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U. S. TO LAND ARMY IN FRANCE -
WHEN ALLIES MAKE REQUEST
AMERICAN TROOPS
OFFERED FOR ACTIVE
SERVICE IN FIELD
Small Contingent of Fighting Men Will be Placed on
Foreign Soil For Moral Effect; Administration Un
decided Whether to Send Regular Army, National
Guard or Parts of Both Organizations
TIME OF SENDING EXPEDITION WILL
DEPEND ON SHIPPING FACILITIES
Psychological Effect Will More Than Offset Disadvantages
Advanced by the General Army Staff; Training Will
he Given Men Within Sound of Big Guns; Action
to Give America Place at Peace Board
W'ashinvton, May The United States stands ready .o
cnd an army to Europe whenever the allies deem it wise to divert
tlie necessary shipping from transporting food to transporting
men .
H has become known definitely that the government has of
fered troops to the allies, but has suggested that the alarming
shortage of world shipping may make it impracticable to send
theiu at once. In spite of objections of the general staff to putting
any American forces on the firing line before the great war army
has been raised and trained, the administration has determined
that the small contingent earnestly desired by France for moral
effect shall be sent as soon as possible. The general belief here is
that the way soon will be found.
Whether the force first to carry the Stars and Stripes into
battle in France shall be made up of regulars or National Guards
men, or both, has not been worked out.
Good Effect Seen matic advantages far outweighed the
State Department officials have technical and training difficulties
continuously urged the sending of an advanced by the general staff, they
army, solely for its psychological ef- " ave felt that such a step would con
fect, not only in encouraging the al- secrate the United States as a full
lied troops but in discouraging the
Germans. Convinced that the diplo- [Continued on Page 4]
AMERICAN SAFETY
IS THREATENED BY
U-BOAT SUCCESSES
By Associated Press
Washington, May 2. Secretary
Lane told the governors conferring
here to-day with the Council of Na
tional Defense on the part state gov
ernments will take in the war that
the federal government had heard
that 400,000 tons of shipping had been
sunk in the last week by German
submarines.
The destruction. Secretory l.nne
Malil, nu not only threntenlnK the ex
istence of Knuliind and France, hut
a* nliirminK the I nlleil States. Study
of intentions to combat the sabmn
rine menace is helm; diligently pur
sued lu the Interior Department, he
said.
The United States must bullil ships
as rapidly as possible, he told the del
egates.
"If nr don't flccht the war on thr
other side," lie said, "we shall hme to
tight It on this side of the Atlantic."
Secretary l.ane declared he believed
the war would last several years and
that every resource of the country
must he brouKht lato place to brln
It to a successful conclusion.
War May I.ast I.ong
"Many persons thought," said Sec
retary Lane, "that all we had to do
was to issue bonds and that Ger
many would bow her head in BUbmls
[theweather
Fur llnrriaburK and vicinity I Fair
to-nliibt, proliuhly IlKht frost,
with lowest temperature about
!IS ilearers; Thursday fair, with
moderate temperature.'
For Knstern Pennsylvania! Fair
to-niKht, probably IlKht frost
in north and west portlonsi
Thursday falri moderate weat to
northwest winds.
Hlve'r
The North Branch will rlae slight
ly below Towanda. Other
atrenms of the system will fall
nlovtly or remain nearly sta
tionary. A stage of about 4.2
feet is indicated for IlarrlsburK
Thursday morning.
Temperature: N a. m., degrees.
Sum Hlses. 4t7 a. m.
Moon: Full moon. May 8.
Itlver Stage: 4. feet.
Yesterday'a Weather
Ilißhest temperature, SS.
I.owest temperature, 47.
Mean temperature, 32.
•Normal temperature, 57.
United States to Carry American Col
I sion. Nothing could be farther from
| the truth. We do not know when
J this war will end. It may not be a
| one-year war. Personally I believe it
j will last Beveral years. Herbert C.
1 Hoover lias informed this government
■ that Germany has food enough to last
! two years, perhaps longer.
j "Germany has put up the greatest
j light of history and she has the ad
; vantage of now lighting a defensive
I warfare. Don't go back home and
| inspire your people with the thought
that immed.ate action can bring this
| war to an immediate end. Your peo
j pie must look to this year's crop and
next year's crop and the next after
I that.
| "We can't alt'ord to fail In tliln war.
Every man In this country Is Involved
(n tills work mid every man In the
1 country is a Nolillrr. The French hope
; to break donn the morale of the (>er
mnn armies. Our concern Is to see
to It that our own morale rises."
Hollweg Postpones His
Proposed Peace Speech
By Associated Press
J Copenhagen. May 2.—The speech
I which was to have been made in the
I Knichstag liy Dr. Von Bethmann-Holl
i weg, the German Imperial chancellor,
! on peace and international relations,
has been postponed to a more lltting
< occasion, according to word received
here.
According to the Berliner Tage
lilatt, as quoted in a dispatch from
The Hague on Tuesday, Dr. Von Beth
mann-Hollweg was to have made a
peace offer in the Helchstag on
1 Thursday. The speech had been
I awaited with the greatest interest
because of an intimation in a German
■ newspaper that the moderation of the
German peace terms would "astonish
the world."
War Risk Insurance
For Merchant Seamen
Urged by Sec. McAdoo
By Associated I'ress
Washington, May 2.—Secretary Mc-
Adoo lias recommended to Congress
tlint the powers of the government
ar risk Insurance bureau be enlarg
ed so as to permit the insuring of
lives of officers and men on merchant
i shlua.
Americans Probably
Will Be in France
Within Three Months
President Wilson's Cabinet
believes that an American
force should be sent to the
!• reach front immediately.
1 here is every indication
the dispatch of United States
troops will take place at a
much earlier date than was
contemplated by the General
Start probably as early as
three months hence.
The Army Draft bill will
not reach a conference com
mittee for several davs. A
compromise is expected on
the age limits, possibly 21
and 35 vcars.
NEW GOVERNMENT
IS DEMAND OF
GERMAN PAPERS
Forecast People Will Turn
From the Kaiser to
Democracy
Amsterdam. May 2.—The Hamburg
er lrcmdenblatt, at the end of a
three-rolumn editorial, comes to the
conclusion that the German political
sysetm is a failure and must be
changed. The paper says:
| "There is no use theorizing. There
| is something wrong with our govern-
I mental system, as is clearly proved
|by Germany's political failures and
jin fact by the whole war. Fresh
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STATE TENDERS
SIGNAL HONOR TO
MARSHAL JOFFRE
Offers Him Freedom of Com
monwealth and Wants
Speech
Marshal Joffre, who will arrive In
this city some time between the
hours of 12:30 and 2 o'clock Tues
day afternoon has been extended the
freedom of the State and an invita
tion to address a joint session of the
Legislature.
The Chamber of Commerce,
through w'hich organization the peo
ple of Harrisburg will be privileged
to see the noted FYench hero and his
party, announced this morning that
extensive preparations are being
made for the reception of the
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All Work Stopped
in Dual Monarchy;
Labor Demands Peace
By Associated Press
London, May 2.—Work stopped
completely throughout Austria-Hun
gary on May Day, according to wire
less dispatches from Berne. All of
the Vienna munition factories were
left idle, while the workers gathered
at sixty mass meetings, where the
food question and the need of Im
mediate peace were the chief topics.
Identical resolutions were passed
at all the meetings demanding peace
without annexation or indemnities.
A procession of 100,000 men and
women marched along the Ring
strasse and from there to the
Prater, Vienna's great pleasure park,
where a fete was held. The dis
patch says there was no disorder
throughout the day.
In Hungary a holiday was ob
served in all the towns.
75 Norwegian Vessels
Sunk in April by U-Boats
Christiania. Norway, May 2.—Sev
enty-five Norwegian vessels were
sunk by German submarines in April
and more than 100 sailors lost their
lives. If such a monthly loss was
maintained Norway's merchant navy
would be destroyed In a vear and a
half.
According to the Central News the
Norwegian foreign office has an
nounced the sinking of the Norwe
gian steamers Hectoria and Lang
land by German submarines. The
crews were saved.
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1917
( —^
PART OF THE ANTI-SUBMARINE COAST PATROL
SUEfr-tsuzurz. CHAstra WMV 1
The submarine chaser Lynx, of which Ensign Blake has command. Is now up for repairs at Hoston after
patrolling; the New England coast on the lookout for lierman submarines. Knsign Blake is a Harvard graduate.
AMERICAN SHIP
SUNK BY U-BOAT
Py Associated Press
London, May 2.—The American steamer Rockingham
has I)een sunk by a German submarine. Thirteen men
are missing.
Two boats containing 33 men were picked up yester
day, one by a patrol vessel. One boat containing 13 men
is missing.
MANY HEED CALL
TO FARM AS FOOD
PRODUCTION STEP
Men, Women and Children
Rally lo Call to Nation For !
More Gardening
i While Harrisburg is sending hun
dreds of men and boys into the U.
S. army and navy other hundreds, '
jin addition to many women and 1
children are volunteering 10 increase
the food supply.
"WAKE UP TECH
THE FARM IS CALLING YOU !
i IK OS MAN. HEICHER, ZIMMER-
I MAN AND BATTEN ARE i
WILLING TO FIGHT FOR
US. ARE WE WILLING TO
DO OUR HIT TOWARDS
FEEDING THEM ?"
This is the announcement that j
| stares every Tech High School boy :
in the face as he enters the corridors
of the Maroon institution.
As a result of the plea that is 1
being made for students to take J
jup farm and gardening work 100 I
students responded to the call in I
1 one-half a day, giving their name I
i and address, and signifying their i
j willingness to go at once to work I
|on the farm. It is understood that !
| oniy those students will be recoin- j
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Survivors of 127 th Pa.
Volunteers to Hold Annual j
Reunion Here Tomorrow
1
The twenty-ninth annual reunion of!
the survivors of the 127 th Regiment.
Pennsylvania Volunteers, will be held
in Post 58 hall to-morrow. 11. C. !
Hemming is the president and N. A. '
Walmer secretary.
This was called the Dauphin Coun
ty Regiment. Eight companies be
longed to the county, and two from
Lebanon, and it was commanded by
j Colonel W. W. Jennings, in the Civil
War.
717 Airplanes Shot Down
in Month of Battling
i ;
London, May 2.—A compilation !
| front British. French and German
I official communiques shows that 717 .
! airplanes were shot down on the
j western front during April. The Ger- 1
| mans lost 369, the French and Bel
j glans 201 and the British 147. This
. is a great increase over the casualties
I for any similar period. The highest
j previous total was 332 in last Sep-
I tembar.
L
DRIVE CONTINUES
WITHOUT SIGN
OF FALTERING
Membership Enrollment Is
! Nearing 0,000 Mark; School
Pupils Join
Without faltering the Red Cross
| membership list has crossed the
15,000 mark and is pulling strong for
the next objective—6,ooo. The total j
is now close to that marl; and !t is I
, expected by the end of the week j
nearly 10,000 will have joined.
Volunteer canvassers are enrolling
I scores, while the enrollments at i
headquarters as a result of the Civic {
i Club campaign in the schools are
growing fast.
| This morning it was announced i
t that the total membership was 5,929.:
j The total receipts amount to SIO,OOO j
: or more, including contributions and
| membership funds. The contribu- j
tions total $4,221.
j William Jennings, one of the lead- !
ers of the campaign submitted a re- j
port from Duncannon this morning!
| stating that 230 members and $230
; have been received from Duncannon i
| alone.
j Late enrollments in the Red '
Cross campaign follow:
Mrs. Anna Snyder, E. R. Miller. |
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1,300,000 Germans Have |
Been Killed in War
j By Associated Press
Amsterdam, May 2. —One million,!
three hundred thousand Germans
have perished in the war, accord
! ing to a statement made by Joseph
Fricdrlch Naunann, formerly a con- I
servative member of the Reichstag. ;
Herr Naunann, lecturing on the "in-
I fluence of the war on population,"
[said in part:
"Until now the war has caused
a loss of 1,300,000 dead. This to-!
jgether with the decrease in birth. (
i gives a reduction of 3,800,000. The
surplus of females has increased !
from SOO.OOO to far more than 2,- i
000,000. The nation has bled as
never since the Thirty Years War."
V. S. SHIP FOLIjOWEI)
By Associated Press
New York. May 2.—An unidenti- '
tied sailing ship, equipped with uuxil- |
iary power and answering the pre
viously reported description of the
Germun raider Seeadldr. intercepted
and followed for six hours an Amerl- i
can steamship. which arrived licit
jio-day from South America
ITTNER CHARGES
ARE DENIED BY
G. W. M'ILHENNY
Refutes Accusations of St
, Louis Architect; Lloyd
Makes Statement
George W. Mcllhenny in an inter
} view and affidavit made public to
day, supported by sworn statements
ot' contractors who built schools in
Harrisburg during the period of Mr.
Mcllhenny's admitted influence with
the school board, denies emphatical
ly and in every particular all the
charges made against liim by Wil
liam B. ittner, the St. Louis archi
tect, and officials of the American
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WOULD SUSPEND
'FULL CREW LAW'
FOR WAR PERIOD
I
Bill Presented Today Would
Rule It Out Until After
Peace Conies
Senator McKee, of Allegheny, in-
I troduced a bill at the session to-day
' which is intended to suspend the
l operations of the full crew act dur-
I ing the war with Germany and for
j six months thereafter. The bill con
tains a preamble which recites that
State and nation are suffering from
a shortage of labor because of the
demand made upon industry by
virtue of the enlistment of large
. numbers of citizens in the army and
| navy.
[ It is set forth t]iut the industrial
situation may be relieved to a large
i extent by the suspension for a speci
| lied period of labor laws. The act to
| promote the safety of travelers and
> employes upon railroads by com
pelling common carriers to properly
i man their trains "shall not be in
force during the time that the gov
! ernment of the United States is in
! war with a foreign government or
j power and for a period of six months
! after the dose of such war," the bill
j recites. It was referred to the torn
: mittce on railroads.
Nine More Survivors
of Torpedoed Vacuum
Land in Liverpool
By Associated Press
Liverpool, May 2.—Nino survivors,
including Captain S. S. Harris, from
; the American oil tank steamer
Vacuum, which was sunk by a Ger
man submarine Saturday, have been
! landed. This makes 27 men saved
I from a total of 45 aboard the vessel.
Captain Harris wired to the ofll
!ces of the Vacuum company that he
j with the third mate, E. D. Husted,
lof Mount Vernon, N. Y„ the boat
swain, and six gunners were picked
| up by a patrol boat and landed.
Lieutenant Thomas, U. S. N., lost
his life by the sinking of the
Vacuum, according to a telegram re
i celved to-day from Captain Harris
by the American consul here, H. L.
! Washington.
Captain Harris also reports that
|S. 11. Loree died of exposure after
' being landed and that A. Donald, C.
J. Fisher and C. F. Luckhum were
lost. Captain Harris "reports that 18
j men of hIH crewr were lost. Eight
.gunners and 18 members of the
[crew were saved,
1.
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CENSOR KEEPS
LID TIGHT ON
LABOR STRIKES
Great Disturbances Rumored From Borders of Central
Empires, But Close Guard on News Channels Makes
Imposible Forming of Definite Opinion Regarding
Seriousness of Situation; Deadlock Reported o*
Fighting Front in France
Beyond an officially inspired dispatch from Berlin stating
that no disorders occured in Geraniny during May Day, the veil
of secrecy which has been drawn over the situation in the central
empires remains unbroken as far as any direct news is concerned.
News dispatches from the German frontier speak of great strikes
and rumors pile up on rumors in regard to the growing unrest
among the Teutonic nations, but there is little that is tangible
an which to base a judgment. Everything points to a crisis hav
ing been reached in the internal affairs of both Germany and
Austria, but the outcome is uncertain.
I he demand for internal reforms is growing louder and more
insistent in Germany and the newspapers are voicing this demand
with a boldness never known since the commencement cf the war.
I I lie one certain thing of significance is that the German govern
jment is proceeding to unheard of lengths to prevent the outside
I world from learning the truth of the situation.
Attack llollwcg
It is reported that Chancellor Von '
Bethmann-Hollweg win make a new
peace offer before the Reichstag to
morrow, but thin is based entirely ;
on a newspaper statement and lacks I
either detail or confirmation. The !
storm of criticism against tlie chan
cellor is steadily growing in bitter- j
ness and from all quarters is heard
the demand for a "strong man" to
guide Germany through the trouble;
which beset her.
The great labor demonstration in
Sweden, which it was freely predict
ed might cause grave disturbances,
took place without any disorder
I ' '
PRESIDENT URGES STATES TO FIGHT
lent Wilson to-day i J
1 ' here that it was the
supreme duty to the United States to co ordinate its , 1
1 ill be vindicated and the world
shown that the government does not live ?n
am. '
, WHEAT AGAIN SOARS 8 '
Chic. : ;o, M. y ? - Rep it the German Chan
t ilor's peace speech had been postponed led to sharp jj J
upturn* in wheat. May advanced 17 cents to $272.
' HOUSE RAISES SALARIES ' '
Harrisburg.—The House to-day passed the bill to
r increase salaries of members of the general assembly 1
I from $1,500 to $2,500 by 134 to 38. The bill was de
feated last week, but reconsidered. 'The House also i \
I passed the bill increasing salaries in the State Banking
Department. .; '
NORWAY LOSES 75 SHIPS i ,
1 Christiania, Norway, May 2. Seventy-five Nor*
weigian vessels were sunk by German submarine I
■ April and more than 100 sailors lost their lives. ?
TO REGISTER 7,000,000 MEN I
Washington, May 2. Election systems will b %
used to register men for army the war depart- f
ment announced txMiay. Seven million men will be Jb
> 9 registered 15 days after the army bill is signed.
Washington, May 2. • Members of the British !
commission to-day declared that Germany has been
putting out peace feelers on condition,of her retaining [
a way through the Balkans to Bagdad.' This has been
refused Prospects of a separate peace with any of ' *
Germany's allies is discounted
, ■ SAVE THE "EYES" OF POTATOES > ■
Harrisburg.—Governor Brumbaugh to-day issued 1
a notice to the public, especially to hotelmen. to save i >
the eyes of potatoes for planting and calling on the >
people to increase the planting of beans. ,
■ ; ____ ■
MARRIAGE LICENSES ,
Seymour Kill* IlraKle and l.lln Slump, Milton.
< Inrrncr Harnra nnd l.aurn Hrunrr, llarrlNliurir
IVtilr .Naram-lr anil 'l'errrln llirdln, Ntrrlton.
Willlr Jnmrn l.atiit anil Kthrl Kritlna Johnson, Harrhknn .
ram-o t iim-y and Katlp Urecn, Hnrrlnbunf. I '
'V' A A ■■ A) |< A j |
being reported and a similar demon
stration in Austria is declared to
have passed peaceably.
(■l'eat Armies Deadlocked
Along the lighting front in France
the deadlock which has existed for
some days persists. The results of
the French offensive have caused
considerable dissatisfaction in Paris
and the minister of war will have
to face the lire of a number of
deputies when the French parlia
ment meets later in the month. In
England criticism is centered 011 the
admiraliiy, the growing submarine
menace rapidly increasing critics of
Sir Edward Carson.