■ vi'. .rwsr—• - I". WfW-lPi 1..'. ~ „ ~, HI '••"•' • u .ient of Eligible Men For Great New Army Passed Estimatm HARRISBURG SS§S& TELEGRAPH . CPic Star- flnfttpmftcnt. LXXXVI— No. 135 14 PAGES REGISTRATION EXCEEDS ALL EXPECTATION Response General Throughout Nation to Call of Govern ment; Number of Men Enrolled Much Greater Than Census Experts Thought Possible; Few Slackers Seek to Evade Duty Under Selective Draft Act REGISTRATION IN THIS COUNTY 1,000 BELOW WAR DEPARTMENT ESTIMATE All Registered but Two in Lower End, Officials Believe; City Enrolls 6,915 While Remainder of District Totals 7,225; Another Urgent Plea Made For Copyists to Help Make Out Duplicates FINAL FIGURES I ON ENROLLMENT EXPECTED TODAY Last Chance Given Men Who Failed to Register Yester day in Good Faith By Associated rress Washington, June 6. Provost i Marshal General Crowder announced this morning that inasmuch as all registrars had been given until noon to-day to make up their reports no entirely complete returns of the reg- j istration could be expected until late i to-day. The provost marshal general also notified all governors that he had interpreted the law to permit any who in good faith failed to register yesterday to do so to-day and an nounced that a liberal policy would be pursued to make the registration complete. General Crowder sent this tele gram to all governors: "Attention is invited to paragraph forty of the regulations which con templates the registration of persons ■who for any reason shall not have been registered on registration day. While scrutiny should be n>ade of each case to determine whether puni- j tive action is required, it is desired for the next few days to pursue a ( liberal policy In this regard in order | that the registration may be made' complete at the earliest possible mo ment. Vonresidents may also con-; tinue to register under the provisions of paragraph sixty-four. If it later appears that the liberality of this policy is being abused more stringent; action \\i 11 be taken. Cards received from absentees after June 5 should [Continued on Page 5] France Much Pleased at Joffre's Reception in U. S. By Associated Press Paris, June 6. A semi-official' note says Marshal Joffre, while in j America, had a conference with Am erican military chiefs at which a plan of organization for the new j American army was elaborated In agreement with the British leaders. The note says: "It will surprise none that the marshal took a preponderating part i in the plan, literally everything, ■which he advised being adopted, i His collaborators styled him 'the godfather of the American army!' " THE WEATHER For Hnrrlnhurg nnd vicinity: I'n- Hfttlrd weather, probably show er * and thunderntorniN to-nlffht nnd Thurftdnv; not much chnnice In temperature. For Ka*tern Pennsylvania: Prob ably Nbower* and thunderMornm to-iilnht and Thurxday; not mueli chanKe In tempernture; j freftli south winds %vlth MqtinllM. River The Branch will rlxe, ex- I rep* thr upper portion will prob ably begin to fnll to-nisrht or Thursday. Other *tream* of the *y*tein will probably full nloiv- I}- or remain nearly ntatlonary. A ntage of about .VI feet la Indi cated for HarrUburg Thumday morning. General Condition* Prennure haa dlmlnlahed xome nbnt, but continue* relatively high In the Atlantic Stnte* noil over the Pacific nlope. The southwestern dl*turhunce haa continued to move northeast ward with Increaalng energy and appeara thla morning an a aevere atorm covering the north-central part of the I'nlt ed State*, with Ita center over lowa. It ha* caused nhowera, heavy In place*, generally In the I.ake Region and In the Ohio, Middle and I/pper >ll**l*- alppl and I.ower Mlanourl Vnl ley*. and local ahower* In the Middle Atlantic and Xew Knit land Statea and in the Plain* State*. Temperaturei R a. m.. M degree*. Sunt Rlae*. 4i2S a. m. Mooni Rlaea, S|4 p. m. River Staget 5.4 feet. Yeaterday'e Weather Highest temperature, 71. I.oweat temperature. .VU Mean temperature, 06. •\ormnl temperature, 88 14,141 ENROLL IN COUNTY FOR CONSCRIPTION City Complete Shows 6,915; Remainder of District Fur nishes 7,226 Returns from all but one of the one hundred and twenty-five dis tricts in the city and county at noon to-day showed a total registration of 14,141. Government census esti mates place the number charged to the district at 15,18t>, indicating that the registration was about 1,000 less than the approximate figures given in advance from Washington. In the city every district was heard from by an early hour this) morning, and the total unofficial fig-> ures compiled from the tabulation j sheets of the registrars are 6,915 fori the fifty-four precincts. At noon Jackson township regis-1 trars were the only ones who had not sent in returns. The other sev enty districts gave a total enrollment of 7,22*>. While cards are being re ceived from a few persons who were at distant points and mailed in their statements, city and county officials do not believe the draft roll will be; increased much by these additions.' Xced Much Help As soon as returns were received from the city districts the members j of the three subdraft registration] boards with the clerks at once began sorting and arranging the thousands of cards for tabulation. As soon as this is completed the sheets for each district will be sent to Mayor Miller, and state officials will be notified. Duplicate cards must be made out also for both the city and county, and another appeal was made to-day [Continued on Page 5] Bible Tells How Moses Chose Males Over Twenty Years For Service in War Yea (bo> verily, it was even so in the time of Moses. Moses registered 'em. pretty much 1 cn the same order as it was done 1 yesterday. This is related in the first chapter I of Numbers. Moses, Ir the second year after the exodus from Egypt, j vas instructed to list the names of j men more than twsnty. The pas-; 'sage, in part, follows: "Take ye the sum of all the con-; sregation of the children of Israel by 1 theii families, by their fathers' | houses, according to the number of! the names, every male by their polls; 1 from twenty veras of age and up- ' ward, all that are able to go forth 1 to war, thou and Aaron shall num ber them by their hosts And with! you there shall be a man of every I tribe. (Here are mentioned the men who are to assist in th ereglstration.) "And Moses and .Aaron took these men that are mentioned and | they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the sec ond month: and they declared their pedigrees . after their ramilies by j their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names from ' twenty years old and upward." Asks If He Will Get Uniform to Suit His Complexion and Eyes The "beauty questions" of the registrars caused considerable bash ful confusion among many of the men that registered for service yes terday. "What color ar£ your eyes?" asked a registrar In the West E".nd. "And do I get a uniform to fit my complexion and the color of my I eyes?" asked the man registering. * i Others just smiled and shut their i eyes so. tight in th effort that the l registrar had a hard time to tell I what the color was. "Do I use the name I had in Rus sia or the one I use in the United States?" asked another applicant. "What is your Russian name?" ' Klowznsk" "Hold on, you'd better give your 1 name in plain United States, perhaps I can spell it. If a woman can change her name when sfte is twenty one, I guess yo ucan, too." "Freeman." "That's better." AMERICAN GUNNER VICTORIOUS IN_SEA FIGHT SURVEY SHOWS BIG INCREASE IN FOOD ACREAGE Surrounding Counties Re spond Splendidly to Appeal . of Defense Committee POTATO ES~ PLENTIFUL Beans and Other Vegetables; Fruits and Other Crops Far Above Normal Through the courtesy of S. R. Coover and other representatives of the Witman-Schwarz Company, which has branches at Lewtstown and Carlisle, the H ARRIS BU KG TELEGRAPH is able to-day to give a reasonably accurate "analysis of fruit and crop conditions in Central Pennsylvania. From these reports especially made for this newspaper it is grati 'ving to note that the response of the people of the Juniata. Cumber land and Lebanon valleys to the urg ing of Governor Brumbaugh and the Committee of Defense in *he matter of food production has been almost universal. ! The survey made by these wide awake representatives in their tours of the entire district shows that | with practically no exception every t county in this part of the state in ' every community has gTven serious | attention to the growing of all sorts ;of crops. Fruit promises to be very . plentiful and there will be an enor : mous yield of vegetables of every variety. The questions which were 11 asked of the various traveling rep resentatives of the firm were regard j ing the increased acreage on all com [Continucd on Page 13] Hope For Battle With U. S. Navy Is Expressed by Berlin Newspapers By Associated Press ] Amsterdam, June 6.—The Berlin j Lokal Anzeiger, commenting on Ad j miral Sims' speech on Sunday at the celebration in London in the first anniversary of the battle of Jutland, says the admiral may rest -assured that the German navy wishes nothing more than a new encounter with Its enemy. The paper adds: ; "Perhaps the latter will be induced ,i to show himself against it. We will i attend to the rest." in his address in London Vice ; Admiral Sims expressed the hope j that if a new battle of Jutland oc -1 curred, the American navy would 11 have an opportunity to take part. Abduction of Munitions Manufacturer Part of a New German Conspiracy Springfield. Mo., 6.—Plans to •bduct a St. Lo'il"? manufacturer of j munitions as a part ci a German iionspiracy to block the shipment of such supplies were confessed here | *o-day to Paul O'Dav prosecuting attorney, by C. G. Pierroi, one of the 1 six men held in connection with the disappearance of Llojd Keet, 14- montn-old son of J. Holland Keot. , wealthy banker. Last Stretch of Toll Road in County Is to Be Taken Over J Tha County Commissioners to-day I decided to pay half of the cost of tak i ing over the Berks and Dauphin coun . ty turnpike running from Hummels ] town to Wernersville. the last stretch of toll roadway in Dpuphin county. ! The State will pay one-half of the | cost of freeing the road, and the coun j ty the other half, after which it is un derstood, permanent repairs and im provements will be completed. Dur ing the last few years toll roads in ! the county have gradually been elimi nated, until only the turnpike from Hummelstown to Wernersville re mained. | The stretch of the road in Dauphin i county runs from Hummelstown to the Lebanon county line, near Pal myra. Definite action will probably be taken next week, hut it is understood I that arrangements are practically complete for taking over the high- I w Ay. Manufacturers of County to Organize For Efficiency Manufacturers of Dauphin coun ty will effect an organization in this I cltv this evening. This organization will co-operate with the State association in pro j moting a proper relation between the manufacturers and the various de partments of the .State government, having more or less to do in the way of supervision of industrial and manufacturing enterprises. Etter Among Harrisburg Boys to Reach France There has been much Interest since ! May 26 in the arrival at some port in ; Prance of the "Rochambeau." upon which sailed several hundred stu | dents of Yale, Princeton and Harvard | for service with th American Ambu lance Corps in France. { George E. Etter, of this city, whose I son. B. Franklin Etter, sailed with the Princeton contingent, was advised to day of the safe arrival of the steamer at a French port. Another Princeton boy who was on the steamer is Broadnax Camerbn a nephew of Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert 1 this city. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1917. r : ! FORMER PRESIDENT SENDS I V J Former President Taft went down to Fort Myer, Ya„ the other dav to visit his son, Charles, whon# he had sent to join the artillfcrv. The young man s act influenced several of his college friends of Yale to join him. FREIGHT WRECK TEARS UP MAIN LINE OF P. R. R. ! i ;24 Cars Scattered Over Road bed Near Devon; Track 1 Is Ripped Out One of the worst freight wrecks | that has occurred on the Philadel- 1 I phia division of the Pennsylvania , Railroad in several years, tied up i traffic to-day for sixteen hours. As 'a result of a broken truck twenty-: four cars of an eastbound freight j •were piled across the four tracks at | Devon. The wreck occurred at 11.30J i last night and up to noon to-day 1 i only one track was open. It was ex- j i pected that the second track would he in service late this afternoon. No person was injured. When the cars piled up the entire : 4-ailroad equipment, including trucks, ities, signal-rods, switches and tele [ graph poles, were torn up for a dis-1 jtance of 200 yards. One bridge! crossing the Harrisburg pike was de molished. Five wreck crews have' been working hard since midnight; to get the main line open. A com-* plete rebuilding of the railroad is! necessary. Rails were twisted out j of shape and ties ground into splin-' ters. One entire train of ballast was; used in rebuilding the roadbed. i The freight train was in charge of! [Conductor F. W. Smith, 638 Camp i street. Harrisburg; Engineman W. I Wagner. All through passenger I trains were sent back to Philadelphia ' and came west over the Trenton cut-1 off. Freight crews held up hy the' wreck were relieved bv trainmen from Harrisburg, Philadelphia and I Morrisville. The wrecked cars were: loaded with coal. Y.M.C.A. War Fund Is Fast Nearing Goal of $12,000 Established With contributions of $11,641, this! city is rapidly nearing the goal of' $12,000 established for it by, the j committee campaigning for the V. M. C. A. war fund. Through the Civic Plub $5,806 of | this amount has been contributed : With a promise of S7OO more. The money will be used hy the Y. ! jM. C. A. to establish headquarters I at each of the.training grounds fori I the new army and to finance work! 1 at the front. Fourteen Are Killed by Tornadoes in the West By Associated Press Kansas City, Mo., June 6. Torna does caused the death of fourteen per sons. the in.iury of half a hundred and much property damage last night in Missouri and Kansas, dispatches from various sections to-dav showed. Perhaps the most severe of the tor nadoes occurred at Centralia. Mo., last night, where five persons were killed, thirty injured and fifty small houses i destroyed. FIANCEE COMES TO FUNERAL AND MEETS HIS WIFE I * Girl Who Journeys Many Miles Finds "Corpse" Living and Father of Two Rabies Coming to this city expecting to ; pay last tribute to the memory of Fphraim Klerner, her "dance/ whose ring rhe wore, and whom she ■ expected to marry in July, pretty 19- j year-old Violet Osborne found in stead that he was still living, mar ried and the father of two children. Miss Osborne yesterday received no (tice that he had been scalded to death and funeral services would be held to-day. She and her mother immediately came to Harrisburg - and I then the double life he has been liv jinj? was unveiled. Miss Osborne, who lives in New ark, N. J., has known Klerner for | almost a year. She received the fol lowing letter, purporting to have been from Elmer Kline, supposed to [Continue*! on Pac 3] j Wilson Asks Brumbaugh to Guard Pennsylvania's Humanitarian Labor Laws By Associated Press j Washington, D. C., June 6.—Presi | dent Wilson to-day in a letter to | Governor Brumbaugh, of Pennsyl vania, openly expressed his oppo sition to relaxing laws bv which safe, j guards have been thrown about la j bor ay war measures, j I feef that there is no necessity j for such action," wrote the Presi dent, "and that it would lead to a. I slackening of the energy of the na j t!on rather than to an increase of it, j besides being very unfair to the la i boring people themselves." There has been a movement in , some states to lengthen hours of l | labor. Samuel Gompers and other i labor leaders have protested. Slackers Who Leave U. S. May Forever Be Barred From American Shores By Associated Press Washington, D. C\. June 6.—Per ; sons leaving the United States to avoid military service would be ex- I patriated and forever barred from the country by bills introduced to- | day by Representative Taylor, of 1 Colorado. Thirty days from the passage of either measure would he given to ! persons who already have fled to re-j turn and make amends. The bills ! were referred to the immigration! committee, which is expected to re- < port them favorably. WIDE REFORMS IN CITY POLICE I ARE SUGGESTED Bureau of Municipal Research After Survey Recommends Changes URGES CIVIL SERVICE' Improvements in Traffic, Vice 'and Liquor Problems Arc Referred to in Detail / v Recommendations of Police Survey Civil service for police force and chief of |>olicc. Ages of police HI time of ap pointment between 21 and 30, with average of 25. Police magistrate to conduct public hearings and take over | criminal cases of city aldermen. Detectives to IK- chosen from j uniformed force and to serve only so long as work is satisfactory. Suitable courtroom for police i hearings in keeping with dignity of city. District attorney or assistant to attend all police hearings. Separate hearings for women with matron in charge; hearing of juveniles out of court. I'rges law or court order to close nil saloons at midnight. Send officers to New York to study traffic conditions and method of handling. Revision of traffic regulations in Harrlsburg. Council asked to instruct police officials to liegin vigorous cam paign against vice, with reports of all suspected places. Motorcycle patrol in suburbs and better lighting of stores in business district at mglit. Introduction of modern record system (which ha* been done in accordance with recommenda i tions). ■ . -* Recommendations for numerous changes in the Harrisburg police de partment are outlined in a voluminous report made to the Chamber of Com | merce to-day by the Bureau of Slu nicipal Research of New York, cm j ployed last fall by the Chamber to ! make a survey of police conditions in I this city. j The report urges the adoption of civil service not alone for the polices department but for the chief of police 'as well. It outlines many minor i changes of methods, the substitution ! of a magistrate's court for the may ! or's hearings and the turning uter to | this magistrate of al! criminal work | now done in th<* alde.'tnan's courts. ! Radical changes in traffic regulations are recommended an 1 council is asked j to instruct the police official? to prr ! ceed at once to break u,) vice condi l tions lin Harrisburg. llow to deal j with tiiis problem is made the subject !of a full chapter of the report. S:nie I of the changes, the sarvey agents ad | mit, svoyld require 'aw or charter re ! vision, but they are regarded aj im i portant enough to warrant legislative | enactment. As a result of the n-r- I vey, a cpmplete new systein cf record- I keeping, including the ilngerpript and i photographic records, has been in j stalled already at the mayor's office land, under the efficient direction of j Earl M. White, Is working out well. Should Wipe Out Vice The experts say that vics exists in Harrisburg, despite numerous police | raids in recent months, and council j is urged to instruct the police to be ! gin a campaign of suppression, wiih | reports required from officers of all ; suspected places on their beat. This : accuracy of some of J-.o reports to . tiie grand Jury is questioned and in structions are recommended to base these reports strictly on the facts, which are then to be seriously super vised by the district attorney with the thought ot procuring evidence on j which to prosecute. With respect to vice conditions, the report has this to say; Policy of "Toleration"' Followed "The statutes prohibit and ihe po lice and constables are requirc under the law to use every effort to supp.ess prostitution and gambling. This fact j is well known, not only by the offi ; cials of the community, but by the general public as well. "Without discussing the relation ot I the elected aonstables to law inforce ment, but dealing sole!y with 'he mu nicipal police force, It may be said that the officials in charge of the (Continued on Page 11) Benjamin M. Nead Honored by Franklin and Marshall Lancaster, Pa., June 6.—At the eighty-first commencement exercises of Franklin and Marshall College to day honorary degrees were conferred as follows: Doctor of divinity, the Rev. Henry D. Darbaker, Pittsburgh; the Rev. Charles R. Hantee, Fort Washing ton: doctor of science, Charles n. t-chaeffer, Allentown: doctor of lit eral ui e, Benjamin M. Nead, Harri®. t'lirg: doctor of laws. Judge Nevin W. Wannftr. Yoik. and James H>>i r; Morr.au. president of Dickinson Col lege. Carlisle. Diplomas were awarded to the gtaduatlng class of s'xty-two me in ters, many of whom were absent, r>e in< In attendance ui the officers training camp at Kort Niagara. Hal.' of the class has enlisted In scmo form of government service. Single Copy, 2 Cents U. S. STEAMER SINKS U-BOAT IN BATTLE Running Fight Lasts Ninety Minutes Before American Colors Float Victoriously Over the Sea; Submarine Fires Thirty-five Shots and Sinks Under Fusillade of Twenty-five Shells From U. S. Guns AN ashington, June 6. A German submarine is be lieved to have been sunk by an armed American steamer in a running tight lasting an hour and a half in which thirty-five shots were fired by the submarine and twenty five by the steamer. An official announcement by the State Department to-day says the steamer's final shot "apparently struck the submarine which raised clear out of the water and stood stern end up for a few seconds. She then disappeared." The department's announcement ; follows: "The Department of State Is ad- I vised by telegraph of an engagement! between an armed American steamer; and a submarine. The guns of the steamer were manned by an Ameri can naval crew. The submarine was first seen at about 7,000 yards. She had a six-inch gun forward and an other aft. She flew no flap. "Upon sight Vif the submarine the steamer hoisted the American flag | and waited for about ten mtnutes. ! I i 1 V -I r 11 1 , 1 • f I <' I > j 3 ' 1 , i I ! < ■ '*■ -' A,. < 1 ' ■ ' '' I' i if f , s a i 1 * r * m & ' ' ' 1 I f • introduced a b:ll in the Senate to authorise ccuntievi? p I > d>, . . . - • • fl ; I i n)l . ; U ] > j 1 present pi;- ' . I MARRIAGE LICENSES I,oar KevrrlNnry and <.nila SHIHIHI. Harrlabur*. (■rorue U. .Mcl'ord, tllnhaplre, ami IVnrl l.orrnr Bandera, Middle own. , Ai>ln Klrknood and Martha Tryman. Hnrrlaburff. !• runcla Joaeph Willinma and Nettle \\a