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PROBECAUSE OF
EXPLOSION IN
BIG WAREHOUSE
No Loss of Life Reported in
Blast That Rocked
New York
New York, March 27. —Fire fol
lowing a series of unexplained ex
plosions destroyed the six-story
building of the Jarvis Warehouse
Company. Inc., near the Erie rail
road terminal in Jersey City, late
yesterday and badly damaged the
Erie repair shops. No loss of life has
been reported.
The material damage was estimat
ed by Jersey City police and Are of
ficials at close to $1,500,000. Thei
goods stored in the warehouse, said
to have included a quantity of chem
icals, were a total loss.
The cause of the explosions has]
not yet been determined, although a ;
rigid investigation was begun at^ncej
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by federal, state and city authori
ties.
The flrst of the terrific detonations
which occurred shortly after 3
o'clock, shook windows In downtown
Manhattan and caused considerable
alarm. Visions of another Black
Tom disaster or a bombardment by
the Germans were in many minds.
Burning cinders, which arose in the
heavy cloud of black smoke, were
carried by the wind across the North
River and fell along the water front.
Writer Has Unique
Plant to Collect an
Indemnity From Germans
Washington,—"l swear, so long
as I live, never knowingly to buy
anything made in Germany."
Such is the pledge which all en
emies of Germany the world around
are asked to take and which is to
the basis of a campaign of commer
cial pressure which may bring Ger
many to her knees or, failing that,
which will collect from her an in
demnity for her outrages against
civilization.
The plan was originated by Wil
liam Atherton Du Puy, of Washing
ton. a magazine writer. With rela
tion to the United States it is to be
executed through patriotic societies
and particularly through women's
organizations. These societies will
distribute the pledges through their
members.
The theory is that the trade o; an
individual is worth SSOO to Germany.
By signing the pledse Germany is
deprived of that SSOO. In so doing
an Indemnity of SSOO is collected
from her.
It is believed that the great mass
of tho people of the commercial
world will be found anxious to col
lect their individual bits of indem
nity, to thus place themselves on
record as denvinu tlieir patronage
to the nation which tears up treaties,
reverts in warfare to gas and liquid
fire, enslaves women and mutilates
children with official sanction and
which would deny freedom to all
peoples.
The signature of all the people
will not be necessary, however, to
get the maximum effect. Commercial
Germany knows that if, after the
war, 5 per cent, of purchasers ask
a dealer if goods are made in Ger
many before buying them, that deal
er will not handle merchandise so
made. If 25 per cent, of the people
take that position there is no hope
for German trade.
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Remove Dandruff
There is one sure way that has
never failed to remove dandruff at
once, and that is to dissolve it, then
you destroy it entirely. To do this,
just get about four ounces of plain,
common liquid arvon from any dru>
store (tills is all you wUI need), ap
ply it at night when retiring: uw
enough to moisten the scalp and
it in gently wnth the finger tips.
By morning, most if not all. of
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every single sign and trace of it, no
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HSNXSY r DAVTSOM.
Henry P. Davison, chairman of
the American Red Cross War Coun
cil in France, declared in a recent
address that the American Red Cross
has organized services to take care
of the families of the boys at the
front, many of whom are -worried
over the taking care of mortgages
and the payment of taxes. "Our
government is taking care of our
boys and their families, but it is in
the way of money," said Mr. Davi
son. "The purpose of the Red Cross
is to supply our boys with moral
help and sympathy, which money
does not supply. Our boys are here
from 3,000 to 6,000 miles away from
their homes and we have organized
a service to obtain news from their
families. We have organized a ser
vice especially to look after the pay
ments of taxes and taking care of
mortgages. The property of our
boys will be looked after as if they
were home."
Tells How Boys in Camps
Appreciate Red Cross
Tiiat the work of the Harrisburg
chapter. American Red Cross, is ap
preciated by the boys in the service,
is shown by the letter which follows,
received this morning; from Robert L.
Myers, Jr., of Camp Mill, stationed
at Line 92. Kelly Field, South San
Antonio. Texas:
"Bvery time I wash, brush my teeth
or comb my hair I am brought face
to face with the fact that I haven't
as yet had an opportunity to write
and thank the Harrisburg; Chapter of
the lied Cross for the comfort kit I
received from it. Even now I am
using the stationery I found in the
kit. When I realize how hard it
would be for me to get alonp with
out the little comforts in that kit. I
am very thankful indeed, to Mrs.
Cooper for suggesting to me the pos
sibility of getting such a kit. and to
the Red Cross for giving it to me.
"There are many boys here who
suffer many inconveniences from not
possessing such a kit and even those
who were fortunate enough to se
cure a kit. seldom received one as
complete as mine. Please accept mv
sincere thanks for the kit and my
earnest prayer and best wishes for
the success of your great work."
Myers is the son of Robert L. My
ers. president of the Lemoyne Trust
Company and before entering the
service was a member of the faculty
of the Cumberland Valley State Nor
mal School at Shippensburg.
MUST GET MEN
TO BATTLEFRONT
TO WIN THE WAR
Chairman Hurley of Shipping
Board Outlines Shipbuild
ing Situation
New York, March 27. —America's!
effort to meet German submarine j
war. whose full menace has just been
revealed in British Admiralty fig
ures on sinkings of ships was out
lined here to-night by Chairman j
Hurley, of the Shipping Board, in aj
frank statement setting forth the
shipbuilding situation In the United]
States. *
Before the National Marine Lea
gue, Mr. Hurley disclosed that des-j
pite delays, the country soon will
have 730 steel and wooden ways
turning out ships and that the
government's mammoth steel ship
building program of eight million
tons on March 1 was twehty-eight
per cent, on its way to completion.
This does not mean t)iat twenty
eight per cent, is In the water, but
that construction as a whole had ad
vanced that far. Eight per cent of
the vessels actually have been put
into service, Mr. Hurley said.
The three government yards near
Philadelphia, when in full operation,
will be able to produce, Mr. Hurley
said, more ships in a year than all
the yards of England, heretofore the
greatest shipbuilding country in the
world.
The high point in the curve of
production has been delayed, Mr.
Hurley, pointed out, by a number of
causes. Gradually, thede are being
overcome, he declared, and before
many months, the have
been reached.
"When the high point curve
finally has been reached and the
magnitude of America's shipbuild
ing is realized," he said, "it will be
a continuous performance o fproduc
tion and launching."
"Unless we get out men to the
battlefront, we will not win the war,
and therefore it all comes back to
ships," said Mr. Hurley. "Upon the
Shipping Board has devolved the re
sponsibility of supplying this need
and supplying it under the most ex
traordinary conditions that ever ex
isted, t a time when every other
industry is being taxed to its utmost
capacity in the matter of materials
and labor to provide war necess
ities."
"The handicaps have been many.
We were not a maritime nation. With
the exception of a few widely scatter
ed yards., merchant marine construc
tion had almost become a lost art
with U3. Then came this sudden
call at a moment when the Navy
was undergoing the greatest expan
sion in its history—when most, if
not all. of the established yards were
feverishly engaged in rush con
struction on dreadnaughta, destroy
ers, submarines, fuel ships, tenders
and other auxiliary craft and when
munition makers were absorbing
that part of skilled labor which has
not been called to government navy
yards or private shipbuilding plants.
So it was a case of not only working
from the ground up, but of first
securing the ground upon which to
make a start, some of it marsh land
which had to be filled in before
launching ways could be laid. There
fore, we who are engaged In the
work appreciate the magnitude of
the task. I doubt if the magnitude
of the task is generally appreciated.
I am not here to emphasize. I am
here to tell you of the situation as
it |% lllV
"I wish to remind you gentlemen,
that ships are not built overnight.
When we took hold of the ,job of
shipbuilding, we found there was
no shipyard in existance with which
we could place an order. The old
yards were filled to capacity. We
were faced with the necessity of
creating an entirely new industry.
Wa had to establish the yards first,
get the shipbuilders to take charge cf
them, and train the men to build the
ships. ,
There were thirty-seven steel ship
yards in America at the time of our
entrance into the war. We have
located eighty-one additional steel
and weed yards while eighteen other
yards have been expanded. We are
building in the new and expanded
steel yards 235 new steel shipways,
or twenty-six more than at present
exist in all the shipyards of England.
If we had been content with doing
the job in a small way, we might
have built a few new yards and add
ed a little to our capacity. A few
ships might have been finished more
quickly; but it was the spirit and
will of America to do the job in a
big way and the judgment of the
country will be indicated by the re
sults when all these new ways are
completed and are turning out ships.
Many of these ways have actually
been finished. The new industry
we have created will make America
the greatest maritime nation in (he
history of the world."
Ex-Member of German
Reichstag Working to
Restore Alsace to France
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Le Abbe Metterle, for years "the
voice of Alsace" In the German
Reichstag, is an exile in Paris. He
wen the deputy of the Alaatian dis
trict of Ribeauville in the Reichstag
for twenty years. For his many bitter
speeches in the Reichstag he was
recognized , by German authorities as
an open 'enemy. At the outbreak of
the war he fled to France through
Switzerland. He has been active in
keeping alive the animosity f the
French people against Germany. His
entire estate In Alsace had
formerly declared "forfeited to the
German Crown."
ODESSA RETAKEN
BY SLAV TROOPS
[Continued front First Pago.]
and submarines, destroyers and two
cruisers, together with a large num
ber- of merchantmen.
Moscow, Sunday. March 24,—Offi
cial reports say Nikolayev, Kherson
and Znamenke, all southern Ukrai
nian cities, have been recaptured
from the Ausrians by Red Guards
and armed civilians. (The recap
ture of Kherzon and Nikolayev was
reported in press dispatches yester
day from Petrograd.)
The population of Kherson organ
ized and expelled the invaders. A
heavy artillery bombardment is re
ported in connection with the recap
ure of Nikolayev.
Demands not set forth by the
Germans ip the peace treaty with
Ukraine are creating disorder there.
The latest of these demands is that
Ukraine surrender 85 per cent, of
its grain and all the sugar from its
refineries excc|t that needed far
local consumption. The Ukraine has
protested that this is not in the
terms of the peace treaty.
The Germans commander at Kiev
requested the bankers there to float
a loan of 10000000 rublfes on secur
ity provided by German financial i
institutions. The bankers declined.
German troops constantly are
moving eastward through Kiev.
BreadstufTs are being exported frojn
Kiev in large quantities and conse
quently there Is an *acute shortage.
The municipal officials clashed with
the rada authorities 6ver the food
situation and the mayor resigned.
Peasants at Neval fifty-four miles
north of Vitebsk organized to resist
the German food requisitions. They
are reported to have killed eighty
German soldiers.
Ukrainian Rada Asks
Germany to Stop the
Advance of Hun Troops
Moscow, Saturday, March 23.
According to an unconfirmed report
the Ukrainian bourgeois rada (which
was responsible for the peace treaty
with Russia and is opposed by the
Bolshevik rada) has officially re
quested Germany to stop the ad
vance of her troops in Ukraine, as
it tended to shako the confidence of
the population in the government.
Germany is said to have replied
that she was invited to restore order
and could not leave until this was
accomplished.
The Austro-German forces ad
vancing in Ukraine are moving from
both the northwest and southwest
against Kharkov, a transportation
center the capture of which would
isolate the south of Russia from the
north. The Austrians have occupied
Znamenka, about 150 miles south
west of Kharkov, and Konotop, an
equal distance northwest of that
city.
A dispatch from Dvinsk announces
that German officers, at a confer-
e hey
BHB
TURKISH CIGARETTES
ence presided over by Field Marshal
Von Hlndenburg, reached a decision
to continue the operations in Uk
raine until,the power of the Bol
shevik! there had been eliminated.
Dispatches from many points In
Ukraine indicate that the advance
of Austro-German troops is arousing
great antagonism, which is not con
fined to the Bolshevikl but is being
manifested even among who en
couraged the German occupation.
Forty Members of Han
Bread Collecting Crew
Killed by Peasants
Moscow. Monday, March 25.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
the Gorman emperor, and one of his
soas have arrived at Reval Esthonia.
They were greeted heartily by the
German population hut the Estho
nians refused to participate in the
reception. The visit is attributed
to a desire to create pro-German
feeling in the Baltic provinces.
The Germans are busy collecting
and exporting breadstuffs from the
Pskov district, northeast of Dvinsk.
At Perchorslcaya, near Pskov, forty
members of German detachments)
requisitioning bread were killed by
the peasants. Bridges were de
stroyed by the peasants who also
harrassed the Germans by carrying
away the bread and destroying carts
and wagons.
11/OYD KIFFEIt lirRT
Floyd Eiffer, Linglestown, was in
jured at the car barn where he is
employed, to-day, and brought to the
Harrisburg Hospital for treatment.
He was struck in the abdomen by a
fellow workman, and was uncon
scious when he arrived at the hos
pital. Later his condition improved
considerably.
FIREMEN LOSE LICENSE %\G
The license tag of a piece of the
Good Will Fire Company apparatus
was lost on the way to the Are at
River Strawberry streets, this
morning. The license number os
3107.
Egg-Shell Tobacco
The votaries of My Lady Nicotine
seem to be having a very unhappy
time in Germany. One (of them
writes as follows:
"The other day I ventured to
make an analysis of three species of
tobacco which had cost me $5 per
pound. I found them to consist of
cabbage leaves and stalks, egg
shells, straw, scraps of India rubber,
plaster of Paris, horsehair, string,
felt goose-pluckings and other in
definable substances. Of actual to
bacco the mixture contained less
than 1 per cent.
"If it be the object of the authori
ties to kill off the smokers among
German populations they can do no
better than to allow this filthy stuff
to be sold at It Is now as 'fragrant
war smoking mixture.' "
Will Fight on Until
Freedom Is Safe, Haig
Cables President Wilson
Washington, March 27. Field
Marshal Haig's reply to President
Wilson's cablegram was received
to-day at the White House.
'•'Your message of generous appre
ciation of the staedfastness and valor
of our soldiers in the great battle
now raging has greatly touched us
all," cabled the marshal. "Please ac
cept our heartfelt thanks. One and
all believe in the justice of our cause
and are determined to light on with
out counting the cost until the free
dom of mankind is safe."
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