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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
<vang Telegraph dispatch from Co
penhagen reports.
Hlnce the beginning of the war 215
Danish ships, with a total tonnage
of 244,000 have been sunk and 234
Danes have been killed.
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SUFFRAGE OPPONENTS HAVE FLOOR X
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ton, Jan. 4.—Opponents of woman suffrage E: 1
' J were gi the floor to-day when the House Committee ■
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UK RANI AN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZING * *
j Amsterdam, Jan. 4.—According to a telegram from <X
< u v ßrest-Litovsk peace delegations from Ukraine have ar- |T
4 u rtved there and reported that the Ukrainian government ;<§*
* • is preparing tc conduct its own international affairs every- T
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4 where ram from Warsaw says a special train * *
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4 t,; 1r " ' peace delegates of the central powers has
* i pWsed thr< ugh there on the way to Brest-Litovsk. >*|*
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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 £
$* ■ here the Keystone Forging Company and the
X Van Allen Nail Work*, were forced to shut down to-day,
fo <" 'i". indefinite period. Officials said it v.-a< impossible £ *
th" cH red own. "■
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$ ELEVEN HOUR OLD SON RESCUED X, j
T i lanisburs, Robert Marshall, 1527 Fulton street, is T
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|* 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
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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*
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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
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T VIOLENT ARTILLERY FIGHTING 5*
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-J* Pari;, J,:n. 4.-—Violent artillery fighting on the Cham- •i* ,
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T| pagr.e and Verdun fronts is reported in to-day's official X
i communicr.'ion. A German attack in upper Alsace war ,**
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" repulsed. Eight German airplanes and a captive balloon
•3* were brought to earth yesterday.
|j LNGT.AND TO HAVE COMPULSORY RATIONING J
w London, Jan. 4.—England will soon be under compu 1
4h 'iL
Borv rationing In making this announcement, Lor 'JL
Rhonda, the food controller, said the situation was not • f
4 alarming and would improve, although shortage in cer- !>
T* tain foodstuffs would continue. * f
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T . DINTAMAN GETS $21,000 [<f
4 Harnsburg—The jury in the suit brought by A. P. 'X
jr Dintaman one of the owners of property in llardscrabble 'T.
V district, aoalnst the city of, Hanisburg, awarded him
T $14,500 for the. properties lie holds, and $0,500 for im- X *
4j provevnents since ! 871. Two others 'owners agreed to ver- S 41
£ d'ets They were Frederick W. Gicde and George E X I?
£ Spangler. J
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£ MARRIAGE LI £
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Frank M. \>rlck nn<l llrrthil L'. M'urkr). >lHrtiiihurK, W. VII.I .
A. JohiiHun nnd lOtln Johnson, York) MB* W. AlbrrU and Amanda I
Jl C. Swelicurd, Kntrrllnr.