HUNDREDS FILE
TAX RETURNS
Internal Revenue Office Bus\
With Income Receipts
For District
Filing ot income tax returns at th<
internal revenue offices in the Spoon
er building is progressing now at th
rate of five hundred registrants a
Way. This was the record vesterdaj
:ind late this afternoon H. A. Voll
>ner, deputy collector, thought thai
litis mark might be passed. This pari
of the Ninth distrk-t include Perry
Dauphin and Snyder counties, anil
now that the roads have improved
farmers are coming In by the hun
dreds. Thus far there have been onlv
two persons to complain of the sys
ti*m. The vast majority takes the ta>
willingly and cheerfully. The most
significant proof of that, Mr. Voll
mer pointed out is the fact that few
have taken advantage to secure low
er burden by presenting his or her
amount of money contribution'to
religious or educational charities.
"Spot cash" is the common slogan
among the visitors. A great many
want to clean up the affair on the
spot and the chest of the office is
bulging with bills every day. Nearly
11'o yesterday pajd cash.
The limit for filing has been ex
lended to April 1, but Mr. Voller is
urging taxpayers to get in early.
Four expert assistants are now help
ing him and while the crowd is con
tinuous, the work goes swiftly, most
returns being comparatively easy to
adjust. Officials of the revenue de
partment say that the system is a
i omplete success.
U. S. AIRPLANES
AHEAD OF TIME
fContinued from First I'agc.]
itely and in quantity. The peak of
ei'ormoua production, brought about
through typical American ftandard
i:.ation, will be reached within the
in-xt month, when thousands of them
will be on their way to cloud the
western skies against the German
: hordes.
Announcement of this achievement
was made yesterday by Secretary ot
War Baker. He told, in a very frank,
t (ninle statement, the trials and dif
ficulties that the undeveloped avia
tion service of this country had to
overcome to reach the point of per
fection attained by the warring na
t'ons under the urge of their great
est. emergency.
>lnin Problem Ik Mcn
Three times were the plans .drawn
by the aviation experts on the war
front changed or discarded for the
modern battleship in the sky. And
sain, the 8.000 miles that separated
tho American aviation commission
fr,,m its base in Washington caused
delays of from seventeen days to
ley en weeks in the shipment of im
portant samples.
Secretary Baker makes it nuite ap
parent that the size of air fleet that
American can put forth is limited
unly by the number of men who can
be trained for the Service.
"After three years of warfare, said
tlTe s-eeretary in outlining the task
st i mounted, "the total number of
planes able to take the air at any
time on either side of the western
front has not been over 2,500. This,
r,unbilled with the fact that forty
m:; men are required on the ground
for the planes in the air, gives a
tnipf perspective of the Kuropean
aviation situation than is commonly
p. ssessed.
"For every plane in the air there
must be two reflacement planes on
the ground and one training plane
for every pilot who eventually
reaches the front, with a spare en
gine for each plane. Moreover, while
the American program has been de
l.tyet. by dificulties which were im
possible to foresee when the tenta
tive program was adopted in all our
lack of knowledge last spring, it may
l,i said that American planes are not
due in France under the original
schedule until July.
11ml to Create an Industry
"At the outbreak of the war the
first ste;>, both in sequence and im
portance, was to build an industry
to rush out the training planes
needed fc the prospective aviators
v hfc were immediately on band. This
fresh and energetic personnel afford
ed, indeed, America's largest immedi
ate source of aid to her associate
nations in the war, which, while well
able to turn out the latest type of
airplane:!, were seriously drained of
men capable of manning them. The
ultimate goal, however, was the con
struction if a large fleet of battle
planes.
"Two Kerious problems, interwoven
and reacting, were immediately met,
'lie almost total lack both of air
"tane industry and airplane engi
neering knowledge. The estimates
of the total value of the industry
• ary from 12,000,000 to J10,000.000
and of employes from 5,000 to 10,000.
The Government was practically the
only purchaser, having ordered 366
planes the year before the war, of
which only sixty-six were delivered.
'I he engineering problems were even
more complex. Europe, at Var, with
the best engineers of the country
pitted against each other in a strug- i
Grand Patriotic Rally j
Chestnut Street Auditorium
Monday, Feb. 25, 7.30 P. M.
SPEAKERS
George Wharton Pepper
Chairman Committee of Public Safety
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Howard Heinz
Federal Food Administrator
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Lieut. Frank A. Sutton
Member Royal Engineers *
Community Singing
No Admission will be Charged
TTTUttSDAY F-VENITCG RHURISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 21,
| gle which knew no close, had work-
I ed out the most ingenious develop
ments In the light of actual lighting
l experience,
k j "Information reaching here was
j| generally fragmentary- and always
| late. As a result, when war came
| the I'nited States had virtually no
I airplane staff and no modern llght
y ing planes. The first step was to
obtain intorn ation from Kurope. A
commission was early sent across,
which rushed back the last minute
details, upon the strength of which
a large, number of lighting planes of
' a certain type Were ordered.
"The raw materials were very
e largely at hand and the drawings
within several days of completion,
e when another cable said that this
a type had been superseded and should
v : not be built. Nearly a month was
' ; thus lost. Drawings then cairie for
1 another type. They had just been
it redrawn and the diemakers put to
't work when a second and different
set arrived. .lust as it was Hearing
<1 completion still a third set of draw-
I. 1 it.gs arrived and a third start was
"I necessary.
, N I "It is significant of the rapid de
'*' velopment of aviation that not a sin
,t 1 gle type of the original schedule
_ i has survived into the present pro
v gram.
. ! "The great problem now reniain
,. ing is to secure tlie thousands of
0 skilled mechanics, enginemen. motor
j repairmen, wood and metalworkers
n J needed to keep the planes alway in
v i perfect condition. This great engi
e j neering and mechanical force at the
s airdromes, flying fields and repair
y depots, both here and beyond the
lines in France, is a vital industrial
- | link in the chain of air supremacy,
s j Without tliem the planes turned out
. ' would be useless and the flyers help
- ' less. Now that American battle
- j planes are going overseas, a great
1 j increase in the volunteering of
0 : skilled mechanics is both essential
- 1 and expected."
Full Proof Called
For by State Board
A In allowing compensation to the
j widow and dependants of Cornelius
- Koch, killed at a crossing dn the
' i city of Reading last March, the State
. j Compensation Board declares that
f the Philadelphia and Beading Rail
-1 way lias not met the burden of proof
that the train which killed the
watchman was engaged in interstate
t commerce. The oipnion is given aft
-1 er a rehearing of the case and the
; Board says: "We invariably insist
- upon the fullest compliance with the
> i burden of proof when a railroad
■ j company undertakes to seek inuiiun
' 1 ity from the act."
In disallowing the claim of the
widow and dependants of Adolph
Kaiser, Scranton, who is held not to
1 have been hurt in the course of em
r ployment, the Board says the situa
' tion of the family appeals to it, but
' t'.iat the man did not die from in
i juries received while at work. A
1 i new hearing is allowed in the claim
' [of Samuel T. Chaplain vs. National
' i Kadiator Co., Johnstown, and half a
■ 1 dozen other appeals dismissed.
i Big Crowds Expected
at Patriotic Rally,
i Plans for the great patriotic rally
: | in the Chestnut Street Auditorium
next Monday evening are completed,
.and indications point to one-of the
: most successful meetings of its kind
' ever held in Harrisburg. Lieutenant
F. A. Sutton will be the principal
I speaker. Doors will be open prompt
ly at 7 o'clock and the meeting will
i | begin at 7.30.
It A Bill If AAS TO SPEAK AT
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
i | rtabbi Douis J. Haas, of the Ohev
• I Sholoni Temple, will participate in
• j the twenty-fifth annual commence
• ment exercises at the Baron de
s Hirscli Agricultural School. New
■ j Jersey, on Washington's Birthday.
• , Rabbi Haas was connected with the
• [ school as spiritual adviser prior to
•!his call to this city. He will con
■ duct services Friday evening and
Saturday morning in the synagogue
1 of the school.
Kabbi Charles A. Jtubenstein, of
Baltimore, will conduct services at
the Ohev Sholoni Temple during
Rabbi Haas' absence.
t
? BOYS' SOCIAL POSTPONED
' | IJecausc of the State Y. M. C. A.
i; convention to be held here begin
■ ining to-day, the boys' weekly social
■ ! at the Central Y. M. C.A, building
• will not be held to-night. This an-
I ! nouncement was made this morning
' j by Arch H. Dinsmore, bovs' work I
' j rretary. j
DRINK HOT TEA ;!
FOR A BAD COLDI
I Get a small package of Hamburg
1 j Breast Tea at any pharmacy. Take
, ; a tablespoonful of this hamburg tea,
. put a cup of boiling water upon it,
pour through a sieve and drink a
| teacupful at any time. It is the
i most effective way to break a cold
j and cure grip, as it opens the pores,
| relieving congestion. Also loosens
j the bowels, thus breaking a cold at
i once.
It is inexpensive and entirely veg-
I ptable, therefor© harmless.
JSjoamartZ
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HEI.I. H"I—fXITEH lIABIUSHtIUi. THIBSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, IHIB. FOUNDED 1871
Friday—Sale Day I Save Wheat
Use substitute for wheat
\qgg A clean sweep 011 this weekly Bargain Day flour and you will help bring
>- qIHL of th f " ,i ' i| - eHds " of various lines of regular our so ]dier boys home
w purchases (limited in quantities) especially Sttfe QTld SoOtl
f prepared for this one day. ....
George Washinzton 411 Fri< ! ;, y bargains are not advertised— ' ~ " "
the green price tickets point them out—and all j v*ras Lace and
Ihe man soldier patriot our tirst through the store these beacon signs beckon Baskets Embroidery
President. n , , . . . ®
A notablv distinguished figure of Amer- yOU tO Wonderful opportunities tO reap Savings Largo si,e - cambric embroidery
iean history—the greatest Of his time: of economic, worth on desirable, dependable e dle cover - I,nday virir "Friday Sale 1 yard"
We reverently pay tribute to his reasonable and high quality good?..
memory on his birthday anniversary ~ ~ BOWMAN'S- second Floor Val edges L inch
to-morrow. Men's Union Suits Dress Goods Silks ' m wide - Friday Sale, yard,
cciUun —HHit^wcLht o French serge colors, Stripe Japanese Ilab- Bovs' RomDers
Shoe Bags ' Towels and niw i navy, brown, tan, bur- utai 36 inches wide. Nottingham medallions
' ~— 1 n ' i ,i i. • i &"ndy, wisteria, green Friday Sale, yard, —white and cream, oval
Made of cretonne —all Toweling 1 sSle * 3 and Belgium bjue -42 ' * Stamped on bleached shapes -3to 6 inches
colors Friday Sale ' inches wide. Friday Sale, j OIJC muslin one and two long. -Friday Sale, each,
9Q Huck towels guest . SI.OO yard ' ! Velveteens -in navy, 7™ sizes. Friday Sale,
""C size. Fiidav SaJe, each, BOWMAN'S— Main Floor deep wisteria, moss green CQ. .
BOWMAN'S—Second Floor I OJC. an( j tan —24 and 77 "wC • BOTIV MAN'S Main Floor
—-- 7c TTTT I Plaid suitings —36 1 inches wide. Friday Sale BOWMAN'S— second Floor
Notions ' Hemstitched hucl; tow- Men's Shirts and inche, wide. Friday Sale, yard, ' Women', and
els—selected seconds Drawers
c , ff ... , size IS :3', inches Fri- drawers - 3JC Curtain and Misses' Middy
Spool cotton—black or ] dav Sale, , .. , . DC Corduroy satin finish anq ~
wlute hnday Sale, spool, j " ' \' utt ? nbbed Check crash suiting— 22 inches wide royal _ Blouses
' dozen ' 19c .UlhL™rvLi " wide. Friday blue 01113-. Friday Sale, Drapery Materials 7 .
€x A lT , medium "weight. 1 rida> Sale, yard, yard, A sale of middy
luck towels large v ale, eacli, * l>louses made of Tan-
Buttons - pearl, bone "**■ Frid ">y Sale. each. 79 25c 95c ecrifonlv -42 tajhra j 1 "epe in colors,
card ' ' Bleached twilled tow- ~ ~ stle. vard " * I 25c Collar . s ' sasl ' aml
elling. Friday Sale, yard, ]\/i„_ C npnflor Sateen P ettlCOats ' " I pockets. Sizes 34 to
4c _ men S ouspenaers - ■ . Sunfast crepc —ill rose, 46. Quantity limited.
BOWMAN'S—Main Floor '/C r -, ... , . fi c " P c icoats •'JC green, blue and gold Friday Sale,
i„ ~ . . Ll * le webbing—mohair flowered and plain Remnants including 50 inches wide. Friday
* All linen ciash—brown, j and leather ends. Friday black elastic waist taffeta, satin, messaline Sale, vard, $1.29
" - ' alc ' - vard ' Sale, pair, band— assorted'lengths. and fancy silks —in BOWMAN's —Third Floor
CamUole, 17C 35C 'Say
j BOW MAN ft—Second Floor BOWMAN'S—Main Floor ' _ _ I' lgured SUllfast—llier- ChalllS
Camisoles in flesh j iuC 9uC cerized—36 inches wide |
seco silk or tine batiste— I " BOWMivs-Mnin Friday Sale, vard, I T ,
tailored finish or lace White Goods Men's Drew Shirts JS 1 '
trimmed—sizes 36 to s9c p'-'? .~ , Inch ® s Uldc '
Friday Sale, White voile—tape sel- Men's percale dress Women's Shoes Wash Goods Scrim white ivorv " ae '^ art '
4Qr i ved^ c ~"°°d quality-27 shirts-coat style-soft and ccru _ 36 ' inche " s g c
_ , inc ICS VNld e. Friday .Sale, cutts. 1-riday . ale, each, Women's button shoes Silk and cotton crepe wide lacc and band BOWMAN'S— Second Floor
bow JA. ft ftccon ooi \ arc, gft patent colt and gun de chine—white grounds borders. Friday Salt,
—> — ■ 191/ _ OUC metal small sizes pre- with colored stripes —36 yard, ■
• XCI/2C BOWMAN'S—Main Floor dominate. Friday Sale, inches wide. Friday Sale,
Dressing Sacque Linene suiting —white • P a ' r > yard, . 19c L-retonne
Sale 'vard " lde " ' riday Men's Hose SI 49 IQr ' Heay y dark cretonnes rvptnnne
Dressing sacque —in ' - ' 15rC < —36 inches wide. Friday , , niedium
dark percale or light lawn 1C Men's hose—black and l° ,llcn s . fi " e , dre f s , Gl f n %, madras Sale, yard, hichcs' wide" S-lv Sih-'
—low neck—short sleeves. IDC colors double soles ° s patent coltskin gingham —in lengths of op< inches wide. 1 riday Sale,
Friday Sale. White plaid voile—39 high spliced heels sec- 3 g V n nieta '—kid tops 3to 7 yards slightly 25c ) ard >
. r \ inches wide. Friday Sale, oncls. Friday Sale pair, ~"^ od range of sizes, soiled on edge —32 BOWMAN-S— second Floor 17c
45C yard. 0(* IT, day Sale, inches wide. Friday Sale, BOWMAN'S —second Floor
BOWMAN'S—Second Floor yard,
BOWMAN'S—Main Floor
_ - —iL BOWMAN'S—Second Floor omen's button and
csoC , Boys' Hats
Length „ Women'* ,ac ? sl . loes ~black, brown, Figured batiste—white Feather Ticking
c . , ' and . white tops with black ground with colored flow- • Boys' hats—droop and
Switches at an Crettonne Stockings p XI "^ S ', full V rs , in ncat effects — 3O ,roll brims—mixture and Remnant lengths-blue
r pnch heels, b riday Sale, inches wide. Friday Sale, plain material. Friday and white striped. Fri-
Extra Low Price, Knitting Bags Women's thread silk ~ I yard ' * j Salc ' j da y Salc ' y ard >
Only $2.95 I Cretonne knitting hags s4 ' so 19c 25c 32c
for a finc qu al it y I c - SOrtCd COl ° rS ' Fri<:: y " a ' tCr tQ P- firs tS and sec- A-VS-Maln noo,. BOWMAN S-Mam Fl oo r BOWMAN'S Second Floor BOWMAN S-Second Floor
WAVY HAIR i ' onds—black and colors. " "
SWITCH - thirty in 39 c Frida y Sal - P air > Infants' Furniture Polish Hand Purses
-• 45c Flannelette Gown, R„by Gjoss f„ r „i,„ rc b.K£ T^S'^
stems. An unusual op- \\ omen s thread silk polish. Friday Sale
portunity one which stockings—double soles— Infants'white flannel
many women should Laundry Bags high spliced heels-Wide ctte gowns or kimonas- 19c '
avail themselves of. An _ gartcr top-black and col- buttonhole edge. Friday ; BowMAN S-Ba-sement Hat Pins
secure for exact 1 . Assorted colors —36 ors. Friday Sale, pair, sale, | . Gold top and sterling silver-neat patterns
l=HLi> : T .00 8c Oil Heater. 6 inches long. Friday Sale, each,
ana texture. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor BOWMAN'S—Second Floor 12 AC
1 ROWMAN'S—Second Floor m _ '•TI '1 -i t ~
The silver oil heater" IJtrihrAlla*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~" Out Glass IWods burns 14 hours with
AYminator Riiw* °ne gallon of oil. Fridav Mcn and wom en's American taffeta umbrellas
Axminster RUgS Nannie* Sale, y -paragon frame. Friday Sale,
Extra heavy mottled Axminster rugs—borders Ilayden's dust mop 0C aq
on ends only. Friday Sale, chemically
AOvT* ft itl>2 -in Cut glass nappies—me- plete with*s ft. handle BOWMAN's-Baaement __ _
dium size with handle. Friday Sale,. Hand Mirrors
9x12 tt JhlD.oO Fridav c ale v
46x1 2 ft $7.50 35 c Ebony and mahogany finish. Friday Sale,
Kp . D BOWMAN S—Basement Roasting Pan J9c End 39c
1 apestry Kugs BOWMAN'S—Baaement
Seamless wool faced Tapestry rugs—floral and r . Double steel roasting Talcum Powder
allover patterns—9xl2 ft. Friday Sale. Dinner Sets Washer pan size 11x16 inches. Unscented baby talcum powder. Friday Sale,
(I-. q Q I'riday Sale, can>
Mh"o Motor washer—cedar or*
100 piece dinner set— tub bound with three J*>C •
Table Oil Cloth Wild rose decoration. Fri- heavy brass hoops. Fri- Bow.wAN s-Basement Shell Hair Pins
Fancy table oil cloth—lJ4 yards wide—slight- ' ,ill ' Shell hair pins—3 inches to 4 1 / 2 inches long—
ly imperfect. I-riday . ale, yard, $11.98 sll 98 a ' )OX * r ' da y Sale, box,
19c BOWMAN'S—Basement BOWMAN'S—Basement Suit CaSCS
Velvet Rugs Vases Child'* S*f Matting suit cases Handkerchiefs
In floral and conventional patterns—27xs4 corners and edges bound Women's hemstitched and roll edge handker
inches. Friday Sale, 12 inch vagcg _ wi h Consisting of knife, fork chiefs-colored embroidered corner. Fridav
5149 side handles. Friday Sale, s P°on. Friday Sale, Jock Friday Sale, Sale, each,
BOWMAN'S—Fourth Floor. $1 ftQ £~ (Q>lQ */2^
OC BOWMAN'S—Main Floor.
BOWMAN'S—Basement BOWMAN'S—Basement BOWMAN'S—Basement i
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