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I.XXXVII — No. 264 14 PAGES HARRISBURG,. PA., SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1918. "SBW HOME EDITION
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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
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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 ? )
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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°j iPiersct. he r t for war rV. '! furl at T
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<| was no-,f.o' \o'-tSxp int Piei
Xc;ci>.w..X reached M t'Je ( S|fth infer,t -r • - . nrtcH jj
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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
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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
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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-
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