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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
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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
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NO RELIEF FROM
COALSHORTAGE
NOW IN SIGHT
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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
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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
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Berlin, via London—The Tageblatt savy President ,T
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Wilson s speech: "Mr; Wilson would find himself mis- Xr^
i taken if he assumed thai the majority was 4
L ri <ly negotiate peace on the basis which he declares 2"
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* . IIoRTLING WILL ADDRESS REICHSTAG X
* London —It i: reported in Berlin that the German ;
chancellor Count Vun Hcrtling, probably will address • 'jfisl
j the Reichstag main committee on MgyWay in reply t:>
j[ the war aims speeches of PresidentAVilson and Premier X
|* Lloyd George, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from X.
n Copenhagen says.
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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
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* $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
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' 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
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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. * *
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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- '<s
men's and Soldiers' Congress on January 21. An effort Ij ■
will be made to form a federation of Russian republics, 4*
including the Ukraine, Siberia, the Don territory and the . 'I/J
' Caucasus.
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