I cus Agito I.XXXVII — No. 264 14 PAGES HARRISBURG,. PA., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1918. "SBW HOME EDITION .... ' ■ - 11 ...-., .4 •'.' •.-,•• " : 'T¥#l*x!?l PERSHING NAMES 80,000 YANKEES TO RETURN HOME 1 39th, 76th and 87th Appear in List as Entire American Divisions 262,723 IX THE CASUALTIES Total Number of Troops Thus Far Designated For Dis charge Is 649,006 16,378 FROM THE CAMPS U. S. Soldiers Captured by the Huns Returning to Own Lines Daily By Associated Press Washington, Nov. 30. —General Pershing has designated for early convoy to tlie United States a total of 3,451 officers and 79,083 men. General March announced to-day. The units comprising tljese men will t be made public later. In the list appear as entire divi sions the 39th, 76th and the 87th. ' The other troops comprise artillery units and army corps troops. ' General Murch gave out amended casualty reports from General Pershing giveing the official total to November 26 as 262,723, exclusive of prisoners. The figures on prisoners were unintelligible in the cable gram. General March said the total under this head probably would be virtually the same as announced last Saturday. Casualties to November 20 General Pershing reported the following official casualties to No vember 26: Killed in action, 28.363. I Died of wounds, 12,101. Died of disease, 16,034. Died of other causes, 1,980. Missing in action. 14.290. Prisoners (unintelligible!. Wounded, 189.955, divided as fol lows: Severely, 54.751; undetermin ed. 43,168; slightly, 92,036. , Will Speed Return of Troops "lie War Department expects to bring back hoipe in December be tween 150,000 and 175,000, General March said. To accomplish this, it will use in addition to army trans ports and converted cargo boats,' enough old battleships and cruisers rr -furnish an additional carrying capacity for 25,000 men. Shipping experts expect to transport 300,000 monthly when the demobilization is under full speed. The total number of troops al ready designated for early discharge ill the United States was given as 649,000. These include depot and development battalions, 26,000; divi sional troops, 10,000; railway troops, 28,000; United States guards, 26,- uOO; tank corps, 7.000; chemical warfure troops, 7,000; central of ficers training schools, 20,000. stu dent army training corps, 160,000. Pouring Out of Home Camps To (late 46,378 men have been mustered out of the camps in this country. The schedule under which Hie department is working calls for tile release of an average of one thousand men per camp per day, and General March said every effort would bo made to maintain the average. Revised army estimates for the coming year resulted in cutting the $19,000,000,000 of army appropria tions to less than three billions, General March announced. .Medals For Anny Generals General Pershing has been direct * ed by President Wilson to confer the Continued on Page 2 Reported Dead in France He Writes of Wounds Private Clarence Kdward Fetrow, widely-known local athlete, who was unofficially reported as dead, has been severely wounded and Is now in a base hospital in France, according to word received yesterday by his parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Fet row. 229 South Fifteenth street. Private Fetrow was unofficially chronicled as among the dead sev eral months ago. A letter from him corrects this impression. He is a .member of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery. In llar l risburg ho is very popular in the athletic world. He was employed by the Harrisburg Shoe Manufacturing Company. He is also a, member of the Hick-A-Thrift class in the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. < ll\R(ii:D WITH THEFT OF TW O OOV l.lt( (ITS William M. \Vilbert was given a preliminary hearing in police court this afternoon on the charge of steal ing two overcoats from the coat rack in the vestibule of the residence at 4u3 Walnut street. According to T. C. Motigan, who owned one of the coats. Wilbert entered the hnll last evening and made away with the • oats when no one was around. Pa trolman Foultz made the arrest. NEED Monn FUNDS More contributions for the relief fund which is being used to give financial help to residents in River side whose properties we're damaged in a recent storm, are asked by the committee In charge. Subscriptions have been coming in slowly but much more money is needed. All contribu tions should be sent to the Dauphin Deposit Trust Company. I THE WEAfHER Per Ifarrlsliurg and vicinity, Fair mid colder to-night,' vrith low est temperature about 28 de grees; Sunday fair, continued eold. Klver The Susqiielinnnn river and nil Its tributaries nlll continue to fnll slowly, A stage of about 4.4 ■r~ feet Is Indicated for Harrtsburg Sunday morning T ~ —— / They Seem Unbelievably Small ' ) GREAT SCOT f DID I EVCR "WEAR 1 ; ) THAT ? ) ,| I | BREWERIES CLOSE TO SAVE FOOD; ■ SUPPLY IS LARGE Hotel Trade to Be Served For Six Months to Come PRICES SOON TO SOAR Small Glasses Probably Will Retail at Ten Cents a Glass i Local breweries at 6 o'clock this ; evening will cease to make beer, and I j the big breweries will be closed in ] the first advance towards national , i prohibition. Brewing of beer ceases sj throughout the land at midnight, i but according to information avail i | able this morning, the majority of ; the local brewers will not operate i : until the time limit. ■ I Two local brewers said to-day ; there probably is enough beer in the I city to last the local trade six • ! months. Uraupner's can supply its i ! trade at least that long, It was said. - ; Doehne's and the National Brewery, I at Steelton, would not say how long ■ j they could care for their eustom > | era. Steelton Brewery Closes r I The National Brewery stopped the ' j brewing of beer this morning. ; Graupner's will continue until ti Continued oil I'uge 2 State Has Balance of Ten Million at Clofe of the Fiscal Year The Cotnmonweulth of Pennsylvania had a balance of 19,888,988.55 In its treasury at the close of business at noon to-day, which was at once the close of the month and of the fiscal year. The treasury receipts for the year were $44,165,386.74 and the , total expenditures $542,407,064.30, ac , cording to figures given out by State Treasurer Kephart. The balances on hand at the close , of business to-day were: General t fund, $8,364,912.05: sinking fund, $651,110.02; school fund, uninvested, ' $36,275.74; motor fund, $56,833.91; game protection, $289,286.85; bounty 1 fund, $265,202.84; insurance'fund, un invested. $100,755.76; manufacturers fund, $21,728.21, fish propagation, $B,- 269.75; federal appropriation for vo cational education, $94,611.44. • MRS. FAIRBANKS GETS DIVORCE New Roehelle, N, Y., Nov. 30. Mrs. Beth 8. Fairbanks to-day won an interlocutory decree of divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, moving picture actor, in the Supreme Court here. She was awarded the custody of their son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., 8 years old. The record of the testi mony in the ease refers to the cor respondent as "an unknown woman." j r 1 STATE'S GIFT TO RING OUT DAILY By .-Associated Press | Troy. N. Y„ Nov. 30.—-A bell | '; which will be hung in the Atneri . j can National Red Cross building at Washington, D. C., and which j j is a gift by the Pennsylvania j , i Council a{ National Defense, was j ! shipped to Washington to-day by j I a Troy foundry firm. Each day | i ut noon the bell will be rung pre- 1 ' ceding a two-minute pause for j prayer by those within the Red j Cross structure. M'ADOO EXPLAINS RAILROAD RAISE; ; NOT RETROACTIVE I 'j Never His Intention to Fash • ion Supplementary Increase f ' After General Advance B.v Associated Press ' Washington, Nov. 30. —Director . General McAdoo has ruled against consideration by the board of rail road wages and working conditions ' of eompiaints filed by certain class ; es of railroad employes asking that ' ' supplementary wage advances re- j " • cently granted be made retroactive | i to January 1. 1918, as wus the gen i ernl wage advance of last May 25. i | Tlie decision of the director general I ; is embodied in a letter to Chairman i ' \ Sines, of the wage board, which wus j made public yesterday. I The general wage advance to rail j roud employes was made"retroactive i to the first of the year, and Mr. Mc- Adoo in his letter declares that fol i lowing the granting of the general ' increase it never was his. intention •j to make supplementary udvances retroactive for the same period. HUNDREDS OF CHRISTMAS PARCELS SENT TO FRANCE IN ELEVENTH-HOUR RUSH Every Nook and Cranny of Little Red Cross. Cartons Filled With Holiday Gifts; Coins Hidden in Finger of Gloves Are Tabooed by Careful Inspectors , l I Talk about the Christmas spirit! You should have seen the big Ited Cross Santa Claus department on this, the last day, for sending car tons to the brave boys abroad. Imagine four or five hundred men, women and children, panting with ! love and generosity, their hands ! loaded with gifts for soldier boys, quite mad to take advantage of the ; very last moment when they could ! send a parcel to Jack, Tom and : Henry. ! Never in all its career of humani | ties lias Harrlsburg witnessed a | more touching scene than was I staged to-day iu the Red Cross tem- PENNA. MATCHES i ITS CIVIL WAR ARMY RECORD, Enlistments For Year Large: as Those For the Entire Rebellion NATIONAL ARMY LARGE Drafts of Both Wars Are j Compared by State Officials Men who have been observing the I manner in which the Keystone state j has been sending Its sons to fighting with the army and navy and marine . corps believe that with the figures j just announced by Major William G. Murlock, the chief draft officer. 1 the aggregate of the Pennsylvanlans j In the world war will be found to be j close to the total of what this state j furnished to the armies of the | Union in the Civil War. The drafted men sent aggregate 1 193,203 with possibly 40,000 men I furnished in various waya through the draft, figures on whtcli will be j Continued on Page 2 j Heir to Estate Borrows Carfare to Claim It; Knoxvlllc, Tenn,, Nov. 30.—Walter ! W. Scranton, a poor Knoxvllle law- j yer, was summoned to Cleveland, 0., I by the death of a splns'er great-aunt. ! Pe borrowed funds to make the trip. I He announced on his re.urn to-day j that by his aunt's will he will for the ' remainder of h'x life have a monthly j Income of s3'.',(. his two little sons ,o , enjoy |t after Ins death. I porary quarters in Market street. | Old Santa Claus himself must have i quaked in his fur boj>ts when he ' witnessed that joyful occasion. As expected, there were hundreds who had put oft the chance to make i an epochal Christmas for some sol- i dier boy until the very lust. So, I 1 early as 8 o'clock, the sidewalk was | jammed by Joyful hearted folks who ' waited for the Red Cross to open ! up. It was by all odds the busiest I 1 day that the organization has had. I < The very intelligent and sympa- : < thetic squad of inspectors had all I (Continued on Page 13.J j I WILHELM FINALLY YIELDS ALL HIS RIGHTS TO CROWN OF PRUSSIA AND :— |. jiV,. ■ ii Ludendorff Ruled By Associated Press • U". -. ' I' - / Copenhagen, Nov. 30.—Prominent Vienna persons In touch with the foreign department there assert that in 1917 when Count Czernin, then Austro-Hungarlan foreign minister, sought, by Em peror Charles' order to induce Emperor William to conclude peace, he was referred to supreme headquarters. When Count Czernin pointed out that Austria was exhausted and might be compelled to make a separate peace, General Luden j dorff, striking the table, exclaimed: I "The same day that Austria concludes a separate peace, U will receive a declaration of war front Germany. That will be our only answer to such a breach." Count Czernin thereupon returned to Vienna and told the em peror that nothing could be done, as Austria's fate was indlssolubly I knitted with that of Germany MUNICIPAL CHRISTMAS TREE TO BE RALLYING POINT OF HOLIDAYS For First Time in Five Years the Words "'Peace 011 Earth, Good Will to Men" Have Meaning of Old; Mayor Will Name a Committee | Harrisburg will have a municipal I j Christmas tree during Christmas ' week, if the plans which were start- i ! ed this morning materialize. | Mayor Daniel 1,. Keister suid that : the Idea has his hearty approval, and I that he likely will appoint a com- j ; inittee within a few days to make the j necessary arrangements. The Mu- j , niclpal Christmas tree would have a , 'peculiar significance this year, thei ' Mayor feels, in that for the first time ' in five years, Cliristmus Day really; j will be a day of peace and good will ■ i among men. Because of the war, the commun- j ! ity tree was eliminated from the cel j ebratton of Christmas last year. This j 1 year, brightly illuminated with many I colored lights, and towering against i the sky, It will stand as a beacon of | ! Harrisburg's joy over the happy end- j 1 ing of the war. Sentiment Growing Sctitiment in favor of the commun- j ity tree is crystallizing rapidly. Many j '■ Soothers, wives and sweethearts, | j thinking of the. possible immediate j i return of soldier relatives, und of j j those sons and brothers who will be j 1 in the city on Christmas furloughs, ; i expressed themselves heartily in fa- I vor of the tree for the boys' es-j ! pecial benefit. i It has ben customary for the com ! mittee In charge of the Christmas! ' tree, to secure a huge evergreen j I from the mountains north of the city, ! | transport it here, and erect it at j ! Kront and Market streets. There it ! hus served as the rallying point of ; the eitizens of Harrisburg and vlcin : ity during the happy Christmas sea son. During past years, It meant WILSON'S PEACE DELEGATION NOT | POPULAR CHOICE ; Selection of American Dele gates Pleases Nobody but Executive Himself i I Washington. Nov. 30.—Tlie un • nouncemcnt of President Wilson's ! selection of American delegates to 'the peace conference in Paris has j ; displeased his Democratic friends i I and lius aroused the indignation of! ] Republicans. Hd has pleased no- j | body but himself, in particular is ! his choice of Henry White u thorn I lin the flesh. White, although a He-J ' publican in politics, has been out of : | joint with his party for years and j t never stood high in its counsels. I I White mude himself ridiculous in j | Paris by his notorious "gold and luce" reception, und is suspected of j I being pro-German in his sympa- j ! tlvies, his daughter having been mar-j j ried to the son of a German count I i and an officer in the former Kaiser's I | personal bodyguard. He left Ger- j ! many with expressed regrets after, | the outbreak of the war and is! ! [Continued on Page IS.] President Will Address the Congress on Monday; Peace Outline Is Expected flv Associated Press Washington. Nov. 30. —President , 1 Wilson will address the new session ! , of Congress Monday afternoon in- J i stead of following the usual custom ; j of delivering the address on the sec- i t ond day of the session. Senate and House leaders were! asked to-day to arrange for a Joint j session at 1 o'clock Monday, so us' to hasten the President's departure' for Europe to attend the peace con- j ference. it has been stated he would sull New York the day after I the address was delivered. The President's uppearance before! Congress is awaited with Intense In- j terest. Besides discussing the great problems ahead of the country, in readjusting itself from a war to a peace basis, he Is expected to tell Congress and the country something ; of his plans for the peace conference I to which he goes in person at the I head of the representatives of the j United States $ I much to many of the city's residents. This year. It will serve a greatly broadened purpose, and hold a htgh . er place than ever In the Christmas arrangements of the local popilace, it is t. jiight. Services Manned Mayor Keister is in favor of allow ing the tree to stand the entire week beween Christmas and New Year's I day, and to light it every evening, i Tentative arrangements announced, to-day include a service on Christmas Eve. and another Christmas day. These services in previous years ln ! eluded • ion. address, com munity singing, solos by local artists and a benediction. Community Singing j A similar eervfee likely will be held New Year's, according tq custom, if, 1 as is at present intended, the trftf ie ! kept during the whole of Christmas 1 Community singing, It Is thought, ! will be a large factor In the success ! of the community spirit which the ! municipal tree Is confidently cxpect jed to foster In the city. At the ! Thanksgiving community singing 1 service, under the direction of the ' Community Singing Committee, the | desire for similar meetings in the future was so strongly expressed that j without a similar service on Christ mas, the day would prove incomplete to many In tlie city, it has been said. A large chorus choir hitherto has 1 proved a large part of the city's com | munity observance of Christmas. The solo choir ot' Harrisburg, the Liberty I Singers and the church choirs. It Is ] felt, would furnish a splendid chorus of voices for the Christmas and New I Year's services. ELKS TO MOURN THEIR DEAD IN ! SUNDAY SERVICE i Scranton Member of Order to Be Orator at Majestic Theater Tomorrow The Benevolent und Protective I Order of Elks memorial service, te ! be held in the Majestic Theater to ! morrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, ; promises to be one of the most im j press! vie services of its kind held lri ! this city. The services arc held each j year in memory of absent biothet : Elks, and this year seventy-three i names appear in the list In Memo riam. Many prominent persons o< j this city and elsewhere will take pari in the ceremonies, the orator of the oill limed on Pnge 2 ! " ! Alleged Bad Man Wounds Himself With Knife After Theatening to Open Fire j Threatening to shoot a number of I persons at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Teleppero Hcardetto, who gave his address as 1116 West Second street, Chester, was arrested by 6f ficer Foy, of the railroad polite. He I was searched and a loaded revolver and a large knife were found In his : pockets, A physteal examination re . vealed a stab wound which the man . said he had Inflicted himself. Rail road authorities charged him with j carrying concealed deadly weapons ! and Aldermgn ftovepfer Axed the ball ; for appearance at court at 3flo. It it believed a commission will be ap pointed to investigate the man's , sanity. Robert A. Esdm Will Again Head School Beard I He-election of Hubert A. Binders, as president of the city school board, was predicted in official circles to day. The annual reorganisation meeting of the boardwill b%ke!d on Monday, It was also repot fed that I r. (*. 10, L. Keen will be nunildoted fur the .vics-presidency. The ' first meeting 'of the board after its r#or-i ganlsatlon will be held next Friday, j Foe Threatened With War's \ Renewal Assures British , Prisoners Will Get Decent Treatment EX-KAISER SPEAKS OF NEW REGENT FOR HIS OLD EMPIRE New Democratic Party Seeks to Prevent Bolsheviki From Seizing Power in Newly-Organized Government ■ . 9r By Associated Press London, Npv. 30;— Former i Emperor William signed his abdication at Amerongen, Hoi-; i land, yesterday, according to ai j dispatch to the Wolff Bureau of j Berlin, transmitted by the Ex j; change Telegraph correspondent • | at Copenhagen. I Th c abdication decree; ac-> ; cording to the message, ex-| ' pressed the hope that "the nevvj i regent" would he able to protect . the German people against an ; archy, starvation and foreign i supremacy. The, use of the word regent j • i WE ATP £ ?£ WWtt-r%v I !4> vilnWO/ ■ . • 4 :,*t I-'atk. mjidons 3| t4 •• T : i-J ind'clbU earty '.-y'l - 4* *P It* ' '• ' . 4 s! 4 -iX VUNH;HI4 -r-wj TT r-'--vvoi >£ Cwpartmtnyt a • I r:c 4 " ihyt Admiral Von .'i-nf't. forintr m i _|S ot the Get na - "• '<\'n Holland t , r.ii ■{• -j 4 §♦ tha former ;aisci . ■ iamation of - 4 4> * ■ 4 X MAJOR P;V\ ; ; WAR VIC? s 2 w Waihin jtor.—F-." i.• r-W V. ?*'"• ;<-n. (dm • * orofessot J*. Jj ' r ' T 4ac<tpn in france'Mov.-uWr 9 liis iVtte, v . Harriet X °j iPiersct. he r t for war rV. '! furl at T I i -J* <| was no-,f.o' \o'-tSxp int Piei Xc;ci>.w..X reached M t'Je ( S|fth infer,t -r • - . nrtcH jj e Rafter the battle cf. M ifSfAiakon. October 26, 4 * .. ■ | A C : f £I;NATE TO BE RKPRPPr.N 4 Washlh'gt • The c f . I ,r X " ■ --. 4 •t Xsend a s£r.r". Idr a mmittft t *j£ j? this end arc said u v . taiva.. hcci; Jrame.J ft r 4 X " ° ?*• | Th fid<r $ tic BV motor- r - ? S j -, 1- 3 year*.' J4S.'S nth Sec fond shTTCt, Stecl|cKr v^a:-.'-trtkTc fey n'fnotoi-.truclf at Reily jfe|| , and Grecii streets ab; 1 r't tbss aftdmoon. He X I 7 wi fakfcn to tfasi ->ferr ,I?he driver of |he. Mi |4j truck' gave h ,t ' | MARRIAGE LICENSES £ I Harry JS. Ilnrnrr, l,lvrrpeol, and Carrie S3, noatwlek, Ulllera- 4 oni Clarence K. Hartaekrr. Wrllsvlllp. ntt d <rnh M. Oerman, A IJaVfri Until* i. Shermna, Mrw CuMberlnnd. nnd Ida I>. Rntra, Blew | Keiary K. • itfkin and Sdife M. Waters, Hnrrinbarg. ifi 1 _ LI I Il'l jMi * HUNS FORCED BY THREAT TO BOW TO FOES By Associated Press A.USTKRDAM, Nov. 30.—1n rc sponse to a threat by tlic British armistice commissioners that hos tilities would be resumed unless the coiiditiotts under which pris oners were arriving in the Allied lhies were remedied, n Berlin tele gram declares that everything is being done by Germany to assnre the orderly return of prisoners. Tle German response adds that the regular transport of returning prisoners now is Insured, and that such transport already hns been effected to a considerable extent. in the message is commented upon here as possibly signiii- Contiuucd on l'uge 3
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