WW V ' V War Department Has Every Preparation Made HARRISBURG ifSfiill TELEGRAPH eijc 6tar- Jnscpcnscnl * " . LXXXVI— No. 171 14 PAGES PLAN FOR DRA WIN TOMORROW IS HOW FIRST ARMY WILL BE SELECTED Details of Great Lottery For Selection of First National War Army Announced by Provost Marshal Crowder; Every Registered Man to Be Informed as to His Order of Coming to the Colors 687,000 SOLDIERS ARE WANTED TO GO INTO THE FIRST TRAINING CAMPS Draft Boards Instructed to Call For Twice Number of Men Needed So as to Allow Hundred Per Cent. For Ex emptions;. Blindfolded Man to Pick Numbers From Glass Globe; No Chance For Unfairness Washington, July 19.—Tust how the drawing is to be conduct ed here .probably to-morrow, to estabish the order of liability for appearance before local exemption boards of each of ten million men registered for war service, was disclosed to-day for the .first time by the Provost Marshal General's office. There will be two drawings, one of numbers from one to one thousand and another of from cipher to ten to form a so-called master key by which the thousand numbers drawn will reach every man in every district. There are 4,557 exemption districts with an average of about 3,000 registrants in each. The largest has more than ten thousand men-registered and the smallest only about 185. In each district each registrant has been given a serial number written upon his card in red ink. How It Will Work For districts with not more than 1,000 registrants the drawing of one thousand numbers will fix definitely the place upon each district list the name of each man. Where a district has more than 1,000 the master key will hive to be applied, thus: If number 898 should be the first number drawn it would rep resent 898 in districts with that many men and less than' one thousand; it would represent 898 and 1,898 in districts with more than one thousand and less than two thousand and so on. The master key will establish the order in which the S9B added to 1,000, 2,000 and so on up to the largest number of thousands in the'dis trict shall be placed on the local lists when the number 898 is drawn. To Call Double Quota Out of the ten million registered, 687,000 arc wanted no\V for the war army. As it is estimated that fifty per cent, of the men called betore the boards will be exempted, each board will be directed to tall double the number of its quota for examination, in the order their numbers appear on the district list after the drawing. Originally the master key numbers were fixed at from cipher to nine, on the assumption that the largest district in the countrv would have less than ten thousand men. To-dav a district in Detroit reported more than ten thousand registrants, making it necessary to have the key numbers run from cipher to ten General Crowder announces also, that local boards will be instructed to call 200 per cent, of their quota at the first call to provide for probable exemptions. That means that 1,374,000 men will be notified to appear for examination wihin the next few davs If more are necessary, they will be called for as needed by the local boards in the order provided for in the drawing. THE WEATHER For Hurrishtirg and vicinity, fnlr to-night and Friday, much change In temperature. For Kasterii Pennsylvania. fair to-night and Friday. Gentle to moderate south to southwest winds. River The Sunquehannn rivet and Its tributaries will fnll slowly or remuln nearly stationary ex cept the lower west branch and the upper main river will rise slightly this afternoon and to night and begin to fnll Friday. A stuge of about 5.1 feet Is In dicated for Harrlsburg Friday morning. General .Conditions The nenther continues unsettled over the eastern part of the country and showers, mostly light, have fallen In the last hours over nearly all the ter ritory south and east of the Great l.akes. Temperature changes have been somewhat Irregular but not de elded. Temperature) H a. m.—TO degrees. Sum Rises, 4.-MI a. m. Mooni Full Moon, August 2. Rlveri Stage S.l feet. Vesterduy's Weather Highest temperature, 71). lowest temperature, 08. Mean temperature, 74. Normal temperature, 70. Continue Calls In some districts the 100 per cent allowance for exemption may he too large and In others too small, but no local boards will be instructed in every case to continue calling for men until the district quota is filled. £. a( v.i ? governor is now alloting to his districts their respective por tions of the state's quota. ,41 *1 t ach of the 4 ' 557 exemption districts among which the ten mil lion registration cards have been di vided, the cards have been given serial numbers. The number of reg lstrants in each district varies from i\? out 185 ,n the smallest to more than 10,000 In the largest, so that the serial numbers to be dealt with in the drawing range from one to be tween ten ar.d eleven thousand. A Master Key In order to reduce the mechanical process and make It possible for the 1.000 numbers drawn to reach every man in every district, a so-called master key has been devised. This will be obtained by drawing slips numbered from naught to ten. which will be listed in the order they are drawn to form the key. Then will begin the drawing of the numbers one to one thousand. For the district with not more than one thousand registrants there will be no problem to determine the order of appearance before the exemption board. The numbeir drawn first will fix the man whose card bears that [Continued on I'age 3] HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1917, I INVENTS AN AIRPLANE TORPEDO TO END THE WAR | ■ 1 • J G. F. Russell has Just offered the government an invention, which, if successful, will have a remarkable ef fect on the fighting in Europe. He insists he has discovered a method of sending torpedoes through the air from the ground or from an airplane. These he says can be controlled by wireless so they will drop on the spot picked out. CITY GUARDSMEN MUSTERED INTO SERVICE OF U. S. Then They Are Inspected by Keen-Eyed Army Officers At noon to-day the men of the companies stationed on the island had all been mustered into the Fed eral service. Examinations over. Col onel Williams and his assistants pro ceeded to the island and began the work of mustering the men into the service. The headquarters company was mustered first, followed by Com pany I, Company D. the machinegun and supply companies. The call of a name from the roll, an answer from somewhere along the line, thyeo quick movements bringing the gun from right shoul der arms to order arms, the butt resting on the ground and another man has been made a soldier of the Federal service. One name at a time Until every rifle rests on the ground and then the inspection begins. A United States Regular Army man does the inspecting and things are not taken on a silver platter. One, two, three hearts beat at top notoh os the Inspector passes them by. A halt, an arm goes out like a flash, a gun is jerked from the hands of a rookie almost before he konws " [Continued on Page 5] 546 Officers and 16,406 Enlisted Men in N. G. P. Respond to U. S. Call The Adjutant General's Depart ment to-day reported to the War Department that 546 officers and 16,- 406 men were in the organizations of the National Guard when It en tered Federal service on July 15. The figures do not include organiza tions already in Federal service on that date. The figures are as follows: Headquarters division, 24; artil lery brigade, 10; First brigade, 0; Second brigade, 15; Third brigade. 15. Field bakery, 64; sanitary train, 546; supply train, 316; signal corps, 298; engineers, 5; companies, 636. Artillery, First, 1,188; Second. 1 - 302; Third, 1,247. Cavalry, First, 1,362. Infantry, Fourth, 1,936; Sixth 1,499; Eighth, 1,948; Tenth, 1,978; Sixteenth, 2,022. Germans Must Keep Shoes Under Lock and Key By Associated Press Berlin, July 19.—The time-honored custom, among hotel guests of de positing one's footwear in the cor ridor outside the door to have them polished is likely to come into disuse for the time being. The growing de mand for shoes, even castoff, has en couraged thefts of footwear in ho tels. In order to rescue hotel gueata from their predicament in the case of such losses, the Imperial clothing bureau has ordained that purchasing certificates be Issued without the or dinary restrictions whenever the ap plicant is able to prove that he has been robbed of his boots in a hotel. - TRUCK HITS CHILD Joseph Berry, aged nine, 440 South Fourteenth street, was run down this morning at Hunter and Daisey streets by an automobile truck own ed by the Robert Oraupner Brew ery Company. The lad was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital where It was learned that he had sustained a fracture of the skull. His condition Is serloua. LAST STEP NEAR IN HARDSCRABBLE APPEAL TRIALS Judge McCarrell Approves City Bond and Form of Issues The last step in the taking over by the city of the properties in the Hard scrabble district has been made pos sible by an opinion given by Judge S. J. M. McCarrell to-day, just before he left for a short vacation. Ruling that the city bonds which had been presented to property hold ers In the district were in proper form and acceptable. Judge McCarrell dismissed the motion presented by counsel for the owners, asking the court to Quash City Solicitor Fox's petition to have the bonds approved. At the same time the court ap proved the form of issue which So licitor Fox has prepared, and imme diately upon the return of Judge Mc- Carrell he will be asked to fix a date for a special hearing of all the ap pealed cases. At these trials a jury will determine the amounts of dam ages which the city must award to the property holders. [Continued on Page 2] Kansas Farmers Have Quanities of Tetanus Infected Courtplaster B v Associated Press Kansas City, Mo., July 19.—Farm ers and residents of the smaller towns of the second, fourth and fifth congressional districts of Kansas, were thought to possess large quanti ties of tetanus-infected courtplaster alleged to have been distributed by three men now in custody under Fed eral jurisdiction. Fred Robertson, T'nited States district attorney for Kansas, to-day sent out warnings from his office in Kansas City, Kan., against the use of any of the suspect ed matter. Investigation of the supposed plot continued to-day with every Federal agency in Kansas at work to prevent spread of the disease. Large numbers of t'.ie plasters seized when the three pe idlers were arrested were being used K. tests to determine more posi tively the degree* of infection anrt also to uncover clues {hat-might lead to further hrrests. Trained Nurse Who Is Wed to "Perfect Man" of U. S. Army to Live Here There was a real wartime wed ding at Allentown yesterday wjien Urban Helntzelman, who attracted attention all over the country by passing the recruiting office as a per fect specimen with a rating of 100, married Miss Meta M. Long, for merly a nurse at the Allentown Hos pital. The bridegroom has received a communication from the War De partment to hold himself ready for transfer from the Pennsylvania di vision and is to be sent to France at once. The bride will live with a sister, Mrs. James H. Landis, at Wormleysburg. ROTARIAXS HERE About forty members of the Ha gerstown Rotary Club visited Har risburg to-day in automobiles. They were the guests of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club at luncheon at the Colonial Country Club, during which addresses were made by Andrew E. Buchanan, president of the Harris burg Rotary Club; President C. A. Trantum, president of the Hagers town Club, and Alexander Arm strong. i MANY VACANCIES TO BE FILLED IN BOROUGH OFFICES Burgesses and Councilmen For Towns in Central and Lower End Districts Notices have been received from the majority of the boroughs in the central and lower-end districts of the county of the offices which are to be filled at the Fall election. In many of the boroughs council men, burgesses and school directors' terms expire together with the smaller offices, such as judge of elec tions and inspectors of elections. According to communications on file at the office of the County Com missioners' offices to be filled in bor oughs that have reported follow: Penbrook—Burgess, four council men, one school director, six years; one school director, four years; Jus tice of the peace, assessor and tax collector. Hummelstown—Four councilmen, four years; one councilman, two years; one school director; tax col lector, burgess a.nd assessor. Paxtang—Burgess, three council men, two auditors, assessor, one school director. Highspire—Burgess, four council men, four years; one councilman, two years; one school director, as sessor and tax collector. Middletown —Burgess, tax collect or, two councilmen and three school directors. Royalton—Two councilmen and one school director. Steelton—Councilman, three school directors, six years; one school di rector, two years; assessor. So far there have been few an nouncements of candidates for the various district offices. In some of the boroughs it is believed the pres ent officials will run again and will have little opposition, while in other places some have announced they will retire. At Penbrook Dr. E. K. Lawson, .7. IJ. Booser, C. A. Karper and Charles L. Wert are the retiring council men. It has been intimated that Mr. IVert will probably be the only one of these who may try for re-elec tion. Others who may become can didates, according to friends, are M. J. Sheaffer, S. C. Buck, O. M. Neu myer and J. E. Shenk. On the school board the terms of the Rev. George W. Harper and Edward Hollenbach expire. Mr. Hol lenbach-is filling an unexpired term and it is reported may be a candi date. Harry H. Hicks, who was ap pointed borough assessor, to succeed his father, will probably be in the field, to remain in office. Three Murderers Are Converted by Rev. Greene Three ponvicted murderers await the day of their execution in the Dauphin county prison. They are Cornelius Sheppard and Ellwood Wilson, both of Virginia, and Rub ble Middleton, of Indiana. All are colored and since their Incarceration in prison have been converted to Christianity under the ministrations of the Rev. A. J. Greene, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. As each was converted he was baptized In the prison by Mr. Greene the first last January, the second In May ad Wilson last Friday. Each of the convicted men repents his crime and has expressed entire con fidence in his salvation. Rum fig ured largely In these tragedies PENNSYLVANIA ALL PREPARED FOR THE DRAFT District Quotas Will Probably Be Announced on • Saturday The district quotas for the first call to the colors under the draft law are now being worked out and will be ready for announcement probably by Saturday, according to an announcement made this after noon by Colonel Sweeney in charge of the state registration board here. "Pennsylvania has notified the War Department that it is ready for the draft," he said. "The returns of the registration are either all in our hands or i nthe mails." The registration board is laboring with an ever increasing volume of work and is almost snowed under. To-day arrangements are being made for the sending out of more than a million blanks to the vari ous registration boards, outlining their duties with respect to the draft. Yesterday the Post Office Depart ment notified the board that a car load of mail was awaiting delivery from Washington and additional quarters had to be rented for the readdressing and assortment of this. Watches Torpedo Pass Along Length of Ship Only Two Feet Away An Atlantic Port, July 19.—The experience of watching a torpedo from a German U-boat which took part In sinking the American oil tanker, John D. Archabald, skim along the length of his own ship about two feet away and pass on harmlessly, was retailed here to-day by a sea captain who returned on a French ship with his crew after de livering a steamer built on the Great Lakes to her French purchasers. The captain said he was -watching the sinking of the Archabald. which occurred June 16, when suddenly a submarine periscope was sighted off his own bow and he swerved hid ship sharply. That this saved her was demonstrated by the course of the he said, was plainly visible as It passed. By this time he had brought his stern gun to bear on the attacker and the ftunners opened fire, sending four shells at the U-boat, the last one, he said, made a great splash which was fol lowed by a cloud of vapor and the submarine disappeared. He express ed confidence the German boat was destroyed. Nation Must Provide Storage Facilities For Great War Stocks Washington, July 19.—Importance of ample storage facilities at or near seaports to accommodate great stocks of supplies for American forces in Europe was emphasized to-day by the National Defense Council's storage committee. "Expenditures In excess of fifty mil lion dollars for terminal storage areas at or near the seaboard will undoubtedly be necessary," said a committee statement. "Not a mo ment should be lost in providing these facilities. The equipment which it is necessary to provide for each soldier going overseas amounts to about five and a half tons. This storage load will be put upon the nation before the end of the vear. We must handle it but to do so will require carefully designed and equipped areas proba bly two thousand acres in extent/ They must be in operation by Janu ary 1, 1918. "Both at the cantonments and at the terminal depots on the Atlantic seaboard it is essential that the stor age areas should _Jre of a size that will permit immediate unloading ot freight cars." Under Death Penalty After Two Convictions; Foreigner Gets Respite Nickolo Kotur, twice convicted of first degree murder in the Dauphin county courts, has been granted a respite until October X, by Governor Brumbaugh. The date for Kotur's electrocution was July 23. It is un derstood that when the . Board of Pardons meets In September counsel for Kotur will make another effort to save his life. The Steelton foreigner was con victed of killing Joseph Backin in a fight in December, 1915. A mo tion for a new trial was granted, but the same verdict was returned by the second Jury. Cornelius Sheppard, colored, also sentenced to be electrocuted next week, will be taken to the Center county penitentiary by county au thorities as soon as communications are received here. , Entertain For 250 Wounded Americans London, July 19.—Two hundred and fifty wounded Americans, mem bers of the British army and navy, were entertained to-day at Holland Park by the Red Cross committee for American soldiers and sailors. The Belgian refugee band and other entertainers were engaged by Mrs. Walter H Page, wife of the Amer ican ambassador; Mrs. Whitelaw Held, widow of the late American ambassador, and Mrs. Robert P. Skinner, wife of the American con sul general, who have been caring for the comforts of the Americans, Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION WORLD AWAITS FIRST WORD OF NEW CHANCELLOR Infantry Operations on Major Scale Indicated in Russia FRENCH ARE SUCCESSFUL Pctain's Poilus Hold Rack Crown Prince's Men Everywhere While the world to-day is await ing witli keen interest the declara tion of Germany's policy which the new Imperial Chancellor, Dr. George Mlchaelis, is expected to deliver in the Reichstag, the military forces of the belligerents for the moment are ensaged in infantry operations of major importance only along the front in Eastern Galicia. Reports from this theater of in tense activity have indicated a les sening in tno speed of the Russian drive. There has even been a re cession at one point where Austrian and German reserves have been thrown into the fray in an effort to stop the Russian onrush which was threatening to roll up the entire Austro-German line from Galicia down fhrough the Rumanian moun tains and plains. French Active Otherwise, the French front In Northern France presents the most notable features of momentary in terest. Few days pass without an effort on the part of the Germans to set back some of the valuable territory which was wrenched from them in the spring offensive, or to make local inroads elsewhere on the French lines. A new field was chosen for an at tempt of this sort last night, the first really sharp attack for some time in the field of the great Hin denburg retreat of last March be [ Continued on Page 2] jS rt, Jul;- ii. A Kcuter dispatch from Petro -9 grad says the number of killed or wounded in the two S days of disorder there is estimated at about 500. I EXPECT FOOD HILL CONFIRMATION g| Washington, July 19. Confirmation of government I control legislation in the food bill to foods, feeds and H fuels, including kerosene and gasoline was forecast to rn ■ day when in what was regarded as a test vote, the Sen -9 ate rejected 44 to 28 an amendment by Senator Kepyon, ■ of lowa, to extend the control to iron ore and its pro -5 ducts, binding twine and farm implemerfts and tools. I CONFESSES TO TRIPLE MURDER j| Johnstown, Pa., July 19. George C. Tompkins, of S Philadelphia, hld in connection with the shooting to ■ death of Edmund I. Humphries, coal operat r, his vrife !and hfteen-year-old son, on a country road near Carroll-* 1 town, Sunday, confessed to the three murder;, to-day ac cording to an announcement by the police. "*'*mri | ' TO MOVE PEACE RESOLUTION | AMSTERDAM, JULY 19. THE BERLIN 1 TAdEBLATT SAYS THE COMMITTEE OF THE I MAJORITY PARTIES IN THE* GERMAN REICH j STAG HAS UNAMINOUSLY DECIDED TO-MOVE I IHE PEACE RESOLUTION. PREVIOUSLY THE J COMMITTEE WAS DIVIDED, TWO -MEMBERS j OF THE CENTER AND ONE LIBERAL DIS i AGREEING WITH THE MAJORITY. THE TAGE j BLATT SAYS THAT IN THE REICHSTAG 221 ] DEPUTIES WILL VOTE FOR THE PEACE RBSO j LUTION. / | .Xir 1 .... a j TO DRAW AT 9 O'CLOCK 1 WASHINGTON, JULv i 9. NINE THIRTY I ~CCK TO-MORROW -xvIORNING IN A COM j I.iil iEE ROOM OF THE SENATE OFFICi: BUILD | ING HAVE BEEN FIXED AS THE TltyE AND | ?LAC£ rUK THE WAR ARMY DRAWING, ] , 5 . MARRIAGE LICENSES | . R"ell Smltli, XnrrinhurK, and Anna Frlarhkorn, New Cumber- A land. RUSSIA FACES MOST SERIOUS STAGE OF REVOLT Decisive Action Expected Soon Between Government and Socialists MAY MOVE CAPITA^, Cabinet Council Sits in Ex traprdinary Session to Meet Crisis By Associated Press Petrogra.l. July 19. —An extraordi* nary cabinet council is discussing the proposal to transfer the seat of the provisional government to Moscow." Look for Crisis Petrograd, July 19.—The general staff buildings and Winter Palace Square are headquarters for the gov ernment forces which are bivouacing there and have posted cannon. Tho general feeling is that the decisive stage between the forces of order and disorder is rapidly approaching. At a joint meeting of the Work men's and Soldiers' and Peasants' Councils a resolution was adopted m reference to the ministerial crisis to the effect that the departure of the cadet ministers cannot be made the pretext for depriving the govern ment of the support of the revolu tionary democracy. On the other hand, the resignation of the cadets makes it imperative for democracy to redetermine its attitude regard ing the organization of power. Therefore general assembly coun cils of Workmen and Soldiers and Peasants must be convoked and sueh assembly will meet within a fort night hence to discuss the organiza tion which is to replace the cadet ministers. Meantime, all power must be concentrated in the government, iwhich must act in conformity with (Continued on Page fl)
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