i , . n • a n . r ~ ■ —: — —— American Passenger Steamer Sinks German Submarine While Approaching TStitm Coast "W HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • , olar-Jnscptnbcni ' W' f* LXXX\a— j50..311) G ES /f/ATG FERDINAN ABDICATES THRONE RUMANIAN KING ABDICATES IN FAVOR OF CROWN PRINCE CHARLES Persistent Rumors Reach Petrograd That Ferdi nand Has Given Up His Throne Following Plot REPORTS CONFIRM POLITICAL CRISIS Deposed Ruler, Who Is a Member of the Hohenzol lern Family, Succeeded Uncle in October, 1914 By Associated Press Petrograd (Friday) Dec. 2S.—There are persistent rumors here that King Ferdinand, of Rumania, has abdicated in favor of Crown Prince Charles. Disturbed conditions in Rumania were reported in a dispatch from Pe trograd dated Monday, it was said that news of a revolutionary plot .tgainst King Ferdinand had been re ceived at the Bolsheviki headquarters in Petrograd. Other reports, it was added, tended to confirm indications of a political crisis. Except for this there has been little news from Ru mania since the Rumanian army was forced to agree to an armistice on the eastern front. It has been reported that Bolsheviki and German propa gandists were at work among the Rumanian troops. King Ferdinand, who is a member of the Hohenzollern family, succeed ed his uncle, King Charles, in Octo ber, 1914, King Charles having died at £inai on October 10. Rumania de clared war on Austria on August 27, IRI6, and King Ferdinand took per sonal command of the arnfy shortly 1 thereafter. King Ferdinand is the son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sig maringen, and two of his brothers are generals in the German army. He was born at !?ismaringen, August 24. 1865. Crown Prince Charles was born Oc tober 3. 1593. and is an officer in the Rumanian army. He is unmarried, although early in 1914 it was report ed that his betrothal to the then Grand Duchess Olga of Russia had been arranged. Queen Marie, of Rumania, who was a duchess of Saxe-Coburg Gatha, is a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ef Great Britain and was married to King Ferdinand on January 10. 1593. Since Rumania's entrance into the war more than two-thirds of her ter ritory has been overrun by the en emy. The royal family fled from the capital, Bucharest, in the fall and since that time has been at Jassy. German Foreman Is Charged With Treason By Associated Press Xew York, Dec. 29.—Paul Hennig, a naturalized German, who has been employed as a foreman in a Brook lyn factory engaged in the making of torpedoes for the Cnited States Gov ernment, was remanded to Jail with out bail in Federal court here to-day charged with treason. Hennig, authorities say, superin tended the assembling of the gyro scopes which control the course of the torpedoes. According to District Attorney France, some of these gyro scopes have been found "maliciously mutilated." This was done in such a way as to render useless the tor pedoes In which the gyroscopes were installed. THE WEATHER For IliirrlMhurg and vlelnUyi tien ernlly cloudy nnil continued cold to-nlcht and Sundays lo e*t lemperulure to-nltchi about xero. For Knxtern Pennsylvania: Cloudy anil continued eohl to-night anil Sunday. prnhalily occasional light snow in southeast portion; moderate northeast to north winds. Hiver The Susquehanna river and nil Its ■tranches will remain generally Ice-bound and practically ntn tlonary. General Conditions Pressure hnr* increased over near ly all the country, except the northwestern nnd southeastern portions, and Is unusually hieh over the Missouri and Ipper Mississippi vnlle.VK.yvlth barome ter r-ndlnics above 31 inches in Minnesota and eastern South Dakota. A disturbance along the South Atlantic coast, with liiKli pressure to the northwest ward has resulted in generally cloudy weather in eastern nnil southern districts, with light snows over most of the eastern half of the country and Kme rain in Eaxtern .North nrolina. Rain has fallen also In Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and light snows In the Missouri 1 alley and the Xorthern Rocky Mountains. There has been n general fall of a or degrees in temperature over nearly n|| the country, except the south eastern and northwestern por tions and the Western Canadian provinces, where It is warmer. Temperatnrei 8 a. m., 4. Sum ltlaes, 7i3# a. m.; sets, 4:4;; p. m. Moon: Rises, 7 tOl> p. m. River Stage: 4.3 feet above low- ' water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, XI. I.owest temperature. 14. Mean temperature, 34. I •Normal temperature, 31. ' Prince Charles Said to Have Been Selected to Succeed Father on Throne J&BB& wfmßSm JT / < : PR'NC £- C^/?i£S 0/=" Ht King Ferdinand lias abdicated the Rumanian throne in favor of Crown Prince Charles, according to persist ent rumors in Petrograd. Official confirmation however, is lacking. Unsettled conditions and a political crisis in Rumania, were reported early this week yi dispatches from Petrograd and the Bolshevik! gov ernment received information that tfi'ere had boon a revolutionary plot against King Ferdinand. The Ruman ian army has been inactive since the Russian armistice and peace nego tiations forced it to suspend hostili ties. Rolsheviki and German propa gandists have been reported working among the Rumanian troops. PAID BONUS BUT LOST HIS PLANT, PACKER RELATES Gave Up Property Bit by Bit to Satisfy Demands of Shy locks, Says Independent By Associated Press Boston, Dec. 29.—Control by the packers of tl\e hide and leather in dustry, as well as the rendering busi ness with its many branches, was in dicated by the evidence elicited by the Federal Trade Commission which closed for the time being its local inuirqy into the country's meat industry to-day. The story of an attempt to op erate an independent rendering com pany was related by William M. Mc- Donald, at present engaged in ihe wholesale meat business in this city. McDonald said he put $50,000 capital into the rendering plant and borrowed an additional $50,000 from the Exchange Trust Company of this city. "At what rate?" asked Mr. Heney. "A $5,000 bonus for six months, a sliding scale of interest, starting at 10 per cent, and decreasing to 8 and 6 per cent. In addition I gave them a mortgage on the plant and SIOO,- tContinued on Pago 2.] Wm. Jennings Hears From Son Near Battle Line Mr. and Mrs. William Jennings, whose son, Ross W. Jennings, is with the British army somewhere in France, serving in the Eleventh En gineers, railway construction duty, yesterday received a cablegram from their son stating that all was well with him, and wishing them a Merry Christmas. Mr. Jennings thinks that his son is in the Cambrai sector, and took part in the recent great push of General Byng. which netted the al lies a . gain of thirty miles. Young Jennings is not allowed to say Just where he is, in his letters, but has stated that two men in his regi-I ment were killed in the recent fight-! ing, which leads Mr. Jennings to think that his son was one of the i party of American engineers at work 1 in the Cambrai region at the begin- ' ning of the victorious "push," and joined in the fight. The American engineers were mentioned in dis- i patches at the time. FA 1,1 S OFF SPOUTING Edward Wertz, 1204 North Cam-j eron street, is in the hospital with a| crushed femur, the large bone in thß leg, near the hip. Wertz .vas' brought to the hospital about 11 o'clock last night, and could not account for his condition. was| intoxicated and the hospital authori ties understood him to say he sus tained the injury in trying to climb to the third floor byway of the! spout. + HA"RRISBLTRG. PA..SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1917 RUSSIA TO MAKE SEPARATE PEACE WITHIN 10 DAYS, SAYS TROTZKY Foreign Minister Will Of ficially Ask Entente Allies Whether They Will Join in Peace Negotiations LIMITED TIME IS GIVEN FOR ACTION Advance Guard of Peace Emissaries From Ger many Arrives in Petro grad to Hasten Matters Py Associated Press Washington. Dec. 29.—Russia, Leon Trotzky lias told the Council of Workmen's anil Soldiers' Dele gates. would be forced to conclude a separate peace with Germany un less the entente allies join in the j peace negotiations within ten days, i ! The Bolsheviki Foreign Minister an- I nounced that he officially will ask ■ the entente powers whether they | will join in the peace negotiations. An advance guard of German peace emissaries has arrived in Petro grad. Great Britain and France, through Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Pichon, have replied in formally to the peace proposals enunciated by Count Czernin for the central powers. The German terms are declared to be insufficient. The British -National Labor conference has voted to continue the war to make the world safe for democracy in future. Foreign policies of the French government were approved by the French Chamber of Deputies. Only in Palestine has there been marked fighting activity. North and northwest of Jerusalem British troops, after repulsing four Turkish attacks, attacked the enemy and pushed him back two and a half miles on a front of nine miles. Turk ish losses are reported to have been heavy and among the prisoners taken were Germans. Artillery duels occupy the opposing armies on the Italian and western fronts. On the front in France the German artillery- fire has been heavy around St. Quentin and in the Ypres sector. A German attack in Lor raine was broken up by French gun fire. McAdoo Receives Reports of First Shipments by Shortest Freight Routes By Associated Press Washington, Dec. 29.—Director | General McAdoo spent to-day as | sembling a staff of advisers and ex | ecutive officers to assist him in ad- I ministering the railroads as a na i tional unit. He conferred with John ' P.arton Payne, counsel for the ship -1 ping board, and Interstate Commerce Commissioner Anderson. An an | nouncement of plans is expected [ soon. j The railroads' war board went to work on a general scheme of opera j tion. A few reports reaching here ; to-day told of first efforts by local railway officials to haul freight by i shortest routes, as requested by the director general in his first telegram to railway heads. A cold wave accompanied by snow ;in many localities probably ' would ■ prevent a noticeable improvement in I freight congestion under government operation for a week or more, offic j ials said. It was understood to-day that Mr. | McAdoo would use the various de-j I partments of the Interstate Com • merce Commission to execute mosti ' of his orders, and in addition would i form an advisory cabinet including! I representatives of the War and ' Navy Departments, the shipping I board, the fuel and food administra | tions and the Federal Trade Com- I mission. i The Senate Interstate Commerce ! committee to-day decided to continue! I its plan to investigate the railroad i situation under the Cummins amend- ' j ment. Members of the committee agreed! lha the investigation would be pure- ! | ly academic but decided that any in- j j formation obtained would lc of j benefit in considering legislation to j carry out recommendations by the i President in his forthcoming ad j dress. Members of the Interstate Commerce Commission as well as ; representatives of the railroads will I be called. PREMIER RECEIVES SUPPORT By Associated Press Paris. Dec. 29. The debate on the i bill authorizing the Government to prepare lists of men of the .class of 1919, preparatory to calling them to the colors, was seized upon to-day by critics of Premier Clemenceau as an opening for an attack on the subject of releasing the older soldiers. In the plainest language the Premier refused to give any undertaking. He received ! enthusiastic applause of the greater, part of the deputies. It 11. MRS CRT INCREASE By Associated Press Chicago, Dec. 29. Wage increases of 13% per cent, and shorter working | hours have been granted telegraphers, | station agents and towermen of thev Chicago and North western Railroad | it was announced to-day. Two thou- i tand men are affected. ' MERCURY TO HUG ZERO MARK FOR SEVERAL DAYS Ice Companies to Begin Har vest if Labor Can Be Secured WARNING BY FIRE CHIEF Tells Property Owners to Use Hot Water to Open Frozen Pipes Washington, HOP. 2lt.—Weath er predictions for the week !•- ginning Sunday issued by the Weather Bureau to-day are: Cloudy and continued cold until Tuesday, moderating during middle of the week with snow Friday or Saturday. Continued cold weather for sev eral days is the gloomy forecast an nounced this morning by Weather Forecaster Demain. The mercury which has been hovering near the zero mark for the last twenty-four hours, is expected to go below that mark during the night. The lowest point reached this morning was 4 degrees. According to Mr. Demain, the dis turbance on the South Atlantic Coast may result in slight squalls of snow in this vicinity. Ice on the river has attained an average of about eight inches, said Mr. Demain. With cold weather in prospect local coal and ice dealers are planning to cut ice for next sum mer. Officials of the United Ice and Coal Company stated this morn ing that they would begin to cut ice on Monday morning at the Laurel dam in Cumberland and at Cole brook in Lebanon county. If a suffi cient number of men are available they will cut from other sources during the week. Two Fires Fire Chief John C. Kindler to-day I issued a warning to residents of the j city not to use torches, burn paper j or other inflammables in attempting i to thaw out frozen water pipes. The j first of two fire alarms of the morn ins was from Box 35, Seventh and Boas streets, the blaze starting when the residents at 626 Hoas street, own ed and .occupied by Harry Savolovitz, wt>re tn the kitchen. The damage to the prop erty will total about SIOO, but according to Chief Kindler serious lires may result if householders are not careful. The lire chief's advice in case of frozen water pipes is cither to call' in a plumber or wrap the pipes with rags soaked in hot water. The second call from Box 12 4, Sixth and "Woodbine streets, was a false alarm. When the companies ar [ Continued on Pase 2.] Bids For Collection of ; Ashes Are Authorized by City Commssioners Giving up all plans for municipal ash collections Council in special | session last night passed an ordi j nance authorizing Commissioner | Morgenthaler to advertise foi bids ' for ash collections by private con tract for periods of 15, 29, 37 51 or 63 months. The ordinance will I probably be passed finally at a meet- I ing of Council on Wednesday. Bids | may be opened Saturday, January I 12 - AU specifications for the collec | tion work will be prepared and ap | proved by Council it is said, and the 1 ash and garbage inspection bureau j will be put in charge. Complaints of failure to collect | ashes are increasing at the city | health department it is reported. | While the present contract with the I Pennsylvania Reduction Company | ends February 1 city officials said to : day they will compel the company !to continue collections until that date. Residents in various parts of I the city in making complaint about the poor service say that in some instants no ashes have been re moved for several weeks and that the city will soon be facing condi tions similar to last winter when piles of refuse remained in back ( yards uncollected for a month or more. Thief Gets $263 After Entering Coal Office Police are searching for a thief] who broke into the main office of the : Montgomery Coal Company, Third i and Chestnut streets, and stole $263 I in cash and checks, it is the first i time money was left in the office! over night. A window in the door on Chestnut street, was broken in. The recipts of the day's sales and collections of the firm, were left in the cash drawer because of the rush of business late yesterday. Ambassador Fletcher Here This Evening Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to! Mexico, and brother of cx-SherllT J. ■ Rowe Fletcher, of this city, will pass l through this city this evening on his way to Chambersburg where he and his bride will spend Sunday with the ambassador's father. He has many friends In this city. MOSCOW SEIZES PRIVATE BANKS! flv Asaciatcd I'rr.ts Petrograd, Friday, Dec. 28.—The! British embassy authorizes the an-! nouncement that an agreement has! been reached with the Bolsheviki government to issue passports to couriers going to England, on con-: dition that they perform only cour ier duty and return immediately. The Moscow Bolsheviki authorl-; ties have followed the example of those in Petrograd and have taken over all the private banks in Mos-, cow. . 1 r•- . ) ROYAL FAMILY SAID TO HAVE A BDICA TED RUM A L J JKIIfG AND QUEEN OF RUMANIA AMERICAN SINKS HUN U-BOAT Two Shots Sends Enemy Craft to Bottom; Particulars of Destruction of Second Submarine Given Out By the Navy Department By Associated Press | London, Dec. 29. —A German sub- j marine was sunk bv the tire of guns of an American passenger steamer approaching the British coast Thurs-, day, according to reports of the pas sengers and gunners aboard. The ship was proceeding at full j .speed about noon in a very smooth bp*. A periflcop® -was ighted by. the • watch on the bridge and the sub-1 marine was seen plainly by the pas- j sengers q.s it came to the surface at j a distance of about 1,500 yards "di- j rectly in the wake of the ship. The steamer was brought about sharply and the two guns took a shot with only an interval of two seconds between. The second shell exploded and debris from the sub marine was seen flying in the air. j Washington, Dec. 29.—Fu1l de-! tails of the destruction by American MERCHANTS TO CURTAIL THEIR DELIVERY WORK Conservation of Man Power | Means Customers Must ' Carry Parcels ! A problem of war so Ins that the | Government itself, nor the merchants ] and certainly not the 'public, have any definite and comprehensive no tion as yet of how to. solve it, has been brought before the storekeepers of Harrisburg In a call issued for a national delivery conference. Mer ' chants all over the country are giv j ing most serious thought to the sub ject of cutting down expenses in de- I llverlng food to customers. , National authorities have shown a tendency to regard the delivery serv ' ices of the dry goods and department i stores in the same light as the less ' essential industries. Through the I commercial economy board the Gov ! ernment some time ago called upon | the dry goods and department stores of the country to make reductions so as to conserve the man power of the nation. In only a few instances have the reductions been in harmony with the ideals established by the board upon which it is expected now that the Government will take drastic ac tion. in the near future to compel stores to curtail their delivery serv ice to a considerable extent. Harrisburg merchants gave evi dence to-day of immediate action to comply with the Government demand. | One proprietor of a big department store suggested combining the deliv-i ery machinery of the department stores. As it is now, two or three wagons from different stores may take a few parcels each to Demoyne, Penbrook or Rockvllle. In addition, such deliveries add to the overhead charges. The money time and man power wasted In this way is incalculable when one takes in the whole coun try. It is waste of gasoline, which is becoming precious. It is a spefcies of luxury and must be done away with If America contemplates win ning this war. A proposition being experimented [Continued on Page 2.] MAJOR ROSS VISITS HERE Major Frank K. Ross, United States Army, and family froin Gar-j den City, I-ong Island, are the guest.sl of their aunt, Mba Hannah Ross. 3; South- Front street. .. -I | destroyers of a German submarine I and the capture of its crew made 1 public to-day by the Navy Depart i ment shows that the destroyers j Fanning and Nicholson were the warships engaged. The incident was i reported November 24, but few facts | were given at the time. The submarine was sunk, the Navy Department story of the affairs in 'dlcates, as it was preparing to at- I tack a merchant ship flotilla con j voyed by the destroyers. Sights Periscope The Navy Department's full story | of the incident follows: "At about 4.10 p. m. while es cording a convoy, Coxswain David D. Looniis, lookout of. the Fanning, sighted a small periscope some dis tance off the port bow, extending I about a foot out of water, and visi j hie for only a few seconds. The [Continued on Page 2.] SMOKE FUND IS GIVEN BIG BOOST BY SERG. EMPEY | Collection Taken Up Today to Buy Autographed Copy of "Over the Top" "The soldiers will do sixty per cent, of the fighting cheerfully, but you folks at home must do forty per cent. In combatting the efforts of Germans in this country. I don't mean the loyal German-Americans, but the hyphenated sort. As Roose velt said, touch them up with the big stick. If you make a mistake apolo gize after the war, but be sure to get those who are doing their best to prevent America from winning this war." In this vein Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey, one of the first Americans to enlist in the British Army for [Continued on Page 2.] Heavy Snow Greets Boys on French Front fly Associated Press With the American Army in France, Friday, Dec. 28.—Still an other day of howling snowstorm— the fourth—saw virtually the entire American expeditionary force with , in the army zone abandon prepara tions to battle the Germans anil be gin a fight to keep from being snow ed under. All last night and throughout to-day the flakes fell, choking the roads and badly delay ing traffic. Virtually all training work was called off but will be resumed to morrow unless more heavy snow I makes it impossible. FROZEN TO UEATII Hy Associated I'ress Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 29.—George Nlckell, 84 years old, was found froz en to death near Hartleton last night. The aged, man had started to walk to the home of his daughter in a snowstorm and is beligved to have become exhausted. ** nit. <;i:oit * 1* PATROL ENCOUNTERS ONLY * T i* * if* Paris, Dec. 29.—There was nothing co report last > night with the exception of patrol encounters north of the l t • i Y Chemin De 3 Dames and near Sapigneul," says to-day's *l* -5 official statement ** k - • % MARRIAGE ;; IXmiild 11. Hllnifr, rill>iirh, ami MnrKitrrt K. lion*, Harrla- * ■ ■4, tmrist Kranclx Anilrrwa nn.l Annlp Wnrno, foloni I> e K. Moon M , nnil Carrie 10. Ilrultiikrr, Mlddlelunn; John 1,. Kramer and Nrll U. HnuHman, Middle tow n. g j HOME EDITION GERMANS SINK 3 DESTROYERS; 193 BRITISH DROWN U-Bont Hunters Are Struck by Torpedoes or Hit by Mines OFF THE DUTCH COAST Large Number of Officers and Men Lose Lives on Night of December 22 By Associated Press London, Dec. 29. —Three Brit ish torpedo boat destroyers were sunk through being struck by torpedoes or hitting a mine oft" the Dutch coast on the night "A December 21 with the loss of 13 officers and 180 men, the Admiralty announced to-day. The text of the statement reads: " I liree of our destroyers were mined or torpedoed during foggy weather off the Dutch coast on the night of the 22nd of December. A total of 13 offi cers and 180 men were lost." Motor Trucks Will Replace R. R. Service By Associated Press Pittsburgh,' Dec. 29.—Motor trucks are to displace railroads trains as mail carriers on two long routes out of Pittsburgh as soon as the con tracts can be let, according: to an an nouncement by Postmaster A. S. Guf fey today. One line, which is sixty miles long, will connect Pittsburgh and Wheel ing. W. Va„ and the other, 140 miles, will connect Pittsburgh and Cumber land, Md. Round trips will be made, to Wheeling, but t*v days will be re quired to make the trip to Cumber land and return. The trucks will carry farm produce as parcel post as well as regular mail matter.