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U BOATS BEATEN
BY U S BUILDERS
Shipyards Now Finishing New
Craft Faster Than Germans
Are Sinking Vessels
Washington. —American shipyards
are rapidly cutting down the U-boat
lead. The April tonnage toll of the
submarine, announced in an ad
miralty dispatch from London, shows
a decrease of 25 per cent, when
compared with earlier figures. Even
at the rate of output set last week
the United States now is launching
more ships each month than the un
dersea terrors are able to destroy.
According to the British govern
ment's report, the total loss of ship
ping In April due to the U-boat war
fare was 305,102 tons. That Is a
fraction more than 10,000 tons a day.
The same month saw the new Ameri
can merchant marine increased at
the rate of a little more than 9,000
tons of shipping daily. Even at the
April rate of production the United
States very nearly made good the
world's ship losses due to sub
marines.
The April figures, however, were
much smaller than the records now
being established for May. A little
less than 102,000 tons of steel and
wood ships were completed and de
livered to the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration last week. This Is more
than a third of the total U-boat
score for April. And this addition
of 100,000 tons to the world's ship
ping was accomplished in one-fourth
the time Germany required to de
stroy 305,000 tons.
These figures are extremely sig
nificant in view of the fact that this
country is only just at the begin
ning of quantity ship production.
Some of the biggest yards in the j
country have not yet arrived at the|
preliminary stage of production. Hog j
Island, for example, when it reaches
its full capa(?!ty, is expected to turn
out almost as much tonnage each
month as the German submarines
destroyed in April.
Ahead of the Prediction
Tf the U-boat records do not show
an increase this month and next
from the April figures, it Is safe to
say that the United States, without
regard to British or other produc
tion, will be able to discount the
submarine losses and begin piling up
a tonnage total on the right side of
the ledger.
The Shipping Board made the pre
diction several months ago that a
balance between U-boat destruction
and American construction of ship
ping would be reached on August 1,
and that thereafter the United States
would steadily forge ahead andbegln
to make good the loss in world ship
ping due to submarine ravages since
the beginning of the war. The drop
of 25 per cent, in U-boat destruc
tion and the swift increase in the
American production rates indicates
that the Shipping Board estimate
was entirely too conservative.
Tt must not be forgotten that
Great Britain also is speeding up
ship construction and restoration.
The United States government still
is awaiting • definite figures on the
present output of new British ships,
•n the absence of these records it
s interesting to note that the Eng
lish shipping repair yards are now
restoring to service more than
500,000 gross tons a week. A total
of 5,307 vessels, representing a gross
tonnage of 16,105,000, were repaired
and restored to service between Au
gust 3, 1917, and April 25. 1918.
In the face of these facts, backed
by the positive assertions of the Brit
ish government that both Ostend and
Zeebrugge have been bottled up,
there is every reason to believe that
this country and her allies are now
producing ship tonnage at a rate that
defies the present destructive powers
of the German U-boats.
Navy Does Good Work. Too
Offensive operations against Ger
man submarines are producing good
results, said Acting Secretary Roose
velt, of the Navy, and he added that
while it would be too much to say
that the submarine situation is under
control or that the U-boats are not
still to be regarded as a menaec, the
outlook is hopeful. He reiterated
the opinion held by the Navy De
partment that what already has been
accomplished should serve merely to
Increase the vigor of the submarine
and the effort to turn out rapidly
additional destroyers and other craft
for anti-submarine work.
"Going after them and not waiting
for them to come after us is the an
swer," he said.
Naval opinion here now is that the
season of the year makes little differ
ence in the effectiveness of the sub
marines. Advantages and disadvan
tages of winter and summer offset
each other. It is pointed out that,
while rough water in winter im
pedes the U-boats, the long winter
nights give them opportunity to
come to the surface for recharging
their batteries, resting their crews
and also to make long trips on the
surface at night, increasing their
effective area.
ASKS THAT FARMERS HE
EXCUSED FROM JURY DUTY
Appealing to judges of Common
Pleas courts in the state, Edgar C.
fc'elton, United States Director of Em
ployment for Pennsylvania, has asked
that all farmers be excused from jury
duty so tar as possible. It is said that
in the different counties about ;SOO
farmers are empaneled for jury ser
vice. some of them being listed for
court sessions to be held during the
next month, and just when the plant
ing season is requiring much of their
time.
In Dauphin county there are about
a dozen -'urors called for the June
Kessiorv of Criminal Court, beginning
June 10, who are engaged in farm
work.. There will be two murder
trials listed for this session, it was
said.
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THURSDAY EVENING,
ALL MEN OF DRAFT AGE
MUST GET JOBS OR FIGHT
[Continued From Pago I.]
Ml before the board. Riven a chance
to explain and, in the absence of a
.satisfactory explanation, to be in
ducted into the military service of
the United States.
"Any local board will be author
ized to take action whether It has
original jurisdiction of the registrant
or not, in other words, any man loaf
ing around a poolroom in Chicago,
may be held to answer to a Chicago
board even though lie may have reg
istered in New York and lived there
most of his life.
Gamblers Head I'lst
"The regulations which apply to
Idle registrants will be deemed to
also to gamblers of all de
scriptions and employes and at
tendants of bucketshops and race
tracks, fortune tellers, clairvoyants,
palmists and the like, who the
purpose of the regulations shall be
considered as idlers.
"The new • regulation will also af
fect the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged In the
serving of food and drink, or
either, in public places, Includ
hotels and hotel clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator opera
tors and attendants, doormen,
footmen and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, apart
ment houses, office buildings
and bathhouses.
' (c) Persons, including ushers
"(c) Persons, Including ushers
and other attendants engaged
and occuDled In connection witn
games, sports and amusements,
except actual performers in le
gitimate concerts, operas or
theatrical performers.
"(d) Persons employed in do- (
mestic service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other
clerks employed in stores and i
other mercantile establishments.
Ijnter Order Numbers Useless
"Men who are engaged as above
or who are Idlers, will not be per
mitted to seek relief because of the
fact that they have drawn a late or
der number, or because they have
been placed In Class 2, 3 or 4, on the
grounds of dependency. The fact
that he Is not usefully employed will
outweigh both of the above condi
tions. .. „ . .
"It is expected that the list of
non-useful occupations will be ex
tended from time to time as neces
sity will require so as to include
persons in other employments.
"Temporary absences from regu
lar employment not to exceed one
week, unless such temporary ab
sences are habitual and frequent,
shall not be considered as Idleness.
Regular vacations will not be con
sidered as absences in this connec
tion. .
"The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed, by providing that where
there are compelling domestic cir
cumstances that would not permit
change of employment by the reg
istrant without disproportionate
hardship to his dependents, or where
a change from non-useful to useful
employment or occupation would
necessitate a removal of the reg
istrant or his family, local boards
may give .consideration to the cir
cumstances. The regulation further
provides that where such a change
of employment would compel the
night employment of women under
circumstances which a board might
deem not suitable for employment
of women, the board may take such
circumstances into consideration in
making its decision."
General Crowder Explains
Explaining the new regulation.
General Crowder said:
"The war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
manpower as to prevent the enor
mous industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
"There Is a popular demand for
organization of manpower but no di
rect draft could be imposed at pres
ent.
"Steps to prohibit idleness and
non-effective occupations will be wel
comed by our people.
"We shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effec
tive employment. Every man, in the
draft age at least, must work or
tight.
"This is not alone a war of mili
tary maneuver. It is a deadly con
test of industries and mechanics.
Germany must not be thought of as
merely possessing an army, we must
think of her as being an army—an
army in which every factory and
loom in the empire is a recognized
part in a complete machine, run
ning night and day at teriffic jpeed.
We must make of ourselves the same
sort of effective machine.
Xation Must Be Effective
"It is enough to ask what would
happen if every .man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work.
We must make ourselves effective.
We must organize for the future. We
must make vast withdrawals for the
army and immediately close up the
ranks of industry behind the gap
which an accelerating production of
every useful thing in necessary meas
ure. How is this to be done? The
answer is plain. The first step to
ward the solution of the difficulty is
to prohibit engagement by able
bodied men in the field of hurtful
employment, idleness or ineffectual
employment, and thus induce and
persuade the excess into useful
fields.
Helps Army and Industry
"The very situation we are now
considering, however, offers great
possibilities in improving the draft,
as well as great possibilities for the
composition of the labor situation by
effective administration of the draft.
Considering the selective service law,
we see two principal cases of defer
ment to the call to military service
—exemption and the order numbers
assigned by lot. The exemptions
themselves fall into two conspicuous
categories, dependency and indus
trial employment. One protects do
mestic relations the other the eco
nomic interest of the nation. Be
tween the two there is an inevitable
hiatus, for it is demonstrably true
that thousands, if not millions, of
dependency exemptions have no ef
fect of industrial deferment what-
I ever.
"One of the unanswerable criti
cisms of the draft has been that it
takes men from the farms and from
all useful employments and marcnts
them past crowds of idlers and loaf
ers away to the army. The remedy
is—to couple the industrial basis
with other grounds for exemDtion
and to require that any man plead
ing exemption on any ground s>hall
also show that he is contributing ef
fectively to the industrial welfare
of the nation.
"The regulation itself makes plain
the determination of the War De
partment. The great organization of
local and district boards which has
already accomplished a notable
work may be relied upon to catch
the spirit of the movement and sore
ly-needed manpower t wlU soon be
flowing into the fields of useful en
deavor or into the other directin
of military strength."
Baseball Players Affected
Provost Marshal General Crow
der's new "work or fight" regula
tions may require professional base-
ball players either to engage In some
useful occupation or to join the
army.
Baseball players, as well as
jockeys, professional golfers anu
other professional sportsmen, Gen
eral Crowder said to-day, will be af
fected by the regulations if strictly
enforced. General Crowder said he
did not desire to make specific rul
ings at this time and would make
rulings only when cases come to him
from local boards after July 1.
Theatrical People Excepted
Theatrical performers were ex
cepted from the regulations at the
direction of Secretary of War Baker,
who is said to feel that the people
cannot do without all amusement In
war time and that other amusements
could be dispensed with more read
ily.
Will Prosecute Slackers
Slackers who leave the country to
escape the draft will be prosecuted
under the selective service act on
their return, Attorney General Gre
gory announced to-day.
HENRY C. TAYLOR DIES
Tyrone, Pa., May 23.—Henry C.
Taylor, one of the original settlers
in this region, a veteran of the Civil
War, and a life-time Republican and
Methodist, died yesterday at the oge
of 75 years. He was a farmer all
of his life, about four miles west of*
Tyrone. He was the father of thir
teen children, nine of whom are liv
ing. Mr. Taylor was a member of
Company A, One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volun
teers and served the entire four
years of the Rebellion. His chief
distinction in the war, besides being
ir. the battle of Antietam and sec
ond Bull Run and the entire Wilder
ness campaign of Grant's, was that
he was one of the guard detailed
over Jefferson Davis, the presidency
of the Confederacy, after his cap
ture.
MRS. ELI B. DAY DIES
MtllernburK. Pa.,' Mav 23.—Mrs.
Bessie Day, wife of Ell B. Day. died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.
K. Ulsli, on Tuesday night from a
stroke of apoplexy. She is survived
by her husband and daughter. The
funeral will take place to-morrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock, in charge of
her pastor, the Rev. Mr. Musselman,
of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Bur
ial in Oak Hill cemetery.
FIRE COMPANY 78 YEARS OI.I)
Marietta. Pa., May 23.—Pioneer
Fire Company, No. 1, of Marietta,
one of the oldest fire companies in
the state, chartered about 1840, to
day celebrated its anniversary. Sam
uel Larzelers, of Marietta, is the
oldest member of the company liv
ing. There are seven others who
have belonged more than thirty
years.
Dives,Pomeroy &
Friday Specials Are of Great Help in
Cutting the Cost of Living
No Friday Specials Linen Crash, Fri- 1 7 I Boys' Baseball Te s4 ' oo and $ 5 -°° White Umbrellas ~
c I nr\r\ IV/I -i day ° nly ' y ard -- i• C Sets, Friday ...... 45C , ' Plant Boxes
Seilt C O. D. Or Mail All for X 01/O American taffeta umbrellas; cftn niant h ft \ i
All linen crash, with red bor- S1 nn a w # o „ 4 . 60c plant boxes, painted green;
i 51.00 sets, consisting: of glo\e, A lot of Summer Hats in handles for men and women-
OF PhonC Orders der - cip ' *' at and ball, Milan and Leghorn that show special, Friday only 49c
slight marks from handling, re- special, Friday only 98c
CVIIAJJ Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, duced for clearance Friday. 0 Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart,
rilled ' Street Floor. Hear. Men's Store. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, D ' VeS> Pomer °y & & tewart.
_ . Second Floor. Street Floor. Basement.
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Boys' Tennis QC Imported Table <t r% Men's Blue OC? Untrimmed f\ l~ 7! , o i
Lace Shoes ODC Damask, yard Shirts, Friday OOC Hats . . .39c Porch Swings Galvanized Plant Boxes
h ßoyß w l ack canvas tennis lace £nion Irish tab.e^ dam- chambpay shirts . wtth Ix)t of Straw shapM , speciaUy *-' SO Mission porch swings. boxes. Friday 91.19
shoes with grey rubber soles, chrysanthemum, daisy and fleur , .. with chains; special, Friday $1.98 boxes, Friday 91.69
sizes 2\i to 6; regularly SI.OO. de lis-patterns. separate collar. priced for Friday. $2.50 boxes, Friday 91.98
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives Pomerov & Stewart ° NLY * l-98 TV.. T> „
Street Floor, Rear. Street Floor, Rear pomeroy &. Stewart, Dives Pomero y & Stewart, ™ves, Pomeroy & Stewart,
fllens Store. Second Floor. Basement. Basement.
Oxford Ties.. $1 065 Wash Cloths Mens Gloves, 35c Women s .Neckwear Gold Filled Black Dress Goods,
Thirty-six pairs, some of 10c fan °y wash cloths: spe- Leather palm gauntlet gloves. 75c georgette crepe collars. TewelrV Reductions
which are regular $3.00 ties; c i a [ Fridav only 5c c .i ™ u . wide lace trimmed; special, Frl- J 3
not all sizes; special Friday ' - - Special, Friday only. day only 50c 50c cuff links; special, Friday $l5O diagonal serge. 42 inches
y " Dives. Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart in „ only ....'39c wool: s P eclal - * Jl' rla £
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, ' ' Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, only, yard 91.00
Street Floor. Rear. Street Rear. Men's Store a , $1.98 and $2.98 fancjr bead $1.50 costume serge, 42 inches
Street * loor. necklaces; special, Friday only, wide; all wool; special, Friday
— J 98c. only, yard 91.39
~~ ————— ~~ —— ~ — i——v i- ——_ ~ ham,- $1.75 poplin, 42 inches wide;
Orford n ' S T& s °s3 75 Cotton Scarfs PumpMor Friday Taffeta Ribbons '•
Black and browri kldskln tie?. o J* sl.ls 2S o r,M,n. , * **"*
ToleV high Louis heels Special SCarfß ' 1?X46 ' nChCB: SPeCia '' Seventy-five pairs pumps, in l™hes wide;* fecial. Friday
Fridav onlv Friday only 25c narrow widths and sizes up to 7. only, yard .. r. 16c 1 r—
" 3 _ Formerly $5.00. _ _ .
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Basement Specials Silver Plate
Street, * loor. Rear. Street Floor. Rear. Market Street. street Floor
1 I A ™ e r ' c ; cre f m freeze " : Table Ware
special, Friday only 83c
flrrwle iur -- - j . ~ , _ .. 14-inch high wheel self- B9r marmala de jars, special,
. White Goods Mercerized AKr Market Baskets Pattern Veils sharpening lawn mowers; spe- Frlda y on| y 25c
Table Damask ...Ut, Lo„, .nd and pattern v,„. ™y ...
yard 17c 69c mercerized table damask, 1 98c' baskets. Friday. . .'.'. 79c I , in figured and scroll designs; Bouquet holders for cemetery I 'P |ated speefqj, !• riday only, $1,69
inrh- W R h nJ^ laln „°, r ? a v " d 16 ' 58 inches. ,11S baskets, Friday 89c 'black and colors; values to 59c; ,alnt ed (green; spacial. Silver plated dessert spoons;
yard' .. ' ... y .. n /9;- J - $1.40 baskets. Friday 91.15 special, Friday only 25c Friday only 9c fecial. Friday only, each, 25c
39c stripe gabardine skirting, 1 veß ' r>om f ro > r & Stewart, Di\es, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, tm r> i> a.
36 inch; special. Friday only, Street Floor, Rear. Basement. Street Flobr. ' Basement. Di%eS ' Stewartl
yard 29c _J ______________ Street !• loor.
39c check ' and satin stripe ~ ————————' — .
voile, 36 inch; special, Friday j— ———— - ——————
Dives. Pomeroy & Stewart,
Drug Sundries, Basement Wash Goods Cotton Dress Materials | Colored Dress Goods Suit Linings
Street Floor, Rear. Special for Friday CnlnroH vmi.. s " k a cotton foulards, in in the Friday Sale S9C black saline. 40 inches
J !6c alycerln and roe. water, ' Swtf £S?i*'"SSJ'rt SSf ! ™ dy
1 special, Friday only bl.c-k and Wnk: ,pl.l, Friday "silk ' pl.ld, .Ilk knd e'otioi £**„,; Ic 'bi.ck' a,,d ",hlle"e(rlS
Women's $7.50 Coat Sweat- d ' 0 ;„, t y O '" t ■° Pi • I,ec '* l - Glnkham '' prints! "in " fancy J,T.;: d " Si 1 ! '• r,!'dav ~ii nC .Vi "" 1 * : '""it;
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Friday 12V4C stork castile soap; spe- Wash suiting for skirts, suits ~.B Oc .P la L n .^ ma^ ?."]"® tt ? 8, half SI.OO shepherd checks, 42 Street Moor. '
. ... , . clal. Friday only 10c and youths' rompers; special, Lm n !.• .nJli '" ches w,d ®: special. Friday T - 1
Spring weight woo coat 15c talcum powder; special. Friday only, yard P ..25c Siv only yd 6 only * yard - J 4 ? H 1
sweaters, belted and sailor col- Friday only 7c 30c poplin, in plain shades; %>,. noniin-' L nni=l ' KVI * 169 a l'-wool taffeta; special,
lars; shades include coral and 25c perodlxe cold cream" special, Friday only, yard, 23c d ' , va d ' ' Friday only, yard 91.50 Silver Picture
Copenhagen, green and white, .pecial, Friday only .. /Sc Fr f atl v ne ' black:: s "-' al ; 'e' ' inches''wide? 'i™ TtJ n Frames Snecial
gold and Copenhagen and white J.et blacH special Linen "nly^ya^d 1 "n c Fridayonly. yard .91.69
an(l °' d - 50c cold cream;"s' P e'ciai,W Bhade : Friday only. 35c voiles. 36 inches 'wide; JS OO silk and 25c silver plated picture
Dives. Pomeroy & Stewart. da * only 29c >• special, Friday only, yard.... 25c lly" ?ard '. . * P si& Ir&me " I#C
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Dives, Pomexoy & Stewart,
Men's Store. Street Floor. Basement. Street Floor. Street Floor. Street Floor.
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HAKMSBUBG (AjlSc TELEGRAPH
| HIGHSPIRE 1
Transfer exercises of the Highsptre
public schools will be held in tfie
United Brethren Church Tuesday
evening. May 28 at 8 o'clock. The
program, follows: Invocation, the
Rev. M. H. Wert: music, "Columbia's
Song," Gabriel, class: address, Wal
ter Steifleman; oration, "Liberty,"
Charles Hahnlen; recitation, "The
American flag." Isabel Coble: piano
solo, "Always Good Natured," Giese,
Kenneth Wilson; war time roundi
table. Alia Ruth, Helen Hahn. Helen
Mathias, Hazel Carl, Russel Wendal,
Clarence Cover, Ray Bamberger,
Harry Gintzer: vocal duet, "In
Springtime," Newton. Alia Ruth,
Charlotte Floyd: history of High
spire, Meade Urich; class reunion,
composed by Myra Reeves, Mary
Stoner, Clara Leedy, Clarence Shul
er. Class reunion: Charlotte Floyd,
Harry McKinney, Esther Kaylor,
Wilmer Sander, Helen Mathias,
Charles Shank, Alia Ruth, John
Stoner, Zenora Ulrich, Towsen
Thomson. Harold Fcx, Russel Wen
dal: "We Welcome You," May
Reeves (Sec. 1919): instrumental
duet, "The Mill," Jensen, Thelma
Flgley, Verna Ebersole: address, the
Rev. M. H. Wert: class history, Char
lotte Floyd: presentation of certifi
cates, W. B. Kaylor: music, "The
Happy Miller," Virgie Class: benedic
tion, the' Rev. E. L. Pee.
McAdoo About Ready to
Announce Wage Increase
Washington, May 23. rAn an
nouncement of a general wage In?
crease for railway employes follow
ing in a general way the railroad
wage commission's recommenda
tions, but with many modifications,
is imminent. It was learned last
night that Director General McAdoo
who has been studying the commis
sion's report, will be ready to act
within a few days.
Mob Storms Georgia Jail;
Takes Negro Prisoner Away
Cordele, Ga., May 23.—A mob of
four hundred men stormed the Crip |
county jail here last night and seized I
"Jim" Cobb, a negro, accused of the I
murder near here to-day of Mrs. A.!
L. Slmmonsa, a farmer's wife. Cobb, 1
despite the protests of Sheriff Ward,'
was thrown into an automobile and
startej for the scene of the killing.
Members of the mob followed in!
other machines.
C'AStT (JET DAUGHTER
An application by John Yentzer to
procure the custody of his six-year
old daughter, Margaret, who is living
with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs
George Yentzer. was refused yester
day by Judge McCarrell, who dis
missed a habeas corpus action
brought by the father.
f MIDDLETOWN j|
■ - '
The captains and lieutenants of the
Red Cross Chapter met in the Red
Cross rooms. Union and Mill streets,
last evening and from the reports
S3OO has been handed in.
Robert Mapp. colored, was arrested
on Tuesday evening at the Govern
ment reservation for being drunk
and disorderly. He was placed in
the guard house, but broke out and
was recaptured by Chief T. V. Gard
ner. He was brought to town and
| placed in the local lockup and was
given a hearing yesterday afternoon
before Burgess S. B. Gingrich, who
ttned him S2O and costs. In default
of payment, the prisoner was com
mitted to the county jail for thirty
days.
Tile Rev. Floyd Appleton, of the
St. Michael's Church, will preach to
the Red Men's lodge on Sunday aft
ernoon at 4.30 o'clock.
Irving Small, a deserter under the j
selective service law, was arrested by
Chief of Police Houser yesterday at
the Wells Brothers' Construction Co. I
plant, where he was employed. He
was turned over to the aviation camp
officers and word was sent to offi
cials at Milwaukee, Wis.
A meeting of the School Board was
held on Monday evening to act on
the final averages of the pupils of
the High School and grammar
school. The class of twenty of the
High School will hold their com
mencement exercises in the Realty
Theater, Emaus street, this evening.
Fifty-four pupils will be transferred
from the grammar school to the High
, School at the next term.
90,000 Soldiers Sailed
During 10 Days of May
Washington, May 23.—1n a state
ment inserted in the House record
yesterday. Representative Caldwell,
of the military committee, declared
that during the first ten days of May
90,000 American soldiers were sent
abroad, and said that after the ex
piration of one year from the arrival
of the first shipment of troops would
this country the United States would
have 1,000,000 men in France equip
ped with the necessary arms and sup
plies.
HOME I'ROM HOSPITAL
Liverpool, May 23.—John Shu
! maker, who underwent an operation
I several weeks ago for appendicitis
at the Harrisburg City Hospital, is
expected home to-day.
DKKH GRAZING IX FIELD
j Liverpool, Pa., May 23. Mrs.
Charles Lindsay had the unexpected
pleasure of seeing a beautiful large
female deer grazing in her grain Held
near town yesterday. When the deer
noticed her it ran to the mountain
nearby. week a deer was seen
on Mount Patrick and three were
seen on the mountains near Buck's
Valley.
LULL IN BATTLE
IS CONTINUING
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where there has been no heavy fight
ing in six weeks, the British r,nd
Germans are carrying out raids, evi
dently for the purpose of gaining in
formation to to their opponent'3i
plans. North of Albert the Germans!
have been repulsed In an attempt}
to rush the British positions south-j
east of Mesnil. Further north Field'
Marshal Haig's men continue their!
raids and have penetrated the enemy
lines near Hebuterne as well us at
other points southwest of Arras.
Lull Is Unbroken
On the French front and on the
American sectors, as on the British
front, the lull is unbroken and even
raiding has quieted down.
British airplanes are harassing
seriously German airdromes and bil-i
lets behind the lines in Flanders and j
Picardy. The Germans are seeking:
unavailingly to check the British and
in aerial fighting Tuesday eighteen
enemy machines, sixteen of which!
were destroyed, were accounted for I
by the British. At night the enemy'
is raiding behind the British lines
and two of his machines were
brought down by gunfire Tuesday.
Far to the rear of the German
lines, British bombing squadrons
have visited eastern Belgium and
the river Rhine. Three fires resulted
from bombs dropped on a chloride
factory at Mannheim and large con
flagrations were started on railways.
Northwest of Toul American avia- •
tors are busily engaged but although
they took part in several aerial con
tests Wednesday, no more enemy
machines have been brought down.
Fighting continues in the moun
tains In northern Italy with the Ital
ian and British troops on the of
fensive. Along the Piave the artil
lery firing has increased.
SERMON TO CLASS
NewvUle, Pa., May 23.—The bac
calaureate sermon to the graduates
of the Newvllle High school was
preached on Sunday evening by the
Rev. F. T. Wheeler, pastor of the Big
; Spring Presbyterian Church. The
graduates are: Margaret James,
Grace Weaver, Helen Mentzer, Mary
Wheeler, Scouller Tritt, Paul Prosser, I
Walter Sweyer and Ray Greegor.
Scouller Tritt took first honor and
Margaret James second. Commence
ment exercises will be held in the
•High school auditorium this evening.
The annual alumni banquet will be
held to-morrow evening.
LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS
Marietta, Pa.. May 23.—Mrs. Tsaac
Shelley, aged 7fi, died at Sporting
Hill, on Tuesday, after a long illness.
She was a member of the Mennonite
Church and the last of the original
members of the Kreider section. Her
husband, one son, and a number of
brothers and sisters survive.
Mrs. Mary Sullenberger, aged 77.
died from a complication of diseases
on Tuesday. Sha was a member ofj
the Church of the Brethren. Several
children survive. I
MAY 23, 1918.
Another Member Telegraph
Family Reaches War Zone
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Another member of the Telegraph
Family who has reached the theater
of war In France is First Lieutenant
Charles W. Thomas, for many years
an employe in and foreman of the
Telegraph composing room. Word
reached* his family and friends this
week of the arrival of his regiment
on foreign soil.
Lieutenant Thomas received his
early military training at Scotland
Soldiers' Orphan School, his father
having been a Civil War veteran.
As soon as the son reached the re
quired age he enlisted in Company I
of the old Eighth Regiment, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, and the
above cut was made from a photo
graph taken when he was first ser
geant of the company when it went
to the Mexican Border in 1916.
I While in that service at El Paso.
I Texas, he was promoted to second
lieutenant and later to first lieuten
lant. He is now an officer of Com
j pany I, One Hundred and Twelfth
i Regiment, which was made at Camp
Hancock last summer by the com
bination of the Eighth and Sixteenth
Regiments of the Pennsylvania Na
tional Guard after entry into Federal
service. The regiment is in the
Twenty-eighth Division (now known
as the Keystone Division) of the
United States Army.
While at Camp Hancock Lieuten
ant Thomas was sent to the Army
School of Fire at Fort Sill, Okla., for
instruction in machine gun and rifle
practice, and on his way back to
j Georgia in April spent a ten-day
l furlough with Mrs. Thonjas and his
young son, Charles Thomas, Jr., at
1 his home here.
CIVILIAN SERVICE
IN CUMBERLAND
Series of Meetings This Week
nder Auspices of Public
Safety Committee
Carlisle, Pa. t May 23.—Meetings
will be held in every divisional cen
ter in Cumberland county this week
in the interest of the plan of the
recently reorganized Department of
Civilian Servie® and Labor of the
Cumberland County Public Safety
Committee to aid in meeting the
farm labor problem. A big meeting
was held here last evening, attended
by leading manufacturers and eifr
ployers of labor. "
The cftunty has been divided into
five districts. Each of these has a
chairman, a member of the execu
tive committee and township man
agers will be named for every di
vision. The new divsions are:
Shippensburg J. E. Reisner.
chairman; Southampton, Hopewell,
Upper Mifflin and Newton township,
south of the Pike.
Newville—W. H. McCrae, chair
man; Newton, north of the Pike,
Lower Mifflin, Frankford. West
Pennsboro and Penn.
Carlisle—W. H. Goodyear, chair
man; North Middleton, Dickinson,
South MiddletAn. Monroe, west of an
imaginary line from Locust Point to
Brantsville.
Mechanicsburg—M. E. Dick, chair
man; Monroe, east of imaginary line,
Silver Spring, Hampden, Upper Al
len.
Camp Hill —E. N. Cooper, chair
man; East Pennsboro, Lower Allen.
WAR CHEST FUND GROWING
Carlisle, Pa., May 23.—Marked by
# number of new features, the cam
paign for the Patriotic and Benevo
lent fund of Carlisle, as the war
chest activity here Is known, is pro
ceeding well and about one-fourth
of the quota of $50,000 has been
secured.
BI.AIN MAX AMONG KILLED
Blaln, Pa., May 23.—Pittsburgh
papers print the name of H. E. Dun
kleberger as being among those
killed in the explosion at Oakdale
last Saturday. Mrs. Dunkleberger
and family live here. Mrs. Dunkle
berger, accompanied by Postmaster
D. P. Stokes, left yesterday for Oak
dale.
Mr. Dunkleberger has been em
ployed in the Aetna chemical plant
at Oakdale for over two years.
BARN AM) COXTKXTS BURNED
Marietta. Pa.. May 23.—During a
storm last night on the Stoner farm,
a large hank barn and contents was
totally destroyed, being struck by
lightning. Only a part of the riu
chinery and livestock was saved. The
loss will be several thousand dol
lars.