223 RECRUITS FROM HERE IN LAST TEN DAYS Nearly Equal to Total Enlisted in 1916; Breaking Records Captain William F. Harrell, of the local recruiting station this morning declared that despite the large num ber of recruits making application for enlistment tho American people In general do not seem to realize that the nation Is really at war and that a for mal declaration of war has been is sued. Many recruits from the outly ing districts do not seem to be able to grasp tho fact that they may be needed for real action, although with some of them that Is tho chief at traction, "Tho average man will rather aeo active service that to be held at a station in time of peace," Captain Harrell says. Acting upon the authority of the War Department colored applicants can now bo accepted for original as signment to the infantry or cavalry. The requirements have been made easier and men who can neither read nor write will bo accepted provided they can speak the English language. 223 Tills Month In a report made this morning to the War Department for the first ten days of April, Captain Harrell was able to report a total of 223 enlist ments. For a corresponding period in February onlv 36 men were enlisted from this station. This total for April almost equals the entire number of men enlisted during 1910. Quartermaster Quirk of the recruiting station this morning left on a trip through the Cumberland Valley to Interest young men In the advant ages of the navy. During his absence the local station will be in charge of Charles Rife of the naval reserves who came hero this morning. He was ac companied by two Jackies on a leave of absence from their ships stationed in Hampton Roads, near Norfolk. WeU!®SH Don't Witt Till You're RRANDRETH D PILLS I <2 OK Q © at Ni(ht I will clean out your system and ■ preserve your health. 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From First Page] board, that tho Auditor General as a member would be placed In the posi tion of being required to pass as au ditor on the correctness of his own expenditures, which the Governor said lie believed to be Irregular not In conformity with good business principles. Tho Qovernor In his message cites numerous Instances, Including those of tho Civil War, In which similar funds were placed solely at the dis posal of governors. Other States, he points out, are even now doing this. A bonded Indebtedness will be re quired to raise the money proposed, tho Qovernor says. Gives Hl* Heaxon* The Governor sets forth his con clusions as follows: "Under these circumstances. In order that there shall be no further delay In placing Pennsylvania solidly and pa triotically In line with the National government in defense of our national honor and li) protection of our people and industries, I hereby express my wilingness. if in Jour judgment you so consider it wise, to have a similar board, made up of the Governor, the lieutenant Governor and the State Treasurer, all of whom are State-wide elective officers, to act as a disburs ing body as provided in the proposed loan bill. The other surviving State wide elective officer, namely, the Audi tor General, Is not included in this list for the very important and neces sary reason that it Is incompatible with good public administration to have any official expend money and subsequently audit his own expendi tures. The law places upon the Audi tor General the important and neces sary obligation of auditing all expendi tures made under these or other Acts of Assembly in which money is ap propriated for any purpose whatever, and for that reason it is not deemed wise that he should be included in the Board which will expend the money but that he shall be left free to be the auditor of the expenditures of the other officials herein indicate*!." Message Debated Debate on the motion to submit the message to the appropriations com mittee brought out expressions of pa triotism from Senator Jenkins, Sena tor Eyre and Senator Vare. The mo tion of Senator Eyre referred to the message as a lecture to the Senate. This brought Senator Jenkins to his feet with the assertion that the time for a message from the Governor was ripe; that Pennsylvania should take her place at the front of States In the war movement. "The people of Pennsylvania want the Legislature to act," said the Ger mantown senator, "and why should we delay action. lam opposed to the disposition of the message as provided by the motion of the senator from Chester. lam no new convert to pre paredness and upon the sinking of the •Lusitanla urged legislation to that end." Senator Vare believed, in the ab sence of senators who had already started home it would be best to re fer the message to committee. He re cited the action of his brother in join ing with Democrats in the enactment of war measures in Congress. He re pudiated the language of Senator Eyre in referring to the message. Replying, Senator, Eyre said that he stood second to no man in his loyalty to the State and nation and would not play second fiddle in the movement of preparedness, being will ing to vote for $200,000,000 as Penn sylvania's share toward the prosecu tion of the war with Germany. Sena tor Jenkins retorted with tho remark that the Pennsylvania Snate wasn't going to be a war orchestra, it was going into the war movement to the music of drums. Senator Eyre went on to say that he was not a Penrose-McNichol sena tor nor a Brumbaugh-Vare man. He represented the Nineteenth district and was in the Senate for the pur pose of serving the best interests of the State. The motion to commit the message to the committee prevailed and it is "expected action will follow at the Senate session next week. . The Sen ate adjourned until Monday at 9 o'clock. PROMPT ACTION IS EXPECTED [Continued From First Page] mittee with prospects of prompt action by Congress. The bill also contains a provision giving the Secretary of the Treasury authority to issue, as needed, $2,000,- 000.000 in one-year treasury notes to anticipate the tax receipts which will result from the war revenue bill. 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Even the most sickening cases are often relieved in from 2 to 5 days. H. B. Denton & Co. (not Inc.), Beards town, 111., are so anxious to show you what their new remedy will do that for 10 cents they will send a regular full sized (hot a sample) package to your address. Send Just a dime, feut write to-day. Only one Introductory package to a family. • . GERMAN PLOT IS SEEN IN BLAST [Continued From First Page] lng, from the explosions yesterday at the shrapnel-loading plant of the Ed dystono Ammunition Corporation at North Eddystone, near Chester, place the number of dead at 12", the majority girls and young women. Between 125 and 150 men, women and girls were In jured, at least ten being so burned and torn by shrapnel fragments that death was momentarily expected. Twenty-three others employed in the structure which was blown to splin ters are missing. Although police and company officials worked through the night attempting to establish Identities of the dead they were hampered by the condition of the bodies and the fact that the time book, recording all employed in tho structure, was destroyed by the first blast of the explosion. Some of the victims, com pany officials believe, were blown into the Delaware river, so that an exact calculation of the death list may never be possible. The energies of investigators to-day concentrated on sifting the narratives of survivors. Four separate investiga tions were begun: Federal, State an<F municipal .and an inquiry by company officials. The entire force of special agents of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation in Philadel phia was assigned to running out a maze of leads, many of which were ad mitted to bo based mostly on rumor but from which Information of Impor tance might be developed. Captain Walter Wllhelm, general manager and vice-president of the mu nition company, started a separate in quiry, while police of Philadelphia and Chester Investigated several angles of the disaster. The Stpte investigation is in charge of Iew palmer, chief of the Bureau of Inspection of the State De partment of assisted by a corps of inspectors. Gangs of laborers, guarded by pick ets, worked until an early hour to-day clearing away the wreckage of tlio "F" building. Work was resumed as usual to-day in all departments except the box, loading and shell base depart ments, which were housed in the ruin ed building. The plant will be in com plete operation on April 24, it was an nounced. When the extent of the disaster was realized, Chester citizens immediately began raising a subscription fugd for the Injured and their families. Five thousand dollars was subscribed in a few hours, and measures were adopted to increase this amount. Officials of the workmen's compensation fund an nounced that the State would be call ed on to furnish but a comparatively small amount, as most of the victims were young women with no depend ents. Instances of conspicuous bravery | were numerous during the work of : rescue. A short distance from the site of the building destroyed is the smoke less powder magazine of the company, while nearby, in the opposite direction, is the building where the shells are charged with smokeless powder. While the exploding shrapnel filled the air with thousands of bullets, a force of guards stood coolly on the two en* dangered buildings and played streams of water on the roofs and sides to pre vent additional tires with resulting ex plosions. RGVISB 1,1 ST OF DEAD After making a careful investiga tion, W. M. Wilhelm. general manager of the murtitions plant, said this af ternoon that llti are dead as a result of yesterday's explosion. Forty-six of the' dead have been Identified, but the remaining bodies are so badly mutilated that identification Is almost impossible. Between fifty and sixty injured per sons remain in the hospitals and of these eight are so seriously hurt that they may die. In addition persons not connected with the plant have made Investigation and report that thirty six are missing. Many of these, if not all are'thought to be alive. Plan Public Funeral Arrangements are being made by the Chester authorities for a public funeral for the unidentified victims of whom there will be. it is expected, nearly seventy. Two arrests of suspects were made here to-dav and two are reported from Philadelphia, one of the latter a man said to have been employed in an Ed dystone hotel, but who left before the explosion. About 300 employes, scared away by the explosion, failed to report at the plant to-day. The authorities are re ticent and nothing can be learned as to the charges against the persons ar rested. HARRISBURG BOY CRUSHED IN BLAST [Continued From First Page] who worked beside him until to-day, just before the explosion. Harrisburg Killed "He was a fine-looking chap." Hy dock said, "and I had often wanted to ask him where he came from. Yester day I had a chance, and he had just said Harrisburg when there was a low boom and our room was brighter than any light I ever saw. We were all on our feet, and the Harrisburg lad fell backward. "I stopped to catch him, then those behind mo started to push forward to ward the door. It was a terrible crush and jam, and two of us went through the door at the same time as though we had been tied together doing a lock step. Behind us came the others who could escape. Then the sound was deafening and the heat more intense. It was hotter than any heat I ever imagined one could feel, but as we got into the open we almost staggered at the change In the air. One man, Arthur Bergy, was able to give a detailed description of the scene. "Superintendent Sheppard, of the loading room, is the one man who can tell It the explosion was an accident." said Bergey. who was one of the load ing bosses, last night. Bergeji, a for mer newspaper photographer, has been working at Eddystone for some months and was In the center of the room when the disaster occurred. "No more than two boxes of powder were permitted to be opened at one time." he said. "The first thing I heard was an explosion. Then came the flash of fire and at the same In stant a second explosion of the same volume. With It the roof of the build ing lifted and came crashing down on the girls In the pellet room as the third explosion followed. "What caused the three explosions? If only two boxes were opened accord ing to the rules, it would seem there should have been only two explosions. Superintendent Sheppard had charge of the distribution of the boxes and knows how many boxes were passed into the room and how many were open. "With the first explosion I started for the door, and the man ten feet behind me had his hair burning when he reached the yard after me. I stop ped for nothing. Ai any of us thought of was safety. We had reached the deadline wires in the yard when the third detonation came, and we stopped and looked back, undetermined what to do. "Then came the fourth and most ter rible report, and with It the flying of the shells. As the ground began to plow around us we bolted through the wires and took refuge, while the fifth and last rain of shot and shell poured out upon those who had escaped from the building. ' # "You must bear in mind the powder In those shells is strong enough to throw them two miles after their ex plosion. They carry powder good for five miles to carry the shell and an additional two miles for the shrapnel, a total projector force of seven miles. The powder used will not explode on concussion. Heat will Are them, but time fuses are only put on when the shells reach Russia." HXRIUSBUKG CAfeft* TELEGKXPH Dr. Newell D. Hillis, Famous ' Orator and Writer, Will Address Commerce Chamber Dr. Newell Dwiglit Hillis, the fam ous orator and writer of Brooklyn, New York, will address the member ship of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce on May 2. The place where the meeting will bo held and whether it will be a luncheon or evening meeting have not been de cided as yet. Dr. Hillis is one of the most noted speakers in America and 3 B clothing industry recognizes that ready-to- j i A wear clothes reach the highest degree of fit and || J | expression in Society Brand models. The influence |j j : j| | of these styles for Spring will be seen in the general | , j| |] trend of clothes next Fall. 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Marks & Son Market Sts. jll THE STORE THAT BELLB SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES j J t- | the officers of the Chamber of Com | merce feel that his coming is a very I fortunate event for the membership as it is seldom that such a great orator comes to Harrlsburg. Dr. Hillis is going to address the Chamber of Commerce in connection with ac tivities of the National Aasociatlon of Manufacturers who are devoting a great deal of effort to industrial con versation, a subject which has enlisted the sympathy of Dr. Hillis. DRKODAL IS NEUTRAL The Uruguayan government to-day is sued a decree of neutrality In the war between the United States and Ger many and between Cuba and Germany. APRIL 11, 1917. MEARKLK MOTOR IIILIj IS PASSED BY HOCSK An attempt to amend the motor vehicle bill before the House on second reading so as to compel a device on the rear to indicate at night when a turn to the right or left is made was defeated. Another amend ment to the bill which would exon erate from payment of registration fees by city and county official cars was also defeated. Tfie House concurred In the Senate resolution providing for changing the names of all State lunatic, insane and feeble-minded 4nstitutions. Roosevelt Outlines in Full His Plans For a Division Washington, April 11.—Theodore Roosevelt, following a day of con ferences with President Wilson and Congressional leaders regarding his project for raising a division of troops for foreign service and seeing numer ous callers, arranged to leave for New York to-day. Colonel Roosevelt also arranged to communicate more fully in writing his views on his project to the chair men of the Senate and House military committees. 5
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