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BAKER AGREES
TO NEW DRAFT
FROM 18 TO 45
Army of Overwhelming Num
bers Could Thus Be Put
in the Field
\> nsliiiigton. Juno 20. — Secretary
of War Baker has been won over to
the program to extend the military
rervlce draft act to all men between
eighteen and forty-five years.
It will apply the "work-or-fight"
order to many millions of men not
affected at this time. The Army au
thorities do not .seek nor do they ex
pect that Congress will give them the
right to say just where and at what
occupation a man shall work, but as
a matter of military necessity the
Army feels It must have the power
to say that if a man of recognized
military age and qualification is not
devoting himself to work connected
with then he must be called
to serve with the colors of his coun
try.
Baker Announces Approval
The War Department nas not for
mally recommended the new legisla
tion to Congress, but Provost Mar
shal General Crowder has been urg
ing it and Secretary Baker said to
day:
"If the amendment to the draft
act to extend the age limits to all;
men between eighteen and fortv-1
five years is submitted to me 1 shall I
recommend that it be passed."
This virtually settles the matter, l
for there seems to be no doubt at I
all that Congress is ready to follow I
the advice of the military author!-1
tics.
Youths Best SoUliers
It has been demonstrated time and
time again, however, that boys be
tween eighteen and twenty-one make
the very finest soldiers in the world,
and it is further admitted that in
clusion in the Army of the classes!
below twenty-one has virtually a neg
ligible effect upon the industries of a I
country.
For instance, it is said to be the I
lirst plan of the military authorities)
to call into the Army all single men;
between thirty-one and thirty-six j
years of age. It is believed these will
fill the requirements of the Army fori
some time to come, taken in con
junction with the men who become
eligible automatically as they reach
twenty-one years of age.
Moving Fast to Front
Secretary Baker specifically con
fined himself to-day to the years be
tween eighteen and forty-five. The
head of the War Department had'
hoped that it might not be neccs-l
sary to change the draft laws thisj
J ear, but the speed with which j
American troops have been sent 1
overseas and consequent quick ab- i
sorption of so many of the men ori-';
A Second
TWO weeks ago the Telephone Company re
quested all telephone users to please refrain
from asking the operators for the correct time, ex
plaining that this request was necessary because
of the considerable volume of such calls which, •
if eliminated, would so reduce the abnormal
calling volumes as to permit of a redistribution
of both operators' service and telephone equip
ment, and result in the Company's ability to
care for the very heavy telephone demands of the
present and the even greater demands for service
which are expected in the months to come.
It was explained that the same service on the
part of the operators, the same length of time,
and an equal general use of telephone equipment
are necessary to answer such questions as are
required to complete an ordinary connection.
While the response to this request has been
very gratifying and the voluaie of such calls has
decreased appreciably, the burden has not been
entirely lifted.
We, therefore, again bring the matter to the
attention of those users of the service who did
not read, or who were not impressed by our
earlier appeal, urging them to discontinue the
practice of depending upon the telephone oper
ator for the correct time.
The Telephone Company feels that it can count
on a continuation of the public's helpful atti
tude which will be of very real assistance in
meeting the ever-increasing volumes of tele
phone calls and demands for telephone service.
THE BELL TELEPHONE CO. OF PA. fill
W. H. FETTER, Local Manager, VsL U
HARRISBURG, PA.
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THURSDAY EVENING,
Descendant of Fighters
Arrives Safely in France
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JOHN W. McELWEJE
Relatives of John W. McElwee,
formerly of this city, have received
word of his safe arrival in France.
Mr. McElwee enlisted March 6 and
trained with the 20th Engineers. His
grandfather, father and six uncles
fought in the Civil War. He resided
for some time in Franklin county,
but is known in Harrisburg as he
spent much time here also.
ginally called from Class 1 has led
to an entire change in the aspect of
the manpower situation.
If the present rate of shipment to
Europe can be maintained and
there is every reason to believe It
can be increased before very long—
troops will move forward to the bat
tle fronts at the rate of more than
2,500,000 a year.
Czecho-Slovaks on Way
to U. S. to Enlist in War
Against the Austrians
By Associated I'ress
\ Pacific Port. June 20. —Lieuten-
ant Colonel Raymond Robbins, head
of the American Reel Cross Mission
to Russia, accompanied by Captain
Heywood Hardy and Alexander
Grunberg, members of the mission, i
reached here late last nigjit enroute'
home. The party left Moscow on)
May 14.
Wliile lieutenant Colonel Robbins
said he would make no statement
until he hail conferred with the State
Department, unofficial members of
the party asserted that thousands of
('zecho-Slovaks are on their way to
the United States to offer their serv
ices against Austria.
PARDON BOARD IN
RECORD SESSION
May Not Finish Long List Be
fore Late This Evening;
Members Speak Out
Members of the State Board of-
Pardons who are sitting to-day to
hear the list commenced yesterday
morning may not be able to reach
decisions until late to-night. The;
list to-day Included a series of Phil-1
adelphia cases with the application,
for release of Freda frost, granted:
commutation from a death sentence
in 1913, listed "for late in the after
noon, to be followed by two Alle
gheny dounty first degree cases. Dur
ing the hearing of the application for
release of Cora Dayton, convicted of
damaging railroad property while
masquerading as a man with a com
pany of tramps, Judge S. B. Sadler
sent a' letter of recommending mercy
and Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods declared that such persons as |
the convict should be kept under po
lice supervision when released.
The first day's session was enliv
ened yesterday by a declaration from
Secretary of the Commonwealth
. Woods that the Army should not be
j made a dumping ground for crimi
j nals. E. M. Gilbert, of Lancaster, de
clared that, if pardoned, Dr. D. F.
i Kline would immediately enter the
i Army as a surgeon, but that the
Board would have to get busy be
cause the doctor is near the age lim
; it. "But this Board doesn't think the
Army and Navy of the Unfted States
should be made a dumping ground
■ for all the criminals and degenerates
who through enlistment hope to se
cure release from just punishment,"
declared Secretary of the Common
wealth Cyrus li. Wood. "That sort
of an army will not win the war."
Deputy Attorney General Keller, op
posing the Kline plea, declared he
couldn't get in the Army if he want
ed to, because the Government re
fuse to accept "morally unfit."
Lieutenant-Governor McClain also
enlivened proceedings when he told
J. W. Shannon, of Philadelphia, that
the fact that the King's Daughters
asked him to take up Stewart Chil
son's case wasn't getting Chilson any
consideration. "It's hot a very good
recommendation," said McClain, "be
cause I find that the people who
make a practice of visiting prisons—
the King's Daughters and prisdn vis
iting societies of that sort —are apt
not only to get soft-hearted, but soft
headed."
Chilson's attorney • indicated that
j the indefatigable authorities sent the
i wrong man to prison.
"Well," said Attorney General
| Brown, when it was indicated that a
I pardon would be forthcoming, "it will
be a great source of satisfaction to
I Chilson, after serving two years in
j tlie penitentiary, to know that doubt
i exists as to whether he did it."
I P. 1... Walsh, of Scranton, who ap
! peared for Peter Slazzoka, one of a
| party of five who beat a fellow coun
tryman to death, got scant satisfac
tion when he said that Slazzoka's six
years In jail have beene plenty. He
was sentenced to eighteen and one
half years.
"If we recognized pleas of the sort
you are presenting to us," said Lieu
tenant-Governor McClain, "we'd have
a general jail delivery. And, any
ways, this Board Isn't going to at
tempt to adjust race feuds, to the det
riment of society In general."
Applause Once Custom
In Religious Services
Someone having written a protest
against hand-clapping as being an
inartistic method of appreciating
musical contributions, Clement An
trobus Harris in the Etude makes a
few observations on the antiquity of
the practice. He says:
It is interesting to recall the fact
that in what we moderns regard
as a less developed stage of musical
evolution, clapping the hands, far
from being looked upon as an out
rage on the musical sense, was an
integral part of an orchestral per
formance. A bas-relief from Kou
yunjik, found among the ruins of
Nineveh, and now in the British
Museum, represents a procession of
musicians. In front are men play
ing Instruments, while following
them are a number of women and
children, probably singing, but cer
tainly clapping their hands in time
one with another, the arms and
hands all being in exactly the same
position. In this the Assyrians were
following a well-known Egyptian
and Ethiopian custom.
Most members of the more an
cient Communions will probably be
surprised to learn that in those
early days of Christianity to which
they appeal for authority, audible
commendation in churches was evi
dently quite common—in approval
of sermons, if not of musical per
formances.
With this allowance nay, en
couragement—of applause in a sa
cred building, it Is interesting to
contrast the prohibition of it in
secular ones. At one time demon
strations of approbation, at least In
the form of encores, were prohibit
ed in Prance, as was the calling of
an author before the curtain. Ap
plause is generally tabooed at the
performance of Wagnerian operas
to-day.
Undaunted Overbrook Girl
Is Anxious to Get Back
Overbrook. Undaunted by the
dangers which she experienced dur
ing the present Hun drive, Josephine
Hayden. of Overbrook, has an
nounced her intention of returning
to France within a few months. For
a year she has been driving a motor
truck loaded jvith supplies from
Paris to base hospitals.
When the Germans started their
spring offensive Miss Hayden aided
In rescuing the refugees from French
villages. For two weeks this 22-year
old girl rushed from the actual firing
line to points more remote, carrying
hundreds of women and children to
safety.
"I don't feel that I have done any
thing very unusual," she said; "there
are many young American women
working now hi France, and a great
many more are needed. What the
French need most is airplanes. They
don't let anyone coming back lose
sight of that fact for a moment."
Miss Hayden, daughter of Row
land C. Hayden, D 958 Woodbine
street, Overbrook, was sent abroad
by the Emergency 1 Aid.
One Killed When Auto
Rolls Into Canal Bed
By Associated Press
Honovo, Pa., June 20. George
Washington Bradncy, aged 78 years,
of Renovo, was killed, and Miss
Edith Baddorf, a trained nurse, of
I.ock Haven, was badly injured in an
automobile accident near here last
evening They were enroute to the
homo of a sick relative of Bradney'H
when their automobile overturned
into the old Pennsylvania canal bed.
HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH
ALL IN BERLIN
EXPECT VICTORY
Mrs. Challis, Back From Ger
many, Declares People
Confident of Winning
Xcw York. —Mrs. Herbert Challis,
wife of the American opera singer,
has just returned to the United
States from Berlin with her two
children and is on the way to her
home in Kansas City after being
away for eight years. She said that
her husband had many inuential
friends among the Prussian aris
tocracy and said she believed the
report published on April 24, 1917,
that Prince Eitel Friedrich, the sec
ond son of the Kaiser, had died of
typhus fever was true.
Speaking of the conditions in Ger
many, Mrs. Challis said:
"The German people know noth
ing of the true war conditions. They
believe that their armies are vic
torious and have no doubt of their
utimate triumph. The wounded in
the present offensive are not taken
publicly to the great cities, and as
the people do not wear mourning on
account of the high cost of clothing
there is little to lead them to be
lieve that the losses of the G.ermans
are as heavy as they are.
Muuli Money in Germany
"Never before has there been so
much money in Germany. There are
no longer any really poor people,
for every one has received good
wages in the different war work and
there is little time for useless ex
penditures. In fact it is very hard
to spend money, for there is noth
ing to buy. All food is rationed at
a price fixed by 'the government, and
every one is forbidden to sell any
personal effects or household be
longings. When X left there X sur
reptitiously sold some of my belong
ings, and when a few of my ac
quaintances learned that I wished
to dispose of my things they begged
for a chance to buy them. For my
sheets, which I had bought long ago
at a dollar apiece. I received $507
and a worn-out rug, which was prac
tically valueless, was bought by two
women who paid me three times
i what 1 paid for it many years ago.
"Wool and soap are two articles
that are now entirely unknown in
Germany. Automobiles, too, have be
come extinct. All clothing Is made
of shoddy and one is allowed but
one dress, and that can only be ob
tained by permission of the govern
ment. The people are patient In
spite of the tilth and disease, for
they believe it will only be a short
time now until the war is over.
"The familiar stout German fig
ure Is no longer to be seen. I was
simply aghast when I saw the first
fat man here, for I had not seen
one for so long. I am now more
than fifty pounds below my average
weight.
"Xt is really strange to see able
bodied men again. All the men have
been away from Berlin so long that
every one has grown accustomed to
their absence. Only the very old
ones remain, and the children are
not the sturdy youngsters they used
to be.
"There is no news of the war to
be had except that favorable to Ger
many. The people hear nothing of
the movement of American troops,
except that they are not being able
to reach their destination and that
at every turn the enemy is being
thwarted. There is never any ques
tion as to the provocation of Ger
many for entering the war, and the
feeling has always been strong that
had the Belgians not resisted there
would have been little trouble at all.
"The people in the country are
really better off than those in the
city, for, being thrifty, they have
been able to raise enough to main
tain them. The city people have
now converted their courtyards,
which were kept in splendid condi
tion, into pig pens, and the pig is
the pet of every household."
Dormitories Built in
U. S. Shipped Overseas
Quccnstown. A large dwelling
house, with a considerable area of
land attached, has been acquired
near Queenstown for an American
naval hospital. It will be used for
men from the American warships.
Wooden dormitories will be added to I
the existing building so as to bring!
the capacity of the hospital up to
250 beds. The dormitories are being I
built in sections in America and I
shipped to Ireland in knock-down I
form.
Going to Command Marines
/•'%N
E xV
BrlKadler-General John A. Lejeune
la on his way to France to take com
mand of the United States Marines
on the battle front under Oeneral
Perilling.
Steelworker Leaves For
Training Camp Monday
julius shi>omb{:rg
Julius Shlomberg, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Shlomberg, 427 V 4 Ver
beke street, who will leave with the
Harrisburg contingent of drafted men
for Camp Lee, Va., on Monday, has
been for the past three years em
ployed as a foreman at the merchant
mill department of the Bethlehem
Steel Company at its Steelton plant.
He is also an honorary member of
Good Will Fire Company, No. 7.
ITALIAN LINES
ARE STIFFENING
[Continued from First Page.]
have not yet gained control of this
dominating height nor have they ap.
parently had any success in attempt
ing to debouch onto the lower
ground at Sovilla, south of Nervesa.
River Hinders Austrian*
The waters of the Piave have come
to the aid of the strongly resisting
Italians. The British official state
ment on the fighting says that the
river has risen suddenly. The rise
has been sufficient to carry away
many of the bridges the Austrians
had thrown across the stream.
Emperor Charles, fearful that the
Austrians by themselves will not be
able to emulate the Austro-German
success of last fall on the Isonzo
line, personally is urging his troops
forward. The Emperor is said to de
sire still greater efforts before calling
on Germany for help.
Meanwhile internal conditions in
Austria, especially as regards food,
are causing trouble. The city council
of Vienna has protested against re
duction of the bread ration and the
labor organizations in the Austrian
capital call for the "speediest genera)
peace." The food supplies in Aus
tria are reported at the lowest ebb
since 1914. Meanwhile there are re
ports that peace demonstrations
have taken place in Berlin, Hamburg
and Cologne and that several per
sons were killed and many arrested.
The German Crown Prince has not
repeated his attacks against the de
fenses of Rheims before which 40,-
000 of his troops were repulsed with
heavy losses in a night attack Tues
day. The front there again is quiet
and the French maintain their po
sitions. Berlin says the effort was
more an artillery and mine-thrower
bombardment than an infantry at
tack, but all other accounts agree
that the effort was in great force
.and that it was broken up in des
perate fighting in front of the
French lines.
Elsewhere on the western front
there has been only minor raiding
activity.
East of Chateau Thierry American
patrols have crossed the Marne in
boats and bested enemy patrols in
encounters. In addition to killing a
large number of Germans, the raid
ers brought back prisoners. Amer
ican bombing airplanes again have
bombarded Conflans, a railroad junc
tion midway between Verdun and
Metz, dropping thirty-eight bombs.
German aggression in the Ukraine
is beginning to reap the whirlwind,
according to reports from Moscow.
A revolt on a large scale has broken
out in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital,
and there has been much street
fighting there. Forty thousand armed
peasants have risen and the revolt
has spread to the provinces of
Tchernigov and Poltava.
United States Will
Move Slowly Against
Turk Raid in Persia
Washington, June 20. —Through
Spain and Sweden the American
government sought further informa
tion to-day regarding the seizure of
the American consulate at Tabriz.
Persia, and looting of an American
hospital there by Turks. Only the
meager account of the incident con
tained in a dispatch yesterday from
Minister Caldwell at Teheran, has
reached the State Department.
There will be no hasty action by
the United States toward recognizing
what may have been an act of war
and thereby adding Turkey to the
nation's enemies. A complete and
official report will be awaited be
fore the State Department lays be
fore President Wilson the informa
tion upon which he will base a de
cision as to whether he will ask Con
gress for another war declaration.
Mrs. J. E. Sweeney, of
Camp Hill, Chairman of
Child Welfare Work
Carlisle, Pa., June 20.—The Child
Welfare Work for Cumberland coun
ty, under the women's committee of
the Council of National Defense, was
launched at a meeting at the home of
the chairman. Miss Mary Bosler,
with almost every district of the
county represented and members of
the local committee out in full force.
Dr. Harvey Bashore, of West Fair
view, county health officer, address
ed the meeting and offered many
suggestions. Plans were made for a
Baby Saving Bhow to be held in a
short time. The state has offered to
loan the committee its exhibits and
physicians of the county will co
operate. Mrs. J. E. Sweeney, of
Camp Hill, has been appointed
chairman to look after this work in
the lower end of the county.
HEARINGS EXTENDED
By Associated Press
Washington, June 20. Revenue
hearings before the House ways and
means committee have been extended
another week, the plan now being
to close them Friday, June 28. Ar
rangements for a recess of Congress
while the committee frames the bill
during July will be made soon, ac
cording to word passed by leaders to
their colleagues
MURDERER ENDS
LIFE BY JUMPING
THROUGH WINDOW
When Jury Returns Verdict,
David Adams, Negro, Dives
to Pavement
Pittsburgh—Preferring suicide to
the electric chair, David Adams, aged
40, a negro, of Wilkinsburg, plunged
through a window in a criminal
courtroom on the second floor of the
courthouse when a jury found him
guilty of murder In the first degree.
He fell to street forty feet below
and was instantly killed.
The suicide is the first of its kind
in this county. Adams gave not the
slightest indication of his Intention
of self-destruction. The jury reach
ed a verdict late at night and was
brought into court in the morning.
Adams heard the verdict without ap
parent emotion and when the jury
had left the courtroom he leaned
forward in his chair and asked his
attorney, J. Welford Holmes, what
could be done. Attorney Holmes re
plied that he would ask for a new
trial.
Makes Dash For Window
Deputy Sheriff John H. Dailey,
who had Adams in charge, touched
the negro on the shoulder. "Come
along, Dave," he said. Adams rose
and made a dash for the window on
the Ross street side of the courtroom
twenty feet away. There was no one
between him and the window and
before anyone could prevent him,
Adams sprang on a chair and
plunged head first through the dou
ble-thick plate glass window, which
is a quarter of an inch thick. His
body turned a somersault through
the air and he struck on his head
just beyond the curb between two
automobiles. City Detectives Cor
nelius Buckley, James Rea, Guy
Dailey, Charles A. Freeborn and Mrs.
Margaret Taylor, a policewoman,
were showered with glass from the
broken window, but were uninjured.
Adams was placed on trial before
Judge J. McF. Carpenter charged
with the murder of his wife, Bessie
Adams, at their home, 1509 North
avenue, Wilkensburg, on December
7 last. Frank Morgan, a negro, tes
tified that Adams, his wife and him
self were in the defendant's home
the day of the shooting. Adams was
playing the banjo and became exas
perated when his wife insisted on
him playing a certain tune. The wife
continued to tease and importune
him, the witness declared, and
Adams becoming enraged, shot the
woman through the head. Adams'
defense was that the shooting was
accidental.
Possible Escape Plan
It is the belief of some court at
taches that the escape had been
planned by the prisoner in. the event
of an adverse verdict. Some think
that he had surveyed the situation
carefully in passing across the bridge
of sighs in coming to the courthouse
returning to his cell. He had op
portunity of seeing the lines of au
tomobiles with the tops up, standing
out on Ross street, just beneath the
courtroom windows, which are un
guarded. By diving through the win
dow and landing on the top of an
automobile he would escape with
slight injuries and he would have an
opportunity of making his getaway.
Interstate Commerce
Commission May Change
Daylight Saving Status
Washington.—Present application
of the Daylight Saving Law, as it
affects localities, will probably be
changed in detail by the Interstate
Commerce Commission before the
1919 spring advance touches Ameri
can clocks, thriugr. In main, investi
gations now proceeding find the hour
advance working satisfactorily.
Examiners for the commission
have completed the taking of evi
dence on the subject in eastern and
mountain cities, but still have to
conclude hearings in the Middle
West.
At El Paso, Texas, June 17, the
final hearings will be completed, and
after that formal reports to the com
mission will be available.
While the duty of prescribing the
limit o' the four time zones in the
United States fell to the commission,
as a temporary expedient it adopted
the demarkations of Eastern, Cen
tral, Mountain and Pacific time as
made by railroads, and fixed a fifth
belt to govern Alaska.
The examiners were sent out to
see whether changes in the railroad
time limits would not convenience
business and social life if adopted.
They have found to date a number of
points, generally on the eastern edges
of time belts, which already had
systems of daylight .saving by run
ning on the hours of belt adjacent
to them.
A dual system of time has been
found in several places in the United
States, where "railroad time" and
"town time" have both been custo
marily recognized, the latter being
one hour faster than the former.
Some points have continued the sys
tem, even under the general time ad
vance last spring, while others have
adopted a single standard. Rulings
■i,i |ff f.l1■ t th cisc
RIVER VIEW 1
58 Home Sites
Sold in
RIVER VIEW
Last Week
JUNE 20, 1918.
THOUSANDS OF FOREIGN-BORN
CITIZENS TO PARADE
Men of Every Nationality to Show Loyalty to Adopted Coun
try in Great Demonstration
Foreigrn-born residents of Harris
burg* and vicinity to the number of
several thousand are planning to
turn out en masse for the big patri
otic parade on Independence 13ay.
Edward Moeslein, who is chairman
of the committee in charge of getting
the foreign-born people to parade,
ih working hard to make this divi
sion one of the largest in the whole
line of march. A meeting of the
committee will be held early next
week, at which time plana will be
completed for the demonstration.
Several bands will be secured to
furnish music for the division.
All national enmities and preju
dices will be dropped on this occa
sion by tlie sons of the many foreign
nationalities living within the gates
ol Harrisburg. Former subjects of
the central powers will march side
MAJESTIC
High Class Vaudeville and Musical
Vomedy.
COLONIAL,
To-day and to-morrow Williamson
Bros, in 'The Submarine Hye."
Saturday only May Allison in "The
Winning of Beatrice."
Monday and Tuesday Madge Ken
nedy in "The Fair Pretender."
, REGENT
To-day—"The Crisis" and "The Son of
democracy."
To-morrow and Saturday Tyrone
Power in "A Modern Lorelei," and
"The Sor. of Democracy."
Monday —■ Henry B. Walthall in "The
Birth of a Man."
VICTORIA
To-day Sergeant Arthur Guy
Empey in "Over the Top."
Friday Virginia Pearson in "The
Firebrand."
PAXTANG PARK THEATER
Vaudeville Specialties,
In addition to the many wonderful
scenes representing great battles in
the Civil War, which
"The Crisis" will be revealed to
at Ilegent theatergoers at the
Regent Theater to
day, when "The Crisis" will be pre
sented, there are elements so vitally
human and so universal in their ap
peal that the spectator is held spell
bound. Among these scenes may be
classed those in which Abraham Lin
coln is shown advising and coun
selling the young man from the
North, Stephen Brice, who. seeking
his fortunes in the southern section
of the country, has fallen in love with
one of the fairest daughters of the
South, Virginia Carvel. Their love
affair is proof of the old adage that
"true love does not run smooth," for
they have differences of opinion to
keep them apart until they are finally
united at the coffin of the martyr
President.
To-morrow and Saturday "A
Modern Lorelei," starring Mabel
Jones, California's perfect venus.
The Williamson Brothers will be
seen at the Colonial Theater, at the
Colonial's regular
"The Submarine prices. in "The
Eye" at the Submarine Eye."
Colonial Theater The timeliness of
this picture is re
markable in view of the havoc being
wrought by submarines. Then, too, it
discloses the uncanny things which
inhabit the bottom of the ocean. The
pictures are not marvels of rare
beauty, but full of dramatic inten
sity.
Saturday, only. May Allison, the
pretty little Metro star, will be the at
,tract ion at the Colonial Theater in
'The Winning of Beatrice." As an en
tertaining factor the picture meets
full requirements. It is quite simply
told and will hold the interest of the
audience from beginning to end.
Along with a very good vaudeville i
show, made up of acts new to Har- |
risburg theatergoers, the '
At the Majestic Theater will offer I
Majentlc for the final three days of
the week "Mollie and Her
Suitors, ' the moving picture that was
made on the Majestic stage a short I
time ago in full view of the audi- !
ence. This is the picture in which j
many local amateurs took part. The
big attraction among the vaudeville |
numbers Is "Help! Police!" a musical
comedy girl act. that takes front rank I
among lively summer vaudeville ofTer- !
ingrs.
To-day will be the last dav motion
picture lovers and everbody interest- |
ed in why Uncle I
"Over the Top" Sam Is at war for j
With Sergeant the protection of j
Guy Empey human rights, will
have an opportu
nity to see Sergeant Arthur Guv
Empey (himself) in "Over the Top."
The book, "Over the Top," has no I
doubt been read by more persons than I
any book within the last decade and i
the plcturization of it will, in all |
probability, break all house records
for attendance wherever It is shown. I
It is one of the most gripping fea- j
P.A.X.T. A.N. G|
PARK-THEATER j
|
MATINEE DAILY
CARSON & WILLARD |
America'* Eoremoat Comedian*
SUDER & DELL
Comedy on Wheel*
ANN SUDER
Younvcnt Comedienne on the Stage
BROWN & BARROWS
Novelty Singing and Dancing
Maestra & Company
European Juggler* and Acrobata I
f If you have read about the latest menace of the German %
• U-Boats in American waters, see— C
| The SubmarineEyel
1 v TO-DAY or TO-MORROW at the J
) Colonial Theater {
1 THE LATEST UNDER-WATER MARVEL OF I
The Williamson Brothers?
I Look through your own eyes and see what the Submarine #
sees at the ocean bottom. j
PRICES: 100 AND AND WAR TAX J
by side with former subjects of th
entente or neutral nations in the pa
rade for democracy. Large bodies
of Italians, Austrians, Greeks, Ger
mans, Hebrews, Rumanians, Rus
sians and people from numerous
other countries will b e in the line
of march. Plans are being made to
have at least a thousand foreign
born from Steelton and a large
showing from the mining districts of
and Williamstown in the
upper end of the county. There will
be no differences of loyalty for the
United States shown by the march
ing foreigners in the parade.
As on former occasions they turn
out to show the native-born Ameri
cans they they are as much back of
the Government in the war against
the autocratic nations as the Ameri
cans are themselves.
tures ever shown on the screen, all
because it deals with vital facts and
factors leading up to and including
the world s greatest war. Here one
sees how men are trained and pre
pared in every way for the hard bat
ties that are to be fought—how to
throw bombs or hand grenades—how
to go "over the top." etc., and lust
as realistic as it was humanly pos
sible to portray upon the screen,
ro-morrow Virginia Pearson, In
The Hrebrand," will be the attrac
tion.
Vaudeville enthusiasts, who take
pleasure in everything: in the way of
• novelties in the juggling
Paxtang and acrobatic line, have
i rk a new and Interesting
I heater act at Paxtung Park
Theater in Meastra and
Company. This 4s probably tiie latest
as well as the most original act of itu
kind that the European vaudeville
stage has given us during the past
season, and is without doubt the most
talked-of offering that has played at
Paxtang for a long while.
The balance of the bill at Paxtang
is made up of such standard acts as
Carson and Willard, one of America's
best-known comedy teams; Brown and
Burrows, in a bright little humorous
sketch; Suder and Dill, sensational
cyclists, and Ann Suder, singing come
dienne.
I I ■ -■ l.l|——*
RIVER VIEW
Call
Bell 1390 Dial 3573
. -r
Majestic Theater
A Special Five-Act 1111 l For the
I.HNI Tlirer DII>H Thin Week
Including;
Robinson & McCann
Presenting "2 BITS"
Burt, Johnson & Co.
pretientlng
Tlielr IjRtCNt Comedy Offering.
Special Added Attraction:
'•MOM,IK AND HER SUITORS"
The Picture Made on the MajcMlc
Stage. See the l.ocnl Star*
on th Screen
————- '
Victoria Theater
TO-DAY ONUY
SERGT. ARTHUR GliY EMPEY In
"OVER THE TOP"
TO-MORROW and SATURDAY
VIRGINIA PEARSON In
"THE FIREBRAND"
MONDAY and TUESDAY
"WOMAN IN THE LAW"
COMING—MRS. VERSION CASTI.E
In "THE MYSTERIOUS CLIENT"
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Regent Theater I
To-day Only
"THE CRISIS"
WlnMon Churchlll*M Immortal Civil
War ( IHNHIC.
Come and e It—it's RIOHOUM.
To-morrow and Saturday
"A Modern Lorelei"
utarrlnK
Tyrone Power & Mabel Jones
-oO Diving ChoruM and SuliumlDg
Ballet 250
To-day, To-morrow & Saturday
"The Son of Democracy"
(Under the Starn)
Adnilxslon, 10c. 15c and war tax.
COLONIAL
Thursday <— Friday
Williamson Bros.
—IN—
The Submarine Eye*
PRODUCER OK THE HtHMAItI.NE
SCENES IX -o,<K>o I.EAGLES
UNDER THE SEA.
SATURDAY ONLY
MAY ALLISON
—IN—
"The Winning of Beatrice"