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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. <U.
I.oweat temperature. 52.
Mean temperature. 58.
.Normal temperature. 72.
The Green Apple Season Is Here Again
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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
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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
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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;'.
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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
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Baltimore nd N#w York.
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J ' WRECK ENGINEER ILL AND ASLEEP J 3
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| 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
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X epipty troop train which crashed into a circus train near
A
* Gary Saturday, was asleep, owing to illness, and did not '!}
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3 see the :: nal of danger.
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BATTLE ONLY IN SMALL SECTION £ i
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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
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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
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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
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