MG*IT EXTRA— Allies May Recognize EXTrS ' HARRISBURG iSSglli TELEGRAPH M ' ®IK Star-Jndepcn&ent ® I LXXXVH- No. 4 20 PAGES GOVERNMENT R. R. CONTROL ESSENTIAL, SAYS PRESIDENT U. S. TO SPARE NO COST TO WIN THE WAR In an Address Before Congress, President Recommends That Compensation Be Provided Railroads at Same Net Operating Income as For Three Preceding Fiscal Years; Operating Fund of $500,000,000 Is Asked 12y Associated Press Washington, Jan. -r. —President Wilson laid before Congress to-day his recommendations for legislation to carry out govern ment operation of railroads, and administration bills to that put po.vc were introduced immediately in both houses. \\ liile the President in his address laid stress on the import ance of properly preserving the properties for their return, the administration bill specifically provides that government control -liali obtain through the war and "until congress shall there after order otherwise." Many government officials and railroad men made no con cealment of their belief that the railways never would return, to private hands. The President's program beside calling for a $500,000,000 approptiation to be used as "revolving fund" with railroad income for operation and maintenance, calls for compensation to the roads at the rate of their net operating income for the last three fiscal years. Any deficiencies would be paid out of the $500,000,000 i'rnd, and meanwhile no railroad may increase its dividends; roads th§t have skipped dividends may resume with rates, fixed by tiwr President. One section of the proposed law, considered very significant, lays a heavy penalty 011 any one who impedes "possession, use, operation or control" of the roads. It is regarded as precluding a strike. All new railroad financing would be under the approval of the President and the government would be authorized to support railroad credit by buying railways securities and hold them for better niaikets. All advances of money to the roads or expenditures for better ments .would be reimbursable to the government. In the House the bill v/as introduced by Chairman Sims of the Interstate Commerce Committee, which will mtet Monday to consider it. In the Senate it was introduced by Senator Smith, of South Carolina, and will be considered by the Senate committee also on Mondav. Uentlemen of the Congress— I have asked the privilege of ad dressing' you in order to report that on the 28th of December, last, dur ing the recess of Congress, acting through the Secretary of War and under the authority conferred upon me by the Act of Congress approved August 29, 191 i, I took possession and assumed control of the railway lines of the country and the systems of water transportation under their control. This step seemed to bo im peratively necessary iu the interest of the public welfare,' in the pres ence of ttyo great, tasks of war with which we are now dealing. As our experience develops difficulties and makes it clear that they are, 1 have deemed it my duty to remove those difficulties wherever I have the legal power to do so. To assume control ( of the vast railway systems of the country is, t realize, a very great responsibility, but to fail to do so in the existing circumstances would CONTRIBUTIONS POUR IN FOR K. OF C. DRIVE President of Harrisburg Red Cross Praises Work Done in Camps Although team captains do not make their reports until to-night, local officials of the Knights of Co lumbus War Fund estimate that the city's total of contributions will be more than $4,000 for to-day. TJhe aim is $25,000, which will be reach ed and oversubscribed, officials pre dict. Contributions from prominent men and woihen of Harrisburg are pour ing into the local campaign head quarters, 706 Kunkel building. J. Grant Schwarz is the treasurer of the fund. Among the contributions received to-day was a generous check from Sirs. Lyman D. Gilbert, president of [ConUnuexl on Paire 16.1 have been a much greater. I as sumed the less responsibility rather than the weightier. Complete .Mobilization I am sure that 1 am speaking the mind of all thoughtful Americans when 1 say it is o.ur duty as the representatives of the nation to do everything it is necessary to do to secure the complete mobilization of the whole resources of America by as rapid and effective a means as can be found. Transportation supplies all Iho arteries of mobilization. Un less it be under a single and unified direction, the whole process of the nation's action is embarrassed. It was in the true spirit of America and it was right, that wo should iirst try to effect the necessary unification under the voluntary action of those who were in charge of the great railway properties; and we did try it. The directors of the railroads responded to the'need promptly and generously. The group of railway (Continued on Pajr 2) U.S.MUST WIN AIR SUPREMACY IN WORLD CONFLICT Genius of American Inventors to Be Deciding Factor, Says Coffin Philadelphia, Jan. 4.—The part that America is to play in winning the war is told By Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the United States Air craft Board, in the current >:sue of the Saturday Evening Post. X' this war is to be won wltmn the time of any living man, says Mr. Coffin, the element destined to revo lutionize the military strategy of the (Continued on Page 21 Food Conservation Committee to Meet Chairman Donald McCormick has called n meeting of the food oon tervation committee of the Chamber of Commerce for next Thursday aft ernoon at 2 o'cj Jk. Plans for the coming spring and summer will be dlrcussed. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1918 Belgian King Watching the Course of Battle *•■♦ Ig^y^ Albert, kins of Belgium, is still the fighting king of the war in Eu rope. He spends more time with his troops on the battle line than any other ruler, and this photograph shows a staff officer pointing out to him the maneuvers of a battle. Germans Posed as Victors, j Her Allies Anxious For Peace, Petrograd Report By Associated Press Petrograd, Thursday, Jan. 3.—Dis closure of details of the Brcst- Litovsk peace negotiations makes it clear that Germany assumed a domi neering attitude, while Austria. Bul garia and Turkey were very concilia tory and disagreed with the German position. There were differences also among the German delegates. Foreign Minister Von Kuehlmann ond General Hoffmann clashed open ly during the general meetings. Ger many posed constantly as a conquer er. while her three allies showed eagerness for peace and a disposition to compromise. A statement issued by the Botshe viki emphasizes the fact that the en emy delegations now in Petrograd have no diplomatic standing and are here merely to arrange details grow ig out of the armistice, such as the exchange 0° prisoners and the re sumption of postal service. Berlin, Jan. 4. —Via Amsterdam.— Addressing the Reichstag main com mittee yesterday Chancellor Von Mertling said in regard to the Rus sian rejection of the peace proposals dealing with disposition of the oc cupied Russian territory: "We can cheerfully await the fur ther course of this incident. We rely upon our strong position, our loyal intentions and our just rights." The chancellor announced that Dr. Von Kuehimann has been instructed to reject the Russian proposal to transfer the peace negotiations to Stockholm. Siam Suffers Worst Flood Since 1831 Washington, Jan. 4.—Floods in Siam, the worst since 1831, are de vastating the country. Dispatches to-day from the American legation at Bangkok say the water has risen to the roofs of houses on which peasants are living. Great crop iosses hsi.vt been caused and cattlo aro dying by drowning and starva tion. A relief commission has bee'i appointed. POSTERETTES WILL BOOST CITY AND ITS ADVANTAGES Posterettes for the advertisement of Harrisburg and vicinity, have been printed and will bo distributed by the Harrisburg Telegraph beginning to-day. The plan is not new, but has proved effective in other cities where it has been used, and it is expected to do much toward advancing the industries and advantages of Harris burg and making the city better known. There are twenty different designs, small in size and prettily colored, depicting scenes and indus tries in this city and vicinity. These posterettes are to be affixed to let ters and other mail matter, express packages or anything to be shipped out of Harrisburg by mail or ex press. It is doubtful if a more thorough plan to advertise the city and her industries throughout the world has ever been undertaken. Mail and ex press matter goes everywhere and if each piece carries affixed to It an at tractive posterette, the city and vi cinity will be fixed In the public mind In a manner not easy to forget. The subjects treated are the Penn- Harris Hotel, the V. M. C. A. build ing, Elliott-Usher Company's plant, the Capitol building, the RockvlUe ! Plans For Capitol Park j Improvements to Be Talked Over by City Commissioners Commissioners Lynch and Gross j will probably confer in a day or two | with City Solicitor Pox on the pro posed improvements in connection | with the Capitol Park Extension none | development. They will then submit | a report to Council after it has re organized next Monday. Recently George A. Snreiner, Su j perintendent of Public Grounds and | Buildings, sent a letter to Council I asking the commissioners to take some action in connection with I these improvements. When the bud ■ get for this year was passed finally provision for widening North Third .; street, from Walnut to North streets II had been eliminated but it is under stood efforts will- be made to find i unused funds later i.n the year so that this part of the improvements will not be delayed. Reorganization of Law Schools Recommended Philadelphia, Jan. 24".—The classi fication and reorganization of the law schools of the country on linos similar to the improvement effected in the classification of the medical schools by the Carnegie foundation was urged by federal Judge Wade Iloger;', of New York, in a prelimi nary report presented to the execu tive committee of the American Bar Association. The committee held its mid-winter meeting here to-day and will also be in session tomorrow. 50,000 Real Slackers in U. S.; Crowder Says vVnshiitgton, Jan. 4.—Fifty thous- Hnd real slackers in the United States I rovot-t Marshal General Crow dcr's estimate in his report to Sec retary Baker. That calculation sup poses that ten men in each regis tration district have escaped service without being caught. bridge, Soldiers' monument, Kunkel building. boiler and engine manufac turing. paper ruling and book bind ing machinery, motor trucks and tractors, iron and steel plates, bridges, frogs, switches, structural shapes and many other subjects. Those who have seen the Harris burg posterettes and compared them with those issued In other cities, as sert that in point of artistry and covering the municipal field, they are not surpassed, nor do they hesitate to say that the issue will materially assist the work of developing Har riaburg and vicinity. It is estimated that If four or five hundred businessmen and firms will use the posterettes to boost the city at least a million individual mes sages will be sent In ten thousand different directions all over the world. The posterettes are Intended for Individual use also and are so attractive that they will grace any envelope or package sent out on, un doubtedly the posterettes will meet with Instant public favor and It Is certain they will be used liberally and unremittingly by Harrisburg manufacturers, merchants, profes sional men and citizens generally. SHORTAGE OF MEN TRAINED TO WORK CAUSE OF TIEUP Scores of Engines Allowed to Freeze Through Negli gence of Workmen MACHINISTS ARE SCARCE Congestion of Traffic Espe cially Severe in Territory Adjacent to Harrisburg Washington, Jan. 4.—Direc tor General McAdoo and heads of the four railroad brotherhoods agreed to-day on a plan for thrashing out all wage and labor disputes while government oper ation prevails through an inves tigating board which will report on recommendations to the director general. Steps ware being rapidly taken to day by Director General McAdoo to restore to service the thousands of broken down freight cars and loco motives which Interstate Commerce Commission inspectors have discov ered on sidings and shops through out the east. In many cases where negligence was responsible for the lack of repairs local railway officials were Instructed to make special ef forts to put tlife cars and locomo tives in working order promptly to relieve the congestion which is slow- [Continued oil Page 16.] CITY PREPARES TOFACEICELESS DAYS IN SUMMER Not Enough of the Fiftecn- Inch Product of Zero Weather Can Be Saved There will be "iceless" days next sum iner. This is certain to come notwith standing the abundance of ice, now a nuisance, local dealers said to-day. They also expect the government to regulate the sale and prices when the mercury again begins to mount. The fact that the country is now in the midst of one of the coldest winters 011 record, does not material ly alter the situation, officials of the United Ice and Coal Company said this afternoon. There will be no ammonia next summer for the manufacture of arti ficial ice, the government has noti fied the makers. Just now the com pany is busily cutting all the flfteen inch Ice It can store, but the ware houses are not large enough to care for a whole summer's supply. Army Comes First The ammonia is nation-wiil The federal government is commandeer ing almost the entire ammonia out put of the nation for use In the army cantonments, and in the manufac ture of war gases. The shortage of coal, of which ammonia is an indi rect by-product, is another potent reason for the unprecedented short age of ammonia. Owing to the enor mous demand for coal for the manu facture of war products, there is lit tle likelihood of an immediate man ufacture of an Increased amount of ammonia. Inability to secure ammonia will [ mean a decreased ice output of at j least 175 tons daily, at the plant of the United Ice and Coal Company. The local plant, which secures Its ammonia from the National Ammo nia Company, Philadelphia, is not able to get a promise for ammonia delivery in a period of loss than ninety days. Harvey K. Dewalt, man ager of tho United Ice and Coal Company, said the ammonia short age Is serious, and that he could see no relief. The government has plans under way, he said, to erect a new ten million dollar ammohla manu facturing plant to relieve the serious situation, but Mr. Dewalt said this would not be ready for service In tlhie to aid the situation this com ing summer. The necessary ice supply for Har rlsburg during the months between June l and October 1, is 400 tons daily,. Mr. Dewalt said. Sometimes [Continued on Page 18.] Grey or Reading Suggested as Ambassador to U. S. London, Jan. 4.—lt la suggested edi torially by the Dally Chronicle that either Viscount Grey, former foreign secretary; Earl Reading, lord chlet justice, or J. Austin Chamßerlain would be acceptable as ambassador at Washington. THIS MAN WANTS TO GO BACK AND FIGHT WITH HUNS Native German Declares He Will Not Enter the American Army ~ QUIZZED BY A. C. STASfIM Secret Service Men Informed of Alien's Self-Satis fied Statements George B. Rose is the name cf the only man in Harrisburg thus far disclosed in the question naire proceedings who has openly declared himself an "alien enemy," willing to re turn to Germany and enter its m'litary service. His calm, de icrmined, satisfied statement, which was stiaightway set down cn the government document Mid immediately dispatched to Washington was the most startling incident that has taken piacc since the lawyers of Har risburg so generously volun teered their services to help Uncle Sam legally select his next Army. No. 1 courtroom was well filled with registrants, many of them ac companied by a wife or mother and children. The machinery of the ses sion was running quietly and accu- [Continued on Pago 10.] PEACE BREAK MAY WIN NEW STATUS FOR BOLSHEVIKI Allies Are Inclined to Give Bussian People Every Possible Assistance By Associated Press M ashington, Jan. 4.—Recognition of the Lenine-Trotsky regime in Russia as a de facto government by the entente allies is probable. Such change of sentiment, it is said, would be due to the threatened break in peace negotiations and might bring from the allies a statement of demo cratic policy tovard Russia. Unless there is a change in original plans, the emissaries of Russia and the central powers will meet to-day to continue their discussion of peace terms which the Holsheviki have de clared are unacceptable. Russia's del rContinued on Pace lo.] Shipping Board Asks $82,000,000 For Purpose of Acquiring Ship Plants By Associated Press Washington, Jan. 4. Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board to day asked Congress for $82,000,000 for acquisition or establishment of shipbuilding plants in addition to the $165,000,000 heretofore asked for the next fiscal year. He also asked for increase of authority for construction of ships from $1,234,000,000 to sl.- 035,000,000. Potter Protests Against Government Coal Seizure Philadelphia, Jan. 4. —Govern- ment confiscating of Pennsylvania coal brought a protest to-day h'orh Slate Fuel Administrator Potter, in the form of a telegram to tho fed eral administrator. Dr. Garfield. The confiscation objected to Is that which takes coal from this state for points in the South and South west, where there are coal fields adequate to provide for present fuel I requirements. Mr. Potter was farced to this step by tho increasingly desperate sit-- uatlon in this city, where there are I now • thousands of homes without coal. 367 Norwegian Vessels Lost During Past Year By Associated Press London, Jan. 4.—Last year 367 Nor wegian vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 566,00Q were sunk, an Kx ri: ' crs md machine guns in the fighting, anny head- * * #-< f * * J quarters announced to-day. N SUFFRAGE OPPONENTS HAVE FLOOR X f* 1) ' tc in th< cxt r * Thursday * *|* a ' J J M.ADOO ORDERS DISTRIBUTION X Washington, Jan 4.—Director General Mc Ado jto '• * lief of the* coal famine in 0 ■' 1 '• '>y ordering the distribution of 500 Voal J | A cai > to mines along the lines of the eastern railroads. * * X NORTHUMBERLAND INDUSTRIES CLOSED T Northumberland, Fa.. Jan. 4.—Two of the principal j £ $* ■ here the Keystone Forging Company and the X Van Allen Nail Work*, were forced to shut down to-day, fo <" 'i". indefinite period. Officials said it v.-a< impossible £ * th" cH red own. "■ J J $ ELEVEN HOUR OLD SON RESCUED X, j T i lanisburs, Robert Marshall, 1527 Fulton street, is T 7 . . r* |* in th<> Harrisburg Hospital in a serious condition from i X '-" Jf 1 • i '.tved th'" morning when he attempted to rescue X^H T an ' eleven hour old son from a flaminsr bed in .*l*^l "I* W V T: cue.- fr m the effects of the fire .*§* 1 J *s* \ J 1 Harrisbyrg—Governor Brumbaugh this afternoon ap- *| J* pointed James I. Brownson additional law iud£e of X | Washington county, vice R. W. Irwin deceased. f DORIS KEANE MARRIED X 4 London, Jan. 4 —Doris Keane, the American actress, '4* T* *i A tJ;c Daily Mirror announces, was married yesterday to ty Basil Sydney, an English sctor. They had been appear- 4* ing together in London in "Romance." • £ FIRST CARGO OF CUBAN SUGAR T J'hiladelphia. Jan. 4.—The first cargo of the new crop. £ of Cuban tugar consigned to this country atrived here •£ 1* to-day on a Norwegian steamship. The sn jar is for the X McCahan Sugar Refining Company. T j T* tain foodstuffs would continue. * f r w T . DINTAMAN GETS $21,000 [ J Frank M. \>rlck nnlHrtiiihurK, W. VII.I . A. JohiiHun nnd lOtln Johnson, York) MB* W. AlbrrU and Amanda I Jl C. Swelicurd, Kntrrllnr.