> -** ' • ' • ■ 1 1111 .1111 I I 11 ■ • \ . .....„.r -i.. : .. ■ t ■ , •.. * * • '• . 1 ;^ NIGHT EXTRA— Premier Lame Takes Firm Stand in Peace Parley -HIGHT EXTR/j^ HARRISBURG lSslll|. TELEGRAPH .XXXVII- Xo. 1Q 20 PAGES WAR SECRETARY'S SHOWING IS DISCOUNTED BY SENATORS FALSE SECURITY IS VOICED IN REPOR T SENATORS BAKER'S RECITAL ! QUESTIONED BY I INVESTIGATORS Not in Keeping With Facts, Senators of Both Par ties Say GUNS ABE NOT PLENTIFUL I I Country Should Not Be Lulled I by Statements oj Facts That Don't Exist * l>y Associatei Press Washington, Jan. 11.—Secre-I tary Baker's examination to-day j before the Senate Military Com mittee was warmed up by a rapid cross fire of questions by ■ senators of both parties who did ( not agree with the generally, | favorable statement of war prtp-j arations depicted by Mr. Baker's j statement of yesterday. The senators said his declara tion that war supplies were! adequate would mislead the, country. Senator Weeks dc-j clared the country "should not be lulled to sleep by a general I statement of facts "that don't' exist." Sprrelnry Kxplalnn Mr. Baker explained that lie meant to convey only the Impression that all [Continued on Page 16.] NO RELIEF FROM COALSHORTAGE NOW IN SIGHT ~ |i ruel Administrator Confers 1 With Mayor to Enlist Aid of City Ross A. Hickok conferred with Sfayor Keister this afternoon at 3 o'clock to devise means for the re lief of the city during: the coal short age for which the county fuel ad- ' ministrator to-day could see no re- j lief. Pooling' of the dealers' resources , so that no time may result in de livering what fuel is on hand was considered. Because of the shortage of fuel at t the plant of the Harrisburg Light' and Power Company and the fear that the arrival of a big order of bituminous may be delayed, mem- 1 Vf r ?j- of t,le fue ' commission and C ! 1 M. Kaltwasser, manager of the com-' 1 [Continued on Page -I.] Government Plants I Attract Shipbuilders By Associated Press Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 12.—Work V' 1 : ar vassels at the shipyard of the William Cramp and Sons Ship and 1 Kngine Building Co. will stop unless { agents of the government ship plants; at Bristol and Hog Island near here t stop offering Cramp emploves higher' 1 wages, according to J. Harry Mull ' 1 general manager of the older com-: ' pany. I We are building warships for the I United States government and are l t under orders to finish them in an * incredibly short time. What possible! use will the merchant fleet be with- s out these vessels to convoy them?!' Unless conditions change here we I may as well shut up shop, said Mr ! r Mull. | | X. Y. MAY FINANCE CUBAN SUGAR CROP New York, Jan. 11.—A plan under h which New York banking interests''' would finance the next Cuban sugar C crop, involving expenditure of a sum 0 as high as $150,000,000 is under 8 consideration here, it was learned r to-day, ' The Susan B. Anthony Federal Amendment Section 1. The right of citizens I of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. j Section 2. Congress shall have I power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article. | Drafted in its present form by- Susan B. Anthony in 1575. First introduced in IS7S in the Senate. First voted upon in 1887 in the ; Senate and defeated ;!4 to 16. Voted on in House in 1913 and defeated 204 to 174. r™) Ivtinin's \olc For —Brodbeck. D. : Sterling. D.; Beshlln, D.: Kelly, I>.: Campbell. IJ. ; Scott, R.; Vare, It.; Kdmonds, It.; Costelio, It.; Harrow, It.; But ler. It.; Grier. It.; Farr, It.; Teni pleton. It.; McFadden. It.; Kiess, It.; ltose, It.; Itowland, It.; Rob bins. R. : Temple, It., Clark, R.; Strong. R.; Porter, R.—23. AculnM—Oewalt, 1).; Besher, !>,; Steele, I>.; McLaughlin, R.; Moore. It.; Watson. R.; Ilealon, It.; Crago, !>.; Focht, It.; Kreider, It.; Morin, It.; Garland, 1t.—12. Absent—Graham, R. SUFFRAGE WINS IN HOUSE AFTER A BITTER FIGHT Both Partjes Give Majorities; Only 33 Republicans Arc Opposed Washington, Jan. 11.—The Susan B. Anthony amendment enfranchis ing the women of the United States was adopted last night by the House of Representatives by a vote of 274 to 136. The majority for suffrage was just exactly the requisite two thirds. The amendment must be passed by the Senate and then ratified by the legislatures of at least three fourths of the states before it be comes operative. There has been a | doubt that the Senate would agree j to the proposition, but suffrage lead- i , ers believe that they will win there in a short time. As to the ratiflca- I tion by the Legislatures, the suffrage I leaders are certain of its acliieve- I ment within five years. There is, ■ therefore, much rejoicing by suf | tragists in Washington to-day. | The victory to-day was accom- I plished under circumstances both thrilling and dramatic. The ab sence of any one of the 274 men; who voted for the measure would' have killed it, for its passage was ■ dependent upon a two-thirds vote. 1 Therefore, it will be readily under stood why the prosuffragists in the House went wild with delight when Representative Mann, of Illinois.! ; Republican floor leader and him-! self a prosuffragist, who has been, seriously ill in a Baltimore hos-j pital for several months, dragged! himself, in weak condition, upon l the floor of the chamber a short time before the roll was to be called. | Barniutrt Deserts Bed It will be thoroughly understood, too, why the jwosuffragists in the! House cheered the entrance into the! chamber of Representative Barn-1 [Continued on Pace 3.] Russian Battalion Leaves for Trenches By Associated Press Paris, Jan. 11.—The first battal ion of the Russian Legion, composed j of members of the Russian expedi-l ticnary force which held a sector on I the front in Champagne until the 1 time of the revolution, has left for the trenches. It was formed as thej result of an appeal by General Lokhvitzky, who commanded the' Russian contingent in France. Fur-i ther detachments will follow as soon j as they have been organized. A number of Russian wbmen have asked that a woman's battalion of death be formed to fight on • thei French front, but General Lokhvlt-1 zkv said this wish could not be real- , ized. GERMAN* SUSPECT ARRESTED 1 By Associated Press Hon ford. Calif., Jan. 11.—Eliza- ' beth Gulstorf was arrested here to day and held on suspicion of being a German spy. Two seditious latters, one referring to Fort Grant. Oregon, i and the Presidio of San Francisco,, , and the other a mysterious net of ■ plans, were discovered in her pos-1 session, 11 HARRIS-BURG, PA.,FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1918. RUSSIA TO FIGHT IF GERMANY FAILS TO ACCEPT TERMS Lcninc Warns Teutons That Bolsheviki Provisions Arc Only Acceptable Ones WILL RAISE NEW ARMY Hun Invasion, of Huss Terri tory Would Bring Enemy Xo Nearer War's End Washington, Jan. 11— Peace negotiations between Russia and the central powers will be con tinued at Brcst-Litovsk, accord ing to information in Amster dam, apparently despite a vig orous protest by Leon Trpt/.ky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister who heads the Russian de'-ega-, tion. At the opening of the new sitting of the conference Trotzky demanded that the delegates go to Stockholm. Premier Lenine before leaving Petrograd ostensibly for Finland but probably l'or Stockholm for conference with Austrian and Ger man Socialists declared that if the central powers do not accept Rus sian peace terms, the Bolsheviki will declare war against Germany. He expressed fear that preparation [Continued on Page 10.] HUN COMMENT ON WILSON ADDRESS IS VERY BITTER "More Brutal Still" Than Lloyd George Statement, One Paper Declares By Associatei Press Washington, Jan. 11.—State Department dispatches to-day summarizing public opinion in Germany as expressed in the newspapers say a threatened political crisis was averted by the resumption of peace nego tiations at lirest-latovsk. They say that Russian Foreign Min ister Trotzky's defiance to tier- ! many actually was published in | some German newspapers. Washington, Jan. 11. —Initial corn-! nicnt in the German and Austrian; [Continued on Page 10.] 1 COAL SHORTAGE WILL LAST END OF Philadelphia, 'an. 1 I.—The coal shortage will continue until the end of the war in the opinion of state Fuel Administrator Potter who is sued an appeal for fuel conservation to-day after returning from a conference with Fuel Admin istrator Garfield at Washington. "We are just beginning to realize that we are 1 in a great war," said Mr. Potter, "and normalj conditions will not be restored until the conflict! is ended. Saving of coal means the saving of life, j Every one must patriotically help in this! direction. The coal shortage will not end until the war is over. Disorganization and criticism should cease and,service and sacrifice substituted. MADE BY CRIPPLED FRENCH SOLDIERS . :■ :• •>- ---v-v ... xw-:yy-:.v;;.y-.-■•■• • I ■ ■ *>* v " ' "" ;: 1 1 Ijj : * * . . . . Vvr 2-as HASTENS M&EVS.' This is tlio poilu s idea of a Boclie prisoner. The naughty little prison er had been playfully relieving cadavers of such playthings as watches, buttons and extra rations when the poilu happened along, put salt on his tail and attached a string to his neck. Note the wistful expression as Fritz contemplates Francois' haversack. THRIFT STAMPS IN HANDS OF ALL DAUPHIN PEOPLE County's Committee to Show How to Got Five Dollurs For $4.12 j Managers of the campaign to have ! Dauphin county do more than its I part in buying- Uncle Sam's war j savings stamps, last night set out jto place the thrift stamp card in ; the hands of every "kid" and to ! show their elders how the stamps | will pay five per cent, in 1923. Dau [ phin county has been allotted $3,- 000,000 worth of the stamps and has the rest of the year to buy it in. The managers of the campaign aim to have every man. woman and child in the county arrange to set aside so much a week to buy these stamps. And at the end of the year they will all have iiioriey in Uncle Sam's bank and the boys in the camps and [Continued on Page •!.] Prisoners Put Up Fight in Preference to a Trip in Commandeered Hearse Chicago, Jan. 11.—Commandeer ing a black automobile hearse to take two negro prisoners to a police station caused a hard fight tor two policemen and much excitement in the "black belt" on the South Side, last night. No patrol wagon being available a policeman hailed a pass ing hearse. The prisoners pleaded in superstitious fear not to be placed in such a conveyance and finally fought to prevent it. It took the combined efforts of several policemen and Civilians to force the men into the hearse and to hold them there until the station was reached IX CANADIAN CASUALTIES By Associated Press Ottawa, Jan. 11. —lieutenant H V j Bealer, of Easton, Pa., is mentioned in to-day s Canadian overspas cas- K. OF C. DRIVE FOR WAR FUND NEARS ITS END Contributions For Benefit of Soldiers Here and Abroad Reaches $17,993 LITTLE TIME LEFT Chairman David E. Tracy of the Knights of Columbus War Camp Fund executive committee this morning issued the follow ing statement: "With only thirty-six hours to go the Knightft of Columbus will require the help of all friends of the lighting men to raise the $25,000 quota required from this district. We have a total cash on hand of about SIB,OOO. The out side districts are doing very well, but these districts and the city itself will have to hustle unless we want to break a record estab lished in two Red Cross, two Liberty Loan and one Y. M. C. A campaign." j Things were looking rather chirpy \ around Knights of Columbus head ; quarters this morning and indica ! tions continued to look like an "over j the top ' finish for the campaign : through which $25,000 will be rais j ed in the Harrisburg district for the War Camp Fund. The total cash contributions up j until noon to-day were $17,995.71. Rod Men Contribute | A check was received at head i ■S l 'i*t rte C s to " da y from Cornplanter , i. °' 61, independent Order of Red Men. The members of the or der are much interested in work at the training camps. A negro who wanted to help the campaign fund approached John Kelly, the shoe man, yesterday and offered him five cents, all the money he had. Kelly didn't take the money. Instead lie credited the negro with 51 contribution and gave the money! I himself. j John Czerniski, a worker in St. Francis' parish, found a dollar bill shoved under his front door yester day morning, with the card of the donor. To Hold Eucher Miss Margaret Vaughn is to hold a eucher in Cathedral Hall, January 18 lor the benefit of the fund. Mu sic lor dancing will be furnished by i the DeLone and Branyan orchestra. Another eucher scheduled is that j at St. Francis' Hall, in the fourteen ! hundred block in Market street. | Wednesday night of next week. | Reports from Middletown are .to 1 the effect that the town's contribu-1 I tlon will be large, especially from j j among employes at the car works. U. S. Must Rush Men to Europe, Churchill Tells American Club London, Jan. 11.—Winston cer Churchill, British minister of munitions addressing the American Luncheon Club to-day made a pow erful appeal for the sending of Am erican soldiers to Europe quickly and in as large numbers as possible. "We have found a complete agree ment on ouj* war aims," Air. Church- > ill said, "so let ua concentrate our whole sotils on practical measures whereby those aims may be achieved." England must melt all . her re ! sources, ho continued, into war work. Women must (Jraw nearer to | the firing lines and do more manual' labor to relieve workingmen Tor the 1 rank* of the army. Rations, he said must be cut down. "The only way to shorten the suf fering and torment," the minister asserted, ."la to. Increase the pace." WOMEN TO WORK: 16 HOURS DAILY IN CONQUERED LAND I Failure to Comply Calls For Penalties Including Impris onment and Beating FOOD TO BE GIVEN JflP Germany's Danger of Col lapse Never as Great as at Present, Says Writer By Associated Press Aii.Mrr.lnm, Jim. 10.—Germany Man never in Morh danger of col- Inp*c front Internal and external dlftlcultlrN an at prrnrnt, nays the rorrespondent In Germany of the TIJd In an analysis of the exist ing conditions. | The political struggle concentrated around foreign Secretary Von Kuehl niann has been reflected in violent scenes in the main committee of the Reichstag. Public action of the so cialist minority cannot longer be rc oistc'd and even should militarism gain a temporary victory the correspond ent thinks reaction will follow quickly. | Russia's example is said already to circles Popular and military .' Ottawa, Jan. 11.—All food supplies in private homes to be given up and mm, womeii and children to work in il'r /L K fo I 6lxteen "ours a day the benefit of the invaders, are [Continued on Page 4.] Reading Coal Merchants Adopt Price Schedule Reading Pa.. Jan.'l I.—The Reading co] merchants held a four-hour ses sion last night, which continued until early this morning. The result ot the meeting was the adoption of a schedule of retail prices. A communication of H. A. Acker the assistant local fuel administrator, was read, it advises the merchants that a gross margin of $2 per ton has been approved by William Potter, state fuel administrator, and that the retail dealers of the city are permit ted to close tlieif selling prices on a " gross margin of %■> per ton of ** pounds. Included in the letter was a suggested table of prices cov ering all domestic grades of coal. The quotations were approved by the local dealers and became effective at once. Alien Enemies Are Released Following Arrest Uel " Jan - 11—United States District Attorney Charles F. Curley to-day ordered the release of the three alien enemies (Germans) who last week were arrested and de tained at the naval base prison at i.ewes, Dei. They were taken from the pilot boat Philadelphia on which they had been employed. They are Karl L. Lang. Otto Lang and Andrew Hopper. Upon being released they were warned by District Attorney Curley I that they must not be re-employed on a pilot boat or found hereafter. under any circumstances, on the Del aware river or bay. One Killed in Collision of Twin Motor Trucks It i p ' I j' ad , elphia . Jan. 11—One un identified man was almost instantly killed, two were severely injured and eleven others were badly shaken up at the Hog Island shipyard to-day when two big motor trucks, loaded with employes, going to and from work collided inside the yard gates Each truck carried about thirty men It was said neither truck was speed ing and that the force of the crash was due to the weight of the ma chines. British Planes Bring Down Enemy Machines London, Jan. 11. British air planes on the Italian front attacked ! a squadron of seven hostile ma-i chines yesterday and brought down four of them, the war office an nounced to-day. Two of the enemv airplanes crashed to earth and two others were driven down out of con trol. The British came out of the fight with all of their machines in tact. PERSHING REPORTS DEATH Washington, Jan. 11.—General Pershing to-day reported the death from pneumonia of Private Steve Szckule, of Pittsburgh. WEATHER FORECAST For llnrrlshnrg and vicinity I Snow to-nlKht and Saturday, probably heavy) xllKhtlv wornter to-night, with lowest temperature about 23 degree*) eolder Saturday) the tempera ture will probably fall to era or below Saturday night. For Faxtern I'enasylvanln i Snow to-nlirht nnd ttnturdny, prob ably heuvyi slightly nlKht In aouth portions; colder Saturday) Increasing northeast winds. 1 \ . . l\ Single Copy-, 2 Cents h.-'ATE NEWS i t '-•,. ■ - J JJ Powsfe?o INSPECT CELLARS J j Hasrisburg—Aft-;r a conference with M ayor Kei?cer 'X . this afternoon, Rcss A. Ilickok, fuc lnciministrator, an- 3*! r nounced that police, will investigate al lcoal cards signed l4k r ' 'mm L by coal buyers, before orders for fuel arc filled. X jj TAKE LEAVE OF LORD READING ,T |* London—The British courts took formal leave to-da" 'X b ~ J "s" ( *' ar ' Reading, who ha- been 'pp intecl British hien 2* L 'V< t ?r l commissioner to the TJrns€xJ. State , Ocncrs *4? p ' < W Hewart, ill behalf of the Bar, whicli \fas largely reprc- X' In 'ented at the ceremonial, expressed its dee; appreciation J p of his. devotion to duty and'public spirit.' X £ j WILSON TERMS NOT POSSIBLE X b X Berlin, via London—The Tageblatt savy President ,T L ML Wilson s speech: "Mr; Wilson would find himself mis- Xr^ i taken if he assumed thai the majority was 4 L ri j[ the war aims speeches of PresidentAVilson and Premier X |* Lloyd George, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from X. n Copenhagen says. n j BAI.LOONISTS FALL 60 FEET T b _ Wit j, . Canton. O.—When their balloon struck an a-r pocket K near Salem yesterday,'six balloonists from th- naval .T u aviation 8t ition near Akron fell 60 fett. two of thsiT* suffering injuries- J. REPUBLIC OF DON DECLARED ']} Petrograd, Thursday—Reports from Rostov to-day *r * sa y that the republic of the Don has been- declared exist- * f j, ent with General Kalcdincs as president and prime j* £ m minister . ► * REAR ADMIRAL HOWELL DEAD ** * ~ * Warrenton, Va—Rear Admiral John Adams Howell, ll ' retired, died yesterday at his home lure. He was the 'J* ! originator ..>! the gyroscopic steering torpedoes and other j* * * naval wcap >ns and the author of several books. He was * • [* -tj w 77 old. * * * nousr. o: LORDS GRANTS-SUFFRAGE '4 London—The newspapers welcome heartily X * the decision of the House of Lords on woman suffrage, y which gives the vote to about six million women and X * ends the long wrangle which has troubled the country * for years. It is true that the third reading of the bill is t yet to be taken and a motion to submit, the question to •' 1 > * a referendum' is to be disposed of. but it is not believed * * that this has any prospects of success even if pressed X 1 : f; * $2,000,000 DAMAGE SUIT FILED X' & I t Halifax, N*. S., Jan. 11. Suit for $2,000,000 damages was filed in the Admiralty court here to-day by tK • 4 * * owners of the munition steamer Mont Blanc against the ■ 4 f Norwegian Belgian Relief Steamer lino, which rammed ■* i *** ' the Mont L:anc.in Halifax harbor December 6, causing * * ( explosion that wrec'/ed part of the city, resulting in grsat i * loss of life. < 1 *' 4 J ARTILLERY ACTION ONLY J J London—"Wkh the exception of hostile artillery ac- * 3 * tivity least of Vimy ridge, there is nothing to report," says j , to-day's official announcement. * * * • SOCIAL REVOLUTIONISTS TO MEET ' Petrograd—The Social Revolutionists are planning Ifi ' J ' to hold a convention of peasants' deputies and other rfj ■ organizations in connection with the all-Russian Work- '