NIGHT EXTRA —Aims of U.S. and England Are NIGHT EXTRA jfe HARRISBURG (&&& TELEGRAPH M - 3n&cpcn&cnt - ' W i LXXXYIi No. 16 20 PAGES LOCAL MUNITION PLANTS MAY RESUME OPERATIONS AT ONCE PAR T PARAL OF ALL INDUSTRIES EFFECTIVE AMERICA FEELS PINCH OF WAR FOR FIRST TIME Manufacturing Plants in the East Arc Closed For a Five-Day Period CRITICISM VERY BITTER Failure to Heed Senate Re quest May Mean Direct Appeal to President Washington, jan. IS.—Amer ica felt the pinch ot war perhaps for the first time to-day with its industries hanging idle under the fuel administration's order is sued to relieve the coal shortage and release fuel for ships loaded with supplies for the American Army and the allies. In the face of protests predicting disastrous consequences and a for mal request from the Senate to stay its execution temporarily the order was signed last night by Adminis trator Garfield with the approval of President Wilson. By its provisions manufacturing plants east of the Mississippi and in Louisiana and Minnesota, with rare exceptions, will be closed for five days beginning to-day and virtually all business activity will bo stopped [Continued 011 Page 16.] Schools Exempt From Coal Saving Program, Downes Wired From Washington Schools are exempt from the gen eral closing orders issued by the Federal fus! administration, Dr. F". K. Downes, superintendent of city schools, to-day was informed by telegraph. This means that the ijchools will not have to close Mon days when office buildings must turn o!T heat. Dr. Downes telegraphed to Dr. Garfield as follows for a ruling: "Does recent order close pub lic schools on Mondays? School buildings only place where thou sands of children of the coun try are warm and comfortable. Saturdays already school holi day. All Harrisburg schools have sufficient coal. Think clos ing schools will be a great mis take. Please wire." The following reply was re ceived : "Schools exempt from ad ministrator's orders. "School Administrator Elwell, "Washinston. D. C." Pennsy Cuts More Trains; Sunday Schedules Start Tonight at Midnight By Associated Press Philadelphia, Jan. 18.—The Penn sylvania railroad will put into ef fect its regular Sunday schedule on local trains for passenger service to morrow, Sunday and Monday under the fuel conservation plan. An nouncement to this effect was made this afternoon. The regular sched ule for through passenger trains will not be changed. WEATHER FORECAST l> * llarrlMbiirß nnd vicinity! Fnlr .iid colder to-night, wit it low est temperature about 10 le- KrecN; Saturday fair, continued cold. Tor KnMern Penniiylvunla: < londy and colder to-niplit, probably fnow In northenMt portion! Sat urday fnlr. colder in Monthcu*t portion) iceiitle to moderate NhlftliiK wind*. $412 Means $5.00 Ask Your Letter- Carrier. Fuel Or Interpreted J These interpretations of Doctor Garfield's order were announced by William I'otter, Pennsylvania admin istrator and his associates yesterday: "Mr. Potter, Federal fuel adminis trator for Pennsylvania, makes tlie statement that Doctor Garfield's order is intended to facilitate the delivery of coal at points where needed, and on that account, so far as possible. Such interpretation will be given to Doctor Garfield's order as not to in terfere with the free movement of coal in transit. "Under Subsection I! of Section 1 of Mr. Garfield's orders, the words 'char itable institutions' do not include churches or Kehoolx unless the pupils of iHflioolx sleep in the l>ui 1(1 in)(. "The construction of Subsection H of Section 1 of Mr. Garfield's order is that the Franlcford Arsenal, Navy Yard and other places of like char acter are included in the term 'strictly governmental purposes.' "Under Subsection A of Section " of Mr. Garfield's order, no plant can [Continued on Page 11.] 2,000,000 in Pennsylvania Affected by Temporary Closing of Industries .Philadelphia, Jan. 18.—Approxi mately 2,000,000 workers in Penn sylvania will be thrown out of em ployment during the five-day shut down of industries affected by the Federal fuel administrator's order, according to statistics compiled by the State Department of Labor and Industry at Harrisburg. One million and a half workers will be similar ly affected on the Monday holidays and the approximate loss In wages I was placed at $114,000,000. Many of the department stores' and manufacturing interests in Phil-I adelphia announced to-day that they would pay their employes during the I enforced suspension. Tho general committee of anthra-; cite operations issued an appeal to-! clay for 25,000 additional men to! work in the hard coalmines of Penn sylvania. "Although last year's production of anthracite exceed 77,000,000 tonsj nearly ten million tons more than I ever before," said the appeal, "pro-! dttction must be further increased. I The high record output lias proved' insufficient to meet enormously en-1 larged war-time demands. More la-| bor is essential now. The industry is! shorthanded. It has only 152,000, mine workers, against 177,000 in 1016. The mining operations are! developed sufficiently to enable an! immediate increase in production,! could the necessary labor be had." Many large manufacturing estab-1 lisliments throughout the state are| completely idle to-day but others j were being operated regardless of j the live-day suspension period order by National Fuel Administrator Gar- j field. Some of the plants ignoring the! order appear to be within the fuel! saving ruling, others have shut off heat and power and face losses of thousands of dollars. Reserve police in the city and state are being held in readiness for any disturbances which might accom pany the enforced idleness. Work ers are accepting the "lay off" phil osophically although few rulings have yet been made offering pay to employes for the five-day idle per iod. The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Atlantic Refining Company and Nice town Link Belt Company are among the large plants running to-day, al though apparently coming under the fuel ruling. Fuel Holiday Enables Railroads to Clean Up Miles of Congested Sidings Reading. Pr.., Jan. 16.—Because of tho fuel holiday the railroads started to-day to clean up miles of sidings which are congested with coal and freight cars. General Superintendent W. H. Keffer, of the Beading Kail way. with headquarters in this city, returned front tho anthracite fields Thursday evening after having spent an entire day there in getting the tracks in shape to handle the coal traffic. "In all my experience." said Mr. Keffer, "I never knew condi tions to be worse than they are now, because of the heavy snow and ice which blocked the tracks all through the region. "Wo had about 1,000 men employed clearing away the Ico and snow and it required hard work, but it was ac complished, and conditions to-day are very good. Notwithstanding the great difficulties encountered, the outpu; from the mines reached 1,100 cars yesterday and It Is expected that this number will be Increased to-day." HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1918 FACTORIES AND MILLS CLOSED BY FUEL ORDER Scores of Big and Little Plants Shut Down For Enforced Holiday MAY WORK IN THE OPEN National Order Applies Only to Workers Using Coal or Power Modification of the general closing order by Fuel Adminis trator Garfield to-day permits the Steelton plant of the Bethle hem Steel Company and the mills of the Central Iron & Steel Company to continue operations. Modification of the order was I made with the understanding that the plants work to full capacity pn steel plate orders for the Emergency Fleet Cor- poration. Word was received here from the general offices in Bethlehem that instructions would be followed out. At the Central plant, the en tire force cannot be put back to work until Monday, it was said, because it will take that time to get back the employes. At both the Steelton and Central plants I between 30 and 50 per cent, of the men were working to-day! keeping the blast furnaces hot, I [Continued oil Page 1 I.J Do You Want a Clean Collar and Table Linen? Well, Write to Garfield "1 don't believe your Uncle John! ever had a collar on," hummed al spruce lad tb-day as he approached I his laundryman. "We'll, he won't get any here," scowled the latter. "A five-day shutdown will have everybody turn- | ing them over. Low neck will prob-' ably be the style and you know what! that would do to us." The restaurants lost no time in making provision for the cessation i of laundry establishments, sending, in bi„ orders for paper napkins and I heavy paper table cloths. The amount of washing needed to keep a I first-class eating house is so consid erable that restaurant men say they I cannot get their regular washing i, done and will have to rely on pa-! per material. England has been doing this for some time. England also began to eliminate laundried collars, using soft rolled ones. The hotels here were sharply hit with the change and they, too, say they will have diffi culty getting their linen cleaned up. Little Snow Forecast, Although Weather Is to Continue Unsettled Hai-risbur-.? lius hart snow on the ground, never less than six inches, since December 8, and at the pres ent time there is just an even foot of it. The greatest amount was a little over twelve inches. The town was properly camou flaged In white for the first time on December 8, although there were three or four flurries in November. That month closed with the btreets covered with 3.8 inches and since thtn the various falls have been heavy enough to make a foot of it. The snow sift of to-day does not promise to develop into anything protcntious, raid Mr. Demain. It will probably disappear this after noon and may be followed with a tiifle colder weather. The general prediction calls for "unsettled" weather, with no warm wave on the way. BIG SHAKEUP IN BERL fIRSp j(r 4 ' Z!T T" VON HIKDEMBUWi According to recent reports from Berlin, important changes in the gov ernment arc to be made in the near future. The Crown Prince> MArsftftl von HindenburK and General von Ludendorft' were summoned to council re cently by the Emperor. The outcome of the conference was the downfall of the "peace party" in Germany and the promise of military dictatorship by von HindenburK. RUSSIA FACES NEW PROBLEMS—CIVIL CONFLICT Deadlock in Negotiations With Central Powers; Threat ened War With Rumania and Hostility of Ukraine Are Present Problems An apparent deadlock in the peace negotiations with the central pow ers, threatened war with Rumania, and the hostility of the Ukraine are difticulties faced by the Bolshevik government, to which has been added the assembling in Petrograd of the delegates to the Constituent Assem bly. There is also a report from a Swedish newspaper that the relations between Premier Lenine and Foreign Minister Trotzky daily become more strained. Germany has refused to accept Rus sia's attitude concerning the right ot GARFIELD SAD FAILURE, HOUSE CRITICS AVER Madden and Lenroot Lead aj Triangular Sector Infested by Vigorous Attack 011 Na- j Enemy Since Low Water tional Administrator Is Again Cleared Washington, Jan. IS.—The Senate last night, in unprecedented action and a majority of 50 to 19. approved the resolution offered by Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska, requesting Fuel Administrator Gar field to suspend for five days his order halting the consumption of coal in the east for that length of time. The resolution was approved after Doctor Gartleld had been summoned before the subcommittee .of the Sen ate committee on manufactures to ex plain the necessity for it and after many hours of bitter debate between a few administration supporters and a majority of the Republican and Democratic members. Fuel Administrator Garfield's coal order hit the House of Representa tives like a bombshell. The veil of r Continued on Page 6.] (•ROSS OIVBN HEARING Commissioner E. 7.. Gross, charged by John I'. Guyer with the violation of' the election expense return law. was given a hearing late this after noon before Alderman Handls, be fore whom the suit was brought. the occupied territories of Courland, Lithuania and Ksthonia to self-definition- along lines advocated by the Bolsheviki. Until a general peace, the Germans say they cannot evacuate the territories. The Bol shevik stand is declared by the Ger mans to be one-sided and the Russian delegates are asked to agree to the German view. Foreign Minister Trot zky's answer'to the German proposals is not yet known. Rumania not having replied to the [Continued on Page 10.] ITALIAN TROOPS BREAK PRESSURE ON PIAVE RIVER liy Associated Press Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, Thursday, Jaii. 3 6. —Italian troops have succeeded in breaking the pressure which the enemy has been exerting on the lower Pia\}e in the sector nearest Venice. ,This is a | triangular sector originally cleared |of the enemy when the whole re j gion was inundated bj% opening the [Continued on Page JO.] Russians Resume Peace | Negotiations, Declares Official Berlin Dispatches Berlin, Jan. 18-via London— After j mi address (<> the peace delegates at [ llrest-Ulovsk on Wednesday by UDII Trotzky. Bolshevik) foreign minister, ! tlie KiiNslans agreed to a contlnun i tlon of the discussion. Tho German foreign Secretary Dr. | Von Kuehlmann adressed the dele ! gates after M. Trozky, and moved I that they should begin discussion In a business-like manner of four points proposed by the Russian delegation. To this M. Trotzky agreed. The next sitting was fixed for the following day. CITY REACHES AN ACUTE STAGE IN COAL SHORTAGE Men and Women With Bags and Baskets Swarm Oyer Car Sent Here DEALERS' YARDS EMPTY Emergency Orders Given to Homes Where There Is Sickness The coal shortage in has reached the most acutej. Stage that it has assumed at during the winter. ' Contrary to the expectations of Ross A. Hickok, fuel adn\inietrator of Dauphin county, whMcxpected a fair shipment of poal over the Pennsylvania lines y<£Mff day, no coal was received from jMUe'r the Susquehanna Coal which comes over the Pcnnsjnvania Railroad, or the Reading Coal and Iron Company, yesterday. Families without coal, are besieg ing the police station and the Chamber of Commerce offices, with demands for coal. offices are thronged with consumers, bring ing bags and baskets for sdltUl sup plies of coal. Mr. Hickok said that a few cars of coal have come into the city over the Pennsyvania lines to-day. One dealer, he said, received three cars, but he could announce no other shipment#. He has been telephon ing to Mr. Potter, state fuel ad [Continucd on Page 14.] GOVERNOR SEEKS T6 RELIEVE FUEL ORDER HARDSHIPS Seeks Advice of Industrial Leaders as to Means of Preventing Suffering Governor Brumbaugh to-day tele graphed to chairmen of the public safety committees of the industrial counties of Pennsylvania and men prominent in industrial affairs such as Charles M. Schwab, of the Bethle hem Steel Company, and A. A. Herr, of the Westinghouse interests, for their opinion as to the effect of the "shut down" order of the national fuel administrator, as he phrased it. During the day the Governor discuss ed the situation with other men pro '.nent in affairs over the tele phone and called to his office lead ers of the railroad brotherhoods and [Continued on Page 10.] PATRIOTS MUST DIE FOR IDEALS, • SAYS PREMIER Urgency For Raising •"More Men Is Self-Evident, De clares Lloyd George By Associated Press London, Jan. 18. —Premier .Lloyd George, addressing the labor dele gates to-day said no man standing on the watch tower could deny the urgency of the need for raising more men. Tho prime minister said the demo cracy has ever long survived tho failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. Mr. Lloyd George said that he and President Wilson without previous consultation —there was no oppor tunity—had laid down substantially the same program of derriands for the termination of the war. Must Kestore Belgium There was no man willing to muke peace without complete res [Continucd oil Page 10.] Grand Juries Investigate of 'Gouging' hy Retail Coal Dealers Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—Federal grancU.juries In many districts are investigating complaints that coal operaHTrs, and whoJesale and retail dealers, have violated the Govern ment's fixed prices. Single Copy, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA j&WrMr W f K\TE NEWS | J * x MANY FIRMS EXEMPTED 'X |j Washington—The fuel administration to-day ma ere JL ;i public a list of more than one thousand firms exempted '> t from the fuel restriction order as being necessary to the £ J cs ed to-day by the Senate after brief \ 14* bate. The bill now goes to the House * ' 4 * ♦ ¥ !*' 4 BALDWIN WORKS TO RESUME 5* • Washington—Balwin Locomotive Works, Philadel-* > ! jj phia, may resume work at once. * ' |X MARKET CLOSES IRREGULAR > New York—Steels, coppers and equij J t J further recoveries in*the last hour. The closing was ir- * 1 regular. Liberty 3 1-2's sold at 98.60 to 98.48, first 4's fc ; 4 at 97.06 to 96.3 Oand second 4'a at 96.22 to 96.10. The new .* I 4* * ■ • conservati n order acted as a check on trading in ,* * ♦ narrow stock market. Sales approximated 475,( CO es. J j | CUBAN SUGAR DISTRIBUTED ) * t Washington—President Menocal of Cuba, by deer * | has permitted distribution throughout the world of the J ) entire Cuban crop by the International Sugar Commitu ,* * T which works with the food administration. 4* WAR COUNCIL BILL APPROVED J [ f Washington—The bill to create a new war council of * * three civilians and the Secretaries of War and Navy was X I approved late to-day by the Senate Military Committee £ and 'Will be introduced in Senate on Monday. I I DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS BILL } ' ton—A bill to create a director of munitions, t' t not having cabinet membership but With broad auth A ' 1 L to centralize control of all war munitions, was rcj >X X ltvorably to-day by the Senate Military Committee. An- 4* e§ other bill to establish a war council was nearly completed. X J PRESIDENT WILL NOT INTERFERE M i ■ ▼ 3 | Washington—lt was stated officially early, to-day that § X President Wilson is not even considering interfering with ■X *}* the fuel l striction ordet and feels that the countr will 4* m *2* iX be satisfied with its necessity. 'i / IJ MUNITION PLANTS MAY WORK • .J I A Washington—All the principal munitions plants will X be permitted to work at ull capacity under the ucl tc- i I t striction order. As announced last night by the fuel ad- * | X MORE THAN 500,000 X X Chicago—More than one billion dollars in capi- 4*l '4* tal and some 500,000 workers arc idle to-day in t'io X $ X* ,4, Chicago district, as a result of the conservation order of X t the federal fuel administration, * t m x it URGE 6 DAYS' WORK IN FIVE 4*? 3 4> jjW New York—The doing of six days' work in X T five during Mondayless industrial weeks is recommended tf ito members of the National Bopt and Shoe Manufacturer 4* Association in a bulletin telegraphed to them to-day I 'Tv "f* John S. Kent, president. w A TEXAN REACHES PORT X ! t An Atlantic Port—The Hawaiian American line steam- ,X! T ,f : - ,4* ship Texan which was in a collision at sea last Monday, ilk IX arrived here safely to-day under her own steam. It be- T! came known that she was rammed by a convoying war- 4*! I i ship which punched a large hole in her port side. X > It ASK FOR 25.000 ADDITIONAL MINERS J |4 Phila. Jphia—The general committee of anthracite X % IX operations issued an appeal to-day for 25,000 additional ,T j j t men ' n the hard coal mines of Pennsylvania. [X f SCHOOLS ARE EXEMPT T §• Harrisburg—Schools are exempt from the general 4 closing order, the federal fuel administration today wired, £ \ F. E. Downes, superintendent of city schools. ,|j| 3 T- ' J iniKIAGE LICENSES ¥ £ Ckarlea H. StkmrU and Mnj- Jennie Itinekurt. Mifflin; .lames J. S I.WIIMIII nnrt Penrl 1.. Sfhnab, l'lltahnr(L: I,ee McUaiiit and Ida T' llmke, llnrrlabam.