Bolsheviki Government Warns Ukranians That Further Aid Must Not Be Given General Kaledines fit HARRISBURG &M 6& TELEGRAPH JRi \ v 37 i "*■ otor-Jn&cpcnscnt LXXXVI— No. 303 22 PAGES HUNS PROPOSE * PEACE OFFER TO THE ALLIES Russia Informed by Centra' h Planned by Teutons; Basis, No Annexations and No Indemnities; Germans Anxious to Learn Result of Russ Negotiations With Her Former Allies Petrograd, Wednesday, Dec. 19.—According to press reports, Russia has been informed by the central powers that they intend sto make peace proposals to the allies. This report is published in the Evening Post, which says the representatives of the central powers at the first preliminary peace •conference with the Russians, held yesterday announced their governments intended on principle to put the question of poace before all the powers, and that they had asked their allies to do likewise. Russia was requested to take similar steps. It is stated the Russians are endeavoring by all means to sound the allies. The Evening Post says the Ger mans have officially informed the! Bolsheviki headquarters that the j central powers are ready to consider I tha arrangement of peace on the basis of no annexations and no in-1 demnities but pointed out that relf- ; definition of nations was imp-ac-1 ticable. The representatives of the central' powers informed the Bussians they were ready to discuss peace pre liminaries but desired to know the result of Russia's efforts to induce the allies to join in the negotiations before proceeding with them. They said this point of view might be changed, however, and that they • might be willing to discuss peace j with Bussia alone. The Germans were of the opinion the Russian 1 armistice might influence the other fronts. The first conference was devoted merely to a discussion of who would participate in the negotiations. Bolsheviki Proclaims .State of Siege in Petrograd; Ukranians Given Ultimatum London, Dec. 18. —The Bolsheviki government according to Petrograd advices, has sent an ultimatum to the Ukranian Rada. It demands that within 48 hours a decision be made whether the Ukrane will cease to assist General Kaledines by Mind ing him troops while forbidding passage to Bolsheviki government troops and also whether it will stop disarming troops in the Ukraine. In case of refusal the Rada will be con sidered at war with the Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegaees. A state of siege has been pro claimed in Petrograd ind the Ukranian Rada has refused to obey an ultimatum presented by \.he Bol sheviki government. Disorders In the capital, due, it is said, to the looting of wine cellars and shops, made necessary the proclamation of a state of siege. Relations between the Ukraine and the Bolsheviki government have not been cordial. The Ukrane has refused to permit Maximalist troops to cross its territory to attack Gen eral Kaledines and several days ago Bolsheviki troops attacked the Rada as it was sitting in Odessa and were defeated by Ukranian troops. The Bolsheviki government has accused the Ukranian Hada of being friendly to the Constitutional Democrats and the Cossacks, the main factors be hind the counter-revolution. Rostov-on-the-Don recently re ported captured by the Bolsheviki is now said to have been occupied Monday by the Cossacks of Oeneral Kaledines who, according to an other recent rumor, had been ar rested by his own officers. The Cos [ Continued on Page 51 THE WEATHER For Ilarrlsburß anil vicinity* (ien crnlly cloudy to-niKht and Fri day* probably rnln or unow Fri day; not much change In tem perature, lowest to-night nliout 80 dcKrcf*. For Eastern Pennsylvania* Cloudy to-night; Friday prob ably rain, turning; to miiowj not much change in temperature j moderate soutl\ve*t winds be coming northwest. Klver The Susquehnuun river anl all it* branches will remain generally icebound nnd nearly stationary. A Ntaue of about 4.4 feet In Indi cated for lliirrlsburg Friday morning. f*enernl Conditions The ridKe of high barometric pressure over the Atlantic States still persists, but with slowly decreasing strength. The low pressure urea front the Northwest now covers the Mis souri and l. T pper Mississippi val leys. A new high pressure area Is moving In over the North Pa cific States. The temperature continues mild over nearly all the eastern half of the country. In the North western States anil Western Canada there has been n general fall of '1 to 18 defcrees In tem perature. Temperature t fi a. m., 31!. Hunt Rises, 7t2(l a. m.; sets, 4:3 D P. m. • Moon: First quarter, December 21. River Stnjcc: 4.4 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. JI4. l<owest temperature. 2S. Mean temperature, 31* Normal temperature, 3-. v BOY OF FOURTEEN HANGS HIMSELF TO A BEDPOST Leaves Note Saying "Good By," but No Reason For Act RAYMOND G. IIANGEN When the mother of Raymond Gilbert Hangen, 425 Catherine street, Steelton, went to call him for break fast this morning, she found him cold and dead, hanging by the neck from a bedpost to which he had hanged himself by a bed sheet used as a rope. Raymond was 14 years old, a member of the freshman class of the .Steelton High school, a boy scout, an industrious boy and well-liked, lie was apparently happy, preparing for Christmas, and his parents know ab solutely no reason why he should take his life. He had just secured a position in Harrlsburg to work on Saturdays to earn a little pin money. The father, John F. Hangen, said this morning that his son returned home last evening about y.SO o'clock. He asKcd him where he had been and he told him downtown. He said he had purchased a turkey for the Cnristmas dinner and had been in Hamsburg and secured a position to work on Saturday. Did Not Say Good-night Mr. Hangen said that on com menting on his new job he told his son he did not care to have him work for nothing as he had done in sev eral cases. He left the room, not bidding the family good-night, as was his usual custom, the father con tinued. He never before had gone to bed at night without saying good night to all. When the mother called her son this morning shortly after 7 o colck there was no reply. The mother be came frightened and went to his room where she found his lifeless •>ody. On a table in his room she found a note which caid, "Good bv co all. Put my picture in the paper." He requested that his par ents give good-by to four girls whom he mentioned in the note. Raymond was born In Steelton and was well known among tlio boys. When in Central grammar school last year he took an active part in pports. The family has resided in Bteelton for almost thirty years. The father has been employed at the steel plant for twenty-seven years. HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1 INQUIRY INTO SUPPLY OF FOOD j TO COME NEXT Investigation Into Delays of Gun Suppiy Now Virtu ally Completed PUBLIC WANTS FACTS' Relation of Garment Shortage! to Disease Prevalence Will Receive Attention By Assccitteti Press "Washington, Dec. 20.—With its in quiry into alleged delays in supplying the war Army with guns and am munition virtually concluded, the Senate Military Committee to-day prepared to investigate the shortage and production delays in and 'cod for soldiers. Chairman Chamberlain promised a thorough investigation of the work of the Quartermaster's Department, of which Major General Ooetlials, recently recalled to active service, soon will take charge. The relation of the clothing shortage to preva lence of disease in various canton ments also will be developed. One private munitions maker re mained on the stand when the hear ing was resumed to-day to supple ment the testimony already given by other manufacturers as to delays in supplying machine guns and rltles during tlie early days of the war. Ship Board's Affairs to Be Aired Tomorrow Washington, Dee. 20.—Investiga tion of the government's shipping board anf emergency Meet corpora tion's operations, under the resolu tion of Senator Harding, which the Senate adopted, the Senate Com merce Committee decided to-day will begin to-morrow afternoon with [Continued on Pago 20.] American Santa Claus Must Provide Toys For Blind Children in Halifax By s,.c;uUd Press Halifax, N. S., Dec. 20.—An Amer ican Santa Claus must provide toys for hundreds of blind and crijfpled children in hospitals here. The limit ed stock carried by the local deal ers has been exhausted. The bulk of holiday trade before the disaster was in the purchase of gifts for Nova Scotia forces over seas. These had been mailed for delivery on the battle front next week and Halifax had planned for a quiet ob servance at home. The number of persons blinded by the explosion may exceed 1,000, in cluding those who lost the 'light of one or both eyes. Many of these are children. 600 Applications on File For Unfilled Coal Orders Mayor Keister announced *o-day that he lias taken an accurate list of the coal needed in the oity in or der to form an idea of the serious ness of the coal situation here. Every dealer has been asked to tabulate his orders during the first, days of this week, and a report has been sub mitted to the Mayor showing that Tuesday and Wednesday of this wek, nine out of seventeen of tne dealers of the city had GOO appli cations for coal shipments -vhich they could not fill. Mayor Keister began the canvass of the coal situa tion last week when there was prac tically no coal in the city in order that he could place before the state administration the actual condition of the city. Stuart Give? SI,OOO to Knights of Columbus Fund Philadelphia, Dec. 20. The Knights of Columbus fund to main tain huts for. soldiers at the various cantonments lias reached a total of SIIO,OOO according to John V. Doughney, treasurer of the fund. Among the contributors of the fund yesterday was ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart, who sent a check for ? 1,000. Scranton Abolishes Jobs to Cut Down Expenses Scranton, Pa., Dec. 20. Aa a means of cutting down the expenses of the city for 1918. council yester day voted to abolish three oattalion chiefs in the tire department. The position of director of department of supplies, paying a salary of $3,600 a year, will also be eliminated. noY SCOUT COUNCIL POSTPONES ITS SESSION The annual meeting of the Boy Scout Council schedule lor to-night has been indefinitely postponed ow ing to the inability of the majority of members to attend, due to the holiday activities and pressure of business. A date for a futnre fleet ing will bo announced later. WKEK'H liltri'lsll < AI,'AI.TIES By /..-.toriuted Press London, Tuesday. Dec. 19. Hrltish casualties reported in the week end ing to-day totalled 17.97G officers and men as follows: Officers killed or died of wounds, 381: men 3.181, Officers wounded or missing, 1,039: men, 13,425. BOOTHS GET MAN t : fIOOOftOOO MEMBERS BY CHRISTMAS 1 MISS ELEANOR CLARK AT HEADQUARTERS The booths placed in a dozen or more stores and business places in Harrisburg are securing many members for the Red Cross. Miss Eleanor Clark, of Front and Reily streets, is at the headquarters' booth, Market and Court streets. HEARS PARENTS ! SAVED LIVES BY 1,000-MILE WALK iHarrisburger Gets First Let-; tor From Home Since June 28,1914 i After giving up his parents and six! | brothers as being numbered among j the countless dead in the great Hun i I drive into Poland Max Gordon, pro- j I prietor of a shoe repair shop at! Verbeke and Penn streets, to-day j I was electrified by receiving a letter] i from his father and mother, j It was the lirst word that he had j received from his home since ,'une! 28, 1914. His parents are well and! fairly happy although driven back! into the country for more than a! thousand miles. Two brothers were drafted into the Uussian army, the letter said,! and word has come that one i a prisoner in Austria, having been; taken captive in one of the cam-! paigns into 'lis native country. Gordon to-day said that he had] given up hope of ever hearing from his parents. lie had read carefully; of the accounts of the terrible dis-' tres3, the murders, the looting, the! starving millions that had followed in the wake of the barbarians entry into Poland that he believed the! chances of his family's escaping; were extremely small. The Gordon family, the letter tells.! had walked more than a thousand miles into the interior with what! household effects they could save. They are now living many rriiias back of Petrogrud. There is enough food ( where the family is living, the let ter states, but shoes are impossible! to buy. Gordon to-day was planning toj send shoes to his home. "I also have; good news for my parents," re-j marked Gordon to-day at his shop.' "Since 1 heard from home 1 have' married and have a child. ' M:\VSPAPIOHS TO HAISE PUK E j Allentown, Pa., Dec. 20. — Allen-! town's penny newspapers will raise] the price to two cents on the lirst of the year. ' RED CROSS TO LOOK ■FAMILY NEEDS O MEN SERVING WITH COLORS To see that no family suffers In any way because any of Its members are serving tlio colors Is the very definite purpose of the Home Service section of the Harrlsburg chapter of the Red Cross, recently organized, and which hns taken on Increased activity during the past two weeks. The chairman of the committee is Mrs. William I. l,aub<?nsUin, with Mrs. William Jennings as vice-chair man and John H. McCandless as sec retary. Among .the specific things which the committee Is doing is to advise with the wives, mothers and 34STATES SURE OF PROHIBITION, LEADERS CLAIM Include Delaware, Maryland and Vermont; Printed Pie lures to Play Big Part Washington. Dec. 20.—The United States may be a dry nation within a | reasonably short time. Prohibition j leaders figure that it will be neces j sary to get only two avowedly wet 1 states to ratify the pending federal I amendment in addition to others in j which the legislatures are counted I upon to ratify it. As the situation stands to-dav [Continued on Pago 12.] Former President's Daughter to Wed London, Dec. 20.—The engagement | is announced of Esther, daughter of j the late Grover Cleveland to Captain i BoaaiMtuat, of the Crtdntream Guards. Captain Bosanquet, a son j i f Sir Albert Bosanquet. has been decorated with the Distinguished I Service, Order. Miss Cleveland came to London in Tune of last year, after having quali fied as a nurse and instructor of the j blind, and took up work as a vol unteer at St. Duns' Home for blind ! soldiers. Cardinal Approves Work on Holy Days i Washington, Dec. 20. Cardinal! Gibbons gave his sanction to-d.iy toj Roman Catholic miners working on the holy days falling within the! j Christmas and New Year's holiday; [ season. In a letter to Fuel Administrator! Garfield he approved of a suggestion ' that miners take only Christmas Day! i and New Year's Day oft and further! proposed that saloons might co-op-1 j erate by closing from 9 o'clock in the! [evening until 8 o'clock the follow-1 ing morning. sisters of enlisted men, to help them in securing the Government allow ances, tell them what their privileges are under the new War Risk Insur ance law. and to be the medium In their contacts with Uncle Sam. Reg ular hours are being maintained at the Red Cross rooms at which the members of the committee will be glad to see any of the members of families who have sons, husbands or brothers in the service. In addition to this Information fContinued on l'pge 12,] U-BOAT CAMPAIGN FAILED TO CHECK ALLIED SUPPLIES Germany's Intensified Cam paign Not a Success, Says Lloyd-George IMPORTS ALMOST NORMAL More Submarines Arc Reing Sunk, and U-Boats Arc Sinking Less Ships By Associated rress . j London, Dec. 20.—Speaking in the House of Commons to-day, David Lloyd George, British prime minis ter, said that the margin of losses at sea was narrowing. The sinking by submarines, he declared, was decreas ing while shipbuilding was increas ing. The premier said the sinking of submarines was increasing. Although the merchant tonnage was down by 20 per cent., he added, the loss had been only six per cent, of imports over that of last year. Begarding the military situation. Mr. Lloyd George said it was idle to pretend that the hopes formed had been realized. Tills disappointment he attributed to the Russian collapse. The Germans, the premier said, had had only one success which was due to surprise, and this was now engag ing inquiry. The Germans, he stat ed, hart lost 100,000 prisoners, valua ble positions and hundreds of guns. The premier said that if the Bus sian army had fulfilled the expecta tions of its generals, by this time the pride of the German military power would have been completely bumbled. On the whole, Premier Lloyd George said, the British campaign had not achieved the expectations formed but he declared there had been military successes in Palestine which would have a permanent effect on the history of the world. Jerusa lem, he stated, never would be rc | stored to the Turks. The premier said the losses In ship ping had been lighter by 100,000 tons than had been anticipated in his Au gust estimate. Complete restoration of the terri tories taken by the enemy, together with compensation, was demanded by Premier Lloyd George In explaining the war aim of the Government. After referring to the Italian re verses, the premier said it would be necessary for Great Britain to make greater sacrifice to strengthent Its armies in the coming year, The need would arise to increase tile nation's manpower Jiy taking some men now exempted. Danger of Coal Famine Passes With Cold Weather; City's First Lightless Night To-night will see all outside lights in the city, except street lights, ex tinguished, and Harrisburg will ex perience its lirst lightless night. The fuel administrator this morning an nounced that the order affecting the lights, includes all lights in the city except the street lights, window lights, and lights within buildings. AH outside lights must be exting uished, and no light will be allowed to burn in a place of business ac cept while business is actually being conducted within the building. Window lights must bo turned ofT at the same time as the rest of the lights in a store when it is closed at night. No lights placed outside a display window to show off the dis play within, will be allowed to burn at all on the two designated lightless nights, Thursday and Sun day. The order applies to porch lights of private dwellings, and dis play signs of theaters. The fuel commission of Dauphin countj .will meet this afternoon. An effort will be made to fix the price of coal in small quantities, for the benefit of the small consumer who cannot buy a quarter ton. The in tention of the committee is to see that the coal is • sold by weight, rather than by measure. The advent of milder weather In the city has eased up the coal i-titua ticn somewhat, dealers say. This, coupled with the fact that B's cars of coal were shipped to the city this week, relieves the city of the danger of an immediate coal famine. Expensive Proposition to Love Kaiser Too Well Mankato, Minn., Dec. 20. —A state ment that the United States might as well be under the kaiser's govern ment as under its own was among those charged to Frank J. Busch, a wholesale grocer, arrested on com plaints that he had made seditious remarks. He told Municipal *udge Cemstock he was sorry and at tne judge's suggestion, bought ? 1,000 v ortli of Liberty Bonds, subscribed SIOO to the Red Cross and gavq $. r >o each to the Knights of Columbus and the Y. M. C. A. Then, to-day, Judgf Comstock fined hiip SSOO. LIFTING OP FMBAROO CAUSES SIIARI' riTl'llX Py s!r<'"'wtel Pre** Chicago, Tiec. 20.—Rumors tha* the eastbonnd embargo on corn and oats was to be lifted and that the maximum price of corn was to be removed led to a sharp upturn in the corn and oats market on the Board of Trade to-day, May corn ad vanced cents to $1.28 V 4. Oats j rose three cenU, Single Copy. 2 Cents HOME EDITION CITY LAGS FOR FIRST TIME IN PATRIOTIC WORK Red Cross Committees Keep Up Canvass to Catch More Members 19,000 RACK UNCLE SAM Hundreds of Homes Have No Flags For Christ mas Day WHY? Passing along Harrisburg streets in the cars to-day and to-morrow and the next day. look for lied Cross service Hags in the win dows. You will see hundreds of them. But you will see hundreds of windows in which there are no Hags. You might ask 'yourself what that means. And, incidentally, yon might ask your neighbor why there is no (ted service Hag in his win iow. At noon to-day somewhere in the neighborhood of 19,000 Harrisburg men, women and children had joined the local Bed Cross chapter. That is 11,000 less than the 30,000 quota as signed to Harrisburg; and the cam paign has gone twenty-four hours past the time originally Intended. Jn the opinion of those in charge of the campaign there are several reasons why Harrisburg seems to have "fallen down." Kither the people of Harrisburg have no interest in the 1,000 men from Dauphin county in the United States Army. Or they are not interested in the successful prosecution of the war; Or they have just overlooked the fact that the dollar they give the Bed Cross may mean the life of an American. Or it may be that they are German symphathizers—some of them. I.ast evening Mrs. James Steincr [Continued on Page 18.] r i 11 SHIPPERS AND CARRIERS MEET 2 |jj Harrisburg-—Shippers and railroad men met to-day in * the offices of. J. K. Johnston, superintendent.of.the Phila- 4 f u delphla division of the Pennsylvania, in an effort to solve *L ' * congestion problems. The idea is to accelerate the load- £ mg and unloading of freight cars. Edward Hilltary .>■ * * presided. ■ ,4, Harrisburg—Garfield McAllister, 804 North Sixteenth *9 7 street, has gone to Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, where J he will be assistant secretary .of the Y. M. C. A. • T PARIS REPORTS FRONT QUIET J Paris, Dec. 20.—The official statement issued to-day • Tby the French war office says: "There was moderate JL "f* artillery activity along the front last night. There were T T f 4 no infantry actions." W | ITALIAN SHIPPING LOSSES SMALL 2 4* Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 19.—The weekly report of |T X shipping 1 sses shows that two sailing vessels of more JjP than 100 tons and one of less than that size were sunk, gfc jk One steamship was damaged by a mine but reached port. Jjr if* 9 |T RUSSIAN EMBASSY WITHOUT ADVICES T | Washington, Dec. 20.—The Russian embassy to-day *l* v.-js entirely without advices on the progres: of peace 4 negotiation:; between the Bolsheviki and the central Jf ± pov ers whatever advices the government was re- 2 ceiving through American ambassador Francis or other 4, source; was not made public. T NAVY INQUIRY MAY BE DEFERRED 1 X <■s Washington, Dec. 20.—The next step-of the House *** <4# 4 J sub committee investigating the war activities of the * Navy had not been revealed to-day and it appeared prob- •* * 4 * JL able that further sessions would be deferred until after ' * tlic Chr tmas recess. The committee adjourned last ■* Ja night without fixing any' time for resuming the hearing. * T 11 KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION J* IJ Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 20.—Eleven miners were killed * * in an explosion at mine No. 3of the Dar Dour Coal and * X Coke Company, Catoosa, near Nemo, Tenn., late Wednes- £ J 4 day afternoon according to work reaching here to-day. * * Seventy-five were in the mine at the time. > ____________________* * $ MARRIAGE I "$* Alain I'ohnl nii)l M*r> ()(fl. Stfclloni Clnrenrr A. Hrnr nml * ' Amy S. Miniiiiiii. MrrlinnU-Nhiiriit Knrl *V. Iloirmiin, Unburn, Hnrt 4 > Snrnli K, SI rom Inner, M Cuoibrrlimili \\ llHnm A. Jolly an^ Mury I'rlrr, Mlililli-totvn | .luiiholi O. \\ Iblc, tamp Mill, an <| Wntvn K. Kliire, llurrixburic. MANY FOIBLES TO GO FROM MY LADY'S TABLE Powder and Paint Not a War Necessity, Stores Rule MAY TABOO HIGH SHOES Christmas Shopping, Now On in Full Force, Breaks < Records Mercy irie, this Is going to bo-a terrible war for the fair sex. No powder or rouge for the unfortunate women who depend on that camou flage to balk Father Time; and sh6o tops cut down from eleven inches to seven-and-one-half inches. Yes, and a lot more luxuries will be eliminat ed wlien the government sets going its restriction ban on the supplies sold by general stores. All the big department stores in Ilarrisburg got the word to-day con veyed through the National Dry Goods Association that the Wash ington government suggests the eli mination of five hundred commodi ties during the extent of this war. This liflt includes a wide selection of things that many people will be lieve they cannot get along with out. such as pleasure vehicles, brew ery products, candy, toys, table glass ware. pottery, jewelry, athletic goods [Continued on Page 22.] WILL YOU KILL YOUR SOLDIER? If you knew the life of an Am erican soldier, lying wounded back of the first line tienchcs in France, depended absolutely upon rn nnmedij-p rendition of aid If you knew that aid must come from the Bed Cross — Would you withhold a dollar from the Bed Cross AND KILL THE SOLDIKK?
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