.... . . . ... I V Wiistrians Retreat With Italians in Pursuit; Rome HARRISBURG l§lSi|l TELEGRAPH M ==== Star~ln&cpcni>ei!t LXXXVII— No. 159 12 PAGES THOUSANDS SEE BIG CONTINGENT OFDRAFTEDMEN OFF TO CAMP LEE Great Throng at Station to Cheer Youth of City and County Who Leave For In tensive War Training TEARS AND LAUGHTER ARE MINGLED FREELY Mayor Keister Sees His Son Leave With Scores of Other Widely - Known Lads to Take Up Nation's Arms Two hundred and forty-six men from Harrisburg, and twenty-six from the county left Harrisburg at 9.50 this morning to take their places in Uncle Sam's National Army. Camp L,ee, Va. is the destina tion of the quotas, which comprise 1 larrisburg's largest single contribu tion to the great draft army of the United States. Several thousand friends and rela tives blocked the plaza in front of the Pennsylvania station long before 9 o clock. When the long lines of draftees marching to the station l rom their draft boards where thev j had assembled at 5.30 arrived at the! station, they were immediately sur rounded by the eager crowd of triends who had come to say good by to them. Overwhelmed by Crowd The draft contingents marched' through the gates to the train and! railroad police soon lost control of! the crowd. It had been intended to! keep the platform clear of all but j the drafted men. but the pressure of! friends, wives, sweethearts and rela-] t'ves was too great for the police and ' officials. In a twinkling the entire' platform was the scene of a jostling \ crowd which assembled for a last glimpse of the embryo lighting men. The Mulberry street bridge was crowded with those who could not ■ reach the platform, as was the plaza in front of the station. All along the [Continued on Page B.] T. Kittera Van Dyke, Long Prominent as Democrat, Dies After Long Illness Private funeral services for! Thomas Kittera Van Dyke, aged 51, i" who died yesterday morning at the! Harrisburg Hospital, will be held in Philadelphia, to-morrow afternoon. ! r . an Dyke took an active part ;n politics and served many years on I city and county Democratic commit- \ tees. A few years ago he founded j a new political organization, th° j Harrisburg Democratic Association.' He was a member of the Market Square Presbyterian Church for many years and acted as corpora tion clerk at the Capitol during the term of Governor Pattison. Mr. Van Dyke was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. James V. Van Dyke ofi Philadelphia. He resided in the city of his birth until the age of. twenty, when he moved to Harris- 1 burg. He is survived by a sister, Mrs I Humes Hall, 228 street, at whose home he lived. Friday afternoon, Mr. Van Dyke commented on the fact that he had i pains near his heart. He has been .subject to heart attacks for the past! five years, and his physician. Dr ' Jesse T.enker, ordered him to bed. He! was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital Saturday afternoon and died there! yesterday. He was prominent in! Harrisburg and had a great number I of friends here. He was especially well known in political circles of the; city. | i IN SIX DAYS War Stamps will go to $4.18 SF&* Are you going to get left? THE WEATHER) For llarrlnhurc and vicinity: Fair nml nnrmrr to-night unit Tucs iln ). I'or Knxtrrn IVnn*? It nnln i Fair nnrt warmer to-night nnd Tur rfnyt light, variable nlnda, most ly wont. River Tlir main river Mill rnntlnue to Tine slowly Monday. All trlhu tnrieN will fail to-night and Tueolay. A iitage of about 5.3 feet Ik Indicted for HarrUhurif Tuesday morning. I General Condition* I nder the Influence of nn exten sive area of high barometer from the Xorthweat nhlrh now cover* nearly all the eastern half of the laited Mutes, tem peratures are 2 to 10 degrees lower than on Saturday morn ing over nearly all the country cant and aouth of the Great Lake*. Temperatarei 8 a. m„ 53. Sun Risen 5:3.% a. m.| acta, 8:25 p. m. Moon: Flrnt quarter, July 1. Itiver stage: 5.3 feet above low nater mark for to-morrow mornlni. Yenterdny'n Weather Highest temperature. TRAINS HALT AT MORAVA, A NEW RAIL STATION Officials Fix Stopping Place on Northern Central Near Cross-River Activities Morava is the name of a new sta tion opened on the Baltimore Di vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad this week to facilitate the govern ment work at the Quatermaster's Depot at New Cumberland. The name has been assigned to the station by railroad officials in honor of Major Morava, who is in charge of the New Cumberland work. < ( Morava station is located but a short quarter-mile from the scene of the activities at the 'cross-river depot, while the Marsh Run station, formerly the nearest to the grounds, is two miles away This will be of decided convenience to men traveling from York and other places each day for employment. It will result in a. big savins of time, too, for the gov ernment. To further Increase the efficiency of employes at the plant a new rail road siding is being constructed from Marsh Run and a half-dozen new switches and sidings are being added. This will help officials to get their material more quickly and witty less energy required for transportation purposes. Plant Covers 800 Acres Activities now at the depot are booming. The plant now covers 800 acres of ground and 2,500 men are employed. A delegation of 100 men from New York state arrived this week to aid in the construction work. One warehouse is complete and four more have been started. A hos pital has been built to aid in caring for persons who may be injured there, and barracks have been con. structed for the accommodation of employes. There is room for 520 men. One thousand men remain at the depot over night and until per manent barracks can be constructed for their convenience are being ac commodated in temporary barracks and army tents. Two new mess houses recently were completed and these are sufficient to accommodate all of the employes at meal time. Meatless Weeks Inevitable in Germany; Food Head Sees No Way Out of Crisis By Associated Press London, June 24. —Meatless weeks for Germany is a possibility of the near future. Dr. August Muller, un der secretary for food distribution, at a meeting of the Reichstag food committee Saturday, says an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Co penhagen, announced that it would be impossible to increase the meat ration. H said that most likely it will be necessary to lower it or to Introduce meatless weeks for the whole of Germany or, at any rate, certain parts*of the population. SINGLE copy -• CENTS OVERCOATS OVER "PALM BEACHES" HAVE COMFY FEEL Coldest Day of Many a Sum mer Sends Many a Shiver Over Many a Spine | Summer is here now and has been ; here for two days, that is, ever since : 2 a. m. Saturday. Official reports | sive out this information at least, i Other than what- they say. Harris- J burgers have no tangible evidence of | the fact that the spring season was displaced by summer on Saturday : morning at 2a. in. The weather since that time has ben raw and cool and has been more characteris tic of early spring or late fall days. The weather of the first summer's ! days in Harrisburg has been de | cidedly unusual for this time of | year, and so have been many of the sights seen on the street been some what unusual. Overcoats worn by straw-hatted individuals were quite [Continued on Page 12.] 118 Names on Double List From War Front; 30 Killed in Action By Associated Press Washington, June 24. —The Army| j casualty list to-day contained 621 names, diveded as follows: Killed in action, 8; died of wounds,l j 4: died of disease, 2; wounded se-i ■ verely. 48; wounded, degree undeter-| mined, three. The Pennsylvanians follow: Severely wounded: Privates James I A. Cleary, Scranton; William D. ] Hammer, Pottsville: Ivan G. Hoff-| man, Berne: Peter Thomas. Chester. In yesterday's Army casualty list | of names, five Pennsylvania men j are included. The list is divided as follows: Killed in action, 23: died of wounds. It>; died of airplane acci dent, 1; died of disease, 2: died of accidents and other causes; wounded severely, 13. The Pennsylvanians follow: Killed in action—Private Augustl J. Klinkner, Carnegie. Died of wounds—Private Mark E. Quinn, Shamokin, and Norman B.) Rodebaugh, 2613 Jefferson street,' Philadelphia. Wounded severely—Privates Con-| nie Telesca, Dunmore, and Kaymoud: L. Walker, Marion Center. VIENNA STltllvl.HS W.JXT AT STRIA TO MAKE PEACE , By Associa'sd Mu i.nnrion, June 24.—Strikers in the*! various factories at Vienna on Sat-1 urday formulated a demand that the ' Austrian government show itself; ready for a general peace and Invite i the enemy governments to enter Into peace negotiations, says a dispatch from The Hague to the Times. Rep resentatives of the workers submitted the plea to Karon Burian, the Aus tro-Hungarian Foreign Minister. i HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1918 YOUNGER TEDDY BADLY GASSED, STICKS TO POST Former President's Son Re fuses to Relinquish Com mand at Cantigny With the American Army in r ranee, June 2 4.—Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., lias been cited by the general commanding the troops to which his unit is attached, for "con spicuous gallantry" in action during the operations connected with the capture and subsequent defense of <-antigny. The citation says: "During an enemy raid he dis played high qualities of courage and leadership in going forward to super vise in person the action of one of the companies of his battalion, which had been attacked. On the day of our attack upon Cantigny. although gassed in the lungs and gassed in the eyes to blindness, Major Roosevelt refused to be removed and retained the com mand of his battalion under a heavy bombardment throughout the en gagement." GARFIELD FORBIDS COAT, DEALERS TO RAISE PRICES WaMlilnxton, June 24.—C0al dealers and distributors are prohibited in a Fuel Administration order from add ing to the price of coal they now have on hand the freight rate in creases on this commodity, which be comes effective to-morrow. The ad vanced freight tariffs may be includ ed in the price only when dealers actually have paid them or become obligated to pay. ]>arge supplies of coal now held In tidewater pools and by dealers throughout the country were moved under the freight rates now in force and the Administration's order is de signed to protect the public and the Government from unscrupulous deal ers. HUNS ARE GHOULS; DEATH RATE LEAPS Ijondon. June 24 (British Wire less Service). —Clothing In Ger many has now become almost as scarce as food. Perhaps nothing could more graphically reveal the clothing plight of Germany than a proposal Just put forward by Justizrat Otto Feig, a promi nent Berlin lawyer, that the Gov ernment should forthwith enact a law making it compulsory for the heirs of dead people or the administrators of their estates to turn over to the state all the clothing left by the deceased per sons. He points out that the German death rate, owing both to casual ties in the battlefield and to the mortality caused by the desperate food conditions at home. | 8 rising by leaps and bounds "What becomes of the clothes left behind by all these people'" he asks. "Why should they not be given to the living? The dead no longer need them." A USTRIA FACES DISASTER AS TRIUMPH OF ITALIAN ARMIES TURNS RETREA ENEMY ABANDONS GUNS IN EFFORT TO MAKE ESCAPE Rome Reports Great Victory in Smashing Forward Drive FATE AGAINST AUSTRIA Orderly Retreat Soon Turns Into a Confused Flight of Panicky Troops By Associated Press Italian Army Headquarters, I Sunday, June 23.—The great rc ; treat by the Austrians along the I Piave front began under cover I of darkness on Saturday night. ; The retreating troops left their can ! non behind them. Italian detach : ments are pursuing the enemy east of the Piave. j Austrian troops left to cover the retreat used their machine guns to ; set up a barrage fire. Italians' Attack When it was observed that the I Austrians had begun a retrograde movement, the Italians began to at i tack virtually all along the Piave | line, from Montello, on the north, | well towards the mouth of the river. 1 The attack was quickly pressed and ! became more insistent, accompanied } by violent artillery fire. ; The number of guns left behind i by the Austrians as they retreated | has not been computed but is said to be very great. l-'o|ves Disorganized I The work of the American avia tors who appeared on the front last i week for the first time contributed j notably to the disorganization of the Austrian forces which had crossed the Piave, according to Raffaele Garinei, correspondent of the Milan Secolo. The Italian attack began at dawn on Sunday. With the Montello on the left flank, the attack was car ried out all along the line through Candelu to Sandona di Piave. I South of the Zenson bend the ! Austrians are fighting rear guard I actions to cover the retreat of their j main body over the two bridges they i have left—at San Dona and Griso lera, three and a half miles from the i Adriatic. i The Italians have taken large ! numbers of prisoners, great quanti [ ties of munitions and other booty j since the Austrian retreat began. ' The Italians are advancing from ! their bridgehead at Capo Sile. The Austrian retreat, which began jin an orderly manner, soon became j wildly disorganized and confused, i Many thousands of Austro-Hungari i ans surrendered at the first oppor tunity when overtaken by their pur j j=uers. Caught in Mire i Rain, which had been falling for I eight days,' broke more violently [Continued on Page 10.] Americans Improve Their Positions and Repulse a Raid Near Chateau Thierry By Associated I'rcss Washington, June 24.—Further I improvement of American positions i northwest of Chateau Thierry is not j ed in General Pershing's communi que for yesterday, received to-day .at the War Department. Artillery activity and the repulse of an enemy raid in the Vosges also are report ed. The communique follows: j "Section A—ln spite of opposition Iwe again improved our positions ! northwest of Chateau Thierry. In this region the artillery of both sides continues active. In the Vosges where patrolling has been very ac tive, a raid attempted by the enemy was repulsed. "Section B—There is .nothing to report in this section." Australian Premier to 1 Talk Monroe Doctrine .With President Wilson By Associated Press Ixtndon, June 24.—William M. Hughes, the Australian Premier, upon the conclusion of the .Imperial conference.ln London, will go to the United States to place before Presi dent Wilson a full and frank state ment of Australia's policy .regarding a Monroe Doctrine for the Pacific, according to the Liverpool Post. He jwill ask, says this newspaper, for the 'support and co-operation of the United States In maintaining such a policy. First Million Tons of New Ships by July 1. By Associated Press • Washington, June 2 4.—The first million tons of new ships built on (contract for the shipping board prob ably will be delivered before the end of the month. Last wefek deliveries totaled five steel vessels with a dead weight tonnage of 37,830, making the grand total of 1918 production 924,- 200 dead weight tons. Enemy Is Crushe Rain of Fire 45,000 of the Enemy Already Taken by the Victorious Italians Who Arc Cutting Down Austrians by the Thousands RIVER FLOATS FULL OF RODIES OF INVADERS Emperor Charles' Men Caught by Swirling Waters of the Piave in Veritable Death trap; Great Amount of Rooty Left By Associated Press Italy's victory over the Aus trians on the Piave front appears likely to assume the proportions of a veritable triumph for the Italians and a disaster of great magnitude for the defeated enemy. Already, it is announced in official dispatches from Rome, ] the Austrians have lost 45,000 | men in prisoners and greiit quan i tities of material, while the extent j of their other casualties may be In ] dlcated by the thousands of bodies floating in the waters of the swollen Piave. Precipitate Retreat Unable to force his way further than the immediate vicinity of the west bank of the river, and with bridges thrown across the stream swept away by the swirling waters of the flood pouring down from the mountains, the enemy began a pre ■ cipitate retreat Saturday night. So hasty was his withdrawal that he left a great many cannon on the west bank of the Piave. while his retreating infantry columns, accord ing to news dispatches, are already being pressed by Italian detach ments thrown over to the easterly side of the stream. Back Across River From the Slontello plateau south ward to the Adriatic comes the same | story of the Austrian retreat. The | Piave river formerly emptied into j the sea quite near Venice, but in re cents years its course has changed to its present location. In the first rush of the Austrian offensive, the enemy succeeded in prossing the old river bed, which is now a canal. Prom their positions there the foe has been driven, and the Italians are relentlessly pressing the pursuit. The latest news dispatches from the Piave river front, sent out on Sunday, tell of Italian bombing units being thrown across the main stream of the Piave, which seems to indicate that the Austrian retreat was not stayed at the eastern bank of the river. Forlorn Hope There is every indication the Aus trian "hunger offensive" has been a forlorn hope for several days. The effect of the defeat on the internal conditions of Austria-Hungary, when once the news is made public, can only be conjectured, but it may be that the Italians have dealt the enemy a harder blow than that merely involved in the military feat of pushing him back across the Piave. There have been no further re ports foreshadowing a new attack fn the mountain sectors of the Ital ian front, by their signal victory In the lower reaches of their battle front, however, the Italians and the allied troops fighting in that the ater of the war may be expected to meet any new move with the stub born resistance which so far has nul lified the efforts of the Austrian emperor to carry the war into the plains of Italy and still the murmurs of his soldiers with the loot from captured cities. Coincident with the Italian victory ! on the Piave comes the news of the Italian units on the Marne-Uheims sector repulsing a second heavy German attack on the heights of Bligny, just to the west of the city of Rhelms. The German failure was complete, as was the original blow on Saturday night. Says Report of His Death Was Greatly Exaggerated Harry Patterson, 28 years old, says that Just because a man's hat, shoes, trousers and coat are found after he had been seen on the Market street bridge it does not necessarily follow that he has committed suicide. In fact, he wanted the police to re tract their statement that it appeared he had committed suicide when his clothes were recovered on the bridge. Police were of the belief that Pat terson had committed suicide to avoid the draft. Patterson said not, when he called at the police station for his clothes this morning. The chief of police could not find out why the clothes were left on the bridge nor how Patterson got home after he had dispensed with his outer garments. TISZA MAY BE PREMIER J By Associated Press Amsterdam, June 24.—1n discus-' sing the crisis in the Hungarian gov-1 ernment Budapest newspapers, says; the I.okal Anzeigcr of Berlin, men-' tion Count Tisza, presumably as sue-1 cessor to Premier WcJkcjJc. ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED PIIB9S NEWSPAriSH IN HA It It I SHU KG ITALY GIVES FULL THANKS FOR VICTORY Rome, June 23. News of I the Austrian retreat across the Piave caused the greatest enthusiasm here. Newspaper extras sold as soon as issued. Flags were displayed. Bands played the royal march, -rowds cheered the king, the army and General Diaz. There were similar manifes tations in provincial cities. Russ and Austria Are to Exchange Prisoners of War on Equal Basis By Associated Press Moscow, Tuesday, June IS.—An understanding has been reached be tween and Austria, that, pending (inal agreement regarding the repatriation of war prisoners, able bodied prisoners may be ex changed immediately head for head in numbers us great as the carrying capacity of railroads, and other means of transportation permit. It is also stipulated that civil prisoners of military age shall be released. Negotiations with Germany re garding prisoners have been inter rupted because Germany insisted up on an exchange as she has the larger number of prisoners who would re main and work in German;'. 14*4I4*4 N 4"i < & •-> £ ♦*'""■ 1 INDIAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN CARLISLE JH X Carlisle—lsaac Longshore, a Sac and Fox, Oklahoma •f 1 Indian youth, temporarily insane on religious topics, 5 jT 4* led himself with a revolver shot, through the brain, on i if* Tj a N street corner here to-day. Longshore was about 22' | • ars old. He had been visiting friends here. He was vf "I Jrf X' ; to the Carlisle Hospital where he died without re- *£• si • ■ * ** gaining consciousness. 2 NOTED GYNECOLOGIST DIES f- Atlantic City, N. Y.—Dr. William Polk, of New e£ York, father of Frank Polk, counselor of the Department T of State, Washin: ton, died at a hotel here last night. He #£• was a member of many scientific bodies and noted as a TpH T gynecologist. *f WILL ADD 10 NEW. DRY DOCKS J Washington—Ten new drydocks are to be built with ♦VRa t fj* the $25,000,000 which at the request of the Shipping Board £, j y* s £ was added by the Senate Appropriations Committee to •An |T* the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Locations include *f*.j I {• j Baltimore nd N#w York. t * J ' WRECK ENGINEER ILL AND ASLEEP J 3 A | Hammond, Ind.—Attorney Charles J. McFadden. X rep; enting the Michigan Central, issued a statement tc <4* day explaining that Engineer Alonzo Sargent, of the ** X epipty troop train which crashed into a circus train near A * Gary Saturday, was asleep, owing to illness, and did not '!} I • ■ 3 see the :: nal of danger. T BATTLE ONLY IN SMALL SECTION £ i j ' "M London—From the Montello, . mtheast to the ,*** * * Adriatic, the Austrians have been cleared from the entire & ' west bank of'the Piavc with the exception of a small sec t J tion in the vicinity of Musile, nearly opposite San Dona € di Piavc, where the struggle is continuing. *3 € l T 500,000,000 PASSES SENATE ♦- • Washington—ln an hour and twenty minutes, the * V" ] - sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying about $2,500,000,- ♦*•"■3 4 * 000 was passed to-day by the Senate. It now goea to $* conference. V £ 3. * MARRIAGE LICENSES J J, Earl B. l-'lxhburn, Mlddletown. nnd Knrr E. White, llcroni H"'" f Grorxr H. (imy and Roberto BelflT, Mew Cumberland, William J £4 J. Reaitan nnd Mnrsaret B. Glnf>, Steeltoai o*<-ar I'nlne, Stool- ~ ton, and Irene B. Cooper, Knhuut. i HOME EDITION DISCONTENT AT MEAGER RATION OF FOOD GROWS \\ orkers in German Munition Plants Walk Out in Great Protest PLAN BIG SOUP KITCHENS Austrian Bread Supply Cut in Half by Shortage of Corn fiy Associated Press Zurich, Switzerland. June 24.—The Austrian troubles are extending, ac cording to a dispatch from Munich, quoting the N'eiieste Nachrlchten of that city. The Vienna Zeitung, ac cording to these advices, stated that the strike has become general. Ix>ndon, June 24. Extensive strikes broke out Thursday in Cologne and Mulheim, on the Rhine, owing to a reduction in the bread ration, 20,000 persons quitting work in munition factories, according to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from The Hague. A Dutch workman returning to The Hague reports that the military failed to prevent a street procession of 9,000 men and women strikers at [Continued on Page B.]