Harrisburg Men Swell U S War Service Totals Rise
Harrisburg girds for wartime mobilization as about 2 550 city men serve in the Army and 80 in the Navy with 100 more Marines. Drafts will send 254 to joining contingents, lifting total to approximately 2 800 through city boards and reserves.
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Harrisburg
Land Service
Pennsylvania National Guard
Adjutant General's Office
Keystone Division
France
Navy
Naval
Marines
Stockyards Enter Federal License Scheme Under New Order
President Wilson ordered all stockyards in the United States to operate under Federal license. A proclamation requires licenses from the food administration by July 25, extending to commission men order buyers traders speculators and scalpers dealing in live cattle sheep swine or goats in or related to stockyards unless exempted by the food and fuel law.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Wilson
Food Administration
Food and Fuel
Weather Summary For Harrisburg Area Friday Warm Trend
For Harris and vicinity a warmer Friday with fair to-night. Eastern Pennsylvania sees fair cool-to-night conditions and warmer Friday. The Susquehanna River and its branches fall slowly with a stage near 4.0 feet Friday morning. Temperature at 5 am 64, high 80, mean 66, normal 71, full moon June 24.
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Harris and
Conti
Ausylvania
Susquehanna
Harrisburg
Riots and unrest sweep Vienna and Kiev amid bread protest
Reports from London and Washington describe Vienna rioting over bread rations with crowds attacking the premier’s residence and the Hofburg. Cavalry sent to restore order and martial law expected. In Kiev a great peasant revolt expands from the Poltava and Chernihiv districts with about forty thousand armed peasants involved, as Moscow reports street fighting and artillery stores exploding.
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London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Hofburg
Noted Italian Officer to Speak For Red Cross at Regent Theater
Italian Ambassador sends Lieutenant Colonel Americo Pio to Harrisburg Sunday June 23 to speak for the Red Cross at the Regent Theater. Mayor Keister and a local Italian committee will receive him. address in Italian at 2 30 p m covers his French and Italian front experiences and injuries.
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Red Cross
Regent Theater
Lyman D. Gilbert
Peter Magaro
Americo Pio
Harrisburg
Pio
Mayor Keister
M. Acri
Joe Parelli
William Cozzoli
Russ Serve Notice on Berlin Hun Aggression in Ukraine Must Cease
Moscow, Friday, June 7. The Russian government states in response to Ambassador Joffe’s protest at Berlin over German aggression in Ukraine and the Don territory, the attempt to seize the Russian Black Sea fleet and Arctic submarine campaign. It says Germany has been notified that the Soviet government will accept a commission to adjust all disputed questions, but Germany is urged to cease hostilities pending the commission, otherwise nothing can be accomplished.
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Kiev
Moscow
Exchange Telegraph Company
Poltava
Tchernigoy
Black Sea
Germany
M. Maximoloff
M. Joffe
Berlin
Lublin
Russia
Associated Press
Joffe
Ukraine
Don
Arctic
Kaiser Allies Seek Food Aid Amid Bread Cut Uproar
SENNA dispatches report in Amsterdam on June 20 that Austrian Hungary newspapers rally against the bread ration reduction. They protest the measure and call for immediate relief from Germany and Hungary.
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Amsterdam
SENNA
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Hungary
Hunger Drives Austrians into Battle in Italy
Italian Army Headquarters reports a hunger offensive by Austria against Italy. Orders and prisoner accounts describe aims to seize food stocks and wine, with prisoners saying they endured a brutal winter and scant rations. Army steps up offensive as Austrians in front lines initially received three meat rations per day, already consumed.
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Washington
Austria
Italy
Vienna
Zurich
Arbiter Zeitung
The
Zeitung
Conrad von Hoetzendorf
Archduke Charles
City Promised Removal of All Poles at Once
City officials assure that once arrangements are completed all poles in the business district and along Derry Street to Twenty ninth Street will be removed. Western Union awaits final steps while American Telephone has yet to reply. Harrisburg Light and Power still must remove nineteen poles in a restricted district or obtain a temporary permit if underground wiring is delayed.
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City
Clark E. Diehl
Western Union Telegraph Company
Derry Street
Twenty-ninth Street
Dieh
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
Walnut Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Penn-Harris
Capitol Park
Diehl
Harrisburg Light and Power, Company
Senate Agriculture Committee Postpones Prohibition Vote
Washington June 20 Senate Agriculture Committee postponed its meeting to act on the Jones prohibition amendment to the emergency agricultural bill until tomorrow due to other business. David Dunavan of Middletown died at Harrisburg Hospital at 5 p m from typhoid fever.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
David Dunavan
Middletown
Harrisburg
Americans Push Forward for Big Gains in France
Washington reports successful bombing of German railroad yards at Conflans and artillery activity at multiple points. American troops on the Marne attack northwest of Chateau Thierry, advancing 5 1/2 miles and driving Germans from a Belleau Wood pocket. Germans retreat with material. no prisoners taken. One small salient remains in Belleau Wood.
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Washington
Conflans
General Pershing
Woevre
Marne
Chateau Thierry
Belleau Wood
Belieau Wood
Upper End Board Selects 23 Men For the Army
Dauphin county men from Elizabethville Millersburg Lykens Halifax Williamsport and Williams Town are chosen to join Camp Lee Virginia. They report to the Elizabethville draft board Monday at 4 30 pm and will board the 3 39 pm train Tuesday for training camp. Names include Edwin Bechtel James Tschopp Ed win Mester Robert Seal Bruce Morris Charles Shadle Wil Maan Lightner Earl Williams Harry Hoover Allen Lentz Lloyd Mack Chauncey Saliday Lawrence Romberger Lee Zeigler Aloysius Mellen George James and Francis Sholley.
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Elizabeth
Dauphin County Rd No
Camp Lee
Elizabethville
Edwin Bechtel
James A. Tschopp
Millersburg
Edwin Mester
Lykens
Robert Seal
Bruce Morris
Charles Shadle
Wil- Maan Lightner
Williamstown
Earl Williams
Harry A. Hoover
Halifax
Allen H. Lentz
Lloyd Mack
Chauncey Saliday
Hegins
Lawrence Romberger
Lee Zeigler
Aloysius Mellen
George James
Francis Sholley
Sinn Feiners Not To Be Prosectued In Treason Case
London June 20 Edward Shortt chief secretary for Ireland told the House of Commons there is enough evidence against the Sinn Feiners recently arrested to prosecute for treason but it is not desirable or necessary to institute it.
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SINN
Allies Ready to Meet Next Hun Offensive
Paris June 20 Premier Clemenceau told the parliamentary army commission the American military effort is steadily reinforcing France with large numbers of troops. He cited British measures for the next offensive and Paris defense. Leon Abrams detailed Entente strength, boosting the commission's confidence as American forces near numerical parity with the enemy.
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Associated Press
Paris
Parliamentary Army Commission
Clemenceau
France
Leon Abrams
War Department
L'Homme Libre
French Troops Penetrate German Lines Take Prisoners
Paris reports that French detachments entered German lines between Montdidier and the Oise near Chaume wood last night, taking twenty prisoners. The rest of the front saw no notable action and was quiet.
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Paris
Montdidier
Oise River
Oise
Chaume Wood
Austria cannot avoid defeat say France
Paris reports the French press credit Italian and Franco British resistance with forcing Austrian defeat. A Rome dispatch notes Italy's double victory including an Adriatic naval success and Austrians checked. The Echo de Paris says Von Hindenburg urged Austrian divisions to the French front, but Conrad von Ketzendorff and Emperor Charles supported an offensive against Italy, a view the German high command eventually accepted.
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Associated Press
Paris
Navas
Rome
Italy
Adriatic
Echo de Paris
von Hindenburg
Speed Enables Big Passenger Ship to Escape
An American steamer arriving from Central America reports sighting a submarine about 180 to 200 miles south of Sandy Hook yesterday. The captain said he went to full speed, zigzagged, and escaped the U-boat with 57 passengers aboard. This marks the first northward raider sighting since late May off the Jersey coast. A second Gulf Port report says a coastwise passenger steamer encountered a German submarine off South Carolina last Saturday and escaped due to speed.
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Atlantic
Central America
Sandy Hook
Jersey
Gulf
South Carolina
Countess de Bryas to Speak on Conditions in France
Countess de Bryas arrives in Harrisburg to discuss French conditions under the American Committee for Devastated France. She will report on relief work under French military authority, outline plans for centers in Somme and Alsace, and speak at factories, Red Cross auxiliaries, and a mass meeting at the Civic Club.
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American Committee
France
Countess de Bryas
Harrisburg
Somme
Alsace
Madame de Bryns
Red Cross
Committee On Public Information
Women Plan Big Patriotic Fourth Parade March
Dauphin county branch of the Woman's Council of National Defense meets at the Civic Club to coordinate a citywide Fourth of July parade. President Wilson's call prompts all clubwomen to participate with banners and U S flags. A follow up planning session is set for June 27 at 10 30 am.
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Wilson
Dauphin County
Woman's Council of National Defense
Civic Club
John W. Reily
United States
Defeat of Crown Prince at Rheims Seen As Allied Hope
The German army’s setback before Rheims is hailed by morning papers as strong evidence of Crown Prince’s army fatigue and Allied momentum. Havas notes praise the defenders artillery barrages, infantry resilience, and the successful counterattacks led by General Gouraud, signaling potential endurance for future operations.
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Rheims
Paris
Havas
Coarial
Gouraud
Italians Gain Air Superiority Along Piave Front
Italian army dispatch reports that Austrian hunger offensive failed along the Piave. Austrians made no gains beyond front line posts retaken by Italian fire. Italians dominate the air with no Austrian planes aloft. prisoners indicate Austrians short on food. London reports Italians retaken Sile and territory between Zenson and Fossetta canal, confining Austro-Hungarians west of the Piave.
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Associated Press
Piave
London
Cape Sile
Piave River
Zenson
Fossetta Canal
Fossetta
Sile
British raiding parties clash across front sectors
London reports British raiding parties active in front sectors last night. In operations near Boyelles Lens Givenchy Strazeele and Ypres zones, fighting was sharp. The war office says eighteen prisoners and three machine guns were captured as Germans suffered many casualties.
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Associated Press
London
War Office
Boyelles
Arras
Lens
Givenchy
Strazeele
Ypres
Flanders
Penbrook Lad Wounded Fighting in France
Warren P. Mummert of Penbrook was severely wounded in France, listed among Army casualties. A member of the 12th United States Field Artillery, he enlisted in April 1917 and has been in France since January. His brother also serves in the Army abroad.
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Penbrook
Warren P. Mummert
12Th
United States Field Artillery
Mummert
France
Warren Mummert
Italian Troops Hold Line As Austrian Offensive Falters
Realization that the Austrian offensive has failed spurs desperate Italian resistance along the Piave. Heavy fighting continues around the Montello plateau and near San Dona di Piave as Italians repulse enemy debouching attempts and notch prisoners, while Vienna claims canal crossings and Rome reports repulses.
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Montello
San Dona di Piave
Venice
Cape Sile
Fossetta
Mestre
Vienna
Meolo
Rome
Germany fails Witt's food promise shocks Vienna council
An official Vienna city council statement reports eight days of German arrears in promised food for Austrian civilians. It claims German ammunition unreliability and cites destroyed lanes since January 1, questioning wartime supply assurances. An exchange of prisoners with the Huns has failed.
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Vienna
Ooster- Sp
Yoseal
Beruin Zeitung
Mittag
Germany
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