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AIR PROGRAM
STILL FAILS TO
BRING RESULTS
Inadequacy and Confusion
0 Over Types, Despite Ex
posure, to Be Reported
Washington, June 26.—Continued
failure in aircraft production, despite
former exposures, reorganizations
and promise of greater efficiency, will
be revealed by the coming report of
the subcommittee on aircraft produc
tion of the Senate Military Commit
tee. This subcommittee has visited
all the important aircraft plants in
the country, has observed their oper
ations and talked with officials and
is now concluding its inquiry with
the examination of witnesses here in
"Washington.
From members it is learned that
aircraft production remains the
weakest point in the nation's war ac
tivities.
No aircraft production adequate to
the needs of the rapidly grawing
army, or commensurate with the
plans of air control which the allies
have formed, is being contributed by
this nation.
Only at Dayton, 0., where the De-
Haviland type of machine, equipped
with Liberty motors, is being made,
is production proceeding with either
certainty or rapidity.
Confusion Over Types
There is still confusion among the
authorities respecting the types of
machine to be manufactured; still
endless experimentation and constant
changes of plans, with the result, it
is declared, that no heavy bombing
planes—the planes needed to aid in
any advance by the allies—will be
produced in this country for several
months and. possibly, not for a year.
Reorganization of the aircrft pro
duction forces, effected by the Presi
dent six weeks ago. has not yet
proved effective in establishing defi
nite plans or of mobilizing produc
tion resources for effective work.
Delightful Concert by
Conservatory Graduates
Local music lovers were delighted
with the concert given last evening
at the twenty-second annual com
mencement exercises of the Con
servatory of Music held at Fahnes
tock Hall. The program was well
arranged and varied \o display the
ability of the young musicians. In
teresting addresses on the program
were those by the Rev. Dr. Stewart
Winfield Herman. William H. Bar
ber. a well-known musician, and
former instructor of Miss Alice M.|
Decevee. and by Miss Decevee. Ad
ditions to the faculayt for next year
were announced as follows: Mrs. J.
L. Louise Marsh Zimmerman, for
merly of the Peabody Conservatory
of Music faculty; Miss Ella S. Y'ost,
instructor in department of train
ing of supervisors of public school
music: Miss Margaretta Kennedy, in
structor of violincello: Mrs. Edwin
J. Decevee. vocal teacher: Mme. Ze
line von Bereghy, violinn. and Miss
Alice Marie Decevee in piano.
Mr. Barber, head of the music
department of Ossining school, N.
Y„ will conduct the semiannual ex
aminations. Those who received di
plomas included:
Freeda Blanche Behny, Margaret
Miles Stonebraker, Maude Irene Co
ble. Grace Naomi Brown, Margaret
Emma Zeiders. Edgar Omer Kline.
Olive Sweigert. Corelli La Verne
Martin.
French Deputies Are Told
U-Boat Menace Is Ended
I'nrU, June 26. Georges Levgues.
Minister of Marine, in reply to ques
. tions in the Chamber of Deputies said
P the French Navy led an enchanted
life and was surprising the world at
large by its magnificent accomplish
ments. The real sea peril was in 1916.
but the allied navies had checked the
submarine war. Soldiers and food
stuffs were now pouring into France.
The Germans had boasted that Ameri
can armies would never approach the
French shores and bring victuals.
Admiral Bienaime. Deputy for the
Seine, also gave praise to the French
t and allied navies. He said Gertnany's
submarine war was dead. Accidents
might still happen, he added, but Ger
man piracy had been vanquished.
EOBBO3EI
(OPTICAiy^^B^
Itay While Yon xCeav them
you Save Nothing
By Delay
Vou gain everything by having
**our eyes attended to at once.
You might think that light
ailment so slight that It will
never give you any trouble In
years to come. But It Is more
than likely going to be a
source of annoyance all the
time.
If it is a matter of money—do
not let that stand in your way.
Our Club Plan will take care
of that end. You do not have
to have the entire amount for
your glasses. But by all means
have your eyes attended to
now.
CLOSED TOMORROW AFTER
NOON", THURSDAY, AND ON
THURSDAY AFTERNOONS
DURING JULY AND AUGUST
CONSULT US AT ONCE
J. S. Belsinger
212 Locust Street
Hext Door to Orpktu
CORNS
■ ■ ■ ■ BUNIONS
CALLUSES
Immediate Relief—2s cents
GORGAS DRUG STORES
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
COUNTY TEACHER
TESTS TOMORROW
School Superintendents Will
Conduct Examinations
For Instructors
E xa m (nations
JJ J V W for county school
J teachers for pro
visional or profes
sional certificates
t morrow and Fri
iSSjSjjMHSsSsle day, with County
$ Su P er,r >tendent F.
t fl inßffßlwl El Shambaugh in
SNljttmlfni char B e at Lykens
'R. Zimmerman at
the Pleasant View school. Twentieth
and the Rev. H. G. Fertig, Enders.
for the provisional certiflcates will be
hel don both days, for the profes
sional certiflcates only on Friday.
Thrift Stamp Meeting:. —A meeting
to boost the sale, of War Savings
Stamps will be held Friday evening
at S o'clock in the Enders school.
Jackson township. Speakers will be
the Rev. H. F. Stabley. FisherviUe.
and the Rev. H. G. Fertiz. Enders.
Illvorce Granted.—The court to-day
granted a divorce decree separating
Amanda Rich from Alexander Rich
and naming Bertha Dunot as co
respondent.
Letter* on Kktate. —Letters of ad- j
ministration on the estate of Charles
M. Hess were issued to-day by Reg- !
ister Roy C. Danner to the widow, 1
Katie Hess.
Constable Appointed. —Clayton A.
Bechtel has been appointed constable j
for Washington township, to succeed
Samuel E. Spotts, resigend.
Exception* Overruled. —Exceptions
to an opinion by the court in the suit
of the Commonwealth "of Pennsylva
nia vs. Welsh Mountain Mining and
Kaolin Manufacturing Company were
overruled by Judge McCarrell yester
day. The cotjrt ruled the company \
was not engaged in manufacturing
and was liable for state tax on cap- >
ital stock for an amount totaling al- |
most S2OO. Exceptions by counsel
were presented stating the. court |
erred in its ruling on the kind of j
work done by the company.
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dividends Are Deferred
By Associated Press
Philadelphia. June 26.—Acting on
the declaration of a dividend was de
ferred at to-day's meeting of the di
rectors of the Pan Handle lines of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was
stated that the company would await
the receipt of the money from the \
Federal Government. Last year the
line paid five per cent, in dividends.
The Pennsylvania Railroad direc
tors also postponed the declaration of
a dividend. It is not payable until
August 31 and, as there will be no
summer recess, the dividend ques
tion will be acted upon at the July
meeting of the board, it was stated.
Von Seydler Declines
to Guide Austrians
By Associated Press
I-ondon. June 26.—Baron Von
Seydler. the Austrian Premier, an
nounced on Monday that he had de
clined the ihrvitation of Emperor
Charles to constitute a new cabinet,
according to a Zurich dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
The Premier's decision was an
nounced at a meeting of the Crown
Council in Vienna, at which the food
situation, which was unanimously
recognized as critical, was discussed.
Emperor Charles announced that he
was personally addressing Emperor
William in connection with this sit
uation.
WAR VETERANS ADJOIRX
By Associated Press
Wllllamsport, Pa., June 26.—The
United Spanish War Veterans, De
partment of Pennsylvania, ended a
four-dav convention here this morn
ing, with the selection of Allentown
for the next annual meeting, to be
held in June. 1919. A joint installa
tion of officers of the Veterans and
Ladies' Auxiliary was held, with
Past Commander-in-Chief Colonel Os
car T. Taylor, of Pittsburgh, in
charge.
KERENSKY BUS7IN
BRITISH CAPITAL
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democracy, are fighting against ty
ranny.
"I believe, indeed I fcrri certain,"
added the former Premier, "that the
Russian people will shortly join you
in the tight for the great cause of
freedom." *
Washington. June 26. — London
dispatches to-day reporting Alexan
der Kerensky there and on his way
to the United States, besides being
the first definite information of the
former Russian dictator's where
abouts since he was deposed over
night months ago, opened a wide!
field of speculation.
/ Whether his sudden appearance
In London and his coming visit to
the United States have been' ar
ranged In connection with the con
sideration of the Russian situation
does not appear on the surface.
Neither does it appear whether
Kerensky's plans are all his own
or whether they have been shared
by those in the United States who
are to put Russia back into the war
on the side of the entente allies.
For some time powerful forces
have been gathering within Russia
itself to restore order and set up a
government which the allies could
recognize and with which they could
be in accord. To what extent Ken
ensky represents that element, or
of what use he may be In the gen
eral plan being worked out by the
allies and the United States for the
rehabilitation of Russia is not being
made known at this time.
SUPERFLUOUS HAIR
WHY IT INCREASES
Hatr niwH la attaaalated and
Hs rfmtnl |t nWMnrj
whea and; nanri Croat the
•vtae* of the akla. The wlr lact
eal aid practical war ta team
hair la a attack It wader the Um.
Deßitraele, the orlrfaal aaalfary
liqald, d ttr thta hy ataarftka.
Oady sea hae DeMiracle has -
aaoaer-baek cwaraatee ta eaeh
rarkair. Jk jllet eoaatera la oOe,
II aad n aim a, or by aaall from aa
la plain wrapper oa receipt of price.
FREW booh, aaalled la plala sealed
tarelope oa reaeet. DeJllraele,
UMh St- aad I>rk Arc-New York
GERMANY MAY
HURL 2,000,000
MEN AT ALLIES
Vast Preparations For Using
162 Divisions From Mont
didier to the Sea
Pari*. June 26.—The disposition of
German artillery, the creation of new
ammunition dumps, and the field hos
pitals, airdromes and road develop
ment along the entire British front
indicate that a repetition may be ex
pected daily of their gigantic and de
termined effort made last March and
April on the Somme and Lys.
Roughly speaking, there are now
approximately 120 Boche divisions
from Montdidier to the sea. of which
fifty are north of the I*a Bassee ca
nal. Yprea and the Bethune sector,
thirty north of the Somme, Arras
and the Amiens front, and forty
south of the Somme and Montdidier
and Amiens line, while before Beth
une, Arras, Amiens and Montdidier
are great concentrations of guns and
airplanes.
As about forty-two other dlvislonp
are on the Montdidier, Rheims or
Aisne line, it is clear that the Boche
intends to strike with all the force
lie can summon, or, in a word, with
162 or thereabouts of the 20S divi
sions he has on the western front.
(A division is from 12,000 to 14,000
men).
Previous Force* Smaller
In facing this threat, it is profit
able to recall that in the attack from
March 21 to April 17 the Boche struck
the British on the Armentieres and
Amiens front with about 120 divisions
and used against the French on the
Montdidier and Noyon line twenty
five more divisions.
Against the fourteen divisions com
posing the British Fifth Army, con
cerning the work and retreat of
which much unintelligent and unfair
comment has been made, based on
ignorance of the facts, the Germans
launched forty-eight divisions, with \
which the Fifth Army, retreating,
overwhelmed, had to contend prac- |
tlcally without reinforcements in i
time to stem the Hun tide. By April
3 these British had taken prisoners j
representing fifty-three German divi- j
sions. following and attacking with- j
out cessation. From April 9 to the I
month's end the Germans used fifty '
divisions north of the Bassee ca
nal during the Lys battle raging on
the Bethune and Ypres front.
Penbrook to Join in
Big July 4 Parade
Ponbrook. Pa., June 26.—Citizens]
of this place are preparing to turn
out en masse for the big Indepen-I
dence Day celebration in Harrisburg
next Thursday. Burgess M. L. Lud-I
wig called a meeting of the citizens!
last night to get the people back
of the move. A committee consist-!
ing of the Rev. H. M. Hoover, B. F. j
Ober. Postmaster Hoover, Sam
Snoddy and W. J. Stoner, all 6f Pen-1
brook; H. A. Loser, of Progress;
Mrs. A. L. Shope and Miss Talitha
Zarker, of the Penbrook Red Cross, i
was appointed. Every resident is
requested to turn out with an Amer
ican flag. Final arrangements will
be made at a meeting of the com
mittee on Friday night.
Kiwanis Club Changes
Place of Meeting
The weekly luncheons of the Ki
wanis Club will be held Wednesdays
at the Central V. M. C. A. building, it
was decided at noon to-day by mem
bers of the club. The change has
been made because the usual meeting
place, the Elks' Club, will be closed
for. the next two months.
The members of the club were
urged to turn out and parade in the
big Fourth of July demonstration.
"So many of us are members of other
organizations and we will join them,"
President Frank G. Fahnestock, Jr.,
said. Ernest Eppley won the attend
ance prize, a |lO credit on furniture,
given by Brown & Company. Dr. H.
B. Walter made an address introduc
ing Robert T. Fox, attorney, who
gave the members interesting infor
mation concerning legal matters. A.
Ross Walter, another attorney, joined
Mr. Fox in telling of the work at
the Courthouse.
PYTHIAN SISTERS WILL
CONDUCT CEREMONIES
Initiatory ceremonies will be held
by Susquehanna Temple, No. 81,
Pythian Sisters, in Fackler Hall to
morrow night. . The program will
begin at 7.30 o'clock. All members
of the sisterhood have been invited.
The work will be 1 conducted by
members of the Mountain City Tem
plet No. 42, of Altoona.
Members of the Knights of Pyth
ias have been invited to see drill
work, beginning at 8 o'clock.
William R. Weaver Is
in France With Regiment
■W*
PHji
WILLIAM R. WEAVER
Mrs. Florence vVeaver, 1429H Sus
quehanna street, has received word
that her son, William R. Weaver, has
arrived overseas. He is a member of
the One Hundred and Twelfth United
States Infantry.
HAKMsrfoHo _
WAR STAMPS CALL
Pursuant to the proclamations of the President of the United
States and the Governor of this state, I, War Savings Chairman
for Dauphin county, acting under the authority of the United States
Treasury Department, have called all taxpayers and wage-earners
to meet on Friday, June 28, to give their subscriptions for War
Savings Stamps. Meetings will be held In every public school house
in every school district at 8 p. m.
Duly appointed officers will conduct the meetings in every
school house, keeping a record of the proceedings and reporting the
named of all persons present and the amount of War Savings Stamps
subscribed for by them. The names of absent persons and of those who
refuse or neglect to subscribe, with their reasons for so doing, will
also be reported.
War Savings Stamps (which are United States Government
Bonds the same as Liberty Bonds) can be paid for during any month
in the year 1918, but it is intended that signed subscriptions will be
taken for them on June 28.
The price of each War Saving Stamp depends upon the month
in which it is bought. During June each Stamp will cost $4.17.
In July each Stamp will cost $4.18, and so on. one cent more each
month during 1918. On January 1, 1923, the Government of the
United States will redeem all War Savings Stamps at $5.00 each,
no matter which month in 1918 they were bought. They cost less
during the early months in 1918 than during the later months
because the person who buys earlier has loaned his money to the
Government for a longer time than if he should buy later.
r.y way of Illustration, note the following table:
COST OF WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
DURING JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST, 1918
Cost in Cost in Cost in And Arc Worth
June July August on Jan. 1, 1923.
1 Stamp $4.17 $4.18 $4.19 $5.00
20 Stamps 83.40 83.60 83.80 100.00
60 Stamps 208.50 209.00 209.50 250.00
100 Stamps 417.00 418.00 419.00 500.00
200 Stamps 834.00 836.00 838.00 1,000.00 v
The law proides that no person may hold in his own name War
Savings Stamps exceeding SI,OOO maturity value. War Savings
Stamps, however, may be purchased for other members of the family,
including minor children.
The money invested in War Savings Stamps is not a gift, or a
donation, but is a loan to the Government. It will all be paid back
with 4 per cent, compound interest. If, because of some serious
financial reverses, or calamity, it should, be necessary to get your
money before January 1, 1923, you may do so by giving ten days'
notice to any Money Order postmaster, in which case you can get
what you have paid for the Stamps, with interest to date of payment.
The Stamps are free from all state and local taxes; when registered
at the post office they are insured against loss: they are backed by
all the property in the United States; they cannot fall in value
below the price you pay: they are as convenient and as well paying
an investment as has ever been offered by our Government.
A definite quota of* War Savings Stamps has Ijeen assigned each
school district and community, which will be announced at each
meeting on June 28. The Government of the United States expects
all the citizens of every school district and county to .subscribe for
its quota and to pledge themselves to save and economize to help win
the war.
It is to be hoped that the subscriptions taken at the meetings in
your county will show you and your neighbors to be loyal Americans
to whom our Government, in this hour of need, does not call in vain.
FRANK C. SITES,
County Chairman appointed and acting under the
authority of the Secretary of the United States Treasury.
CROWDER CALLS BIG
DRAFT FOR JULY
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purposes. From July 5 to 9, white
registrants numbering 33,259 are to
be entrained; from July 15 to 19,
whites, 21,255; July 16 to 20, col
ored. 45,000, and from July 29 to 31,
colored. 25,011.
In Camp After the 15th
Although the order issued last
night for 220,000 men probably will
deplete the present availables in class
1 in most of the draft districts, it
pointed out that the bulk of the men
called for July will not go to camp
until after the middle of the month
and by that time it is expected the
additions gained by reclassification
and by the new regulation of 21-
year-old youths will be available.
The quotas assigned to various
states in to-day's call and the camps
to which the registrants will be sent,
include the following:
Within another month Harris
burg will be called upon to send a
quota of draftees to Camp Lee, Va.
Two hundred and twenty-three men
is the July 24 quota, it was learned
last night.
The ceunty will be called upon for
174 men. These are from the first
two boards. Counfy board No. 3 will
not be asked to send a quota.
Cumberland county will send 133
men. The train schedule for the
movement has not been announced.
The quotas which the local boards
will be called upon to furnish are
based on their manpower in Class 1,
rather than upon their number of
registrants. No local board has been
ordered to furnish more than It has
in Class 1.
Class 1 Dwindles
The calls for July 24 are expected
to deplete almost entirely the num
ber of registrants In Class X at the
three city and two county boards.
Because the Class 1 registrants re
maining uncalled are so few, inspec
tors sent out by the state draft head
quarters are seeing that the local
boards hasten the work of reclassify
ing: registrants who were placed in
deferred classes but are really eli
gible for Class 1.
Yoking married registrants, and
registrants claiming to support their
parents, are among those who are
losing deferred classifications. It is
pointed out that registrants who re
ceived deferred classification on the
grounds that they were supporting
their parents, developed to be merely
contributing board at home. These
men will be placed ip Class 1.
To Add New Men
The new class of 1918, which has
not yet been classified, but is now
receiving its questionnaires, will
shortly add to the number of avail
able Class 1 men. The number of
Class 1 men in the new ranks of the
registrants is thought to be large, as
hastily or recently contracted mar
riages will be no claim for exemp
tion.
While Dauphin and its adjoining
counties are not called upon to fur
nish any men for Camp Wadsworth,
Spartansburg, S. C., under the July
5 draft, heavy calls are made upon
Harrisburg for men for Camp Lee.
Petersburg, Va., to start moving in
the five days beginning July 22.
The quotas announced to-day
were:
Harrisburg, No. 1, district, 51; No.
2. 90: No. 3. 82.
Dauphin, No. 1 district, 44; No. 2,
30; No. 3, not called.
Perry county, 71.
Cumberland county. No. 1, 30; No.
2. 103.
Franklin county. No. 1, 48; No. 2,
47.
Fulton county, 21.
Union county, 30.
Snyder county, 76.
Juniata county, not called.
Mifflin county, 21.
York city No. 1, 42; No. 2. 68;
York county No. 1. 29; No. 2, 27;
No. 3. not called.
Lancaster city. No. 1, 17; No. 2,
34: Lancaster county No. 1, 1,; No.
2, 8; No. 3. 3: No. 4. 7.
Lebanon county. No. 1, 74; No. 2.
35.
PAUL A. KUNKEL, JR..
SUFFERS BROKEN ARM
Paul A. Kunkel, Jr., aged 12. son of
Paul A. Kunkel. attorney, of 1607
North Second street, sustained a frac
ture of the right wrist yesterday
noon in Harris street, near Second.
The lad was taken to the Harrisburg
Hospital on a street car by his sister,
where the fracture was reduced. He
Is a nephew of President Judge Kun
kel. of the Dauphon county court. He
wIU enter Tech high in the fall.
'is NOT NECESSARY TO
CHANGE DRAFT AGE
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mates but the government proposes
to exert its maximum power in the
war. Studies are being made of the
problems of training, clothing, trans
porting and feeding men, all of
which are to be covered in detail in
the new program, under the author
ity which would be given the Presi
dent in the army bill to call as many
men to the colors as can be trained,
equipped and transported.
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
whose approval of the extension has
been cited by advocates of the
change In the Senate, also appeared
before the committee to say that,
while he was not insistent upon im
mediate legislation, he thought ac
tion should be taken in time to se
cure new registrants under the re
vised age limits early next year.
The army officials attended a meet
ing of the committee just before the
Senate convened to continue consid
eratiort of the army appropriation
bill with amendments pending to
change the age limits. General
March and Mr. Baker said suffi
cient men are available and subject
to call from the first registration,
the re-classification now in progress
and from the 800,000 new registrants
of the 1918 class for the army's re
quirements during the next few
months. General opinion of the Army
General Staff accords with this view,
General March said.
Congress May Agree
Most of the Senators who heard
the statements believed Congress
would follow the recommendation.
' "If Congress insists upon immedi
ate action, Secretary Baker, General
March and General Crowder were
said to be agreed, the minimum age
limit of 121 be lowered to secure
younger men for military service,
rather than to make any extensive
raise in the maximum age by which
oldtr men would be secured. They
told the committee that more and
better fighting men would be se
cured by reduction of the age limit
—they suggested it be made 20
years instead of the present mini
mum of 21.
The latest statistics and estimates
regarding the number of men still
available under the present draft
law and the new British-Canadian
treaty were presented confidentially
to the committee, together with the
War Department's plans for further
draft calls.
Secretary Baker, it was said, ex
pressed merely his personal views
and those of his military advisers
and did not suggest the opinion of
President Wilson on the question,
although it had been reported that
the President also opposed Immedi
ate legislation.
Another Harrisburg Lad
Who Left For Camp Lee
JOSEPH LANO
Joseph Lang, 1223 North Sixth
street, who left with the Dauphin
county contingent for Camp Le. Va.,
Monday, was formerly employed by
the Gold Furniture Company, 1018
Market street.
HUN CHANCELLOR
SEES NO USE OF
PEACE PROFFERS
Talk of Willingness Regarded
as Weakness; Determined
Stand Is Militarism
By Associated Press
Amsterdam, June 2G.—There will
be no further discussion of President
Wilson's four principles of a basis
for general peace toy Count Von
Hertling, the Imperial German
Chancellor. This announcement was
made by the Chancellor in the
Reichstag in the debate after the
speech of Foreign Secretary Von
Kuehlmann. Proposal of a league of
nations after the war is not looked
upon with favor by Count Von Hert
ling, who intimated that such a
league might make it uncomfortable
for Germany.
"I originally had no intention of
taking part in this debate," said the
Chancellor. "The reasons for my
■ contemplated reserve are obvious,
namely, the experiences I have had
together with my predecessors' re
marks in previous speeches.
Hiuis Trusted Nowhere
"If we spoke our willingness for
peace that was regarded as a symp
ton of weakness and our immedi
ately impending collapse. By others
It was interpreted as crafty traps.
"Did we speak, on the other hand,
of our unshakable will to defend our
selves in a war of conquest so crim
inally thrust upon us, it was said it
was the voice of German militarism
to which even the leading statesmen
must submit willy-nilly.
"I went a step further on February
24 and expressly stated my attitude
toward the message of President
Wilson in which he discussed his
four points and gave, in principle,
my assent to them. I said these
four points of President Wilson
might possibly form the basis of a
general world peace. No utterance
of President Wilson whatever fol
lowed this, so that there is no ob
ject; in spinning any further the
threads there started.
Have Faith in Each Other
"Now. as before, the ruler of the
empire, the princes and the peoples
stand closely and confidently to
gether. They trust in our incompar
able troops, our incomparable army
leaders and our united people, which
are unshakably standing together,
and we may hope that that Almighty
who hitherto has helped lis and led
us from victory to victory, will re
ward this faithful German people."
ITALY ATTACKS^
ENEMY IN HILLS
[Continued from First Page.]
terrain between the Brenta and the
Piave and dominates the hills south
ward to the Venetian plain. It was
on this height that the Austrians met
with failure In their attempts ten
days ago to reach the plain from the
north.
In completing the recapture of the
western bank of the Piave, the Ital
ians added 1,600 prisoners to the al
ready large numbers taken from the
enemy. While the sudden rise of the
river distressed the Austrians who
had crossed to the western bank the
river fell during the enemy retreat
but again has risen, hampering the
Italian pursuit, on the eastern bank.
Apparently the Italians have been
content to hold to strong bridge
heads on the eastern bank rather
than to attempt to pursue the enemy
any distance eastward.
Germans Depressed
Vienna officially places the Italian
lesses at 150,000, including 50.000
prisoners. It admits the retirement
across the Piave from Montello to
the Adriatic, but intimates the Ital
ians did not press the retiring Aus
trians very closely. In their efforts on
the mountain 'front, it is added, the
Italians were repulsed completely.
Baiding operations continue on the
front from Switzerland to the sea,
especially between Ypres and Bheims
where further heavy fighting un
doubtedly will take place. German
soldiers are reported as being de
pressed over the Austrian defeat and
it is held in some entente quarters
that Germany may make a strong ef
fort almost immediately in order to
maintain German and Austrian
morale behind the lines. The Ger
mans had expected a successful Aus
trian offensive against Italy, thereby
hastening peace.
"Peace by Negotiation"
Apparently Germany has given up
hope of reaching a decision on the
field of battle, if the speech of For
eign Secretary Von Kuehlmann is an
indication. He declared peace must
come through negotiation and said
that the appearance on European
fronts of soldiers from overseas had
made this necessary .He could give
no idea of when the war would end.
His effort' was received coldly by the
Beichstag.
The official view in Washington
was that the speech was a peace
move and that' Germany now invites
proposals from the entente. It is
felt that the move is similar to
others which have followed German
or Austrian failures to bring a quick
decision in the field.
On the other hand, Germany still
moves forward in her conquest of
Bussia. It is reported that 3,000
German troops have been landed at
Potl, a Trans-Caucasian port on the
Black Sea, which has rail connec
tions with the important centers of
Tiflis, Batum and Baku. Batum is in
the hands of the Turks.
In Siberia, Czecho-Slovak troops,
who are in revolt against the Bol
sheviki. are reported to have cap
tured Irkutsk, which makes an ad
vance of 800 miles from Tomsk,
which they entered some days ago.
Seemingly the Czecho-Slovaks are
pushing rapidly toward Vladivostok
in order to get out of Bussia, as their
forces are hardly large enough to
combat the Bolsheviki for any length
>of time.
PROFESSIONAL NURSE
Tells What to Do to Regain Strength
After Sickness.
New York City.—"l am a profes
sional nurse,—the grippe and bron
chial pneumonia left me with a
cough and in a depleted, anaemic
condition and no appetite. I can
not take cod liver oil In any other
form than in Vinol and in a short
time after taking it my appetite im
proved, my cough left me, I gained
strength and weight. That is why
I recommend Vinol to others."
Miss E. M. Walker, R. N.. 35 W.
38th street.
It is the Beef and Cod Liver Pep
tones aided by the iron and man
ganese peptonates and glycerophos
phates contained In Vinol which
makes it so wonderfully successful
George A. Gorgas, Kennedy's
Medicine Store, 321 Market street,
C. F. Kramer, Third and Broad
streets, Kitzmiller's Pharmacy, 1325
i Derry street, and druggists every-,
where.
VOLUNTEERS FOR
EMERGENCIES
Men Specially Commissioned
by Governor Not to Be Used
For Routine Police Duty
Attorney General Brown, In an
opinion to Governor Brumbaugh to
day, lays down the law In regard to
authority to control the volunteer
state police and their duties. The at
torney general says that "In every'
city, borough or township wherein
there is a duly constituted police de
partment or commission, it belongs to
such department to direct and exer
cise authority over the volunteer
police officers therein. In other "cases
it belongs to the person named by
the governor for that purpose."
In regard to service, the attorney
general says that it does not contem
plate that he should render the ordi
nary routine service of a regular
policeman, but extraordinary work.
"It was not intended," he says, "that
through the Instrumentality of the
volunteer police force the state should
thereby relieve municipalities l'rom
any part of the duty and burden here
tofore resting upon them of policing
the same and maintaining the peace.
1 he members of this force serve with
out pay. Their services are tendered
from purely public and patriotic mo
tives to assist the commonwealth
during the stress of war. For any
city to use them to do what commonly
and usually has been done and can
continue to be done by the regular
police force is iy>t only at variance
with the real intent of the act. but
would.tend to keep men from joining
said volunteer force."
Mr. Brown says that where a situa
tion arises threatening a community
and beyond control of the ordinary
police force, "the local police depart
ment should not hesitate promptly to
summon the assistance of volunteer
policemen, which it may confidently
be predicted will be readily given,
but resort should not be made to them
to perform the ordinary and everyday
duties of the regular force."
Deaths and Funerals
MRS. J. B. HENDERSON
Word was received in Harrisburg
to-day of the death in Philadelphia of
Mrs. Susan Henderson, wife of Cap
tain James B. Henderson, aged 82
years. For many years she was a
resident of Harrisburg and widely
known here. No funeral arrange
ments have yet been Issued.
CHIIjD DIES
Earl K. Kipple, aged eight years,
died yesterday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kip
ple, 1849 North Seventh street. Funeral
services will be held to-morrow after
noon. at 2 o'clock, the Rev, Mr. Sayres,
of the Second Reformed Church, offici
ating. Burial will be in the Fast Har
risburg Cemetery.
MRS. CATHERINES MEISENHEI.DER
Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine
Meisenhelder, aged 76 years, will be
held Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock,
and burial will be in the Paxtang
Cemetery. Mrs. Meisenhelder died yes
terday afternoon at her home, 50
North Tenth street. She is survived
by four children—two sons, Henry
Meisenhelder, of Altoona, and Christ
Meisenhelder, of Scranton, and two
daughters. Mrs. Margaret McCurdy
and Mrs. Edith Yeager, both of Har
risburg. Mrs. Meisenhelder had a
large number of friends.
BISURATED
MAGNESIA
For Dyspepsia, Indigestion
Heartburn. Belching, Sour Acid
Stomach, Gas In Stomach, etc., take
a teaspoonful of Bisurated Magnesia
in a half glass of hot wator after
eating. Is safe, pleasant and harm
less to use and gives almost instant
relief. It neutralizes stomach acid
ity and sweetens the food contents
so that digestion Is easy and pain
less. Sold by G. A. Gorgas and drug
gists everywhere.—Adv.
Down Town
Ice Store
114 S. Dewberry Street
DOWN town ice consumers may
save 40 per cent, to 50 per cent,
of the cost of ice.
You get as much ice from our Als
pure Ice store for 5c as from the wagon
for 10c.
Take your ice with you, save money
for yourself and at the same time re
lease men and equipment for war pur
poses. i
Alspure Ice Stores are located at:
114 S. Dewberry St. (near Mkt)
South Street (near Second)
3rd & Delaware Sts.
3rd & Boas Sts.
Green & Basin Sts. (near Reily)
4th near Hamilton Sts.
sth & Woodbine Sts.
6th & Hamilton Sts.
7th & Woodbine Sts.
Forster & Cowden Sts.
• 13th & Walnut Sts.
13th & Swatara Sts.
15th & Chestnut Sts.
18th & Forster Sts.
27th St., Penbrook, Pa.
Alspure Ice may be safely used in
direct contact with all food products.
It is made from water that has been
boiled, filtered, reboiled, skimmed and
again filtered.
United Ice & Coal Co.
Main Office, Forster & Cowden Sts.
GERMANY'S WAR
AIMS CLEAR TO
U. S. LEADERS
Merely Another Phase of Huix
Cycle of Drives and
Peace Talk
WaDhlngton, June 26.—Germany'*
lateAt declaration of war aims, as
enunciated in the German Reichstag
by Dr. von Kuehlmann, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, are regarded by of
ficials here as merely another phaso
in Germany's old cycle of military;
drives and peace offensives.
In the official view. Dr. von Kuehl
mann's only new contribution was
the attempt to fasten principal re
sponsibility for planning waf
upon Russia, the only great nation
whose power has been broken by the
Teutonic military and propaganda
machines. Since Germany previously
had contended that England and, to
a lesser degree, France were respon
sible for the hostilities, this move by
the Minister only served to strength
en the belief that a main purpose of
the speech was to invite peace pro
posals from the west, although no
mention was made of peace negotia
tions.
It was predicted in Entente circles
here that this new peace offensive,
like preceding ones, would fail and
that the Entente Allies and America
would continue to prosecute the war
to a victorious conclusion.
DALMATIA I.AD KILLED
niilmntlu. Pa., June 26. —■ Included
in the list of marines killed in action
in France issued to-day, is George C.
Michael, of Dalmatia, son of the late
George C. Michael. Michael, who was
23 years old. enlisted in the United
States Marines at the Harrisburg Re
cruiting Station last fall.
Michael Irf survived by his mother,
Mrs. Rebecca Michael, and four broth
ers, John Michael and William Micvh
ael, of Sunbury; Jacob Michael, of
Dalmatia; Elmer Michael, of Port
Trevorton. and four sisters. Katn
Michael, Mary Michael, Cora Michael,
and Helen Michael.
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tried Magic Eczema Ointment and
3 boxes cure*} me entirely. I
gladly recommend it to sufferers
of Eczema. Mrs. Chas. Brenisholtz,
1317 North St.. Harrisbui'g, Pa.
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