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BOLSHEVKI BREAK ALL PACTS
MADE WITH ENTENTE ALLIES
Chief of British Imperial Staff Resigns His Place
London, Feb. 16. —General William Robertson, ehief
of the British Imperial staff, has resigned, it was officially
announced this evening. General Wilson, sub-chief of
staff, takes the vacated place. General Robertson was
CHARGES DEFECTIVE SHELLS
WERE SOLD TO AMERICAN ARMY
San Francisco, Feb. 10.—A var
iant charging the forging of a gov
ernment stamp used to signify that
Billets of steel have been adjudged
suitable for government work and
that this forged stamp had been
olaced on defective steel sold to the
tTnited States, was issued by a United
States Commissioner to-day against
'rosper J. Forrest, of the Edwin
•"orrest Foundry Company.
RUSSIANS DO NOT
FEAR AN INVASION
BY HUN SOLDIERS
All Pacts With Entente Off,
Insists Trotzky; Congress
Backs Minister
THREATEN PETROGRAD
Masses in Teuton Countries
Will Cheek New Move,
Bolshcviki Belief
Londun, Feb. 16.—Russia's'
withdrawal from the war was :i|
real withdrawal and the throw-1
ing away of all agreements with I
her former allies, said Leon
Trotzky, the Bolshcviki Foreign j
.Vmister, in reporting to the All
Russian Workmen's and Sol
diers' Councils (the Soviet),
on the result of the Brest-Litovsk I
conference, according to a ILussun
wireless dispatch received here.
This dispatch says the councils'
approved Trotzky's policy.
Special dispatches from Holland :
however, say Germany has resolved]
to renew military activities against'
northern Russia. This decision is j
said to have been reached at a con
ference at imperial headquarters. !
The conference was attended bv
Emperor William. Chancellor von!
Hertling, Field Marshal von Hinden-1
burg, General von Ludendorff, For-1
eign Secretary von Kuehlmann and
others.
That part of Russia dominated by
the Bolsheviki has withdrawn from!
the war and from Ml war alliances
and has little fear of a German in-j
vasion. The ail-Russian central exe- |
outiye committee of Workmen's and
Soldiers' Councils has approved the
action of tne Russian representa
tives at Brest-Litjvsk. Members of
the committee said the masses of
Germany and Austria would not per
mit a further offensive against Rus
sia by their governments. No news
paper dispatches from Petrograd
have been received in London for a
week and it is believed that the
Bolsheviki censorship has decided to
suppress the activities of correspon
dents.
Emperor William has summoned,
the heads of the Germany navy to
imperial headquarters for a confer
ence and it is announced that Herr
von Payer, the vice-chancellor, will
make an announcement shortly In
the Reichstag on the government's
submarine policy. The probable na
ture of the announcement Is nol
disclosed by German newspapers.
Evidence of a probable natal en
gagement in the finding of a largo
number of bodies of German sail
ors, apparently from warships, is
reported from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gothenburg is near the Skagerrak,
the vicinity of which has been the
scene of important naval battles. In
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INVEST
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Forrest already is in custody of
jthe San Francisco police. His ac
tions, according to a government
official here "endangered the lives of
| thousands of United States soldiers
who have been ordered to Europe."
The defective steel, it was charged
! was sold for use in crank shafts and
| other parts of the machinery of
] government vessels.
CHILDREN LOOK
TO AMERICA FOR
CRUST OF BREAD
Men of All Faiths to Aid Great
Jewish War Relief
Fund
U. S. Only Hope
For the Starving
I have seen children by the
hundreds clamoring not even for
food, but begging for a crust of
bread; and to you and to those of
my own people in this land where
the sun shines so gloriously, and
we have so much to be thankful
for, I bring the message of those
children begging for a crust of
bread. To America they must
look for help which must come—
help which will lift them out of
their vale of sorrows and sad
ness, so that they, too, may see
the light of the sun which we
have and are privileged to en
joy.—A. I. Elkus. American Am
bassador to Turkey.
Speakers at the Orpheum theater
mass meeting Monday night, pre
liminary to the opening of the Jew
ish campaign whereby $15,000 for
war relief work will be raised in
Harrisburg, are to be Dr. Nathan
Krass, of New York; Rabbi M.
Rumanoff and Rabbi Louis J. Haas,
of this city.
A feature of the meeting will be
the tenor singing of Rabbi M.
Abramson, a graduate of one of the
i largest European conservatories,
who has been highly complimented
! on the quality of his voice. An or
chestra has also been engaged.
David Kaufman is to be chairman
of the meeting, and the following
are the members of the executive
committee named by >lr. Kaufman:
Joseph Claster, Henry C. Claster,
Wolf Freidman, Samuel Fishman,
M. K. Jacobson, Samuel Kades, Leon
Lowengard, Simon Michlovitz, Rob
ert Rosenberg, Joseph Sllberman
and H. Zuckerman.
The executive committee named
by William Jennings is composed of
J. William Bowman, H. H. Bowman,
Henderson Gilbert, Paul Johnston!
Carl M. Kaltwasser. Donald McCor
mick, B. M. Ogelsby, George Rein
oehl, David K. Tracy and Joseph
Wallazz.
The mass meeting will be free to
the public. Xo tickets of any kind
are required.
Traction Company Answers
Complaint Filed Against It
Before Service Commission
The Harrisburg Railways Com
pany to-day filed with the Public
Service Commission its answer to the
complaint of O. A. Herring against
'•ar service and conditions in which
it calls upon the complainant to give
time and place where people wore
permitted to ride on front plat
forms, where schedules were not
maintained and where cars were not
heated.
Attention is called to abnormal
conditions the last few months,
especially where car tracks were the
only space on which vehicular traf
fic could move because of the snow
fall and methods of removing it
from streets and to situations creat
ed by weather in operation and roll
ing stock. It is claimed that the cars
are heated by thermostats.
Fifty-seven cars are declared to
constitute the normal number oper
ated on schedule with twenty-two
special cars in the mornings and
thirty in the evenings to care for
rush hours, and the contention Is
made that car hour operation was
greater in the period complained of
than heretofore.
HARRISBURG, FA.,SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1918
SHIP CARPENTERS
WILL ASK WILSON
TO SETTLE STRIKE
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Will Make Di- !
red Appeal to the President to End Walkout Affect- \
ing Thousands; Increases Are Arranged by Adjust- '
ment Board For Employes of Delaware Yards
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The Shipping Board's war adjust
ment board to-day agreed on an increase in wages, definite work- \
ing conditions and overtime pay for all shipyard workers in the j
so-called Delaware yards, comprising about 60 per cent, of ship j
workers on the Atlantic coast.
It does not include the striking carpenters but it is expected i
to affect their strike. v.
Many of the striking carpenters, however, despite the advice
of their union officials, have signified their intention of accepting;
the award; The strikers in the New York district have not done
so but it is hoped they will.
The new wage scale is not so high as the Pacific coast rate,
nor so high as the New York strikers demand., but it will be the
model lor settlements in other districts on the South Atlantic and
Gulf coasts.
"Washington, Feb. 16.—Chairman
Hurley, of the Shipping Board; Gen
eral Manager Piez, of the Emergency
Flent Corporation, and V. Everit
Macy chairman of the Labor "Ad
justment Board conferred with
Acting Secretary Roosevelt of the
Navy to-day on the shipyard strikes.
I'resilient Wilson is preparing to
lake some action to end the strikes
in Atlantic coast shipyards which
threaten to tie up a large part of (lie
shipbuilding Industry of the Fust.
The President lias given the situa
tion his personal attention since yes
terday.
Direct Appeal to President
A direct appeal to the President
to intervene was made to-day by of
ficers of the Brotherhood of Carpen
GERMAN U-BOAT
SHELLS DOVER; i
SLIGHT DAMAGE
Less Than Dozen Casualties;
Reported; British Patrol
Sunk in Running Fight
j
By Associated Press
London, Feb. IG.—An enemy sub
marine bombarded Dover early this
morning it is officially announced.
The submarine was fired on from
the shore and ceased the homgard-i
ment after some thirty rounds had
been lired. There were less than a ;
dozen casualties and only slight dam
age.
Cases have not been infrequent of
German submarines bobbing up off
the British coast and shelling shore
points. Yarmouth, for instance, was
thus bombarded on January 14. It
is not often however, that the Ü
boats have cared to take chances
with such a well-defended town as is
Dover, the most important point in
southeastern England, opposite Ca
lais, on the Straits of Dover, across
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Only One Remonstrance
Filed in License Court
Xo additional remonstrances
against any applicants for liquor li
censes were filed before the Pro
thonotary's office closed to-day, so
that for the first time in years there
is only one petitioner whose case will
be contested before the court. This
is probably due, it was said, to the
fact that there are no applications
for licenses for new places as in
former years. The applicant whose
petition has been protested against
is Harry E. Fetrow, of the Fort
Hunter hotel.
License court will be held on
Tuesday. There are 127 applications
for retail; 19 for wholesale, four
bottlers' and five brewers' licenses
on record.
unable, the statement says, to accept a position as mili- .4'
tary representative 011 the Supreme War Counsel at Ver
sailles or to continue as chief of the Imperial General staff
with limited power. J
ters and Joiners, approximately sio
per cent, of whose members in the
New York district are out to-day, de
manding immediate assurances of
higher wages and closed shop con
ditions.
Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping
Board, who last night renewed his
demand that William L. Hutclieson,
president of the Carpenters' Brother
hood. send the strikers back to work
pending a settlement of their griev
ances by the shipbuilding wage ad
justment board, toof up the situation
again to-day in a conference with
General Manager Piez, of the Emerg
ency Fleet Corporation; V. Everit
Macy, chairman of the W r age Ad
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AGED CONSTABLE
KILLS MAN WHO
EVADES ARREST
Shot Because Fugitive Always
Walked Away, Out
of Reach
Duncannon, Pa.," Feb. 16.—Be
cause of his age. Perry county au
thorities this morning were uncer
tain as to what mode of procedure
to follow against Jacob Sterner, the
75-year-old constable, who last
evening shot to death Russell Mc-
Kelvey. McKelvey died a half hour
later of the wound in his back in
flicted by the old man who was per- j
mitted to go to his home after firing
the shot.
The inquest on the body of Rus
sell McKelvey, conducted here by
Justice of the Peace H. H. Seig, this
morning, rendered a verdict that
death had been caused by a bullet
wound "inflicted by one Jacob
Sterner." District Attorney McKee
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City Spent $12,066 to
Remove Snow From Streets
The cost of snow removal from
January 1 to date totaled $12,066,
ligures compiled by the city high
way department show. Since the flrst
of the year unprecedented weather
conditions with frequent snows kept
large forces of men busy clearing
Intersections and only during the last
week have the gangs been working
on the business street* removing the
piles of snow which had been shov
eled from the sidewalks.
More than 150 employes of the
city highway department were paid
to-day for work during the flrst two
weeks of the month. The amount
needed for the payroll and for hir
ing additional trucks, teams and
carts will be about $4,800.
RUSSIA BEGINS DEMOBILIZATION
OF ITS ARMIES ON FRONTIER
Amsterdam, Feb. 16. —News has
been received in Berlin confirming
reports that Russia had not begun
the demobilization which her repre
sentatives at Brest-Litovsk announc
ed had been ordered, says a dis
patch from Berlin to the Weser Zei
tung of Bremen.
DANGER OF FLOOD
IN ICE-CHOKED
RIVER PASSED
Gorges Expected to Be Pushed
Out by the Rising
Water
Ice from the North Branch, which
reached Sunbury eariy this morning,
is expected to ptish the Ice outtof the
main branch from Sellnsgrovc to
Luncannon, where it broke yester.
day. Tile ice at Selinsgrove broke at
4 o'clock this morning, and the ice
from the North Branch is expected
to furnish enough force to push tl j
ice out of the main stream to the
bay.
The river here had receded to
slightly over eight feet this morning.
Water from the North Branch caus
ed the river to rise again and by late
aiternoon or early evening an eleven
or a twelve loot stage of high wa
ter is expected. Flood dangers, it is
announced by the State Water Sup
ply Commission, are practically past.
There was a free channel in the
main stream so far as Pequea, two
and a half miies below Falls Ferry,
this morning. The ice situation be
low Selinsgrove in the main branch
had not changed this morning. The
gorge at the mouth of the Juniata
remained as tight as ever this morn
ing, as did the gorges from Coxes
town to opposite Jierr street. The
cold weather of last night has tight
ened the gorges considerably, and
the information given out at the lo
cal branch of the Federal Weather
Bureau is that it will take strong
pressure to force them out.
West Branch Bad
The worst conditions are on the
West Branch, where the ice has
gorged at the mouth of Pine creek,
near Jersey Shore, and dammed the
water behind it. The penned up
stream has raised to a llood level,
the gage pointing at 22.7 feet. The
water has backed so much that at
Lock Haven, twelve miles up the
stream, there is two feet of back
water.
From Williamsport the ice has
broken for a distance along the
stream, and been carried down.
When the ice at Jersey Shore breaks
it is thought that the volume of wa
ter released will be sufficient to carry
the remainder of the ice in the West
Branch to the main stream.
Jersey Shore, which lies only a few
feet above the river level, is ex
periencing flood conditions, and
much of the lowlands between Jer
sey Shore and Bock Haven is under
water.
The State Water Supply Commis
sion stated this morning that the
volume of water In the Susquehanna
has not been sufficient to carry the
heavy ice out of the stream. It was
said that the cold wave of last night
tightened the gorges considerably,
and that they may not go out '..•hen
i expected.
Phila. Food Administrator
Takes Drastic Measures
to Prevent Hoarding
Philadelphia, Feb. 16. —A drastic
ruling to prevent the hoarding of
food in the home was issued this aft
ernoon by Jay Cooke, Philadelphia
food administrator. Consumers mint
not purchase more than forty-nine
pounds of wheat flour, and are for
bidden to hold in excess of thirty I
days' supply. Homes with such an
excess must return It or register
their holdings with the food admin
istration. Violation means $5,000 tine
or two years in prison or both.
Weds Two Days After
Divorce Is Granted
Divorced two days ago after his
second marriage, Blias Dechert, of
Steelton, to-day applied for a mar
riage license to wed Mrs. Klizabeth
Field whose husband died four years
ago. Mr. Dechert's first wife died
twelve years ago. he told the mar
riage license clerk.
William Brlndle, aged 73, and
Frances M. Westfall, aged 60, both
of Mechanicsburg, also took out a
license.
On the other hand the Vienna cor
respondent of the Vossische Zeitung
reports he has been informed by
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish premier,
that Russia was demobilizing in the
Caucasus and that the portion of
Armenia occupied by Russia was in
the process of being evacuated.
COL. ZIEGLER IS
LAID TO REST
WITH TRIBUTES
Soldier-Lawyer Honored by
Men With Whom He
Served
ACTION BY COUNTY BAR
His Regiment Sends Repre
sentative to Quiet
Funeral
Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Ziegler,
soldier and law'yer, to-day was laid
to rest in the family plot in the
Harrisburg Cemetery after he had
received the silent tribute from the
men with whom he had served at
home and in the field before he gave
his life in the service of his country.
The funeral service was very quiet
yi accordance with his wishes. Six
sergeants from the United States
Army served as pallbearers. Vet
erans of former wars, members of
the old military organization with
i which Col. Ziegler was associated
and fo-.r.er members of the National
Guard unit attended the service. .
Members of the old Company I
which marched to the President's
call during the Mexican trouble be
hind Col. Ziegler then company
commander and the officers and men
of the IX2th regiment of Camp Han
cock to which unit. Col. Ziegler was
attached were represented at the fu
neral by Lieutenant Merle 15. Coover,
of Carlisle.
Many Attend Service
Many of the most prominent men
of the city attended the service,
conducted in the home, 106 State
street, by the Rev. S. Winlleld Her
man, pastor of Zion Lutheran
Church and Rev. Dr. Kills N.
Kremer, oastor of Reformed Salem
Church.
The service was begun at 2.30
o'clock and was open to the soldiers,
businessmen and members of the
Dauphin county bar, who were
friends of the flrst officer Harris
burg has given as a victim to the war-
Private services were held at the
cemetf ry
Col. Ziegler's body was brought to
his home here last evening from
Fort Sam Houston, Tex., where he
died Monday night from the effects
of a fractured skull received from a
fall from his horse. Col. Ziegler
had been transferred \o the fort a
short time before from Camp Han
cock, Ga., where lie was stationed
with th? 112 th infantry.
The committee of the Dauphin
County Bar appointed to write an
appropriate mifiute as a tribute to
Colonel Ziegler included the follow
ing: John T. Brady, Charles H. Berli
ner, Col. Frederick M. Ott, William
M. Hain, Philip T. Meredith, Frank
lin J. Both and Charles C. Stroh. The
following tribute will be presented
to be llled on the court records:
"Frank Eugene Ziegler, son of
Kiehaid B. and Sally J. Ziegler, was
born In Harrisburg August Bth, 1873,
and died February lltli, 1918, at San
Antonio. Texas. ll e was a lineal de
scendant of Baron von Steuben, In
spector-General of the Continental
Army under General Washington at
Valley Forge.
"His whole life, except when ab
sent on military duty in the service
of his state or country, was passed
in the city of his birth. He was edu
cated in the public schools of the
city and was graduated from the
High School thereof In the class of
1890. During his term in the High
School he began the study of stenog
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THE WEATHER
For llarrlttbnric and vlrlnltyi
Generally cloudy to-night and
probably Sunday) continued
cold) lowest temperature to
night ahoot 20 degrees.
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X BANK STATEMENT
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janks and trust companies for the week (five days) shows
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they hold $29,251,200 reserve in excess'of legal require- ,
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g* v ' -n—The con ul at Tiflis to-day '
T| transmitto 1 an unconfirmed rei General Kale- J*.
4* <h nc . ' in the Ukraine who resisted r,
T the ambitions of the Bolsheviki, had suddenly dropped ! I
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J WOMEN SECTION HANDS STRIKE • j
' —The women section hands employed *
*J by the Lehigh Valley Railroad cn the Shenandoah Lost * *
Creek bran< h. wei t >n a strike this morning. They arc *j
a * getting SI.BO for a nine-hour day and they are striking * J
* *%for $2.00. They will be organized by a union organize **,
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Office rep rts. German aviators v,;am dropped bombs
in the vicinity of Nancy. V
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Mary Simnlleh, Steelton.