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The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
OFFICIALS HAVE NO
THEORY OF DISAPPEARANCE
Possibility that Sudden Hurrlcans
Might Have rltst Disabled and Then
En1ulfed the Collier Was Admitted
IN official Circles
IN official Circles

Washington, april 15.-Unremitting
search Of trade routes will be carried
On By American and French naval and
merchant vessels until every possible
hope of finding some trace Of the
missing naval collier Cyclops has been
ekhausted Secretary daniels has or
dered additional fast scouts detailed
for this service.
Although today passed without re-
port strengthening in the slightest de-
gree the hope stlll felt by Mr. Dan
iels and several Of his chief assist
ants, these officials refused to believe
that the great 10000 ton collier and
| The 29@ lives she carried could have
been wiped out without leaving a
trace. Orders have gone out. there
fore, for the searching vessels To
quarter every rod OF the route Gov
cred by the Cyclops and TO visit every
one of the scores Of islands which dot
that portion of the sea Every iso-
atcd bay will be entered and every
beach scrutinized.
Navy officials frankly confessed
that no theory yet advanced to ex-
plain the disappearance of the Cyclops
from March 4 when she left Bar
badoes-it was officially stated to.
night that that was the West Indian
port from which she sailed-seemed
plausible in the face of the facts
While il was true that one engine
was out of commission, enough power
remained to drive the big ship ten
knots an hour. An internal explosion
mi nc have destroyed the vessels
wireless aud motive power at one In
stant, but surface wreckage would
have remained to mark her grave
Enemy agents might have gained
control in a midnight mutiny. but even
in such well nigh impossible event.
lack " coal would have prevented
an attempt to start on a. trans-At
lantic voyage.
The possibility that n sudden hur-
ricane, not infrequent in those waters
might have first disabled and then en-
quilted the collier, was admitted but
again it was pointed out that some
evidence OF the disaster must have
been left in Ills case Moreover there
has been no report of hurricane
Manganese ore, with which the
CyclOps was heavily laden. might un-
der certain conditions give off an ex-
tremely dangerous gas Precautions
had been taken against this. however,
on ell ships engaged in the manganese
trade
As to q report that member OF the
crew had written relatives in Balti-
more regarding er explosion in the
Cyclops several weeks ago, It was
stated at the navy department that
nothing Of the sort had been reported
by Lieut. Commander G w Worley,
the collier.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
Savage Fighting Reported South of
Albert May Mark a New Attempt
to Westward Toward Amiens--So
Far the Fighting Has Brought Ger
mans Only Losses in Men and Ground

'Germanism Bohcmians or at least
czech minority in that country object
to the creation of a German gov
eminent there. but the incident may
be more significant than has SO far
appeared The Slavic races Of Bo
hemia have long been standing out
against the Germanizatiop of their
ountry and the outbreak al Prague
may be only another indication of the
dccpseeded opposition to the war op-
'rationS of the central powers
Nothing out OF the ordinary has
pecn reported from the Italian,
Macedonian, Palestine or Ncsopotam
an theatres of the war
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
OF COLLIER
or GERMAN pARENTkGE

San Francisco. April Is Mrs A NJ.
Angermann OF this city. q sister OF
Lieutenant Commander G. w Worley,
commanding officer OF the missing
naval collier Cyclops, said today her
brother was born in Germany, but
came TO this country when a child. Hs
enlisted in the navy when q youth.
she said and had served in 1t con
tinuously since. working his way up
TO a commission.
He adopted the name Worley when
he Joined the navy, his real name be-
ing Wichtmann. his sister said. His
nephew. Mrs. Angermann said. Is =
physician on the staff of a local hos
pital
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
STEAMER WRECKED OFF
THE VIRGINIA COAST

Philadelphia, April IA report to
the maritime exchange tells of the
wreck Saturday afternoon off the Vir-
ginia coast of the Norwegian steamer
Hermod with a cargo of sugar foi
Philadelphia TWO of the crew re
ported to have been drowned The
shipwrecked crew were afterwart
transferred to a government yesse
which proceeded southwark
The Herm0d is a total loss together
with the cargo.
At the time Of the disaster a high
wind prevailed and the weather was
foggy, 1t is supposed the captain lost
his bearings and steered his ship onto
the shoal.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
TEXAS SALOONS CLOSED.

Dallas, Texas. April I5.--As a war
measure approximately 1900 saloons
in Texas closed their doors at $50
o'clock tonight This action resulted
from tho ten-mile zone prohibit IN
law which makes it unlawful to
give away or have on person int
icating liquor within ten miles OF d
military establishment. Cities that
went dry" tonight were Fort Worth,
San Antonio, Houston. Wichita Falls,
Beaumont Galveston, III Paso and
Orange
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
BATTLE AT HANGARD
SCENE OF CARNAGE
FRENCH MAJOR. WITH HIS COM
MhND IS SURROUNDED FOR
TWELVE HOURS.
tBy q staff correspondent of the As
ISOLATED PressO

tBy staff correspondent Of the As
sociated PressO
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 15-The hardest
fightingof the present battle south OF
the river Somme has been almost In
cessant around Hansard-En- Santerre
since March 2i The British and
Freuch have been eueaeed side by
side In defending this A'shly lmpof-
taRt aud strategic position on the
road between Noyon and Amiens.
Several times it. has been wrested
from them only to be retaken in a he
roic counter attack.
On the fourth, ninth and twelfth Of
April the streets of Hangard were
scenes OF horrible carnage both night
and day when the enemy was driven
from house 70 house before the French
CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16

New York, April 15.-Nith a mes
sage to the British government and
people that American labor is Loyalty
behind President Wilson in the pros
cculiou of the war. the British labor
mission which for two months has
been touring the United States has
departed for England
In statement given out after their
departure through the American Al
lance tor labor and democrac> Wal
ter A. Appleton spokesman for the
British labor leaders declared trat
American labor is loyal to the core
Appleton said that the patriotic course
of the American Federation ot Labor
has been IAN inspiration" to himself
and colleagues. The Geterminai2u
TO win and the pirit Of sacrifice man
itested on all sides is a signal of a
great triumph for the forces OF
democracy"
Josephus BuuerWorth. VIM. L. Mos
ses, and Charles Duncan. NJ. p We're
the other members of the mission
AT first" Appletyns statement
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The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
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REPORTS UP TO SATURDAY
NIGHT SHOW COUNTRY HAS
SUBSCRIBED $6et.6ft8oO.
SOME BANKS ARE
WITHHOLDING PLEDGES

From Minneapolis District Which,
Opened It's Campaign Yesterday.
Reports Were Made That the Farm
ers Were Buying Literally and That
German Communities Show Good
Results. 4
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
CARRY WITH THEM A MESSAGE
TO THEIR FELLOW WORKERS
OF LOYALTY OF LABOR.
PAYS GRAND TRIBUTE
TO AMERICAN SPIRIT

The Wonderful Generosity Of All
Classes Of the American People Was
a Revelation to the Members Of the
British Labor Mission Which Came
to investigate. -,
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16
A FOR Rent AID WILL
PENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to
the classified ads Of the newspapers
70 see what is offered An sd In the
sentinel-Record is almost sure to
bring a customer.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16

Forecast for Arkansas: Tuesday and
Wednesday, local showers.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-04-16

CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
Fiqhtinq on Historic Ground

The region in the Holy Land
the present military operations is
famous in Biblical and Roman his
tory. On the plain of Esdraelon, or
Jezreel, the Israelites fought battles,
as recounted in the Book of Revela-
tons and other parts of the Old
Testament. 1t is famous as the bat
tlefield of Armageddon and. accord
ing to Revelations, is to be the scene
of the decisive battle at the end of
the world. Nazareth is at the north
ern edge of this plain, west of the
hills of Galilee and southeast of the
Bay of Acre. Gibora lies on the
southeast and Mount Carmel on the
west, nearer the Bay of Acre.
Tul Keran, a small village men,
toned in the dispatches, Nabulus,
and other towns lie in the region
south of the plain and in the re-
gion of hills and rolling plains be-
tween the hills of Ephraim and the
Mediterranean, all north of Jeru-
salem. All through the region are
the remains of two old civilizations,
the ruins of the civilizations of the
tribes mentioned in the Bible and the
later civilization of the Roman COL
onies.
Beisan lies in the valley of the Jor-
dan, not. far from the river, about
fifty-five miles northeast of Jeru-
salem and directly east of the plain
of Esdraelon, although to reach it
from that region a traveller would
pass through the depression between
the hills of Galilee and the hills of
Ephraim. This ancient town was a
center of the Romans during theii
control of the land, and the remains
of an acropolis. a Roman bridge, a
theater, fragments of homes and
columns, and many eScavated tombs
may be seen there yet Only few
hundred persons live near the town
now. Dera, on the railroad to Me-
dina, lies about forty miles northeast
of Beisan.-Exchange.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
Henty No Back Number

Librarians in army camps complain
of a shortage of what are called
boys books. Neither the American
Library Association nor the public
which contributed gift-books to the
camps realized that there would be
many calls for Henty and Alger, but
they were mistaken. Thousands of
soldiers, and even some officers, re-
tain their taste for juvenile litera-
ture. Mayor -" writes one
camp librarian, has just taken out
The Young Acrobat, and says,
Get some more of these, won't you?
They rest my BRAIN"
From an army camp at Colum-
bus, New Mexico, comes a hurry
call for boys books, Henty. Bar
bour, Tomlison. The regiments in
training there contain some very
young soldiers, boys from remote
ranches and border towns. They
have read very little in their lives
and the Librarian in. charge of the
camp library is having a hard time
getting them interested in books.
Love stories they laugh at, and solid
reading has no attraction for them.
The librarian noticed that the few
boys books on the shelves were in
use all the time SO she sent a call
for more. Anything to get them
into the habit" she says wisely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
Sherlock Holmes in Greek
For Soldiers Libraries
BY FRANK Parker sToCKBR1DGE, Director of Information

| useful to the soldiers who are trying
to learn to read English. They will
read book in their own language
and then tackle the same book in
English. Knowing what the story
is about makes it easier to read.
knowing this, the librarian at Camp
Gordon, Alabama, got several copies
of Robinson Crusoe for use among
the foreign-born soldiers who knew
little English. Almost every one had
read the immortal Crusoe in his ma
tive language, and it was good
book for them to make the basis OF
English study.
The greatest demand for foreign
language books are from Poles,
French. Spanish, Jewish, Russian
and Italian soldiers. About the stiff
fest request the Library Association
has had so far was for the Arabian
Nights in the original Arabic. A
professor in Columbia University
was appealed to, and before long the
homesick soldier from the far east
got the precious book of stories his
heart craved.
Forty Nationalities
We have at least forty national
tiles represented in our great Ameri-
can Army, and while we hope. when
the army gets back to the United
States every man in it will be speak
ing English fiuently. there is no de-
sire to make him forget the language
he learned at his mothers knee.
Beginning November II, all the
welfare forces at work to help the
army and navy-the Red Cross, Y.
NJ. c. A., the Y. w. c. A, Library
War Service of the American Ii
brary Association, the Jewish We'll
! fare Board. the National Catholic
War Council, the Salvation Army
and the War Camp Community Ser
vice, will begin a great drive for
funds to meet the needs of the COM
| ing year The great sum of S17O,-
100000 must be raised if our SOL
diers and sailors and marines are to
have the comforts they need and so
amply deserve. Everybody will be
asked to give as much as he can af-
ford, and everybody who has a man
i in training camp, in the trenches
overseas, or on the warships, will
help to the utmost of his power to
make the drive a success.
| People are not asked to give to
this or that fund. All the money
goes into the common welfare fund,
and each organization listed will re-
ceive it's quota. To the library fund
' is allowed S3,500,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
ARMY LIBRARY WORK

The American Library Association
has been designated by the Govern
ment as the agency for supply
reading matter for soldiers, sailors
and marines, overseas and on this
side.
The Library War Service of the
American Library Association seeks
to place in the hands of every men,
Der of our fighting forces the book
he needs when he wants it, whether
he. wishes 10 read for recreation or to
fit himself to be a better fighter or a
better American. to help him win
success after the war.
Library War Service supplies
books and magazines, through mill
tary and naval officers, the Red
Cross, Y. NJ. c. A, K. of c., Wv.
c. A. Jewish Welfare Board, War
Camp Community Service and Sal
vation Army, for the use of the men
of the army, navy and marines.
1t places libraries on warships,
transports and government cargo
ships. Two hundred and fifty ves-
sells have Libraries; there is a deck
library on every transport.
1t buys Educational and Technical
Books to meet the demand of the
men for Books that Help"
1t maintains Library Service in
military and naval hospitals.
The work of the American Library
War Service to date can be sum-
married. as follows:
Al Library buildings in opera
F. ....- ton.
4S large camp libraries estab-
lished.
143 hospitals and Red Cross
houses supplied.
243 Librarians maintained in
the service.
315 small military camps and
posts equipped wi I h
books.
$50 points overseas supplied
with books.
406 naval and marine stations
supplied with libraries.
1,547 branches and stations To-
Gated in recreation huts
barracks and mess halls
100000 books purchased, largely
technical.
1,030,45S books shipped overseas.
3,011,510 Gift-books placed in SER
vice.
100000 gift-magazines distributed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
Not a Ripple
kansas City Star1


How we'll America has found
itself in war has been evidenced
over and over again. The selective
draft, the Liberty Loans, the steady
application of the vast powers of the
government willingly and unhesita-
tingly conferred on it by the people,
the successful meeting of the tre-
mendous problems of transporting
and maintaining an army of millions
overseas, the accomplishing accept
ance by an easy living population of
enormously increased taxation. all
these things and many more have
shown Americas fitness for the great
task this crisis for civilization has
laid upon it.
1t is not surprising. therefore, that
the peace bait cast by Austria should
have failed to produce more than the
merest ripple upon these deep still
waters of American public opinion.
The notion of stopping the fighting,
just at the moment when our armies
have begun to go forward, to talk
peace terms with a perjured and
treacherous foe, a foe yet unbeaten
and seeking to escape his certain
beating by trickery and the chicane
of Old World diplomacy, such no.
ton never had a chance to displace
or sidetrack for moment the fixed
purpose in the American mind to
fight the war to. victorious end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25

TT E was young Italian. a SOL
n dier in the American Army.
He had been wounded, but
now he was we'll enough to help in
the domestic work of the big base
hospital not far from New York
City. There is free public library
in the hospital, one of the many Ii
braries established in army and navy
camps. transports and hospitals, by
the American Library Association.
Every minute of his time, when he is
not working the young Italian SOL
dier spends in reading, the hospital
librarian reports. He has read
many volumes of the classics, from
Dante's Inferno to Plutarch's Lives
and Plato's Dialogs.
In addition he has read three
biographies of Napoleon, Froude's
Caesar, Macauley's Lays of Ancient
Rome, Maeterlinck's Measure of the
Hours. Hudson's Psychic Phenom-
ena, and Maturin's Laws of Spiritual
Life. These books give him some
thing to think about while he is
sweeping the long corridors of the
hospital. Il sweep" he says, but, !"
he adds proudly, this is the United
States Army"
Not all soldiers read the classics,
but they all, or nearly all read some
thing. Most of the foreign born
want to read books in their own Ian
guage, and books to learn English.
Every library in the camps and hos
pitals supplies these needs.
At Camp Funston, Kansas, there
are an unusually large number of
foreign-born soldiers, and the IL
brary is we'll supplied with foreign
language literature. I'VE have books
in French, German, Spanish. Modern
Greek, Yiddish, Norwegian. Swedish.
Polish, Rumanian, Russian an6
Bulgarian" reports the librarian in
charge, "and they are all in constant
circulation"
Sherlock Holmes in Greek
Some of these books are by native
authors and others are translations
from English, for it is desirable that
our foreign-born soldiers become
familiar with English and American
books. The other day a Greek boy
brought a book to the librarian
desk to be charged. The librarian,
not being able to read Greek, asked
| the boy what the book was.
why, don't you know" eXclaim'
ed the soldier. Its Sherlock
Holmes" ....
These translations are extremely
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Major Charles T.. Griffith, of the
United States Army, has taken
charge of the new student training
class at the University of Pennsyl-
Vania.
Representative James A. Dunn,
of Philadelphia, has received word
that his son, a sergeant in the Army.
has suffered a shattered arm in
France.
james C.. Rogers, chief paymas-
ter of the Pennsylvania railroad, Is
i'll at his home in Germantown.
DIR. John Price Jackson, now a
ieutenant-colonel, has three acad.
emic degrees in addition to military
DIR. C. D. Koch, the new deputy
superintendent of public instruction,
has been an educator from the days
he left school and was principal and
inspector for years.
N. T.. Folwell, prominent Phila-
delphia businessman. is not inclined
to accept some of the statements of
congressional financiers without dis.
cussion.
IT. C. DUPONT, head of the Johns
town railways, expects to have
women conductors on the cars on
October 1.
r. F. Bigham, long connected
with Allegheny county Republican
affairs, will be secretary of the
county committee again this fall.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25

proposes to carry the project to the
end. according to the Picayune cor.
respondents information. 1t be-
lieves that it will more than pay 70,
itself in the improvement that will
result, in the reduced sick and death
rate. that the council believes that
it would be a great misfortune If II
was abandoned at this time.
The appropriation for this work
was originally 171S million dollars
of which 10 million dollars has al
ready been expended. The. commit.
tee which has had charge report:
that it has already cleaned up fifty
five acres of slums of the most Of
fensive and insanitary character aro
has provided in this area homes fol-
one hundred and sixty thousand peo-
pie at a cost of barely $50 apiece
When it is considered how much this
means in better health and better
conditions, less sickness, less i'm
morality and suffering, fewer crimes
it will be recognized that war
against insanitation, vice and suffer
ing is as important in many re-
spects as the war against the Ger
mans, and that it will materially in
crease the effectiveness and produc-
ton of the British working man.
I'm this country" observes the
Picayune. I'VE have closed many OF
the restricted districts and Sums
but have done little towards bring
ing these sections into general use
again: and we are not likely to re-
store them to such use unless we
adopt the methods of the London
County Council, to reconstruct and
rebuild them. 1t is a matter worthy
of consideration in those cities which
have such slums and unoccupied dis
tricts and against which the COM
plant is raised at the same time
that they have no homes for work
ing people. Thus two birds can
be killed with one stone-the clos
ure of the slums and the provision
of more homes for workers, and
a general betterment of their con-
dition."
Surely, If England can do so much
under such great difficulties as pre-
vail there. We in this country can
do more. To come back home.
Harrisburg and its housing problem
are so far removed from the war,
as compared with England, that it
is almost as though no war is being
fought. Can we do what the Eng
lish are doing for their working
people? We can-and must. The
Chamber of Commerce is the instru-
ment through which we must work.
Mr.. Patterson is leaving his successor
a good inheritance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25
THE POPPIES

Between the fountains crystal thread
And clumps of golden glow,
Along my winding garden walk
The scarlet poppies grow.
With draughts of deep oblivion
Within their hearts confined,
And silken petals flickering
Like flames in every wind.
walk among them when the noon
Is bright upon their leaves,
And when they fold themselves to
sleep
In amethystine eyes,
And when the moon above their rest
Keeps guard with silver lance,
For oh! beyond them I can see
A wooden cross in France.
Minna Irving.