visitors. CONGRESS TO ADJOURN By Associated Press Washington, June 25. Democratic Leader Kitchin predicted adjourn ment of Congress by August 1 or Au gust 15 to-day, in announcing that after next Wednesday or Thursdav he would ask for three-day adjourn ments until the Senate had passed some of the House legislation now be fore It. SUFFRAGISTS PARADE By Associated Press Washington, June 25. Suffrage demonstrations at the White House took a new turn when eight women, bearing suffrage banners, paraded along the pavement in front of the Executive Mansion, paraded hack again to their headquarters without saying a word or unfurling a single banner. The police did not Interfere and merely saw thpt the women kept moving and that the crowd which col lected let the paraders alone and kept moving also. TWO SMGHTI.Y HURT WHEN AUTO SKIDS Seeking to avoid an accident with another machine on the Hummelstown road, last night, Frederick Selber, 113 Market street, drove to the side of the road, skidded, slightly injuring wife and small son. Neither Mrs Selber or her son were sufficiently Injured to necessitate being sent to the hospital. With Mr. Seibers* two sisters, they were returning from Reading, where they visited relatives,, HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1917. HARRISBURG "ROOKIES" ARE UNDER TRAINING AT GETTYSBURG > r L - Here Is shown a general view of the camp at Gettysburg? where groups of Harrisburg bovs are undergoing training, bince Captain Harrell announced that boys from the city would be sent here, snores have enlisted Thev come in groups of from three to seven, confident they will not be separated and will be able to fight side bv side through the war. ' NEUTRALS HOLD SHIPS IN PORT TO REAP PROFIT Charge Is Made by Member of the Italian War Mission • By Associated Press Boston, June 25.—Prince Udine and members of the Italian mission ar rived here from New York this morn ing. They were given an enthusiastic greeting at the South Station by a throng which included a great num ber of Italian residents. Despite the entente allies' acute need of ships, arising from the sub marine menace, more than 1,000,000 tons of neutral shipping is swing idly, at anchor in the harbors of belligerent nations, according to a statement made by Augusto Ciufelli, former member of the Italian cabinet and a member of the mission, to The Asso ciated Press here to-day. Deplores Condition The statement was by Mr. Ciufelli in connection with the advisability of putting into execution other plans, besides America's titanic shipbuilding program in combatting the subma rines. That the entente allies are power less to utilize this class of neutral tonnage was characterized as de plorable by Mr. Ciufelli. Greed, he said, was the moving factor with many of the shipowners. The allies should take immediate steps to cor •rect the situation, Mr. Ciufelli said, by increasing port duties to an al most confiscatory point for prolonged stays and refusing bunker coal to such ships as declined to accept car goes through the danger zone. Wuut Higher Freights "Hundreds of Norwegian, Danish, Dutch. Greek and Spanish ships, total ing more than one million tons," Mr. Ciufelli said, "are lying idle, in the ports of the belligerent nations be cause of the submarine menace. The owners of many of these ships are de liberately holding them in port in or der to reap the extraordinary profits which they expect will accrue to them. In their minds the shipping situation has reached a point where trade rates will be hlgner than they are now and insurance rates will decrease. The damage to the cause of the allies caused by these idle ships can not be computed. The money dam ages run far into the millions, since the inaction of this tonnage contrib utes toward a constant increase in ocean freight and insurance rates." Georgia Votes to Secede From Russian Government By Associated Press Tiflis; Sunday, June 24. At a con gress of Georgian National Democrats States Steel ro3e a large fraction favor of the autonomy of Georgia. Georgia is a district of Transcau casian Russia, included in the govern ment of Tiflis and ICutais. The Georgians, forming about half the population and celebrated for athletic men and beautiful women, number more than 1,000,000, divided into vari ous tribes. Chinese Provinces Give Up Revolution By Associated Press Peking, June 25.—A1l provinces which declared their independence of the present Peking government have now ceased their warlike prep arations. Leaders of the southern southern provinces which were in revolt telegraphed Peking that thev were willing to compromise provid ing a new election were soon held without military Interference. Break in Dam Does $3,000,000 in Damage By Associated Press Falrvlew, Utah, June 25.—The dam of the Price River Irrigation Company, twelve miles from here, which started to break yesterday aft ernoon, was a total loss this morn ing. Fears that there will be loss of life in the towns in the path of the 11.000 acre body of water, released in the break, were dispelled with nn announcement by the Rio Grande railroad that its force of men hail taken hundreds of persons to safety. Officials of the irrigation company said the damage would probably ex ceed 13,000,000. (Tire Star- flnfrcpraftfitt. AMERICA TO HAVE MEN IN TRENCH SOON, SAYS ROOT U. S. Envoy Tells Russia of Our Plans For Active Warfare By Associated Press Moscow, June 24 (delayed).—The headquarters of the war industrial commission was visited to-day by the American mission headed by Elihu Root. The mission was warmly wel comed. Mr. Root, in answer to an ad dress of welcome, said that America was summoning ten million men to the colors in defense of freedom- Hi remarks were enthusiastically ap plauded. Continuing:. Mr. Root told his hear ers that half a million Americans soon would be fighting. America's lleet was already annihilating Ger man submarines. Describing America's adaptation to war, Minister Root praised American workmen for volun tarily working longer hours than usual. They soon would be fulfilling Russia's order for locomotives and cars. V. S. Will Help "Say what Russia wants," continued the speaker, and we will come to its aid. Our high aims in the war jus tify the heaviest sacrifices and any one who cannot understand these aims must be unable to understand anything." Afterwards the Americans visited the Moscow Bourse committee, where they were welcomed by M. Tretiakof, president of the committee. Later they inspected the people's bank and various munitions workshops, where they were given a rousing reception. Some of the members went to Ser gievsky to visit the famous Trinity monastery, meeting on the way the procurator general of the Holy Synod, Con tinned on Page 10 Painter Asserts He Was Held Up, Beaten and Robbed by Soldiers Claiming that he was held up late Saturday afternoon near the Rock ville Bridge, by two drunken soldiers, and robbed of his week's wages, Wil liam Klinger, of Mlllersburg, a paint er employed by Gohl and Bruaw, of this city, reported the incident to the railroad police department this morn ing. Klinger says the soldiers demanded he show his pass when he approached the bridge. After succeeding in freeing himself of return his pocketbook and at once proceeded to beat him up, he says. After succeeding to free himself of I his foes, Klinger ran to a nearby store. The soldiers still followed him, according to his story, and again be gan to fight. Klinger was in Rock ville to rent a house, as he desires to be nearer his work. The police are investigating the case. Mob Lynches Negro Few Hours Ahead of Time Scheduled For His Trial Galveston, Tex., June 25. Chester Sawyer, a negro accused of attack ing a white woman, was taken from jail here to-dav and hanged near the city limits. The mob, composed of only a few men. entered the jail bv a rush and then overpowered the Jailer. Sawyer was to have to come to trial this morning. He came here from Brooklyn early this year. U. S. Steamer Comes to Aid of British Crew By Associated Press Montreal, June 25.—Tho British steamship Ortolan, a vessel of 2,145 tons gross, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine June 14 and three members of her crew lost their lives, according to survivors of the ship who arrived here to-dav. The Ortolan when torpedoed was on her way from Genoa to Liverpool. She was sunk without warning and not until the crew were in their life boats did they get a sight of the U-boat. An American vessel which was four miles from the scene of the sinking come to the rescue and sev eral shots were tired at the subma rine from guns on board that ship. SIGNS POINT TO STRENUOUS CLOSE OF LEGISLATURE Senate in Excellent Shape; House Disrupted; Threats of Filibuster All signs to-day favored a strenu ous close of the one hundred and twenty-second session of the state's Legislature with the Philadelphia transit bill, the compensation law amendment bills and the measure to suspend the operation of the full crew during the war and for a month thereafter in the disturbing roles in the House. The Senate is in excellent shape for an early and har monious closing, the situation being in marked contrast to the conditions prevailing in the House. Indications are appropriation bills and measures of importance to con duct the state government will be about the only things to get by with out atmospheric disturbance. Both Senate and House will show a cer tain amount of courtesy toward each other, but on the bills which have been storm centers there is still a low barometric-condition, rather fa vorable to squalls. Threats of Filibuster Open threats, of filibuster were heard about the House to-day. Rep resentative Frederick C. Ehrhardt, of Scranton, the oldest member in point of service in the House and a leading Republican, said to-day that he would object to-night and to morrow to considering the Philadel phia transit bill on first reading. Labor leaders are demanding that the House give special consideration to the compensation amendments, but quite a few members are appar ently anxious to avoid voting on those bills and their backers are talking of reprisals on the full crew bill. The "dry" members are also talking about demanding considera tion for the prohibition amend ment. With all of these measures and the Philadelphia smalt council bill also on the calendar there are ex cellent oppirtunities for prolonged speech-making. The House will be busy during the week on concur rence in Senate amendments, con ference reports and similar routine affairs so that chances are not good for a last week record in enacting laws. Contracts Let For Ten Steel Merchant Ships By Associated Press Washington, June 25.—Contracts for ten complete steel merchant ships, four complete wooden mer chant vessels and twenty wooden ship hulls were announced to-day by Major General Goethals, general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Deliveries will be made in 1918. In addition to the ship contracts, orders for twelve vertical triple expansion marine engines were given to the Ellicott Machine Cor poration of Baltimore. In all the fleet corporation has let contracts so far for 104 complete ships, 38 of steel, 32 wood and steel and 34 wood. Seventy-two wooden hulls have been ordered. German U-Boat Sunk in Fight With Merchantman By Associated Press , An Atlantic Port, June 25.—Officers of a British steamer which arrived here to-day reported having sunk an attacking Herman submarine. The British vessel sent a shell Into the U-boat's magazine, causing an explo sion which parted the .underwater boat about amidships. Uach end sank separately. The British steamer was uninjured. SENATE TAKES UP FOOD BILL WITH 'DRY' AMENDMENT Measure Is Passed by the House With a Large Majority VOTE WITHIN 10 DAYS Fight May Hinge on Linking Beer With Distilled Liquors By Associated I'ress Washington, June Ih. —The fate of prohibition as a wartime meas | u>'e rested to-day with the Senate j where acceptance of the food control | bill in the form In which it passed J the House with its drastic prohibl j tion amendments added, as a substl- I tute for the bill drafted by Senator Chamberlain, was assured. A vigorous tight was promised over the prohibition proposals, par ticularly that permitting manufac ture of malt liquors and wine. Many "dry" Senators strongly oppose ex tending the prohibition to beer and vines, although there is a strong sentiment in the Senate agulnst fur- I ther manufacture of whisky, brandy and other distilled spirits. . I Prospects are, however, that the Senate will in the end vote to re | tain the prohibition proposals or jat least the provision prohibiting i use of foodstuffs in manufacturing ] distilled spirits. It is expected also i that the Senate will add compromise ' pmendments resulting from confcr- I tnces between Senators. The substitute bill will be made j the unfinished business and a final \ote within a week or ten days seem ; probable. New Amendments | A half dozen amendments to the ! bill were introduced to-day. Senator ! Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, offered a I substitute oill proposing that tile | President shall have general broad authority to issue regulations for control of foodstuffs, specifically enu j meratingr those held for "monopoliza i tion" or "unjust prices." Several j measures which have been before the i Senate as part of the war legislation j were also tacked onto the bill as I amendments. Senator Walsh put In his bill permitting the Government to lease coal and oil lands. The bill giving the President the power to direct priority in railroad shipments was offered as an amend ment by Senator Ransdell. Senator Wadsworth tacked 011 the trading with-the-enemy bill and Senator Cum mins proposed amendments declaring every product, including foodstuffs, cotton, coal and steel, subject to con trol and requisition should It become I necessary. U. S. Minister Travels Around World to Get Past German Army Line By Associated Press Washington, June 25.—Charles J. Voplcka, American Minister to Serbia, Bulgaria and Rumania, is to-day | preparing to leave here in continua tion of his globe-circling trip from j Bucharest to Jassy, cities usually nine li tiirs distant. The minister 1 was in Bucharest when the Germans : } took the city, and was not allowed | to pass the lines to his station at I Jassy. In order to resume his du ties in Rumania he found it neces -1 sary to cross Austria-Hungary and Germany and embark for America. i His route now lies across the Pacific j and through Siberia and Russia. Cork Policemen Turn Machineguns on Mobs of Rioting Sinn Feiners , By Associated Press Cork, June 25.—Machineguns were used on the Sinn-Peiners here in the disturbance yesterday. They were brought into action after the 1 ] police with clubs had failed to re j store ordex. The soldiers cordoned [ I various points where the police chas ! Ed the rioters to side streets. After ■ j having borne much stoning the po lice ordered that guns be fired on s j the disturbers. One rioter was kill- I I ed, another severely wounded, while ; | a dozen were treated in hospitals for bayonet and other wounds. The riot was quelled without the troops com ing Into action. ; Red Cross Fund Will Reach Goal of Hundred Millions This Evening By Associated Press Washington, June 25.—A thou srnd American cities were striving to-day to swell the Red Cross war fund to an even $100,000,000. With returns well over the $75,000,000 mark, war council officers were con fident that by the close of the day the great fund would be in hand. It was not certain, they said that the day's reports would reach the one hundred million mark for the reason that the closing day of the cam paign was one of Intense activity all over the country and complete re turns would not be made In hun dreds of instances until after the roundups to-night. Directors of the campaign were free in stating, however, that they were not at all apprehensive that the complete $100,000,000 would be raised. It would take until Tuesday night, they said, to tell the whole story. SKRB MINISTRY FAM.S By Associated Press Corfu, June 25. —The Serbian min istry has resigned. A new cabinet will be formed with Nikola P. Pach itch as premier und minister of for i cijfn affaiiu. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION HAIG NIBBLES, GERMAN LINES WITH RAIDS British Make Progress in Local Operations Where Ground Is Gained in Attacks; Momentary Lull in Infantry Fighting on the Aisne Front; French Regain Terri tory Lost to Crown Prince Last Week and Straighten Lines. Ihe British front in Northern France is again developing signs of marked activity. To-day's official statement from Lort don details an unusual number of raids carried out by the British iit virtually every important sector from Belgium to St. Quentin. Operations by raiding forces on this scale are usually the prelude to offensive movements of moment. General Haig has not stiuck a hard blow on any extended front since the week of the Messines fighting when the famous ridge 011 the Belgian front was captured and the way prepared for further smashing operations in this sector. Incident to last night's raids were local operations that gained ground for the British. Thus some progress by them below Lens and northwest of Warneton in the Mesinnes area is reported. There is a momentary lull in the infantry activities on the Aisne front. The French have virtually succeeded in re-establisning In Its entirety their line in the Vauxaillon area, dented by the Crown Prince's forces in a sudden drive on a narrow front last week. Further lighting is in prospect to the east of this sector 111 the skirmishing for position on tho part of the two armies, each anxious to gain dominating points for either offensive or defensive purposes. In this connection the artillery activity reported to-day along various posi tions of the Chemin-des-Dames pla teau is significant. Keep Up Pressure British Headquarters in France, .June 25.—Although the official state ments report little activity the Brlt- I IV. '<!, nt SiMison, i'ie i j-vear-old i.iil, who ' }< !t u- c in >1 : u .1 to Wash ' : : ■ I - l reached -Acw Yoih at 2.15 to-da . . , i STEJvf .TON GIVES I ] j \ rhe oal \as $20,000. 1 TO PUSH WAR I the !■" i- 1 v.il; • 4 n ••• re with the | Scnai 1 C ittee' ;> ,t complete the war C bill 111 11:e Senate. ' I illery engagements in I the dui ctor in Belgium m-i between the rivers ( 1 ' in " \ I •- • fd to | day.' J ' USES TO STAY PROCEI DIN( Ha iiurg. Judge McCarrcll in <1 opinion to | day discharged the mot ent , | procet . in the c.i-t- of the Commonwealth Trust ( I Company against W. S e hotel | at 300 Strawberry str< | of the new Penn-Harris hotel. k Sheriff Caldwell at once took charge of the property - | in th< name of the Harrisburg Hotel Company. This | enable tfit - >mpany to proceed vith th- removal of the property and go ahead with the building program. BAKER BACK AIRCRAFT PROGRAM 1 Wasl fune 25. — Hearings on the govern- f ment'-. big aircraft program began to-'day before the Senate Military Committee's subcommittee wijh Sec- f " retary <■! War Baker on the witness stand to advocate its adoption. 1 Paris, June 25. Sharp artillery fighting was in 1 progress continually during the night near Froidmont farm and Chevreux, says to-day's official statement. r MARRIAGE LICENSES Tony Stetner, Akron, and Theresa Barbaras, StffHoa. Hiram Walter*, LewUtonn, and Minnie Anna Smee, Carlisle. i ish are keeping up their pressure day and night along the entire 12Q mile front they occupy. Last night ft number of local enterprises werif carried out successfully. One of these operations was rather important, increasing as it does the British grip about Lens. Under the light of the stars British troops stormed and captured 400 yards of front line trenches east of Riaumont wood, in the western outskirts of Lens, thus drawing it closer to the mining capital of France. Elsewhere several raids in the darkness served to keep the Prus sian's nerves on edge. One of these was undertaken west of HuilucH. Here fifteen prisoners were brought in. while during a period of 2V 2 hours the British remained in the enemy trenches. Heavy casualties were In dicted upon the Germans and their dugouts were bombed. Two more raids were carried out east of Roeux and in the region of Vennuille while a local push north west of Warneton secured two ad vance posts. In this affair a numbei of Germans were killed.
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