Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 1

OUUD MNI ntmn to twtieftitair. Ifrltsoft so. tJon't get ft anrt ftbly fair on Sunday; Tible winds. TOLL vnw OF fns 44th 254. TEN PAGES LEBANON, SATUEDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1917.

(TEN CENTS A WEEK SINGLE 2 Pa. JVafcW Not To Mobilize at Mt. Gretna But Somewhere In Southeast Lebanon Furnace Is Banked Owing to Slight Accident Advantage Will be Taken of the Mishap by Making Needed Repairs Which Had Been Contemplated Some Time Men Will Help The Lebanon blast furnace, near West Lebanon, has been banked for ten days'or two weeks, owing to an accident which occurred on Friday evening. While the usual operations In progress Tiell of tho stack fell in. No one was hurt.

While the damage caused by Friday evening's accident Is stated to bo slight, by officials of the company, It Is nroposed to utilize tho time in which repairs are made, to make other repairs and changes, all of which may require as much as two weeks or more. Offlclals of the company stated this morning that all the materials required for the repairs of all kinds are right on hand, and that there will be no delay whatever In the work. The furnacemen of ull claxes and In air stations will he retained to help with tbe repair work. It was stated this morning that the general repairs which are to be undertaken were completed some time ago, as the furnaces were rebuilt, and not new, and the management is highly elated that the parts held out as long as they did. It is hoped to rush the repairs so steadily as to have the stack back In operation again within two weeks.

American Fired First Shot At the Teutons (Special to News I'nlted Press) Paris, 'May first shot flred for America in the Balkans was fired by a former American artillery ofllcer, now a worker with the American relief fund, according to word received today, from Salonika. A five Inch gun of a Serbian battery on the Macedonion front was used. Tho American, whoFe name was not given, asked permission 'to start the offensive by this shot. It. was granted.

He donn'ed American uniform and fired six into Hie Teutons' trenches while Serbian al- diers cheered. ELKSTO DISCUSS PATRIOTISM AT BOSTON MEET Charles R. Oater. secretary of the l.Hianon Lndgr nf Elks has received from the Grand Ex all PI Tinier of Mie Grand hortijo of Klks of tho I'nlted States, circular letter, directing attention to the Grand Lodge Session to he held In Poston. In July.

In it all good Klks are strongly urged to attend this session as Its deliberations undoubtedly of patriotic Import. The Grand Hiiler points out that tho of Klks Is not only a great Amerlcnn order, but practical order, and that should respond to any action outlined by the leaders of the nation'. He that the social and fraternal features be lessened this year, and practical and piitrlotlc features substituted at the session. Matters pertaining to belt service which the. order can perform will be discussed, Frank Boyer, of Lebanon Gets $25,000 as Damages H.

P. Hunsicker Named To Assist Count R. M. Votes Harry P. Hunsickor.

an office employee of the Machine Works Company, prominently Identified with the local Tied Men order, is one of the committee that has been appointed by Great Sachem Coombe. of Philadelphia, to eount the votes cast in the State, for Great Council Chiefs. They will count tlie votes on Monday afternoon at the headquarters, 124 North Eleventh street, Philadelphia. Pennsy Conewago Yard To Be Greatly Enlarged Military Operations at Mt, Gretna Will Require New Trackage, and Bennett Randall Have Contract for Four Side Tracks Tlinl I In- PeniHtylvnnln Unllrond Compnny expects blR doings at Mt. Orctnii this year, In routine)Inn with a possible mobilization or concentra- tlon camp mid recruiting le.ndczvous, at Mt.

Gretna, WHS evidenced on Friday when the'Pennsy officials awarded to Uennptl and Randall, contractors, with present headquarters In this city, a contract to build oxten- Blve new truckage at. Conowago. tbe southwoRtorn terminus of tbo Cornwall and Lebanon railroad line, Four Hidings. Besides and Home other shifting facilities, the 'contractors will build four new sidings, each approximately three-quarters of mile long. The excavations and other Improvements will cover a dltsanro practically a mile and a considerable number of men will bo required to get the Job completed by August 1 which Is the time estimated to have the new tracks In operation and URO.

While the present Indications are that the vanguard of Pennsylvania militia will reach the State ramp site about July 15. or sehortly thereafter. the big railroad operations In connection therewith, will only begin a week or two latei 1 and tho extra trackage now provided for will be ready for the big rush when It comes. Washington JE Thrilled by President Wilson Signs draft Bill which Out By September 1st and Aft Proclamation for war Registry June Pershing to Go to France with First ary Force BV ROBERT J. BKNMKK.

(United Press Staff Correspondent). Washington. May 19. "Pershlng's 26,000" in) the call of the Prosl- lho ll nf gC 1" muion to arms, ij ior mo expedition or shifting op- nv .1 eratlons at ConewaKO. and the more n8 illeton lmU wni lllrl summary handling of freight coming to and outgoing from Mt.

Gretna and this city. The present Industrial activity in Lebanon, has taxed the Conewago yard facilities to the limit and the new tracks will bo required to help out with the additional freight which will bo handled there as soon as the soldiers get to Gretna. Frank Boyer, a son of. Samuel U. Boyer, of 719 Chestnut street, this city, has just made settlement with the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads for the biggest assessment for damages for personal Injury in the history of Ohio.

Boyer was a New York Central railroad brakeman, with headquarters 'at Cleveland, and on February .16, 1916, he lost both legs at the hips and the sight of his right eye, when Tie was run over by a Pennsylvania railroad train, and was caught by the brake rigging and dragged a mile. After hia recovery he entered suit for damages in of $100,000 and this week he effected a settlement with the railroad companies, whereby he Is to receive $20,000 from the company's attorneys as compensation. A statement to this National Guard Troops Were Distributed Today Co. Commissioners Favor Passage of Convict Labor Bill Lebanon county's representatives in the state senate and house at Harrisburg will be asked by the Lebanon coum.y commissioners to give their support and vote to the bill now pending in the legislature which ea effect has been recorded In Judge provides for convict labor. Tho leg- Levine's court, in Cayahoga county, islation provides no compensation for the convicts but contemplates distribution of the profits accruing from the work brail be rated pro rata Ohio.

Boyer left here about eight years ago. As the NEWS gave an account of the accident above referred to, amon tlla counties, thereby reduc- he was the'recipient of much sym-I'" tho ever-increasing cost to the pathy from people here and now tax Pavi's of tho county of maintaln- felitlcations are with him in his good I )rlsolu 10 eastern penlten- fortune in receiving such generous tlary Hlul ounty )rison as well, compensation for the many years he may have to suffer as a helpless cripple. (Special tci News by Tress.) Washington, May distribution of national guard troops was announced by the War Department today. National Guard troops from twelve of the Middle Western and Northern States are 'o be sent to the Southern depart camps al the hordes. The New England and Atlantic States will train in the southeastern department.

The grouping of the States for training and the military departments where they will train are as follows: Fifth department. Fifteenth Division --Texas and t)n all men of the country between 21 and HO will answer I lie cull for service. The first mobilization of tho manpower of the nation will comn on (hut dule. It has been announced that the first army of fHMUHiO that will bo chosen from the millions who will answer the call, will not be summoned before September, lint the official announcement of tluj, Intention to dispatch a division commanded by Cieneral Porshlng to the fighting front nt the earliest possible moment, now makes it certain the American flag will be scon on the ably before the nrmy Is ready for af Colonel HooseveiySfi definitely declined 1 Reasoned veterans army will bo with I American flog trenches. At tho war depart! I turned today to rouf (supplies for the ernefl Congress and nil dl sponded to the annou at the White House ll seemed to put new life machinery "on the hill" have dragged along in emergency measures for uient to carry to success Jjj (Continued on Oklahoma Southern department.

Sixteenth Division Ohio and West Virginia Southeastern department. Seventeenth Division Indiana and Kentucky Southeastern department Arkannas, department. Nineteenth Division Utah, Colorado, Arlzon, New Mexico and California Western department. GOV. ISSUED MEMORIAL DAY PROCLAMATION fSpcolal to NOWH Unlteil Prass) Harrisbtirg, May 30 was Twentieth formnUy proclaimed as the annual Oregon, itdaho, Montana and department.

Memorial Day today by Governor New The. Central and Northern States I Brumbaugh. He units particular ob- Hampsliirc. Maine, Massachusetts, are being sent to the Southern cle- i servnuce of a flve-minuto period at Rhode Island and part ment for training to avoid the) noon. to the Southeastern department.

Sixth department. inclement weather of tho North and to servo at the same time as border patrol to replaco the regulars who PA. N. G. WILL TRAIN IN THE SOUTHEAST (Special to News by United "Press).

Hurrisburg, May United Press despatches informed them today officials of the state adjutant general's department here had no knowledge of the fact that orders had been issued that the Pennsylvania national guard will train at a point somewhere in the Southeastern department instead of the eastern department where Mt. Gretna is located. Ttie order is here construed to mean that the Pennsylvania guardsmen will not even see Mt. Gretna where it had all along been expected they would be called following nio- biliaistion at respective armories July 15. Jt is just possible however that the guard will proceed to Mt.

Gretna, remaining for such time as will be required for the equipment of those men chosen by the operation of the selective draft. As yet the atato adjutant general's department Is without orders. May Spe Gitmui. Tho order from the War Depart- (uent at Washington, received thru the United Press is taken to mean other than for c.lotnlng and equipment Pennsylvania soldiers may not see Mt. Gretiia, the big camp site being held in reserve for the equipment of recruits.

Announcement was made today of tbe consolidation of the three Pennsylvania artillery regiments into a PLAYGROUND PATRONS URGED LEND A HAND Members of the Ground Committee, of the South Eastern Playground Association, urge residents of the southeastern part of the city to assist in i preparing the new children's playground at Second and Walnut streets, Two horses, and a scoop shovel will be in use'each day, and if fathers, I vanla soldiers will enjoy a big ad- brothers and male friends of tho chil- ibrlgade, the first Pennsylvania unit of its kind since the Civil War. To 1'rovido Equipment. The Whittaker $282,800 appropriation bill approved by Gov. Brum- 'baugh last night, It is understood, will be used in providing clothing and equipment in the recruiting of the state units to full war strength which means the enlistment of approximately one third again as many men. Pennsylvania in equipping the troops at her own expense will later seek reimbursement from the government.

Few states are able to do this and as a result the Pennsyl- Soventh will go with Pershing's expedition. Southeastern deparmtent. An effort was made by the War Eighth Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, District of depart- mnet. Ninth North Carolina, states as the department assigned the eastern department. department.

Eleventh department. Twelfth department. Thirteenth North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, department. Fourteenth Division Missouri, "In this year when by the nets of others and not by tho acts of our own people wo Had ourselves In a great war," says tho proclamation, It is peculiarly fitting that we should Department to fix the training camps rekindle cur camp fires, rededlcate of ail the Northern states as far to jour lives and reconsecrate our all to tlie. South as possible.

Many of the the nation for which those honored dead (of former wars) gave such bountiful loyalty. "Lot the loftiest sentiments of national faulty bo uttered in our schools, in our churches, in our militia organizations In the West, will be able to train in their home nineteenth and twentieth divisions to Tenth Florida, the Western department. All the troops from tho states designated as I homos and at of the na- ono division will be trained together. By this method, the national guard organizations of each state will pre- I request and urge that ull bolls bo loin's glory-enshrined heroes. "As a part of the observance vantage over other states.

the fighting men of Young Soldier On Guard Duty Shot Meddling Private (Specla) to News by United Press.) Philadelphia, May Logue, 42, was shot and killed today by Private Bernard O'Connell, of the First Pennsylvania Infantry the fourth fatality laid to this unit In two weeks. According to officers, was intoxicated and attempted to take O'Connell's gun away from him. O'Connell, a boy In his 'teens and a new member of the regiment was on guard duty at the Schuylklll arsenal dren to be benefited will lend a hand afternoons and evenings next week, rendering such service as often and whenever possible, the work will not only be" expedited, but will conserve the limited funds of the organization. Helpers are urged to bring ground tools with them. Post Cards of the May Day Fete Ready Tonight At Gov, Whitman Signed Bill Which Repeals Boxing Law (Special to News by United Press.) Albany, N.

May Whitman today signed the Slater bill, replacing the Frawley boxing law. WANTED 8ELL BOY Apply TFQRD C. H. Killinger, Counsel for Beth. Steel Interests Attorney Charles H.

Killlngen has been appointed local counsel for the Bethlehem Steel Company, the interests of which now include nearly all of the local iron and steel Interests including tho American Iron Steel works, Lebanon, Colebrook, North Cornwall and Bird Colemau furnaces and the Cornwall ore mines. Mr. Killinger bus long been recognized as a leading member of the Lebanon bar and is prominently identified with the financial and industrial interests ot the city, Drive a (CHANDLER French and FRANK ULRICH LOSES EYE IN QUARRY MISHAP Frank Ulrich, of Palmyra, who is employed at the Henry Smith stone quarries that place, lost his left eye, on Friday afternoon, in a distressing aouidenl. Ulrich was cracking a rock with a hammer when a sliver of stone flew Into his eye, pier-cing the pupil. He was hurried to the Good Samaritan hospital, in this city, and Dr.

P. 8. Kaufman, the North Klghtli street occulist and optician, was summoned. The specialist found however, that the optic was hopelessly injured, and he extracted the eye at once. pr.

W. H. Mounted in. 50c A SET of 3 FLAGS HARP1 in the operation Tbe unfortunate Brubaker assisted as anaesthetizer. workman has the sympathy of a host of friends, as he is very well known.

WANTED 10 TYERS HERRMWJU serve their identity. A plan-is under consideration in the War Department to retain their state designation when they are merged with tho national army. Roosevelt Silent On His Rejection (Sneolal to NewE hv United Preia.) New York, May Roosevelt was silent today on President Wilson's declination of his volunteer army. Nor did the Colonel comment on the President's selection of General John J. Perishing to lead tbe Initial American expeditionary force to the European trenches.

Pershing was one of lloosevelt's favorite army officers when Roosevelt was president. He was promoted over 883 other officers from a captaincy to become a major general. i Five Auto Bandits Escape With $7000 Payroll at Chicago (Kpeclal lo News by United Chicago, May men were shot and two others badly beaten by five automobile bandits today who held up three men at the Hacine Htr.eet exit of the Metropolitan elevated and escaped with a $7000 payroll of the Stefn Garter company. tolled from 12 noon until 12:06, that flags bo placed at half-staff and that all our people stand with heads CSjieolHl to News by Un Washington, May 19.T-.| of marines, about 3600 command of Colonel Cl Doyen, of the will accompany the first army expedition to Tho regiment will i principally of organiij have recently seen a Haiti, San Domingo acording to official from the navy depart They will be armedj! organized similar to tl which they will serve, Colonel Doyen will in a ml of Major Genera tho marines with soldlers'in the trench! After making verb(j mcnt of the dispatch Secretary of Navy Pa following official state "A regiment of rafl of 2600 men, will first expedition A man who traveled in an automobile entered the Norristown home of Councilman Milton Ranibo, a Philadelphia buHlness man, but got nothing, although safe was tampered with. ARRIVED Belle Mead aflcl Foas Quality DRUG STORE, (Special to News bj Press.) Petrograd, May Issuance of a powerful appeal to the army and navy to stand firm do enemy, was the first official act of the new minister of war and marine, A.

F. Kerensky today. "The country is endangered," he declared. "Each must help avert that danger. The minister of war and marine will refuse any request to resign based on a desire to escape responsibility at such a grave time, "Deserters are enjoined to return the army and the fleet by May 28, after which date infractions will be severely punished." As If to give weight lo the order, all generals and troop commanders, who have been in Petrograd, returned to their forces today.

SPKCUI, TIM IN-TO MT. f.HOTNA For acconvodatlou of persons wishing to go to Mt. dretna special train will be run leaving P. Sunday, May 20-th, returning leave Mt. Gretna 5:00 P.

M. Stopping at Cornwall In both directions A. I). SMITH Prca't. qen'l.

Supt, Ride CHANDLER DANCE TONIOHT Armory Hall bared and in solemn silence during regiment will be cpnj this period." oiiel Charles A New Minister of War and Marines Issued Appeal ouel Charles A composed principally ot, whfcti have been, servl San Domingo and Cub? will be armed, eqitlppe Ized in exactly tho san tho regiment of the they will serve." The marinas will traditions in accompan shing force, 'fney ha.vj known as "thje first to Pretty Girl WiJ Marry Man Accepted (Special to Now 8 by New York, May the pleas of her two who appeared and son, pretty Annie Garni baay, rejected both listed and proposed Ed. Roy, of Albany, Smith, of Stajntord, enllst.fl Ed. was of his eyes, so Melcojfl form and pretty married today iu Strawberry, i Bisque. 1.15 TBV NUT 1.