STATE DRAFTEES
UNDER PROBE OF
ARMY EXAMINERS
' Remainder of Pennsvlvanians
Expected to Be on Hand
by Noon Today *
Camp Wadsworth, S. C., Aug. 10.—
The drop in temperature here on
Thursday was a welcome relief to
everybody in camp and especially to
the 2,700 Pennsylvanians who arriv
ed Wednesday and Wednesday night.
The new men had nothing to do for
a day except go before the medical
and other examining boards and an
swer questions. This was their pro
pram for to-day and to-morrow and
those who are accepted will be as
sinned to regiments and will take up
the routine of camp life.
Those rejected—and usually about
25 per cent, of draft men are reject
ed on final examinations —will be
sent home and paid at the rate of
SI a day. The remainder of the Penn
sylvania draft, beginning to arrive
about midnight, should all be In by
noon to-day.
Lieut. Colonel R. E. Grinsted, who
has been camp quartermaster here
since the camp was opened, is to be
transferred at his own request to the
new 11th Division now being formed
at Camp Meade, Md. He has been
very successful in his work here, es
pecially in conservation and recla
mation work. He is a regular army
officer and accompanied General
Pershihg on the Mexican expedition.
Petersburg, Va.. Aug. 10.—The
heat yesterday at Camp Lee, where
J-larrisburg soldiers are undergoing
army training, was not so intense.
There were scores of prostrations
among the soluiers on Wednesday.
At the rifle rar.ge seventy-five sol
diers are reported to have been over
come by the heat.
In some parts of the camp that day
the thermometer registered 117 in
the shade and in several of the in
lirmaries the mercury went up to the
120 mark and then burst the ther
mometer.
General Hedekin. commanding
Camp Lee. was a guest at a meeting
of the Petersburg Rotary Club at
Hotel Petersburg. General Hedekin
addressed the Rotarians on the im
portance of discipline and obedience
Df orders.
TIME AT HAND TO KEEP
GERMANS ON THE RUN
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■*var is at hand should be discourag
ed. the chief of staff said, but the
time has come to keep the enemy
running and to flit him hard. The
gi eatest advantage to the allies is
that they have taken the offensive
and can keep the enemy guessing in -1
ptead of guessing themselves.
. Yanks Not in Drive
Although the British war office
has announced it. General March
had no official information that
American troops are participating in
the drive in Pieardy, which already
has enabled the allied forces to bring
the enemy's main line of communi
cation under gun fire.
The chief of staff read a confiden
tial report showing the British had
taken in the first days of the drive
more prisoners than they could
handle, and also had captured all
•enemy artillery in their immediate
front. The report added that a Ger
man general and his staff had been
captured.
Turning to the situation on the
Yesle General March said French and
and American troops had been "nib.
I ling" along that Vine but had made
no attempt as yet to advance up the
Slopes north of the river where the
German lines of chief resistance are
supposed to stand.
May Duplicate Mar no Battle
The temporary stabilization of the
lighting on the Vesle front had been
pi omptly met by Marshal Koch, he
added, by the blow at Pieardy where
events of the Marne battle seem like
ly to be duplicated.
The importance of the allied ad
vance on Chaulnes, a junction on the
only liiie the enemy has
over which to 'withdraw from the
depths of his Pieardy position, was
pointed out. Pressure against this
point is placing the Germans in a
difficult situation.
Laying emphasis on the necessity
of pressing on vigorously and giving
the enemy no chance to rest or read
just himself, General March said
this was the object of the war de
partment in seeking to raise the age
limits of the draft and to hurry to
France ever-increasing American'
forces.
Rainbow Division Fast of Rhrims
In answer to questions. General
March said the Forty-second (Rain
bow) division, after receiving its
combat training in Lorraine, had
Joined the French east of Rheims on
July 15 and helped to break the
enemy drive at that place. Reading
from a record of the division's move
ments, he said that in eight days of
battle, it had forced passage of the
fiurcq, met six different enemy divi
sions and had advanced sixteen
kilometers and taken prisoners from
each of the opposing enemy divisions.
The 29th Division is in Alsace
southeast of Epinal the 79th still Is
In the American training areas and
the 85th now is arriving in France,
Its infantry having landed and its
artillery being about to land. The
27th Division, under Major General
<V Ryan and composed of New York
National Guard, was last reported
■with the British in Flanders.
General March made no reference
to the number of American troops
now overseas or on the way. Last
week he told the correspondents that
the number had passed the 1,300,-
000 mark.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The Brit
ish War Office official statement ,i o-
on the drive in Pieardy reveals
for tho first time the fact that Amer
ican troops are taking part in this]
smashing blow there againet the ene-|
yny. There had been no information!
here to show that men from this
country were in the drive and the
Identity of the unit or units is not
known.
Coal Co. Buys Ambulance
For Brookside First Aid
Tower City, Pa.. Aug. 10.—The
Heading Coal and Iron Company has
purchased an auto ambulance for
the First Aid unit of Brookside col
liery.—Miss Ruth Robson is spend
ing vacation with relatives at
Llewellyn.—Miss Thelma Kline has
returned from a pleasant visit to
relatives at Pottaville.—George Stoud
has received word that his son was
seriously wounded In France.—Miss
Bessie Schreiner spent the week-end
nt Wllliamstown. —Mrs. Frank Kauf
man is entertaining her sister, Mrs.
Kaufman, of Philadelphia.
SXT-URDAY EVTNINQ
541 CASUALTIES
INCREASE WEEK'S
TOTAL TO 4,299
Army List Today Has 516
Names; 64 Killed in
in Action
Waxhlngton, Aug. 10.—Casualties
,1/n the army and marine corps over
| seas, announced early to-day, ag
gregated 541, bringing the total since
1 last Monday to 4,299. The army list,
issued in five sections, contained 516
names and a single marine corps list
gave 25 names.
The casualties were listed as fol
lows:
Army. Marine
Corps.
Killed in action ..... 64 11
Died of wounds ... 28 5
Died of disease .... 3
Died of airplane ac
cident 2
Died of accidents and
other causes 4
Wounded severely .. 102 9
Wounded, degree un
determined *lO2
Missing in action .. 211
The following Pennsylvanians are
included:
Section 1
Severely wounded:
Corporal Vincent Cassidy, Phila
delphia.
Private Frank L Millard, Birds
boro.
Private Levi S. Miller, Ephrata. j
Private Gordon Rose, Pittsburgh.
Private Samuel Solomon, Philadel
phia.
Section SI
Killed in Action:
| Corporal Tony Ayoub, Brownsville.
Private Warren W. Dubbs, Emaus
MORE TO COME
Died of Wounds—Private Louis
Dobrowolski, Nanticoke.
Died From Airplane Accident
Corporal Robert W. Holl, Jr., Clif
ton Heights.
Missing in Action—Corporal Wil
liam Campbell, Meyersdale; Corporal
Michael E. Dunfee, Dußois; Cor-
I poral Richard A. Lorz, PhiladelDhia;
I Private John Gaynor, Nanticoke:
I Private Harry S. Ray, Josephine.
. Section 3
I Wounded Severely—Private Steve |
j Felitsky, Pittsburgh.
Wounded. Degree Undetermined j
I —Private Walter L. Davis, New-1
' berry; Private Louis H. Harper. But-1
! ler.
Missing in Action Sergeant;
| Arlolph Scliiavo, Philadelphia; Cor-1
| poral Charles N, Franks, Percy. |
I Cook John Lenhart. Somerset.
I Private Frank Riley Boehm, Phila
delphia.
Private Oscar W. Brush, Philadel
phia.
Private Joseph Ciancl, Dunmore.
Private Harry Lantz, Cochranton.
SECTION I
Killed in Action
Corporal John Jacevicz. Woodland.
Severely Wounded
Private George Bailer. AUentown.
Wounded Degree Undetermined
Private Ferdinando Alafsio, South
Bethlehem.
Private Charles H. Waltz, Pen
brook.
Missing in Action
Sergeant John J. Lupu, Philadel
phia.
Corporal Adam R. Malone, Hick
ory.
Private Jacob Bednaro, Erie.
Private Thomas F. Blake, Clear
field.
Private Francis A. Cole, West
Point.
I*rlvate H. W. Harden, CTiunibers
burg.
Private Gawril Kosewich, New
Castle.
Private W. P. McKinney, Dan
ville.
Private Richard R. Pliscott, Alden
Station.
Private Stiney Prantow, Shenan
doah.
Killed in Action
Corporal Jacques A. Fiechter,
Philadelphia.
Corporal Everett G. Shores, To
wanda.
Wounded Severely
Captain William K. Byle, Annvillc.
Wounded. Degree Undetermined
Sergeant John J. McLawish, Cly
mer.
Missing in Action
Sergeant Winchip, Moscow.
Private Tony Coppolla, Philadel
phia.
Private Lyman W. Driesbaugh,
Dalton.
Private W r illiam Letka, Greens
burg.
Private Joseph Ihyona, Philadel
phia.
Private Charles W. Yorty, Somer
! set.
Marine Casualties
Washington, Aug. 10.—The Ma
rine casualties include:
Killed in Action
Corporal Bernard W. Snair, Pitts
! burgh.
Private Francis B. Corbin, Phila
| delphia.
Private Harry R. Walleigh, Ches
ter Springs.
Wounded Severely In Action
Private Dewey Miller, Sharon.
WILL SEND 1918
REGISTRANTS NEXT
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were able to say, however, that there
are not enough 1917 men on their
lists to complete the quotas.
City Board No. 1 said It has 20
class one 1917 men. Its quota is 26
men. Board No. 2 has about 20 or
22 class one 1917 men. Its quota is
24 men. City Board No. 3 will furnish ,
a quota of 15 men, possibly some 1918 i
registrants
Few In First County District
County Board No. 1 has few if any
1917 men. Their quota of 15 men
will likely be almost entirely com
posed of 1918 men. County Board
No 2 announced that possibly 15 of
its 39 men will be 1918 registrants.
The Elizabethvllle 1917 men are al
most exhausted, and their quota Is 37
men.
In addition 13 colored men, one
from City Board No. 2, five from City
Board No. 3, and seven from the
Steelton Board, will go with the
movement of white men. They will
exhaust the list of 1917 colored reg
istrants.
The hoards are at work on reports
of the number of 1917 registrants
they have. The reports must be sub
mitted to state headquarters on Au
gust 15. After that the Camp Lee
quotas will likely be announced.
Capture of Beaufort
Marked Maximum of 13
Miles in Big Drive
I<ondon, Aug. 10. When ihe
French captured Beaufort, Friday,
they had made an advance of thir
teen miles eastward from Castel. I
This is ihe maximum infantry ad-,
vance of the present offensive thus!
[ far reported. _ 1
AMERICANS TAKE
VILLAGE ON NORTH
BANK OF VESLE
Fismette, Across From For
mer Big German Base of
Fismes Is Captured
Paris, Aug. 10.—American troops
have captured the village of Fis
mette. on the north bank of the Vesle
river, a short distance northwest of
Fismes. With the village they took
100 prisoners.
The 50th Division, a crack unit,
was ordered into battle to stop the
pressure of the French in the valley
of the Ardre. It was a regiment of
this division which lost one-third of
its number on July 22. The next day
the commander of the 10th Company
reported he had been reduced to thir
ty-five men. The commander of the
12th Company declared no one was
left in the 7th Company. In other
battalions of the regiment similar
conditions were reported. Prisoners
say the 39th Regiment lost from 6ft to
75 per cent, of its effectiveness in
three days.
On July 24 the 82d Regiment was
compelled to form three companies
of its three battalions put back into
the line. Before engaging in the bat
tle the companies.of another division
consisted of eighty men each, many
being nineteen-year-old boys. As a
result of losses, the division was re
duced by one-half to July 29. In
the region of Fere-en-Tardenois, one
regiment of the 22d division was re
duced to three companies.
The number of effectives in the
average German company is now
about ninety men, exclusive of offi
cers and supplementary non-commis
sioned officers.
The deserter from the Fourth Prus
sian Grand division, said that sap
pers had been ordered by General
Kinck von Finckenstein to destroy
everything within their power. Sim
ilar orders also were issued by lieu
tenants to bombers.
Prisoners taken from different di
visions on various parts of the front
agree that it is the German plan to
retire to the Aisne.
BAKER GRILLED
BY SENATORS IN
AIRCRAFT PROBE
War Secretary's Answer "En
tirely Unsatisfactory"; Cabi
net Officer Is Angry
Washington. Aug. 10. —Secretary
of War Buker spent an uncomfort
able hour before the Senate Military
Affairs Committee's subcommittee on
aircraft yesterday.
According to members of the sub
committee the session finally broke
up when the members became angry
at the Secretary of War for what
they termed his refusal properly to
answer questions put to him con
cerning the aircraft production.
The subcommittee is composed of
Senators Thomas, Democrat, of Colo
rado. chairman; Reed, Missouri, and
Smith, Georgia, Democrats, and Fre
linghuysen, New Jersey, and New,
Indiana, Republicans.
Secretary Baker was called as the
last witness in the investigation into
aircraft production which the com
mittee has been conducting for the
last two months.
Baker, Too Was Angry
The nature of Mr. Baker's testi
mony or the questions asked him
members of the investigating com
mittee declined to make public, but
they declared after the session ended
that the Sec retary of War had given
"entirely unsatisfactory" answers to
the questions.
Mr. Baker appeared to be great
ly disturbed after his appearance be
fore the committee, and he also de
clined to discuss the nature of the
grilling he had undergone.
Senator Thomas said the subcom
mittee has concluded its work, atid
that the report on its findings will
be made public next week.
In making its investigation, the
committee visited all of the aircraft
plants in the United States, and sum
moned scores of witnesses who testi
fied regarding all stages of the de
velopment of the airplane program
under the first aircraft hoard, and
the present production board.
Startling, rnenllcd-For Delays
Members of the committee yester
day said they have disclosed many
startling facts, showing uncalled-for
delays in the production of plans for
the Army, due chiefly to prolonged
experimenting, which the committee
does not believe was necessary.
Numerous instances of graft in the
awarding and filling of contracts for
airplanes came to the attention of
the committee in the course of its
investigation, the members said, but
in each instance, evidence was turn
ed over to Charles Evans Hughes,
&ho is making a criminal investiga
tion of the failure of the aircraft
program for the Department of Jus
tice.
The report of the Senate subcom
mittee will deal only with the
causes for the fall-down In the pro
gram for turning out the thousands
of airplanes that the other Allies
asked of the United States when this
country entered the war, said Sena
tor Thomas.
Mattis Brothers Open New
Washery Near Elizabethville
F-lixabethville, Pa., Aug. 10. —Mat-
tis Brothers have opened up a coal
washery at the old homestead and
will ship the screened product to
eastern markets.—Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam H. Schreffler, of Reading, spent
part of the week with Mrs. Sarah E.
Swab.—Mrs. William P. Stevenson,
of McVeytown, spent several days
with her husband, who is convales
cing here.—George H. Rowe, of
South Amboy, N. J., is visiting Mrs.
Jacob Zerbe.—Mrs. Gideon Shadle
and son, of Scranton, spent some
time with Mrs. Catherine Shadls. —
The Rev. Mr. Reisch. of Harrisburg,
will occupy the Lutheran Church
pulpit to-morrow evening. Alvin
and Howard Enders, of Harrisburg,
spent several days with their mother
here.—Lewis C, Rufflngton is im
proving at Camp Meade. —Mrs. M.
E. Stroup is entertaining her sister
and friends from Mechanlcsburg.—
Mrs. Mark T. Davis is entertaining
friends from Ellzabethtown.—Mrs.
C. H. Gardinier. of Mlllersville, spent
several days with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. M. Stine. —Dr. and Mrs.
W. E. Naylor have returned from
their visit to Harrisburg and Bon
dersvllle. —C. C. McLaughlin has
taken charge of the Millersburg
Milling Company plant and will
move to that place.—Clay M. Graeff
left for Philadelphia on Wednesday
i morning.
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Marshal Haig advanced his battle line on the southern flank of the
Lys salient on a tive-mile front between the Laweand Clarence rivers, as
indicated by the arrow. The depth of the gain was about 1,000 yards.
This attack was the opening move of the second great allied offensive,
which is now' raging over a thirty-mile front in Picardy.
American Army Chief Factor
In New Battle, Says London
London, Aug. 10.
THE general feeling In London is that the. importance of the
new battle launched Thursday morning cannot he overestimated.
It was only a month ago that all the talk of the British military
critics was whether the allies could hold on in the face of the great
German offensive which the German people had been told was to
finish the war. The initiative has now been taken from the enemy,
and within the month the allies have engaged in two important
battles with conspicuous success.
It is not too rfiuch to say that the American Army has been
the chief factor in this Result. The experienced military critic of
the Westminster Gazette says only what all soldiers who have seen
American mettle put to the test are saying, that the American troops
are equal to any in the world. The moral effect of their appear
ance in France, even though a comparatively small proportion
of them is yet on the fighting line, has been the transformation
in the British and French armies of determination to resist into
the confidence of victory.
WAR STAMP SALE
IN COUNTY SETS
NEW HJGH RECORD
Dauphin's Per Capita Mark
Passes Philadelphia; Sell
Most Last Week
ThrUled by the news of the victor
ious onrush of the Yankees in
France, Dauphin countians last
week purchased War Savings Stamps
and Thrift Stamps to a value far
greater than they purchased in any
one week of the campaign previous
to this. .
Agents for the sales of the stamps
in this county last week established
the unprecedented record of $50,990
worth of sales and raised the county
per capita sales past that of Phila
delphia, Dauphin's closest rival. War
Savings Stamps sold during the week
totaled 11,398, while 13,351 Thrift
Stamps were sold.
I'nss Philadelphia
Sales for the week amounted to
$0.37 for each person living within
the confines of the county. The per
capita salos were raised to $4.60 by
this record. Philadelphia's per cap
ita sales amount to $4.35. Total
sales in Dauphin county equal $699,-
5 95.
Chairman Frank C. Sites consid
ers this record quite favorable and
says that it augurs well for the ul
timate success of the campaign to
sell $3,000,000 worth of stamos in
the county. "With our boys fighting
so gallantly and winning such glor
ious victories 'over there,' " he syys,
"shouldn't we all be willing to back
the movement to our utmost to
bring about the ultimate success of
the campaign to aid in bringing the
war to a successful conclusion as
early as possible."
Nearby Counties Busy
Per capita sales of nearbv coun
ties are: Adams, $3.98; Cumber
land, SS.2O; Franklin, $5.00; Juniata,
$6.09; Lancaster, $9.58; Mifflin,
$8.91; Perrv, $6.58; Union, $21.14.
Union coutity is the first county of
the state to pass the per capita sales
of S2O, the mark set for subscrip
tion by each man, woman and child
in the United States. That-fhey have
passed the amount asked or them has
not, however, caused workers in the
county to let up In their efforts.
During the past week the per capita
sales there amount to sl.Ol, which
brought the grand per capita sal as
to $21.14.
Week to Be Normal
With Cooling Rains
By Associated Prtss
Washington, Aug. 10.—Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday, issued by the weather bu
reau to-day are:
North and Middle Atlantic states:
North portion probably showers
about Tuesday, rising temperature
Monday, showers again at end of
week; temperature about normal on
the coast; above normal In the in
terior, south portion generally fair,
followed by showers at end of the
week. Temperature above normal.
Mt. Union Teachers Home
From State College Studies
Mount Union. Pa., Aug. 10.—
Misses Isabel Postlethwalte, Ruth
Taylor, Bess Bair, Ruth Cunning
ham, Bertha Noble, Helen Taylor,
Mae Jones, Idessa Rinker and Ivan
Houck. all Mount Union teachers
who spent six weeks at State Col
lege pursuing a summer course,
have returned home.—Prof. W. P.
Harley is spending a short vacation
at his home at Royersford.—The fol
lowing colored men left here this
week for Camp Custer, Battle Creek,
Mich.: Dudley Harris, Victor
Brlggs, Joseph Colman, William Rag
land, Oscar J. Dempo. Arthur J.
Oreer, Glenny Conley, Samuel G.
Hicks, Joe Chestnut, Webster Rey
nolds, Remus Jones, Henry Hunter,
Larry Adams, Edward C. Townes.
Henry Dixon, Samuel Brandon and
Tom Williams.—Newton Hamilton
camp opened August 2 and will con
tinue until August 13. It is drawing
large crowds from here.—George
Shover, of Dayton, Ohio, has return
ed to his work after visiting his
pnren's. Mr. and Mrs. James Shover.
Luella Todd, of New Jersey,
.*pont two weeks at the home of her
brother, the Rev. C. W. Todd.—R.
P. M. Davis entertained a fiumber of
friends at his nummer horns near
i Newton Hamilton recently.
FEDERAL RULING
PERMITTING USE
OF MEAT ISSUED
County Food Administrator
Expects Formal Notice Soon
Abolishing Restrictions
The new ruling of the federal food
administration abolishing restric
tions on the use of meat, has not yet
been received by Donald McCormick,
Dauphin county food administrator,
but when the administrator read the
dispatch this morning he expressed
it as his belief that it will be only a
matter of time until the order is ap
plied locally.
"I believe it is official and see no
reason why you should not publish
it," was his comment.
The dispatch follows:
"Restrictions on the use of meats
were lifted to-day by the food ad
ministration. While the American
public will be asked to use lighter
beef, so that the heavier cattle may
be exported, the regulation forbid
ding hotels and other public eating
places to serve beef more than once
a week are now rescinded, and the
ration of one and one-half pound a
week to householders Is abolished.
Danger of Shortage Over
"The food administration believes
that the danger of a shortage has
now been averted, and that there are
sufficient supplies in prospect for the
United States and the allied nations.
It asks, however, that economy be
practiced in the consumption of
beef, as well as of other foodstuffs,
iind that wasteful practices be care
fully eliminated.
"It was explained to-day that the
extreme drought in Texas, Okla
homa and other sections of the
Southwest, which also affects Mon
tana and certain areas in adjacent
states in the Northwest, had caused
a cattle run 50 per cent, heavier than
in the corresponding yield last year.
"There is always a liberal run of
the lighter cattle at this season of
the year, but the present supply is
excessive," a statement read.
Exnort Many CatUe
"Practically all of the heavier and
fatter cattle are needed for export
purposes, for our own armed forces
and those of owr allies, because on
account of their thickness and fatty
covering they are less subject to de
terioration during the transfer from
cars to ships and freezers when they
are not protected by refrigeration.
"In rescinding regulations which
prohibited public eating places from
serving beef more than once a day
and in releasing the householders
from their voluntary agreement to
curtail purchases to 11-2 pounds a
week, including bone, the food ad
ministration requests that this freer
use of beef be restricted so far as
practicable to the cattle which dress
under 476 pounds. To achieve this,
the retail meat markets are asked
to specialize in the use of these light
er cattle, and families and patrons
of all public eating places are re
quested to patriotically accept beef
of this weight, even though they
have heretofore been accustomed £o
using the heavier beef only.
To Use Lightweight Cattle
"The cjesire of the food adminis
tration at present is not primarily
to increase the consumption of beef
as*a whole, hut to induce a prefer
ence in favor of the llghterweight
cattle of which we have an abnormal
surplus. This wjll bring about a con
servation of the heavier cattle need
ed for our soldiers and for export to
our allies. At the same time It will
afford a measure of protection
through increased outlet for cattle
raisers in the drought afflicted areas.'
BOYS BREAK INTO Y. M. C. A.
Shippensburg, Pa., Aug. 10.—
Several boys broke into the Y. M. C.
A. and turned over the tables and
took the pictures from the wall.—
The Rev. A. W. Poff, local secretary
of the Y. M. C. A. has resigned and
accepted a position at Waynesboro.
—Harry Hippie and family, of New
vllle, spent Sunday here. John
Handshaw and family, of Harris
burg, are spending several days
here. C. L. Grimm, of Newville,
spent Sunday with his brother, the
Rev. J. L. Grimm. Mrs. Lena
Ankerbrandt and Mrs. Ida Andker
brandt, are spending the week here.
—Mrs. D. M. Oyer and family here,
returned from a trip to York.
George E Beidel is spending several
days at Mechanicsburg. The ited
Cross room in the First Natio'nal
bank building will be kept open dur
ing the month of August
VICTORY'S LIGHT
LOOMS BRIGHTER
FOR THE ALLIES
British Premier Confident
Righteousness Must Triumph
Against the Germans
Neath, Wale*. Aug. 10.—Premier
Lloyd George, who came here to at
tend the Welsh National Eisteddfodd,
In receiving the freedom of Neath
yesterday declared that "the end
of the tunnel" through which the Al
lies have been traveling for four
years was getting nearer.
Mr. Lloyd George made no apology
to any man, he said, for any part
he had played during the war.
"And I propose to tight on to the
end," he added.
Some people had complained, con
tinued the Premier, that he was too
optimistic in the view he took of
things.
"I don't think I can," he insisted.
"I was not one of those who thought
it would soon be over. Never! I
thought It a long job and a terrible
Job. but I have always been confident
we would get through, for I knew
we were fighting for the light and
that the God of Righteousness would
see us through."
The Premier appealed to his coun
trymen to r put all the might of the
Empire into the tight saying:
"We. will be through the tunnel
into the broad daylight of God's sun
again, in a land of peace,, real peace,
without apprehension of sinister,
dark, plotting forces to renew the
slaughter. No, never again!
"That is why I am appealing to
my countrymen. Now we have con
fidence. We have good news. The
annihilated army hit back Thursday
morning at dawn. If anybody had
told Ludendorff on the 22d of March
that up to the month of August he
would be trying to get his guns
away from the advancing French and
British armies—well, I don't know
German and, therefore, I cannot tell
what his answer would be, but I be
lieve It would be in very strong
language indeed.
NO MORE MEN TO
BE ENLISTED IN
ARMY, IS ORDER
Lieut. Lesher Officially Noti
fied to Stop Recruiting
in Harrisburg District
Lieutenant Robert W. Lesher, com
manding: the Harrisburg Recruiting
party of the Regular Army, received
orders to stop at once the enlisting
of men for the Army. The orders
went into effect last evening at 6
o'clock and at 7.10 o'clock this even
ing the last shipment of men will be
made from the Harrisburg office.
A rush in recruiting was an
nounced to-day. The only men the
local recruiting authorities could en
list were those who had signified
their intention of enlisting before last
evening. Fifty men, it was estimated,
will be sent away this evening, fif
teen of them from Steelton alone.
■Some Are Too Late
Several young men tried to enlist
this morning. Among those who
were too late to be accepted were
Christian L. Jennings, 7 South Front
street, son of William Jennings, pres
ident of the Commonwealth Trust
Company, and John C. Kunkel, Jr.,
11 South Front street.
No information of what Is to be
done with the men in the recruiting
party was contained in the orders
to stop accepting men. There are
sixty men in the Harrisburg district,
which is composed of eighteen sub
stations. Many of the men have re
cently been sent to officers training
camps and more are to go in the
near future, but they have been re
placed by new men.
May Get Special Work
Recruiting officers this morning
were of the opinion that the great
recruiting organization, composed of
sixty-four districts in the United
States, with from ten to twenty sub
stations each, would be given spe
cial work to do, and would not be
disorganized. They point out that the
recruiting organization is Invaluable
to the nation, and that it is likely
to be maintained. Lieutenant Lesher
and Harry Schifman, top sergeant,
are both of this opinion.
Has Enviable Record
The local recruiting office has had
an enviable record since the begin
ning of the war, almost continuously
leading the entire country in. the
number of enlistments reported. Un
til July 1, the party had enlisted
771 men from the cjty and 497 men
from the county, exclusive of the
Navy, Marines and civilian officers
training camps. Since August 1, 202
men have been enlisted, and fifty
more are expected to-day. The rec
ord of 250 men during the first ten
days of the month breaks all pre
vious ones, while last month broke
all other records, more than 750
men having been enlisted.
Local officials are awaiting orders,
from Washington regarding their fu
ture activities.
MRS. CLARA E. MAHER
Mrs. Clara E. Maher. aged 65, died
last evening at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Sarah Hylan, 2435
Reel stroet. Funeral services will
be held Tuesday morning at 9
o'clock at St. Mary's Catholic
Church, the Rev. W. V. Dalley offi
ciating. Burial will be In the Mount
Calvary cemetery.
Mrs. Maher is survived by her hus
band, James Maher; a son, James
Maher, Jr., and her daughter, Mrs.
Hylan. She has a large number of
friends here.
WILLIAM WEAVER
William Weaver, aged 52 years,
died last evening. He is survived
by his wife, a son, Jghn, an adopted
daughter, Mrs. Mary Evans, three
sisters, Mrs. Mary Penrose, , Phila
delphia; Mrs, Kate Alloways, Phila
delphia; Mrs Martha Kirby, Har
risburg. He was a member of the
Mt. Vernon Hook and Ladder Com
pany and of the Veter
an Firemen's Association.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock,
at the funeral parlors of the Haw
kins Estate, 1207 North Third street.
They will be in charge of the Rev.
H. R. Bender, pastor of the Ridge
Avenue Methodist church
PR. HOLMES RESIGNS
State College, Pa., Aug. 10.—Dr.
Arthur Holmes, dean of the Penn
sylvania State College for the last
six years, has resigned to accept the
presidency of Drake University at
Deo Moines, lowa. Ha will tuke the
new position September 1. I
' XutTCST 10, 1913.
62 COTTAGERS AT
DILLSBURG CAMP
Religious Services Opened on
Thursday Evening and Will
Continue Ten Days
DUlsbiifg, Pa., Aug. 10. On
Thursday evening the Dillsburg
campmeeting formally opened with
a sermon by Evangelist Stephen A.
Zuber. A number of cottagers had
been on the ground for several
months and others arrived within
the past few days. There are sixty
five cottages on the ground and only
three remained unocupled at the
opening of the camp. The following
are the cottagers: Mrs. Elizabeth
Stonebaugh, Mrs. W. M. Steckley,
Mrs {Catherine Hollinger, J. H. Hess,
Hinder, Mrs. Mary Sollenberg
e>', Mrs. Katherine Filler. S. H.
Klugl;, Norman Hess, George. A.
Kehl, George Troup, Mrs. E. S.
1 roup, Aug. D. Arnold, Noah Arnold,
Mrs. George C. King, Mrs. Henry
Kinter, Misses Hoopert, S. W. Mc-
Croary, W. H. Baker, Hoy Shenk,
Chester McAlickeri George Bender,
Clara M. Kast, Ida Kast, William
Shelter, Mrs. Mary Bell, Mrs. J. W.
I Baker, Mrs. Hattie Eckerd, Mrs. Ida
Zorger, Prof. E. L. Bender, D. A.
Fisher, Mrs. M. Gray, W. K. Whit
comb, J. Weist Bailey, George Snave
ly, Mrs. Ed. S. Miller, Mrs. George
Barrick, the Rev. H. S. Taylor,
Charles K. Boyer, Mrs. Sarah Dorn
bach, George Kauffman, Mrs. Cora
McCurdy, S. J. MfcAlicker, John
Heagy, Mrs. Ida Stewart, Mrs. Wil
liam Trostle, B. K. Knisely, John
Comfort, Mrs. Ida Knisely, John At
ticks, Alex. McAlicker, Phil A. Zor
ger, William Lambert.
ARRESTKD, TAKES POISON
While on his way to Camp Wails
worth, Elmer E. Miller was arrested
at Harrisburg? charged with haMng
whisky in his possession. He is a
draftee and was proceeding oil a
draft train when apprehended by
military police. It is said that when
he was oommitteed to the Dauphin
county jail pending further investi
gation he took poison.
RENT-GOUGERS
MAY BE CURBED
BY PRESIDENT
Proposed Law to Give Na
tion's Executive Fuil Au
thority Is Indorsed
Washington, Aug. 10. Formal
approval of an Administration anti
rent profiteering bill giving the Pres
ident power to control rental charges
in cities where excessive charges by
authorities, who lack the power lo
deal with the evil, have appealed to
the Federal Government, and ihe
war production departments have!
found extortionate rentals are creat
ing industrial discontent and are se
riously retarding war production.
"In its resolution the Policies
Hoard petitioned Congress to extend
landlords are held to be a menace to
successful prosecution of the war
was announced yesterday by Felix
Frankfurter, chairman of the War
Labor Policies Board.
Efforts to obtain relief from rent
profiteering in the District of Co
lumbia began early in the present
session of Congress, but legislation
was halted by a sharp disagreement
between the Senate conferees and
Representative Johnson, of Ken
tucky, author of the 'House bill.
Complaints have been received from
Philadelphia and other cities, and
the Department of Labor instructed
its bureau of industrial housing and
transportation to draft a bill.
Indorsement of the bill by the La
bor Policies Board gives the meas
ure an Administration status, as tho
Board was delegated by President
Wilson to control such matters.
"The War Lajjor Policies Board
at its meeting to-day approved the
principle of the bill drawn by the
bureau of industrial housing and
transportation designed to prevent
rent profiteering," said Mr. Frank
furter.
"The housing bureau reported cer
tain landlords in munition areas are
endangering the national defense by
unreasonable and excessive rental
charges. It was reported municipal
authorities, woh lack the power to
deal with the evil, have appealed to
the Federal Government, and the
war production departments have
found extortionate rentals are creat
ing industrial discontent and are se
riously retarding war production.
"In its resolution the Policies
Board petitioned Congress to extend
to other war workers the same pro
tection against profiteering which
was accorded ship workers under the
naval emergency fund act. The bill
presented would authorize the Presi
dent, for the period of the war, to
control rental charges in certain dis
tricts and to requisition all rights
and interests in those areas where
reside industrial workers who are
engaged in arsenals, shipyards, navy
yards, other federal agencies and In
industries connected with and essen
tial to the national defense."
UNION PICNIC AT PILLOW
Pttlow, Pa., Aug. 10. —The Sunday
schools of Pillow will hold their an
nual picnic in Maple Dale Park,
August 17, afternoon and evening.
Able speakers will be present and
music will be furnished by the Pillow
cornet hand. —Misses Tasold and
Kelfer, of Hamilton, spent several
days at the home of the Rev. P. B.
Fasold.—Mr. and Mrs. John Buf
flngton and sons, spent several days
at Ashland.—Mrs. Lizzie Shaffer, of
Urban, visited her daughter, Mrs.
-Frank Boyer, recently. i
TRAINED HELPERS HAVE LEFT THESE GOOD POSITIONS
TRAINED HELPERS MUST TAKE THEIR PUCES
WAS IS
Bookkeeper Training for Aviation Corps
Stenographer , In Nurses Training School
Cashier Over There With Marines
Stenotypist With Y. M. C. A. in France
Accountant In Officers Training Camp
File Clerk Doing Red Cross Work
Secretary Yeoman in Navy
Not one bit lean urgent than the needs of Civil Service are the needs
of Business. Millions of men and women have given up good positions
in Business to heed their country's call. Millions must take their
places. Here again Is your opportunity to do a patriotic service and
join the Nation's productive, forces. Not only is It your duty. It also
Is your opportunity; for never have salaries been so high or chance*
for advancement so plentiful.
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WILL STUDY COAL
ASSESSMENTS IN
LUZERNE COUNTY
Dauphin County Commis
sioners Plan Trip toWilkes-
Barre in Few Weeks
Returning late yesterday from the
annual convention of county commis
sioners of the state which was held
in Pittsburgh tnree days of this
week. Dauphin county officials said
they had a short conference with
representatives from Luzerne 1 county
and had made arrangements to go to
Wilkes-Barre to make a study of the
coal land assessment methods used
there.
In Luzerne county a few years ago
after court appeals and much legal
argument, the county succeeded in
raising the assessment of coal lands
to almost full valuation. It was nec
essary to employ two expert mining
engineers for the work and to estab
lish sufficient evidence for the county
to win its case, but since that time
there have been no appeals. The en
gineers arc still in service there and
when the Dauphin commissioners go
to Wilkes-Barre they will spend
much time with these experts to de
termine what steps should be taken
here to secure proper values on the
extensive coal lands in the northern
end of the county.
Owing to the torrid wave which
settled over the eastern part of the
county earlier in the week the of
ficials from all pyts of the state
who gathered at tMttsburgh post
poned action on a number of import
ant questions which had been raised.
Later members of the law committee
will meet and take action as some
of these were referred to that com
mittee.
A resolution was passed at the
convention favoring the abolition of
the office of county coroner and the
Performance of their duties bv the
health registrars. This mveinent
has been agitated considerably by
the I)a up hi/i County Commissioners
ana others in various parts of the
state. A resolution favoring the sn
actment .if a law which would pro
vide for the establishment of a "e
--ceiver of county taxes in third j'ass
cities was defeated.
Mr. and Mrs. William Pfeils
Married Fifty-four Years
Union Deposit, Pa., Aug. 10.—Mr.
and Mrs. William Phfeils celebrated
their fifty-fourth wedding anniver
sary on Monday evening.—Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Clippinger. of Albany,
N. Y„ spent Sunday with the latter's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Landis
on Sunday.—Paul Yingst spent Sun
day at Ltnglestown visiting Mr. and
Mrs. John Brown.—Roy Landis and
Ray Kellar spent Sunday at Mount
Gretna.—Mr. and Mrs. William Nye,
of Sand Hill, visited Mrs. Nye's
mother, Mrs. Samuel Gipe.—Leroy
Groff spent part of the week at Pal
myra with his grandmother, Mrs.
John Batdorf.—Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Kreiser and children, of Llnglestown
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs!
Andrew Kreiser, on Sunday.—Paul
Miller, of Philadelphia, visited his
mother, Mrs, Henry Miller, on Tues
day.—Mr. and Mrs. David Gingrich
and children, of Hill,
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel
Kline 'on Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Gipe and mother, Mrs. Samuei
Gipe, spent Tuesday at Lebanon.—
Albert Herman, of Silver Springs,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C.
A. Landis.—Miss Violet Stauffer, of
Harrisburg, is spending the week with
her brother, Frank Stauffer.—Mrs.
George Greiner and daughter. Sadie
Greiner, entertained as guests on
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Martin Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter and
daughter. Esther; Mr. and Mrs.
John Knauh, Mrs. Elizabeth Baker,
Miss Esther Smith, Miss Iney Baker,
Miss Mary Lear, Earl Smith. Russell
Smith, George Baker, Frank Bru
baker and Samuel Keiffer, all of
Grantham.
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