THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA. THE SUBMARINE [OLL REDUCED Methods of Fighting U-Boat Menace Show Improvement. U.S. WAR CRAFT EFFECTIVE Playing No Small Part In Patrol Work—Teuton Predictions Of Hav- ing England On Her Knees By June 1 Empty. London.—The sinking of 18 mer- chantmen of more than 1,600 tons is ment, and three fishing vessels also were sunk. The statement is as follows “For the week ending Sunday, ar- rivals, al! nationalities, 2,664; sailings, 2,759. “British merchantmen of 1,600 tons or over sunk by mine or submarine, 18; under 1,600 tons, nine. ‘British merchantment fully attacked, nine, “British fishing vessels sunk, three.” American Units Helped. This week's figures of vessels sunk by submarines show that the Allied navies are keeping up the good work of the previous fortnight, and the American unit, although still a small one, shares the credit for excellent work. Not only are the sinkings be- unsuccess- offensive against U-boats also continue to show favorable results. The actual figures in this respect, however, are not known. The British Admiralty this week wears a pleased smile at the mention of the submarine campaign, for the re- sults of the naval work in the past two weeks are regarded as really in- dicating an important victory over the The German naval people the early months of the U-boat war freely predicted Germans throt ruthless out by June 1, painted of grim famine certain by that date for the people of Great Britain and France. Methods Constantly Improved. victory in the submarine warfare seems as far distant as ever. There has been a constant improvement in the methods of the Allies in opposing and suppressing U-boat activity, and these methods have become more and more successful with longer days and finer weather, and increasing familiar- ity on the part of the skippers of mer- control. An Admiralty official said: “The American destroyers are play- ing no small part in the anti-sub- marine war, and our officers have ex- pressed the greatest enthusiasm at the spirit, enterprise, acumen and quick- wittedness with which the American unit has taken up its work. It is the old American doctrine of keeping ever- lastingly at it. “The Germans, who at first said they .wouN@trip us of our tonnage by June 1, have now advanced the date to Oc- tober, and we are confident that when October comes they will be under the again.” BAN ON SOCIALIST PEACE. State Department Refuses Passports * For Stockholm Meeting. Washington.—Emphatie disapproval of the peace propaganda of European Socialists was expressed by the Ameri- can Government, which denied pass- ports to American delegates to the Stockholm conference and issued a warning that any American taking part in the negotiations would be legally liable to heavy punishment. formal announcement of purpose was issued, but officials explained that the Government’s course would have the two-fold effect of discrediting general- ly any peace moves by unauthorized persons and of condemning in particu- lar the present Socialist agitation, re- garded since its inceution as inspired by Germany. KING GREETS AMERICANS. First Unit Of Surgeons and Nurses At Palace In London. George and Queen Mary, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary, received and extended a welcome to the Surgeons and nurses of America’s initial detac ment from the army, which she will take its place beside the British Allies. at the fighting front in France. It was a simple but impressive cere- mony, which will stand as a landn in American history as the first of its London.—King Buckingham Palace. TO BE PERSHING’'S ADJUTANT. Major Hugh A. Bayne, Of New York, Chosen By War Department. Washington.—Major Hugh A. B a prominent New York lawyer, w adjutant-general with Major-General Pershing’s division when it starts for the battle front in France. Major Bayne is a member of the Judge-Advo- cate’s Officers’ Reserve Corps. TO ENLARGE COMMERCE BOARD. Pending In House. Washington.—The bill to increase the membership of the Igterstate Com- merce Commission from seven to nine members and allowing them to divide into sections for expediting business was passed im the Senate with an amendgent by Senator Smith, of ae (hat the whole cong- pearing and s before reported in the weekly shipping state- | Nine vessels of less than 1,600 tons | ing-kept af a fairly low figure, but the | that England would be “on her knees” | and gloomy pictures were | June 1 is almost here, and German | chantmen with the methods of naval same necessity of advancing the date | No | 1 it had burned halfway through the ex- i elusive Ponce de kind to take place within the walls of Senate Passes Bill — Like Measure | 3, 1916. THE BRITISH CUT HINDENBURG LINE German Defenses Wiped Out By Artillery Fire. AMERICANS HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR Notice Served on Germany to Release Them. ANOTHER TREATY VIOLATED ‘GERMANS FIRE FEEBLE Prisoners Declare They're Sick Of War—Nearly Whole Line From Bullecourt To Arras. Is Taken. Relief Workers In Germany Who Re- mained To Finish Up Their Work Reported Among Those Detained. Washington.—Americans are being | detained as prisoners of war by Ger- | British Headquarters in France.— So completely did the British artillery | many, in Belgium and in Germany, it | do its work before the attack between was announced by the State Depart- | Croisilles and Bullecourt that 3,000 | ment, yards of the Hindenburg line are | As aresult a demand has been made | totally missing. This segment of the | upon Germany for a complete and German defenses was completely definite statement of her attitude con- | cerning the departure of American citizens. This demand has been made | | through the Spanish Ambassador at | Berlin, who represents American in- terests in Germany. The action of the German govern- ment is in complete violation of the Prussian-American treaties of 1799 and 1828, which provide certain rights for nationals of either nation in the other in time of war. One of these rights is permission to depart at will for nine months after the war declara- tion. The United States has observed | its obligations, having acted promptly [on all applications of Germans to leave the United States. Relief Workers Held. Among the Americans detained are said to be relief workers in Belgium, who stayed behind to gather up the loose ends of the work at the time Brand Whitlock and the majority of the Belgian Relief Commission were withdrawn. | At the outbreak of the war there | were some 3,000 Americans in Ger- | many, including several consular offi- | cers. These later reached Switzer- | land with the exception of one, who was ill. About 500 Americans left Ger- many. Of the remaining 2,500 a num- | ber were of German birth, naturalized “ y |in the United States. State Depart- | red of war. They had been in the ment officials expressed the belief that line 21 days and constantly under the |the majority of these hyphenated | British shellfire. All of them ‘said Americans had probably renewed their | (1€¥ had never seen anything like | German allegiance. | the artillery fire. The other bona fide Americans, how- Little Left Of Portions. a #4 Bs Although they were concreted, all S | that remains of the captured portions of the Hindenburg line are cement to do so. It was strongly intimated at | the State Department that if Germany : and concrete machine gun emplace- ments. An underground corridor | does not immediately reverse her posi- | tion and allow any Americans who rr 5 parallels the support trench 35 feet | below the surface. wish to depart, immediate reprisals will be ado y the United S 8. s : 5 { be adopted by the United States Several isolated posts are still standing between the scene of the | latest smash and the Queant-Drocourt | line. These include the villages of Reincourt and Hendecourt and other strong points, in which the Germans | are capable of putting up strong re- sistance, wiped out. Trenches Gone. Airplane photographs taken May 1 show beautifully symmetrical zigzags, but the latest pictures taken contain no trace of the trenches. The support line also was badly “strafed,” some 6,000 yards of it now being in British hands, leaving the Germans holding the remaining 2,000 yards. The Hin- denburg front line between the south end of the captured trenches and Bullecourt is in dire danger, as it is flanked on both sides by the British. Germans’ Fire Feeble. The engagement was really made up of two attacks—one in the early morn- ing, when 70 prisoners were taken, and the second late in the afternoon—the two netting some 150 prisoners for the day’s work in this sector. The German artillery’s response was very feeble and the counter-barrage during the attack was particularly weak. The prisoners taken came mostly from the Forty-ninth Reserve Division, which was recruited in the region of Posen and Breslau. It came to the west front from Roumania in Febru- ary. Three officers are among the | prisoners. The men showed by word | and action that they were thoroughly Treaties Violated. The State Department has made no | concealment of its belief that Germany has violated the Prussian-American | treaties. The first violation of the | treaties by Germany was the destruc- | tion of the American sailing ship Wil- | liam P. Frye by the commerce raider | Prinz Eitel Friedrich, now the United | States steamship Von Steuben, in the | | | { Gains Consolidated. London. — The British troops are opinion of State Department authori- | now holding the entire Hindenburg | ties. | line from the east of Bullecourt to May Annul Treaties. | Arras, with the exception of trench | elements on a front of about 2,000 vards west of Bullecourt, according to the official communication. The recent gains northwest of Bullecourt have been consolidated. The probabilities are that early con- gressional action toward wiping out | | the treaties will be asked. This will leave the nationals of both countries on an even plane and the United States will be in a position to legislate con- | | cerning the treatment of alien | enemies, instead of being bound by treaty obligations. Besides the American civilians who are being detained in Germany, latest reports indicate Germany holding about 130 other Americans in her pris- i oners’ camps. They are for the most part sailors captured on British or other ships by German raiders or sub- marines. TO POOL ALL WAR BUYING. U. S. and Allies Planning To Avoid Competition. Washington. — A progr under which the American Government virtu- | ally would pool its purchasing, for the of attaining maximum efficiency with that of all the allies, construct a buying machine into which hundreds of experts in many lines would fit as is ‘am sake BIG FIRE SWEEPS ATLANTA. : cog wheels and place one man in | . : . | charge of the whole gigantic enter- Confined To Northeast, Outside Busi- prise, is under consideration and fast ness District Of City. assuming definite outline. This man would be the world’s super-buyer. Into his hands the nations at war with Ger- Atlanta, Ga.—Fire that started in an obscure negro section swept a broad path through the residential section | many would place approximately $10, of Atlanta, devastating scores of [000,000,000 a year, a store of money blocks and destroying many of the | exceeding the fabled fortunes of the city’s finest homes and hundreds of | ancient Incas and with no parallel in | negro houses. Before it was checked | modern history, ELIND SOLDIERS MOURN CHOATE. Leon avenue resi- | dence section. | | First estimates of the damage placed it at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. be learned, the only | Hold Memorial Service At Institution So far as could Founded Under Him. J] which was called MARRIAGE BILL CALLED VICIOUS Governor, With Veto Ax, Goes After Senator K.ine for Le- gal-Moral Travesty BACK TO 1896 TO VALIDATE Approval of Bill to Spend $282,000 on Guard Uniforms, Etc, Timely— Equipment of Men for the Reserve Militia. —Harrisbhurg The Kline Senate bill, validating marriages contracted on or before January 1, 1896, which were followed by continuous living together for 21 years, was vetoed by Governor Brum- baugh in a long message, in which he styles it “vicious special legisla- tion, without one redeeming feature.” The Governor says it is not sound in either law or morals, and that it is contrary to justice and social secur- ity, as well as unconstitutional. The Governor also vetoed: The Dawson House bill, providing for the State Highway Department to take over abandoned right of way of ra'lroads and railways. or end the bill would open the way to pay damages to others than railroads. The Daix Senate bill, providing for uniformity in Courts in issuing writs, “indefinite.” The Kline Senate bill, salaries of special county detectives in Allegheny county, on the ground that it is a matter for the County Cemmissioners to handle. The sum of $282,800 was made available for the purchase of uniforms and other equipment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, when the Whitaker House bill was approved by the Governor. The bill will provide for the equipment of men to raise guard units to war strength and* for reserve militia, increasing The Governor also approved the Crow Senate bills, reducing the per- fod of which rominating petitions may be filed from 60 to 40 days, and giving 20 days additional to the per- 10d for certification of nominations. Senate bills approved included: Amending laws relative to filing of reports of estates of habitual drunk- prds. Prohibiting incorporations of organ- which would izations with names tend to confuse them with State Boards or Commissions. Classifying inspectors of the De- partment of Labor and Industry ac- cording to expericnce and length of service, 256 in Class A to be paid $2,000; 50 in Class 8 to be paid $1,800, and 25 in Class C to be paid $1,500. House bills approved were: Providing fees of $1, and three cents per mile mileage, for persons attending the Coroners’ inquests in re- sponse to subpoenas. Providing for payment by State hospitals of traveling expenses of in- mates discharged by order of State authorities. Authorizinz Committee on Lunacy of State Board of Charities to trans- fer inmates of State hospitals. Making fraudulent conversion of property or its proceeds a misde- meanor. Suggests Substitutes for Wheat. State-wide observance of “Fa and Garden Day,” was asked by Sec- rm { the | toes, retary of Agriculture Charles E. Pat- ton, who says that agriculture must win the war, and that every man, wo- man and child should help to over- come the threatening food shortage. Secretary Patton says: “The Penn- sylvania wheat crop this year shows every indication of being far below average. Statistics show that a crop of about 21,500,000 bushels is the prospect. This iv over 4,000,000 bushels less than the crop of last year and Pennsylvania's annual consump- tion of wheat is about 40,000,000 bushels. As prospects in other States are no better, it behooves us, as a duty to our nation, to put forth every effort to raise such other crops as will help to furnish the nourish- ing elements formerly supplied by wheat. toma- “Potatoes, beans, corn, peas, turnips and other vegetables, well as fruits, that can be dried, can- ned or preserved should receive most fe lost was that of a womar who | 3 Q : : : 3 ite: Jost ss ool % jan, Sod Paris.—Soldiers blinded in the war lied from shock. The fire was con- |! : we held memorial services for the late | fined to the northeastern part of the : > city and the only business houses |J05¢Ph H. Choate, of New York, at the | bt »d were several warehouses near | Lighthouse for the Blind which was | Decatur and Fort streets, the point of | founded by New York men and women | under the leadership of Mr. Choate. A resclution of sympathy was adopted and forwarded to Mrs. Choate. | | . : : HARVARD MAN GETS MENTION. Will Train With Nine Other Yale Juniors For Artillery. : a : , Ch Carried Wounded From Firing Zone | New Haven, Conn.—Charles P. Taft : : i 2d, son of former President Taft and Under viSlent Steling, | a junior in Yale College, was enlisted Paris.—John Edward Boit, of Har- | for the artillery branch of the regular | vard, whose residence is at Brookline, arm with nine other under-graduates, | Mass.,, a member of the American | All the enlistments were of students | Ambulance Field Service, was cited for who were under age for the reserve | distinguished services performed in j officers’ training corps of the uni- | September last. Both carried wound- versity, and all had consent of their | od men from the firing zone under vio- | parents | lent shelling. | WON'T CHANGE WAR PLANS. “CHAIR” TO CHEAT DRAFT. Appeals From States To Raise Units Is Ignored. ington.—Answering pleas from that their military | Condemned Man Only Pennsylvanian Not To Be Enrolled. Pa.—There is Wa Harrisburg, probably many States heads be given pe sion to organize more | but one man in the entire State of of certain National Guard units than | Pennsylvania between 21 and 30 rs ! preseribed, the War Department an- | of age who will not be registered for | nounced this cannot be done. Organ- | conscription. He is a condemned n ization must follow literally prescribed | in the penitentiary at Bellefonte n- ! lines. Many States wanted to organ- | tenced to be electrocuted on JN ‘ ize more cavalry units than were ai- | The governor, in reply to a questices lotted to them under the act of June | said he could not De registere ut 3 that (he wished he could. } 2XY | Pennsylvanian | post | trenches or | with Fair {10,000 attention. Agriculture must win the war,and we can prove by our indus- in our gardens this year that a never sleeps at his of duty, whether serving in the in the furrows.” Abiny 8 Seeks Big Fair c: iund. The War Department is negotiating the managers of the Allentown Society for the use of the lat- ter’'s grounds as a training camp for college student recruits and 3,500 mmbers of the ambulance corps. Because of the fact that the fair has overhead expenses aggregating $10,- 000 a year, it has asked rental to that amount for the use of the grounds, but whether the Government will agree to pay that sum is as yet un- decided. It may be necessary to abandon the annual fair this year. House Has 499 Bills. A total of 499 bills were on the cal- endar for the House of Representa- tives when it reconvened this week. ; 1 | It is the largest calendar of the ses- | and 253 of the measures are in | guceial list of appropriation bills for | | er charities which right of way. They ut but because they could not be consid- reading when ge ined for the week. A tel effort will he slation. itals and oth The Govern- | says the present law is adequate, | I PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS UHHH EH TH HHH ICH THTTTT | i | | Before A. L. Sahm was elected | Mayor of Carbondale he was a leader in the movement to establish smail | | | | g 1 parks about the city. As Mayor he was even more successful in that di- rection, The Senate passed finally the bill providing for a county home in each county except Allegheny and Phila- | delphia for indigent orphans and for delinquent, incorrigible, indigent, de- | pendent and neglected children under | sixteen, | James Collins, 66, for years State | Health Officsr in Hazle township and | former School Director of that dis- trict, dropped dead from heart trouble at Hazelton, while repair the fam- ily burial plot in St. Gabriel Cemetery. Blair County Court excused farm- g ers from jury duty. Recruitments of units of the Na- | tional Guard to war strength will be ushed rapidly. The Cumberland County Defence | Cemmittee will form a food exchange to aid farmers in disposing of crops. The First Methodist Church, Ber- | wick, gave $2,600. paying off the last | cent of indebedness cn an $85,000 | church. The 7,000 mine stripping men of the Hazleton district have agreed to ac- ept the same wage increase recently | | cranted the other miners. | In additicn to the scarcity of rail read cars coal diggdérs complain that | some companies can not supply them | with enough smaller cars for getting | the loose fuel from the slopes to the | gr breakers. Western farming methods, includ ing tractor plowing, are proving a success on the 1,200-acre Kolb farm at Gwynedd. Blood poisoning, which developed from a carbuncle, caused the death of Professor W. H. Patrick, principal of the Patrick Business School, of York, | aged 60. | Mifflin Farm Bureau has been grant- ed an appropriation of $1,000 by the County Commissioners. Resigning twice because his pay was not raised, Plumbing Inspector L. W. Ray, Altoona, is back, still hopeful of “AUTO ISTS Investigate Tiretife IT PRESERVES RUBBER. LT SEALS PUNCTURNS. It helps to prevent blow-outs by keeping tired inflated to proper amount. Sixty to eighty per cent. of tire trouble comes from under inflation. Tiretile Mfg. Co. received $30,000.00 for the sale right of marketing Tiretite. / Tiretite needs no billboard stuff, users are most permanent and best advertisers. It's no substitute for &ir or cheap, sticky, pasty stuff, but ‘what autoists have been looking for. x f Get away from those contémptible, nasty punctures, slow leaks, ete. Insure your tires with Tiretite, enjoy the sport the only and right way, get from 1-8 to double thé mileage out of your tires. Just installed s fodern Carbon Burning and Oxy-Acetylene Welding Outfit. Ba Garage & Repair Shop H. A. BARR, Mount Joy, Penna. 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Wayne churches have forwarded to | the President a joint resolution urging war prohibition. St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church at Wayne has been presented with a silk American flag by William Verner. The Mennonite Brethren have clos- ed their conference at Belleville, 50 vieiting ministers, including returned missionaries and representatives of all churches east of the Mississippi River | +4000 Don’t Work That Horse With Sore Shoulders We have the kind of a collar that will fit him and we guarantez every collar we fit, that it will not pinch, gall or make sore shoulders. Just try us and se€ if we can't heal your horse. Money refunded” if not satisfactory. Frank B. Groff Harness and Horse Clothing Mount Joy, Pa. FE00I000000 000000000000 0.00004 having attended. Jacob A. Kettenring, a commission- er of Lower Merion township, has astounded his customers and acquaint: ances by changing his Ardmore store from a retail to a co-operative basis. One thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Pittsfield, Warren county, have been leased by Warren operators, and a number of wildcat, deep-test wells will be drilled. Twenty or more High School boys at St. Mary's learned something about forestry by assisting in planting trees 'n the Silver Creek water shed near Paul street. The St. Mary's Water ompany received 5,000 evergreen trees from the State Forestry Depart ment for this purpose. Pittsburgh's daily reached $1,500,000. Luzerne county's to be increased by payroll has potato crop bids ‘air 100,000 bush- An seller near Hazel- underweight » GOOD FURNITURE Is the only kind I sell—Furniture that is Furnitdre \\, Rockers, Mirrors, Hal Racks, Plcture Frames, Ladles’ Desks, Extensioh and Other Tables, Davenpérts, China Closets, Kitchen Cabinets. In Fact Anything In the Furniture Line. Undertaking and Embalming { hard coal field was taken unofficially ton was forced to refund $100 on $259 c BRUNNER, » MT JOY for hay. The use of fireworks in York, as E - " . : well as the sale of pyrotechnics, is prohibited by an ordinance passed by rm Council. The Pennsylvania Railroad has FF. =i. BAKER called for volunteers in all its Altoona shops te serve in the first railroad T H E LUMBER & GOAL regiment to be sent abroad. A Coroner's jury at Shenandoah s Both Phones ‘ound that Patrick Donahue was the savings MOUNT-JOY PENNA. slayer of Dr. Harry F. Kilty and his 0 t 0 ay Lo ’ patient, Mrs. May Donahue. f -d Sole Agent for Congo Roofing. Federal Attorney Rogers L. Burnett, . ; of Seranten, has handed a check for provide the _ No 1 Cedar Shingles always on hand $16,500 to Henry Krentzman, the pur . = il Also 8liding, Flooring, Sash, Doors ‘hase price of the St. Charles Hotel, 1 of Si iy APR ee uxuries.- Blinds; Motitings, ‘Lats, ats, lic, a Federal Building will be erected. tomorrow.” Begin Agent for Lehigh Portland Cement Forest fires burned off 1000 acres va S &H Roofing, Slate and Sheet Iron. of timber near Altoona. saying . ad y 5 ’ Estimates quickly and cheerfully The Lackawanna Company has Stamps now. notified employes at Scranton that it | 4 made on Bullding Material and al has raised the salaries of 10,000 | kinds of Concreting work. clerks. f c The Titusville Country Club will re- build this summer the $30,000 club- house which was destroyed by fire re- cently. Principal A. D. Thomas, of the | Hazleton High School, besides urging | his students to work on farms, has | encouraged some of them to help in | the mining of coal. Accordingly a | number of the students are now wear- ing mining lamps and are working beside the miners. Dr. Louis W. Rapeer, professor of education at State College, has been appointed dean of the University of Porto Rico. The Third Regiment supply com- pany hiked from Altoona to Hunting- don. Retired employes of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad on the Altoona divi- sion have been recalled to active sery- ice, help is so scarce. A full war census of miners of the the medium of the pay win different collieries. of soldiers on guard at Lewistown hiked into the Narrows and removed two small Austrian flags flos g from the top of Huckleberry throug! dows of the A detail | will contthue the furniture busi ness on_the second floor of the Eag Bulldfng, with a complete and up-te- date line of all kinds of furniture. Prices are very reasonable. When In 2 need of furniture call and see me. Repairing and Painting a Specialty. Special Attention Given to Remodling Antique Furniture D. 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