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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
MAXWELL RAISE
LESS THAN SHOWN
Decrease Last Year Offsets
Most of Advance Found Nee
essary This Year

Running up and down the scale of
increases in motor car prices during
the last year, the advance of $50 an
nounced as applying to two of the
Maxwell models after May 1 stands out
as amounting to only $40 as far as the
buyer is concerned.
How $40 advance is in reality but
SlO-bill is explained by the company
pointing out that, while the lift of $40
is distinguished in itself as the narrow
est price advance the industry so far
mas announced, it is but one-third of
that amount when the Maxwell buyer
TINS year realizes that the price after
May VIII be but $40 more than the
Maxwelfs cost was this time last year.
Buyers will recall that Maxwell in
the race of price increases that were
general throughout the industry, last
year lowered its retail figure by $50.
rms was one of the surprises of last
season. Considering the increase this
spring in relation to the decrease last
year, the Maxwell purchaser finds the
company is going ahead with it's pro-
duction of hundred thousand cars
annually on basis of manufacturing
eihciency so marked that the price
change sums up to an advance of only
two SIS bills.
Moreover, the company points out,
been in operation with the making of
the present standardized car for four
years, so that for the $40 the buyer
Is given the advantage of car refine
ments and improvements that have
been worked out of the experiences of
100000 owners. The company also
has two road engineers-a new kind
OF tester employed only by Maxwell
who are each week subjecting the cars
to the hardest performance demon
strations available on the roads in diff
ferent parts of the country. These
ROAD engineers are Ray +. Mcnamara
and p. w. Gibbs.
Another factor that has influence in
enabling the company to keep the
Maxwell price down, it is asserted, is
that the company plans this year the
production of the worlds greatest out
put of trucks. This will amount to
upward of 10000 vehicles. it has been
announced, and their making means
further economy and manufacturing
et1ciency throughout the producing
plants. The Maxwell company, having
offset with efficiency it's rising ma
terials costs so far with success, holds
itself as in as advantageous a position
as any in the industry to further pro-
duce complete automobile at the
lowest possible price margin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
u. S. MUNITIONS
PLANTS READY
CONTINUED From First Pagel

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of from 100000 to 100000 shells a
month. There were six separate pro-
posals covering the entire order for
5000 fourteen inch shells. The bids
show also a capacity to produce 10000
siX-inch shells, $500 fourteen-inch
and about the same number of twelve
inch shells month after the machin-
cry is set in motion.
The Bridgeport Projectile Company
bid on all classes of shells up to six
inch, and showed a monthly output OF
1900 of the larger type and 100000
one-pounder shells within a short
lime.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
could begin delivery of fourteen-inch
Shells within one hundred days and
turn out five hundred a month there
after.
The Bethlehem Steel Company could
deliver $50 big shells a month begin
ming within a year. and within ten
days could deliver five-inch, four-inch
and three-inch shells at a rate of
10000 a month. The Washington
Steel and Ordnance Company is pre-
pared to deliver 100 fourteen-inch
and 100 twelve-inch shells within six
weeks, and turn out one-pounder pro-
jectiles at a rate of from 5000 to 5000
Il day thereafter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Turks Suffer Crushing
Defeat and Heavy
Losses in MesOpotami0

British Headquarters in France.
April IA, via London-(From a Staff
Correspondent of the Associated
Press) The British last night broke
the German front for a distance of
four miles. The Germans are in re-
treat.
The gaps in the German defense
were made in two places. Positions on
front of three miles between the
Double Crassier and Givenchy and an
other mile on the north flank of the
Htndenburg trench system were cap
tured. Advance posts were pushed
well toward Queant and Pronville.
Pronville, important points in the
German defenses
The Germans are fighting as they
retire from Loos southwark and are
being hard pressed.
Fires and explosions in the territory
to the rear of the German lines con-
tinue. The weather to-day was favor
able for campaigning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Eighth Regiment
Companies Can Enlist
Few More Recruits

NOLLOWING the receipt OF Or
ders from the War Depart
= ment TO recruit companies of
the National Guard to 100 men,
local company commanders arc
busy trying to secure men at once,
and several are up to the ninety
mark. ......
Last night at the regular drill OF
Co. !, ten men applied for enlist
ment and four were accepted, This
company Is still in need of eleven
men and young men of good char
acter desiring to render their coun-
try u service should apply at once,
for by so doing they Will not only
be I'm with men from their own city,
but will be among the first called.
I'm all probability.
The advantages TO be gained by
going out with command COM
posed of two-thirds well drilled
men can hardly be estimated. BY
drilling with experienced men the
recruit is able TO pick up the drill
more rapidly. and shortcns his per-
lOd of training I'm the squad by half.
By waiting, men may be assigned
to strange outfits from distant
points I'm which they know no one,
whereas by enlisting In one of the
local companies they will be with
their friends.
Don't wait.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
C. |. AND S. MEN
RAISE Big FLAG
City Officials and Executives of
Plant Participate in
Demonstration

With hundreds of the Central Iron
and Steel Company employees standing
with barred heads. every whistle about
the plant shrieking its utmost, a big
American flag swung to the breeze late
this afternoon at the plant A commit
tee, consisting of Clarence Butts, Will
liam Griffin, George Mumma, Martin
Shannon and John Nitchman raised the
funds for the purchase of the flag from
among the employees.
Park Commissioner L. u. Gross made
the invocation and later addressed the
men on the origin and the history of
the flag that they had gathered to
honor.
The crowd that gathered about the
stan could not have been more cosmo-
politan. A delegation of prominent
businessmen from the city were pres
ent as We're also the officials of the
plant. including Robert H. Irons, super
intendent of the plant. Colored persons,
proud of the flag that stood for their
liberty, were everywhere mixed in the
crowd, Foreigners who could not
speak word of English first, stood as
reverently and then shouted. as loudly
the rest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
SEVEN BILLION DOLLAR
BILL WILL PASS
[Continued From First Pagel

rage
night Voting on the bill itself was
to begin early this afternoon.
An amendment was added to limit
to specifically distribution of the pro-
posed $4,000. 100000 foreign loan.
which the bill would authorize. to
countries actually at war with Ger
was approved by Secretary McAdoo
and agreed to by the trainers of the
bill after several members had in
sisted that without the limitations the
Secretary of the Treasury might
make loans to European neutrals
after the war ends.
A feature of the debate was the
absence of any partisan spirit.
France Helped U. S.
France, 140 years ago, when our
credit was gone," declared Repre-
sentative Rainey, amid applause
loaned us millions and millions with
out discussion or debate. The thing
to do is to pass this bill and pass 1t
quickly and say to the world that we
propose to help our friends and do
it quickly"
Representative Fitzgerald aroused
great enthusiasm by declaring he IA
Yored making the loan at once, not
because of desire to help another
nation but to help maintain the
TlBHlS OI the united.
Whatever we may owe to France
is not enough to justify our entering
this war" he said. I'VE have been
dragged into this war by another ma
tion's violation of our rights. / have
no sympathy with the statement that
we may or may not get our money
back, We may or we may not, but
that is of no difference"
Should Not Hold Back
Money being the only aid that this
country can now give the allies, Rep
resentative Mann declared, it should
not be denied them.
I'VE are not prepared" he said, ito
place men in the field. We are not
prepared to do much with our navy
not because we have no navy, but be-
cause of lack of an opportunity to
use 1t. But there is one way we can
engage in the war. That is to help
finance those who are fighting our
enemies.
This proposed appropriation is for
SO, 600, 100000. 1 doubt not that be-
fore year that amount will be dou-
bled. Let us hope that we can end
the war by extending our credit. Our
highest duty is to give aid to those
who are fighting our enemies"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
British Take Bulldog
Grip on Whole German
Line North of LoOS

London, April 1.-THE British have
taken bulldog grip on the whole Ger
man line from Loos to north of ST
quentin and refuse to be shaken off
Under what the newspapers call the
"Haig plan" first one section of the
Hindenburg line and then another has
been subjected to violent lombard
ment followed by infantry attacks
which have badly shaken, if they have
not seriously broken, the front on
which the Germans have depended for
the defense of the industrial districts
of France which have been in their
hands for more than two years.
The Lens coal mining area, around
the town, is being closely invested and
the German hold on it is becoming
most precarious. Several more viii
lagos and positions southwest of the
town fell into British hands during
the night, together with four S-inch
howitzers, and the line here has been
linked up with the positions taken
from the Germans in the battle of
LooS.
st. Quentin Threatened
The German stay in st. Quentin is
likewise additionally threatened
through the capture by the British of
the village of Fayet, a bare mile north
west of the town, from which point the
British guns command the German
lines of communication northward
Again the British have advanced fur
ther toward the Cambrai-St. Quentin
road, while southeast of Arras they are
approaching Queant which is the
northern extremity of the new Ger
man line defending Cambria.
General Horne, who is considered
the greatest artillery expert in the
british army and who assisted General
Nivelle in the successful attack by the
French north of Verdun in December
last. commands the British forces
around Lens where, owing to the nat
ural defenses composed of waste
dumps around the mines, the artillery
must largely be depended upon. Gen
eral Horne has on his right the army
under Major r. ii. II. Allenby,
who has also gained new laurels in
this war.
These generals and their colleagues
under Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
have accomplished since Monday a
work which many military writer's eX-
pected would occunv a great part of
the summer hut thus far has been
no flag waving nor celebration in
Great Britain.
The imnression prevails that greater
events will soon follow and that with
the fall of Lens the relief of Lille will
not be long delayed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
45O Wounded on Board
Hospital Ship Sunk By
a German Submarine

London, April 14.-There were $50
wounded on board the torpedoed hos
pital ship Gloucester Castle, including
a few German prisoners. All of these
were saved by a number of vessels
which fastened to the aid of the
sinking hospital ship. None of the
hospital staff were injured, but an
engineer and fireman were killed by
the explosion of the torpedo and sew
eral members of the engineroom
staff were wounded.
Moonlight and a smooth sea great
ly helped in the work of rescue which
was carried on with remarkable
speed. The worst cases among the
wounded were hoisted in cots. either
over side or through the side ports,
to the decks of the rescuing ships.
The latter started at full speed for
harbor as soon as they were loaded
and all the wounded were safely re-
moved to hospitals ashore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14

buildings and freight tower will be
put in service as soon as completed.
This is the first building to be COM
pleted, which will be a part of the big
freight station improvement the to-
tai cost of which will reach nearly
$1,500,000. The big changes cover
fourteen blocks and will include ad-
ditional trackage between Second
street and the main line of the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
Thoroughly Fireproof
The new building to be opened
Monday morning, located at Second
and Mulberry streets, is of reinforced
concrete and brick. 1t is 470 feet in
length, so feet in width, including a
12-foot platform. 1t is thoroughly
fireproof, with 22 revolving doors,
platform are concrete. Steel roll
doors with long sections of hose and
fire doors in the center of the build
ing makes it one of the best equipped
buildings for fire protection in Cen
trail Pennsylvania.
At the north end. of the building
rest room, locker and toilet rooms
have been provided for the thirty-five
employees who will work there. The
rest room will be furnished with all
home comforts, large chairs, reading
tables, etc. Each employe will have
a steel locker. The toilet room is
furnished in marble and includes ten
wash stands in white enamel. All
rooms will be we'll lighted.
Up to Date Devices
Upon the interior of the freight
station are a series of offices for
shipping and weighing clerks. Four
large scales have been provided for
weighing freight. At the south end
of the building is a special room for
the storage of supplies needed for
taking care of automobile and other
shipments, tools, and devices for
handling all kinds of freight. Run
ners will be erected at the top of the
freight room for carrying freight
through the building. Later on a
tower will be completed to carry
freight from the outbound station on
to other stations. Every department
will be connected by telephone.
On the west side of the new build
ing next to the platform, two tracks
are being laid. Each will hold four
teen cars. These tracks will connect
with the freight yards and sidings
and facilities will enable the prompt
movement of all cars when loaded.
officials who will take part in the
opening of the new station on Mon
day include John II. Nixon, local
freight agent; James B. Kautz. Jr.,
chief clerk; Charles H. Titzel. fore
man, and John NJ. Reighter, clerk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Plans to Stimulate the
Production of Food in
u. S. Are Being Perfected
By dtsocinted PrcSs

Washington, April 14.-Activities
of the Government in furtherance of
its campaign to stimulate food pro-
duction in the United States during
the war continued unabated to-day
Chief among these activities were:
Secretary Houston, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, conferred with
Congressional leaders regarding pro-
posed legislation authorizing the
Government to regulate and fix food
prices, II necessary, and to license
large distributing agencies.
President Wilson had under con-
sideration n suggestion, approved by
Secretary Houston, that he issue q
proclamation calling the public's at
tention to the need for increased pro-
duction and economy in the use of
foodstuffs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
BE Kind to Animals" Week
Will Be Observed Here

The Harrisburg S. p. C. A. will CO.
operate in the nationwide movement
for BE Kind to Animals Week."
which will be observed next week. The
last day will be known as Humane
Sunday.
The local society has asked the
school children to help observe the
week and they have also asked the
ministers to mention the Humane Sum
day from their church pulpits. Thurs
day will be known as the American
Red Star Day. The Red Star is a
wly-formed organization for the re-
lief of animals
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Church Realizes Large
Sum From Benefit Concert

over 900 people attended the bene-
fit concert given the other evening in
the Board of Trade Hall by the MEM
hers of the st. Augustine's colored
Episcopal Church. This is an annual
affair of the congregation and proved
an unusual success this year.
The net proceeds up to date amount
to- $3.50. This amount was made pos
sible by the efficient work of the mem
bers in selling so many tickets. The
amount realized from the concert will
be used to pay the diocesan assess
ments. 1t is hoped, however, that a
sufficient sum will remain to purchase
pews for the church.
The committee in charge of the con-
cert included: Archdeacon and Mrs.
f. L. Henderson, Van Buren, Harrison,
George Winters, Mrs. Robert Wash
ington, BENJAMIN II. Baker, Miss Ar
della Fisher and Chester Vedricks
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
WON'T INTERN AMERICANS

Berlin, April 13.-There will be no
internment of Americans in Germany.
After conference between the politi-
cal and military authorities it was an
nounced that the German government
would treat Americans here on virtu-
ally the same lines as laid down in
President Wilson'S proclamation con-
cerning the treatment of Germans in
the United States. The Americans here
will have almost every freedom, except
they are not allowed to reside in forti-
fed places and are subject to stricter
police registration requirements. They
may carry on their businesses as be-
fore
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
CALLS PROMINENT HOTEE,
PLACE OF DISSIPATION

Pittsburgh. April 14.-Declaring that
the Hotel Schenley is "a rendezvous for
dissipation. and IL the dances were
kept up at that hotel the bar would
have to be closed" Judges Carpenter
and Reid. who are hearing the liquor
license applications. severely criticised
Harry M. Willis. agent and trustee for
the schenley Hotel and Restaurant
Company. yesterday.
Judge Carpenter declared that he had
seriously considered refusing all liquor
license applications in the Oakland dis
trict because of practice followed by
the Hotel Schenley and other hotels in
serving boys and girl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
CITY BUILDING
WORK INCREASES
Fifteen Per Cent. More in
Month Than Last Year; %, ,4O6
Permits in III Cities

Building operations in Harrisburg in
creased Is per cent. during March,
1917, in comparison with the same
month last year. according to figures
compiled by American Contractor.
Permits issued in Ill principal cities
of the United States during March total
$79,2S4,262, as compared with $S3,624,-
502 for March. 1916.
The total number of permits issued
this year during March was 23,4O6.
Sixty three cities show increases rang
ing from 2 to 932 per cent; forty-six
showing decreases from to Sc per
cent.
in Harrisburg forty-eight permits
were issued in March this year for a
total of s1S3,210; March, 1915, thirty
hVe permits, total, $15S,S1S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
PIG IRON HIGH
Br Attoeiatfd Press

Pittsburgh, April 14.-Pig iron prices
in the Pittsburgh district were to-day
announced as the highest in more than
forty years. basic being firmly estab-
lished at $40 a ton as a minimum,
which compares with $3.50 two years
ago. In some quarters this is really
held to be the highest since the days
of charcoal iron in 1897.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
AMERICAN CREW
SHELLED OUT OF
VESSELBY U-BOAT
Forced to Abandon Schooner in
Mediterranean Off Coast
of Spain
By associated Press

Washington, April IA. - The Ana
erican schooner Edwin r. Hunt, OF
New York, was abandoned by her
crew, under shell fire from a submar-
inc, near Cape Gata, Spain, in the
Mediterranean, April z, according Ia
a dispatch to the State Department
from Consul Gassett at Malaga
Consul Gassett's message said:
American schooner Edwin r. Hunt
of New York, Nicholas Miller, master
with crew of eight, bound from Crette
to New York, in ballast, shelled by
submarine at a. m. April forty
miles off Cape Gata. Ship abandoned
by crew under fire, fate unknown.
Crew all saved, brought to Almeria
by Danish ship Konso."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
UNITED TRAVELLERS, BANoITE,r

Members of the United Commercial
Travellers held their annual banquet
for ladies last night at the Colonial
Club. More than sixty guests were
present at the entertainment. County
Recorder James E. Lentz was toast
master and addresses were made by
Senator E. E. Beidleman and Flavel
Wright. Music was furnished by Up
deproVe's orchestra. The committee
of arrangements included S. c. S.
Weidenmyer Jr, l.. d. Wiltse, B. f.
Reynolds and T. p. Carey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
THE READING

HARRISBURG DiNisioh - opening lor
conductors, 81. 20.
Engineers for So, 60, "a. 7, 8, IA.
Firemen for Sc, 60, 62, "a, II, l.,
Z, s, II, 12, IA, Is.
Brakemen for 60, 62, Ga, 81, 7, s, 10,
13, IS.
Westbound-The 22 crew first to
go after 6.45 a. m, s, 7, IS, 10, 23, 12,
8, l, II, IA.
Eastbound-The 81 crew first to go
after 6.45 a. m, 81, So, II, "a, 60, 70,
So, 63, 60.
Conductors up: Hamm, Bashore.
Engineers up: Freed, Barnhart,
Wyre, Morne, Bowman, Landig, Bord-
ner, Minnich, Hoffman, Billig, Beech
er.
berger, Hurborrow, Biting, Cunning
berger, Hurborow, Biting, Ginning
ham. PETER.
Brakemen up: Horvath, Messimer
Paxton, Rivers, Reidell, Sollenberger
Filbert, Edmonson, Kipp, Gates,
Householder, Shupp, Pryor, Overfield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
AMERICANS WELL TREATED
By Associated Press,

Copenhagen, April 14.-via London
Charles Worlein, a representative of
the Chicago Western Electric Company,
who has arrived here from Berlin, says
that there has been no molestation of
Americans in the German capital and
that they are not even subjected to the
usual rule requiring enemy nationals
to report daily to the police.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Espionage Bill Prepared
By the Administration

Washington. April 1.-THE admin
istration espionage bill was completed
to-day by the Senate judiciary COM
mittee and will be made public when
reported Monday to the Senate and
pressed for Immediate passage.
The principal changes make more
definite and specific the offenses
named abandoning the generalization
of terms objected to in the former
measure. which failed of enactment at
the last Congress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
INTERNAL MACHINE IN RICE

Bethlehem. Pa, April 14.-In a box
of rice that Irwin Weiss, a Bangor mer-
chant received a few days ago, he
found an Internal machine, which fail
ed to explode because the time fuse
refused to work.
1t is thought the rice was originally
a part of a shipment intended for
abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
Republic Truck Agency
Shows Prosperous Season

NJ. K Thomas, of the Penn Mar
Auto Company, local representative
for Republic Motor trucks, reports an
exceptionally busy spring season. .Evi-
dence bears out the statement when
one considers that twenty-five carloads
of Republic trucks were received here
and delivered within three weeks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-14
ARGENTINA NEUTRAL

Buenos Aires, April 13.-The German
minister conferred for an hour to-day
with President Irigoyen. interviewed
subsequently by newspaper represent
atives, he said that Germany and Ar
gentina We're in a state of absolute
peace and that as far as the Argentin-
ian note to the United States was con-
cerned he recognized that the republic
occupied a very difficult position.