SENATORS FIND
INEFFICIENCY;
SEE PRESIDENT
Truth About Big Gun Produc
tion Occasions Great
Surprise
■Washington, March 12. —The Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee was
so shocked at the failure of the War
Department to produce guns, air
ships and other things urgently
needed if the war is not to be lost
that the committee sent Senator
Thomas, of Colorado, an ardent ad
ministration supporter, to tell the
President about it.
Senator Thomas saw the President
and reported to the committee that
the President had shown great in
terest.
Among the things which the com
mittee had discovered and which had
so shocked the members was that up
to date the War Department had ful
filled only ten per cent, of its prom
ises on aircraft production.
Another thing that shocked the
committee was that the War Depart
ment had wasted nearly a whole
vcur without producing a single big
"There must be
30,000 of them—Our
Boys—all smoking
Helmar!"
tni'iou\cA Mi^tffa
""W 1 Egyptian Cigarettes in the IHrtd
TUESDAY EVENING,
gun, and without having even a pro
gram for carrying on the work.
It can now be announced, how
ever, thut the War Department has
at last adopted a plan to expedite the
production of big guns and that
there is hope that some of the time
lost by inefficiency and indifference
may be made up.
The plan involves the division of
the country into ten munitions dis
tricts.
The manufacture of artillery is
still, however, only in its prepara
tory stages. But it can be said that
a definite program has finally been
adopted, and, as the lack of this is
the principal cause of the lack of
progress made thus far, the program
itself is an important achievement.
Red Guard Activities •*
Becoming More Violent
• By Associated Press
Stockholm, Monday, March 11.—
The Red Guard contingents in Hel
singfors are becoming more violent
in their activities, says a dispatch to
the Tidningen from Vasa, Finland.
"They are proceeding in quite
a deliberate manner," adds the dis
patch, "choosing: their victims from
among: th? intellectual classes, assas
sinating principally the clergy and
landed proprietors. All the agricul
tural commissioners except one have
been killed."
NEW GERMAN WAR I,OA\
By Asso:'Hca Pfess
London, March 12.—A new German
war loan of 15,000,000.000 marks will
be issued soon, an Exchange Tele
graph dispatch from Copenhagen
says. German war debts now
amount to 109,000.000.000 marks.
CAMPAIGN OFF
WITH A RUSH
Sproul Opens 'Headquarters
and O'Neil Gets Methodist
Preachers' Backing
Senator William C. Sproul yester
day opened his headquarters in Phil
adelphia and twitted Highway Com
missioner J. Denny O'Neil with
wanting to have prohibition all to
himself as an issue, while Mr. O'Neil
secured the endorsement of the big
Methodist Ministers' Association at
Pittsburgh and again declared that
this is no time for "deathbed repent
ance on the prohibition amendment.
Asa A. W eimer, the Lebanon legisla
tor, came out as a "wet" candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor. The campaign seems to
have opened with a rush, although
the primary will not be held until
May 21, more than two months away.
The Democrats, as usual, do not
know where they are at.
Philadelphia newspapers say that
Senator Sproul received many tele
grams congratulating him upon his
stand for the prohibition amendment
Hl d „^ hat has Ba,ned 'n strength.
Hei opened his headquarters yesterday
ana will begin a tour of the state
1. meeting all comers,
a ">iuu s pre dicted that his speeches
will be even more vigorous than his
forthcoming declaration.
For the Amendment
In reply to a question as to wheth
er he was for prohibition, the Phila
oelphia North American says the
Senator said: "I am for national
pi ohibition, and I do not see how
there can be any misunderstanding
as to my position with regard to so
vitally important a subject."
To the Philadelphia Bulletin Sena
tor Sproul spoke in a laughing way
about Mr. O'Neil's attack upon him
for his declaration and said: "J.
Denny seems to be disappointed and
excited. I thought he would be glad
to have some assistance in working
out the prohibition proposition, but
he seems to want it all for himself.
As far as I am concerned, I hope
everybody. Democrats and all. will
turn in for it. It is a moral and
economic issue, and it will be a bless
ing when it is removed from the field
of politics. For years it has been a
favored feeding ground for political
scavengers and now some people, not
satisfied with the profits they have
personally made from the liquor
business, are seeking to monopolize
prohibition for their own advantage,
and to ride it for further profit."
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
"Among ward leaders affiliated with
the Vare combination it was manifest
yesterday that since Senator Sproul's
statement of his position on the pro
hibition issue he will unquestionably
get the endorsement of the Repub
lican City Committee, in which the
Vares have a majority."
O'Neil Endorsed
Meanwhile at Pittsburgh Mr.
O'Neil received the unanimous en
dorsement of the Pittsburgh Metho
dist Episcopal Ministerial Associa
tion. the largest in the city, at its
weekly meeting. O'Neil's stand
against the domination of public af
fairs by the "wet" interests was
strongly praised by the clergymen,
and church members are to be called
upon to give him their earnest sup
port and votes. When he heard of
it Mr. O'Neil said:
"I like the expression, 'this is no
time for deathbed repentance.' and
that fits the case of the so-called
platform of W. C. Sproul, the man
who is being pushed by the liquor
men and who has been endorsed by
the booze men all over the state. I
am glad that at last the ministers
and church workers have become
aroused. They have kept out of pol
itics too long now. but I hope they
will make up for lost time by strik
ing a telling blow at the whole li.-
quor bunch."
Welmer'i J.a*t Stand
The North American in a Lebanon
dispatch says Representative Asa A.
Weimer "declared to-day he would
champion the liquor cause in his can
vass for the nomination. Possibly he
was encouraged to do this by the
fact that Senator William C. Sproul
and J. Denny O'Neil, the generally
recognized candidates in the Repub
lican party, both have declared in fa
vor of national prohibition. The
Lebanon statesman said the economic
issue as to liquor is overdrawn and
that it is not wise to decide such a
controversial question at this time
and force prohibition upon the people
when agitations of all kinds are in
imical to the country's interests in
the war. He is convinced that tbe
people of the state are not in favor
of the prohibition amendment."
The Philadelphia Record remarks:
"If the Democratic voters of Penn- |
sylvania want to elect a Governor, |
they must nominate a man of integ- i
rity and capacity, one who not only j
knows what is needed to reform the •
state government and run it in the
interest of the people, but who will
when elected have the courage and
the tact necessary to force results."
McGovern Quits Race
ip Wisconsin to Aid
Campaign of Lenroot
Milwaukee, Wis., March 12. —For
mer Governor Francis E. McGovern,
candidate for the Republican nomi
nation for United States Senator at
the primary election March 19, late
yesterday filed notice of his with
drawal from the race with the Sec
retary of State and placed himself
in the service of Congressman Irvine
L. Lenroot, also a candidate for the
nomination.
Mr. McGovern, in a statement,
said his action was based on the
indictment of Victor L. Berger, So
cialist candidate, which "virtually
removes Berger from the list of can
didates." Berger's followed, McGov
ern declared, are certain to go in a
body to the support of James
Thompson, the LaFollette candidate,
and make sure his nomination on the
Republican ticket, "should both
I.enroot and I remain in the Held to
divide the patriotic vote of the
party."
The statement concludes:
"In the public interest, therefore,
and oo my party may not be dis-
and discredited for years to
cOme, as now seems inevitable unless
the choice of Republicans Is narrow
ed down to one candidate on each
side of the great vital and transcend
ent Issue of loyal and patriotic
Americanism, I now retire in Mr.
Lenroot's favor and place my serv
ices at his disposal."
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HXRRISBURG TELEGRXFEI
PIGS l'EI) ON CANDY
Gloucester City, N. J.—Pennsylva
nia Railroad Detectives William
Donnnelly and Harry Archible ap
peared before Mayor Anderson and
made complaint that three freight
cars loaded with merchandise con
signed to Philadelphia grocery firms
were broken into and much of their
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contents stolen. The detectives claim
that several boys, whose ages range
from 13 to 18 years, were implicated
in breaking into the cars.
One car contained a considerable
quantity of candy, of the Easter va
riety, and it was charged they par
ried off no less tlian one hundred
and fifty dollars' worth of the candy,
which they gorged themselves with
and then made a tour of the lower
section of the city distributing candy
to all their friends and in their liber
ality they even fed large quantities
of it to the pigs belonging to n resi
dent of South Broadway, and as the
pigs niade way with all that was
thrown to them, it made them sick.
MARCH 12, 1918.
FORD PLANT FOR JERSEY
17-Boat Chasers to Be Built in Neigh
borhood of Newark
Detroit, March 12. —Henry Ford
will build a submarine killer plant
to cost more than $1,000,000 on an
80-acre tract on the Lincoln High-
way between Newark, N. J., and New
York. The plant will be a duplicate
of Ford's plant under construction
here and will turn out U-boat chatt
ers in large numbers.
Mr. Ford authorized the announce
ment yesterday. The governmen|
will pay part of the cost of construe*
tion.
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