4 Y.M.C.A.MEN CALM AS SHELL STRIKES SHIP Men GroUp Under Their Cor • porals For Flight From Stricken Vessel By Associated Press Ixmdon. April 30.—Arthur E. Hungerford, leader of the Y. M. C. A. party on board the torpedoed vessel, gave to The Associated Press the following account of his expe riences: "The thing that struck me most waa the calm, businesslike way with which our men took things. There was not a man flurried. There was no panic, no fluster; merely a bunch of men getting themselves and oth ers out of the ship in orderly fash ion. "Our men were in cabins along four corridors, all opening into tho central stairway. There were bulk head doors at each of these corri dor®, and my one fear was that these doors might be carelessly closed before all the men behind them were out. So X stood at the front of the stairway and watched the men file out. I went through the corridors to see that everybody was out and then shut the bulkhead doors myself. 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Dull Ttiuil Gives Warning "The sound was exactly as 1 had seen it described many times in the newspapers—a dull thud as the to pedo struck the outside shell of the I ship and then a muffled explosion ' somewhere far down below. "1 lay tn a bunk with my clothes ] on, but I got out immediately and I stood at my station at the foot of . , the staircase. Soon after I got ! there I heard the sound of another explosion which was accompanied by the going out of all lights. "When all the men had got on deck 1 went up and climbed into No. 1 lifeboat whence I watched the orderly procedure aboard the other boats up and down the whole length of the ship. My boat was the last one to Bet away except No. 9 which had a little trouble with the ropes. It was a wonderfully calm night and the ship's headway did not bother us much, as the engineer had been able to reverse the engines be fore the boilers went put of com mission and the shfp was barely moving by the time the boats were lowered. Parts With Typewriter "One of our men named Gurney, ; who comes from Providence, Rhode \ Island, tried to save his type writer. He got it as far as the . deck but was not allowed to take it [ into the lifeboat. He said he had l heard typewriters were very scarce , now in England and he was not , going to part with it unless such a ' course were necessary. ; "Sam Downer, of Downer, New ! Jersey, had his camera with him and tried to take a picture of the flares and ships by moonlight from J the lifeboat. '"Almost all our men brought their | overcoats off the ship, but few more things, as they mostly went to the members of the crew, who generally came away in their shirts.' Sang on Way to Port "There was a long delay in getting our destroyer into her berth," said the Rev. H. S. Mallison, of Flint, Mich. "1 sutrfresttd to the men that , we g'-ither at the bow and show we | were in good spirits by singing. W'e | sang the 'Star Spangled Banner,' I 'God Save the Kins' and 'Onward, I Christian Soldiers, and the erov.'d | on shore cheered." President Names Four to Guide War Finances Wanlilnxton, April 30. President I Wilson yesterday appointed four di i rectors of the new $500,000,000 war flnance corporation and a new capi | tal issue committee provided for in the war flnance corporation act. 1 Directors of the corporatiort are : William P. G. Harding, of Alabama; I Allen B. Forbes. New York: Eugene | Meyer, Jr., of New Torkr Angus W. McLean, of North Carolina. The nominations, although they in clude some members of the present Federal Reserve Board, have not met with general approval. In fact, some Senators instrumental in passing' the legislation expressed themselves as bitterly disappointed by the selec tions as a whole and at a loss to un ] derstand why men of larger callbr I and more strictly representative or j the banking community had not been I named. FLYING WITH SHAFFER MUSICALLY INCLINED LETTKBS FROM A DAUPHIN BOY TO HIS MOTHER Somewhere in France, Mar. 10, 1918. landing on His Head Dear Mother: This letter should please Dad ex ceedingly, tfif it sure will give him a chance to say "I told you so." You know how he always insisted that when we went canoeing on Sunday something would surely happen. It did, too, for I "smashed up" in land ing this Sunday afternoon, after coming back from my first patrol in a month. I might excuse myself by saying I had gone stale, being on the ground so long, or even blame it on the nature of the ground, but I won't. Anyway, I landed and turned upside down. Naturally, I ducked, and the next second was hanging by my belt, looking at the glass six Inches from my nose. Shutting off the gasoline and sever al other necessary levers, I turned my attention to my belt, which fin ally came loose, after which I obey ed the law of gravity and landed on my head. But with a little wiggle soon crawled out from under and took account of stock. I hadn't smashed so much, at that: only two wheels, propeller and rudder. And as for me, the only place I was injured was in spirit, for it sure gave my vanity an awful bump. 'Good pilots don't land upside down, you know. However, every cloud has its silver lining and my spirit was injured so much that I looked very hard for that lining as a soothing syrup, and I found it too, for you know how much I hated to be put on photo work, and they had just finished fixing my zang for a camera. The smash put a crimp in that all right, and now I hear that I will leave for Bourget "tout de suite" to get a new "zing" with two machine guns on it. All For The Best Furthermore, several motors have been broken in the escadrille during the last week, and another pilot broke part of his tail plane, so my smashed plane helped put these fel lows back in service, as they chang ed my motor to the zing's that was broken, and took my good tail plane off to fix the other zing. so. after all, as you would say, it was all for the best This morning I was diving at target and shooting as X dove and I got nine hits , out of 60, considered good, they say. And then, after dinner we were told to be ready to start aloft in five minutes to hunt a Boche that was due at a certain spot soon after. We were also to hunt for him at a height of 6,500 meters. We were soon climbing up and as we rose over the 3,000 meter mark my motor began acting badly, but I kept jockeying it along, for I had not flown for so long, that I did not want to come down, and as long as the motor ran I was going to stick. So I ambled along, getting behind a little on account of my bad motor, but got up to 5000 meters; and there the motor went on strike and refus ed to pull me any further. I hover ed around at that height for a while, but saw no Boche. It was very mis ty and white, billowy clouds floated far below me, looking very beautiful as the sun reflected from thdm. Then I started down, and when I got lower my engine ran all right again, so I turned towards the lines, and seeing a machine, shut off pow er, cocked my gun and started for him. I didn't know -whether it was a Boche or not, but I was going to find out —and then I looked down and saw my leg covered with oil and changed my mind—and direction, for since I was losing my oil I would ruin the motor. You know the rest. I came down and stood on my head. Bochcs Getting Daring The Boche are getting quite dar ing lately and one "bird" insists on visiting us every day. To-day. some French pilot must have seen him be cause we heard a young battle going' on high over our heads; thJ spitful crack of machine guns being quite audible. Yesterday he was over again, and we saw them shooting shrapnel at him, but could not see .the Boche as he was too high. Any way, a little while after we saw the shrapnel, something came whistling past us, it being the pieces of shell the explosion of whlSh we had been watching: for everything that goes up must surely come down, you know. It did, but there was nothing to be scared of and it startled no body, for as some grim wit once re marked: "It isn't the ones that whistle that i you need fear. It is the ones that don't. You stop those. "Since there was no flying for us that day, a num ber of us cleaned up and went to Chalons-sur-Marlne." Quite A Stunt 4That washSng up Is quite a stunt in itself since we wash our hands, face, feet and teeth in the same ba sin. Another American here treat ed me to a dinner in Chalons, and even promised to order me some snails—as a treat. I said I was game for anything in the eating line —once —but only once, when it came to snails, for they are considered quite a luxury in France. We could not get the snails, or rather, hp for got them, and I did not remind him of them; so we had eggs, Portugese style, but like that nation's uniform they weie a sad disappointment. However, there was sure SOME French waitress there, and if my palate was not satisfied my eyes had a whole meal devouring her beauty. She was the official English interpre ter, too. Just wait until I go in there again. When it comes to French, I'm going to be as dumb as a post: which 1 assure you. will not i take much acting. I don't know when that next time will be though. llt isn't a money question, you \ know, for like Rockefeller, I don't i hnow how much money I have — ' 50 centimes o'r one franc; but pay day is nearly here, so I should wor ry. Forbidden Acrobatics An expert aviator came out from the Marne factory the other day and showed us what could be done with a Morane in the air. He sure was an artist, but if watching him ; filled us with longing to do likewise, |it didn't help any for I told you t before that we are forbidden to do acrobatics. He used my "zing" to j do them too—and then I had to go J and bust it. You know t*e French ! pilots think I broke it on purpose, | because they know I did not want the photo work. And like the hyp ocrit I am. 1 let them think I did not do it on purpose; of course, but I am glad to get out of it that way. After hearing that I may be sent for a double machine gunned "zing" very soon. I told the French man who will go with me about it. Incidentally, he is the one who plays the flute and didn't he celebrate the good news by playing a tune. After listening to It, I am sorry I told him. The eats are getting better, but my appetite isn't because of so much loafing. Of course, it's a shame to eat the meat some times —it would make such durable boots, but one must eat, and such exercise keeps down a double chip. > Get me that "certificate of loyal ty," from the French consul nearest my home—Harrisburg or PhiladeU phia will do —it,'s necessary if I want a permission home, ana relates to my keeping any secrets of military value, and whether I have people who will take care of me when I do arrive In U. S. A. I wrote about it In the last letter, and when you get the certificate, send it special delivery. WALTER. Work For Dry Votes in Sprout's Home City Cheater. Pa.. April 30. Political leaders and political workers are vying with church workers and tem perance advocates in an effort to bring the voters out to register on Wednesday. May 1. Posters calling attention to registration movement, have their plans laid for the men of Chester and Delaware counties to come out and register so they will be able to vote for legislative can didates, who, if elected, will vote to ratify the national prohibition amend ment. have been hung in thousands of conspicuous places, the work being done under the direction of a com mittee of church workers. Friends of State Senator William C. Sprout, enlisted the national prohi bition movement, have their plans laid to get dut the voters to register on Wednesday, so they will be eligible to vote for the Senator's nomination as the Republican candidate for Gov ernor. The church people are urging voters to support Sproul, calling at tention to the fact that he has declar ed for the prohibition amendment, and declaring him to be a safe man to tie to. Stone's Mantle For Xenophen P. Wilfley St. Louis, April 20.—Xenophen P. Wtlfley, member of the' Bt. Louis Board of Election Commissioners and a well known Democrat of Missouri, last night was tendered by Governor Gardner the seat In the United States Senate vacated recently by the death of Senator W. J. Stone. Filfley an nounced he would accept the ap pointment and left for Jefferson City to confer with the Governor, Yields Life to Save Companion; Both Drown By Associated Press Camden, N. J., April 30. Charles Flannagan and Charles Banbury were drowned to-day In the Newton creek, South Camden, when a scow contain ing' fourteen- wharf builders capsized. Flannagan could have saved his own life, according to the other men. but seeing Banbury struggling in the water, b went to his aid. both sink ing before help </ould' reach them. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. OVERMAN BILL PASSES SENATE BY 50 MAJORITY Opponents Call Measure Sur render by Congress of Func tional Powers to President Washington, April 30.—The Sen ate, by'the convincing vote of 63 to 13, a net majority of 50, passed the Overman bill yesterday, granting to the President power to reorganize from top to bottom the entire ex ecutive machinery of the govern ment without seeking from Congress anything more than the appropria tions of money necessary to carry through the work. A day of virulent debate and fre quent votes on amendments pre ceded the final rollcall. Opponents stigmatized the measure as a sur render by Congress of its constitu tional functions and powers, and Senator Harding, of Ohio, declared its passage should lead Congress to transfer the taxing and appropriat ing* powers to the President as well and pack up and go home. Acrid thrusts at the President as the person responsible for the pres ent lack of co-ordination In the gov ernment characterized the speeches of opposition Senators, who, by th introduction of amendments, s6ught to limit the provisions of the bill in a variety of ways, in all of which attempts they failed. Hoke Smith Yields One of Its most determined" and active opponents, Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat, of Georgia, flocked in with a score of other previous objectors at the last moment and voted for its passage. They changed their minds since it be came certain on Saturday that the bill would succeed. Only one Democrat voted against the bill. He was Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri. Twelve Repub licans who held out against it on the rollcall were Brandegee, of Con necticut; Cummins, of Iowa; Dilling ham, of Vermont; France, of Mary land; Gallinger, of New Hampshire; Harding, of Ohio; Johnson, of Cali fornia; Knox, of Pennsylvania; Poindexter, of Washington; Sher man, of Illinois; Sterling, of South Dakota, and Sutherland, of West Virginia. WEALTHIEST SOLDIER IX DIVISION' IS AN INDIAN Rockford, ill.—One dollar and ten cents a day, the pay for a bugler in the Three Hundred and Fiftieth Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Grant, is barely "cigaret money" for Sidney Kernal. a half breed Creek Indian from Muskogee, Okla., who at I the. end of each twenty-four hours adds $177 to his bank account as in come from oil land royalties. He is the richest man in his division. STOP TIME' C'AIJI/S IN CHICAGO Chicago Telephone operators In Chicago answer 250,000 requests daily for "the correct time." 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IN BATTLE 58 FOR ONE DAY Captain Richard Laurence Jett Gives Life in Action; 47 Wounded By Associated Preps Washington, April 30.—T0-day's casualty list contains flfty-cight names, divided as follows: Killed in action, two; died of wounds, none; died of accident, two: died of dis ease. six; wounded severely, five; wounded slightly, forty-two; missing in action, one. Captain Richard Laurence Jett was killed In action. Captain Charles A. Chambers' died of disease, lieutenants Robert D. Coye. Rufus B. Craln and Francis Worth ington Hine were slightly wounded- The list follows; Killed in Action—Captain Richard Jett. Private Herbert G. Raymond. Died of Accident—Privates Bid ridge Cope, William W. Washington. Died of Disease—Captain Charles A. Chambers, Privates Orris Pearly Mudgett, Preston Noel, Clarence Ev erett Brown, James Bates, Ray L Siebert. Severely Wounded Sergeants Thomas J. Curtain, Gerald S. Patton. Privates Michael P. Davis, Leonard F. Sylvia, John Levi Smith. Slightly Wounded Lieutenants Robert D. Coye, Rufus B. Crain, Francis Worthington Hine, Corporals Frank M. Gannon, Burpee West, Jr., George Zabrosky, Raymond C. Fish er, Wagoners William Brown. Thomas E. Parris, Privates Albert O. Abraham. John R. Barrett, Charles W. Bradfield, Charles R. Clinken beard, Thomas J. Corrigan, George W. Currier, Lloyd E. Devel. George H. Dustin, John F. Egan. Wilfred T. Foster, Gordon B. Fuller, Donald M. Hair, Eugene Joubert, Henry W. Kennedy, John M. Kenney, Guy L. Lancaster, Edmond P. Leroux, John F. Lindsay, Charles A. McDonald, Max Markman, Shelby A. Miller, Roger J. Nolfl, John R. O'Brien, Ed ward J. Parker. Arthur Pickup, Wal ter L. Redden, Louis E. Shaver, Jere miah F. Sheehan, Vaughn H. Sllva. Missing in Action—Private Arsene Bergeron; name of Lieutenant Thom as J. Mooney, previously reported as having died from accident, now be lieved to be in error. Private Jesse M. King, previously reported died of gunshot wound, now reported slightly wounded. Lieutenant John W. Morris, previ ously reported wounded severely, now reported prisoner, unwounded. BANDITS GET SMALLPOX; POSSE ON THEIR TRAIL Jopltn. Mo. —Sheriff Rogers and a posse today were hunting for four prisoner?, all suffering from small pox, who escaped from the hos pital ward of the county jail at Car thage. The prisoners are Roy D. Cren shaw, Bert Crawford, Raymond Dean and Hugh Sergeant. Three of them were members of a band of motor car bandits who terrorized Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar kansas recently. MAY FIND CURRENTS IN THIS SAP Union City,. Mich. Nearly ev ery maple tree in this village has been tapped as a result of the sugar scarcity. One lady tapped every tree in her yard and a telephone pole that on the terrace. An iron hitching post was overlooked. We Guarantee That Hart Schaf f ner & Marx Clothes are all-wool because that wears the best and lasts the longest; —that the tailoring is careful and enduring; —that the dyes are fast and lasting. 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