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•CITY ADDS 50 PER CENT. TO
QUOTA SET F
FLOOD OF GOLD
SENDS CITY FAR
OVER TOP WITH
A BIG SURPLUS
Quota Exceeded by Nearly
a Hundred Thousand Dol
lars With Many Smaller
Units to Be Heard From
CITY'S HEART WAS
TOUCHED BY APPEAL
All Previous Records For
War Campaigns Broken
When Dollar After Dollar
Is Given For Humanity
The Harrisburg district up to
noon to-day had contributed
$228,259.19 to the Red Cross
fund now being raised.
The quota asked by the
national body of the Red Cross
was $150,000 and the local com
mittee decided to k for $200,000,
in order to be able to keep $50,000
In Harrisburg with which to finance
the local chapter for the coming
year.
The figures given herewith were j
reported at the closing luncheon of
the campaign to-day in Chestnut
street hall. W. T. Hildrup, chair
man, presided and was heartily con
gratylated at its close, as were the
hundreds who helped to make the
big movement a success.
The totals reported were as fol
lows:
North Division—Sß4.o97.o2.
South Division—S2B.os7.lß.
Industrial Committee— B:lo.ooo.
Executive Committeer—s72,9Bo.
Auxiliaries—B3o,soo.
800th5— 52,621.91*.
Not nearly all of the figures were
available for reporting at the lunch
eon and large sums remain to be re
ceived from the Pennsylvania Rail
road and other sources. It is be
lieved that at least $5,000 more will
come in before the end of the day.
The closipg luncheon was marked
by tremendous enthusiasm and great
rivalry between the various teams.
The campaigners cheered and sang
and at the conclusion of the meeting
Joined in cheering and congratulating
the various leaders.
Many Willing Workers
There were many willing workers
during the week and these were di
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STATE GIVES 92.662,842
By Associated Press
Washington, May 23.—Reports to
Red Cross headquarters to-day told
of total contributions of $52,150,-
396 in the drive for a second sloo*-
000,000 Red Cross war fund. The
division contributed
Come Across
With That Quarter
You Don't Really
need tonight;
itSfPut It Into a
War Stamp
I THE WEATHER
For Hnrrlahuric and vicinity i Fair
""• Fridays cooler to
night, nlth loweat temperature
ft bout ."W deKrefH.
For Knnlrrn l'i'nn> h unlm Part
ly cloudy and cooler to-nlKht;
Friday fnlr; Kentle to moderate
northwest wind*.
Hlver
The Juniata villi remain nearly
atatlonary. The .Vorth and Went
hrancllea will rlne n a result of
srneral ahonera In the taut
twenty-four houra. The main
river will continue to rlae alow,
ly. A ulnae ot about .3 feet la
Indicated for Harrlaburg Fri
day mornlnic.
Temperature: 8 a. nt., 06.
Sun: It INCH, 5:30 a. ra.i aeta, 8i24
p. m.
Moon: Full moon. May ZS.
Hlver Staur: 6.3 feet above Inw
wnter mark.
Yeaterday'a Weather
Hlcheat temperature, 81.
I.oneat temperature. M.
>tena temperature. 72.
.Normal temperature, 64.
ALL MEN OF
AGE MUST GET WAR
JOBS OR GO TO WAR
New Selective Service Regula
tion Decides Workmen Be
tween 21 and 31 May Not
Remain in Industries Not
Essential to Military Service
DISREGARD DEFERRED
CLASSIFICATIONS
Draft Boards to Give Coun- \
try's Manhood Choice of
Getting New Jobs or Enter-,
ing the Army; Plan to Bring
Workers to Country's Aid >
( Washington, May 23.
Every man of draft age must
work or fight after July 1,
under a drastic amendment
to the selective service regu
tions announced to-day by Provost'
Marshal General Crowiler.
New Job or Army Service
Not only Idlers, but all draft reg
istrants engaged in what arc held
to lie nonuseful occupations are to
be haled before local boards and
given the choice of a new job or
the Army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulations also
Include waiters and bartenders, the
ater ushers and attendants, passeng
er elevator operators and other at
tendants or clubs, hotels, stores, etc.,
domestic and clerks in stores.
Deferred classification granted
on account of dependants will be
disregarded entirely in applying the
rule. A man may lie at the bottom
of Class One, or even in Class I'our,
but if he falls within the regulations
and refuses to take useful employ
ment, lie will be given a new num
ber in Class One that will send him
Into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use I
discretion only where they find that
enforced change of employment'
i~
SIKGI.K COPY,
a CENTS
What New Draft '
Regulations Mean
Hundreds of men in Harrlslitirg
. who huvc jobs within the long
list enumerated by the Provost
Marshal General will have to
set places with the big muni
tions plants, with industries
essential to the winning of the
war, shipbuilding yards, trans
portation agencies and the like.
Whatever classification may have
been secured by the registrant
will not exempt from the new
ruling. A man in Class IV must
change his job just the same as
the man in Class I.
Employment agencies of the big
plants and corporations here
who are classed as "contribut
ing to the general good" to-day
announced tiiey are ready to
offer jobs to men affected.
would result in disproportionate
hardship upon nis dependants.
It had been known for some time
that some form of "work or fight'
plan had been submitted to Presi
dent Wilson, but there had been no
intimation that it was so far reach
ing in scope. Both the military cl'-
I fleers and Department of Labor offi
cials believe it will go a long ways
to solving the labor problem for
farmers, shipbuilders and munition
makers, and will end for the present
I at least talk of conscription of labor.
; The announcement to-day gives a
I notice signifying that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time, as necessity re
quires.
The statement of the provost mar
shal general follows:
"Provost Marshal General Crow
der to-day announced an amend
ment to the selective service regula
tions which deals with the great
question of requiring men not engag
ed in a useful occupation, to imme-
I diately apply themselves to some
forn> of labor, contributing to the
general good. The idler, too, will
find himself confronted with the al
ternative of finding suitable employ
ment, or entering the Army.
This regulation provides that af
ter July 1 unv registrant who is
found by a local hoard to lie a liahlt
' "al idler, or not engaged in some
I useful occupation, shall lie summon
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HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1918
WINDMILL HAS
CREPE ON ALL OF
ITS SAILS TODAY
Fears That Victory of Bonni
well May Mean Loss of Con
trol of State Committee
GOVERNOR WON'T TALK
Declines to Discuss Election;
' Justices Will Be Appointed
Before Long
There is no balm in Gilead, or
anywhere else, to-day for the leaders
of the reorganized Democracy of
Pennsylvania. Men who have been
carrying the Palmer-McCormiek ban
ners and gathering in the tithes from
postmasters and federal jobholders
are wondering how their chiefs came
to make the blunder of not seeing
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Bonniwell Vote Grows;
Woodward Forges Ahead
Philadelphia—James F. Wood
ward, of Allegheny county, still
has a slight lead in the race for
the Republican nomination for
Secretary of Internal affairs over
P£hil D. Houck, of Schuylkill. Re
turns from 5,023 districts out of
7,039 in the state gave:
Woodward, 173,644.
Houck, 171,061.
For the Democratic guberna
torial nomination, 5,172 districts
gave:
Bonniwell, 62,762.
Guffey, 49,345.
Complete returns from twenty
counties including Philadelphia,
but not Allegheny for Democratic
Lieutenant Governor gave:
Logue, 26.059.
Holstein, 20,312.
For the Republican guberna
torial nomination 6,025 districts
gave:
Sproul, 329,958.
O'Neil, 128,423.
For Lieutenant Governor 5,466
districts gave:
Beidleman, 201,150.
Scoft, 167,571.
HOSPITALS BLOWN TO
BITS BY HUN FLYERS
NURSES BRAVELY
SACRIFICE LIVES
BEFORE TOLTUR'
Powerful Air Raid Directed
Against Wounded Men
and Women
BARBARIAN IS CAPTURED
Terrific Deluge of Explosives
Tears Red Cross to
Pieces
By Associated Press
With the British Army in
France, May 23.—German air
men again have bombed heavily
British hospitals in the area be
hind the lines and this time have
killed and wounded some hun
dreds among the personnel and
patients of many different hos
pitals in the group.
Recorded in the casualty list are
the names of several sisters who
with other women '-nurses stood
bravely by their posts throughout a
terrific deluge of explosives.
Americans 10 scape
There is in the neighborhood one
large American hospital and an
other in which there are American
workers but neither of these ap
pears to have suffered. Last sum
mer a number of American doctors
and nurses were kiUed and wounded
when these same hospitals were
raided by the Germans.
This latest horror was perpetrated
Sunday flight, apparently by four
squadrons of enemy planes which
appear to have comprised more
than a score of machines. A great
number of bombs were dropped,
about thirty per cent of them huge
affairs which dug vast craters in the
hospital grounds and the rest high
explosive shrapnel which sent their
death dealing bullets tearing: in every
direction through the crowed hos
pital tents and buildings.
Barbarians Captured
A three-seated airplane was
brought down by gunfire while fly
ing at a low altitude and the occu
pants were made prisoners. The
enemy captain and the pilot sus
tained comparatively light shrapnel
wounds while the observer was not
hurt. When questioned why he had
directed his men against hospitals,
the captain explained in a matter
of fact way that he didn't see the
Red Cross sign. He said he was
seeking military objectives and had
no desire to molest hospitals.
With a shrug of his shoulders the
German captain added that if the
British choose to build their hos-.
pitals near railways they must ex-*
pect to get them bombed.
Toll Taken of Wounded
The captain spoke excellent Eng
lish. Asked where he had learned
it, he replied he had been in diplo
matic service before the war.
Sunday night's raid was divided
into two phases, the first of which
began shortly after 10 o'clock and
lasted until 11 o'clock. Not satis
fied with this the enemy returned at
11.40 o'clock and heavily bombed
hospitals filled with wounded men.
In one building which was dam
aged most seriously all the patients
were suffering from compound frac
tures which made necessary their
limbs being strapped in the air.
Women Fate Death Bravely
Not a woman deserted her ward
but throughout the terrible bombing
each one kept going her rounds and
quieting the unfortunate men, who
might easily have done themselves
lasting ha;m by springing from their
beds.
One sister was killed outright
while she was administering to the
soldiers' wants and another was so
seriously hurt that she died shortly
afterward. Still another was dying
fe}-day.
POLICE TO WEAR NEW
UNIFORMS ON MAY 30
The police will turn out Memorial
Day in their new dark gray whipcord
uniforms, gold badges and caps to
match their uniforms. The uniforms
are on hand and the new badges ar
rived this morning. On Memorial
Day the police will take part in
memorial celebrations as usual and
their uniforms will appear on the
streets for the first. The new uni
forms are an Inauguration of Mayor
Keister, who decided the blue uni
forms with their ever fading colors
were becoming obsolete
KULTUR!
By Associated Press
German friKhtfulne** again lin* been vented upon paticntM and
workers in BritlNh hoMpitulM behind the battle line In northern France.
Some hundred** of pntlentii and members of the hoitpltal MtaflfM wfre
killed and wounded Sunday night by bomb* dropped by German air
men. Although one large American honpltal wan near the bombed
area. It eMcaped damage. The captured captalu of an enemy airplane
which took part In the bombing of the honpltalM Maid lie did not nee
the Hed C'to.hm Mlgn. He added, however, that If the llrltiwh build their
boMpltalN near the railway, they uiuitt expect to set them bombed.
THIRTY PLANES
TAKE PART IN
RAID ON PARIS
German Aviators Succeed in
Reaching City; Women
Are Murdered
fly Associated rress
Paris, May 23.—German aviators
made another attack on Paris last
night, and this time succeeded in
reaching the city. Bombs were
dropped at various places an offi
cial statement reports.
The casualties, so far as reported,
are one dead and 12 injured. About
30 German airplanes attempted to
reach Paris.
The rplos)on of one of the raider's
bombs killed a woman and injured a
cloven people. A shall fiort ?5
millimeter defense gun fell through
a roof and landed beside a cradle in
which there was a sleeping infant.
The missile failed to explode and
the baby was not harmed.
Huns Expect Allied Aviators
Will Level Rhine Cities
With the French Armies In France,
May 23.—Germans captured by the
French testify to the brilliant work
of the Entente Allied aviators, who
the prisoners say, leave the Germans
no peace. Fears are expressed re
garding future operations by Allied
airmen on the Rhine cities, which
they believe will be laid in ruins. The
Germans declare their anti-aircraft
defenses are insufficient to prevent
the Allies visiting either day or night
l the Teuton camps, cantonments,
I depots and airdromes, where, they
say, enormous damage already has
been done.
Other prisoners assert that E<h
peror William hesitated a long time
before starting the offensive this
year, but that General Ludendorff
obtained the upper hand by promis
ing to force a peace by beating the
Allies by Easter. The Crown Prince,
with the military caste In Germany,
they say, succeeded in ejecting Ru
dolph Von Valentini from power aft
er he had predicted a catastrophe
for the German arms.
Eyre Wins Damage
Suit Against Berry
By Associated Press
West Chester, Pa., May 23.—Dam
ages in the sum of one eent were
awarded to-day to State Senator T.
Larry Eyre, the Chester county Re
publican leader, in his slander suit
against William H. Berry, Demo
crat, collector of customs at Phila
delphia.
Senator Eyre said: "I am satis
fied with the verdict. I did not want
money. I wanted to be vindicated
in the eyes of my fellow citizens."
The jury rendered a sealed ver
dict last night, which was opened
when court convened to-day.
The proceeds grew out of a state
ment made by Berry on the stump
in 1916 wh. Eyre was a candidate
for senator. Berry accused Eyre of
being implicated in tjie scandal at
tending the building and furnishing
of the state capitol building at Har
risburg some years ago. Eyre de
nied fb.e charge and sued Berry for
$50,000 damages.
Drop of 20 Cents a Ton in
Price of Coal Is Urged
Waslihiffton, May 23.—Reduction
of the price of coal about twenty
cents a ton to the public was propos
ed to President Wilson yesterday by
the railroad administration as the
proper course if railroads are re
quired to pay much mare for coal
than they have paid under private
operation.
BAKER ASKS BILLIONS MORE
Washington, May 23.—Additional
estimate? of $1,500,000,000 for ord
nance. ordnance stores and ordnance
supplies during the next fiscal vear
were submitted to the House yester
day by Secretary Beker, together
with a request for authorization of
$7,118,662,466 more to be spent at
the War Department's discretion for
ordnance. . ,
ONI.Y EVENING ASSOCIATED PUESS
NEWSPAPER IN UAKIIISRIIRU
ARTILLERY FIRE
SLACKENING ON
AMERICAN FRONT
Pershing Reports No New De
velopment Along U. S.
Sectors
With the American Army in
France, May 22.—A falling off in
artillery firing on the American head
quarters at 9 o'clock to-night. The
statement reads:
"The artillery activity has decreas
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fP mitted to-day to th'e War Department, reported that .<B
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HOME EDITION
LULL IN BATTLE
CONTINUES WITH
AVIATORS BUSY
Artillery Fire Normal Where
Infantry Has Rested
Six Weeks
HUN FLYERS~DESTROYED
Shot Down in Numbers tfy
Allied Birdmen, Who
Bomb German Cities
By Associated Press
Infantry operations on the western
front continued ut a minimum nnd
neither side gives any indication that
intensive fighting is about to be re
sumed immediately. The artillery
(ire is normal on the various sectors.
In the air, however, the hostilities
are at a high pitch, as they have
been for the past week or more.
Between Arras and the Sonime,
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