SPIES INFORM BERLIN OF U.S. NAVAL SECRETS Kaiser Knew of Destroyers Crossing Sea Four Days in Advance By Associated Press Washington, May 26. Four days before the American destroyer flotilla arrived abroad Berlin knew It was f.on the way and to what port it was going, and the day before the vessels steamed Into Queenstown German submarines had strewn mines about the harbor entrance. This startling information, reveal ing that German spies not only still are at their work in this country but that they have a swift and sure means of communicating America' 3 war secrets to the fatherland, came to the Navy Department yesterday in a cablegram from Rear Admiral Sims at London. The admiral said his information was positive. His dispatch was not made public, and for obvious reasons nothing will be given out concern ing how the news came into his possession nor about the precautions which defeated the German plans and enabled the flotilla to speed safely through the mine fields. Hunt Spies The result will be to redouble the vigilance both of the censors and of every agency of the government en gaged in rooting out the spy systejn. Every German known to have been connected with the espionage work of his government already is under arrest or under surveillance. Other arrests may follow at any time, and now that the country is at war and the revelation of its secrets may mean death to its sailors and sol diers. swift punishment undoubtedly will be dealt out to any convicted spy. In announcing Admiral Sims' dis patch the Navy Department, through the committee on public information said: "The department calls attention to this fact as proof that the German spy system is still at work in this country, making imperative the need of secrecy in connection with our naval operations. The premature publication of ship movements is particularly a source of danger." U. S. Leases Allentown Fair Ground For Camp Allentown. May 26.—There will not be any Allentown fair this year. A lease has been signed between the officers of the fair and of the War Department whereby the Govern ment will immediately take over the fairgrounds as a training ramp for the United States Ambulance Corps. Men enlisted as members of the corps will receive their intensive training there prior to being sent to j ■ France. The buildings on the grounds are handy for dormitories, the big grand stand will make an admirable mess hall, the grounds are well adapted for training, the race track is just the thing desired to teach men how to run the motor ambulance. There will be accommodations for 3,700 men, and 2,000 motor ambulances are to be brought here. Millions in Tonnage Sunk by Submarines By Associated Press Paris, May 26.—Deputy Jules Cels created a sensation in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday in the course of the discussion of the interpella tions concerning submarine -warfare by producing statistics showing that merchant ships aggregating 5,400,- 000 tons had been sunk since the be ginning of 1915. After he had giv en details of these figures and sharply criticised the Navy Depart ment in connection with the subma rine question, the chamber decided ; to continue the discussion in secret I session. If we can not please you when it comes to the repairing and " retlnlshlng of your lamps, wind shields, radiators, and other brass and nickel plated fixtures about your car, no one can. We have the finest equipped plant in Harrisburg and vi cinity for replating and refin ishing of all metal work, also gold, jewelry and silverware. Give Fs a Trial Both Phones Harrisburg, . N Everybody Seems To Be Shopping at Schell's Seed Store It Appears to Be Headquarters | For the Patriotic Army of the Garden and Farm Tliey sell everything "under the sun" for the garden. And Then, Too, Everybody Knows That Schell's Quality Seeds Are Absolutely the Best They Grow Better They Yield Better The Store Is at 1307-J3o# Market Street SATURDAY EVENING, War Traffic Will Be Solved by Motor Cars When the government cuts down railroad passenger service to meet the nation's military neods this will, in the opinion of T. J. Toner, Direc tor of Sales of tha Maxwell Motor Company, give a tremendous im petus to the use of automobiles for traveling purposes. "This is not merely a theory I have evolved," said Mr. Toner in his office at Detroit the other day. "Pinna to this end are already tentatively ! under way in the big centers. "I have been advised by business -1 men In New York, for instance, that they expect to be thrown back on the motor oar as almost the only method of making short trips. The automobile, they believe, will soon be an absolute necessity for one who has to do much traveling. "With a million or two men under arms In this country—being moved frequently from one camp to an other or to the seaboard for trans portation to Europe the Govern ment will have to commandeer a large part of the railroad passenger facilities. How far this will effect the general public it is impossible to predict, but railroad traveling facilities arc going to be greatly re- : duced. "The automobile offers the only substitute and I look for its exten sive use by men and women who have to go from one city to another and cannot get railroad accommoda tions. "If this situation had arisen a few years ago the automobile might not have been equal to the emergency. Hut great strides have been made in motor car efficiency and no fear of the automobile falling down on the job need be entertained now. "Just to illustrate motor car de pendability to-day I cite that Max well stock car which traveled 22,022 miles at the rate of 25 miles an hour, without once stopping the engine. "Only a few of the fastest trains equal that running time, and railroad trains have to change engines every few hours. Locomotives can't go 2,200 miles—let along 22,000 without stopping. "I might cite, too, Mrs. Miriam Thayer Seeley, Professor in the Oregon Agriculture College, who drove her Maxwell across the con tinent and back—9,7oo miles—at an average cost of lij cents a mile for gasoline, oil and repairs. "That was 25 per cent, less than the lowest railroad fares —2 cents a mile, which does i\ot include Pull man charges and extras. "The motor car therefore is faster and cheaper than the train as a passenger conveyance. And not only in my opinion, will many of the cars now in use be put in this service, but also conditions will greatly stimulate automobile sales. "The automobile has become, al ready. a necessity in our American life. War. it appears is to make it even more so." IX HONOR OF HOUSE GI'ESTS Meclianlcsburg, Pa.. May 26.—in compliment to her house guests, Mrs. Frank Logan and Mrs. Earl, of Pas saic, N, J., Miss Lulu Coover enter tained at cards at her home In West Simpson street, on Thursday evening. Luncheon was served to: Mrs. Charles Milleisen, Mrs. Arna Walker. Mrs. Clara I. Logan, Mrs. George Coover. Miss Clara Titzel, Miss Anna Longs dorf. Miss Emma Rasehore, Miss An nie Keefer, Mrs. Frank Logan, Mrs. Earl, Mrs. Susan Coover and Miss- Lulu Coover. I \WyWotocG*s/ Judge Your Car by What You Cannot See § Big Four (p~) ? OQC | I 01/U 35 Horsepower | I Light Fours • lalce a llst of requirements such These things, and the millions in as beauty, comfort, convenience, economies effected by Willys- IZ'JZ'. : : !' horsepower and the like. _ Overland's vast production, are Country Club . . ITBS Overland has won the verdict of vital factors in your car although over 400,000 owners after a not visible to the layman's eye. Rig Fours comparison of such items. But they are visible to the lay- If this is not enough to convince man's reason —they are seen in Iws£ !! ! I S' OU then 3 U(^Se your Ovterland continued consistent perform couf .... htjo by what you cannot see. ance —and they are*shown con s? : <' : " : SUII/D SJ-IIT* IN "RA T2J-C. . # ©//v/wv/tr/eV/*t. New York City. To stimulate recruiting 1 a monster superdrcadnaught is being built here in Union Square in the shadow of some of the city's loftiest buildings. The work of construction is drawing great noon-hour throngs and many attracted by the construction work have applied to the naval recruiting station established in the park. The photograph shows the monster vessel in its bed of grass in the park which Is the "breathing place of millions." War Conditions Makes Tire Economy Essential A threatened scarcity of tires dur ing the present season, upon which the war will have some bearing, will at least have the effect of making the motorist heed the advice of the large tire manufacturers in the > proper care of their tires. "We have never advised, from a selfish point of view, that motorists \ glvo their tires every care and atten- j tion," said W. F. Mower, local man- j ager of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber \ Company. "All of the vast amount ; of literature which we have issued ! on this subject has been done with j the Idea of educating automobile! owners in the proper care of their | tires so that they might get the very' maximum of service from them. This applies to all other tires as well as Goodrich. The seriousness of *this| advice will be brought home to j thousands of motorists during the present year, for tli