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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Friday, August 9, 1918

Appleby, Y Man, Gassed; Coxeter Among Wounded; Harrisburg Boy is 
Missing

GEORGE M. APPLEBY, ROBERT T. COXETER [photos]

  News of the gassing of George M. Appleby, the first Y. M. C. A. war 
worker to be sent from this city to France, was received here today in 
a letter to his brother, John W. Appleby, 9 North Fourteenth street, 
and tidings also reached here that Robert L. Coxeter, 72 North 
Seventeenth street, a member of Company I, 112th Regiment, which 
formerly was the 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, was wounded 
in action at the front.
  The official casualty list today stated that John A. Beaver, 2032 
Fulton street, Harrisburg, was missing in action July 15.
  Beaver enlisted on April 4 and was sent to Camp Meade.  He sailed May 
20 with the 109th Infantry.  Mrs. Ella Beaver, his mother, had a letter 
from him last Monday.  The letter was dated July 25 and in it Beaver 
said "living good and well and happy.  France is a great place, 
mother."  Mrs. Beaver received an official telegram from the War 
Department today containing the news of his disappearance.
  The gassing of Appleby, who is a member of the firm of Appleby 
Brothers & Whittaker, wholesale dealers in plumbing and steam heating 
supplies, 216 South Second street, was due to his insistence upon being 
sent right up to the frontline trenches while heavy fighting was on.
  Appleby, who is a member of the Engineers' Club, of this city, was 
assigned to duty with an engineering regiment when he first arrived in 
France, shortly after January 1, and for a while was with that unit 
which was doing construction work.
  It was his ambition, however, that he be sent right into the thickest 
of the fighting and he made a special appeal to be assigned to "Y" work 
in the trenches.  His request was granted.  He performed his duties 
heroically in a village that was under bombardment for days, and 
finally was caught in a Hun attack and gassed.  He is now in a hospital 
in France and there is strong hope for his recovery.
  Word of the wounding of Coxeter was received by his mother, Mrs. 
Belle Coxeter, widow of Henry Coxeter, at her North Seventeenth street 
home.  This casualty had not been mentioned in the official list from 
Washington up to noon.  The dispatch Mrs. Coxeter received was brief, 
containing no detail save that he was wounded in action.
  Coxeter, according to letters recently received from him, had been 
serving as a corporal of scouts.  Before he entered the military 
service  ___  vania Railroad Company in this city. [note: I think a 
line is missing there ___.]

HARRY M. BRETZ LIABILITIES PUT AT $112,500 AND ASSETS $109,810 

  The schedule of assets and liabilities of Harry M. Bretz, lawyer and 
school director, who is under bail for appearance in criminal court on 
a charge of embezzlement, was this morning filed with John T. Olmsted, 
referee in bankruptcy of Dauphin County, after numerous postponements, 
and shows liabilities in excess of assets.  The liabilities may be 
regarded as amounting to approximately $112,520, after allowances are 
made for the fact that Harry Bretz is joint maker with his two brothers 
on notes included among his liabilities.  The amount of the assets, 
asset forth in the schedule, is $109,810, exclusive of a $5000 life 
insurance policy made out in the name of the estate.
  The assets listed in the schedule are:  Real estate, $95,750; third 
interest in stock of Bretz Brothers' hardware store, $5000; horses and 
stock on farm, $4000; machinery and tools on farm, $1000; money owing 
$2300; investments in stocks, $1760; life insurance, at maturity, 
$5000.
  The liabilities are:  Secured claims, $53,200; unsecured claims, 
(including notes on which Harry Bretz is joint maker, and the amount of 
which, according to the referee, must accordingly be reduced by about 
$18,000) $81,320.03.  There is a total of $2745 in contingent 
liability, represented by notes payable by other parties.
  The schedule of Charles E. Bretz, the brother, who had not yet filed 
his statement, was also turned in this morning, and shows liabilities 
of $27,777 and assets of $22,075.
  The assets are listed as follows:  Real estate, $16,750; interest in 
stock of Bretz Brothers, $5000; investment in stocks, $325.  
Liabilities include, secured claims, $13,900, and unsecured claims, 
$31,877.58, to be reduced by $18,000, the amount for which the other 
two brothers are liable.  Notes representing contingent liabilities 
amount to $595.
  Referee Olmsted this morning sent out notices to all creditors of 
Bretz Brothers, as a firm, and of the three brothers, as individuals, 
to meet in the Federal courtroom in the Postoffice Building at 2 
o'clock on Monday afternoon, August 19, to investigate the bankrupts 
and appoint a trustee or trustees.  There may be one trustee for all 
four cases, or a separate one to settle each. 

THE THIRD VICTIM OF HEAT-CRAZED MOTHER'S PISTOL CLOSE TO DEATH

     Special to The Evening News
  GRATZ, Aug. 9. - After killing her two-year-old son and fatally 
injuring her other son, four years old, Mrs. Vesta Umholtz, 22, of this 
place, yesterday threw herself on her bed and blew her brains out.  The 
flash from the .38 calibre revolver set fire to the bed covers and the 
left arm and chest of the woman was burned to a crisp.  The fire burned 
itself out without igniting the house.
  The infanticide and suicide were the direct cause of the intense 
heat, according to Dr. G. M. Schminky who said today that he believes 
the woman was not responsible for her acts at the time.  He said he 
knew nothing of any family trouble, although there was a report that 
the woman and her husband, John Umholtz, had had some little 
differences.
     Uses Five Bullets
  Mrs. Umholtz used five bullets in her efforts to wipe out the greater 
portion of her little family.  The tragedy occurred late in the 
afternoon.  She emptied two of the chambers of the weapon into the 
chest of Gilbert Umholtz, her youngest child, and then put two more 
bullets through the body of the other child, John.
  After the woman had shot the small boys, she threw herself on her bed 
and, placing the revolver in her mouth, pulled the trigger.  A hole 
through the rough of her mouth tells the tale of her end, and she never 
knew of the fire that resulted.
     Husband's Gruesome find
  When John Umholtz, the husband, got home at 4.30 o'clock he went 
upstairs when he saw none of his family about.  He found his bedroom 
door locked.  He smelt the smouldering bed covers and broke into the 
room.  Both children were then alive.  Gilbert died within an hour 
after Dr. Schminky was called.  The older boy was unconscious and in 
such a critical condition that the physician advised against his 
removal to a hospital.  The child's death is expected at any time.
  Coroner Eckinger was notified by the telephone of the tragedy and 
came here last night and made an investigation.  The evidence that the 
mother, herself, had committed the crime, was apparent, and he decided 
an inquest was not necessary.  Arrangements for the double and possibly 
triple funeral will be made today. 

Boy Is Under Bail for Fatal Shooting

     Special to The Evening News
  NEW BLOOMFIELD, Aug. 9 - Arrested today and brought here, on the 
charge of shooting and instantly killing J. Franklin Tippery, of 
Harrisburg, John Skane, also of Harrisburg, is being held under $1000 
bail.
  The shooting occurred at Losh's Run on July 27.  The charge against 
the Harrisburg boy is voluntary manslaughter. 

Pennsylvania Toll In Battle Is 200; Many Are Missing

  Pennsylvania again has been hard hit by the fighting in France, 
according to the casualty list - containing 520 names - made public 
today.
  More than 200 boys from this State, including one Harrisburger, were 
named.  Advices in this city from other sources, however, told of the 
gassing of George M. Appleby, the first local Y. M. C. A. worker to 
have gone to France, and of the wounding of Robert T. Coxeter, also of 
this city.  John A. Beaver is the local man named in today's casualty 
report as missing in action.
  Once again, the majority of the names of Pennsylvanians appearing on 
the list are of those missing in action and Somerset County, the home 
of the 110th Regiment, is hit again. 
  That the 112th, of which the local boys are members, is in the heat 
of the action is assured by the names of the men appearing on the list.
  Several nearby boys have been killed in the furious Soissons-Rheims 
fighting.  Among them are J. H. Wingert, of Chambersburg, and James 
McFarland, of Marietta.  J. Sciortino, of York, is reported as having 
"died of disease."
  Among the central Pennsylvanians in the missing list are four 
Columbia boys, Eugene Gibson, Leon H. Kise, J. W. Helwig and David W. 
Hazen, Williamsport; W. L. Scott, Lebanon; Lamer D. Bailey, Newberry, 
York County; Clarence F. Mohn, Lancaster; C. W. West, Bloomsburg; W. F. 
Scott, Lebanon.
  There were six lists of casualties issued today, five of the Army and 
one of the Marines.  There were 468 names on the Army lists and fifty-
two on the Marine report.  Most of the men were missing in action, 303 
being reported under this head.  Ninety-four were killed in action. 

Lt. Detweiler First American to win the Italian Merit Cross

  Lieutenant Meade D. Detweiler, of this city, serving with the 
American ambulance in Italy, has the distinction of being the first 
American in Italy to receive the "Croce al Merito di Guerra" (war 
cross), a beautiful medal for valor with which he was decorated by the 
colonel of the Sanita of the Army his unit is serving. 
  Lieutenant Detweiler is a son of Mrs. Meade D. Detweiler, 23 South 
Front street, and has been serving with the American Ambulance in Italy 
for more than a year.  He was a member of the first American unit to 
answer the call for aid from Italy.
  Mrs. Detweiler received the news in an official statement which read 
as follows:
  "Lieutenant Detweiler has the honor of being the first American in 
Italy to receive the Croce al Merito di Guerra.'"

DR. RHEIN GOES TO CAMP

  Dr. Harry D. Rhein, 1311 Market street who has been recommended for a 
commission in the Dental Reserve Corps, left for the Officers' Training 
Camp at Camp Wadsworth, Spartansburg, S. C.  Dr. Rhein is a graduate of 
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, class of 1912.  Although he was in 
the present draft Dr. Rhein did not wait to be called but enlisted in 
his professional capacity. 

Accepting Volunteers in Absence of Orders

  In spite of the fact that the report spread all over the country 
today that voluntary enlistment in the United States Army, Navy and 
Marine Corps is a thing of the past, for the present time, recruiting 
continued at all three of Harrisburg's recruiting stations today.
  At a late hour this afternoon no official word from the War 
Department, closing voluntary enlistments, had been received at either 
the Army, Navy or Marine recruiting headquarters here.
  More enlistments than usual were had by the Army station this 
morning, but it was stated there that the reason for this was the fact 
that a great many men wished to take advantage of the last opportunity 
to place themselves in the branch of the service which would best suit 
them.
  All of the recruiting officials in Harrisburg stated today that they 
would continue to recruit until official word to stop arrived from the 
War Department. 

County to Send 156 in Week of August 26

  State Draft headquarters here this afternoon announced the following 
quotas of white selectives to be sent to Camp Lee, from Dauphin and 
Cumberland counties, during the five-day period starting August 26:
  Harrisburg, Board No. 1, 26; No. 2, 24; No. 3, 15.
  Dauphin County, outside the city of Harrisburg, Board No. 1, 15; No. 
2, 39; No. 3, 37.
  Cumberland County, Board No. 1, 69; No. 2, 40.

13 PITTSBURGH HEAT DEATHS

  PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9. - Thirteen deaths was the heat toll for the last 
twenty-four hours in Pittsburgh.  This makes a total of forty-one for 
three days. 

ACTIVITIES IN THE REALM OF SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST

  Interesting Subjects at Mt. Gretna Camp

  MT. GRETNA, Aug. 9. - Yesterday's sessions of the Mt. Gretna United 
Brethren campmeeting and Bible conference were full of interest.  At 
8.30 the Rev. B. B. Sutcliffe gave a very helpful exposition of the 
first part of the book of Philippians.  He stated that the theme of the 
book is "Christian Experience," and the keyword is joy and 
thanksgiving.  At 10.30 the Rev. Max Wertheimer gave his second lecture 
on "The Feasts of Jehovah."  Continuing with the feast of the first 
fruits, the speaker emphasized the fact that inasmuch as this feast 
came three days after the ceremonial Passover sacrifices had been 
offered in the temple at Jerusalem, it is the fitting type of our 
Lord's resurrection.  For one hour the speaker held the close attention 
of the large audience present.
  At 1.30 in the afternoon the children's meeting was conducted by Miss 
Margaret Baltzell, of Reading.
  Among the latest ministerial arrivals at the camp are the Revs. E. O. 
Burtner, of Palmyra; Ira D. Lowery, of Halifax; E. A. G. Bossler, of 
Middletown; N. I. Fake, of Hopeland, and Clarence Mease, of 
Williamstown. 
 
  The Ladies Bible Class of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, of West 
Fairview, held an outing at Paxtang Park on Wednesday.  Notwithstanding 
the extreme heat, there was a good attendance of members and their 
families.  Those present were:  Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wachtman, Joseph, 
Jacob, Anna, Grace and Edna Wachtman; Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wagner, Tyrus 
and Martha Wagner; Mrs. Charles Lilley, Miss Priscilla Lilley, Miss 
Mildred Eslinger, Mrs. Joseph Blair, John Blair, Dale Anderson, Mrs. 
Nelson Shaull, Miss Mabel Shaull, Mrs. Elmer Erb, Miss Jane Erb, Mrs. 
E. B. Myers, and Mrs. Melvin Cranford.

  Opera Star Who Will Make Her Home Here

  MISS NAOMI A. ACKLEY [photo]

  Miss Naomi Antoinette Ackley, who for the last two years has had a 
most successful career in light opera, has decided to make her home in 
Harrisburg for the present and will reside with her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Elmer Hobbs-Ley, 1800 North Fourth street, who have recently moved 
to this city.  Miss Ackley last appeared in Victor Herbert's delightful 
opera "Eileen," and aside from her part, which included solo work, she 
was understudy for the prima donna taking the part of "Eileen" many 
times.  The show, however, had a disastrous ending at Dayton, Ohio, 
when the theater in which they were playing was destroyed by fire and 
the entire property of the Eileen company lost.
  Miss Ackley, who started her interesting career in a singing and 
dancing vaudeville act, playing in New York City, showed such 
remarkable skill that she was given a prominent part in Franz Lehr's 
opera, "Gypsy Love."  The above picture portrays Miss Ackley in her 
part in the opera.  She had a wide experience last summer when she 
played at Elmira, N. Y., with a musical stock company.  While in this 
city Miss Ackley's friends will have opportunity to hear her sing in 
the choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.  She has also accepted a 
position with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. 

  Members of the R. F. O. M. Club of the Y. W. C. A. enjoyed several 
pleasant hours of music and story telling last evening when they were 
entertained by Miss Mary Freed at her home, 2025 North Fifth street.  
Members of the club and their guests included:  Miss Anna Fry, Miss 
Adelaide Lusk, Miss Pearl Hoover, Miss Ruth Seabold, Miss Mary 
Kerstetter, Miss Marie Hutton, Miss Mary Freed, Miss Carrie M. Miller, 
Miss Grace N. Miller, Newark, N. J.; Miss Lois G. Scott, Miss Edith 
Wilson, Miss Florence I. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. B. Zarger, Mr. and Mrs. 
Clarence Zarger, Mrs. Delia Fox, Mrs. Edward Orner, Mrs. John W. 
German, Jr., and Mrs. A. Foulk. 

  Personal Briefs

  Frank M. Sullivan, bugler at the Officers' Training School, Camp 
Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., was home on a short furlough to visit his mother, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy Sullivan, 526 North street.
  Ensign Fred C. Burris, formerly a member of the Central High School 
faculty, has returned to Chatham, Mass., after a furlough spent at his 
home in this city.  Ensign Burris is an assistant paymaster in the 
Navy.
  Sergeant Carroll B. Davis, staff artist of the publicity department 
of the Harrisburg Recruiting Station, has returned from a short stay at 
Ocean Grove, N. J.  He will leave next month for a training camp for 
field artillery officers.
  Mrs. S. L. Meloy, 909 North Fifteenth street, left yesterday for 
Chicago, where she will visit her daughter, Miss Olga Meloy, who is a 
student at the University of Chicago.
  Miss Mary Creighton, Riverside Apartments, returned a few days ago 
from Willsboro, N. Y., along the shores of Lake Champlain, where she 
spent the month of July.  She left last night for Minneapolis, Minn., 
to visit Miss Carol Lyon.  Miss Creighton will be maid of honor at the 
wedding of Miss Lyon to Ernest Mahler, which will be solemnized at Lake 
Minnetonka on August 24. 
  Mrs. T. B. Campbell and her daughter, Miss Frances Campbell, of New 
York, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings at their summer 
home at Duncannon.
  Mrs. E. J. Hunter, of Cleveland, Ohio, is the guest of Miss Emma 
Heck, of Heckton.
  Mrs. William Donaldson, of the Donaldson Apartments is registered at 
the Haddon Hall, Atlantic City. 
  Mrs. E. Curzon Fager, 25 South Front street, will leave the end of 
this week for Asbury Park, where she will be the guest of Miss Sara 
Cooper.
  Dr. Harry M. Vastine, 109 Locust street, will spend the week-end at 
Atlantic City.
  Doctor and Mrs. C. M. Rhodes, 800 North Second street, are spending a 
week at Eagles Mere.
  Miss Margaret Williamson, of the Nurses' Training School of the 
Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, is visiting her parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas Williamson, 711 North Second street. 

  Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hipple, 614 Cumberland street, entertained on 
Wednesday evening at their residence in honor of the birthday 
anniversary of their son, Charles F. Hipple, who left last evening for 
Camp Wadsworth, to begin military training.  Among the guests were:  
Mrs. Walter Layton, Belnare; Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hipple, Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert Hipple, Miss Edith Hipple, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sarch, Miss 
Ruth Daugherty, Raymond F. Hipple and Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hipple. 

  Mennonites Are Ready for Strategic Retreat

  WINNIPEG, Aug. 9. - Mennonites, who are conscientious objectors to 
military service, are going to emigrate in large numbers from the 
United States to Canada, where they say they will have a better chance.
  They have purchased a large tract of land thirty miles west of here, 
for $400,000, and expect to settle 1500 persons upon it. 

Somerset Company Lost All Except 24 Men

  Major Joseph H. Thompson, of Beaver, a former State Senator and well 
known here, has written to Attorney General Brown of the activities of 
the Pennsylvania men in the recent drive against the Huns.
  "Mark this down," he says, "when any one says the American soldier is 
not everything a soldier ought to be, he lies."
  Major Thompson was in charge of the first battalion of the 110th 
Infantry, comprising Company B, of Beaver and Company C, of Somerset.  
Only twenty-four men from Company C returned from the encounter and the 
company lacked all its commissioned officers, its captain and two 
lieutenants being missing. 
  But, according to the Major the Pennsylvania boys got three Huns for 
every American killed or missing in action.
  "Tell the Governor," writes Thompson, "that the boys from the 
Keystone State are real men."
  The Germans attacked the Pennsylvanians twice with gas and then tried 
treachery.  They sent Hun officers dressed as Americans and French 
soldiers among the Pennsylvanians and gave orders to cease firing.  The 
ruse worked once or twice, writes the Major, but he adds:
  "We had our own way of settling that and quickly, too, on the 
battlefield." 

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS IN MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS

  Successful applicants in the medical examinations held at 
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, July 9, 10 and 11, were announced today by 
the State Medical Examining Board and among the successful ones were 
Susan S. Moyer, this city, and Robert D. Hostetter, York.  Among those 
examined in massage and applied branches and who passed successfully 
was Katherine L. Watts, of this city. 

TWO OFFENDERS GET PEN TERMS

  Grover Fowler, with aliases too numerous to list, had his criminal 
record aired in court this morning, when it was shown, from 
correspondence received by the district attorney's office, that he has 
been giving the police trouble in a number of different states.  He 
admitted everything shown in his record.
  Fowler pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing two silk shirts, 
valued at eight dollars each, on June 26, in this city, and was 
sentenced to pay five dollars and costs of prosecution, return the 
property and serve one year in the penitentiary.
  "Kid" Flowers got a year in the penitentiary for burglary; Silas 
Williams, charged with surety of the peace, was dismissed because the 
prosecutor did not appear.  Clifford Spencer went to the Huntingdon 
Reformatory for a serious offense, committed at Middletown.  Carl 
Shower got five dollars and costs and three months, for larceny of a 
suit case.  Lorenzo Bryant got five dollars and costs and ten months 
for larceny.
  Park D. Yost agreed to pay thirty dollars a month toward the support 
of his wife, and to give $300 security, and was released.
  Court was adjourned until next Monday morning. 

Adams County Boys in the Casualty Lists

  GETTYSBURG, Aug. 9. - For the second time within a month the casualty 
lists have contained names of soldiers belonging to the family of Mrs. 
Alice Smith, of this place.  Several weeks ago word was received of the 
wounding of Clarence G. Hilty, Mrs. Smith's son-in-law, who made his 
home with them, and yesterday another message was received from 
Washington telling that Corporal Earl J. Smith, her son, was among 
those reported missing in action.
  The last seen of Corporal Smith was on July 15.  The list also 
contains the name of Oliver F. Swope, of near Gettysburg, as being 
among those who have been severely wounded. 

BULLET WOUND FATAL

  LEBANON, Aug 9. - Christian Ober, 17 years old, died at a hospital 
here yesterday from a bullet wound near his right temple, supposed to 
have been self-inflicted.  The lad was found in a corn field near his 
home on Tuesday morning.  Probing for the bullet, which was lodged in 
the brain, was unsuccessful.  The boy's parents live on the Joseph 
Kreider farm at Station No. 6, along the Hershey trolley line. 

LEBANON BOY KILLED IN WAR

  LEBANON, Aug. 9. - Sergeant John A. Stover, the Lebanon boy who is 
mentioned as killed in action on General Pershing's casualty list, was 
the son of Mrs. Mary Bausman, living a short distance from this city at 
the Sand Hill.  He was 27 years old and was a member of the Marines for 
seven years.  Prior to the outbreak of the war Sergeant Stover was 
engaged in recruiting services at the Chicago station.  Besides his 
mother he leaves four sisters and four brothers. 

THREE BOYS ENLIST

  The recent enlistment of three boys, each 20 years old, in the Signal 
Corps of the United States Army has been announced.  They will leave 
Monday afternoon for Columbus Barracks, Ohio.  They are:  William Henry 
Huber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huber, of 137 Hanna street; Samuel 
Pease, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Pease, 141 Hanna street, and Ray 
Billet, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Billet, of Dock street. 

3 LEBANON WOMEN DIE

  LEBANON, Aug. 9. - Lebanon's death list today contains the names of 
three prominent women, including Mrs. Holzapfel, 56 years old, wife of 
Gottleib Holzapfel, the Cleona publisher; Mrs. Rosa Brandt White, 57, 
wife of Contractor Charles White, who leaves eleven children, and Mrs. 
Elizabeth Groh Eberly, aged 82 years, widely known throughout the 
southern end of the county. 

Reserves to Drill Selective Service Men

  At the regular Friday night drill of the Harrisburg Reserves this 
evening military instruction will be given to men likely to be drafted.
  Reserves will go tomorrow to the upper end and give instructions to 
men of draft age in Halifax, Millersburg, Elizabethville, Gratz, 
Lykens, Wiconisco and Williamstown.  Men who will go include F. H. Hoy, 
Jr., L. V. Harvey, S. E. Fitting, W. L. Keller, A. M. Porter, W. H. 
Moore, H. B. McCormick, John C. Herman, H. B. McClure, W. W. Lowther, 
A. B. Hamilton, J. P. McCullough, R. C. Haldeman, B. M. Ogelsby, W. 
Kochel, Raymond B. Miller, George N. Barnes, T. D. Caldwell, G. W. 
Satchell and others who will be assigned tonight.
  Arrangements for making the trip will be announced tonight.  It is 
planned to leave about noon Saturday.

DEATH BREAKS ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH FOR 70 YEARS

  SUNBURY, Aug. 9. - Her record of a straight attendance at church for 
more than seventy years was brought to an end when Miss Mary Jame 
Smith, 85, of Sunbury, was taken ill eight months ago.
  She died yesterday, of ailments incident to old age.  Before her last 
illness the aged woman had never been ill in her life.  She was a 
member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. R. C. Auckermann, 
pastor. 

PALLBEARER FOR SISTER, HE FOLLOWS HER IN DEATH

  MILTON, Aug. 9. - A few minutes after he had returned to his home 
here after attending the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Pollack Gundy, at 
Lewisburg, Lincoln Romig, aged 58 years, dropped dead of a heart 
attack, doctors said.  He was a pallbearer at his sister's funeral.  
For twenty-five years he had been employed as plant engineer for the 
Milton Manufacturing Co. 

SEIZED AS BOOTLEGGER

  James Grant, address unknown to the police, was arrested at noon 
today in the Market street subway by Policeman Knell while, it is 
alleged, he was in the act of selling liquor to United States soldiers.  
He will be taken before the Mayor for hearing. 

LAD DROWNS IN SWIMMING POOL

     Special to The Evening News
  HERSHEY, Aug. 9. - John Bentz, 20 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. 
William Bentz, of Mt. Top, near Dillsburg, was drowned yesterday 
afternoon while swimming in the pool at Hershey.
  Bentz, with several brothers had gone to Hershey to enjoy the 
features of the grocers' picnic.  After eating a hearty dinner, Bentz 
and his companions went swimming in the pool and it believed that he 
was seized with an attack of acute indigestion caused by the shock of 
entering the water too soon after dinner.
  Bentz was considered a good swimmer and his companions gave no 
thought to his safety until his body was discovered in four feet of 
water about 3 o'clock by Lester Barth, of Harrisburg, who tread upon 
it.  That Bentz was seized by sudden cramps seems evident.  There were 
scores of swimmers in the pool who never heard an outcry.  Dr. J. L. 
Zimmerman, of Hershey, was summoned immediately and used a pulmotor two 
hours in vain.
  Mrs. William Bentz is an invalid and fainted when the news of her 
son's death was given to her.  Since the Hershey pool was opened 
several years ago it has been the source of much pleasure to more than 
200,000 people, and Bentz's death is the first ever to have occurred in 
the pool.
  The funeral services will be held at the home of the young man's 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bentz, at Dillsburg, Sunday afternoon at 
2 o'clock. 

10,892 From State in New Draft Call

  WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. - A call for 100,000 white selective service men 
to joint he colors for general military service was issued today by 
Provost Marshal General Crowder.  They will entrain during the period 
from August 26 to 30.  Forty-three states were asked to furnish quotas 
under this call, which is the largest issued during August.
  Pennsylvania will send 10,000 to Camp Lee, Va.
  The negro registrants called include:  Pennsylvania with 892 to Camp 
Lee. 

WILLS PROBATED

  The will of William H. Cocklin, Harrisburg, was probated today, with 
W. C. Gardner named as executor; that of Julia Dennis, Harrisburg, with 
letters testamentary granted, to Percy E. Dennis, and that of Elizabeth 
Walton, of Royalton, with Clarence Walton named as executor.

Local Doctors Attend Meeting at Columbia

  COLUMBIA, Aug. 9. - The Central Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical 
Society held its quarterly session here yesterday afternoon with Dr. J. 
T. Burnite, of Harrisburg, the president, in the chair.  Dr. William A. 
Pearson, dean of the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, gave an 
interesting insight of the work being done by homeopathic physicians in 
the war.
  Dr. W. A. Streeter, of Harrisburg, read an interesting paper on 
"Leukemia," and Dr. Ralph Bernstein, of Philadelphia, a native of 
Columbia, made a brief address.  Dr. J. H. Kreider, of Harrisburg, 
presented a patient before the society and gave some interesting 
remarks.
  This organization comprises Lancaster, Dauphin and York Counties and 
it was decided to hold the next quarterly meeting the second Thursday 
in October, in Lancaster.  Those in attendance at the meeting were:  
Dr. Pearson, Dr. Bernstein, Philadelphia; Dr. W. A. Streeter, Dr. 
Burnite, Dr. G. W. Hartman, Dr. J. Ross Swartz, Dr. Kreider, 
Harrisburg; Dr. Ursprung, Dr. E. S. Snyder, Lancaster; Dr. H. H. 
Rhodes, Middletown; Dr. R. O. Diehl, Manheim; Dr. L. H. Hendrixson, New 
Holland, and Drs. L. L. Moyer, S. S. Mann and G. P. Taylor, Columbia. 

27 Boys in Camp at McCormick's Island

  Twenty-seven boys began the week's campaign on McCormick's Island 
yesterday, as follows:
  From Reily Playground - Otto Haas, Paul Wissler, William Weaver, 
Charles First, Gerald McFadden, Paul Hines, Clarence Brownwell, Earl 
Sanders, Mentor Fisher, John Winn and William Meck.
  From Reservoir Playground - Charles Skinner, Richard Chamberlain, 
Craig Williams, Kenneth Betsan, Kenneth Hoffman, Tom Polleck and James 
Atchley.
  From Emerald Playground - Ross Paul, Junior Forrer, Harry Young and 
George Trotter.
  From Boas Playground - Albert Brenner, Morris Kiavans and Samuel 
Sherman.
  From Hamilton Playground - Joseph Garner. 

Former Lemoyne Boy Wounded in France

  WEST FAIRVIEW, Aug. 9. - Word has been received from the War 
Department by Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Clark formerly of Lemoyne, but now 
residing on the Haldeman farm near West Fairview, that their son, Abram 
H. Clark, has been severely wounded in action and is now in an American 
hospital in France.
  Clark is 15 years old.  He ran away from home last May and went to 
Baltimore, where, passing for a boy of 18, he enlisted in the Regular 
Army.  In June he was sent to France with the 38th Infantry and not 
long after his arrival his mother received a letter in which he said he 
was eager to get a "few more cracks at the Germans before they get me."  
He was wounded in the early part of this month. 

WOMAN 100, HURT IN FALL

  MECHANICSBURG, Aug. - Mrs. Sarah Miller, aged 100 years, an inmate of 
the Church of the Brethren Home at Neffsville, fell while walking 
across the floor.  She is suffering from shock, but no bones were 
broken.  Mrs. Miller is the mother of Justice H. S. Mohler, of this 
place. 

SETTLES FINE OF MAN WHO STOLE FROM HIM

  PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9. - In spite of the fact that George Bandja stole 
$87 from his trousers pockets, Joseph Sakula considers him his best 
friend.  He not only failed to prosecute George for the theft but he 
paid the $25 fine for him.
  "He so good friend to me I let him steal all I got," he told the 
magistrate, at the same time winding his arms around Bandja. 

Fighting Like This Gets Boys Ready to Meet Fritz [photo]

  A soldier's life is never so strenuous but that he needs athletic 
exercise to keep him in trim.  That's why the Y. M. C. A. at the 
Government's request, has sent over men who can stage boxing matches as 
well as training soldiers in baseball and in track and field events. 

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MIDDLETOWN

  WILL CLOSE STORE

  Mrs. James Richardson, who has been conducting the confectionery 
store of her husband, Wilson and Wood streets, since his strange 
disappearance three weeks ago, will close the store.  Mrs. Richardson 
and child will go to the home of her parents, at Mt. Joy, and the 
mother of the missing man will leave for the home of her son, William 
Richardson, at Columbia.  Nothing has been heard from Richardson, who 
left his home and family three weeks ago, on the night the borough 
celebrated the victory of the Allies.  At first it was thought that he 
may have enlisted, although no clue to his whereabouts has been found. 

  RETURNED FROM HOSPITAL

  Harry Brutzman, an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad work train, 
who was injured last Saturday morning while at work, and was taken to 
the Harrisburg Hospital in a serious condition, has been brought to his 
home in Royalton, after being confined to that institution for several 
days.  He is now able to be about, although suffers from a bad gash in 
his head and a bad injury on the left side of his face. 

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STEELTON

  FAMILY OF FIVE HAS CLOSE CALL

  Make Miraculous Escape as All Are Thrown From Motorcycle

  STEELTON, Aug. 9. - Homer Dean, his wife and three small children, of 
1518 Thompson street, Harrisburg, all escaped death or serious injury 
when the motorcycle and side car in which they were riding ran away on 
the Third street hill near Swatara street, this place, at 8 o'clock 
last night.
  Mr. Dean and his family were returning from Cottage Hill and as they 
neared the steep descent on Third street, near Swatara, the brakes 
failed to hold, allowing the machine to make a wild dash forward.  Just 
before it reached Swatara and Third streets the motorcycle struck a 
deep gully in the road, throwing Mr. Dean from his seat.  Deprived of 
its driver, the machine, containing Mrs. Dean and the three children, 
the oldest of which is four years, shot across Swatara and crashed 
against the concrete wall at the residence of Harry E. Bush, 203 
Swatara street.  Mrs. Dean and the three children were all thrown from 
their seats as the machine struck the wall and was totally wrecked.
  Dr. H. C. Myers was called to the scene of the accident but found 
that the victims needed little medical attention as Mr. and Mrs. Dean 
both escaped with only a few bruises and the three children, with the 
exception of several cuts and bruises, were not injured.
  Mr. Dean, in explaining the accident, said that the road was strange 
to him and that with the heavy load in the motorcycle the wheels of the 
machine slipped, making the brakes useless and causing the machine to 
get out of his control. 

  Funeral of Victim in Steel Plant Accident

  Funeral services for Harry W. Rhoades will be held tomorrow afternoon 
at 3 o'clock at the residence, 11 South Third street, the Rev. A. K. 
Weir officiating.  Burial will be made in the Oberlin Cemetery.
  Mr. Rhoades, who was employed as an electrician in the local plant of 
the Bethlehem Steel Company, while at work with Thomas Craemmer making 
repairs to No. 1 power plant about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was 
fatally burned when his clothes were ignited by the flash from a short 
circuited transformer.  Craemmer, who attempted to extinguish the 
blaze, was severely burned about the arms and face.  Rhoades was taken 
to the Harrisburg Hospital where he died about 4.30 o'clock yesterday 
afternoon.
  He is survived by his wife and four children.  He had been employed 
in the local steel plant for a number of years in the electrical 
department and was well known. 

  HORSE RUNS AWAY

  Much garden truck was destroyed early this morning when the horse 
owned by James Librandi, local truck gardener, while standing in front 
of the Steelton Store Company became frightened by an automobile and 
ran away.  In returning to cross the canal at Locust and Front streets 
the wagon loaded high with vegetables and fruit struck a telegraph 
pole, entirely demolishing the wagon and scattering its contents in all 
directions, ruining a large part of it.  When the horse started to run 
there was no one in the wagon.  No one was hurt. 

  FIREMEN TO MEET

  The citizens' Hose Company will hold a special meeting at 8 o'clock 
this evening to take action on the death of Harry W. Rhoades. 

  GIVE SECOND PLAY

  A group of children last evening gave their second benefit play for 
Steelton Chapter American Red Cross last evening on the Cottage Hill 
green.  The play was entitled "Why the Chimes Rang," and netted $6.51 
for the Red Cross.  The following children took part:  Julia Smith, 
Dorothy Hope, Elizabeth Vanier, Myra Vickery, Elizabeth Reese, Mary 
Guyer, Caroline Chick, Elizabeth Roth and Charlotte McDonald.

  GUNNER WRITES TO FRIENDS

  In a letter written to friends here James F. Payne, of Harrisburg, 
with the 351st Field Artillery, tells of the activities of his regiment 
with prospects of going into action.  The letter was dated previous to 
recent activities in the Champagne.  Payne, who says he is enjoying the 
best of health, has a large number of friends in the borough. 

  WOUNDED AND GASSED

  Another name was placed on the borough's casualty list from the 
fighting front in France when Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Stehman, South and 
Front streets, received word that their son, Benjamin, was wounded and 
gassed July 15.  Stehman was a member of Company R, 4th Infantry and 
enlisted July 1, 1917.
  Previous to joining the Army, Stehman was employed as a conductor in 
the yards of the steel plant and as a brakeman by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

  VISITING IN BOSTON

  Mrs. J. L. Porr, 139 North Front street, left this morning for Boston 
where she will spend a week as the guest of her daughter, Mary, who is 
an instructor in a girls' Summer camp near that city. 

PURSE FOR POLICE

  Edgar B. Lewis, director of the Lewis Production Company, which has 
been filming scenes for the large eight-reel "movie" called "The Troop 
Train" in and around Harrisburg for several days, has presented Mayor 
Keister with a purse of $25 to be used for the Policemen's Relief 
Association.  Lewis made the gift in appreciation of the courtesies the 
department showed him in the staging of his picture in Capitol Park 
yesterday. 

82 SELECTED MEN LEAVE

  Eighty-two selected men from the six city and count draft boards left 
last night for Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C.  The men left the 
Courthouse, accompanied by their relatives, some of whom were in tears 
as they went down the street.  There was no semblance at formation of 
line and the only formal send off was the ringing of the Friendship 
engine house bell as the train was being made up.