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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1917
Page
1
London reports from June 13 and 18 detail air raids by German planes over the city and Essex. Casualties reach forty-nine dead and about two hundred injured, with schools struck and hospitals overwhelmed. Vice Admiral Sims narrowly escaped a bomb while touring the East End.
Paris June 13 Gordon Rand Yale 1912 of the American motor ambulance is recovering in the Red Cross hospital after a seriously wounding mission along a shelled road. Rand was decorated with the War Cross for bravery while carrying emergency dressings and completing a wounded transport before his own injury. Fishermen's bill up The fishermen's license bill passed on second reading in the House with no comment.
Generally cloudy tonight and Thursday with possible showers Thursday afternoon in Harrisburg area. Eastern Pennsylvania partly overcast with potential showers late Thursday. mild temperatures and southerly winds. River stage around 7.2 to 7.3 feet, with upper river falling tonight and lower portions rising briefly before Thursday.
Washington June 13 The Federal Trade Commission urged pooling of news print paper production and importation under a government agency for distribution to publishers at a fair price. It called for emergency legislation and sought Canadian cooperation to curb escalating costs and manufacturer profits.
Washington June 13 Officials amused by letters to the provost marshal general from wives mothers and sweethearts asking exemption now saw several from wives recommending their husbands be conscripted One woman said her husband did not want to go to war but had no good reason and tipped the War Department that it would be just as well to make a soldier of him
Copenhagen June 13 England faces less than two months of life, claims Herr Von Heydebrand in a Reichstag speech citing a German admiral who said Britain would be finished within two months. The assertion aims to rebut doubters of submarine warfare and warns against seeking a separate peace with Russia.
A new bill to prohibit the manufacture during the war of foodstuffs into distilled spirits and malt liquors was ordered reported by the Senate agriculture committee. It would empower the President to requisition existing distilled spirits to conserve food and secure alcohol for war, aiming at food conservation and wartime prohibition without replacing other pending bills.
General Pershing arrived in Boulogne and was welcomed by French officials and military leaders. Crowds cheered as British and French troops played The Star Spangled Banner and The Marsellaise. He toured Paris by motorcar before meeting correspondents and heading to an official dinner at the American Embassy.
Sunbury, Pa June 13 The Public Press Northumberland s only newspaper and a state weekly suspended with this week’s issue saying it was unsupported by the home people Publisher C W Gutelius started the paper and has worked for almost half a century Northumberland once touted as a town of opportunity built around a large railroad yards and commerce now lacks a local newspaper
Copenhagen June 18 Hamburg bids farewell to the noted chimes in St Nicholas and St Peter s churches expropriated under a general order seizing all German church bells to be melted into cannon. Crowds gathered as hymns were sung and organists played for the last time. The chimes total forty three and fifty bells and will yield about thirty tons of gun metal.
City wide tolling of firehouse bells will mark Mayors call to back Government loans. Bells chimes and sirens to echo Liberty bond support as banks report strong daily returns and local groups pledge funds. Firemen and clubs authorize bond purchases and fundraising efforts continue.
At a Pennsylvania Railroad directors meeting in Philadelphia R V Massey, superintendent of the New York division, was elected general superintendent to succeed the late George W Creighton. Headquarters will be at Altoona and he will lead the Eastern divisions. Leiper becomes superintendent of the New York division and Clement takes over the New York Philadelphia and Norfolk division.
Petrograd reports a split in Russian circles over President Wilsons note. Government-supporting papers hail a straightforward American diplomacy, while Socialist organs criticize high toned language and vague principles, questioning sincerity of anti imperialism rhetoric.
City Electrician Diehl aims for a joint use of the Postal Telegraph conduit with Western Union to remove overhead poles in Walnut street, Strawberry alley, and across the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge. The plan would relocate Western Union wires off poles and reduce visual clutter near the Penn Harris Hotel and Capitol Park area. Diehl presses for summer removal.
A Petrograd dispatch reports preliminary returns showing the Socialist Bloc winning in the Petrograd district for the municipal council. Universal suffrage for women was used for the first time in Russia. The Constitutional Democrats polled the second highest votes.
Petrograd report notes Zionist congress in Petrograd backed a plebiscite of all Israelites on Palestine. Results would guide a future congress to discuss a Hebrew culture center in Palestine during peacetime.
A Russian visitor at the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce luncheon said the Romanoffs and later the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs would lose power. A. J. Sack filled in for Boris E. Shatzky, arguing there is no chance of Russia seeking a separate peace with Germany. He stressed the revolution began in 1914, its goals for democracy, and widespread misreading of Russia in U.S. press.
New York June 13 A penitentiary sentence of eleven months and 29 days for not registering under the selective draft law was imposed by United States Judge Chatfield in Brooklyn on Herman P Levine a school teacher and college graduate This is the first prison sentence imposed for this offense as far as known here He had pleaded guilty Louis Kramer self confessed archist was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a $10000 fine for conspiracy to distribute anticonscription literature He also received a year in jail for failing to register He was convicted yesterday and the second today in a trial lasting a little over two hours
Charlestown West Virginia June 13 Be cause he placarded the town with posters showing a large picture of his wife and calling attention to her faults H I Moore was arrested and fined by Judge Burdelle in a municipal court After he paid his fine Moore was arrested again on the complaint of his wife In jail he said he could go there with perfect contentment as it could be no worse than his home He pasted the posters in public places claiming his wife planned his downfall and kept him from sleep for four months
Reports from Paris say the French liner Sequana of 5,557 tons was torpedoed by a German submarine. Of 550 passengers 190 men were lost, including Senegalese Rifles. Another ship, the Anglian of 5,532 tons, left Boston May 30 for Liverpool and was sunk. crew saved.
Paris reports the South Atlantic liner Sequana torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic with 190 deaths among 550 passengers. Noted aboard were a detachment of the Senegalese Rifles. The ship, once the City of Corinth, was owned by the South Atlantic Navigation Co of Paris, measuring 5,557 gross tons, 430 feet long, built in Belfast in 1898.
The Anglian, a 5532 ton British steamer once named Megantic, sailing from Boston to Liverpool, was torpedoed by a German submarine. Maritime officials confirmed crew safety but offered no location of the sinking. Ship and cargo valued at $2,000,000. Captain Lawrenson commanded on the last voyage.
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