One Blow Robs Hill Pitcher Of No Hit Record
In Allison Hill League action Rosewood crushed Galahad ten to zero. Joe Fellows spoiled Lefty Landis no hit bid with a center hit in the seventh. Rosewood rapped thirteen hits and committed five errors, Os Waltz piling up a double and a triple as Geary and Shafer contributed key plays.
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Hill
Britton
Leonard
Allison Hill
Landis
Rosewood
Galahad
Joe Fellows
Os” Waltz
Shafer
Gilbert
Wingard
Garverich
Os" Waltz
Harris
Os Waltz
Geary
Shay
Reading
Hick-A Thrift
Galahads AB
O. Waltz
Mell
Fellows
Foland
EB Killinger
Shickley
West Enders set for Waltz and Roy Wonder clash Saturday
West Enders prepare for the second game in a series with the engineers and Firemen Club, Saturday at 3 p m. The rail roaders may start Mo Eveler while West End will field Lars Waltz. West End improved the field and expects a strong turnout amid local rivalry.
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West End
Engineers and Firemen
Engineers
Railroaders
Mo” Eveler
Lars Waltz
Middletown Aviation
Baseball scores and today’s schedule rings changes
American League results show New York 9 Washington 0 Philadelphia 5 Boston 0 Cleveland 6 Chicago 5 Detroit 7 St Louis 5. National League Brooklyn 2 New York 1 in 13 innings Boston 3 Philadelphia 2 Chicago 1 Pittsburgh 0. Today Cleveland at Chicago Washington at New York Philadelphia at Boston Boston at Philadelphia New York at Brooklyn Cincinnati at St Louis Chicago at Pittsburgh.
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New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Boston
Cleveland
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Phillies
Pittsburgh
National League
Cincinnati
W. L. Pet
E Wees
New York Ee
National Tannese . Pet
Wee Wee
Wee
Peererees
Bethlehem Fans Send Off Schacht With Joyful Farewell
Bethlehem honors Al Schacht of Bethlehem Steel Company baseball with a lively sendoff at the Linden Hotel. Friends, teammates, and fans recall his early days, weigh his small stature at 122 to 130 pounds, and note Tesreau's expected arrival as Schacht heads to camp with a draft quota from Rochester New York.
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Bethlehem
al Schacht
Bethlehem Steel Company
Tom Keady
Linden Hotel
No Man's Land
Jim Murphy
Schacht
Steelton Club
Rochester
N. Y
Quaker City Maids Win First Tennis Championship
Two Philadelphia girls clinched the United States girls tennis title at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Dorothy Walker defeated Mary Heaton in the semifinals 6-8 6-0, while Katharine Porter beat Louise Dixon in straight sets. Eleanora Sears and Marion Zinderstein faced a tight match in singles and the doubles of Kerbaugh and Herold defeating Townsend and Thompson two sets to one.
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Philadelphia
Quaker City
United States
Philadelphia Cricket Club
Dorothy Walker
Mary Heaton
Greenwich
Miss Dixon
Eleanora Sears
Marion Zinderstein
Boston
Miss Zinderstein
Sears
H. I. Kerbaugh
Robert Herold
Anna Townsend
Rebecca Thompson
Kerbaugh
Herold
Four in net of law in trying to double $187 000
Four War and Navy Department employees and associates were indicted for attempting to duplicate a $187 000 bill from Morse Dry Dock for repairs to the vessel Canandaigua. The scheme allegedly involved Navy files and a confederate at the billing firm, with two test runs but no actual double payment. Indicted are Clyde C. Waltman, Charles R. Waltman, Benjamin W. Peake, and D Marvin Mowery.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Department of Justice
Clyde C. Waltman
Navy Department
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts
Charles R. Waltman
Victoria
Benjamin W. Peake
Fort Meigs
Berea
N. C
D. Marvin Mowery
Signal Corps Office
Lancaster
Test
Mowery
New York
Canandaigua
Altoona Railroaders Meet Big Leaguers of Steelton
Steelton plays Altoona shop workers in an exhibition before facing Wilmington on Saturday. Manager Cockill aims to have Jack Knight at first base for the home game. Wilmington boasts stars Joe Jackson Dumont Ray and the Williams Lynn battery from Chicago, shaping a strong league challenge.
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Wilmington
Steelton
Altoona
Cockill
Jack Knight
Joe Jackson
Chicago Americans
Charity
Dumont
Washington Ray
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago White Sox
Williams
Lynn
Aerial Operations Report and Juvenile Detention Update
The official aerial report says clouds limited flying but observers were made. German targets were damaged with fifteen Messerschmitts destroyed and five disabled. nine teens are missing. Bomber activity totaled nineteen tons as rain halted further flights. County officials appointed Miss Kate Runkle as assistant matron at the House of Detention, with Mr. and Mrs. D T Fackler in charge.
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Oy Associated Press
London
House of Detention
Kate Runkle
D. T. Fackler
Bonuses on War Work Cut Out of Naval Bill
Washington report notes the House rejected the Senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill that would pay bonuses to war workers. The 205 to 87 vote sent the measure back to conference amid union union threats of shop walkouts. Disputes also linger over ranks for Marine Corps generals.
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Washington
House
Senate
Padgett
Naval Affairs Committee
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Keating
Colorado
Marine Corps
Families of Soldiers at the Front Looked After by Red Cross Unit
The Harrisburg Red Cross Society home service aids soldiers families. Miss Helen Leib leads the unit assisting with delayed War Risk allotments, loans exceeding 1200 since the war began, and care for children of fallen service members. An assistant is being hired to handle growing duties.
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Red Cross
Harrisburg Red Cross Society
United States Soldiers and Sailors
Harrisburg
Heleen Leib
War Risk Bureau
Miss Leib
Department
Senate Urged to Strike Germany Through Austria
Senator Kenyon in the Senate urged dismemberment of Austria-Hungary to free Bohemia and other nationalities. He called Austria a failed state and said the United States should strike Austria from Northern Italy and the East, arguing many Austrian regiments are Czech-favoring. Senator Lewis urged organizing Slavs in Russia to aid the war effort.
Park poker arrests lead to jail for two men
Two Black men arrested Tuesday evening for playing poker in Twelfth Street Park were sentenced by the mayor in police court yesterday to ten days in jail after failing to pay their $10 fines.
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Twelfth Street
Bonniwell Signals Campaign Start By Wire In Pennsylvania
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell Democratic nominee for governor said he would “start something by wire” after the state Democratic rifts. He planned to address Reading firemen and meet four county firemen in Palmerton while remaining silent on campaign steps.
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Eugene C. Bonniwell
Reading
Palmerton
W. J. Brennen
Pittsburgh
George L. McLean
Washington
A. Mitchell Palmer
Joseph F. Guffey
McLean
Warren van Dyke
State Committee
Dan L. Hart
Wilkes-Barre
U S Eagles Overseas Scorn Vultures at Home
Bisbee Arizona June 20 Severely arraigning the Industrial Workers of the World and their sympathizers and announcing his intention to protect his friends Harry Wheeler former sheriff of Cochise county Arizona now a captain in the United States Army cabled from France yesterday accepting full responsibility for the deportation of I W W members from Bisbee last year Twenty one prominent men of Bisbee including Wheeler recently were indicted on charges growing out of the deportation The cable gram follows I wish my friends to know that I am anxious to protect them by again assuming all responsibility for the deportation Would do the same thing over again under some circumstances No traitors or I W W sympathizers over here only American soldiers My country needs me here but when I can be spared if still alive you will find me ready to go home and stand with my friends and fellow Americans to undergo any tribulation the politicians I W W sympathizers and other traitors can inflict Eagles in France feel only contempt for these vultures at home but do not fear them
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Bisbee
Ariz
Industrial Workers of the World
Harry Wheeler
Cochise County
Arizona
United States Army
France
Wheeler
Penland and Miss Gross Married in Lewistown Home
Honest H. Penland of Company F 3d Engineers Training Regiment at Camp Humphreys Va and Blanche B. Gross of 448 Swatara Street Steelton wed at the bride’s aunt Emma George Harshbarger’s Lewistown home. The Rev William Kinsey officiated. Penland has been living at 884 Pine Street until his military service ends and Blanche will stay with her aunt until his return.
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Lewistown Pa
Honest H. Penland
3D Engineers Training Regiment
Camp Humphreys
Blanche B. Gross
Swatara Street
Steelton
Emma George Harshbarger
Pine Street
Lewistown
William Kinsey
United Brethren Church
Penland
Marsh Run field trip planned by Harrisburg Natural History Society
The third section of the Harrisburg Natural History Society schedules a Saturday study trip to Marsh Run to observe local birds and flowers. Members depart the Pennsylvania railroad station at 11:65 a.m. and return by 6:51 p.m. from Marsh Run by train. Plenty of river coal reported at Liverpool with coal selling for 3 to 4 dollars per ton as diggers remain at work. The U S Civil Service Commission lists an exam for rural carriers in Cumberland County in Harrisburg on July 18 1918 with applications obtainable from the post office secretary.
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Marsh Run
Harrisburg Natural History Society
Pennsylvania Railroad
Liverpool
Susquehanna
United States Civil Service Commission
Cumberland County
Harrisburg
Meeting Postponed of Railroad War Relief Division
The meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad Woman's Division of War Relief has been postponed from this afternoon to next Thursday afternoon at 3. Plans in the D BR YX M A areas.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Woman's Division of War Relief
M.A
German Craft Still Blocked at Zeebrugge
London reports that twenty one German destroyers submarines and numerous auxiliary craft are penned up in Bruges Canal docks due to British naval operations at Zeebrugge. Admiralty financial secretary Thomas J. McNamara said the efforts were more successful than expected and the craft are under constant bombing. Dutch reports note Germans labor to clear the harbor entrance but British aviators nightly disrupt progress and cement ships remain, with Germans reluctant to blow them to avoid damage to sluices.
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London
Bruges Canal
Zeebrugge
Thomas J. McNamara
Admiralty
House of Commons
Amsterdam
George Coward
John Read
Royal Air Force
Zeeland
Hague
Telegraaf
Community Service to Mark Dedicatory Exercises Tonight
The Messiah Lutheran Church hosts a community service with Rev. Rollin A. Sawyer and Rev. Mr. Pierce delivering addresses during the dedicatory week. The program includes preludes, readings, prayers, anthems, solos, and multiple clergy addresses, concluding with postlude music and a positive outlook for the week.
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Mark
Messiah
Rollin A. Sawyer
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Mr. Pierce
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Messiah Lutheran Church
Ward
Ellis N. Krem‘er
Reformed Salem Church
George Edward Hawes
Market Square Presbyterian Church
John Gibson
Bethlehem Lutheran Church Choir
Jairus
E. A. Pyles
Fifth Street Methodist Church
L. S. Mudge
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Vidor
Lord Is
Light
West
Lee Izer
Israel
Eljah
Firemen Memorial Service and Parade at Sunbury
Sunbury Pa June 20 Sunbury Volunteer Firemen Association held its yearly memorial parade and service last night J William Stroh fire chief was marshal and the cavalcade which included municipal bodies and three bands of music passed over the principal streets to Pomfret Manor cemetery where an address was made by the Rev Charles K Gibson of Northumberland The firemen s graves were flower strewn A countermarch was made to Susquehanna Park where another service was held Major General Charles M Clement was the speaker there More than 1500 men were in line of march and 3000 persons witnessed the event
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Sunbury
Charles M. Clement Wos
Old Quilt With 400 Names Traces Local Residents
In Geter Pa the 31 year old gilt gift from Mrs. J Murray Smiley lists 400 names from East Berlin and surrounding towns. The quilt, made for church fairs in late 19th century, carries names of neighbors who contributed small sums to have their names sewn in.
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Geter Eure Pa
Milton R. Remmel
J. Murray Smiley
York
East Berlin
Italy’s wartime diplomacy saved the British fleet
At a Rotary Club luncheon in Philadelphia June 20, former U S minister William Potter recounted Italian actions that aided the Allies in World War I. He cited August 1913 and July 1914 refusals to support Austria, Italy’s 1914 frontiers assurances, and May 1915 Lusitania era disclosures, claiming Italy fought to the last man and aided France’s Marne defense.
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Philadelphia
Adelphia
Rotary Club
William Potter
Pennsylvania
United States
Italy
Potter
Washington
Austria
Serbia
Germany
England
Channel
France
Marne
Eight More Join Class in Army Signal Work
Eight more men have joined the radio class at Technical High School for draft age men under J. W. Smith. Enrollment reaches twenty nine. Enrollment extended until tomorrow evening. The carpentry class was dropped due to insufficient enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Technical High School
J. W. Smith
Gas Masks Are Effective Denied by Pershing
Washington June 20 The War Department announced that General Pershing denied reports from France that American gas masks have failed against mustard gas attacks. The statement clarifies the effectiveness of protective equipment used by U S troops amid ongoing gas warfare concerns.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
General Pershing
France
Ladies' Aid rummage sale at Camp Curtin church
The Ladies' Aid Society of Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a rummage sale on Friday and Saturday in the vacant storeroom at Broad and Fulton streets all day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society
Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
Broad and
Fulton Streets
U S Order to Build Only Needed Roads
Washington reports the national council of defense urged directing highway construction and maintenance to roads of prime economic and military importance. Federal material controls will follow this policy, preferring local materials to save rail transport and avoid bond issues. Important highways should be maintained and built if vital to the war, including those supporting military establishments, war material flows, and food production connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Council of Defense
Deene
Houeon
National Council
Freshman Rosezell Standford Tops Grammar School Record
Miss Rosezell E Standford of 1431 Susquehanna Street will join Central High School as a freshman. She earned 100 percent in all but one subject last term, where she scored 99 percent, marking an exceptional academic record.
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Rosezell E. Standford
Susquehanna Street
Central High School
Deaths at Summit Branch colliery ruled accidental
Coroner J A Eckinger declared the miners deaths in the cavern at Summit Branch colliery accidental after an inquest held yesterday.
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Summit Branch
J. A. Eckinger
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Seers
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Roy Wonder
Cluett, Peabody & CO
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West Enola Land Co
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Quaker City Maids
Norcross
Norcross” Schell’s
ALITY
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Steel League
Jeff" Tesreau
Bethlehem Club
John B. Foster
McGraw
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Putty” Lynch
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Town
Congress
Turkey
Berlin
Vienna
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Market Sq
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