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LXXXVII— No. 274 24 PAGES "JKiaKW HARRISBURG, PA.. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1918. •■ , iS*.S!KS. :S",SfJiW u u " ™, HOME EDITION
WILSON GIVEN TREMENDOUS
OVATION AT FRENCH PORT
GREAT GUNS ROAR
WITH THUNDEROUS
SALUTES FOR U. S.
Wild Acclaim Is Given to
President by Thousands
of French People
IMPOSING NAVAL SPECTACLE
MARKS ENTRY Op' BIG FLEET
By Associated Press
Brest, Dec. I 3. —President Wilson reached the
harbor of Brest on board the steamer George
Washington at 1 o'clock this afternoon amid the
deafening salvos of artillery afloat and on shore
and at 3.24 o'clock stepped on shore —the first
time an American President had trod on Euro
pean soil.
The arrival was the culmination of an imposing naval
spectacle which began as the Presidential fleet rounded
the outer capes, then passed the entrance forts and moved
majestically into the harbor, where the George Washing
ton anchored at the head of a long double column of
American dreadnoughts and destroyers and the units of
a French cruiser squadron.
Leaves For Paris
I here was a thundering cannonade as the President's launch
left the George Washington and landed at pier. No. 3. He was
escorted to the tribune amid cheers and salvos and the notes of
the "Star Spangled Banner."
I resident \\ ilson came ashore with Mrs. \Vilson, who carried
an American flag and a bouquet.
President Wilson left Brest for Paris at 4 o'clock this after
noon. , . •
. Crowd Tenders Frantic Ovation
President W ilson's progress from the pier to his train was
amidst a vociferous welcome from the throng in the streets.
1 lie President delivered a brief address after landing at Brest,
thanking Mayor Goude for the Breton welcome given him. He
then drove through the cheering crowd, the frantic ovation con
tinuing until he reached the railway station.
Great Cheer Rolls Across Harbor
The presidential fleet was first sighted at 11.30 o'clock this
morning fifteen miles off shore. The sea was calm, and the stately
fleet moved landward under skies which were steadily brightening
alter a dark and gloomy morning. It was more than an hour later
that the fleet was signaled at the entrance of the harbor, and a
great cheer arose from the waiting cro\yd as the cloud of black
smoke showed that the Presidential party was near.
Ahead came a single destroyer, showing the way to the fleet,
and close behind loomed the battleships Pennsylvania and
Wyoming, flying respectively the flags of Admiral Mayo, com
mander of the Atlantic fleet, and Vice Admiral Sims, commander
of the Anjerican naval forces in European waters. Then came the
George Washington, bearing the President, flanked on either side
by the battleships Arkansas, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma,
New \ ork, lexas and Arizona, by French cruisers and by a great
flotilla of American and French torpedo boat destroyers.
Salute Boom Gun ForGun
The entrance to the harbor is a narrow straight a mile wide,
with forts crowning the towering cliffs on each side. Through
this avenue the imposing pageant moved, each of the ten forts
contributing its cannonade and the 'ten American battleships
answering gun for gun.
As the fleet neared the inner harbor the land batteries and the
assembled war craft took up the thunderous salute, while the
quays, the hills and the terraces of.tli eold Breton city rang with
cheers from the enthusiastic multitude. At the same time all the
war craft, merchantmen and transports dressed ship and manned
the yards, while the strains of the American anthem floated over
the water, mingling with the roar of the guns and the shouts of
the vast crowds.
Wilson Acknowledges Plaudits of Crowd •
The George Washington came to anchor off shore while the
battleships ranged themselves in double column on either side.
President Wilson witnessed the spectacle from the deck of
his steamer, waving greetings and acknowledgements as the cheer
ing throngh ashore vied with the artillery in the Old Worlds' first
tribute to the American President.
Soon after the arrival of the Presidential fleet Stephen Piehon,
the French foreign minister, and Geftrges Leygues, the ministry of
marine, who were at Brest to meet the President on behalf of the
French government boarded the George Washington to extend
their first greeting. American officials also went on board to
make the arrangements for the landing of the President.
A singular feature of the welcome to the President was the
suppressed interest of the German prisoners at Brest. It was
evident that their interest in the visitor was as keen as that of
the huge crowd thronging the town, but the authorities kept these
Germans in the back ground. Among those who lined the route
to the station were delegations of patriotic societies and other
organizations and throngs of people .from the neighboring local
ities, attired in gala-Breton costumes.
The first to greet the President, besides the French ministerial!
representatives were Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner!
to the United States, the mayor of Brest, Ambassador Sharp,!
Colonel E. M. House, General John f. Pershing and General!
Tasker H. Bliss.
He'll Be All Right as Soon as He Collects Himself
COUNCIL WANTS
TAX RATE KEPT
DOWNIN 1919
City Commissioners to Dis
cuss Budget at Special
Session
City department officials have
started to prepare estimates of funds J
which will be needed next year. I
These will be submitted to the City j
Commissioners who will probably |
hold their first conference on Mon- j
day night to go over the appropria-!
tion items.
To-morrow bids for the collection I
of ashes, rubbish and refuse in the !
city next year will be opened by Com- J
missloner S. F. Hassler. City officials
anticipate that there will be a con
siderable increase in the cost of this
work if Council intends to provide
for weekly collections of waste dur- 1
ing the coming year. >Some of the j
Commissioners declared that the |
present system of collections every <
two weeks is far from satisfactory
and that the new specifications pro
viding weekly collections in the win
ter and semimonthly in the summer
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GREATEST "Y" HUT IN
WORLD, SAY SOLDIERS
Middletown Soldiers Show That Army Life Is Not All Work
• and Sleep; Organization Splendidly Equipped
For Work Among Men
Know whore the best camp Y.
M. C. A. hut in the country is to be
found? Washington, D. C.? New
York? Buffalo? You' wouldn't
guess in a year.
Good, not because of size, but be
cause of its cheerful home-like
quulities, its coziness, and entertain- j
nient features —that the Y. M. C. A.
hut in the aerial camp at Aiiddle
town, erected by the soldiers with
the help of the Mlddletown civilians,
and run by the soldiers, under the
supervision of JL. V. Bergen, detailed
as "Y" secretary by the Y. M. C. A.
War Council in New York.
Any Soldier Knows
Any soldier from the aero squad
ron's naw ojrmn at. Middlatnwn will
NEWS OF PEACE
CLRES 2000 YANKS
OF SHELL SHOCK
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. Li. —More
than two thousand Anierieaii sol
diers in France suffering from
shell shock were cured by news
of the signing of the armistice,
Surgeon Gcncfttl Ireland to-day
' told the Senate Military Commit,
tee. Of 2,300 shell shock patients,
the general said, nil except about
! 100 were well almost immediately.
E. D. HILLEARY
ASS'T GENERAL
FREIGHT AGENT
Big Promotion For Harrisburg
Man; Will Be Succcc(ft||
Here by C. H. Morgan
Announcement was in
this city to-day of the appointment
of E. D. Hilleary, of Harrisburg, to
be assistant general freight agent of
the Philadelphia ant) Rending, tlie
Atlantic City Railroad and Port
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tell you they have the .best "Y"
in the country You'll be skeptic,
of course. That's the way the Tele
graph felt, so a representative was
sent down to puss his oplnio'n on the
hut and its equipment.
"Say, fellows," was his greeting
I when he returned, "Know where the
best 'Y' hut in the country- is'.'
Down at Middletown. You should
see it. Stage, player piano, Victrola,
dancing, movies, cards library—say,
wouldn't it be great to be a sol
dier?"
Room For Everybody
The aero "Y" hut is 100 by 40
feot in size, and easily can accom
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'GAITHER SEEKS
i TO THROW OUT
THE GOVERNOR
J Commission of Defense and
Executive Named in In
junction Suit
Walter H. Galther, private secre
j tary to the governor during khe
Tener administration, this afternoon
| filed a suit in the Dauphin county
| courts, asking that an injunction lie
granted against the members of the
State Commission o.f Safety and-De
fense, restraining that body from
permitting Governor Brumbaugh to
act as historical director and the
Governor from acting as such. The
members of the commission, who
j recently named the Governor, also a
.member bf the commission, r> write
the history of Pennsylvania's part in
| the war. and authorised him to select
i his assistants, are indicated by name
! in the papers and the injunction, if
| granted, would restrain the Governor
from acting as histoi ian or front re
leelving pay fdr his services.
. The writ is returnable in fifteen
| days and answer must be filed by
the Governor'and members of the
j board in thirty days.
Ciiargcst in tin* Dill
In pint .lie bill fh equity, says:
, "That it is unlawful for ituyono
j holding any office or position of
i trust or power, to use or employ
I the powers 01 •privileges thus being
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Suits For $45,000 Brought
Against Central!. and S.
For Disfiguring Burns
i Claiming they have suffered terri-i
, ble burns because of negligence of
j employes of the Central Iron and!
Steel Company, attorneys for Nell:
i Maloney and Norman Skillen filed!
| separate damage suits for them
agninst the co'rporallon, asking $20,-1
■ 000 and $25,000 respectively.
The men. In their statements, suy I
i they were burned August 15 while'
: painting stocks at the steel company I
! plant. Maloney alleges lie had giveii
'lnstructions to workmen not to send,
[any gas* Into the stocks while they
were painting them, lie claims his j
left Skillen for a few minutes and j
w-hile away tlie fumes of gus were
turned Into the stack. Skillen was
overcome and fell, landing on u hot
pipe. Maloney rescued him, but he'
was seriously burned. Maloney wus
overcome also, suffering disfiguring
burns.
EDWIN H. FISHER
IS APPOINTED AS
WILL REGISTER
Governor Names Popular Man
to Succeed the Late
Roy C. Danncr
WILL BK A CANDIDATE
Will Seek Election For Full
Term at the Next
Election
Edwin H. Fisher, chief clerk to
the county commissioners for the
last three years'and for a long time
one of the prominent residents of
East Hanover township, was to-day
appointed by Governor Brumbaugh
as register of wills to succeed the
lnte Hoy C. Danner, of Susquehanna
township. Of late Mr. Fisiher has
been resid'ng in Penbrook, not far
from the home of Mr. Danner.
Governor Brumbaugh's selection
of Fisher was highly commended
when the news became lftiown about
the city early in the afternoon. The
Rust Hanover man had been urged
by many men active in affairs
throughout Dauphin county and the
appointment was everywhere recog
nized as a good one. Numerous con
gratulations were telephoned from
boroughs and rural districts to the
county commissioners' office during
the day.
Mr. Fisher will qualify a few
days. .Ho won the place over a large
hold of appiieants. He will he a
candidate for the full term next fall
'and his nomination and election are
generally conceded already.
The new register of wills was born
in Lebanon county and when a lad
his family removed to East Hanover
township, where they have since le
sided. Mr. Fisher was a school
teacher for twenty-three years and
assessor of the township for twenty
two years. For eight years he was
roadmaster and long active for im
proved highways. Ho was an a'tcche
of the House of Representatives for
one session. Few men in Dauphin
county have a wider acquaintance.
German Helmets and
Trophies of Battle Are
Making City Mails Heavy
Dens of many Harrisburg men and
youths with relatives or friends in tho
United States service on foreign Oelds
are beginning to take on quite a war
like aspect. Rooms are cluttered and
walls well hung with trophies gath
ered by Yank soldiers in their engage
ments with the Hun.
German helmets are making up the
greater amount of trophies that are
I elng received in this city. Shoulder
straps cut from the uniforms of dead
soldiers with the number of the regi
ment in which the dead man was serv
ing, buttons, hucklcs, bayonets, caps
end other parts of enemy equipment
are increasing the huge bulk of war
relics thnt the adventurous youths of
the city are gathering to bring and
send home. Hun belt buckles with
the inscription, "Oott mit Tins," in
laised letters, form some of the more
interesting of the relics.
For all this great bulk of material,
totaling thousands of pounds, youths
, are paying at the rate of twelve cents
per pound from their meager wages.
Tlie quantity of it received In Harris
burg has fallen off within the past
several days. The height of the
shipments was received within several
weeks after the signing of the armis
tice and after the bigger drives of
September and October. •
"H A FFI.ING" FO It 111 Oil RX
Complaints that turkey "raffles" are
being conducted anywhere in the city
or county if received at the District
Attorney's office will be investigated
at once and arrests made, It was said
to-day. City police also were givoa
orders recently by Mayor Kelster to
make arrests If any "raffling" is found,
CUBAN STRIKE SETTLED
Havana. Dec. 13.—The committee
directing the general strike has re
scinded the strike.order and the men
are instructed to return to work im
mediately.
ALL WAR VIEWS
TO BE SENT TO
W. C. ALEXANDER
WILLIAM C. ALEXANDER,
of the Moorheud Knitting
Company, having been ap
pointed by Mayor Keislcr chair
man of the Harrisburg committee
to get data for the historical rec
ords of the Pictorial Section of
the War Department, asks that
persons having any photographic
views of war parades, troops on
the march or other war-time ac
tivities, send them to him. All
the important phases of war ac
tivity from every section of the
country are to be placed on rec- I
ord, and It is desired to have '
Harrisburg woi represented. I
Colonel C. W. Weeks is in charge '
of the work at Washington. Send !
pictures to William C. Alexander,
chairman war pictorial commit- i
tee, Moorhead Knitting Company, j
Harrisburg.
i THE WEATHER]
for IlnrrlNlMirg nnd vicinity! ll* In
thin afternoon, to-nltcht nnd Sat
urday! wurmrr to-night, with
lon est temporal ore nbont 4S de
green.
I'or Lantern Pennsylvania: Itnlii I
to-night nnd Sntnrdny: wurnier
to-nlghti moderate MoiithenNt to i
nouth winds.
liver
'I he Sunqnelinnnn river nnd prfh- I
iilily nil Its trlbutnrlea will rlae
somen hut. A stage of obout
4.4 feet la Indicated far Harris
burg Saturday morning.
BOTTLE TRADE MAY
FORCE U. S. AGENTS
TO CLOSE
Bootlegging Grows
Because It Is
Easy to Get
' Whisky
POLICE KEPT
. VERY BUSY
i
Raids May Be Like
One That Closed
Vice Dens
The closing of barrooms in llarrisr
burg by federal agents is a possi
bility ' that presented itself to-day.
The increasing practice of bootleg
ging which is giving the local police
much trouble and the point blank
refusal of many saloonkeepers to
co-operate was said to lie bringing
the drastic issue to a point.
The threatened use of provost
guards in Philadelphia and the im
mediate taking of action there hav
ing for its purpose the revocation
of license as a measure to break
up bootlegging In that city, are caus
ing honest hotel proprietors in llar
rlsburg to contemplate steps to break
up the pernicious practice in this
city.
The liquor dealers realize that their
own efforts to break up bootlegging
would result in putting u cjuicker
curb on the practice than any ac
tion of the authorities. They realize,
moreover, that the authorities can
take the same stringent measures to
break up bootlegging us they did to
break up disorderly houses.
Some Honest Healers
Some dealers, who carefully avoid
selling liquor where it is likely to
get into the hands of sodiers, decry
the practice of certain other dealers
who are not particular, apparently,
whether or not soldiers consume the
'W& Washington—Permanent government ownership of 9
1 1* E
f telephones and telegraph lines as an auxiliary of the Post *r;
jC Office Department is proposed in a bill introduced to-day fl|
Chairman Moon, of the HousePpst Office Committee, 3E
JL Postmaster General Burleson announced that President *§§
A &'
f red the measure.
| SOVIET EXIIORT.ER ARRESTED IN GOTHAM it
it
X New York—Ellis O. Jones, purported author of a &,
T-document spread broadcast here yesterday, "proclaiming"
!<s that a reign of Bolshevism would begin in this country
i J, e
i T at noon to-day, was arrestpd this afternoon on the Mai;
T at Central Park when he attempted to deliver an address.
X - BERLIN FIXES JUBILEE DAY •{•
T Amst rdam -Januar '1 has been fixed as a day of •3p
MP general rejoicing in Beflih in honor of the revolution, ac- T'
i %
|X rding to the Zeitung Am Miltag of Berlin. The an-
V nouncetnent fixing the day was issued by the Ebert gov- ||S
4 emment. The I il Ibe marked by an open air •
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4* YANKEE ARMY STANDS ON RHINE jj i
<L Washington—The American army marching into Gei *
3J many has come to a. stand on the Rhine. General Wj
4j Pershing's report for yesterday says there-was no advance il I
| during the day. *
j OUR SHIPS TO RETURN THIS MONTH ' *, £
"T *
P Washington—Every capital ship of the ' American ,
j, navy now in Europe, including the dreadnaughts, will re- J *
X turn to home waters this month. T|jey may be expected '
4* in New York ./bout Dec. 23. J
X SOUTHERN REPUBLICS REPLY TO U. S. t
? Washington—Chile and Peru have replied in friendly
J 'terms'to the-identic note of the United -States urging T
<4i upon them the importance of adjusting amicably their T
X, .controversy over the provinces of Tacna and Arica. w X
4 Chic'ago—The major league jeason of 1919 will not -J*
£ open until May 1, if the club' owners of the National W
X League agree to adopt a 140-game schedule at the joint X
4 meeting -> ith the American League in New York oh |H|
January 16. jj*
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MARRIAGE UCENSES T
j Samuel Over. , hcler. HnrrUbars. X
WILHELM DREADS
BOMB THROWERS;
FLING AT DUTCH
By Associated Press
LOXDOX, Dee. IS.—Scores of
detectives, tiic pick of former Em
peror William g force of sleuths
at I'otsdum, are staying at Amer
oufteii, shadowing every move
incut of Herr llolienzollerii, ac
cording to the Amerongen corrc
spoiidcnt of the Express. Herr
Ilohcnzollerii is said to lie In con
stant dread of lionili throwers and
other assassins and, always carries
a small revolver.
The former emperor's suite and
detectives have added at least one
hundred to the population of the
village of Amerongen, the corre
spondent states.
THIS HAGI'K, Dec. 11.—"Swit
zerland refused lo admit the for
mer < erman emperor when he
fled from Germany and Holland
ought to have followed the exam
•ple of the republic," vectored M.
Havcnsteyn, a i evolutionary So
cialist, In the lower house of the
Dutch parliament yesterday.
"The former emperor," lie con
tinued, "should not he handful
over to the Allies, hut should be
sent to Germany for trlul l>y a
people's tribunal. The Dutch
workers will oppose every at
tempt to drag Holland into n war
on the question of the former em
peror."
liquor they sell over their bars to be
carried away from the premises.
They feel that such actions might
; lead to another federal cleanup here.
The presence In the city of a large
number of discharged soldiers, who
while no longer in the array, still
wear the uniform, has caused an in
, crease in the amount of bootlegging,
I it is pointed out. These men no long
-1 or feel the necessity for being bound
by army regulations, and yet lower
the standards of the uniformed men
by drinking while wearing their uni
forms.
Many Sohliefs in City
j The great number of soldiers home
I on furlough, also make bootlegging
j more currant and at the same time,
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