HARRISBURG lllfjilll TELEGRAPH M, 4* , , £!) c Star-Jn&cpcn&cnt * ' LXXXVI— No. 191 12 PAGES BIG OFFICE B UILDING FALL S, CARRYING ALL WITH IT INTO EXCA VA TION FOR PENN-HARRIS FIVE HURT REMOVED FROM RUINS Without a moment's warning the Underwood typewriter building, three stories in height, adjoining the site of the Penn- Harris Hotel, in Third street, near Walnut, collapsed at 12.50 to-day, carrying with it into the cellar of the new hotel all who were in the structure at the time. It is believed the accident was without loss of life, although there were reports of missing persons, none of which could be confirmed, and a man and women, two girls and a youth were taken from the ruins injured, but not seriously, and removed to the Harrrisburg Hospital. THE INJURED .Miss Mary Rambler, Union Deposit. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miles, Duncannon, Pa. Harry Young, West Fairview, all in Harrisburg Hospital. May Sutton, 49 North Eighteenth, City, taken home. No bones fractured all badly cut and bruised. The building was owned by Mrs. Martina Kearns, of Pitts burgh. The first floor was occupied by the Underwood Type writing Company, the second floor by the Philadelphia. Dental Parlors, Dr. F. B. Wilson, in charge, and the upper floor by the Weaver Multigraph Company and it was in these offices that most of the occupants of the building were when the walls gave way. SEAMS IN NEXT BUILDING Next to the wrecked building is the Hoover Jewelry Store and fears were entertained for it by some of those engaged in the jescue work who claimed to have detected seams in the walls. Adjoining the Jewelry store is the tailoring establishment of Harry C. Ross, No. 21, North Third street. The building was of brick and an old structure. Nobody would place a valuation on it and the proprietors of the various places of business affected declined to place an estimate on their losses until they have time to take account of stock! The damage however, will run well up into the thousands. To Publish Pictures of Men Summoned For New National Army MEN of Dauphin, Perry and Cumberland counties who pass the physical examina tion and claim no exemption from the National Army are urged to send photographs and brief sketches of themselves to the HARRJSGURG TELE GRAPH immediately upon re ceipt of their service notification. The TELEGRAPH printed pic tures and sketches of all the men who went to the various training camps for officers and desires to keep the files complete by adding pictures of the men called for the National Army. THE WEATHER For ilarrlMlxirg; find vlclnltyi Fair to-night mill Sunday I not much cliiinite in temperature. Kor Kimtern Pennsylvania! Gen eriillj fnlr to-night and Sunday) not much rliaiiKe In tempera lure: light, variable wind*. ltlver The *u<iuehnitnn river anil nil Its branches nlll fall. A staice of almiii Mix feet Im Indicated for If tirrlftlnirfc Sunday morning. General Condition* The arrn of high barometer from Ihp Missouri Valley has over spread north and central dla- IrlrlM east of the MlHslssippl rl\er, where the pressure In now uniform and xilKhtly above the normal. The high prrnaure aren from the North I'acltle ocean has moved Inland and In now central over Montana. The center of the Southwent illa tiirliimce ban drifted eastward from Southern Arizona to New Me*leo. Showers have fallen generally In the last twenty-four houm lu New England and loenlly In North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, l.oulslana, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota. Temperaturei 8 a. m.. Ill) degrees. River Staset 7.1 feet. Sun Hlseai 3.08 a. m.| sets, Till p. ni. Moon ■ New moon, AuKast 17. Yesterday'a Weather Hlffheat temperature, 7. I.oweat temperature, 03. Mean temperature, 71. Normal temperature. 73, . The collapse of the building oc- I curred a ta time when the excavation | for th enew hotel was practically ! free of workmen, otherwise the huge | pile of debris that slipped into the | big hole would have buried many iof those who had been engaged i there. The building fell with a roar that could be heard for blocks. The side toward the hotel cellar went out j first, letting the floors down until j the contents of the structure slid ! over into the immense cloud of dust j that the falling walls stirred up. It was some time before the seri ■ i ousness of the accident was realized, j Those In the building were employes jof the Weaver Company, Harry j Young, a 14-year-old boy from West | Fairview, who was in a chair in the office of Dr. F. B. Wilson, dentist, and Harry B. Taylor, manager and cashier of the Underwood Type writer Company. All but Dr. Wilson have been accounted for. As soon as assistance arrived the girls and the boy were hurried to the Hafris burg Hospital, where It was found they suffered mostly from shock. One of the girls employed by the Weaver Company, said to be Miss Pey, walked away after the accident occurred and said she was not In jured. but feared that her com panions had been caught in the fall of the building. The boy stood around for at least ten minutes until he, too, was taken away to the hospital. It was said by several men who were watching [Continued on Page 3] RUINS OF UNDERWOOD BUILDING WHICH FELL INTO EXCAVATION ■BP ■r ; ••% % K ■*—* j H Kfl 1199* ' The photograph was snapped immediately after the collapse of the T'ndcrwood huildlng which carried all In It Into the excavation for the Penn-Harris hotel. A few minutes after the wreck hundreds were searching through, the ruins for three girls reported to be underneath the tons of brick and mortar. BERLIN SECRETLY LETCONSTANTINE ■HAVE BIG LOANS I Greek King Abandoned Fori to Bulgarians Soon After Getting Money Athens, Aug. 11. Finance Mm-I ister Negropontes, replying to an fn- i terpellation in the chamber, stated that the cabinet of ex-Premier I Skouloudis contracted two secret! loans with the Bleichroeder banU of 1 Berlin of 40,000,000 marks each, repayable in three months after the signing of peace. The first loan was arranged in January and the j second in April, 1916, and the Lam bros ministry obtained Wilrd slmi- I lar loan of forty million."" in Janu- i ary, 1917. Of these loans oilly 60,000,000 , marks has been paid up by tho bank, j M. Negropontes further declared that ; the Yenezuelos government would ! accept liability for these loans. At \ the same time he emphasised the heavy responsibility of the Skoulou dis government which negotiated the loans without the authority of the chambers and, kept tljem secret while at the very time 'they were ; trying to oblige the western powers i to make them another loan of 120,- 000,000 marks. Submarine Raises White Flag When Well Directed Shots Strike Sea Raider A Canadian Port, Aug. 11. Offi cers on board a steamship which reached here to-day tell of an en- j counter with a German submarine j on the trip across the Atlantic In i which the undersea boat was sunk, j The tight took place near the Irish i coast. The lookout man notified the cap tain that a small sailing vessel was ! acting suspiciously. It was watched I carefully and soon a submarine was I seen to emerge from behind it. The | gunner on the steamship had his I weapon ready anil directly the sub- j marine showed itself he fired. 1-Ie; hit the undersea boat with his first j shell. A second shot struck the conning I tower and a third turned the sub marine over and it began a nose j dive. Its crew clambered on deck and waved white handkerchiefs. The steamship wasted no time in the vi cinity but left the saving of the Ger mans to a patrol boat that came up. liIVKR UNSAFE FOIt SWIMMING Seasonable temperatures and clear skies are forecasted for to-morrow by E. R. Domain, weather forecaster. The mercury will remain about the same j as to-day, with light variable winds. | The river has been rising steadily | during the last twenty-four hours, and this morning measured 7.1 feet. It will crest to-night. The river is ! considered unsafe for swimming. HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1917. FRANK B. BLACK RESIGNS AS STATE HIGHWAY CHIEF Issues Statement Taking Issue With Governor on Points in Dispute Frank B. Black, of Meyersdale, .Somerset county, one of Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh's oldest friends and his personal selection for State Highway Commissioner on the death of Robert J. Cunningham, to-day announced that he had resign-, ed as highway commissioner to take effect on August 15, at the request of the Governor. The Commissioner issued a letter in which he charges that attempts were made from time to time to play politics in the de partment. The Governor's office de clined any statement. The resignation came as a sur prise as it was not thought because of the personal relations to exist that the Commissioner's res ignation would be requested as a re sult of the "flare-up" over the Gov eror's objection to Mr. Black mak ing a statetnent on how he thought the State should apportion the money for improving highways on a "fifty fifty' basis. This was the now fam ous "censorship" established three weeks ago. The statement that Mr. Black "wanted to give out then comes out to-day and with it Mr. Black's resignation. It is believed that the resigna tion will be followed by a general shake-up of the department and that there will be more resignations as Chief Engineer W. H. Uhler and others are known to have supported Mr. Black in his attitude not only on the appointment, but on various times when efforts were made to make appointments which were ob (Continued on Page 21 Royal Prussian Prince, Spendthrift, Put Under Care of a Guardian Berlin, Aug. 11.—According to an announcement in the official Gazette, the youngest son of Prince Frledrich Leopold of Prussia, who bears the same name as his father,' has been placed under interdiction by the Count von Kulenbrrg, minister of the royal house The prince, who is 22 years old. Is charged with ex travagance and has been placed un der the gunrdb.nr.hlp of Captain von Heyden, his military escort. The prince was an art student at the Royal A •ademy of Munich under the tutelage of Karl von Marr, who was born and lived in Milwaukee many years before becoming a nat uralized German. He received the usual military training, hut failed to qualify for active' Bervice owing to i defective heart. COUNTY MUST FURNISH 121 MORE SOLDIERS New Quotas Reduce Credits; City Has 7(5 More Than Number Desired New quot'as.for Pennsylvania an nounced last night by Governor Brumbaugh will require Dauphin County to furnish 121 more men for the first draft and gives Harris burg 76 credits over the number of men required from the city. This will reduce the number required on the second call by 76. Cumberland county's quota has . (Continued On Page 7) Ex-President Taft Spends Good Night, Says Doctor By Associated Press Clay Center, Kas., Aug. 11.—For mer President Taft, who has been ill hero since Monday, apparently pass ed a good night, his physician, Dr. B. F. Morgan said early to-day that although he had not seen Mr. Taft he had left orders with the nurse to be notified at once if the Former President did not rest during the night. As he had not been called. Dr. Morgan believed his patent was resting easily and he would not dis turb him. Dr. Morgan was not able to say when the ex-President would be able to resume his speaking'engairements. "Mr. Taft is very weak and'it will be sometime before he will be able to stand his usual work," he said. Many Petitions Filed For County Offices Nominating petitions filed to-day at the office of the County Com missioners follow: M.'L. I-.udwick, Republican, burgess, Middletown; Ervin H. Pickel, Republican, con stable, Middletown l Thomas L. Jacks, Republican, councilman, Hum melstown; Republicancandidates for offices in Williams township— Robert G. Davis, school director; Lane Rubendall, tax collector; Grant G. Miller, road commissioner; Arthur A. Berry, judge of election; Republican candidates, Conewago township—Frank W. Myers, tax col lector; A. K. Winters, ■supervisor; Republican candidates. South Han over township—A. L. Landis, justice of the peace; Isaac Keiffer, school director; Harry Longenecker, town ship auditor; C. A. Landis. tax col lector; Clayton S. Wagner, assessor; John A. Swope .supervisor; Harry Walmer, judge of election; George H. Seibert, inspector of election; C. B. Stilckler, Republican, judge of election, second ward, sixth precinct, city. WILL BEGIN TO CHOOSE MFN IN COUNTY FOR VAR Second District First to Get Under Way; Other Two to Follow Soon The work of picking men, phy sically tit, and with no relatives ab solutely dependents upon them for support, to serve in the National Army of the United States, will be gin in earnest in Dauphin county next week. After months of preparations, in cluding the registrations, listing, numbering and drawing of men, the actual drafting will begin on Monday morning when the second county division exemption board will start its work in the Paxtang school house. It is hoped by members of the board to exannine 112 men on the first day. On Tuesday and Wed nesday 204 more men will be examin ed. As soon as the board receives the official quota for the district, ad ditional notices will be prepared for the men to be called to complete the number. The third county district will ex amine twenty-tlve men next Wed nesday, and forty each succeeding day until the quota is filled. Mem bers of the board announced that through some error it was stated that Dauphin borough had been in cluded in the third county division. Instead the men were given serial numbers in the second county div [Continued on Page 8] 1,000 Steel Cars For France Are Completed by Middletown Company The Middletown Car Company, which has been working for the, last several months on a big order of steel ears for the French govern ment, has completed the first allot ment and will ship them soon. The cars for the present are stored on the old pipe mill grounds. •Incendiary Fire Burns Half of Big Powder Plant By /Issociatcd Press Gary, Ind., AUK:. 11. Fire be lieved to have been of incendiary origin destroyed about-half the mil lion-dollar plant of the Aetna Ex plosives Company near here early to-day. Two employes, named Holt and Cholsser were arrested. The plant was .working 011 government contrasts it is said. It had a capacity of 40,000 pounds of powder a day. It was estimated that it will take sixty days to put the plant In work ing order again. The antecedents of Holt and Cholsser are being closely investigated. Single Copy, 2 Cents HOME EDITION BRITISH HOLD BELGIAN LINE UNDER ATTACK ~ J* General Haig Tightens His Grip on Advanced Positions by Coompletely Repulsing Heavy Counterattacks; French Make Progress; Kaiser Presses Advance Through Rumania in Drive For Wheat Fields London, Aug. 11. Military critics here are watching the German attack in Rumania with anxious interest. The greater part of Moldavia, the section of the country remaining in Rumanian hands, is being attacked, as shown in official dispatches, from the north, west and south, and the Russians and Rumanians who until recently conducted a victorious offensive, are now losing ground at all points. London, Aug. 11.—Six German assaults were made on the British position to the east of Ypres during the night, according to British official statement issued to-day. They all broke down ffter fierce fighting. Field Marshal Ilaig reported that the British maintained their positions to the east of Ypres and gained ground near the Ypres-Menin road. Field Marshal Haig clinched his hold last night on the ground won in Friday's attack on the Flanders front east of Ypres. Thl Germans made their inevitable heavy counter attacks no less than six times during the night, but all without success. Not only did the British maintain their positions, but gained some additional ground on their right wing near the Ypres- Menin road. These new gains are probably im portant to the success of the British T GERMANS ATTACK IN DENSE WAVES X T ' /A 1 ■n > "; rirt ♦ L announced L ▼ waves near the village cf Earltov, Southwest ci Vrody, ▼ 4* in Nort istcrn Galici: £ J 't .tl the Tci; in-' • •-•hich X J began on Thursday in the Zarkov region completely i £ failfed • /ith heavy Io t 2J ■ Paris,-Aug. 11.—North of St. Quentin French troops ** "2* * I 4 i XFayet, says the official statement given out to-day by the j * m French Wat Department. The French ejected the Ger- T mans <fotn a large part of the terrain which they ha<? * * captured on the night of August 9-10, X In the Champagne the German' launched several J l V attacks ,over a front of nearly two miles in the region * €U H lef Carnillet and at one point succeeded in penetrating T m * f 4 * *?* • 4 I vrith the exception of about fifty feet. , 4 4 * kESIGNS FROM BRITISH CABINET X London, Aug. 11.—Arthur Henderson, labor member 4 ' * <■ * in i abinet. . * J < E RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS * ** Washington, Aug li—A peace resolution was intro- ' * <^ , . ifine definitely the objects' * ' * * 4 allies also make a public-restatement of the peaca term-- * * * which they will demand. * • WALLOP COAL PROFITEERING * i Washington, Aug. 11.—Coal dealers who increas* > T their j tor anthri ite more than iO ent! ••• before J J X September 1 will be considered by the Federal Trade ' Commission as openly declaring "a policy of profiteering * £ Indications are that bituminous coal prices will be re- ■ 4* T duced in the future, the commission announces. * 1 * T I J | MARRIAGE f 4ii Clrlea K. Kandolpb, New Cumberland, and Hettle WoodTTorth, *f* ■ Sterlton; John W. Flowera, Palmyra, and Salome M. Benta, Her- aheyj Harry 1,. Durham and I.aura 1.. Arnold, HnrrUhur*! Wll- *f* I. Hum Otto Saltahneh and l.auretta U. Frantm, I.an<-aten l'.mrrnon T Franklin Winter, Waahlnirton Height*, and Beaae Aid* Manner, Harrlaburg. general's plans, for it was In Just this sector that the Briitsh had failed to make all the progress expected of them. On the remainder of the two-mile front running north of the Ypres- Roulers railways all the objectives were achieved in yesterday's assault and have since been held. The German resistence was es pecially stubborn on th Rritish right, but the result of the night's fighting [Continued on Page 10]
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