10 SCORES OF MEN FROM CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA . TRAINING FOR COMMISSIONS IN THE RESERVE CORPS OF THE ARMY — —: —~ Among these young men—flower of the American people—are many residents of the city and surrounding counties who are training for commissions in Uncle Sam's army. If they survive the arduous work at Fort Niagara and gain their stripes they will be ordered to drill the great National Army, which will be called into service about September 1. With reading glass the faces of many Harrisburgers can be distinguished. RAIN FAILS TO DAUNT WORKERS FOR FOOD ARMY Continuing House - to - House Canvass With Splendid Results According: to reports received at the food conservation headquarters, 206 AValnut street, from ward chair men from eight of the thirteen city! v wards at noon to-day, more than one I \th ousand women had signed the j food conservation pledges to elimi nate waste from the household. The. rain in the last four days in terfered somewl. ♦. with the regis trars in their work of enrolling the thousands of worn, l in the city and I county. In addition to the large number' from the city ono hundred and twen ty cards have been received at the headquarters from the borough of Paxtang. It is expected that to- I morrow more boroughs will report and 'lie remainder of the city ward) chairmen will also bring in their first results. The number of cards received so far are as follows: Second ward, 12S; Third ward, 133: Fourth ward, 207; Fifth ward. 63: Sixth ward, 14; Eighth ward. 20; Tenth ward, 2 23; Thirteenth ward. 198. Paxtang bor ough, 120. Total reported for first day. 1,106. A meeting of the committee was held this afternoon in the Y. W. C. A. to untangle difficulties which have prisen in the early part of the cam paign. CHARGED WITH LARCENY Adeline Bailey was arrested last I evening by Patrolmen Fetrow and j Kautz. She is charged with larceny , by Irvln Williams who said she took > sl6. j || The jj Federal jj : 1 1; Machine jj 'jj Shop (; Court and Cranberry Sts. !i ! ! We have Just opened a General ! > j I Repair and Machine Shop at ! > ! ! the above address. We are spe- ! > ! ! clally equipped to do grinding, ! > ! ' bicycle, automobile and general 1j ; , machine repairing. Your Patronage jj Solicited j i i WEDNESDAY EVENING, REGISTRATION CARD FOOD ADMINISTRATOR, WASHINGTON, D. C. I am glad to join you in the service of Food Conservation for our Nation and I hereby accept membership in the United States Food Administration, pledging myeelf to carry out tho directions nnd ad vice of the Food Administrator In the conduct ot my household, In no far as my circumstances permit. NAME aDDRESS Number in Household Do you employ a cook? Occupation of Breadwinner Will you take part in authorized neighborhood movements for food conservation? There are no fees or dues to be paid. The Food Administration wishes to have as members all of those actually handling food in the home. DIRECTIONS Upon receipt of your pledge card by the Food Admi listrator, Washington, D. C., you will receive FREE your first instructions and a household tag to be hung in your window. Upon receipt of ten cents with your pledge card and a return ad dressed envelope, the official button of the Administration and if desired, the shield insignia of the Food Administration will also bo sent you. Plan For Adjusting Labor Troubles Is Discussed By Associated Press Washington, July 11.—A plan for adjusting labor difficulties in estab lishments working on government contracts, under preparation by a special committee of the Council ot National Defense to be submitted to the council for approval within the j next lew days, calls for a stipulation j in contracts tnat labor troubles be ! left to some government agency for t adjustment. | Secretaries Redfield and Wilson, I of the Council of Defense, and Dan- I iel Willard and Samuel Gompers, of | the Advisory Commission, compose j the committee. NONPARTISAN LEADS By Associated Pre.i§ Fargo, N. D.. July 11.—Unofficial : returns from 316 precincts out of a • total of 54 5 in the First North Da kota Congressional district, show that John M." Baer, of Fargo, non partisan candidate for Congress to i-jcceed the late Henry T. Helgesen, is leading his principal Republican opponent, O. B. Butness, of Grand Forks, by 1,230 votes. TO PROBE CRI'GER CASE By Associated Press New York. July 11.—District At torney Swann to-day announced the appointment of James W. Osborne as special counsel to conduct a gen eral investigation of the Ruth Cru der case and alleged police laxity in the search for the murdered girl's body, unearthed in Alfredo Cocchi's motorcycle shop. CONSUL NOMINATED By Associated Press Washington, July 11.—Maxwell Blake, of Missouri, was nominated to-day to be consul general at Tan gier, Morocco. Other nominations were: Wi'.liam H. Berry, William ! M. Croll and Charles R. Kurtz, of Philadelphia, to he respectively col lector, naval officer and surveyor of customs of district No. 11. U. S. to Issue Licenses to Foreign Cargoes By Associated Press Washington, July 11.—Secretary Redfield to-day directed the Com merce Department's division of ex port licenses to proceed with the li censing of cargoes which will leave American ports after July 15. Licenses will be issued on the basis of the President's proclamation and accompanying statement, which de clared that first consideration would be given to American needs, that the allies be taken care of next, and that the neutrals wuuld be held to their minimum requirements. American War Mission to Come Directly Home By Associated Press Washington, July 11.—The Amer ican mission to Russia is expected to return directly home instead of stopping off In Japan on the way. It is deemed very urgent that Ellhu Root, heading the commission, return to Washington as quickly as possible in order to give the gov ern .lent the first hand personal ac quaintance with the situation. DELAY CAMP OPENINGS Bunker Hill Boys' Camp which will be conducted on a farm five miles south of Linglestown by the Associated Aid Societies will not be opened until Saturday it was an nounced to-day. Fifty boys will be taken to the camp and will re main there until September. BOND SALESMEN TO MEET A meeting of the local Liberty Bond salesmen wil be held to-mor row evening at the Pennsylvania Engineers' Society. Plans for waging the campaign for tho next loan will be discussed at the dinner. Victor F. Lecoq, Is chairman of the salesmen. XtAIUUBBURG TEjLEOHXPH ! Women Protest Use of Foodstuffs in Brewing Beer During War j Membors of the Woman's Chris- : tlan Temperance Union issued a j : statement from headquarters in this ■ j city to-day as being willing to assist j the Government in the war but pro-' ; testing use of foodstuffs in brewing ! beer. The statement follows: "We, the members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of | Pennsylvania, gladly go on record as ! willing to assist the Government in i every movement for food conserva | tion, but we protest against the Uso j j of foodstuffs in the brewing of beer, j | which makes a waste of food greater h than can bo saved in many homes. I We further recommend that all j | women include a protest in their j | registration against the inconsistency j | of our Government in urging the | | women of our nation to extreme | economy while it refuses to prohibit' the waste of foodstuffs in brewing: I beer. MRS. ELLA M. GEORGE, President. MRS. SYLVIA R. NORRISH, Corresponding Secretary. SUPPORT TRAFFIC MEASURE Representatives of thirteen com panies at a monthly meeting of the Firemen's Union held last night en dorsed one-way traffic in Third and Fourth streets, between Market street and Walnut, and in Walnut | between Second and Third. TWO INQUIRIES INTO RACE RIOTS Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, who has instituted a rigid In quiry into the race riots in East St. Louis, which resulted in the killing of many negroes, several whites and the burning of a large port of the negro section. Governor Lowden says that a thorough probe also will be made into the qpnduct of the National Guard, which, it is claimed made r>o real effort to stop the, riots. Major General Thomas H. Bnrry, commanding the Central Department, U. S. Army, already has a Federal Inquiry under way. Colonel George H. Hunter, Chief Quartermaster, Cen tral Department, Is at East S9. Louis and has begun his investiga tion. He is under instructions to make a full report to Major General Receive Suggestions How Food May Be Conserved | Washington. July 11.—Representa | tlves' of many national patriotic socl ■ eties met with the food admlnlstia- I tion to-day to receive suggestions as j to how they can co-operate In efforts j to conserve the American food supply. | Societies represented to-day include j the National Security League, Boy l Scouts of America, Colonial Dames. I Grand Army of the Republic, Daugh , ters of the American Revolution, Sons j of Veterans, Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Corifed eracy and the National Committee of Patriotic Defense Societies. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hop kins University, nutrition expert, be came a volunteer assistant in Herbert C. Hoover's office to-day. He will prepare a series of articles on the dietary properties of foodstuffs for distribution in American households. Guard Takes Priceless Mirror to Observatory ' Los Angeles. Anonymous threats jto destroy the almost priceless 100- i inch mirror to be used in the giant I telescope at the Mount Wilson obser vatory ied to elaborate preparations j to protect the glass as jt was taken ! up the winding and ruggid trail to the I mountain top j Fearful that a crank or enemy of science might attempt to shatter the i huge mirror, which has taken twelve' years to make since the rough case ' was cast in St. Gobain, France, guards were placed in advance and to the rear of the motortruck that took the mirror on Us dangerous journey to the ob servatory. No mishap marred the trip to the mountain top. The mirror will be in stalled in the Mount Wilson observa tory within the r.ext three months. Completion of the big telescope is ex pected to open up a new era of astron omy. Germans Reconciled That Present Is No Time For Offensive Against Allies By Associated Press Copenhagen, July 11. Major Moraht, military correspondent of the Deutsche Tages Zeitung, asks in a press article whether the mo merit has arrived for an offensive by Germany and concludes that for the present one is Inadvisable. All Ger many, he says, longs to hear the yell of the German armies in a big drive, but it is doubtful whether the neces sary numerical superiority can be concentrated against any particular front to push an offensive through to real success. Partial success, Major Moraht says, is costly and useless and the general staff therefore, is well ad vised in not attempting a big at tack on the western front. Founder of National Editorial Association Dies By Associated Press Minneapolis, July 11. —Col. Benja min B. Herbert, of Chicago, founder of the National Editorial Associa tion, who was taken suddenly ill Monday night, died at the University of Minnesota Farm School Hospital last night. Death was due to heart trouble. Col. Herbert had been attending the National Editorial Asociation's convention here, FOUR PATROLMEN" ILL Four patrolmen on the police force are ill at their homes. Sev i oi the men have been serious ly ill for some time. Deskmun Charles Fleck, 132 Verbeke street, is still unimproved. J. H. Rineer, 705 North Eighteenth street, who was lacerated on the arm by a ne gress whom he was arresting is un able to use the injured member. The wound became very sore. John Gib bons. 707 South Tw<inty-flrst street, 1* ill with complications. Dennee Bibb, 631 Boas street, underwent an operation at the Harrisburg Hos pital and has since been unable ta report for duty. ALLIES TO DISCUSS WAR By Associated Press Paris, July 11. —The forthcoming conference of the allied governments to be held here will consider not only the question of the Balkans but everything regarding the conduct of the war, according to Excelsior. The vurious governments have not yet designated representatives. EDUCATORS MEET By Associated Press Portland, Ore., July 11.—A na tional section conference on exten sion education started to-day and general business session of the Na tional Education Association was suspended for the day. RAIN CONTINUES By Associated Press Philadelphia, July 11.—The un usual rainstorm which began early last Monday morning, continued here to-day, with no prospects of clear wpather until to-night or to-mor row, according to the weather bu reauv T3o far 3VS Inches of rain have fallen. JULY 11, 1917, Autoists Favor Law Prohibiting Parking of Machines Down Town The Introduction of an ordinance yesterday, which, when approved linnlly, will prohibit parkins of autos and other vehicles in Third and Fourth streets, between Market and Walnut streets, has resulted in much commendation not only from the sponsors of the move, but from many autoists. Parkins in Third and Fourth streets has long been one of the sources of the congestion in these two streets, and at the downtown in tersections at Market and Walnut streets. The Firemen's Union has frequently called attention to the danger in permitting: parking here, and police authorities, too, have ask ed Council to act at various times. It is not believed any serious objec tion will he made to the final passage of thj law. Morrison Movement Meeting Postponed Announcement was made to-day that the oratorical program to be given in the Second Baptist Church on Thursday evening under the au spices of the Morrison movement, lias been cancelled indefinitely as President Alexander Morrison, Jr., has been called out of the city. Ar rangements will probably be made later to give the program. CENSOR HITS HARDER By Associated Press Copenhagen, July 11. Die Zukunft, Maximilian Harden's publi cation, now has been suppressed for the remainder of the war, according to the Berlin Tageblatt. Herr Har der has been mobilized under the auxiliary civil service law and will be employed as a military clerk. The government some time ago had planned to take this action but lack ed the courage. Dr. Beck Says Hot Sun and Heat Weaken the Eyes Tells How to Strengthen Eyesight 507° in One Week's Time in Many Instances A Free Prescription You Can llave Filled and l c at Home New York, N. Y. Do you wear glasses? Are you a victim of eye strain or other eye weakness? If so. you will be glad to know that, ac cording to Dr. Beck, there is real hope for you. He says that exposure to sun, smoke, dust or wind often produces eyestrain, and people living in warm climates should frequently bathe the eves and be careful to protect them from extreme light. This prescription will prove of great value to many eye sufferei-B. Many whose eyes were fail ing say the have had their eyes re stored through the principle of tins wonderful free prescription. One man savs, after trying It: "I was almost blind; could not see to read at all. Now I can read everything without my glasses and my eye* do not water any more. At night they would pain me dreadfully, now they feel fine all the time. It was like a miracle to me." A lady who used It says: "The atmos phere seemed hazy with or without glasses but after using this prescrip tion for fifteen days everything seem ed clear. I can even read fine print without glasses." It Is believed that thousands who wear glasses can now discard them in a reasonable time and multitudes morn> will be able to strengthen their eyes so as to be spar- Italian War Mission Safely Reaches France on Way Back Home By Associated Press Bordeaux, July 11.—The Prince ol Udine, who with the other members of the Italian mission to the United States had arrived in France, said to-day to a representative of the France De Bordeaux that the visit to the United States had been an entire success, .adding: "I am in a hurry to resume com mand of my torpedoboat destroyers but I am glad to have been entrust ed with the mission of carrying to the American people the homage of Italy, as Marshal Joffre and M. Vi viani carried that of France. Heart to heart talks among the allies are necessary. There is no other way of collaborating for common victory. Our unforgettable reception from the Americans is a symbol of the resolution that unites the allied peo ples." REAIiTY TR.VX SFERS Anton Gorup to Ilija Stjiponovic, two-and-one-half-story frame, 320 Frederick, Steelton, $975; Harris burg Realty Company to Jeremiah P. Y'ost, lot 17x85, Mahantongo and Heel, $475; Harrisburg Realty Com pany to Clarence E. Griffie, lot 36x 85, Fifth near Mahantongo, $850; A. B. Musser to Katie L. Smith, lot Twelfth, near Walnut, $1; Catherine Mary Hoffa to J. Edgar Rodenhaver, 1310 Xorth Sixth, $1; East Harris burg Realty Company to Alfred £eiber, three-story brick, 60 North Thirteenth, $100; Mary A. Baskin to Annio E. Ellenberger, Market, near Cameron, $1; John E. Balsbaugh to George Hopp, two-story frame out building and lot, Enhaut, $1,800; Tillman H. Bach to Harry A. Dill, brick, . 245 Maclay, sl. Ed the trouble and expense of ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of many descriptions may be wonderfully benefited by following the dimple rules. Here is the prescription: Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto Tablets. Drop one Bon-Opto tablet In a fourth of a glass of water and allow to dissolve. With this liquid bathe the eyes two to four times daily. You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and Inflammation will quick ly disappear. If your eyes are bother ing you even a little, take steps to save them now before It Is too late. Many hopelessly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes In time. NOTE—Another prominent physi cian to whom the above article waa sumbitted said: "Bon-Opto is a very remarkable remedy. Its constituent ingredients are well known to emi nent eye specialists and widely pro scribed by them. The manufacturers guarantee it to strengthen eyesight 50 per cent, in one week's time in many Instances or refund the money. It can be obtained from any good druggist and is one of the few prescriptions I feel should be kept on hand for regu lar use in almost every family." It is sold in Harrisburg by Kenneda*. Keller, Clark aad other*
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