HGSTERS TO ■bSE SEASON Hi PLAYGROUNDS |Hb and Girls Have Spirited ■Contests in Various ■ Leagues playground ball and girls' leagues will close this week ■h the Interest of the youngsters on the scrap In Section A girls' league. The Harris and Bamore teams will play to-morrow to decide who will hold first Be In the section. The winner In -■l league will In all probability Emerald, now leading Section for the city championship. The between the winners Is sched- Bd for Friday. the boys' league Supervisor J. 7H Staples reported that Maolay won Sycamore, the team which been in the lead, was compelled forfeit games as they had a play ■ {Thomas Toomey, who was over age limit. Mr. Staples also said Hrase a second player on the Syca team should be found to be the limit the boys on the play- will be barred from partlcl- in tho volleyball league now by getting credit for the game closed the season a defeat, winning its last from Emerald last night by a HR-c of 13 to 9, scoring nine of the iHhs in the first and third Innings. standing of the teams in the league to date follows: W. L. Pet. ■Srelfth 4 2 .667 Imerald 3 2 .600 ycamore 2 2 .500 i Btrrls 2 3 .400 *>as 1 4 200 Reservoir ......... 0 5 .000 In the KlrJ.s' league In both sections Jere was a tie game and instead ot laying the contests over Mr. Staples nd the instructors agreed to give fcch team credit for winning half a ame and losing half a game. Tho jague standing follows: SECTION A Team — W. L. Pet. hrrla •••... 4 0 1.000 rc&more 3% % .875 j eservoir 2 2 .500 welfth 1% 2% .375 enn 1 3 .250 axtang 0 3 .000 SECTION B Team— W. L. ret. Emerald 3 0 1.000 lelly IV4 1% -S o ' l loas IMr 2% .375 lamilton 1 2 .333 Maclay .. .4 1 2 .333 >' The new bathhouse to be used Seneca btreet has been completed Sir. Staples announced a'nd may be Opened to-morrow. The instructors in charge will be Joseph P. Minnlck and John E. Atkinson. S At the McCormick's Island camp toennant winners for the week were: Seniors: First, Lillian Katzinan, ■5% points won as follows; tether fcall, 20; track meet, 37%; tent in spection, 18; second, Mabel Weigle, 72, tetherball, 16; track meet, 38: tent inspection, 18. Juniors, first, Helen Connors, 83, tetherball, 25;; track meet, 40; tent inspection, 18; j pecond, Marjorie Russ. 59%, tether-1 ball, 11; track meet. tent in-1 spection, 16. A number of the girls; who have been in camp for the first two weeks will stay until next Thursday Mr. Staples reported. Kiwanis Club to Give Concert in Reservoir Park For Y. M. C. A. ! The Kiwanis Cub of Harrisburg will give a complimentary band con cert in Reservoir Park within the next few weeks at which time promi nent speakers will urge the necessity | for recruiting as secretaries for Y. M. |C. A service overseas. Ib is possible I that several men who have had over- I seas service will be present. This was decided at the weekly meeting of the club held to-day in the Y. M. C. A. assembly room. Interest of the members was cen tered on the big picnic to be held Thursday. August 1. at the beauti ful summer home of H. C. Claster, Summerdale. CJemes, contests Jid races have been arranged for the af fair. A number of prizes will' be given by the club and H. B. Rubin, optician, has promised a pair of auto goggles to be numbered among the other gifts. An orchestra will be present, said Frank Blumenstein, chairman of the committee in charge of the music. E. B. Chenoweth. man ager of Kresge's Five and Ten Cent Store, will act as policeman. He has been empowered to "start or stop anything." Next week's attendance prize. It | was announced, will be a ton of coal l given by Frank J. Wallis. This I week V. H. Brackenrldge won the [ prize, a box of paper given by Sam M. Taylor of the Johnston Paper company. James A. George, of the Victoria Theater, will be the silent booster next week. The following week Irving Robinson of the Woman's Shop will give a silk dress. H. K. Schrlver. public accountant, was introduced to to-day's meeting as the youngest member. He was roundly applauded. A number of guests were present, among them be ing Frank Foose, purchasing agent of the Harrlsburs School Board. Each U. S. Soldier to Wear Double Proof of Name and Rank Washington, July 24. General Pershing has issued an order to his t force in France directing that two aluminum identification tags be worn by each soldier and officer.' The or der was made public by the War De partment to-day as follows: "Two aluminum identification tags, each the size of a silver half dollar and of suitable thickness, will be worn by each officer and soldier of the American Expeditionary forces and by all civilians attached thereto. These tags will be worn suspended from the neck, underneath the cloth ing, by a cord or thong passed through a small hole in the tag, the second tag to be suspended from the first one by a short piece of string or tape. "In the case of officers, the tags will be stamped with the name, rank, regiment, corps, or department of the ■Wearer and the letters "U. S.,' either In such form as 'U. S. Infantry,' 'U. S. Air Service, 'U. S. Tank Corps,' or simply the letters "U. S. A.' when an officer is not a member of an or ganization, corps, or department "In the case of soldiers, the tags will be stamped with the soldier's name and the letters 'U. S. A.' on one side and his army serial number on the other side. The stamping on tags previously issued will be al tered as practicable to conform with this order, "This is an added means of identi fication. AVIATOR IS MISSIXG Paris, July 24.—Sergeant Louis Leslie Byers, of Philadelphia, is miss ing, says the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune. Byers, who was one of tha thirteen remaining mem bers of the lafayette Escadrille, dls m appeared while on patrol duty. He, WEDNESDAY EVENING, GRAND LODGE OF K. OF P. FOUND IN GOOD CONDITION Delegates Send Resolution of Support to President Wilson The affairs of the State Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias are In flourishing condition. This Is the substance of reports presented this morning at the session of the grand lodge held In the Chestnut street auditorium. B. J. Gollier, grand chancellor, presided at the n^eetlng. Prominent among reports present ed was that of the endowment fund. James T. Howard, Braddock, Is treasurer of the fund. .During the past year $57,539.96 was the total amount collected. Of this amount $21,900 was paid out for death claims. The endowment fund la the Insurance department of the order. Other reports Included that of the grand medical director and Frank R. Stewart, Pittsburgh, grand attor ney. The reports were placed In the hands of a committee to be acted upon, after they received the ap proval of the convention. Plan New Fund A delegation from the Court of Calanthes, the wonuc's auxiliary of tho Knights of presented the movement of their organization to! establish a state endowment fund. It! appears that the woman's auxiliary i has a national endowment fund but no separate Btate fund. The order which is now meeting here In con- ■ vention, has passed a motion and of ficially approved the suggestion that the state court have Its own fund. The matter was passed by the grand lodge and financial and moral sup port pledged. The session of the Court of Cal anthe convened at 9.15 In the Odd Fellow's hall, Mrs. Sadie Jackson, of Braddock, grand worthy councilor, presiding. Her report was read. Rules were suspended and Mrs. Jackson was re-elected as head of the order. The report of the grand register of records showed that there are 1,041 members in the order of the state. The grand receiver of deposits re ported $867.77 received. There were 85 delegates present at the session. Special mention and praise was given in the grand lodge session to the Harrisburg delegates for ac curacy and courtesy in printing the report of the convention. Resolutions expressing the senti ment of the convention to the ef fect that the lynch law should be repealed in the United States, were passed at last night's meeting and a copy was forwarded to the Presi dent. The resolution follows: The Resolutions "To His Excellency, the President of the United States: "At the annual grand lodge meet ing of the Knights of Pythias of North America .South America, Eu rope, Asia, Africa and Australia, fo: the Jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, tho series of resolutions which appear below were adopted and by recom mendation a copy of same was di rected to be sent to your Excellency. "Whereas, it is reported in the public press that the President of the Unitpd States Is 'deeply con cerned by manifestation of mob spirit in widely separated parts of the land' and is thereby and by rea son thereof about to issue a state ment to his countrymen 'calling up on them to respect the restraints of law and order in dealing with those whom they suspect of being alien enemies within their midst,' "And whereas, the grand lodge is in full accord with such sentiment and believes that such sentiment should be national in its scope and tendency, "Therefore be it Resolved. That this grand lodge make known to thej President that its members will hail with delight any statement emanat ing from the White House calling upon the citizens of this country to i observe the law and to respect the restraints of law and order. "And whereas, four hundred mem bers of this organization in the State of Pennsylvania are now fight ing the country's battle in Franco, "And whereas, this organization has invested the sum of two thou sand dollars in Liberty Bonds of the first, second and third series, "Therefore be it Resolved, That while this grand lodge will heartily approve any expression of the Pres ident against mob violence toward alien enemies in this country, we also implore him to issue a statement ex pressing his disapproval of any mani festations of mob violence toward the negro citizens of this country. "Resolved further, that by reason of his manifestation of patriotism, his loyalty to his government, his devotion to his country's flag, and his determination to give up his life for his country whether at home or up on foreign soil, he is entitled to some word from the Chief Magistrate of the nation expressing his condemna tion of lynch law In any form meter out to members of the negro race in any section of this country. "Resolved, that this time above I all other times, when thousands of ' negro youths from every section of ' the country are freel yshedding their ! blood and laying down their lives to j uphold the traditions of their coun ! ti-y and to demand respect from ; their country's flag, whether on land ! or sea, they should be given the as- I surance by the government that their I mothers and fathers at home will I lie safe and secure against lynch law ! and mob violence. "Resolved, that we verily believe that should the President give ex pression to his disapproval of these wrongs perpetrated against tho r.egro race, it would create a senti ment against the mob spirit which, caught up and promulgated by the pulpit, press and platform should wipe out lynching as surely as slav ery was w}ped out in this country. "Resolved finally, that the time is now fully ripe for the President to put himself squarely on record be fore this country and before the world on the question of these bar barities againat this patriotic and lo yal people. When he shall life up his voice In this behalf then aga'n will "the morning stars sing togeth er and the sons of God shout for Joy." "Grand Lodge of Knights of Py thias of Pennsylvania, "B. G. COLLIER, "Grand Chancellor." ARRESTED AS ACCOMPLICE "Kid" Flowers was arrested yester day by officers accused of being a confederate with Theodore Williams, colored. In the theft of approximate ly S6O from Harry Shope, a farmer who lives near Middletown. The theft, Bhope charges, took place Mon day night. He charges that his pocketbook was stolen by Williams. Williams, authorities say, has con fessed to the theft and 1 Implicated "Kid" Flowers who Is also a gentle man of color. Flowers professes to be entirely innocent of the affair, the two dusk "bandits" have been held for hearing before Alderman E. j J. Hilton to-nlfht at 1.30. a J Must Have Hitched Him Up Backwards Raises Crop of Alfalfa in Volcanic Ashes Redding, Cal.—ln the memorable ash flow from Mount Lassen on May 20, 1915, the farm of Charles Haw kins, which is the farthest varying in depth from twelve to twenty-eight j and thirty inches. Thirty acres of al- | falfa were buried out of sight. Half j of this meadow, where the mud was twelve inches deep, was not destroy ed. In time next season the buried al falfa found It's way to the surface and sent out new roots. Hawkins cut a good crop of alfalfa there the sec ond year. He plowed the other fif teen acres, where his meadow was buried over a foot deep and reseeded it. Hawkins says that the best alf alfa crop in the valley will be har vested this summer from that portion of his meadow that was buried the deepest in volcanic ashes. Finds Office Boy of Ninety-five Efficient San Francisco The war has brought many strange and curious . changes. In Oakland there is a nine ty-five-year-old office boy. He's spry, neat and tidy, does his duties well, and hasn't yet offered the demise of his grandmother "gag" in order to get an afternoon off for the , ball game. I He works in the office of W. R. San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways. At one time the office boy j was a wealthy Oakland merchant, but reverses forced him to seek employ ment at his advanced age. "He is certainly the best office boy I ever had," remarked Alberger. "I am glad I have some one who I can keep and will not be drafted or leave to work in theshiipyards." Bounty on Coyotes Weeding Out Pests Davenport, Wash.—J. F. Hill, dep uty auditor, took in twenty-five coy otes for bounty In one morning of which number six were live puppies a fe wdays old. Nineteen coyotes were brought In by J. W. Robinson, of Edwall who dug the young from holds in the fields. The county is paying a bounty of |1.50 each in addition to the state bounty of sl. and the two fees are resulting in destruction of the pests by farmers and sportsmen. CARDINAL GIBBONS 84 Baltimore, July 24.—1n Carroll county, as lias been his custom for many years, Cardinal Gibbons yes terday celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday anniversary. The prelate is a guest at the home of B. F. Shrtver, Union Mills. MARINES CONSTRUCTING OFFICERS' DUGOUT United States Marine* constru cting a dugout Xor the commandin g officers In France. .ift 1 , HAILRISBURG QSSftE TELEGRAPH FORMER CZAR'S SON IS DEAD OF EXPOSURE By Associated Press Ajnstcrdum, July 24.—Alexis Romanoff, the former heir ap parent to the Russian throne, died from exposure a few days after his father, the former em peror, was executed, says a dis patch from Moscow to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. Up to July 19, more than 200 Social-Revolutionists of the Left j had been shot by the Bolsheviki ' for participation in the assassina- I tion of Ambassador Von Mirbach and in the counter revolution, the I German charge at Moscow has been informed by Foreign Minis- ] ter Tchitcherin, says a dispatch from Berlin. Among those shot, it is added, was Alexandrovitch, vice-presi dent of the committee which di rected the plot against the Ger man ambassador. An additional one hundred persons are under arrest. ALLIES HAMMER" GERMAN LINES [Continued from First Page.] the Americans still are hammering the flanks of the Crown Prince's army. The Germans are known to have brought up fresh support forces at some points, but the allies report the situation as favorable. More favorable weather conditions brought out droves of aircraft this morning. The day was an excellent one for observation and this is ex pected to change the character of the fighting •omewhat, especially with regard to the artillery. HtJ.V COUNTERATTACK IS EASILY REPULSED Paris. July 24.—Tha Germans last night delivered a counterattack upon the allied 'lines in the vicinity of Vrigny, five miles southwest of Rheims. The war office announced to-day that the attack had been re pulsed. There was great activity by the artillery during the night along the front between the Aisne and the Marne and northeast toward Rheims. FOCH NOW HOLDS INITIATIVE Parts, July 24,—Each day's oper. ations bring further proof of the completeness with which the genius of General Foch has turned the tables on the Germans. Instead of slowing down to a condition of what lias been called stabilization, as the freneral public from experience ex pected. the allies continue to push forward in the face of determined end skillful resistance by the Ger mans, who have had time to recover from the first shock of surprise. The enemy, according to reports, now has thirty-fiVe divisions In the battle zone, 400,000 men of which are in the region north of the Marne. In the opinion of military observers the violent German resist ance is due more to political consid i erations for it Is to the immediate j interests of General Ludendorff from a military standpoint to straighten out his line without delay. [ General Foch holds the initiative on all the battlefronts, and it is be lieved it will take the Germans at least two or three months to get up another full-dress offensive. Mean while, American troops continue to land. Pershing Reports Yankees in Pursuit of Retreating Huns South of the Ourcq By Associated Press Washington, July 24.—Continued pursuit of the retreating enemy south of the river Ourcq is reported In General Pershing's communique for yesterday received to-day at the War Department. The capture of posi tions north of the Marne also is re ported. The statement follows: "Section A—South of the Ourcq troops have continued to press the retreating enemy. Our units crossing the Marne have gained possession of Jaulgonne and the woods to the west. "Section B—ln Lorraine a hostile raiding party was repulsed by our troops during the night, July 22 to 23. "In the Thann sector on July 20, our troop i carried out a successful raid on the enemy's lines, capturing several prisoners. On the same day one of our patrols In the Sain Die sector entered a German trench and killed several of the enemy." Wilson's Plans to Aid Russia Await Japan By Associated Fress Washington, July 24.- —President Wilson has completed his pronounce ment as to the plans of the United States for participation in the expe dition to give military aid to Russia and It will be made public as soon as Japan'sc reply to the American proposals has been received. NOW IN OVERSEAS SERVICE C. H. Hlggins, special agent of i the Equitable Life Insurance So i clety, has just been advised of the > safe arrival In France of his son, ' Joseph F. Hlggins, with the Head : quarters Company, 304 th Sanitary ! Train, 79th Division. His only sis ■ ter, Miss Marie C. Higglns is a teach in the city schools. Helfferich, Former Hun Chancellor, Is to Succeed Mirbach as Russ Envoy London, July 24.—Dr. Karl Helf ferich, former German Imperial vice chancellor, has been appointed Ger many's diplomatic representative Moscow, according to a Reuter dis patch from Amsterdam. An Amsterdam dispatch to the wireless press says Dr. Helfferich will take with him two battalions of German troops to guard the German embassy at Moscow. CORONER'S JURY FIXES BLAME FOR ACCIDENT The Harrisburg Hallways Company I was blamed by the coroner's jury for the death of £. W. Fry, of Harris burg, who was killed in Mtddletown at Main and Catherine streets last Thursday, when the rails on a street car in going around a corner struck the wagon he was driving. The driver was thrown out and one of the rails fell upon him. PENNSY DECLARES DIVIDEVD By Associated Press • Philadelphia, July 24. —Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad to-day declared the regular quarterly divi dend of 1% per cent. TELLS OF "Y" WORK The war work of the Y. M. C. A. and the recruiting drive for "Y" secretaries was presented to about forty members of the University Club at their luncheon in the club rooms yesterday noon by Flavel Wright. The speech was one of a number to be made throughout the city. CITY TO STRUGGLE ALONG UGHTLESS [Continued from First Page.] Some evening this week the Dau phin county fuel administrator and Clark Dlehl, city electrician, will go over the street lighting system and determine what street lights can be eliminated. It is not likely that many of the street lights will be dimmed, Mr. Hlckok, fuel administrator, said, as the lightless night order will not be enforced to a degree that would effect public safety. Where cluster lights are employed one fro meach cluster may be elim inated. This is practically the only street lighting that will be affected by the order. On the Mulberry street bridge and one or two streets there is such cluster Illumination. The drastic order will be enforced to the limit to-night. Saloons will do business with fifty per cent, of their illumination cut off. The Mar ket street display signs will shine but two nights a week llereafter. Friday and Saturday the Harrisburg white way will run full blast, but the other five nights of the week Har risburg will look like a country town so far as dazzling display signs are concerned. The kaleidoscope dis play signs with their ever moving designs, and the theater signs that look like fountains and flower gar dens and the signs depicting every other conceivable shape and form, will be dark and fearsome. Display windows may not be light ed, entrance lights for theaters, at traction lights outside hotels, res taurants and cafes, and all non-es sential lights in business, will be darkened. Any proprietor wishing to have his place exempted must file a request with Mr. Hlckok, county fuel administrator. It is thought that few exemptions will be granted. SEASON'SXROPS BURNED IN STORM [Continued from First Page.] Hershey Industrial School, which is situated about fifty feet from the barn, declared this morning that the barn was a mafs of flames two minutes after the lightning flash. The barn was filled with hay and four wagon loads of wheat. Mr. Hershey purchased the barn a 'year ago and remodeled It. It was formerly the Kegerreis barn. The Hershey fire department was summoned *Ut owing to the fact that the only water available was from a well, the company was unable to do anything. The orphans from thei Hershey Industrial School who have been instructed in fire drills, filed out of the school home and aiding In putting water on the shingle roof of the school to prevent the flames from spreading. A high stone wall be tween the school and barn and the absence of wind prevented the flames from spreading to the school. The barn will be rebuilt, it was said here this morning. A shed owned by P. F. Duncan, of Duncan's Island, opposite Dun cannon, and more than seventy-five tons of newly cut hay were also destroyed last night when lightning struck the barn during the storm. HOUSING HERE AS BAD REPORTED [Continued from First Page.] the old houses were some of the practical results. Dr. Crampton, speaking of his crusade at that time, which occu pied much space in the newspapers, said to-day that many sections of the city, particularly the Seventh ward, where he has made personal investigations, are just as badly in need of attention as Sibletown ever was. "There are self-respecting col orede people—and white, too, for that mater who are forced to live in un sanitary dwellings and under con ditions that make for both disease and crime, and I am happy indeed to see the Telegraph taking a lead in the work of improvement. It is shameful, Indeed, that people who desire to live In truly homelike sur roundings must see careless land lords and careless neighbors main tain houses adjoining them that would disgrace even a New York slum. The good-thinking colored people of Harrisburg who know all too well the truth of what the Tele graph has been seting forth will, I know, heartily support the move ment." AUGUST DRAFT CALLS TO EQUAL JULY'S [Continued from First Page.] Vhere there is a question about phy sicial qualifications of men to have the medical boards examine them before certifiying to groups. County farm agents are ordered exempted on certificates from the Department of Agriculture. The 1,528 men to go to Camp For rest, Lytle, Ga„ are to be taken from the western part of the state and the quotas will be ready to-morrow. In order to facilitate communica tions orders have been issued to all local boards and others having of ficial business to address their tele grams and correspondence to Major Murdock hereafter instead of to state officials. j JULY 24, 1918. Latest War Summary By Associated Press In spite of desperate efforts of the Germans to bring up reserves and establish the lines on each side of the salient from Soissons to Rhelins, the allies appear to be pressing forward in vital sectors on the front south of Soissons and near Rheims. Following its policy of conserv atism, the French war office reports nothing but heavy artillery Are around the salient and the repulse of a German counterattack in the region of Vrigny, five miles south west of Rheims. Nothing is said as to progress against the increased German resistance north of the Marne, nor is there mention of the situation north of Montdidier, where on Tuesday morning the French | took positions dominating long reaches of the Avre river. Airmen Look For Retreat From unofficial sources it is re ported that the rainy weather of the past few days had slowed up the fighting between Soissons and Rheims, and probably also had re. tarded the German retirement from the bag in which the Crown Prince's forces were caught by General Man gin's thrust against the western side of the salient. Allied airmen re port conditions back of the German lines as indicative of a German re treat as far north as the Vesle river. The line of the Ourcq has been vir tually rendered untenable by the allies" advance to the neighborhood of Oulchy-Le-Chateau and Oulchy- Le-Ville, north of the Istream. Near Vital Point Just south of Soissons the French and Americans are known to have reached the western bank of the Crise river, but there have been no reports of a further advance in this vital region. Should the allies suc ceed in crossing the Crise in force and in gaining the plateaux to the eastward of that stream, German occupation of Soissons probahly would be short lived. Such an ad vance also would make the line of the Vesle of slight advantage to the Germans and probably would com pel their eventual retirement to the Aisne river. For this reason the allied efforts to forge eastward of Buzancy may be expected to be re doubled and the German resistance at this point probably would be of the sternest character. Allied pressure on the Rheims- Soissons salient maintains its pro gress against the Germans, who also are being hampered in their prepa rations for an eventual retirement by hurricanes, of shell from allied guns and hundreds of bombs dropped by allied airmen. Stubborn as is the resistance of the Germans at vital points, es pecially from the Ourcq along the Marne to the Ardre, the French, American and British continue to advance. Heavy artillery fire and hundreds of machine guns form the backbone of the German defense. This has tended to slow up the al lies, but has not stopped their prog ress. French Move Forward On the important sector astride the Ourcq the French have moved forward another kilometer toward the important German base of Fere-en-Tardenols. The town with its supplies of food and ammunition is now within six miles of the ad vancing French line. A great fire has been burning there for many hours. While the French progress toward Fere from the west, the French and Americans are gaining steadily from the south. Around Barblllon wood and toward the Marne the allies, in heavy fighting on rain-soaked fields, are pressing back the Germans who have attacked viciously but appar ently futily. Further east along the | Marne the bridgeheads on the north | ern bank are being enlarged by the French and Americans who have advanced two more miles between Mont St. Pere and Charteves. The Germans evidently have been driven entirely from the north bank ex cept at several points east of Dor ; mans. Allied Pressure Is 'Heavy ; Southwest of Rheims in the heav ily-wooded country along the Ardre, the British and Frenph pressure continues. An average advance of about two-thirds of a mile has been made on a limited front. The drive here is a corollary to the French pressure astride the Ourcq. The British have taken three hundred prisoners, making their total for three days 1,100. Fresh troops constantly are being thrown in by the Germans, appar ently only for the purpose of check ing the allied advance sufUpiently to permit the removal of large quan tities of stores and big guns from within the salient to a line par alleling the Vezle. The enemy is re ported to be removing his supplies as rapidly and as well as he is able, but the allied artillery fire and bombing activity is proving most harassing. Stores and ammunition dumps which cannot be moved are being fired. Aviators Busy American and British aviators are . aiding the French airmen in their raids and bombing expeditions in the zone behind the German lines. Thirty-seven machine guns were ac counted for Monday, while Berlin claims that fifty-three allied air planes were brought down. Since the fighting began July 15 the Germans are reported to have used between sixty and seventy di visions. Estimates from French headquarters place the German losses in that period at 180,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. In Picardy the Germans have failed to react against the French stroke northwest of Montdidier in which three towns and heights dom inating the Avre were taken from the enemy. Paris reports that the prisoners taken total 1.500. The French losses were said to have been slight On the other fighting fronts there has been no activity of importance. In Albania the French and Italians continue their progress up the Devoli valley toward Elbassan. In two days the French havq captured 600 prisoners. TO FIX DATES FOR SERVICE EXAMS Dates for examinations of appli cants for appointment as city patrol man and police .matron on the po lice force are to be fixed at a mett ' lng of the civil service board date this afternoon. To-day was the last day for filing applications, Clerk R. Ross Seaman acoeptlng them until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits have been issued as follows: Mahlon Evanc estate, George H. Sechrist., contractor, alte rations two-story brick building east Eide of Cameron, south of Mulberry street, $500; Samuel D. Ensingor. addition fiOO Race, $100; Moorhftarl Knitting Company, Haulman and Blouch, contractors, remodeling mrick building northwest corner cf , ..Cameron and Walnut etreeta, 1500, j "PETE" WRITES , VOICING WANTS OF "OUR BOYS" Letters, and Long Ones, Is the Cry From France of Harrisburg Lad Henry P. (Pete) EUts, formerly of 1921 Herr street, one of HarrlsburK's flrst draftees, is now In France bat tling: with the Hun. In a recent let ter to the Harrisburg Telegraph he says lhat the boys "over there" want many big, long letters. His letter to this paper follows: "X am in France with the Amer ican Expeditionary Forces. I was one of the flrst Haprisburg boys to be drafted and I formerly made my home at 1921 Herr street. My wife now lives at 1519 Wallace street. I have been a member of the Citizen File Company No. 3 since I was 18 years old. "I know Mr. Charles P. Meek, con nected with your newspaper, who is also a member of the Citizen com pany. I am better known In Har risburg as 'Pete' Ellis. "I believe the letter of Miss Bear trice Fairfax, which appeared In your paper on May 2, contains some sound advice. The letter follows: " The Soldier Friend " 'DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: " 'I am 17 and have a boy friend who enlisted in the Army about three months ago. Once a week there is a dance at the armory where it stationed. Would it be proper for me to attend this dance, escorted by him? I also meet many friends there I know. " 'Also, it it proper for me to ac cept a box of candy, call him up on tht> telephone and write to him fre quently when he sails for Prance, which he expects to do soon? " 'ELEANORE. " 'There certainly is nothing "im proper" about any of your sugges tions, and yet these very questions seem to puzzle any number of my girls. The discipline at the armory dances is splendid: there are gene - ally numerous fine, older women present—officers' wives, patron esses, members of the National League For Women Service, etc. Go to the dance, my dear, and have a happy time, giving also real enjoy ment to the lads who will soon cross the sea and be cut off from home and the innocent gayeties youth needs. Of course, you may accept such a gift as a box of candy—or flowers, or a little book, or anv small token your soldier can afford to send you. And every brave, sunshiny, friendly letter you write him will help keep up his courage and make him a better fighting man.* Boys Cry For letters ""When I went into camp hack home we boys used to say to each other that we would never he sent over here, but we were mistaken. There will he a lot more over here who are now at home. "I believe the girls and everybody else ought to make it as pleasant %. as they can for these boys, because, believe me, the .people back home do not know what entertainment means to us boys who are over here, and especially is entertainment needed when we are among the French people and do not know how to speak their language. "Tell the people in Harrisburg when they write to their boys over here to make their letters long and to write often. 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