4 Mannheim Terrified by Worst Raid of the War; Germans Flee th Towns Geneva, Switzerland, July 2. — Mouth German newspapers, in order to release the nervous and angered populations of towns alpng the Rhine, attempt to explain away as unimportant the aerial bombard ment of Mannheim on Saturday morning'. It was really the most terrific raid on a German town dur ing the war. The Germans officially announced that five were killed and fourteen were wounded, but the llg-1 . ures could be quadrupled. Several victims were unfortunately, allied officers, who, disdaining shelter, cheered the allied aviators. The residents of Mannheim also were chagrined in witnessing five or six German machines running nway from the British. Three of the former were brought down in flames near the town. The Badische Ani line and Soda Factory, upon which i bombs fell, blazed for many hours, j One of the largest banks was wreck-' ed, its office furniture being blown] into the principal street of the city.. The population, already nervous be fore the raid, is now panic stricken. | The raid on Karlsruhe, according' to German reports, caused only ma terial damage. In the meantime, the exodus from Rhine towns continues, and house! rents have depreciated>3s per cent. I liOiuloii, July 2.—Recent air raids against railway stations and military establishments in Germany are being continued, according to an official statement issued by the Air Minis try. The statement reads: "On tho night of June 30-July 1 further attacks were made on the I enemy airdrome at Boulay and on railway works and stations at Thion ville, Remilly, Landau, Zweibrucken and Saarsbrucken. The chemical wors at Mannheim were again at tacked. "On July 1 the railway and work shops at Karthaus, the station at Treves, and the railway triangle of Metz Sabions were bombed with good effect. One hostile machine was shot down and two of ours are missing. One of the-machines re ported as missing on June 30 has returned." BUSYBUSTNESS MEN Science Helps Them Out After Recklessly Abusing' the Stomach The most reckless man in regard to health is the busy business man. At noon he rushes out for a bite to eat. He bolts his food without prop er mastication, and heaps on his stomach an extra burden greater than it is to carry without breaking down. His overworked stomach is crying for help; it appeals to him for re lief in various w r ays: Expulsion of sour gas, waterbrash, sour taste in mouth, heaviness after eating, short ness of breath, bad breath, etc. One Mi-o-na tablet taken with or after, each meal will help any suffer er from dyspepsia wonderfully. It aids the stomach in the work of di ■gestion which it must perform. Mi-o-na tablets are sold by H. C. Kennedy with a rigid guarantee to overcome dyspepsia and all stomach troubles, or money back. They make eating a pleasure. Mi-o-na cleanses and purifies the stomach and bowels and puts vigor and strength into the overworked tissues. It is the surest stomach tonic in the world. Sold by leading druggists every where. —Adv. ALLEN S FOOTEASE The Antiseptic Powder. Shake It into your Shoes, Sprinkle it in your Foot-Bath. It makes Standing on the feet easy, Allen's FooUEase increases their aCOy insures needed physical comfort J The Plattsburg Camp Manual Advises Men in Training to Shake a little Foot=Ease in their shoes escb morning. Do this anu n-alk all day in comfort. It takes the Friction \ from the Shoe and freshens the feet. At night, sprinkle it in the foot-bath,. and soak and rub the feet. For over 25 years Allen's Foot=Ease has been the STANDARD remedy for hot, swollen, smarting, tender, tired, perspir ing, aching feet, corns, bunions, blisters and callouses. Used by the American, British and French troops in Europe. One war relief committee reports that of all the things sent out in their Comfort Kits, Allen's Foot-Ease received the most praise from the soldiers and sailors. Why not order a dozen or more 25c. boxes to-day from your Druggist or Department Store to mail to your friends in training camps and in the army and navy. Sold everywhere. Sample FREE by mail. Address, ALLEN S. OLMSTED. LE BOY. N. Y. My latent Improved HHBg|) aaeen, Including u nejtn. NHHjHin laed air apparatus, aakea extracting and all deatal . np jT VHUH wark fMltlveir ISUIMS A® W WDQ93B and la perfect!/ harm-.AT A '•* (is mm et f EXAMINATION S. FREE XAVv S -I";'—'■■"K XA\> ' X ld rewas — VNX ^5*,7* rk ' <. M. M AW **K geld erotTQ, SO.OO ■ iMfclMli - °? lM open dally 8.30 a+mMmmtm • • l Moaday, Wed- AMlntnata fQ X X *m4mr and Saturday, till raoga mux.*. X it • un THKMB op X X PiTHgRTS / yT U MtrM SL (Oyer Ike Hah) HARRISBURG, PA. It dldat hart a hit TUESDAY EVENING. Letters F rom the Front I Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, a well-known newspaper woman and I author, now engaged in the Y. M. C. | A. canteen service on the other side, I haw written her children a most ln j teresting story of her trip overseas. Copies of the letters have been for j warded to her aunt, Mrs. Samuel W. Fleming, of this city. We make the I foilowing extracts: May 10. 1918. So far a perfect voyage and your mother very lazy. Not seasick, but sleepy. To-day will begin interview ing notables on board. Everything is in uniform except a few French folk homeward bound. Salvation Army. Red Crogs. Y. M. C. A. in khaki. Red Cross women in blue and Y. M. C. A, wpmen in the faded effect 1 have to wear in France. On board I wear my old uniform. The Red Cross is the exclusive bunch, Y. M. C. A. the bustling. I-am-on-the-job crowd. Everybody not inoculated ashore went through that yesterday with re sult of many sore arms to-day. Boat drill this afternoon with life belts. Gunners painting and polishing guns, but you get so used to the atmos phere of expectancy that you do not mind it. My room is most comfortable with a young Italian-Swiss as roommate. Good wardrobe and dresser room, but of course close at night, with portholes closed. Many officers and men abroad and such tine chaps. It makes me so proud of our Army. Charming French officers abloom with decorations, so unassuming and friendly. Head of Y. M. C. A. party formerly professor of romantic lan guages at Harvard. Going on special mission in French Army. Cannot mention names it seems, but women in some cases quite distinguished in literature and on platform. The fare is Hooverized but excel lent. No white bread or sugar and in self-defense I am learning to drink chocolate. Your oranges were a real blessing, also nuts. For breakfast we have eggs which starts the day right for me. After that nothing matters, though the sea air makes me very hungry. Many Things Hapnon May 14. Have been a bad correspondent. So many things happen. Y. M. C. A. put me on entertainment committee. We give a program nightly for A. E. F. and one must hustle talent. Then I am interviewing people for my ar ticles —about two a day. Hope to write one before landing. I wish I might reassure you by wireless, for I know you are anxious. I feel so se cure now that I am on board. A French naval officer in command, a fine crew, ample boats and in my boat, two American naval officers. Every night I pack my knapsack and lay out my sea-going clothes and every morning I put them away again. Otherwise life goes on as usual. night a fine concert in saloon for French wounded. Many notables, grand opera, etc. No names however may be mentioned. 2,600 frs. raised, 2,000 of which through caricatures by' American artist. Will send you mine. It is so funny. The most interesting phase aboard ship is the mad scramble of Amer icans to learn French before landing. You should see them gathered in groups on the deck, though calm even in the cabins. The cleverest lad war a young lieutenant who. appar ently, was having a violent flirtation with a very ordinary looking French matron. He was her devoted cavalier, [ sat at tables with her, on deck, nev er left her. He bore the "gibes" of his fellows and the pitying smiles of fair ladies, but you should hear his accent at the end of a week— superb! Ready For the V-Boat Wednesday. Very strenuous preparations for greeting a submarine. All boats swing out, gun crews in position, two men in the crow's nest, and men on guard everywhere. I write this on deck with my life perserver under my deck chair and my knapsack swinging from the back. But every body is most cheerful. For the llrst time we have rain or rather a fine mist which drives boys below. In the saloon a dozen girls are rehearsing songs to sing at the matinee this afternoon. "Dixie." "John Brown's Body," etc. 1 am on the program committee and much bored. As you see my writing is not firm to-day because the sea is rougher. Mist is lifting as it does in Lerchmont at noon for a clear afternoon. Night. All dressed up and no place to go! I wish you . could' see your little mother. Wherever I go there also goes my lifebelt, swinging from my arm like a knitting bag. Over my shoulder now my knapsack, around my waist my passport and money bag. If the alarm came, I couldn't get into a boat to save my soul. But this danger zone stuff is amusing. One man in cabin near me is actu ally losing flesh. His hand shakes like palsy. Others play cards. Many are sleeping on deck but mist is heavy and my throat is quite sore so I came below. My neighbor prom ises to call me at 3 a. m. as from then to 7 is a danger period and if there is any fancy gun practice I want to see it. We have some won derful French gunners aboard. One with three submarines to his credit. Perhaps you think this is all danger zone but that is the most obvious matter at the moment. We do the usual things in the most unusual way. Imagine being advised not to bathe to-morrow morning and going to the toilet swinging your lifebelt gaily. I can hardly write now be cause the ship is going at top speed. It seems to have conserved its strength for one magnificent spurt. Children—l am having the time of my life. I wish you were all here. Shifting Scenes Next Morning. Here I sit on deck at sunrise Writ ing to you. At 3 the ocean was a sea of mica. Then it became opalescent as the first color crept out from the east. Finally the run, orange-red, and the water, calm as Yokum pond, turned blue. And at last on the gray chifton horizon a mast, a funnel, a sharp bow—a boat. Our fighting convoy. It came prancing over the water to us like a colt, sometimes flinging up its foam-flecked head. When it got into our water a great sigh went up from the deck and many went back to bed. But it is so quiet on the freshly-washed deck that I simply cannot go below. I will sleep when the crowd comes back. Oh, there are so many things I wish you might see—especially these alert French gunners. And the day, as perfect as you could dream, with a blue sea flecked with white and gold. It seems as if no periscope would dare raise its glass head but we will not feel safe until we are docked. Meantimerwe eat and drink and chat and read. This has been done at intervals during the day or rather morning and now I go to lunch. My first article for 's will be the American invasion of desolated France. Oh, the imperti nence of some who are going over! These college men who know noth ing of life outside books—these smug women who will patronize the broken women of France. It is fear ful to contemplate. French women on board are so vastly our superiors in manners, consideration, courtesy to each other and to us. Unless Gen eral Pershing takes over our vast and undisciplined army of welfare workers, they will verily encumber the soil of France. They mean so well but they are so absurdly pro vincial. And now really to lunch. Evening. A perfect day. At mouth of river battleships drawn up in bright green, water dirigibles overhead in a blue sky all fluffed with the softest little clouds and right there a poor, dis tracted woman flung herself over from the promenade deck. Our boat flow on but the destroyer was right on the job and picked her up. When we took on the customs man they transferred her from destroyer to our steamer via a little boat and a rope, amid great applause. Quite a dramatic finish to our great run in nine days and a few hours. The har bor isi,lovely and X look up from your letter to wonderful low hills, turrets, forts and always vessels in the foreground and little fishing boats with white sails. To-morrow at noon we leave for Paris. Just con tributed to fund for gunners who get tent cents a day. They are such alert guards T was glad to do my bit. Love to you all and believe me—a perfect trip. Do not rforry. I will come back with great tales. Arrival thrilling. All the way to pier, boats, dredges bearing Ameri can construction company names and various plants, let Its men come out to see our stately advance. Whistles blew, men flung up hats! boys on our boats answered: "Where are you from?" "Michigan." "Where you all come from?" "Georgia—boy." Our singers sang at intervals: "Liberty Bell ring again." Peasants on bank, here and there a wounded porter in blue, flung out greeting. Really it was most touch ing and tears would come. On dock we were met by Y. M. C. A. leaders who took us first to provost marshal then their hotel. Please save my letters. I have kept no diary. Am cabling office to-day. Will send caricature later. Short Skirts and Face Powder "0. K." Cleveland.—A woman has a perfect right to powder and paint and wear short skirts. It Is a woman's right to improve her looks with paint and powder If she sets fit to do so, and If the style says that she shall show an ankle, or maybe more, then she may do that also, and may wear skirts as short as she.wants to as long as the police are satisfied. This, in brief, was Judge Levlne's finding in a suit for divorce brought by Bandor Ignatz against Mrs. Mary Ignatz. CRANBERRY BOOS ARE TPHEATHZVED BY MOTHS Pleasant I.altfe, Mass Cape Cod cranberry growers are appealing for help in' saving their bogs from the gypsy moths that are doing thou sands of dollars' worth of damage. Some of the bogs in the thlckls'- .wooded sections have the appearance of fire-swept meadows. A poison spray Is now being tried, as flooding the bogs had little effect. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! Arrives In France With Army Medical Corps ~ * .^IR&SHBSSi .• 4 # 1| CHALMERS M. GOODYEAR. Chalmers M. Goodyear, son of S. W. Goodyear, 2549 North Sixth street, with the Medical Corps, 332 nd Infantry Detachment, has arrived o.verseas with the American forces. Goodyear, a former employe of the Lal&nce-Grosjean Tin Mill and a member of the Camp Curtin Fire Company, enlisted last July. He had been in training at Camp Sher man, Chillicothe, Ohio. Y. M. C. A. to Swell Its Forces in Russia New York, July 2. The National War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Association announc ed here yesterday it was preparing to support President Wilson's sugges tion of economic aid for Russia by recruiting more directors and secre taries to re-enforce the 100 American Y. M. C. A. workers still remaining in that country. In announcing the new men will be cftosen "with a view to their ability to contribute some constructive ele ment to the Russian life of the fu ture" the council added: "Some will be agriculturists, others businessmen of leadership and a con siderable part will be men skilled in rural Y. M. C. A. work in this countrv. All will go with the purpose of help ing Russia to help herself rather than with any thought of attempting to dictate Russian policy or to control Russian institutions." With the conclusion of the peace agreement at Brest-Litovsk the Y. M. C. A- workers serving in the Ameri can huts along the Russian front from the Baltic to the Caucasus re mained in Russia, taking care of thousands of invalid Russian prison ers returned by Germany and seeking to build up the morale of civilians and soldiers alike. Red Triangle workers are scattered throughout Russia and Siberia, the council said, adding that German propagandists had failed in their ef forts to drive out this band of Ameri cans. "who h&ve won their way into the hearts of the Russian people." Angora Cat Starts Car Crashing Into Another St. I.ouln, MO.—An electric coupe, owned by J. P. Rice, of 5231 A Von Versen avenue, traveled more than two blocks in Union Boulevard the other night with an angora cat as Its only occupant, the kitten appar ently having started the machine while it was parked in front* of Ca banne Library. The coupe traveled south, ran into the rear of the automobile of Allen W. Clark, 5524 Maple avenue, and pushed it more than a block before Clark got out of his own car and climbed into the coupe, turning oft the power in the latter. When he got in the kitten got out. Rice told the police that the kitten was not his and must have crawled into the machine after he had left it. It Is possible for a cat to start an electric car if the switch is not thrown out. The only movement necessary is the pushing of a lever at the side of the driver's seat. A cat playing on the seat cushion might do this. TO WEAR WHITE DRESSES Pennsylvania railroad women who will participate in the Independence Day parade will wear a white dress, six inches from the ground, together with head dress and will carry an American flag. The head dress and flag may be obtained any time from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., on July 3. Descent of Fighting Family Is In France WILLOUGHBY F. NICOLLS Wllloughby Nicolls, son of Francis C. Nicolls, from a long lino of light ing ancestors, has taken up the arms of Uncle Sam and Is now In France with the American forces. He Is a grandson of Colonel Willoughby Nicolls and a grand nephew of Sir John Nicolls, both late of the British Army with which served In the Crimean War. Private Nicolls, be fore his enlistment, was an em ploye of the Bell Telephone Com pany. -He had been training at Camp Hancock, q*. CAPTAIN JACOBS TO BEDROPPED No Truth, However, in Report He Was Convicted of Disloyalty Captain Charles W. Jacobs haß been dropped from the rolls of the State Police, the department an nounced to-day. There is no truth, however, in the report that he has been convicted of pro-Germanism or disloyalty. The statement of the department is as follows: "Captain Charles W. Jacobs, Troop A State Police at Greens burg, Pa., who was tried by court martial at Greensburg by the su perintendent and deputy on June 27, on charges of conduct to the preudice of good order and police discipline was given a leave of ab sence for fifteen days at the end of which period he will be dropped from the service. "Captain Jacobs established- to the satisfaction of his superiors that he is a citizen of the United States, that he is a citizen of the | United States, that he is the owner j of one thousand dollars worth of j Liberty Bonds and displayed re- j ceipts for large sums from the Red | Cross and Boy Scout campaign. | Superintendent Lumb is satisfied j that some of the accusations against I Captain Jacobs were inspired by I malice and had no foundation in fact. "Captain Jacobs has not been In good health for some time past but has continued to bear the troop ad ministration burdens without the rest his condition required. It is be lieved that the pessimistic remarks that he is charged with having made are in great measure due to his physical condition and Superin tendent Lumb is satisfied that the only indiscretion that Captain Jacobs was guilty of was that of making such remarns as may be heard frequently uttered by thought less people in discussing the war or the government. It is purely a dis ciplinary measure which Jacobs agreed to that resulted in his leav ing the service. The rumors that the Department of Justice is wait ing on the result of the court-mar tial is denied at the Harrlsburg of fice of the State Police. Nothing on the subject has been heard from the Department of Justice and it is in conceivable that the Federal agents would take any official action against a member of the State Police force without fully co-operating with the one branch of the state government that is working day and night is close co-operation with the Depart ment of Justice through both the Washington office and the local branches. "Captain Jacobs served three years in the United States Cavalry, three years in the Infantry, one year on recruiting service and twelve years and a half on the State Police force where he has won a reputation with his superiors for courage and steadi ness such ( as few can claim." British Red Cross Men Praised For Valor By Associated Press London, July 2.—British Red Cross ambulance men did splendid work during the recent Austrian offensive ana they gained high praise from the Italian military authorities, ac cording to reports received here from Rome. Their actual help was in creased by the moral support given the Italians. On the plain west of the Piave British ambulances often were in hotly-contested sectors. One regi mental medical post they served was within several hundred yards of the firing line. The Britishers */on the admiration of the Italins for their work among the vines and fruit trees which were in full leaf and through which it was impossible to see more thna a very short distance. Nine tenths of the bounded in certain di visions were carried to the rear by the British. When the Austrians retreated acrost. the river at Ponte di Piave, British ambulances worked up to the river bank and took care of Aus trian as well as of Italian wounded. Huge Cotton Crop Is x - Forecast of This Year Washington, July 2.—A huge cot ton crop is in prospect this year, the Department of Agriculture to-day forecasting the production at 15,325,- 000, equivalent 500 pound bales. A crop that size will be the third largest ever grown. The acreage this year comes close to the record, being exceeded onlv by that of 1913. Thousands of Widows Not Yet 16 Years Old Most of the women of India are married before they are 10 years old! Millions are married in their cradles, and there are thousands upon thou sands of widows who have not yet reached what the reformers now hesi tantly suggest as the marriageable age. Not the wildest reformer among them lias ever dared put this age above 16, either. As a matter of fact, there are more than 26,000,000 widows in India, and they are all vir tually slaves in the households of their dead husbands. It is an extra ordinary problem. Infant mortality in India is terrific. Infant husbands die in infancy and leave widows, who are bound by stringent and immemorial law—not British law, but Indian law, with which the British, controlling such a fearful population, have not dared to interfere —to remain widows through out their lives. The British abolished suttee, or the immolation of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands, and they eradicated thuggee. Mark Twain writes about thuggee in "More Tramps Abroad." It fascinated him and he devoted thrilling chapters to it—lightly, of course, and from a humorous standpoint that wcwild have been impossible to any other human that ever lived.—Eleanor F. 'Egan in the Saturday Evening Post. AT 78 TAKES BRIDE OF M Worcester. Word was received here of the marriage of C. Henry Hutchlns, 73, formerly president of the Crompton & Knowles Loom Com pany, and Miss Laura Nicolle, 28, at her home In Kingston, Ont. Mrs. Albert I* Stratton and Arthur K. Hutchlns, daughter and son of the groom, were present. After the cere mony the couple left for Mr. Hutch lns' summer- home In Shrewsbury. Mass. His first marriage was to Eliza E. Knowles. In 1873. BICi FIRE IN SHAMOKIN Sliamokln, Pk.. July 2. —Ten busi ness places and two apartments were destroyde by fire here to-day. The loss is 175,000. The building, owned by F. P. Llewelyn, banker, is a total loss. The fire was caused by spon taneous combustion of oil-soaked rags in a paint shop, Home From Navy on Thirteen-Day Furlough - QUARTERMASTER W. L MYERS After being in the war zone on no less than a half dozen different oc casions, Quartermaster Waldo U My ers, U. S. S. North Dakota, is at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Myers, 122 North River street, on a thirteen-day furlough. Quarter master Myers enjoys life in the Navy thoroughly. The above photo was taken while ho was enjoying a swim in the ocean in the tropics. Myers, a former Technical High School stu dent, enlisted on April 2, 1917. The New Store WM. 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