Government Agencies Get All Preparedness Measures Well Under Way HARRISBURG tSsStfift TELEGRAPH LXXXVI — No. 76 32 PAGES OPEN UNION DOOR TO PROVIDE MEN FOR WAR WORK Labor Barriers Lifted to Fill Ranks in Federal Shops and Yards APPEAL TO LEADERS HERE Efforts Being Made to Mobilize Harrisburg Boilermakers and Machinists As a patriotic step, barriers be tween union and non-union labor all over the country may be swept aside so that the government will not be handicapped in mobilizing skilled artisans for Federal work. Local labor leaders are in favor of the plan. They say that there could surely be no objections to opening the doors at this critical time in the nation's life. Efforts are being made here to re cruit machinists, boiler markers and artisans of all descriptions for work in government yards and arsenals. Appeal to I.nbor JiCaders George S. McCrone, secretary of the board of examiners of the United States Civil Service commission, with headquarters at the local postoliice, has sent out letters to all labor lead ers in this section asking them to give him the names of nil unemployed me chanics. The commission is compill ing a list of mechanics not already ep jjaged in government work, who would be willing to accept employment with the governnn nt at once and also a list of those who would not accept immediate employment, but would ac cept in case the country urgently needs their services. The heads of all labor and fraternal organizations have been requested to make this fact known to their members, with a view of giving as much publicity to the need of the mechanics as possible. Positions are open to machnists, boilermakers and artisans of all de scriptions at the various arsenals and imvy yards. Persons wishing to apply for present vacancies or to enroll sub- to call by the government can se ore the necessary papers from George ► • S. McCrone, secretary of the board of examiners at the local postoffice. Philadelphia Responds Promptly Applicants will not be required to appear before a board of examiners but will be rated upon the evidence In the application papers. Papers will be rated by the commission at once and if satisfactory the applicant will be notified to report for duty. If all of the positions at the particular place stated in the application have been filled he will be advised of other va cancies' by the Civil Service commis sion. Philadelphia labor leaders are in favor of the project and stated yes terday that for the first time in his tory union and non-union laborers would combine In an effort to mobil ize skilled artisans for work in the navy yards and the Federal arsenals. Plans for the labor mobilization havt been worked out by Assistant Secre tary of the Navy Roosevelt, Secretary of War Baker and Albert J. Berres, secretary of the metal trades depart ment of the American Federation of Labor. at Washington. Grand Duchess, Cousin to Deposed Czar, Arrested By Associated Press London, March 30.—The arrest anil detention in her home of the Grand Duchess Maria Paviovna, first cousin of the deposed Russian Emperor, is reported in a Reuter ' dispatch from Kislovodsk, Russia. The arrest was made as a result of seizure of a corn iromising letter to another cousin of Nicholas, Grand Duke Boris. / Going to Move? PERHAPS you have completed all your arrangements for moving into your new home this spring. All the myriad de tails attended to, vou are going to set back contented that first even ing. Tour favorite pipe and paper will never seem so good. You haven't forgotten a thing to spoil this picture, 'lave you? For instance, you have teiephoed the Circulation Department to deliver your copy of the HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH to your new home? If not. then do it now. Bell 4100: Dial 2135. ——______ ITHE WEATHER] For HarrUhurK and vicinity: Fnlr to-niKht. with lovirxt teiiiprrut ure about 38 degree*) Snturday (air nnd warmer. For KaMtern I'ennaTlvania i Fair to night: Saturday fair and warmer) Kentlo to moderate shifting wlndx becoming Mouth. River The Susquehanna river and all Sta ' hrnnrhex will fall, the most de cided mInUN changes occurring In the .\orth Branch and the main river. A stage of about tt.O feet Is Indicated for Harrisburg Satur day morning. General Conditions It Is somewhat colder over nearly all the country east of the Mls- Isslppl river under the Influence of the high pressure area that covers practically all the terri tory south and east of the Great Lakes. Temperature! 8 a. m„ 40 decrees above zero. Son t Rises, Ri4R a. m. Moon) Fall moon. April tt. River Staftet 10.2 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 4!>. I.owest temperature, BJI. Mean temperature, 44. Varnal temperature, 1.1 LOCAL RED CROSS IS WORKING HARD ON MERCY TASK Making Wonderful Strides i Despite Lack of Funds and Workers ALL KINDS OF SUPPLIES! Everything For Comfort of Wounded Being Manu- i factured [By Anna Hamilton Wood.] The meaning of the great Amtrican Red Cross Society is expressed in two | words, "Humanity" and • Neutrality." It carries as Its insignia the precious emblem of the hope of the human race i dyed in the blood of all mankind, it j recognizes no creeds or nationalities but follows In tho foodsteps of the i Great Physician. It has been a bless ing to the war-scarred countries of! Europe during the past three years,' but now. at the home call, It has arisen ! and is answering valiantly. The Natloual Red Cross was ap pointed by Congress and the Procla-1 mation of the President of the United States of August 22, 1911, the agency which must make preparations m j time of peace to assist the Medical ; Departments of the Army and Navy in time of war. All over the country base hospital j units are being organized .under in [Continued on Pago 20] Ten Die and Many Are Lost in Sinking of Ship by Submarine London, March 30. The British j steamship Alnwick Castle has been tor pedoed in the Atlantic ocean. Some persons are reported dead and others are missing. The Admiralty has informed the As sociated Press that the Alnwick Cas tle was torpedoed without warning March 19, In the Atlantic. 320 miles from the nearest land. On the previous i day the steamship had rescued the crew of another British steamship that also had been torpedoed. The passengers and crews of both , vessels abandoned the Alnwick Castle (In five boats. One of these boats land ed on the Spanish coast. It originally contained twenty persons, including a stewardess and a child, but five of them i died. All the survivors in this boat were suffering from frost bite. Three other boats also were picked up during th® week, one containing twenty-seven, another twenty-nine, and the third twenty survivors. In these boats there were five dead. The fifth boat that put out from the vessel has not yet been accounted for. The British steamship Alnwick Cas tle measures a,900 tons gross and was ! owned by the Union-Castle Mail Steam ship Company, of London. She was 40U feet long and was built in Glasgow in 1901. There have been no recent re ports of the whereabouts of the Aln wick Castle and she probably was in the service of the British Government. "We Are Americans or Not Americans," Foreign Born Citizens Are Told By Associated Press Salt Lake City, March 30.—More than ; a thousand German and Austrian resi j dents of Salt Lake last night accepted the invitation of Governor Simon Bam berger to attend a mass meeting for the purpose of non-partisan, non-sec * tarian discussion of the international crisis. "The time has come," said the Gov- i ernor, In opening the meeting, "for us j |to call a spade a spade. A man or i : woman Is or is not an American. His | or her right to freedom Is governed 1 ! I>y no half-way course. The time for j silence Is gone and the time for the ' expression of afitli is here." Resolutions pledging the faith and allegiance of Americans of German and Austrian birth or parentage were I adopted unanimously and ordered i transmitted to President Wilson ! | through the Governor. Determined to Break up Speeding, Police Order 17 Motorists to Appear Determined to break up the numer- ' 1 ous violations of the city ordinances governing the operation of motor ve hicles in the city, seventeen offenders have been "ordered in" by Motorcycle officer George Fetrow. They will be heard at police court Monday afternoon. Chief of Police J. Edward Wetzel this j morning declared that he was deter- j ' mined to break up the series of viola tions that automobile owners are guilty of, regardless of the number that must be arrested. Not only speeding, but driving with bright lights, and failing to keep the license plate in condition to be readily j seen comes under the ban. Walks 25 Miles to Take Up Arms For Uncle Sam By Associated Press Newark, N. J.. March 30. —Andrew 1 Miller, a young farmer who Is on his i way to-day to Join tie United States j marines at Charleston, 8. C., walked twenty-five miles to enlist because he had no money and was too proud to beg a ride. "I want to fight," he told the re cruiting officer. "I was working in a Held when a fellow came along and said the Germans had declared war ■ m the United States and were bom barding New York city. I dropped , my hoe and didn't even wait to get the ' i money that was coming to me. I don't 'need a uniform; all I want is a gun." i HARRISBURG, PA..FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1917 CITY'S LATEST CONTRIBUTION TO UNCLE SAM Recruits still continue to swell the splendid sum total that the Harrisburg Kecrulting Office is sending to what may be "The First Line of Defense." F. J. Seibert, the famous bomb kins; Steve Kubicek, Wave lleed, John Roger, Arthur L. Longsoing, all ready to go to Fort Slocum, New York, are shown abovp. STATE-WIDE PLAN FOR PREPARATION FAST WORKING OUT Huntingdon's Committee Al ready in Field; Two Sub- , Committees Here Huntingdon is the first county in the state to complete its list of mem -1 bers of a local unit of the stae-wide I committee on public safety. E. M. C, i Africa ,of Huntingdon, named from that county, to-day reported to Gov ernor Brumbaugh the names of 102 citizens of the county who had agreed to serve and announced that imme j diate steps would be taken to perfect the oganization and to begin work en trusted to it by the general committee. "This committee represents each of [Continued 011 Page 2] WAR SYSTEM OF WOUND-TREATING | TO BE INSTALLED Hospital Physicians Studying Carrol-Dakin System Pre liminary to Adoption To learn the latest developments in the use of the Carrol-Dakin method of I treating antiseptic wounds. Dr. Carson Ooover, 233 Pine street, has gone to Pittsburgh to make a study of the va rious hospitals where it is installed. It will probably be installed at th Har j risburg Hospital. The Carrol-Dakin method of treat ment, a result of the present war, is used extensively on the battlefields of Europe. It consist* of an elaborate arrangement whereby a wound is j soothed and healed by a constant flow 1 t'o an antiseptic solution. Wonderful j ressults have been attained. | Th system of W-eatment has been explained in detfl before the Dauphin 1 Medical Society recently by Dr. Wil • Ham O'Xeit Sherman of Pittsburgh, j and Dr. Piper, who was with ttio American Corps in France'lt has been also experimented with at the Harris j burg Hospital with success. 1 PAPER PROBLEMS TO BE DISCUSSED j AT MEETING HERE Editors and Publishers Will Endeavor to Find Ways to Alleviate Situation Joint meetings of the Associated Dailies of Pennsylvania, the State Kdi- I torial Association and the Association of Weekly Newspapers will be held at the Board of Trade rooms in this city i Tuesday, April 10. There will be three sessions and it is expected many mat -1 ters of importance to the newspaper industry will be discussed, especially the present serious situation respect ing print paper. A bulletin of the American News paper Publishers' Association just Is sued from the New York headquar ters to the membership of the asso ciation states that nothing very defi nite has followed the recent efforts of the Federal Trade Commission to place the print paper situation on a moro satisfactory basis. Outlook Is Poor Representatives of the commission, the bulletin states, recently met New | York publishers urging them to go to i (Continued 011 Page 21.] (Ehr Star- Jitfcpmbrnt CITY IS IN GRIP OF GREA T BUYING Harrisburg has a real epidemic on its hands. The "buying fever" that i has been developing the last few j has spread all over the city. The big rummage sale, the sburce of the con- j tagion, got in its deadly work jester- i day and tightened Its grip on the purse j of the people. The 3,000 that caught the spendthrift j germ yesterday transmitted it to ad- | ditional thousands in all parts of the | city. The second day of the sale started j this morning without riot or stampede. [ GERMANY WON'T ATTACK AMERICA IF U. S. SUBMITS Chancellor Says Ruthlessness [ Will Continue in I'-Boat Warfare Berlin, March 30. (By wireless to Sayville, X. v.). —"Germany never had ■ the slightest intention of attacking the United States of America and does not: have such attention now. It never de sired war against the United States of , America and does not desire it to-duy," was trie declaration made by the Ger-! man Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, in a speech in the. Reichstag yesterday. The chancellor made important dec-' larations concerning Germany's policy i toward the United States and Russia, i "How did these things develop.'"! asked the chancellor, in speaking of the relations with the United States.! r Continued on I'acc til HOGS MAKE: NEW RECORD By Associated Press Chicago. March 30.—Hog prices at' the Union Stock Yards went soaring! to new altitudes to-day. lighter re- | celpts than expected sent the general j market up 15 to 20 cents. The topi price was ? 15.50 for choice heavy hogs. | POUR OIL OVER MEAT BECAUSE OF HIGH PRICES Hundreds of Police Guard Chi-; cago Markets Against In furiated Women By Associated Press Chicago, March 30.—Hundreds of po- | licemen were detailed to-day to protect' the meat markets and groceries in the j west side ghetto which were attacked yesterday by angry crowds, composed mostly of women, who protested I against the high prices of food. Armed with stones and kerosene, which they poured over the wom en attacked the Kosher butchers who, [Continued on Page 2] EATS WAY IN ARMY Chicago, March 30. Macmlllan Weddell, of Hinsdale, a suburb, la to day in the government aero service, after having been refused earlier In the week. Weddell, who is an exper ienced aviator, tried to enlist but was found to weigh only 142, six pounds under the weight required for the aero service. Yesterday he brought his weight up to the required 14 8 pounds [by eating four very large meals. A crowd of 300 impatiently awaited the opening of the doors at i o'clock, but when the gong was sounded entered in orderly fashion under the direction of Officers Phillips and Ross, of tho police force. Last night and early this morning each department was restocked with contributions of every conceivable de scription that had been sent in, in re sponse to the urgent appeals of the ex ecutive committee yesterday afternoon. While the committee was gratified with the prompt and liberal response to Its call, many more articles are needed, especially men's trousers, children's clothing of all sorts and books, par ticularly geographies and arithmetics. 5265.i1" hi First Hour The first hour's sales this morning netted a total of $205.07 as against J562 for yesterday's first hour of busi ness. The sales have fallen off only [Continued o:i Page 23] SUGGESTS RAISING TAXES TO PROVIDE | FOR ROAD REPAIRS 1 Montgomery County Commis sioners Tell of Success of Move There An increase of one-half or one mill • in the county tax rate to provide for j permanent road and bridge improve ments was suggested to Dauphin coun ty commissioners by Roy C. Hatlield, of Norrlstown, president of the Mont ] gomery County Commissioners' board. , Commissioner Hatfield declared ihat ! in- Montgomery county more than '5200,000 had been expended for road 1 improvements, ami that the money [Wits raised by an increase In the tax- 1 j es. the plan meeting with little oppo ! sition. j Dauphin county commissioners, 1 [Continued on Page 2] IIEI.EASE 22 NEUTHAI.S I Copenhagen.- March 30.—Twenty-two , ' neutrals, who were brought to Ger- I ! many on the commerce raider Moewe as | prisoners, Including one American, ar- \ j rived here yesterday from Kiel. They < ) were released because they were not j i serving on armed merchantmen. FIND MINE NEST | IN TIME TO SAVE ALLIED SHIPPING British Convoy Needed to Guard Vessels Through Cleared Lane By Associated Press I (Censored.) Morch 30.—The fact | that the Cunard liner Orduna was ! stopped off the Irish coast by a Brit-i ! ish torpedoboat destroyer and hur- I riedly ordered into the nearest port 1 while the North channel was swept! clear of a great flock of mines dis covered there, was revealed by the ship's officers as the reason tne ves sel was three days overdue when she reached her American destination to day.- Upon her arrival in the Irish port of refuge, her officers said, they found [Continued on Page 13] • V. S. MARSHAL AFTER SPY United States Marshal Harvey T. Smith went to York to-day to Investi gate the case of Adolphus Wrucllla believed to be a German spy. Wru cllla has been held since February 17 on a charge of vagrancy. FRENCH SUSPEND VIOLENT ATTACK ON GERMAN LINE i Teuton Troops Continue to! Fall Back Before British Pressure CANADIANS ABE REPULSED English Army Captures Several Villages in Forward Movement j German troops In Northern France | are still falling back to Cambrai under i the British pressure. Evidently they \ have not reached, in this sector, at ! least, a line on which they feel In ched to make a stand against the j | entente armies. I To-day's announcement from Berlin ; of a German retirement on a four and ; , a half mile front between Ruyalcourt | and Sorel was forecast to some extent I by the British announcement last night | that the village of Neuville Bourjonval, | on this line, had been captured. Berlin | reports that the Germans gave way on tho front Indicated after an engage ment with stronger British forces. The French apparently have sus pended temporarily their atacks along i the southern end of the line. Paris j reports a quiet night along virtually i the whole front. ' North of the line of the retreat near Neuvllle-St. Vaast Berlin reports four' attacks by a Canadian regiment, all of! which were fruitless. There have been no important events j , on any of the other fronts. i Rl'Sll NAVAL KNLISTMKN'T i By Associated Press •' | Chicago, March 30. Orders have been received by Commandant W. A. • j Mofl'et, of the Great Lakes Training 1 j Station, to rush the enrollment of a " | division of 3,000 men to serve on 500 ■ | yachts and power boats being collect ■i ed for the navy. Arrangements have • ! been made for the distribution of the 1 ; yachts on the Great Lakes and prep ' i arations for a cruise of three weeks • I were started to-day. ACTIVE WAR WITH GERMANY IS CONCENSUS OF CABINET BELIEF WASHINGTON, MARCH 30. AS THE CAB INET MET TO-DAY WITH PRESIDENT WILSON FOR THE LAST TIME BEFORE THE ASSEMBLING OF CONGRESS MONDAY THE CONCENSUS OF OPINION WAS THE UNITED STATES WAS ABOUT TO ACTIVELY ENTER INTO WAR WITH GERMANY. MORE TROOPS CALLED TO SERVICE Washington, March 30. Battery A, Georgia field artillery, the 23rd and 47th regiments of infantry, New York Guard, and squadron A, New York cavalry, to-day also were ordered mustered into federal service for similar duty. HOUSE TO HEAR PRESIDENT WITHOUT DELAY Washington, March 30: Plans for prompt organiza tion of the House when it assembles on Monday so that there may be no unnecessary delay in hearing President Wilson's address were made by the Democratic caucus to day when the Ways and Means Committee was instructed to report Democratic committee selections directly to the House. This provision will eliminate the usual delay of sub mitting the selections to another caucus and was made in the interest of saving time. MORE RAILWAYS WANT HIGHER RATES Washington, March 30. Traffic officials of virtually all southeastern railroads at a meeting here to-day decided to join eastern, western and southwestern railroads in re questing the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit a general advance in freight rates of from 10 to 15 per cent. BRITISH CAPTURE ROYAL COURT London, March 30. The capture by the British of the town of Ruyalcourt, about eight miles east of Bapaume is reported by Reuter's correspondent at the British head quarters in France. I. C. C. AGREES TO INCREASE Washington, March 30. lncrase of about five per cent, in freight rates on all classes moving east and west byway of rail and ship lines over the great lakes, went into effect to-day when the Interstate Commerce Commis sion declined to suspend tariffs proposing them. MAY STOP TELEPHONE EXTENSION New York, March 30. Temporary embargo on tele phone service extension throughout the country may be come necessary in order to hoi din reserve facilities that may be needd by the government, it was said here to-day. TO STRENGTHEN PANAMA FORCES Washington, March 30. Strengthening of the mili tary forces in the Panama Canal zone was ordered to-day by the War Department. MARRIAGE LICENSES Joiirpb Samuel Slmennen and .Vane llarrlNhuric. NyhfMvr Falrbuiika anil IXelln Matthew**, Nt*elt