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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
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RUINS OF UNDERWOOD BUILDING WHICH FELL INTO EXCAVATION
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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£ failfed • /ith heavy Io t
2J ■ Paris,-Aug. 11.—North of St. Quentin French troops **
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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 *
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lef Carnillet and at one point succeeded in penetrating
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* kESIGNS FROM BRITISH CABINET
X London, Aug. 11.—Arthur Henderson, labor member 4
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* J < E RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS *
** Washington, Aug li—A peace resolution was intro-
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, . ifine definitely the objects' *
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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- ■
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T duced in the future, the commission announces.
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| 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
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