County's First Contribution to New National Army Is Off For Camp Meade For War Training HARRISBURG lSS§||i TELEGRAPH M ®I)C Star-Jn&cpcnbcnt 1 * . • LXXXVI— No. 224 16 PAGES . FIRST UNIT OF MEN FOR NATIONAL ARMY OFF TO CAMP MEADE Llizabethville Contingent Goes Through City After Noon; Given Great Sendoff by Whole Lykens Valley Last Night; Steelton and Paxtang Quotas Are Ready to Leave Tomorrow Morning; Will Be Paid High Tribute by City; Entire County Paying Honors to Selected Men With the plaudits of thousands of their fellow citizens, relatives and friends ringing in their sars, Dauphin county's first contingent of the National Army left this afternoon for training jefore going "out there." It was sixty strong, representing forty-five per cent, of the quota rom District Board No. 3 at Elizabethville. • To-morrow noon more than two hundred will leave from Districts 1 and 2, with headquarters it Steelton and Paxtang. They will be honored with a gigantic demonstration in this city. In Central Pennsylvania towns, last night farewell parades with patriotic music and speeches vf re held in honor of the selected men. 1 UPPER END BOYS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE STATION )rders Compel Them to Re main in Train Shed; Units From Other Counties The vanguard of the "Boys of 917" passed through Harrisburg at 2.30 this afternoon when the special rain bearing the representatives of >auphin district No. 3, Northumber md, Union Snyder, Clinton and Seven hundred and thirty-seven oung men composed the first con ngent in the twelve cars of the pecial. The train was scheduled to rrive in Harrisburg at 12.05, but wing to delays did not arrive until 2.36. The Pennsylvania Railroad ad prepared for the situation and urious onlookers were barred from he platforms. Only the immediate elatives of the boys were given per lits, and not a few were on hand to ay good-by and give the boys a ackage of "goodies." Pour Special Trains Feeding 737 men in thirty minutes •as a new record in this city. O. V. >otts, manager of the Pennsylvania lailroad restaurant and dining car ervice in this city, with a force of wenty-four men had a busy half our doing it . E. F. Dunlap, fas enger trainmaster, and his forces •as in charge of the train inove lent. Four trains of national army men ere on to-day's schedule, each with fteen cars. The first was the one fom the North. The second is from he West and will arrive at 6.10 this vening, It will be closely followed j a second section, arriving at 6.20. . stop of thirty minutes will be al >wed for supper. The last train will rrive at 9.15 and stop five minutes nly. Manager Dotts has arranged to sed 1,500 men to-night. He also snt 1,000 lunch boxes to Kane this lornlng for the men \vfcp will reach ere at 9.15 to-night. "Two cars with rafted men will come from the orth this evening on the regular ■ain arriving at 5.18 and leaving at .SO. The 737 young men remained In [Continued on Page 9.] THE CIVIC CLUB'S SECOND FLY—MEASURING DAY SEPTEMBER 29 9 to 12. Frizes awarded: 5 cents a pint for all flies. THE WEATHER] IVnrrlnburg and vldnltyt Fair to-night nnd probnbly Thurndoj. Xot much change in temperature. Knntern I'ennnylvanlat Fair to night and Thursday. Slightly warmer to-night In north portion. Gentle nhiftlng wind**. River The su<iuchannn river and all lt branches will fall nlowly or re main stationary. A ntage of about 3.7 feet In Indicated for Harrla burg Thursday morning. (•enernl Conditions* The atorm that appeared off the South Atlantic coant about a week ago, moved nlowly northward norne distance off the connt and wan central off the southern New England coast Tuesday morning ban panned neaward off the North Atlantic coant. It cauned general ralnn followed by clearing weath er In New England Tuendny. A disturbance from the northwent ban moved down over the upper and middle Mlnnlnnlppl valley. It In 2 to 18 degreen cooler In went ern Canada and In the Dakotan, Wyoming and Weatern Mlnnenota nnd 2 to 10 degreea warmer over wont of the territory went of the Rocky mountalnnt over the re remainder of the country tem perature changes have been of lit tle Importance. Temperature! 8 a. m., 62. Sun Rlneat 5.51 a. ni.; acta, 6.oft p. m. Moon t New moon, September 27. River Height t 3.7 feet above low water mark. Yeaterday*a Weather Hlgheat temperature, 75. I'Onent temperature, 52. Mean temperature, 04. Aorxaai temperature, 04. Camp Meade is Formally Opened Camp Meade, Mtl., Kept. 19. —This national arniy eanton meiit was declared to be In readiness for Its formal open ing .it noon to-day. A train bearing about :><><) draftees from Philadelphia was the ttrst detachment wheduled to IK* recohed and it was ex peeled that by midnight fully 3,000 men would be occupy ing the new Itarracks. Besides tlie Philadelphlans there will Ik* drafted men from 15 counties of Eastern Pennsylvania, Seranton, Al lentown, Wilkes-1 Jarre, Kas ton, Williamsport and other bis Eastern Pennsylvania towns will send quotas. The Peniisylvaulaiis will continue arriving <laily until Monday when there should be about i:t,500 men in camp. SELECTED MEN ARE SHOWERED WITH HONORS Central Pennsylvania Towns Paying Splendid Tributes to Boys Who Go In keeping with the splendid ex pressions of approval given by the city of Harrisburg when the boys of Company D. members of the quar termaster department, the remaining units on Hargest Island and the Gov ernor's Troop left for a Southern training camp during the past month, the people of this city and the sur j rounding country will honor, by a monster parade to-morrow morning, the selected men who leave this sec tion shortly before noon to swell the ranks of the newly formed national army. To-morrow's parade will be one of the most impressive ever held in this section of the country, according to plans announced to-day by the com mittee in charge. Many local or ganizations will participate. Several bands will be in line and members of the Tech high school to the num ber of 600 are expected to take part in the big demonstration. Parade at 10 The parade will move two hours after announcement is made by the blowing of whistles and ringing of bells in the raornin*. It will form I one and one-half hours after the sig nal has been given. The Jiour set for entraining at the Pennsylvania de pot is 11 o'clock. The parade will probably form at 9.30 and will move promptly at 10 o'clock. The big parade scheduled for to morrow morning will be routed as follows: Moving from Front and [Continued on Page 9.] Rotarians Will March id Tomorrow's Parade The Harrisburg Rotary Club will march in the parade in honor of the men selected for the National Army to-morrow morning. The following notice was sent out to Rotarians to day: All Rotarians are urged to participate in the parade to morrow (Thursday) morning. Assemble not later than 9.45 o'clock on Froht street above Walnut. Rotary's position will be third in Second division. A. E. BUCHANAN. President. W. M. ROBTSON, Secretary*. Reserves to Form For Parade at 9.45 The Harrisburg Reservea were to day notified to form at Front and Walnut streets at 9.4 5 o'clock to morrow morning. Men of draft age who have been called or who are here awaiting or ders to move have been Invited to form In the rear of the Reserves. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917. 250 SELECTED MEN ARE READY TOGO TOMORROW Steelton and Paxtang Board Contingents Get Last Min ute Instructions Everything is in readiness for the departure ol' the young men of di visions 1 and 2 of Dauphin county to morrow morning. The Steelton and Paxtang boards have completed arrangements and the young men will report at their respective heado.uarters at 7 o'clock. Nearly 250 men will comprise the contingent from these two divisions. Want to Go Now A sudden change of heart on the part of many of the young men of the counties of the second middle Judicial district was the feature of the investigation of exemption claims made by the appeal board during the past few days. No less than half a hundred young men have asked that they be allowed to go with the first contingent. These same young men only a week ago insisted that they should be ex empted on the grounds of industrial or agricultural enterprise. They also were expressing much anxiety over the possibilities of tneir going to the front and were making life miserable for the clerk of the appeal board [Continued on Page 15] Five Slackers Said to Have Failed to Appear in Steelton District Warrants will be sworn out to-day, it was said, for the arrest of five men summoned for the first draft by the local board of District No. 1 of Dauphin county. It is reported that these men were notified to appear yesterday and were to have been sent away to-morrow with the first draft from that section of the county. Asked concerning the truth of the report,. Walter Kelster, at the board's headquarters in Steelton, declined to discuss the matter. "We cannot talk about it," he said. "It is in the hands of the Secret Service." Three of the men are said to be residents of Steelton, one now in Leb anon and the fifth in Youngstown, Ohio, the last named having left Steelton since the tlay of registration. C. C. Cumbler, who is usually the spokesman for the board of the first district, was not at his offices his afternoon. It is understood he has taken the matter up with the United Ftates marshal's office in this city. Men in National Army to Be Put at Work For Which They Are Fitted Washington, Sept. 19.—Every ef fort wil lbe made by the government to adapt the men of the selective draft forces to the branch of military work to which they are best suited by experience and natural aptitude. To carry out this purpose a corps of civilian experts trainetU In the service of great corporation in se lection of men for special occupa tions will be appointed soon to make a similar appraisal of the enlisted men of the national army prepara tory to the assignment of the men to the special units necessary In modern warfare. Charts have been prepared to be filled out by the men showing exactly their experience ilnd training and providing also for a statement of their preferences as to the kind of work they will be called upon to do. If possible, thee cards will be sup plemented by a personal estimate of the men by the civilian experts. This can be done only after a rough gen erai classification has been made possible thr6ugh the card system, as It would be too great a task to per sonally Interview every man. BREAK THE UNUSUALLY BIG VOTE IS CAST IN CITY AND COUNTY Record Returns Arc Expected From Outlying District; Everything Orderly All recent records for balloting during the early part of primary election day were broken in prac tically all the city districts to-day, due largely to the intensive work done by campaigners for the many candidates for nomination on the nonpartisan ticket for mayor and city council. At noon in many of the districts thirty per cen.t. of the registered voters had already balloted while in a few other ones forty per cent, had voted. in the county districts the ballot ing was not so heavy but much bet ter than had been anticipated. A record vote is expected in these dis tricts too because of the big increase in the registration. In the city the light for nomination for city council was the chief topic at every precinct polling place. Few districts were without workers for different candidates with the result [Continued on Page 12] Grave Diggers? Nix! Say Nonresistants New York, Sept. 19.—The "Unter rified League of Conscientious Objec tors" is mad enough to fight. They are willing to pray for the country, but dig graves for it? Not oi\ your life! The league has called a series of mass meetings throughout the big town for the purpose of protesting against the decision of the War De partment that such citizens as be long to the too peaceable to resist ele ment shoiUd be armed with spades and made to dig graves for the fel lows who fall fighting. Going out into No Man's Land to face the German army armed with merely a spade wouldn't make much of a hit with those who are not gun shy and with the Conscientious Ob jectors the plan started a panic. Charles Sonneshein, leader of the league, leaned on his crutches yes terday and called the order a public scandal. "We consider it a national dis grace to be placed in the category of grave diggers," he said, with more show of rage than an all wool and a yard wide C. O. ought to own. "The humiliation of the objectors is keenly felt, and their indignation knows no bounds. Every conscien tious objector In the country will be given a chance to express his opin ion about being classed as a grave digger. "To hell with grave digging!" We want something more cheerful!" One would not have Imagined that a real C. O. could muster sufficient resisting force to indulge In this char acter of denunciation, u*.' the am perage of the C. O.'s Is at *ull tilt, and if the heat continues some of them may get angry enough to en list. SI,OOO to Weatherly Man Who First Captures Hun Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 19.—The first drafted soldier from Weatherly who captures a German soldier will re ceive a reward of SI,OOO in cash from State Benator Elmer Warner, of Car bon county. Senator Warner, who llvea at Weatherly, made this announcement yesterday before the departure of the boyu for Camp Meade to-day. CURTAINS WILL UNVEIL SPLENDID FASHION DISPLAY Merchants to Present Newly Decorated Windows First Time Tonight The windows of tho Harrisburg merchants are draped to-day so that the window-dressers may have the opportunity to apply their art and make them beautiful for the display to-night. Promptly at 7.30 o'clock this even ing the curtains will be raised from the windows and a gorgeolis spec tacle will be shown for the benefit of the Harrisburgers who are inter ested in the very newest things in wearing apparel. For days the stores have been receiving suits, furs, hats, cloaks and evening gowns, in order that they might give both puality and quantity to the fall opening. Dame Fashion has decreed that the styles are to be very simple, but not plain or ugly. The hats are very chic, and with very little trimming. The newest suits are slu>wn in vel vet, and some of them have the new "bustle" effect. A number of the suits and coats are fur trimmed. The evening gowns are creations of chif fon and satin. Not to be outdone by the dresses the stores themselves are to be trim med for the occasion. Every one is .invited to wander through the departments and look at the new garments. The suits and dresses are made so that they will give the wearer the appearance of youthfulness. The military touch can be seen in the suits and dresses designed for street wear. The opening this year is a prac tical display of garments that are to be found in the stock of the lo cal stores, displayed to the best ad vantage. Because of the war and the call that has come for economy, the merchants did not plan for the big street demonstration that was given last year, but the styles shown are neither meager nor poor. Tour of Battle Lines Is rPoposed For Guard and U. S. Army Officers By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 19. —Regular and national guard general officers commanding divisional training camps are to be sent to Europe on an ob servation tour of the battle fronts, returning to carry on their training duties at the close of the tour. For mal announcement of this plan by the War Department is expected. Under the voluntary censorship specific movements of general officers may not be published without au thorization of the military authori ties. For this reason the list of divisional commanders already se lected to make the tour will be avail able only when the department's an nouncement Is made. It is assumed, however, that If possible every di vision commander will be given an opportunity In time to familiarize himself somewhat with actual war conditions abroad. U-BOAT SINKS 2 SHIPS by Associated Press Chrlstlanla, Sept. 19. —• German submarines have sunk the Norwe gian steamships Facto of 2,372 tons gross and the Thomas Krag, of 3,589 tons gross It was announced to-dav. Two men from each vowel perished. RUMANIA'S ARMY PUSHES FORWARD FOR NEW GAINS Big French Aerial Squadrons Bombard Several Ger man Cities Berlin, Sept. 19. French aerial , squadrons on Sunday bombarded sev eral German cities in Wurttemberg, Rhenish Prussia and Upper Alsace, according to an official statement is sued to-day by the German war office. Rumania's army is continuing its activity on the Moldavian front and . has won another success; Petrograd troops of a Teutonic position on a troops o fa Teutonic position on a height near Grozechti. The Russian i front proper is comparatively quiet, neither side apparently being en , gaged in any important operations. Reports from the British front in Flanders continue to mention only raids and artillery and airplane ac tivities. Notwithstanding that vir : tually all the recent London official statements have been similarly lack ing in records of major operations, the British, casualty list discloses there has been heavy fighting. Cas ualties on all fronts reported during the week onded yesterday, for in stance, totaled more than 27,000, of which the killed number 4,890. 1 Point is given these facts in the recent reports of correspondent that despite the laconic official announce ments the British activities are by no means as unimportant as they might seem and that all arms of the British service are being constantly employed in the process of wearing down the German resistance. The German casualties for specific periods are not so readily available, but ob servers at the front calculate them as extremely heavy in the sort of fighting now in progress. Berlin minimizes the damage done by French airplanes in their exten sive raids last Sunday over German cities in Wurttemberg. Rhenish Prus sia and Upper Alsace. It declares only one casualty occurred and that while ;it two places damage was done to buildings the attacks on half a dozen other towns resulted in no ma terial damage, while three of the attacking airplanes were shot down. ! News dispatches from Norway re. | port the sinking of two German sub marines, one of which is said to have been sent down by an armed Ameri can steamer and the other by a British destroyer. A half-dozen prisoners were secured from tho two | U-boats. Policeman Murdered in Riot Between Rival Political Factions Philadelphia. Sept. 19.—A riot in the Fifth ward of this city, where two factions of the Republican party are j fighting for control, resulted in the ! killing of a policeman and the wound ing of several other political workers. George Eppley, a policeman, was shot dead and James A. Carey, a city offi cial and leader of one of the factions, was Injured and sent to a hospital. Today's disturbance In the Fifth ward is the most serious of a number that have bccurred In the campaign for councilman which carries with it the leadership of the ward. Cares' has the support of State Senator J. P. McNlchol and ,hls opponent Isaac Deutach, is follower of the Vares. i Thirty men were arrested after tho shooting to-day. Including Jack Mars dla. 24 years old, whl Is charged with killing the policeman. Single Copy, 2 Cents U. S. HOPES TO SEE BIG STRIKE SETTLED SOON Conferences Between Men, Employers and Federal Mediator in Progress ALL ARE MARKING TIME 15,000 Seattle Steel Shipyard Men Vote to Support Wooden Workers By Associated Press Washington, Sept. 19.—Labor De partment officials to-day expressed the opinion that there "is some pros pect of adjustment soon" of the shipbuilders and iron strike at San Francisco. Their estimate was based largely, It was said, upon a telegram re ceived from W. T. Boyoe, assistant commissioner of immigration at San Francisco, who Is acting as concili ator. Mr. Boyce reported confer- [Continued on Page 12] Erecting Barracks For Accommodation of 4,000 Men at Aviation Camp Work on the erection of the bar rocks at the United States Aviation Supply Warehouse near Middletown to- accommodate 4,000, was started this afternoon. No official informa tion in regard to the details of the barracks was obtainable, but it is understood there will be eight con crete buildings, 100x20 feet, erected. These buildings will be two stories high and *will be completed as soon as possible. The night force of 25p workmen will be laid off this evening. The day force will be retained indefinitely. It was reported to-day wiat several hun dred more regulars from the service v.-ould arrive here in a few day 3. Nn official at the grounds would confirm this report. . ¥ * " * > , $ AMERICAN SHIP SINKS U-BOAT I! ' 1 JT Christianin, Sept. 1 '.--The Berlin correspondent cf th' * * 'F Aftonsbladet says that an American armed steamer sank *► - <y 4* U-boat n , T v ' iic! neut; - hip. *' t * * X 5,000 IRON WORKERS STRIKE T * 4* g err.i he Jones * * C and L&ughlin Steel Company at a mass meeting here to- t J 4* day vote Ito call out the workmen in all departments of *■; ftj X all the olants and make 'Fie strike general. Reports from J mittemen read at 'lie meeting said that * * £ men had joined th'e strike and no less than 5>,000 men wer ' I nOV '" Ut ' "'• f LENI ALLIES BIG SUM J ! T )0 t ' * j | * * r ~ + ies up to $2,391,400,000. * ® 4 ' i 4 ARTILLERY FIRE VIOLENT V 4 *§ * ■ y i 1 L the German lines between lloutholst wood and the Lys * i X ' • and this „ , 4 adquarters announced t| 1 ju eyer, did not attack. ' i $ i: X BIG U. S STEAMER SUNK f ' # . i T • Londcn, Sept. 19. hie American steamer Platuna , , 4* is torpedi ine on September 15 * ' Z Forty-five ■ x U £ of the crew were drov < ! ■ . | '* ; I ± QUEBEC BRIDGE HALF WAY UP ! ! e T |* Quebec, Sept. 19--The halfway mark was reachec .* 1 here to-day at 9.55 a. m in raising the huge central spar i jj Tof the Quebec cantileve bridge across the St. Lawrence !! T i - begun Monday morning. J r 4 i ; 4 • & . i ; t MARRIAGE LICENSES ; \ . f George H. Brnnnan and Vera M. Scheeler, Baltimore! L'harlea , ) £ Bflgrove, Philadelphia, and Ida R, Bronn, Harrlabars. If* HOME EDITION U.S. WILL NEED EVERY AMERICAN SHIP FOR ARMY Armed Force Going to France Will Demand Great Fleet in Six Months REAL PINCH IN SPRING Organization of War Indus trios Board Urged at Convention By Associated Press Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 19. Within the next six months the de mand of the American army abroad will require that the government di vert every available American mer chant vessel, coastwise and others, to overseas services, R. B. Stevens, vice-chairman of the United States Shipping Board, to-day told the war convention here of American busi ness men. The real pinch in the world ship ping situation will come, Mr. Stevens said, early next spring, before the government has begun to turn out vessels In large numbers. Mr. Stevens urged business men to go to Congress in support of a bill now pending to empower Presi dent Wilson to suspend provisions of the shipping laws so that neutral ves sels may be permitted to engage in American coastwise trade. The gov ernment, he said, has found that it has no power to commandeer neutral ships tied up in American ports and put them under the American flag. The neutrals, he said, are ready to put their tonnage to carrying cargoes between American ports whenever this government gives permission Hundreds of thousands of tons of tContinued on Page J2] BRITISH CASUALTY LIST By Associated Press London. Sept. 19. —Casualties In the British ranks reported for the week ending yesterday follows: Kill ed or died of wounds, 135 officers and 4,755 men; officers wounded or miss ing, 431; men wounded or missing 21,843.
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