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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
YANKEES MOURN
FOR JIMMY HALL,
LOST IN BATTLE
American Flyer Last Seen by
Companions Making Dive
For Earth
BY Associated Press

With the American Army in
France, May Jimmy Hall is gone
and the whole American air service is
mourning his loss. All are wonder
ing whether he was killed or was
able to bring his machine safely to
earth after his battle in the air over
Pagny sur Moselle. Captain Hall
was popular throughout the Army
and he had won admiration by his
daring GOODNESS and skill in han
ding his machine.
The captains flying companions
are all certain he would have knock
ed out his opponents had it not been
for a maneuver unheard of so far
as American and French pilots in
this section of France are concerned.
1t has been considered dangerous to
the last degree 20 bring up a machine
sharply from downward plunge be-
cause the strain is almost certain to
cause the collapse Of some vital part
of the plane. The German aviator
whom Captain Hall was pursuing,
being hard pressed. adopted this des-
perate eXpedient to escape death and
won. He. was thus enabled to pour
a stream of bullets into the bottom
of Halls machine.
Captain Hall, with two others, was
TTnnAi.,nnI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
Economy in Newsprint
Paper Urged by State
Editors in Conference

Resolutions endorsing the action
of the American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association in urging economy
of newsprint paper, were adopted at
a conference of newspaper publish
ers held in the assembly room of the
Central Y. NJ. G. y. to-day. 1t was
urged that the work of the national
organization be supported finan-
cially and otherwise.
The recommendations of the ma
tional association in regard TO the
new second-class postage act were
also given strong endorsement in
the resolutions adopted. and COM
mittees were appointed to carry out
the recommendations contained in
the resolutions.
r. J. Stackpole. president of the
Harrisburg Telegraph. was elected
chairman of the meeting. and w. l..
Taylor. of the York Dispatch, was
elected secretary. The conference
was called for the purpose of con-
siderins various important problems
now confronting the newspaper
publishers, among them those of the
newsprint paper situation, the sec
ond-class mail rate and various 9TH
er problems
The publishers gathered at the
call of committee, which met at
the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation in New York. The various
actions of the national association
were strongly emphasized and en-
dorsed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
INVENTOR HAS
DEVICE TO BRING
HUNS TO KNEES
James G. Dudley Tells Poor
Richards He Can End
War Before Winter

Philadelphia, May S.-James q.
Dudley. research and experimental
engineer of the Chester Shipbuilding
Company and AN inventor of note,
told members of the Poor Richard
Club at their weekly luncheon yes
terday he had in his possession
conception which If put into use by
the United States Government would
knock the sword out of Germany's
hand and end the war before the
snow flies"
Mr.. Dudley was careful to explain
that the power he had in mind to
bring Germany to her knees was not
an invention, but a conception so
simple that it was a wonder no one
had ever thought to apply it to this
present war.
1T might cost a hundred million
or half-billion to bring about final
results" Mr.. Dudley said, but so
sure am l of its success that I would
willingly stake my life, my future
and my fortune on it,
The experimental engineer said the
plan was submitted to him by an
inventor who had sought to interest
said, like other inventors. had set
about to find new and deadly weap-
ons to overcome the Huns when the
war started. Mr.. Dudley said this
man had invented many devices. but;
like a true inventor had always
found antidotes for every engine Of
destruction. This new conception,
Mr.. Dudley said, would absolutely
bring Germany to her knees without
sacrificing an Allied soldier. or a
German either. for that matter.
Secret Only For Wilson
Il will tell no man the secret un-
less it be the President of the United
States or one of his Cabinet Off
GERS Mr.. Dudley said. LAS a tech
nician of some twenty-five years eX-
perience, l know it will work"
After the luncheon Mr. Dudley was
piled with questions by newspaper
men. He was asked if the invention.
or conception, as he called it. had
any bearing upon the reported start
ling discovery of Garabed Giragos-
sen, the Armenian inventor, but he
refused to reply.
IF your conception is so startling
are you not afraid to travel around
for fear that German spies might
get it?" he was asked. and to this
he replied:
"A German spy to get this inven-
tion would have to get it out of my
head. 1 realized that the plans
might be stolen by an enemy agent,
so l first memorized them and de-
stroyed them. No danger of that.
Invention Board to Get Plan
Mr.. Dudley said that already he
has made plans to visit Washington
to place his idea before the Inven-
tion Board, of which Thomas A. Edi-
son is president. He said he has
been promised a hearing, and pre-
dicted that If the Government &C
cepts the conception which he has
to offer the war will be over before
winter sets in.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
Poison Drunk by Mistake
Kills Young Bride About
to Begin Housekeeping

Mrs. Samuel Worley. aged 10. 222
Cumberland street. died at the Har-
risburg Hospital at 5.45 this morning.
as the result of drinking poison. She
was taken to the hospital at o'clock
last evening.
Mrs. Worley lived with her hus-
band, who is employed on the Penn
sylvania railroad, and his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A. Worley. The
young couple had purchased a house
and intended TO begin housekeeping
themselves within a few weeks.
At the home of Mrs. Worley this
morning ii was stated she had been
in sood spirits at dinner last even
ing. 1t is thought that she took the
poison by mistake. as they could
ascribe no cause for her taking her
life. Arsenic vas the poison which
caused her death.
The body will be buried in the
Oberlin Cemetery Friday afternoon.
Funeral services will be in charge of
Hoover & Son. They will be held
Friday afternoon at o'clock at the
home, with the Rev. Mr.. Marllward,
pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, to which the deceased be-
longed, officiating. Besides her hus-
band, Mrs. Worley is survived by
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E.
Walker, a brother and two sisters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
HARRISBURG FREE.
FROM DRAFT CALL.
FOR MEN MAY 25
City's Enlistments Again SO
Large None Goes From
Here; 10000 From State
RECORD HERE IS GOOD
Volunteers to Guard and Army
Puts Town in Enviable
Glass

Harrisburg will not be called upon
to send one man to the training
camps under the draft call of May
20, Major Murdock, officer in charge
of the State Draft Headquarters, said
to-day
This is the first announcement of
the Government that enlistment cred
its are again to be counted against
the draft in communities where vol
unteer enlistments meet the draft
quotas.
Under the original ruling Harris
burg had so many volunteer enlist
ments that it was made entirely free
from the requirements of the first
draft. Indeed. it was not until jan
uary that it became necessary to call
men from this city under the selec-
tive service law.
Harrisburg has one of the very
best recruiting records in the coun-
try. No other city in Pennsylvania
has piled up sufficient volunteer en-
listments to twice escape calls under
the draft act.
ior Murdock is working out the
quotas for the state under the call
for men to leave May % and will
have them ready in a few days. More
than 10000 men will be required to
go from Pennsylvania to the training
camps this month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08

The transfer shed of the express
company was smashed in by the force
of the impact.
Switchman's Quick Work
Francis L. Bobb is the switch op-
orator whose quick work prevented
the cars from running through the
passenger trainshed with a possible
collision and loss of life Railroad
men freely admitted this morning
that IL the cars had run under the
shed the result might have been loss
of life.
The switchman turned the cars off
the main track onto a track known
as Section B, which terminates in
the yards at Third street. 1t was
after tearing across the bridge and
into the yards at the rate OF thirty
miles an hour that tn cars were
turned onto the section and the ter
rihc collision with the passenger
coaches occurred. The cIast occur
red at $40 this morning.
Cnrs Heavily Laden
The runaway draft had been left
on the Cumberland Valley tlacks at
Lemoyne last evening by p. II. r.
engine. The thirty-fve cars were
heavily loaded with pigirUn ard coal
How they broke away was unknt wn
to railroad officials this morning
An investigation was conduc:al by
Trainmaster Lowman at Lenoyne
this morning.
When the cars broke away from
Lemoyne, Bobb, the op4ratIr on SV
tower. was notified at once. An ef-
fort was made to eaten the runaway
with an engine as they came into
the city and switch it to the B sec.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
EXPLODING OIL
TANK CAUSE OF
C.L.&S.CO. FIRE
Thirty-Five Thousand Gallons
of Fuel Destroyed in
Spectacular Blaze
FLAMES SHOOT INTO AIR
Great Crowd Drawn by En-
plosion Heard All
Over City

Thirty-five thousand gallons of oil
were consumed when a huge oil
storage tank feeding the open hearth
at the Central Iron and Steel Com
pany exploded with terrific blast
at 1.30 this afternoon. The flames
shot many feet into the air, blow
ing out both ends of the huge fur
mace. The value of the oil was about
sS,50O
Under the oil tank is a pit into
which any oil which leaks collects
and later flows through a drain TO
the river. 1t is thought a spark from
a passing engine ignited the oil col
lected in the pit and the heat caused
the explosion of the oil in the tank.
The Friendship. Paxton, Susque-
hanna and Washington companies
worked for an hour and a half to
eXtinguish the blaze.
Fire Draws Hundreds
The oil from the huge tank, which
is situated at the end of the gas
house, is fed through pipes into each
end of the open hearth, where it is
ignited to furnish heat to melt the
steel.
The flames were seen by hundreds
of workmen and the alarm was
turned in from Box 442 soon after
the fire began. The blast accompany
ing the flames was heard in many
parts of the city and drew crowds
In l,n do ri Of hn
pany property. The flames the first
few moments were very spectacular.
shooting many feet into the air and
raging in the ruins of the tank with
intense fury for an hour.
While many men are employed by
the company at the time the fire be-
gall, none of the workmen was in
the vicinity of the fire when it be-
gan, and no one was injured by the
flames or blast,-Rumors that the top
of the blast furnace had blown off
as it did once before caused many
anxious inquiries to come to the Of
fees after the explosion occurred.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
With the British Army in France.
His Guinea Pigs and White
Mice Fail to Keep Him
Out of First Draft Class

There are more ways than one
of getting into Glass Al of the draft
Ofcourse the ideal procedure is TO
be prefectly free, unemcumbered by
kith and kin. unhandicapped with
some trade or profession essential TO
furnishing Uncle Sam with necessi-
ties and then to be in perfect physi-
cal condition. But it cannot he said
that S. p. Mehring, of Hanover, felt
that he had these qualifications. Mr..
Mehring's protest to the district draft
board of appeal was unique, uncom-
mon and emphatic, as he requested
to be put in Glass 4 and not identified
as fighting man:
What am I engaged at?" re-
sponded he TO the boards inquiry
why I am raising guinea pige. rab-
bits and white mide for food, for re-
search work and for pets, and I am
a very busy man"
Just the man for Glass Al" cheer
fully determined the board, showing
that 1t believes association with
guinea pigs, rabbits and white mice
doesnot necessarily invalidate an
American from going over the top.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
Berlin Ordered to Give
TeutOn Fighters 10000
Suits of Old Clothes
IN h.tocinlrd 20,

Amsterdam, May S.--The city of
Berlin has been ordered to produce
forthwith 10000 complete second
hand suits for war workers, prin-
eipally those engaged in railway and
farming work. 1t is to be 'volun-
tary surrender against "A small pay-
ment" but warning is given that IL
the clothes are not Forthcoming they
will be taken by force. This applies
especially to persons whose social po-
sition warrants the assumption that
their wardrobcs are we'll stocked.
Monday was the first day for col
lection and repositories were opened
for the purpose. There was a rush
of people laden with old coats ana
trousers who did not conceal their
anxiety to get possession of a certifi-
cate handed to voluntary" con-
tributers cxempting them from Off
cial inspection of their wardrobes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
SHOWSHOW COOKS
MAY SAVE DURING
TRYING WAR TIMES
Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn, Who Has Met the PIaudts of
Large Audiences at the Y. M C. A. Hall, Plans Init
mate Discussion of Foods Relation to Health and
Morals; Lecture to Be Open to Women Only

Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn thrilled
a large audience yesterday after
noon at Fahnestock Hall by one of
the really great patriotic addresses
that have been given in this city.
Her address was a preface to the
demonstration of war cookery she is
giving under the auspices of the
Telegraph. She attacked with vehe-
mence the attitude of the German
nation toward the world and told
how the Hohenzollerns have been
crooned to sleep in their cradle with
a song of military character instead
of the sweet lullabys of other lands.
When the Kaiser's children were
rocked to sleep it was to the strains
of a song of conquest which de-
clared that the Germans will some
day rule the world. she said.
Regarding the brutality of the
Kaiser she said that where Nero
left off in fiendish brutality there
the Kaiser began. She told how he
had always been unfriendly to the
United States and before the war
started referred to America as a pig
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
CARS ARE
WRECKED ON SIDING
IN NICK OF TIME
Quick Wit Of Operator Who Switches Wildly Careering
Draft of Thrty-FiUe HeaOiy-Loaded Freight Cars,
Prevents Wreck in Passenger Shed Where TrainIoad
of Soldiers Was Standing; Three Coaches Smashed

Only the quick work of the opera
tor in SV tower in the Harrisburg
yards prevented thirty-five heavily
loaded runaway freight cars from
careening wildly through the passen-
ger trainshed of the Pennsylvania
railroad early this morning. A train
loaded with soldiers was standing in
the station. The runaways were
switched off the main track of the
Cumberland Valley railroad onto a
section on which three wooden pas
senger coaches were standing at the
foot of Third street.
The cars composed a runaway
draft which broke away from the
siding at Lemoyne and tore wildly
across the Cumberland Valley rail-
road bridge into the city at thirty
miles an hour.
The three empty passenger coacheH
were pushed off the end of the Sec
ton of track and crushed against the
transfer shed of the Adams Express
Company. A boxcar, containing many
tons of pigiron, and a coalcar were
telescoped and derailed in the crash.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
City to Remove Poles
From River Front Park

Commissioner Gross said he is
planning to make arrangements for
the removal of the few poles in
River Front Park used for wires by
local public service companies. AS
the entire park system is lighted with
standards and underground wires,
park department officials said there
is no need for the tall poles on the
park property. The discussion about
the removal of the poles was brought
about ny the erection of three large
ones along River Front near Seneca
street, for a street light.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
To Bring Suit For
Unpaid School Tax

II. f. Owes. school treasurer for
1916 and 1917. said to-day that in
compliance with instructions from
the School Board he will be COM
PEELED to bring suit May 15 for all
unpaid 1916 and 1917 school taxes.
The School Board took this action
for the reason that so much tax is
unpaid year or more after it be-
came due that they are compelled to
borrow, with interest, $4,000 to
$4,000 from the banks each year to
pay the running expenses of the
school district, while If the tax were
paid promptly they would have
money on deposit, drawing interest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
CITY IS TO BACK
WITH MONEY MEN
WHO OFFER LIFE
Real Test of Patriotism Is To
Come With Red Cross
Campaign
TO ENLIST 1000 WORKERS
Hope to Go $4,000 Over Top
of $150,000 Minimum
Quota
70 ENLIST 1000 WORKERS

The impression that the forthcom.
ing Red Cross drive for not less
than $150,0O0 in the Harrisburg
Chapter district is not to be house
toulouse canvass is entirely an err
roneous one; and plans are now be-
ing shaped for campaign in which
the services of nearly 1000 men.
and women will be enlisted.
Harrisburg went over the top"
a year ago when the Red Cross
raised $1O0.OOO.O0O in the nation.
That it will do it again is the be-
lief of Chairman w. T. Hildrup. The
chairman said this morning:
shortly after the war with Ger
many began-so far as we were con-
cerned, and folks talked of the many
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
GEORGE CABINET
FACING A CRISIS.
CALLS FRIENDS
ASquith Resolution Aims at
Censure of Governments;
Division Certain

London. MAY S.-A letter writ
ten by General Frederick Is. Maurice
recently removed from the post of
director of military operations at
the British war Office, led to a gov
ernment proposal yesterday to in
vestigate Maurices startling charges.
Maurice accuses Premier Lloyd
George and Andrew Bonar Law, gov
ernment spokesman in the House of
Commons, of making misstatements
to the House regarding military af-
fairs. The letter caused a great stir
throughout Great Britain and in par
Lament.
In his letter, published in the Lon
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
LOyalists Place Old Glory
on Pacific Amish Church;
Refuse to Purchase Bonds
BY ASSocintcd PrcSS

Reading, Pa, May S.-Patriotie
protest against antiAmerican senti-
ments as expressed by conscientious
objectors in pacifst utterance. fail
ure to purchase Liberty Bonds, etc,
reached the point of fever height last
night, when Il crowd decorated the
Amish church near MorSantown, this
county, with an American flag For
months public opinion against the
unpatriotic attitude of the so-calIed
conscientious objectors" has been
growing and the recent Liberty Bond
campaign brought matters to an is.
sue when the Amish farmers stead-
fastly refused to purchase bonds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
TO ATTEND SERVICES

Zion Lutheran Church, Fourth
street, near Market, will entertain
Pilgrim Commandery. No. II,
K. T., at Ascension Day services to-
morrow evening at SIS. Headed by
the commandery band the knights
will march from Masonic Temple at
7.3O. Services will be conducted by
the Rev. S. Winfield Herman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
Program For
Thursday Afternoon

Lecture Subject:
Fools Hill
Menu:
One Egg Cake Chocolate Sauce
Pineapple Mousse
Apple Salad Boiled Dressing
Fish Outlets Epicurean Sauce
One Egg Mullins
Doors open 1.30. Musical Con-
cert p. m. Lecture $50.
Fahnestock Hall, Y. NJ. c. a.
building.
Free to everybody.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08

ready for the sticking. What we are
fighting is this damnable German
system which would not hesitate to
infiict upon the women of England
and America the same hell to which
they have put the women of Bel
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08

- oEFERs co-oPERATIoN

EaTrisburg-Just after the adjournment Of The Penn
syIyania Newspaper Publishers Association here Chs aft
enooa this teegranlwas read from George creeE chair
man Of Committee Of Pubic Information, Wash.
Deeply regret inability to attend your meeting but as.
sure you voy honest desire for highest possible degree
Of eqQpsatop Should your meeting decide to sendrsp
ressntative here will put myself at his service in every
possible may and also give aid and advice in problems
that are mutual
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
AMERICAN LINE
IS SUBJECTED TO
HEAVY GUNFIRE
French Premier Congratu-
lates Yankees on Splendid
Showing Made in Battle
By Associated Press

With the American Army i'm Pi-
cardy. Monday, May 6.-The artil-
lery fighting continues along the
sector held by American troops on
the Picardy battlefront. There is
no change in the situation.
Premier Clemenceau visited the
Americans yesterday afternoon and
congratulated them on the fine
showing they have already made.
He expressed particular pleasure at
the harmonious manner in which
the French and Americans are
working together. The Premier in
spected the billets and kitchens and
talked with officers and men.
With the British Army in France,
May S.-The Australians last night
made another advance, pushing for
ward their lines five hundred yards
along front of six hundred yards
near Sally lie Sec, on the sector east
of Amiens. They also pushed back
the Germans 500 yards along a front
of five hundred yards west of Nor
lancourt, just above Sally lie Sec.
Notwithstanding a heavy barrage
the Germans were unable to prevent
their advance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity: FnIr
Tonight and Thursday; cooler
Tonight, with Lowest tempern-
ture about 30 degrees.
FOR Eastern Pennsylvania; Fair.
slightly cooler Tonight; Thurs
day fair; moderate west and
northwest winds becoming yarI-
able.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08

Temperatures 8 a. M. 81.
Sunf Rises, GiO7 n. M; sets, 7,53
y. m.
Moon; New moon, May 10.
River StaEei 81 feet above low
water mark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08

Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, ~.
Lowest temperature, 63.
Mean temperature, 20.
Normal temperature, 30.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
General Conditions

me storm that was central north
OF the Great Lakes, Tuesday
morning, has moved norfhenst-
ward to the North Atlantic
const. IL caused scattered show
ers In the last twenty-four
hours over the eastern part of
the Lake Region, the Upper
Ohio Valley. Tennessee, In the
Atlantic states from North Caro-
lima to New York and in the
st. Lawrence Valley.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
River

River
Ihe Susquehnnnn river and all its
tributaries will fall slowly or
remain nearly stationary. A
StaEe of about 80 feet is indI-
Gated for Harrisburg Thursdny
morning.
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