NIGHT EXTRA Germany's Real War Aims kgitate Her Leaders - MGIIT EXTRA ' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M % otar-Jnbcpcnscnt I LXXXVII- 13 14 PAGES HEAVY FALL OF SNOW DELAYS ALL PENNSYLVANIA TRAFFIC "DEATH FIGHT" LOOMS BIG IN GERMANY OVER WAR PROSPECTS Vorwaerts Says Only Ques tion to Decide Is Whether Territory Should Be An nexed in Veiled Form MILITARIST PARTY IN ASCENDANCY Chancellor Von Hertling Is Again Reported 111 and Preparing to Resign; De mand Kuehlmann's Head I.ondon, .lan. IS.—The Herlln \ nmnertN. urKnn >f the Swlnl ists, say* the militarist party In •iermiinj IN comiilrlely In the as cendancy :in<| tbat the only qurit lion to decide in whether a Krrat ileal of territory should he an nexed in veiled form or rather less in open form. The newspaper nililx that every thing now polntH to a military dictatorship, aeeoiupanieil hy the resignation of I>r. Hichard Von kiiehlmami, the tlerman foreign minister. Control of the destinies of the Ger man empire, press accounts from neu tral countries agree, is passing into the hands of the militarists or the leaders who want to hold what has been gained by might and the sword. Chancellor Von Hertling, the aged incumbent of the chief political office, again is reported ill and preparing to resign, while the militarists and Pan-Germans arf demanding the dis missal of L>r. Von Kttehlmann. the foreign secretary who has headed the German delegations at Brest-Li to vak. Al*lrcs* I'ostpoueil In connection with the reported ill ness of the. imperial chancellor, it is reported from Berlin that Count Von Hertllng's address before the Main l.'oniittee of the Keiclistag has been postponed for several days. It was said previously that the chancellor would answer the recent war-aims statement •of President Wilson and Premier Moyd Gorge before the Main Committee on Wednesday. Arc Holding Conferences Coupled with these reports is the fact that the German emperor and the crown prince have been holding conferences with the political and military leaders. It is reported also that the German ministers to Den mark and Holland have arrived unex pectedly in Herlin. Indications are that the present turmoil within the German ruling class will result in the acceptance of a firm policy, cither [Continued on Page 4.] COUNCIL FAILS TO AGREE ON A CITY TREASURER Five Candidates Nominated; jfe Only One Gels Two Voles i City Council to-day decided to hold a private Investigation of the I statement made by Commissioner Gross that three of the candidates for appointment as city treasurer, "went too far" in soliciting his vote. Tho three men in question are Ilar j jy F. Oves. William S. Tunis and Ed. 1 First. The decision to hold a clcsed conference was reached after three ballots had been taken in an effort to elect some one-other than j the persons which had been - men tioned by Commissioner Oross. Before the business session open ed there was some discussion among the commissioners to determine how they would ballot. It was finally agree to ballot by rollcall, each member of Council naming the per son for whom he intended, his vote, i Koutlne business and new ordi-j nances were disposed of lirst, Com i missioner Lynch then making a mo-' tion to proceed with the election of a city treasurer. Gross Explains Commissioner Oross took the floor as soon as Commissioner llassler had seconded the motion. Mr. Gross taid in part: "I want to make a statement eor | recting the impression on the minds of the public in connection with cer | tain candidates. I explained my po sition In conference. These gentle- 1 men made 110 criminal suggestion to me and I have no charge to make r against them. The explanation to' Council was simply a statement of my own vote. I have no Idea ahy one of them had done anything con trary to the custom of former years. I do not think anvone of them had fContinued mi Page 4.] TROLLEY LINES AND CITY .BY SNOW THAT CUTS OFF MANY SUBURBAN TOWNS ■■y - n * £; 9 , ' . v- Three pictures showing why I-larrisburg traffic broke down to-di under eight inches of snow. Trolley sweepers and automobiles had hard time to cut their way through the streets. O. W. Raymond, ou side foreman for the city highway bureau, put In a full day. TWO WOMEN WITH BULLETS JN THEM APPEAR IN COURT ! Husband Alleged lo Have Shot Wife Because of Jealousy . Lovers' quarrels, in which revolvers j were used, brought two women into | court to-day as plaintiffs. Kach car- I ried a bullet which had failed to hit a vital spot. Drink and jealousy were j factors in these assaults. Botli cases j were heard before President Judge George Kutikel. Sirs. Walter Arnold, of Penbrook, has a bullet in her back just above the left kidney. Her husband was the defend,int. He was sorry after the shooting occurred and said he had [Continued on l'agc 5.] WAGE INCREASES SATISFACTORY TO MINE WORKERS I. M. \Y. of A. Approve Agree ments at Biennial Conven tion at Indianapolis By Associated Press Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 13.—With addresses of welcome by officials of the state and city and the reading :of a letter from President Wilson expressing his good will toward the 1 coal diggers of the country, the bl ; ennial convention of the United • Mine Workers of America opened here to-day, the delegates in attend ance representing more than 400,- 000 organized men in the country, j "For the first time, in manv vears an increase in wages will not be the paramount business, although j many phases relating to the present [Continued on Page 2.] Every Day Is "Wheatless 1 Day" in This Restaurant I Every day may be a "wheatless , cay in Pennsylvania railroad res | taurants, and on dining cars. For some time rye and graham bread lias boon served to customers and they like it. Now an experiment is being made with a bread that is to' be 30 per cent. rye. There will be very little wheat flour in it. The! new food is a'war bread and said to be very palatable and healthful. In this city Wednesday Is observ ed as a wheatless day at the Penn=y: restaurant. No white bread crack-i ers or wheat biscuits have been serv- j d on Wednesdays for a long time. This brought into popularity the graham and rye breads. Muffins and lolls are also made and the public, is now buying the graham rolls by! the dozen, and there is a big de mand. This has prompted the lo cal management to serve the same! kind of bread each day and do away! with wheat bread entirely. HARRISBURG, PA.,TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1918 Trolley Car Service Swamped by Worst Snow of ]Vinter That Cuts \earby Points From All Communication With the City; High ff inds in Afternoon Piles Up Big Drifts in Many Points; Thousands Forced to Trudge Through Unbroken Paths to Get to Offices; Business Suspended For Hours. Thousands of llarrisburgers to-r day were .snowbound in the worst! storm of the season which tied up! industry for hours. Business vir tually was at a standstill until noon | when suburbanites and persons liv ing a dozen or more squares from the center of the city were able to difi themselves out and get to their offices and tile industrial plants. Trolley service on the Harrisburg Railways and the Valley Railways companies was hit the worst blow j of the winter by the l'resh snow which was piled up eight inches deep on the ice of preceding •storms. QUINCY BENT MADE VICE-PRESIDENT OF BETHLEHEM SIEEL Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 15. President E. G. Grace to-day announced the following important changes in the organization of the Bethlehem Steel Company: Quincy Bent at the present general manager of I the Steelton plant, transferred to the centrai organiza tion at Bethlehem to assume the duties of vicc-presi ,dent in charge of operations. I W. F. Roberts, vice-president in charge of operations here, | transferred to the Maryland plant as general manager, F. W. Wood, the present general manager at Maryland retiring. M. J. Seammell, general superin tendent at the Maryland plant, will become the assistant general man ager of the Maryland plant. • I'°. A. Kobbins will succeed Mr. Cent as general manager of tiio Steelton plant, with K. F. Entwistle a* assistant general manager. The Lebanon blast furnace properties will hereafter coine under the direct supervision of John P. Brock, gen eral manager of the American Iron and Steel plant at Lebanon. Tne foregoing changes become efrectne immediately. Mi*. Itobhlns Here 13 Years • nubbins lfas been connected \wtli the local steel plant for about thirteen years. He resides at 227 Catherine street and is very well known. Italians Gain Advantage in Monte Asolone Region , Ry Associated Frets * Rome, Jan. 15. —By an attack in tlic Monte Asolone replon, on the northern front, the Italians have gained considerable advantages and inflicted very heavy losses on the enemy, the? war office announces. | A surprise attack on the P'avf; front, east of Capo 8U. en abled the Italians to extend their\ bridgehead. Repeated enemy coun terattacks on the captured trenches vere repulsed Trolley sweepers and snowplows were unable to meet the heavy de mands made upon thern and cars sent out to open the ways were unable to make headway after leav ing the central part, of the city. Many of these cars were stuck for hours, lines to the suburbs being closed for a long time. In many rases hundreds of early passengers not into the cars and were forced to leave them after an hour or more of waiting in the snow. All morning long the streets were tilled with long lines of people mak [Continued on Page 14.J "f . Robbins before becoming as -1 s:ptant to Mr. Rent was for two years . assistant to the vice-president of | the Pennsylvania' Steel Company, | After graduating from the Massa • | chUKetts Institute or Technology he came to the local steel plant to work 1 where he lias been since. He has ?! slowly worked his way up through ij the ranks to the highest position of t the plant. I , Kitwlstle has for six months i! i een general manager of the Don ,; aphrnan plant at over j which the local plant has jurisdic t'on. Prior to the lime he was trans j ferred to Lebanon he was for a jear and half mechanical engineer ot the Steel ton plant. He came here ' from Sparrows Point plant where wtti 1 located for three vours. j 'Vhile connected with the Stcelton| ■ f Continued on PURC 4.] _ Snow Drifting Along Reading Railroad Tracks By .-Issocialrd Press I Heading. Pa.. Jan. 15. l,ast i ; niafU s snowstorm has demoralized I (traffic on the Shamokin Division, of! the Reading Railway. Snow to the I ; depth of ten to twelve Inches fell, and , 11 '*! tha s il , I" now drifting. The Reading Coal and Iron Com pany loaded 1,200 cars of anthracite yesterday and only about half of this was transported, due to the storm. All passenger trains are delayed. Traffic | generally is running slowly. Anthra cite is g ven the preference over all I other freight. ALL WHO ARE NOW, 21 YEARS OF AGE TO BE REGISTERED Senator Chamberlain, of Mil-! itary Committee, Intro duces War Dept. Bill , Washington, Jan. 15.—At the request of the War Department to-day, Chairman Chamberlain of the Senate Military Commit tee introduced a hill for the regis tration for military duty cf all men who have become 21 yearsj old since June 5, 1917, when the• draft law went into effect. Another bill which senator Charri berlain introduced at the request of the administration would provide for furloughing National Amy men fot harvesting crops and other agri cultural duty. May Change Basis Another bill would put the quota of he states on the basis of avail- i [Continued on Page 5.] DO YOU KNOW? That the Government is ready to pay you $5.00 for an investment of Only $4.12 in THRIFT STAMPS? YOU KNOW \ on can spare a quarter now and that is all you need to buy your First Stamp. &®r*Ask the Mail Man. U.S. CALLS 250,000 VOLUNTEERS FOR WORK ON SHIPS Hurley Urges Reserve Army of Skilled Men For Build ing Vessels Washington, Jam 15.- A. direct call to workmen not engaged on Gov ernment work to volunteer for a ship yard reserve was made yesterday by E. N. Hurley, chairman of the Ship-1 ping. Board, in telegrams to the chair [Continued on I'age 5.] Two Army Eligible: ■ Held in $1,500 Bail By .AssociateJ Pre.is Camden, N. J., Jan. 15.—Two Na tional Army cligibles were arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Joline to day and held in $1,500 bail each for trial on the charge of perjury in making out their questionnaires. They are Karl W. Batton, Audubon, and W. AV. Kerris, Gloucester City. Batton is alleged to have sworn lie gave his wife $72 a month, whereas it was alleged he gave her only sl2. Ferris, it was charged, swore he gave his wife $2,000 a year. It. was testified he gave her S2O a month. Both men are separated from their wives. KENTUCKY IIATIITES "DHV" AMEN'DJJKNT Frankfort, Ky„ Jan. 15. —Bojh 'lousys of the Kentucky General As sembly to-duy ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the Fed eral Constitution. WEATHER FORECAST For HarrihnrK nml vlelnltyi fair mid rnldrr to-nlK.it, nlth lonrnl temperature about 15 dritrecH; I WedncMdny fair. I'"or Knalrrn I'ennnyjvanlai Knlr j to-nlnht, except tnow In north el portion, eolderi Wednesday fain atrong weat wind*. Single f 2 Cents 1 LATE NEWS | e| / . -j. . A q *£. * X i _ iT X WILL FILL VACANCIES FROM DRAFT T' 4 4. 4 X 1 |i> Washington—Arrangements have been made bv the X 1 "5? X War Department to fill from the cecond draft r,c me time 4* 4* this spring the extensive vacancies in the coast artillery X"'- §# ,T X caused by the organization of provisional rc 'imcnts of T • , >1 IT s* T mobilc of heavy artillery for service in France. A linvtHp Hl* *&> L number of men who have particular attitude r i his . pe- X I CM 3 IX cia * work of the corps were obtained from the: first draft T "'a 4* but there is still a deficiency of several thousand. ' X I • H. T T r | -* £, !i MARKET CLOSES HEAVY T 1 ' ? New YorkNßeactions of 1 to 3 point;, in the last £> " i"** '? £# hour wiped out all gains. The closing was hco Liberty Y X 3 1-2's sold at 98.58 to 98.50; first 4's at 97.58 to 97.40 and !£^H | ■ * second 4's at 96.44 to 96.14* The increased economic LL strain and higher rates for call money prompt -d further professional pressure in to-day's market. T § NEGOTIATIONS DEPENDENT ON MEXICO *¥49 X Washington - Resumption of negotiations designed to g 4 adjust differences between the United States and Mexico T r * *f JX over the question of exports and imports, especially those § relating to supplying Mexico with corn and other fpod- X^H stuffs is dependent oh the Carranza government. It was ▼ IX said to-day that President Carranza has been urged by 4 counsellors in Mexico and by the embassy here-to ** <4 JH fc V 4* sf r mission to the United S *| X the negotiations by Luis Cabrera v. left the country in pique to attend the neutrality c ngress in 4 j Buenou Aires, which already had been postponed until 'Jf •;< 2 ApriL jC _ !1J % j* HOPE TO OPEN SUBURBAN LINES ' '3 , ~ ' " 4 *s* Harrisburg—Officials of the Harrisburg Railways Com- X pany reported this afternoon that rapid pre ihg 4 4* made in clearing the tracks and that unless the wind X *7* drifted the snow, service on the suburban lines may be X established in a few hours 4 4 INVESTIGATE CAMP CONDITIONS *s* ' X ♦** X 'Washington—As a direct result of sentiment in the House over the death from pneumonia of former Rcpte- X | <4* I sentative Gardner at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, Represent ative Gard, of Ohio, to-day introduced a resolution to |* direct the military committee to investigate camp con- x *fi ditions. . . <X 4* X f RUMANIAN MINISTER ARRESTED X ! L|j London—The Rumanian minister at Petrog: ad and his X entire.ptaff have been arrested by the Bokheviki, the X <f Rumanian legation here announces. f 516,580 BALES IN DECEMBE : f Washington—Cotton consumed ' cfurin I.>cv -mbcr X JL j.y amounted to 516,580 running bales. X * I *§* DROP PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE IN BELGIUM T j T Amsterdam, Jan. 14.—The newspaper I.e Nou'velles X • '*£ j says that a number of allied airplanes last Thursday X X dropped a thousand copies of President Wilson's message 4* J1 <V to Congress on occupied areas in Belgium. X X WINTER IDLENESS CONTINUES-IN ITALY T Washington—Winter idleness on the ■> tern ar , J ■s Italian front has not been broken by large operations. X X Raids and patrol engagements occur here ar, 1 there and 4? \ the artillery fire breaks into violence at important points X *l* / ) jfe now and then, but there fs hardly anything in the official 1 4| statement to i;ulicate that Germany's hi -serve of X "X* 4 1,600,000 men from the Russian front is to 1> ~in its her- X X aided blow very soon. • t J COAL MOVES FROM HARBOR X 4< Washington— Movement of coal to relieve the shortage T 4 in the northwest and bunker ships loaded vith army supplies tied ut in New York harbor went - rward to- day under the first priority arrangements since the gov- " j *?•* ernment took .on'.rol of the roads. X. , B t' 4 M 2|. . J MARRIAGE LICENSES . -| Krnnk W. \VUnion. Braddot-k, nnd lOlUubrth M. Trnccy, Wll- J kltiNburK. tf* \ * NIGHT EXTRA
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