GUATEMALA CITY DESTROYED; WILL GET AID FROM U.S. Homeless Mar Reucli Hun dred Thousand; Foreign Colony Escapes Death By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 31. —Still with out detailed information of the earthquakes which destroyed Guate mala City, costing many lives and leaving a hundred thousand home less. American officials to-day pre pared to send aid to the stricken sis ter republic. Further reports were awaited from Minister Lea veil and Consul Fee. Red • 'ross officials conferred with N'avy officials as to the supplies to lie sent 011 American warships order ed to Guatemalan seaport. While the American diplomats are safe, archi'es of the legation and consulate are believed to have been lost, as the buildings are reported to have been shaken to the ground. I'nofficial advices indicate the for eign colony escaped without loss of lil'e. The Guatemalan minister, Joa quin Mendez. was informed of the disaster by the State Department and although he has sent cablegrams of inquiry, has received no advices. Helena, Mont., Dec. 31. —The for eign colony in Guatemala City is safe, loss of life caused by the earthquakes there having been confined to na tives, according to a cablegram re < eived here last night from Guate mala by A. E. Spriggs, of this city. The message was from a mining as sociate of Spriggs. New York, Dec. 31. —An estimate of 1,0(10 persons dead in the earth quake ruins at Guatemala City is contained in a telegram received here from the Central and South American Telegraph Company's manager at San Jose, Guatemala, who returned to San Jose from Guatemala yesterday afternoon. The message reads: •"The legation and American con sulates are badly wrecked. Forty per cent, of the houses in the city are demolished; most of the others have collapsed and arc uninhabita ble. The penitentiary, asylum and ministerial buildings are all wreck ed. The post office and large church es are demolished. Press Is Asked to Follow Censorship Regulations Washington, Uec. 31. The follow ing statement is given out here by the Committee on Public Information, of which George Creel is chairman: "A revision is announced of the re quests of July 30 with respect to the > oncealment of military information for the guidance of correspondents end editors who have patriotically placed themselves under censorship of their own enforcement. Future re visions will follow in conformity with the changing military situation. None of these requests will he retained "hen it is established that the secre cies now considered essential for the successful conduct of military opera tions 110 longer serve a detinite mili- j tury purpose. "The committee is requtsted by the v ar-inaking branches of the Govern ment to urge again upon the press 1 lie serious necessity for observing these requests. It is highly import ant thai military information be kept out of print. It is a matter of little consequence how widely military in formation of the most important char ai-ii-r is known within the borders of Ik- I nited States. The purpose of tlcse requests is to prevent such in lormation from reaching the enemy. The printed pages forms a safe and • isy method of communication for the enemy agent. Whenever he can be forced to attempt the use of the tele graph, the cable or any other medium for the transmission of news the risks of detection are immeasurably multi plied. But he can mail a newspaper or a magazine without leaving a trace. REVIVAL AT DAUPHIN Dauphin, Pa., Dec. 31. —Revival services in the United Evangelical Church were started, Saturday even ing. by the Rev. J. M. Shoop, pastor of the church. The presiding elder,] W. F. Heil, of Allentown, was pres- 1 ent and delivered a most inspiring j sermon. These services will continue ' every night until further notice. This evening, a union old-fash ioned watch night service will be j held in the church, to which every- I body is welcome. A song service will begin at 8.30. This will be fol- I lowed by sermons by the Rev. W. | H. Zweizig, pastor of the Methodist I Episcopal Church, and by the Rev. j Mr. Shoop. The services will last until after the arrival of the New- Year. -LADIES-- you will be more than pleased to j own a copy of the Winifred Worth Crochet Book It contains 65 stunning designs. Yes, indeed, all new designs. , I 'l* for a new beginner, lias full | j nnil complete instructions HOW t TO CROCHET. THIS PRACTICAL CROC 11T71 BOOK MAILED TO ANS ADDRESS FOR 15 CENTS Send this coupon und 13 cents tn stamps or silver to the Harris burg Telegraph, and the book will t>e mailed to you from the New | York office of the publishers. Al low a week for Its arrival. Name Address City or Town MONDAY EVENING, REASONABLECARE MUST BE SHOWN Dr. Dixon Points Out Dangers of Medicines Not Properly Taken Care of in Home The people of Pennsylvania are losing: enough members ot' their families through the war to per mit any loss through carelessness, declares Ur. Samuel G. Dixon, State Commissioner of Health, in a talk in which he urges people to take every precaution to prevent mis takes in the use of drugs in the household. Dr. Dixon calls attention to frequent mistakes which are made by people in their handling of medi cines and cites how even doctors themselves have been sufferers through accidents. What is needed, says the doctor, is "reasonable at tention." Dr. Dixon says: "The modern method of preparing drugs for family use has its attrac tions, yet it has been the cause of many deaths, often from the fact that so many drugs are put up in form and color to resemble each oth er. One may be innocent and the other deadly poison, as, for instance, calomel, an innocent form of mer cury, and bichloride of mercury, one of the most deadly of poisons. "One of these drugs might be picked up for the other in the dark or even in the daytime, if the label was not carefully read by the one seeking to take the medicine. This has resulted in an innocent father killing his child or perhaps his wife, or, in some cases, himself. "Another great mistake is to change a drug from one bottle to another without altering the label, it is often done in dividing up the contents of a rare drug with a neigh bor. The one receiving the unlabeled bottle depends upon his memory, which often fails him and a fatal mistake results. "A very short time ago 1 knew of a generous doctor dividing up a rare drug he had with one of his col leagues, intending to label the bottle he kept for himself. He neglected to do so and not long after he want ed to use the drug and picked up what he believed to be the proper bottle, but which proved to contain an agent active in its power to de stroy tissue. This he dropped into his eye and only escaped having his eye destroyed by ;t narrow margin. "Now, thjs is quite a common mis take and people have been made blind by this carelessness. Drugs that are most useful are, as a rule, most dangerous, and should always be kept under lock and key and plainly labeled. At present we are being robbed enough of the members of our families during the war, so that we should have no patience with the killing of the innocent at home by simple carelessness, and it is this common, everyday practise of confusing drug bottles that 1 warn you against. It can all be done away with if you will only give it reason able attention." K. OF C. WORK PRAISED BL SECRETARY BAKER [Continued from First Pago.[ particularly constituencies, and that their buildings would at all times and for all meetings be open to the entire camp. "There were on October 16, 1917, 65 Knights of Columbus Halls com pleted and in operation in the various training camps. Fifty sec retaries were at work and it. is esti mated that within a few weeks two hundred and fifty representatives of the Knights of Columbus will be ministering to the general welfare and comfort of the soldiers in train ing camps. Each Knights of Co lumbus Hall is equipped with read ing desks, benches, folding chairs, phonographs, player pianos, moving picture apparatus, athletic equip ment and facilities for other enter tainment. If there is a demand, de bating and literary societies will be organized." Advance Meetings Scheduled The general committee in charge j of the Harrisburg drive will meet j prior to the opening of the carn ' paign to complete final details. | Headquarters will be open<l in the Kunkel building to-morrow mom j ing, being in charge of Mrs. 11. E. I Lucas, 2015 Green street. In Leb- I anon. Lancaster, Cliambersburg, as well as all other towns in the Har- I risburg diocese, committees to i prosecute the work are being named. Well attended meetings of I patriotic nature were held in Lau ! caster, Chambersburg, as well as all other towns in the Harrisburg j diocese, committees to prosecute the work are being named. | Well attended meetings of pa -1 triotic nature were held in Lan ' caster and Lebanon yesterday after j noon by Knights of Columbus | workers, while a monster booster | meeting is scheduled for Carlisle courthouse Wednesday evening. A | similar meeting will be held in I Chambersburg the same evening. Meetings are to be held at Lykens ! at 2 o'clock and at Wiiliamstown at ! t o'clock 1 to-morrow afternoon, j both of which will be presided over j by Recorder James Lent/, who is one of the backers of tho successful Liberty Loan and Red 'Cross cam paigns in those sections. The Lykens meeting is to be held In St. Mary's school hall and that at | Wiiliamstown in Sacred Heart school I hall. Indications are that both will lie very largely attended. From both ] localities a large number of jnen | have gone Into the United States service. War Will Influence N. Y. New Year's Celebration New York, Dec. 31. The new 1 I year will be welcomed in New York ! after the fashion of former years I that has made the celebration an event of international interest, except that to-night the war promises to place its stamp of moderation on the convivility of the celebration. Hotels and restaurants will enter tain just us many guests as in times of peace but the menu cards in most instances will include nothing that does not bear the stamp of the food administrator's approval and the ' high prices prevailing for wines and the 1 o'clock closing order indicates tHat the New Year's toasts will be drunk in less generous proportions. Watch parties and entertainments for soldiers and sailors have been ar ranged in greater number than be fore America entered the war. MARCO*I ENVOY TO I. . Rome, Dec. 2'J. —William Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph, has been appointed Italian High Commissioner to the United States. Senator Marconi was a member of the Italian mission which visited the United States last spring. After his return he served on the staff of Gen eral Diaz, the Italian Commander-in- Chief, giving special attention to the wireless system at the front. WEST SHORE NEWS WEST SHORE TOWNS SHORT OF COAL SUPPLY New Cumberland and Enola Worst Off; Factories Using River and Bituminous Coal Have Sufficient Fuel For Month With the intense coal weather comes the report from Robert L. Myers, West Shore coal administra tor. that there is very little coal in West Shore towns. New Cutnberland and Enola, Mr. Myers says, are in the worst shape. The supply for use in the homes at New Cumberland, which, up to a short time ago was very good, has been used up during the cold snap. The dealers are without coal, but are hopeful of receiving several ship ments during the week. Mr. Myers reported that the industries at New Cumberland have enough coal on hand to keep them running full ENOLA SUFFERS COALFAMINE | Only Six Cars Delivered at Town During Month of December Enola, Pa., Dec. Sl.—With the temperature about KOTO, Enola is in the grip of a fuel famine, which has j been threatening for several weeks, Samuel Mumper, coal dealer, de clared to-day that he is doing ev erything In his power to relieve the situation, but that he is unable to have the coal shipped into the town. Through Mr. Mumper's yard the towns of Enola, West Fairview, Sum merdale and Overview are supplied. Tn this territory hundreds of fami lies are to-day with little or no coal. Since the Ist of December only six cars of coal have been received in the local coal yards for this big ter ritory. The amount of coal received in these six cars is between 200 and 250 tons. The hormal consumption of coal is about 1,250 tons a month. Upon Mr. Mumper's request, both County Fuel Administrator Bedford, of Carlisle, and It. L. Myers, admin istrator for the West Shore, have visited Enola and gave promises of help. Whenever a car of coal ar rives at the yards, conditions are studied and those persons in dire need of the fuel are supplied. So great is the demand that only a quarter of a ton is given to a cus tomer. According to school directors there is no immediate danger of closing the schools in this vicinitv because of a lack of fuel. All build ings have a large amount of coal and this reserve is increased from time to time. Churches are conserving their limited supplies of coal as much as possible. The fires in the church buildings are kept down and the services shortened. < Marysville Week of Prayer Service Starts This Evening Marysville, Pa., Dec. 31.—Final preparations have been completed by the Marysville Ministerium for the usual annual week of prayer, which will start in the local churches this] evening and continue until Friday evening. During this time, subjects assigned by the World '"hurch Con ference will be discussed in the pul pits of town, alternately. All services will start at 7.30 o'clock, this even ing's service being in the Trinity [ Reformed Church, with the Rev. Wesley Wright, of the Church of God, as the speaker. Several other Marysville ministers will participate in the program. The schedule for the remainder of the week follows: Tuesday evening, iCion Lutheran Church, the Rev. Ralph E. Hartman, Trinity Reformed Church, speaker. Wednesday evening, Bethany Unit ed Evangelical Church, the Rev. S. L. Rice, Zion Lutheran Church, speaker. ' Thursday evening, Methodist Epis copal Church, the Rev. L. A. Fuhr man, Bethany United Evangelical Church, speaker. Friday evening, Church of God. | the Rev. S. B. Bidlack, Methodist, Episcopal Church, speaker. MARYSVILLE SCHOOLS OPEN I Marysville, Pa., Dec. 31.—After : being closed since Tuesday, Decem ber 18, because of an insufficient coal I supply and for the Christmas holiday | I season, the Marysville public schools ' opened again this morning, a suf ficient supply of fuel having been re j ceived since closing. SAVING COAL. AT CAMP HILL Camp Hill, Pa., Dec. 31.—As a means of conserving the limited sup ply of coal at Trinity Lutheran • Church, Camp Hill, the weekly meet ing of the senior catechetical class | will be held this evening in the church at 7.30 o'clock and the choir I rehearsal at 8.30 o'clock. The mid week prayer meeting will be held at the home of G. W. Wallace. Snyder to Insist on Auditing Fund Developments are expected within the next twenty-four hours in Audi tor General Charles A, Snyder's plan to ✓jdit the State insurance fund in order to determine whether at the present and prospective payroll rates the fund will be self sustaining at June 1, 1919. TVie auditor general i has been making inquiries and says he has doubts whether the fund can be administered without creating a deficit unless there is a substantial reduction of the force. The fund to-day infomed the audi-: tor general that it would not furnish; its books to him in advice of the attorney general. The audlttor general said that he would have a statement to make on his course later, but intimated that Miles A. Dawson, the actual expert from N/w York, would make a de mand to audit the books and that he would insist on his position. Thts j will bring a clash that may lead to court. "I am In consultation on the subject and will have something to say later | The public sevice commission was j 011." said Mr. Snyder.' closed to-day, but it is understood j that some complaints against Pitts- I burgh increases of fare were filed. Major A. M. Porter, chief store- | keeper, has returned fom a visit to i Washington. Fred Thompson, of Bellefonte, mes senger in the State department of Labor and Industry, is said to have retired. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit eo., to-day paid the State $529,000 as State tax. HAJRRISBURG TELEGRAPH time for about thirty days. River and bituminous coals are used by the factories. Other towns are in fairly good shape, it is reported. Shipments n,re expected to arrive this week which will give residents enough reserve supply to keep their fires going for some time. During the vacations in the schools enough reserve supply was accumu lated to keep the heating systems going. Before school closed for va cation at Camp Hill there was very little coal on hand. It was necessary to secure a wagon of fuel to keep the furnace running up to Vacation. Social and Personal Items of Towns Along West Shore Mr. and Mrs. Norman Goodyear, ! Miss Virgie Desenberger and William ; Goodyear ,of New Cumberland, went ; to Philadelphia on Saturday. Relatives from New Cumberland j attended the. funeral of Mrs. George Rhodes.at Harrisburg, on Saturday j afternoon. Burial was made at Mt. Olivet Cemetery here. Mr. and Mrs. Carrol, of Lancaster-, j spent the week end with Hoy Lech- J thaler's family, and Mr. and Mrs. John Lanitz, at New Cumberland. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Mathias and | son, of Latrobe. who have been visit | ing relatives at. New Cumberland, re turned home on Saturday. Mrs. Frank Good, of Shillington, is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. C. Oren, in Bridge street, New Cumberland. John Brumbaugh, of Marysvitlc, is on a business trip to Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. White and two children, of Lebanon, visited Marys ville relatives. Prof, and Mrs. A. E. Deckard, of Marysville, have returned to their home after visiting during the Christmas vacation with relatives at .Liverpool. Miss Mae Logan, second assistant principal in the Marysville High school, has returned to the Perry county town, after spending the Christmas season at her home near Carlisle. Park L. /Sellers, teacher of the °ighth grade in the Marysville schools, has returned to Marysville. after spending Christmas vacation at Liverpool. Miss Beatrice Kreider, of Rebers burg, Center county, teacher of the combined second-third grades of the Marysville public schools, has return ed to Marysville to take up her duties after visiting at her home. FRY-HKISJIIJEY WEDDING Marysville, Pa., Dec. lll.—An nouncements have been issued of the marriage of Miss Margaret Marie Heishley to Jacob Ruth Fry, of Lan caster, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heish ley, at Glenvale. Mrs. Fry before her marriage, was employed by the Gregg Short hand people at their New York City offices. Mr. Fry has been located in New York City for some time as an electrical engineer with the Western Klectric Company. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. M. W. Stahl, of the Newport United Evangelical I Church. Mr. and Mrs. Fry will make | their home in New York City. : Course in Telegraphy at Dickinson College Carlisle, Pa.. Dec. 31.—Special in struction in telegraphy will be add ed to the curriculum at Dickinson College after the holiday vacation, according to announcement made here. Hours will be given over to the study of commercial and wireless work, mapping and laying out lines in order to tit students for war. The Carlisle Y. M. C. A. has established a radio schol under the direction of the secretary, John S. Byrne, who was an operator for a number of years and was a correspondent dur ing the Boer war. 1918 Budget to Be Passed Finally Wednesday 1 The regular session of City Coun | cil will be held Wednesday instead j of to-morrow morning. It will be the last meeting before the reorganiza | tion next Monday when the new com missioners take ofllce. The budget ordinance and the or j dinance fixing the tax rate at ten j mills will be passed t finally. Com i missioner Morgenthaler also will probably ask for the final passage of the ordinance authorizing advertising for bids for collection of ashes by I contract. Bids will likely be opened [January 12. Many Miners Killed in Gas Explosion,Scranton Report By Associated Press Scranton, Pa., Dec. 31.—Many min ers are reported killed by a gas explo sion in the Underwood Mine, of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. near Throop, about six miles from this | city. Company officials are silent, | and information is vague. At noon seventeen bodies, some dead and some nlive, were reported taken from the mine. OFFICERS ARE RB-EI.ECTED All the old officers of the Harris burg Democratic Association were re elected at a meeting of the associa tion held Saturday night, with the ex ception of secretary and treasurer. George W. Deiker was elected to fill this office. At the meeting a resolu tion was passed by those present urg ing a State Democratic convention. A \K\V YEAR'S BREAKFAST John T. Brady, a prominent lawyer, whose New Year's breakfast at the Harrisburg Club is always a feature of the opening day of the year, has invited a number of his friends to meet him at the club as usual to morrow. GUARDIAN FOR SOI.OIER The Court to-day named the Allison Hill Trust Company as guardian for Ceylon 8. Mclllienny, who Is in camp at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Young Mcllhenny was bequeathed SSOO in the will of the late John H. Mcllhenny. MRS. MARY A. RAMBLER Funeral services for Mrs. Mary A Rambler, 82. will be held from the residence of her son, Dr It A 133 J North Sixth street! Wednesday afternoon. Burial will be made in the Paxtang Cemetery, the Rev. H. W. A. Hanson, pastor of the Messiah Lutheran Church will officiate She is survived by a son Dr. R. A. Rambler. MUCH GAME WAS KILLED THIS YEAR Dr. .Kalbfus Believes Deer Was Found to Bo Plentiful "In spite of the fact that the heavy snows brought the hunting season to a close a few days ahead of the scheduled time. I believe that the kill of deer and bear will run ahead of last year. The reports we have had have shown some line bucks laid low and the statements about bear would show an unusual number shot," said Dr. Joseph • Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Com- talking about the close of the 1917 hunting season. "Hunters got pretty busy when the snow squalls began and the drives were pressed home. In the South Moun tain region there were pretty active times. l*'rom all accounts, the kills early in the season were not heavy, but I guess they speeded up when the weather turned. "The bear hunting up the state was excellent. Clinton county re ported fifty-five alone shot. North ern tier counties also had some good bear hunting. . Bear were reported as more or less of a nuisance to farmers in the late summer and fall and I guess some of them went after the animals." Dr. Kalbfus expressed the opinion that early in the new year there would be a pronounced movement on foot to obtain closing of a num ber of counties to grouse shooting because of danger of wiping out that bird. He did not anticipate opposi tion worth while to the new game code. The new code, said he, has stood the test of only one season. Most people desire to have same laws stand a while and do not want changing around every year or so. Hence, they will test out the code. The sentiment of legislators last spring was that the code should be thoroughly tested out. This was a good year because there were as many hunters in the woods and fields as ever known and conditions were fair. Game wardens are now gathering up data on the game killed, both as to head and weight, and the reports are expected to be made in time for the meeting of the State Game Com mission on January 3. This should furnish some very interesting data, as last year a report which was un usually complete was made. It showed about 7,000,000 pounds of meat secured by hunting. If the kill this year is anything like that, it will make a substantial contribu tion to the supply of food, to say nothing of the recreation and healthy conditions attendant on hunting. The Game Commission report last year showed 3,000,000 rabbits, 200,- 000 grouse, 20,000 quuil, 22,000 wild waterfowl, 22,000 woodcock, 300,000 squirrels, 1,500 pheasants, 1,800 deer, 1-6.000 raccoons, 5,000 wild turkeys and 435 deer killed in tiie state. The rabbit kill should be near that of last year. Cottontails were if anything more numerous and, while the bag was limited, almost every hunter seemed to be knocking them over. Squirrels were also abundant and hunters who found birds scarce turned attention to the chatterers in the woods. The raccoon season ends with the year, but the last half of the month has not been conducive to much sport in that line. The state has really a great re serve familiar with firearms in its hunters arg\.es Dr. Kalbfus. He says that approximately 300,000, maybe more, took out hunters' li censes. There were some hundreds of nonresident hunters who came into the state to enjoy the sport and maybe 100,000 men hunted on their own lands. Last year he estimated that there were 400,000 hunters. This year there will likely be more. These men are largely used to camp ing out. know how to handle guns and can shoot. They will form a valuable reserve in addition to the men being trained for military work in event of emergency. Deaths and Funerals MISS ELIZABETH I A. V.MMOV Miss Elizabeth A. Amnion, 28, died Saturday at the home of her father, John 1,. Amnion, 2037 Penn street. Funeral services will be held Wed nesday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence, the Kev. A. M. Stam cts, pastor of the Augsburg Lutheran Church, officiating. The body will be taken by Undertaker Charles H. Mauk. <to ILancaster, on the train leaving Harrisburg at 11.58 o'clock, Wednesday, and burial will be made in the Terre Hill Cemetery there. Miss Amnion is survived by her fa ther, three sisters, Mrs. J. W. Peffer, Huntingdon; Miss Pauline and Miss Mary Amnion, of Harrisburg, and a brother, John Amnion, of Harris burg. MRS. MARY C'AHK Mrs. Mary Carr, 77, died Sunday morning at her home, 1211 North Front street, of pneumonia. She is survived by six children, eight grand children, two sisters and a brother. Funeral services will be held Wed nesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock from the home, the Kev. H. S. Her shey, pastor of the Green Street Church of God, officiating. liurial will be made in the Harrisburg Cem etery. DAVID (iALRKAITH Funeral services for David Gal braith. 84. were held this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at Saltsburg, Indiana county. Pa. He died Friday after noon at Saltsburg. He is survived by four sisters. Mrs. D. S. Robinson, Miss Emma Galbraith, Saltsburg; Mrs. W. R. Mcllwain, of Los An geles, California, and Mrs. D. W. Cox, of Harrisburg. Mr. Galbraith was a retired railroader, and was employed in the Northern Central Railroad offices in Harrisburg dur ing the Civil War. He has been ac tive in railroad circles for more than fifty years. He was a Mason. DIES OK PNEUMONIA Delmar Wills, aged 29, who re sided at Washingtonboro, died in the Harrisburg Hospital at about 6.15 last evening. The cause of his death was pneumonia. He has been in the hospital for treatment about two weeks and was thought to be improving, and was even up and about. His condition became serious yesterday and death resulted. Wilis was employed as an expressman at Middletown. MRS. BRIDGET MeGOVERN Mrs. Bridget McGovern, 75, died at her home, 1048 South Cameron street, Saturday morning. Funeral services will be held in the Sacred Heart Church, Wednesday morning, the Rev. G. L. Rice officiat ing. Burial will be made in Calvary Cemetery. JOHN MAIN Funeral services for John Hain, 58. will be heid at his late residence, in Hainton, Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Burial will be made in Shoop's Church Cemetery. He died yesterday at his home. GERMAN-MADE PEACE TOO MANY KNOTS-TOO HCAVV AN ANCHOR The above cartoon is one of those drawn by Robert Deiter. Tl pictures mostly are of a patriotic nature. Many Enlistments of Men Not of Draft Age December was the banner month of the year for the recruiting officers of the Harrisburg Recruiting district. The official report has not yet been complied, but it is estimated that more than 3,000 recruits were enlisted for the Army during that month. Most of these men were recruited in the week preceding December 15. A creditable number of men is en listed daily from the Harrisburg dis trict in spite of the fact that draft registrants may no longer enlist. From twenty to thirty men are en listed daily, who are not in the draft ages, and sent t(* training camps. Abou a half dozen men have been re cruited for the United States Guards, composed of inen over 31. After the beginning of the new year, a drive for a good-sized contingent of men for this branch of the service will bo launched. Chamber of Commerce Praises Post Office Work The speed which characterized the handling of the Xmas rush at the post office has called forth praise from E. L. McColgin. secretary of the Chamber of Commerce who sent the following letter to Postmaster Frank C. Sites: "Referring to the statement in the papers to-day about the volume of business handled by you during the Christmas season, I think you are to be congratulated upon the ease with which you handled such a large business. When it is considered that there is a labor shortage, the weath er was cold and the streets were al most impassable on account of heavy snows and the express companies were far behind in their service, the record of the local post office shows what the United States Government can do when it undertakes to handle business. "Although I was in the post office nearly every day while you were handling the Christmas rush, there was such an absence of confusion that I did not realize the increased amount of mail matter which you were handling through the post of fice." In addition to the heavy Christmas mail, Mr. Sites had extra work with the "baby bonds" and thrift cards, not to mention 41,399 packages of 1918 automobile licenses which were taken care of on time. Asks Exemption Board For Induction Into Army John C. Orr, chairman of the first district exemption board, announced that the first man appeared before hisboard for voluntary induction rather than wait on the ruling of his board. The registrant stated that he had been before the recruiting officers to enlist, but was bared for physi cal disability. The draft boards may draft men into the service without waiting to till a qlota, if they so de sire. Not all the branches of the ser vice are open to the draft eligible, however. Infantry, aviation and field artillery are open to the registrant fo immediate enlistment through his local draft board. County Law Library Files Annual Report The annual report of the IJauphin County Law Library Committee was tiled to-day with I'rothonotary Henry F. Holler. The committee includes: M. W. Jacobs, chairman: W. F. Darby, H. Bergner, L Bailey and Wil liam M. Main. According to the re port of Mr. Bergner, treasurer, sl,- 739.76 was spent to purchase new books, and there is a balance remain ing of $1,587.50. D. F. Young, libra rian, reports that during the year 5-16 new books were added to the library, making :• total of 8,351 volumes on record. Harrisburgers Asked to Aid Starving Armenians Several of the churches made men tion yesterday of the great need for the 400.000 destitute orphans of Ar menia and As.vria. The American com mi t tee for this particular need states that Harrisburg should con tribute $20,850. It is said that $30,- 000,000 is required to provide food, clothing and other necessities of life during the winter for 2,140,000 desti tute survivors, and that this total would give to each dependent man, woman and child a pittance of less than eight cents a day to meet the winter's need at famine prices. MUST SERVE IIV ARMY George Elmer Danish, of Philadel phia, for the last few weeks employ ed as a freight brakoman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, must serve in the new National Army. This decision was reached Saturday at a hearing before the Third City Draft Board. Danish was ordered to report to his home board in October. He evaded the call, and came to this city, where he secured employment. He hired under the name of George Daniels, i although he received his mail uncler ' his right name. Through this chan- ! i el his identity became Known and his j arrest followed. He left to-dav for; Camp Meade at the order of the City Board. j —————— 1 - Political Balance of House Reveals Unusual Situation Washington, Dec. 3!. How l| ' close the political balance tn the | ' j House will be when Congress re- J convenes on January 3 is shown j by this summary made by South I Trimble, clerk of the House— Total membership 435 Democrats 211 Republicans, 209 Independent group 6 Yacancies 9 DECEMBER 31, 1917.' Condemnation Proceedings Begun by School Board to Get Dozen Properties Condemnation proceedings to ac quire a number of adjacent properties to the Technical high school, so that the building can be remodeled and an addition erected, were started in court to-daj- by the City School District, M. W. Jacobs, solicitor for the board, asking for the appointment of view ers. The properties are given in three Mocks, as follows: Eight brick build ings, 20, 26%. 28, 30, 32 North Fifth street, 439-41 Walnut street, 20, 22, 21 North Fifth street, frame buildings, and 16, 18 North Fifth street, two other frame buildings. Most of the properties are part of the Simonetti estate, and a number of mortgages and judgments are listed against the properties. The School Hoard took over the properties in September. The viewers aro James D. Saltz lnan, Paul G. Smith and Earl G. Graeft' The first meeting will be held Janu ary 26. Co-operating Churches to Hold Cottage Services Preparatory to the opening of the Lnlon Revival of the Interdenomina tional Ministers' Conference, next Sunday, cottage prayer meetings will be held in a*number of homes dur ing the week. The revival services will open at the Harris A. M. E. Zion Church, West Harrisburg, Sunday January 3, at 3 p. m. The cottage prayer meetings will be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday evenings, they will be in the following homes: Mrs. Robert Temple, 1622 Elm street; Benjamin Massey, 142 Hancock street; Mrs. Selena Johnson, 1331 Wyeth street; Mrs. Reuben Royster, 1730 North Seventh street; Earl Hawkins, 704 North Seventh; Mrs. Mary Lewis, 149 Linden street. A union prayer meeting will take I place Wednesday evening at the | Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, at For- I ster and Ash streets. Thursday evgj ing meetings will be held in the homes ol' Deacon Henry Warren, 126 Liberty street: Tyson Dorsey, 132 3 Marion street; Mrs. H. Jones, 232 Liberty street; Mrs. Willis Beverly, 801 South Tenth street; Mrs. Hattie Briscoe, 118 Balm street; Joseph Page. 106 Cherry avenue; Mrs. Katie Walker, 1131 Wallace street; Mrs. Mary F. Jackson, 602 Forster street; Joseph Turner, 1409 James street, and Mrs. Hattie Hall, Herr and j Chamberlain streets. On Friday evening they will be | held at the homes of the Rev. R. L. | Briscoe, 121G Cowden street; Mrs. I r. M. Ford, 250 Liberty street, and | the Rev. W. Tolivar, 1407 James street. GEN. CROZIER DENIES OPPOSITION TO GUN | [Continued from First Pago.[ features and offered to again test it when perfected. He produced a letter from President A. E. Borie, of the Savage Arms Company, statir/ that the board's action had been "entirely unpartial." Appropriations Meagre Congressional appropriations for machine guns prior to 1916, before ! the declaration of war, when $12,- 000,000 was authorized, General Crozier said, "had been very mea gre." Because of machine gun de velopment and the large 1916 appro priation, General Crozier said Secre tary Baker decided to appoint a special board, organized in Septem ber, 1916, and which arranged for the tests of May, 1917. When war with Germany became imminent. General Crozier said he asked for 5,000 Lewis guns. On April 12, he said, 1,300 Lewis guns were or dered, 4,400 more on June 12, and j 2,000 more June 18. "This shows," said General Croz- I ier, "that as soon as the gun was developed for use with Ameri j can ammunition, large orders were i immediately given." letters in F.viilence Letters from General Pershing last | summer asking for "the greatest pos- I sible production" of Viekers guns, I were put in evidence and General Pershing especially asked for Lewis guns for aviations. Demands for Lewis guns in the latter service, Gen eral Crozier said, probably will re sult in continued orders for them. Turing to the charges by Colonel Lewis, inventor of the gun bearing his name, that General Crozier had been prejudiced against him, General Crozier showed that a board which investigated charges exonerated him. ! Assertions that he had opposed i adoption of Colonel Lewis' range ! tinder, also were categorically denied | by General Crozier. MRS. IRA A. CRAMKR Mrs. Ida M. Cramer, wife of Ira I A. Cramer, died yesterday morning ; at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Sallie ! Brookehart, 927 Penn street. She ; was 30 years old and had bean an invalid for months. Funeral services will be held Tuesday evening at 81 o'clock at the house in charge of the Rev. Mr. Phaum, pastor of Harris Street United Evangelical Church. The body will be taken to Miftlin town, Mr. Cramer's former home, Wednesday, where burial will be made in the Union Cemetery in the afternoon. PAV FOR I'RISONKRS The city to-day paid to the county $1,960.40 for the maintenance of pris oners at the county Jail during the year. All defendants arrested on charges of violating city ordinances and given Jail sentences are sent to the county prison. TO HOL.H MKKTING Parent-teachers' meetln will be held January 2 at the Oeyer school, Londonderry township. County school Superintendent F. E. Shambaugh, Assistant W. R. Zimmerman and County Farm Agent H. G. Nlesly will speak. Many Hear Dr. Holmes at Sunday Y.M.C. A.Meeting; Service Flag Is Unfurled Tlie largest audience which has greeted the speaker of a Y. M. C. A., men's mass meeting of this series, was assembled to welcome Deart Arthur Holmes, of State College, who spoke on "Milestones on the Koad ti Eternity," yesterday afternoon. Several musical numbers by the y. W. C. A. Musical Club and a nuni i ber by Miller's banjo trio preceded the address. The musical numbers ware a feature, written by Professor Hoy G. Miller, leader of the musical club. They were, "Y. W. C. A. March.' "Christmas Greetings and "Eitude. Dr. Holmes gave a timely address 011 the derivation of the names of the months and days, lie said, "This is a time to take stock of ourselves ami the world." He deprecated the cele bation of the first day of the year, saying that we should make Niw Year's Day a new kind of holiday, "I am going to live, think and hi? what I ought to be every day in the year." "There isn't anything stronger than an idea. Everything is an expression of an idea," he continued. A Service flag with forty-eight stars, was unfurled, after a dedlcat orv address by Dr. G. E. Hawes. pas ; lor of the Market Square Presbyterian i Church. The stars represented mem i bers of the V. M. C. A. who are in | the service. | After a short musical program, un l der the leadership of Professor Gre- I gory, the meeting adjourned. A short twilight song service, around the bij? I piano was held, Professor Gregory' and Mr. Dinsmore directing the sing ing. After this song service, an un- I known musician played Beethoven's I "Moonlight Sonata," and a number of ■ old favorites. Dr.E.N.Kremer's Grandson Helped Capture Hun U-Boat Hundreds of persons in Harrisburg j were greatly interested to hear that young John Kremer was one of the | crew of the Destroyer Fanning which i encountered a German submarine on | November 24 and aided by another iU. S. craft, sank tlie "moccasin of j the sea," taking care to save the crew. Young Kremer is a son of John Krenier, of Philadelphia, a widely known insurance man, and tho grandson of the Rev. Dr. Ellis N. Kremer, pastor of Reformed Salem Church. Me was a frequent visitor In Harrisburg and marked for his daring and precocity. Though only eighteen he insisted on joining the Navy and finally got a berth on the Fanning. Kremer immediately showed such j skill and judgement in handling the big guns that he was made captain of a gun crew. Sighted by the Fan nlng's coxswain the U. S. boat rushed for the spot where the periscope had disappeared and dropped a depth I bomb. This had its effect and German was seen to come up, bov M first. The Fanning then pumped I three shots into her and within a 1 few seconds the German sailors I were lined up on deck, their hands I up in surrender. The Fanning, with I her guns trained for fear of treach ery. then proceeded to rescue many of the crew who had jumped into the water. iPeoDle Turn, to Church During War, Says Pastor The trend of modern things is be coming more Christian. This point was emphasized by Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker in a war sermon, on "War Judgments and Funeral Bells," in Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, last night. Dr. Smucker pointed out that the world is dark with disaster and that the dawn of a better day is coming. He said: i "Looking at this night, which coming on all the nations of till earth, what hopes, what feelings may we entertain concerning that which is so dear to us, our own native land? The judgments which have fallen and will continue to fall on the continent of Europe, have, in some degree, been blessed to us. We are more attach ed to our great institutions; and that our people are being taught, by re cent judgments, less to depend upon man, more upon God. The churches are more crowded arid (he people aro hecoming more Christian. We must look less on the things that are seen, and more on the things that are un seen; our hope must be in the purity, the efficiency, the spirituality of tlie church; for days are coming when it must be founded on nothing else whatever. There is a book called th'i Bible, it is the inspiration of 'God. it is His Word. Are its prophecies mere dreams?. Are its promises charm ing delusions, or 'are thev yea and amen in Christ Jesus? Let "men re turn to Him from whom they have gone astray." Evangelist Pleases at Ridge Avenue Church The evangelistic services at Ridge Avenue Methodist Church had a fa vVnble beginning yesterday. By use of its ora-n heating plant, the church was made comfortable all day. A fair sized congregation was present in the morning and a large congreation at niht. The Wev. David Huhes, the Welsh evanelist, made a very favor able impression both mornin and eve ning. In the morning he delivered a strong sermon on "Christ the King." In the evening his subjest was "Is Life Worth Livln?" He is a very interesting speaker, has a good vo cabulary and is rather dramatic in Ills manner. He easily convinced his audiences yesterday that he belongs to the upper grade of evangelists who make their meetings worth while. lie excels also as a singer, and succeeded yesterday in organizing a large chorus choir. This feature of tho services promises to be unusually ef ficient. Watch niht service Is to bo gin at 9.50 this evening. Sermon by the evangelist at 10.30 p. m. Meet ings will continue during the week ai; 7.45 p. m. Civil War in Progress at Irkutsk; Many Dead Peking, Sunday, Dec. 30. Civil * war is in progress at Irkutsk, in east ern Siberia on the trans-Siberian railroad and in the surrounding dis tricts. Tho town was set on fire by Red Guards after they had murder ed the French consular agent and three other Frenchmen. Many per sons. Including women and children, are being murdered and street fight ing is under way. The Bolshevik! continue to receive reinforcements and ammunition from Krasnoyarsk. The Cossacks are of fering determined opposition to tl* 4 Red Guards. The Siberian rallwav 1 guards are outnumbered and are be 1 ing killed or driven from their post' Communication with Petrograd In* been cut off. Academy Alumni to Hold Annual Smoker The alumni of the Harrisburg Acad emy will hold their fifth annual Academy Night In the University Clu-i looms, Front and Market streets at 8 o'clock this evening. A good-size,i crowd of the alumni of the Acadeniv Is expected to be at tho meeting to '' night. Arrangements have been mad.- for a good time and refreshments will ' he served. The meeting will be ad dressed by James Wlckcrsham Yale 1 Robert Shrelner, Lafayette; Wlllar.i Oenslager, Harvard, and John C He-- 2 man Jr., Yale. 3
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