l/ T . S. Government Expects To Have 10,000,009 Men Registered For War Semes , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH __ 3Thf iStnr- 3nt>cpmftfnt LXXXVI— No. 133 14 PAGES FIRST DRAFT WILL CALL 1,500,000 MEN TO COLORS 625,000 MEN TO GO INTO CAMP FOR TRAINING THIS SUMMER o Provost Marshal Crowder Favors Immediate Draft ing of Eligibles Rather Than Postponement First Agreed Upon CHANGE MADE TO SEND MEN TO FRONT First Conscripts Will Be Put Into Training Camps For Intensive Instruction by September 1 By Associated Press Washington, June 4.—Plans of the war department to draft from ''oo,ooo to 1,500,000 men of the 10,000.000 who it is esti mated will register to-morrow for the new army, werq disclosed to-da_v by Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder to the Senate Mili tary Affairs Committee. Ex emptions, he said, probably would result in reducing the number to 625.000 men for im mediate service. While the War Department has originally planned to first select 500.000 men, General Crowder told the committee the plans have been revised and ; t now i> proposed to require 625.- 000. To secure this number he said it probably will.be neces sary to draft at least a. m. Moon: Full moon, June R. River Stage■ 5.7 feet. Veaterday'a Weather HlKheot tempeurnture. 7H. l.oneat temperature. 4. lean temperature. 70. Auraial tempernture, 07. , CITY, COUNTY A NATION READY TO ENROLL FOR ARMY Men Guilty of Treachery' Against Country Will Face Death on Conviction in Federal Courts SLACKERS ARE GIVEN A FINAL WARNING Returns Are Expected to Show Ten Million Men| Are to Be Subject to Con scription Washington, D. C., June 4.—Final I preparations for the registration of 'more than 10,000,000 voung Ameri -1 cans next Tuesday for war service i i and for the prosecution of the dis- I [ loyal who attempt to interfere with 1 'the registration went forward to-da> I lat the offices of Brigadier-General! Crowder, provost marshal-general, j and Attorney General Gregory. Into the ol%ce of General Cro>vder ; will come the reports of the state | officials who are conducting the titili- i lary census. Probably by midnight Tuesday it will be possible to state ' with approximate accuracy the num- j l>er of men who have presented themselves during the fourteen hours ! jof registration. A week later the lists of the registrars will have ! reached Washington und further an- j j a lysis will be possible. Traitors Eacc Death AVith Instances of agitation against army registration multiplying as the date for the enrollment approaches, the Department of Justice has adopted the policy of fringing the | charge of treason, punishable by I oeath, against the persons who most j flagrantly and openly advocate a re j fusal to register and h resistance to , conscription. Final warning against evasion of I the draft registration to-morrow or ! attempts to induce others to evade it | has been issued by Attorney General j Gregory. He said he expected a few ■ men in each 'community to refuse to 1 tegister, but anticipated no resort to | force to prevent execution of the law. "It is the duty of thi'- department I (o prosecute evaders and it is pro | prosed to do so," said the Attorney I General. "I expect no resort to force to I prevent registration. It any indl | vidual should attempt it. he will be I promptly dealt with, i "In almost every community there ; will be persons who will attempt to j evade registration. One class will | consist of weaklings who lack the i physical and moral courage neces sary to face the possibility of a tight, and another of those under the in ' fluence of men and women beyond ! the conscription age who are en deavoring to dissuade young men ! from registering. Some of the per | s,ons exerting this influence are , i wholly disloyal: others are lacking j in patriotism or an appreciation of : the needs of their country, and are animated by a fear of the possible . loss of members of their families. "The young men of the country i who come within the provisions of | the conscription act are brave and I inherently loyal. They are ready and < willing, in nearly every instance, to answer to the nation's call and do : their part in protecting it from a foreign foe." Resistor On Homecoming Tt was announced to-day that the requirement of the new law that the j registration cards of men absent ! from their home precinct reach the I precinct registrar by June 5 would not be enforced against Americans abroad. Instructions sent to Ameri- I can consuls, accompanying resistra j tion cards, however, ask those who j fill out the blanks to set them back I to the registrars as quickly as DOS | dbte. The regulations provide that i Americans returning to the United States must register witliin five days | after their arrival at an American I port. Registration at the consulates | abroad, however, is purely voluntary j and cannot be enforced while the j citizen remains out of the country. | Four Guard Regiments Will Go to France Philadelphia, June 4.—Four Penn sylvania regiments have been select [ ed to form part of the forces which ! are expected to serve in France, says the Public ledger this morning. These are the First, Third, Thir teenth and Eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry. On July 15 they will re linquish their present duties, which consist of guarding rail and water lines of the state and industrial plants and leave home for "some ! where at the front." None of the ; commanders knows now just where they are to be sent, or if they do mil itary exigencies prevent the an nouncement. Their work, which now consists of guard duty and policing railroad lines. Industrial and munition plants and inland waterways, will be taken over by the home defense organiza tions throughout the state. The order to these regiments came from the War Department Saturday At the First Regiment armory every man from Lieutenant Colonel" Brown down to the humblest private in the | ranks welcomed the news and their eyes glisteued at the thought of aet | lve service In the trenches. Many Patriots Volunteer to Help Get Out the "Vote"; Every Barroom in the City Will Be Closed NO TROUBLE IS ANTICIPATED HERE Nonresidents Made Rush to Sign Up; Polls Will Be Open From 7 o'clock Un til 9 in the Evening Tlio fire bells of the city will j strike the hours to-morrow from 7 o'clock in the morning until it o'clock in the evening. 'l'his order was issued to all the lire companies to-day by Fire ) Chief Klndler. The beds will ! recall to all men coming within the provisions of the conscrib tion law their duty to appear at the registration places to l)C en rolled. 1 Preparations for any antidraft reg istration campaign, announcement j that all local bars will be closed to j morrow in compliance with the re- | quest of Mayor Charles A. Miller, and i offers from many residents of the i city and county to co-operate wher | ever it is possible were the final de- I velopments as city and county regis jtrars and registration boards prepar jed to enroll the men between the i ages of 21 and 30 years, inclusive. | City and county officials do not an ticipate any uttempts to escape regis ; tratlon or any refusal, but intimated that should this happen, stringent measures will be adopted and arrests I made at once. Heady For Returns Arrangements have already been I started at the Courthouse for the returns from each city and county i district so that the tabulations can Ibe started early Wednesday morn ing. Need of personal workers, au tomobiles, interpreters and clerks by i the city and county resulted in some 1 volunteers offering to serve, but many more can be used. Final instructions with orders for slight changes in some of the forms tor tabulation and in the require ments of the registrars were receiv |ed and will be transmitted by the local boards at once. Bars W ill Be Closed Stanley G. Jean, secretary of the Dauphin County Liquor Dealers' Pro tective Association, announced last | night that the licensed dealers of the city and county will close to morrow during the bonis of enroll ! ment. It is understood also tjiat a number of licensed clubs throughout the city and county will take similar i action. Want Men Exempted In the churches yesterday pracli ; cally every Protestant and Catholic minister called the attention of the I congregations to the registration to | morrow. Special sermons and pa triotic services in the morning and i evening voiced the co-operation of .the clergy of the city and county. | Among the pastors who spoke at length on the draft were the Rev. 1 Dr. George Edward Hawes, of Mar ket Square Presbyterian Church; the I Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker, Stevens Memorial Methodist: the Hev. Dr. Robert Bagnell, Grace Methodist, while other ministers brought the ! question into their sermons indi ; rectly. Efforts of the Bell Telephone Com jpany and the Western Electric Com [ pany to win exemption from con scription for all their employes has been submitted to the Department of Justice at Washington. Form letters i have been sent out to employes of I the companies named, instructing ; them how to answer questions 7, 8 and 12, pertaining to employment and exemption claims. A somewhat I similar move, it is understood, will jbe made by the Harrlsburg Pipe ! and Pipe Bending Works, where | hundreds of employes are at work | making shells. Long Une to Register | To-day was a record-breaker at the office of City Clerk R. Ross Sea j man ofr signing up nonresidents and persons who will be out of the city j to-morrow. Long before the office opened the men lined up in the hall and during the morning City Asses sor James C. Thompson, with a num ber rf clerks of city offices, Mercer ! B. Tate, J. William Bayles and B. I Frank Nead, of the subboards, as j sisted in the work. Another crowd I kept County Clerk Ed 11. Fisher, of the county board, with assistants, j working during the day. Few of the men registering claim led exemptions, many of them not i even answering question 12 on the ! registration card. One of the men," | signing up early in the morning, I claimed exemption because he hail j been given a dishonorable discharge I Continued on Page 3] PATIENTS REGISTERED During the day C. F. Snyder, as j sistant clerk to the county commis sioners, took the registrations of a ! number of patients in the Harrlsburg I Hospital. IIARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1917, GERM AN IA AT PEACE 1 (fiovr "Germany after the war will be at peace, and with folded arms will be borne upon the shoulders of her present enemies."— From a speech by Bethmann-Hollwcg. 10,000 PROSPECTS UNDER WATCHFUL EYE OF SALESMEN Surrounding Towns Arc Ex pected to Buy $535,000 Worth of Bonds Lists of prospects numbering 10,-1 000 are practically completed at the j headquarters of the Liberty Loan in: the Board of Trade. Salesmen con-1 fident in the success they have been j experiencing will start out Thursday morning for the greatest drive of the campaign to round up the two million i dollars which is Harrisburg's allot- j nient of the two billion required for j the loan. Allotments to the nearby towns' have been made as follows: Hersliey, SIOO,OOO of which $30,000 has been j subscribed: Hummelstown, $75,000; Millersburg, $75,000; Halifax, $25,000; New Cumberland, $50,000; Dillsburg, $50,000; Middletown, $75,000; Le moyne, $35,000. Flavel 1,. Wright, assisted by Ed- i ward B. Miller and T. Clancy will I speak to a public meeting to-night ! at New Cumberland. Percival Hill. I of Halifax, and Hay W. Brown, of 1 Millersburg. were at headquarters i this morning getting information on how to conduct an effective campaign i in their respective towns. Slight changes have been made in i [Continued on Page 13] TO STANDARIZE THI CKS By Associated Press Washington, June 4. Standard i dimensions for motor truck engines | and transmission machinery under! army requirements have been agreed | upon by leading manufacturers it | was announced to-day by the Society ] of Automotive Engineers, following) a series of conferences with army officers and the council of national defense. 1 ID TO A -*■ Registration Day X JUNE >5 ONE MILLION men in Pennsylvania are privileged to write THEIR own names into AMERICAN HISTORY to morrow. And to ONE man in each district goes the glory of being FIRST to sign up. WHY NOT BE THAT MAN YOURSELF? "The manhood of the country shall step forward in one solid rank in defense of the idesls to which this nation is consecrated." PRESIDENT WJLSON. "ALL MALE PERSONS" AGED 21 YEARS AND NOT PAST 31 MUS T REGISTER. AMERICAN WAR MISSION IS SAFE IN RUSSIAN PORT Arrival Is Announced in Capi tal by Committee of Public Information i Washington. June 4. The Root I mission is safe in a Russian port. Announcement to this effect was , made to-night by the committee on I public information on the basis of I official information received by the | ftate Department. The announce | ment follows: | "The American commission to | Russia, headed by the Hon. Elihu j Root, arrived safely at a Russian port this morning. The Navy De partment, Secretary Daniels stated, received a dispatch to-day announc ing the safe arrival of the vessel [Continued on Page 13] INVENTS NEW AIRPLANE By Associated Press Paris, June 4. Santos Dumont, j the pioneer Brazilian aviator, has in | vented a powerful type of seaplane sor fighting submarines according to ! a Turin dispatch to the Petit Journal. : The dispatch says that the new ma- I chine will be manufactured in the | United States and supplied to. all the ELKI'S ON WAY HOME By Associated Press Berne, Switzerland, June 3, via I Paris, June 4. Accompanied by his i family and his office staff of twelve i persons, Abram I. Elkus, formefr am ] basador to Turksy, arrived here this j evening on a special sleeping car. ) Mr. Elkus went to a hotel where j rooms had been reserved for him. He will rest in Berne for several 1 days before proceeding to Paris. PETROGRAD IS THREATENED BY NEW REVOLT Sailors From Garrison An nounce Warship Will Join When in Rioting CITY IS ALAH ME D Want Provisional Govern ment to Hand Over Ex- Czar to Them By Associated Press Petrograd, Sunday, June 3, via London, June 4. Sailors from the Kronstadt garrison which recently declared its independence of the cen tral government arrived in Petro grad early this morning with the announcement that warships at Kronstadt would come to Petrograd immediately and land men to make demonstrations. Later it was re ported that sailors had landed at Gutuyeff Island, port of Petrograd, and begun an attack. A visit to the Gutuyeff port quarter showed the story of the landing and attack was untrue. However, it was sufficiently alarming to provoke intense excite ment in the city and cause the dis patch to the spot of a military force. Petrograd waited to.day 'for the threatened demonstrations by the Kronstadt warships and as the time passed with no such incident the an nouncement of the sailors who re ported here last night came to be regarded by a majority to be merely boastful talk on the part of ex tremists acting in defiance of the orders of Anatole Lamonoff. presi dent of the Kronstadt council of workmen's and soldiers' deputies. To Sway Klcction The Kronstadt sailors who came to Petrograd said the demonstrations would be for the purpose of bring ing about new elections of members of the council of workmen's and sol diers' delegates, whose present mem bers were denounced as bourgeois. The sailors also demanded that For mer Emperor Nicholas be handed over to them. At street meetings they expressed dissatisfaction with War Minister Kerensky and the whole provisional government, particularly for abolition of tho death penalty, which they characterized as prema ture." On visiting the Gutuyeff quarter the correspondent found that a vast fire had been burning for some tinle, having been partly extinguished. A ) large quantity of sulphur was afire. | There were evidences of a violent ex- I plosion. Windows at a considerable distance were broken. I'lys Kctl Flag It appears that at !i o'clock this j morning the ice breaker Oranien baum, instead of the Kronstadt war ship arrived off Gutyeff. It was fly ing the red flag. On it were sailors and workmen who were singing the hymn of the Bolsheviki extremists. The icebreaker steamed up and down opposite the wharf, took on board a party of Petrograd work men and departed. Simultaneously seven large cases of phosphorous on the wharf ignited. The fire extended to a quantity of salts, causing a violent explosion, after which the stores of sulphur I caught fire and were consumed. No ! one was injured, and buildings close J by were undamaged, except for the J destruction of glass. Inquiries show that it is altogether improbable that | anyone landed from the icebreaker. [ The conflagration apparently was ! Caused either by incendiaries from | quarters other than Kroristadt or, as ! official investigators on the spot sug | gest, by spontaneous combustion of I phosphorus exposed to damp and i heat. Mayor Miller and Head of Local Safety Committee Pleased With Bar's Action Mayor Miller and William Jen nings, chairman of the local commit !tee on public safety, are more than ! pleased with the favorable response | of the Liquor Dealers' Association to I their request to close all bars to ! morrow during the military registra tion. All driking places will be clos ed tight, it is hoped, and while this | association has no jurisdiction over j the social clubs with sideboards the ! authorities are earnestly urging such i clubs to show their patriotism by making Tuesday an absolutely "dry" I day. Clubs which refuse to close i their bars or sideboards will deserve j public condemnation. Italian War Mission Delayed by Illness; Visit Here Postponed J The city's reception to the Prince of I "dine and the Italian party may be i postponed because of the delay in the i start of the party. Signor Marconi lias been ill for several days and the 1 Prince of I'dine became ill yesterday, i The party did not start from Wash ington to-day. as had been planned. The tour, as planed, would have inken nlp.e days, and included Atlanta. Birmingham, New Orleans, Memphis, St Louis. Burlington, lawn. Chicago, Pittsburgh. Marrisburg, Xew York find Philadelphia. It was expected that the party would arrive In this cltv. June IJ. and whether the party will omit part of the itinerary could not be lee rued to-day. SOCIALISTS ARRIVE Py Associated Press Stockholm, vlu London, June 4. ] The delegates of the German ma loiity Socialists to the Socialist con- ' fercpee have arrived here. headed by Philip Schiedemann. T. Statin- i ing, Danish Sociullst minister, with out portfolio, accompanied the dele gates from Copenhagen. TKI'TONS CI,AIM SI CCIJSK H v .4isoitat l'tt Press Sofia, June 3. via Amsterdam to London. June Continued efforts • y the French and I'rU.ish to advance' on the Macedonian front arc report- I ed in th" official statement Issued I by the War Office Sunday. The re-i pulse of all uttucks is claimed. k Single Copy, 2 Cents KAISER PREPARED TO PAY ANY IN MEN TO HOLD ON Germans Continue to Throw Great Armies Against the Allied Lines in France in Bloody Attempts to Regain Ground Lost in Recent Battling; Crown Prince Meets With Some Success By Associated Press There seems ample evidence that the Germans arc prepared to go to almost any length at present in sacrifices-of men to hold the situation on the western front in hand. Along the line held by the French the efforj is taking the | form of almost ceaseless counterattacks both in the Aisne region jand in the Champagne. Although suffering a sanguinary repulse jon Sunday in repeated attacks on the Vauclcrc and Californie ' | plateau, they made a new thrust last night further west, near j Froidmont farm, along the Chemin Dcs Dames plateau. The j Paris report shows this to have some measure of success, the | Crown Prince's troops forcing their way into some advanced | French positions. The British on their front, have not been so frequcnty counter ! attacked, but whenever recently they have essayed an advance they have evidently found dense masses of Germans opposing them. To-day's British official statement I does not mention any further lighting in the vicinity of Lens anil apparent ly General llalg has not pressed fur ther the attempt to advance made there yegterday which was checked by violent counterattacks with heavy forces. In an independent operation further south, near Cherisy, the British last night recaptured the post taken from them by the Germans in an attack on Saturday night. The situation In Bnssia continues extremely uncertain. While better re ports have come from the army at the —■ r ——— 1 : —" . MAYOR NOTIFIED OF UPINE'S ILLNESS jLW v • , ® > from Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, this nffernoon [ notifying him cf the illness of Prince Udine and calling | ; i * I through Harrisburg. If his health impro'veß sufficient- ;J I ■ ' noti ' * t I • Harrisburg.—The stockholders meeting of the Har- 'll l [ ! improv , | Company cut off steam heat from the city mains Sntur- '■ £ m day . |i j H PETROGRAD JUNE 11 f i • jl -ion t: lihu I? | I be 9 P a i ! RUSSIA GETS WILSON'S MESSAGE 1 Washington, June 4. President Wilson's com- ~S| munication to the new Russian government on the war j aims of the United States has been delivered at Petro- | ' grad by Ambassador Francis, but will not be published j<■ '* : for .. 1 I ' 1 1 i > 9 1 under S3OO bail at a hearing before Alderman eDShong lis this afternoon. He is a logger at 116 Sylvan Terrace 1 * PENNSYLVANIA LEADS RECRUITING 1 Washington, June. 4. Regular army recruiting " 1 R fc r ! of new enlistments prill. Pennsyl a 4 ' i £■ S* 54. New Yor: nd with 290; < ; I thin'! i urt r. • ! fifth ■J |j i with 179 and 177 respectively. ' ' — ~ MARRIAGE LICENSES \\ 1111 ii in Henry Lola, HnrrlxbiirK, mitl lllanrbe Cecelia Wilton, En- I hnuti Harold Klnoud Karp. Wanhliiulon, U. ('., and Alva Vloln Mhoop,. I tliirrlaburiti Floyd Uenley l.utc nnil Mary Ktilhryn Uunklr. Harrla-* I burm I'ururll Quick, W T lulrr HI II i Holier! \\ llllnni I lurk. llarrlHhnrK. mid Sadye Marlon Zeld era. Mrt|iorli I.OIIU Itoburli mid SUHIIII ROMII I'arllrr, Slerllon; ( haun eey Arnolt (ruin, \obleavllle. I ml., and Miiry Kllxabeth Heekert, Mil. lerxbiiri;: Hnrvey Aaron Homnaii and Carrie K. Ilott man. Halifax town-a * xblpt Ha., ml Cb:irle llolVmiin nnd ilerlba Irene llonmna, Halifax" > lotvnhl|>. , HOME EDITION i front. Minister of War Korensky de claring it constantly increasing: In power, conditions in Petrograd ar( becoming still move unsettled. The declaration of independence b> K ronstadt, tlie naval fortress neat Petrograd, has been followed by a threat to send sailors from the gar rison of Petrograd for demonstration? against the present council of depu ties. It was even reported yesterdaj that a force of the sailors had land ed at Outuyeff island, the port of Pet r<*Rrad, and begun an attack. Th' was Inter found however, to be ill;- true-