THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. I m r 1 1 i icture Reader: E in This Dopartmont Our Readers In Fulton County and'Elsowhore Mayjourn. Four -of Moreni's Crew Their Lives. Lose Around the World With the C a mora on the Trail of History Making Happenings. i TWO WILL DIE OF WOUNDS LEAVING THE TORPEDOED SONTAY AS SHE SANK . ... scvCT Foa Lauds Captain For His Gamt Fight British Merchant Cruiser and Five Norse Shlpe Are Destroyed. 11 TANKER AND U-BOAT BATTLE 1, i . if.pMrj 1 l-Juliu Spargo, proiiilniuit American Sorlullst, who 1ms resigned from Uio Socialist party because ho believes It Is foniiUltil t' a program nun is un-American mm pro-uerimin. s rrencn civilians neing pirttl to (iermnny, from their phuKmpli titkt-n by n German officer. 3 Interned Oorinun sailors from the vessels seized at IIiUalilii taking dr niiirnlns walk at Tort Mcpherson, Gcorglu. 4 Naval lteservc gunners on tlit volunteer submarine chaser Lynx, otHc-iI by Nuibniili'l Ayer of Boston, anil being used In a recruiting campaign ulong the New England coast. AUSTRIAN CITY THREATENED BY ITALIANS n It & f rlftK 'iMsvUil i. , , mL... L-viprr- i I'M" : - 1 jjli'-'iulvi iii' Italian army Is only a few miles from the great Austrian naval base at Trieste. The photograph Ihow ii iiiiniiraiiia of Trieste and was taken from Miramiir, the home of the Archduke Maximilian, afterward em f Mexii n. In ihc foreground running along the shore Is the important rallrond connecting Trieste with Venice, th y'iizo mill Vienna. At the foot of the hill Is one of the fortifications. In the middle distance is shown the break at harbor nml main part of the city. In the background, fronting the bay, Is Servola, the site of Austrlu's great naval sbip liiiilding yard. MISS RANKIN PLANTS TWO TREES 6 iji Hfc . Sinriiin7 v. if Lii" fnrrw tuM, . ..... .y. . .MVJ,..:.:.:. . ,.v. -j... .. :y rtioHcultii'r "t' liui'vlu of Montnna, our only congresswomnn, r" iuiIut '"r ll!,t of nwompllshments. With the nld of ; --nat'ivw i-S' " .fuw C0,,Rres'"en, a handful of Bpectators nni native tr i , -"irc!KHuen, a nanuiui oi Hpeciaiors nnu h imir oi ! jJimiPii Hnnkln ndded to the landscape on the cupltol grounds, has added three movie and a pair of , BATTLESHIP PENNSYLVANIA IN ACTION 1- s NOT LOST IN THE ARCTIC f s5 k - --Ji Donald B. McMillan who, It is re ported, has been picked up after four yenrt la the Arctic searching for Crocker land which Hear Admiral Peary thought he had discovered sev eral years ago. McMillan and his party wer sent Into tho North in 1013 by the American Museum of Natural His tory, equipped for a four years' stay. In ISIS the George B. Cluett was sent tip as a relief ship, but returned after an unsuccessful search for the party. Last year the Denmark was sent up from Greenland, and after wintering In North Star bay found Doctor McMil lan and his party. Hit Own Record. "Bank saved that woman's life from the undertow, and then she married him." "Yes, nml she found out that she was all he ever did save." vfrt-rirtW aViiY-WfTr friirrrfiifiiTi irmniMiii'M'i'y'm lt-murknble photograph showing the passengers and crew of tho French liner Sontny taking to the lifeboats after tho vessel had been torpedoed by n (lermiin submarine In the Mediterranean. The captain and 44 others perished. KING GEORGE VISITS AMERICAN WARSHIP rtYiffiW. Milii"1lmi i King George of Great Britain greeted the United States destroyers on their arrival In British waters nnd went aboard several of the vessels. The photograph shows him Inspecting one of the big giins. pres.deW inIavana" Gen. Mario Menocal was re-Inaugurated as president of Cuba with considerable ceremony. The Illustration shows the inaugural parade on the famous Mulecon i i Havana, and, nt the right, President Menocal and mom- bers of his cabinet reviewing the procession. COM. VAN DE CARR )L l - . A. mf fa Among the promising young officers of the American navy Is Commander J. C. Van do Carr, In command of Sub marine division 0. GERMAN WAR PRISONERS PUT TO WORK fey Awl ivhrf i- V- , German prisoners of war nt the Toulouse arsenal carrying material fot the making of ammunition cases. Washington. American naval gun. ners have met their first defeat In open fight with a German submarine. Official .dispatches announced the de struction of the tank steamship Morenl, abandoned ablaze June 12 by her crew and armed guard after a desperate running fight In the war zone, which cost the lives of four of her crew. Picked Up In Half Hour. Half an hour after the tanker had been sent to the bottom her 43 sur vivors, Including all of the members of the armed guard, were picked up with their lifeboats by a passing steamer. The German commander had set them adrift after congratulating the American skipper upon his game fight and having the woundPd men treated by the submarine's surgeon. The submarine began the action at a range of 8,000 yards, four nautical miles, when she hardly was visible to tiie steamer without Rlassea. Pre senting virtually no turget herself, son sent 200 shells at the big tanker, mak ing many hits, while the American gunners wasted 150 shots without harming the speck from which tho deadly hail came. German Courtesy Commented On. Naval officers assume that the sub marine was armed with the six-Inch rilles mounted by most of the newest undersea boats. No statement was available as to the armament of the Morenl, nor as to whether she was one of the vessels that sailed without waiting for full equipment. Including a range Under. The failure of the gun ners to get the submarine was at tributed generally to the long range and small target. British Cruiser Sent Down. London. The British armed mer chant cruiser Avenger was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea on Wed nesday night. All but one were saved. The sinking of five more Nor wegian vessels with considerable loss of life Is reported by the Norwegian Foreign Office as quoted In a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen. Eight French Ships Sunk. Paris. Four French ships of more than 1,600 tons, one under that size and three fishing boats were sunk by mine or submarines during tho week ending June 14. Six ships were un successfully attacked during the same period, while 1,034 vessels of all nations entered Frenrh ports and 1.015 left. PLANS TO DOMINATE AIR. Aircraft Board Expects U. S. To Turn Scales In War. Washington. A program of aircraft production through which it Is hoped to dominate the fighting lines of Eu rope within a year has been worked out by the Aircraft Production Board of the Defense Council, and will be submitted to Congress soon with a re quest for a large appropriation to carry In Into effect. Howard Coffin, chairman of the board, stated that although details would not be revealed now, the plan was so comprehensive that he was sure Congress would approve It quick ly. For weeks Mr. Coffin has been In conference with the country's leading aircraft and material makers and tho plan he will submit Is believed to have the approval of all the interests which will do the actual construction work. SILVER AND LEAD GOING UP. Lessened Production and War De mands Given As Cause. Now York. War demands, which long ago virtually swept the market bare of spot copper, are rapidly diminishing the market supplies of sil ver and lead. Bar silver rose to 77 cents an ounce, an advance of 2 1-8 cents over the price of the early part of the month and within 2 cents of tho extreme price of last February. Quotations for lead varied, some pro ducers asking 12 1-2 cents a pound, the highest price for 30 years, although 11 cents was quoted by the more ex tensive dealers. NAVAL BASE FIGHT WON. House Accepts Amendment For James town Site Purchase. Washington. The Administration's fight for the establishment of a great naval base in tho Lower Chesapeake Bay was won when the House accept ed an entirely new amendment to the $3.500,000,0O War Budget bill provid ing for the acquisition of the James town Exposition and Pine Beach properties. RECRUITING MINISTERS. Pittsburgh Presbytery Wants Them To Serve As Chaplains. Pittsburgh. A special committee of ministers of the Pittsburgh Tresby tery, the largest unit of tho Presby terian Church in the United States, are "recruiting" a largo number of ministers to serve as chaplains in the army camps to be established through out the country. When ho was between 32 and 34 Wiiltnlan wrote "Leaves of Grasa." r ; ' ' h : : i 4 i ' it . it- ? ii
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