Paris Flings Oat Its Flags foHomr of King 1 WJBr Emmanac Vernier to Vi'uWenAPaptfafl HARRISBURG . iffilfe' TELEGRAPH M * ■ \ &!je Star-lnfccpcn&cnl. - , **' LXXXVII— No. 27S 22 PAGES 1,8 "Jia WR;, HARRTSBURG. PA.. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1918. HOME EDITION EBERT CABINET QUITS JOB OF STEERING HUNS Gets Out Following Turmoil in Which Premier Is Bitterly Assailctl DISORDER IN SESSIONS Election of President Is Called For Last of the -Month *By Associated Press Copenhagen, Dec. 9.—The German government has de cided to convoke a confer ence of representatives of all the states of the former empire on December 29 to elect a president cf the Ger man republic according to a Berlin report. This step is said to have been taken in order to avoid fresh out breaks. Paris, Dec. 19. —The German government headed hv Fried rich Ebert has resigned as a re sult of events on Tiiesdav, ac cording to a dispatch received at Zurich from Stuttgart, says tlie Journal's correspondent there. According to the Matin, which published the report yes terday,the Ebert-Haase govern ment has entreated the Allies' to occupy Berlin. It is learned here that at the; meeting of the central congress of the delegates from Soldiers'; and Workmen's Councils on Monday the session resulted in disorderly scenes in 'which there ! were many personal encounters.; The turbulent scenes continued on Tuesday when Georgti Lede bour, a leader of the ludepcn-. dent Socialists, made a bitter at tack on Premier Evert. Fried rich Eotrt. who was named, as minister of the interior in the' I'ahinet of Prince Maximilian, of I Baden, on "November 3, and became j imperial chancellor on November S,; took command of the situation in Berlin follow.ag the revolutionary ] uprising there. On November 13 it, was announced that he hail become premier and had chosen his cabinet, naming I Inyo l laa.se, Philip Scheidentann, Wilhelm Ditlmann, Herr Band berg and Richard Barth us the secretaries in charge of the departments created by the revo -1 utionarv government. Basel, Dec. 19.—The execu tive committee of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Council of Ber lin and its suburbs, too, intent,is to resign, according to messages received from the German cap ital. It is said that it will be re placed by an executive commit tee elected by the general as sembly and' the Soldiers' and Workmen's Councils of the em pire. Zurich, Dec, 19.—Serious dis orders have broken out at Dan zig, West_ Prussia, according to dispatches received here. Civil and military prisons have been opened and the inmates set at liberty, it is said and street light ing is reported. Amsterdam, Dec. 19.—Three of the principal directors of the Krupp Munition Works at Es sen, including Dr. Branscn berger, inventor of the "big Berthas," have been arrcst'cd by the revolutionary committee in that city, according to advices received here. THE WEATHER For llnrrlxhurg mill vlclnltl'f Fair to-night, with loirml tempera ture about freer lug | Friday lair mill slightly warmer. For FiiMlern Pennsylvania: Fair 10-niKhtl Friday fair and sllght- I y wnrinrri moderate northeast lo CIIMI wind*. • Hlver The Susiiuehnnnii river mid all Its branches will fall slowly. v singe of ahoiit .VI feet la indi cated for llurrisburg Fyiday morning. fieneral I auditions Pressure lias Inerenaed somewhat over the Middle Atlantic and Sew Knglnnd slates and con tinues high over the remainder of the eastern hull of (he coun try, except nlong the northern border, where It liux decreased considerably. There has been n general* though not very decid ed decrease In pressure over the western half of the country, ex cept In the I'pper Missouri Vnl ley, where n marked decrease has occurred In ndvnnre f n disturbance moving down front Aorthweslern Luanda. , j Just When They Thought They Had the House All Cleaned Up i *jatj ; @ 1 YOU DON'T ! 11 JrAi I ITY:OrY> ' J mind IF WE ) -ssdSofc-d (pik - BROKEN IN BOM : AND MIND, KAISER IS ALMOST ALONE Former Emperor Confined to Bed With Chill and Old Ear Trouble FACE IS DEEPLY SEAMED | Beard Grows as Hair Whitens j and Ruddy Complex ion Pales By .-Issocialed Press AiiiiTongoii, Holland, Doc. lit. —i Former Emperor William has. beetl \ confined to his .bed since Sunday with a severe chill. His indisposition has brought about a renewal of his., old ear trouble, necessitating the.call- I ins in of n specialist, a professor l from Utrecht, to assist the-local doc- I tor. ' j The constant worry of the last live weeks and his virtual imprison- ! inent in Count Bentinck's castle here J have changed William Hohenzol- ! lern's appearance considerably. In- ' stead of the ruddy complexion he wore, his face has become ashen, i his hair" and moustache gray, and | his features deeply lined. Since he | has lain abed with his illness his I face has remained unshaven and ( the seventy-two hours' growth of I beard seems to have added ten years | to his age. The ex-emperor's favorite adju- j tant. Captain SigurdiVon llsemann, also is ill, and the former empress ' has become her husband's almost! sole attendant. ' Xo strangers are permitted to en- 1 tor the castle grounds any' pretext, while all arrivals in the vil- I lage are being most closely watch- ! ed. "Chiefy" Gilner to Be Resplendent in New Suit and a Haircut Tomort-ow As every Harrisburger knows, "Chiefy" Patrick Gilner owns the State Capitol. He can't use the whole building himself, so he lets the state's •servants make use of it. Every year these employes chip together to pay the rent, which includes the purchase of a new equipment, from top hat, the shiny kind, to shoes, also the shin," kind, tend including a new suit, guar anteed not to be the shiny kind. The rent Includes a hath and a shave ("Chiefy" must live up to the building he owns) haircut and Every thing else necessary to start the own er of the State Capitol aright In the New Year. Dinner at the Columbus Hotel rounds out the state's remuneration to Its hospitable host. Prior to the dinner, however, "C'hiefy." who is not troubled with false modesty, prome nades oti the Capitol pla/.d for the benefit of ills friends, clients and well wishers. He will he on rfctnd to-inor-l row, with his new suit, nud a'large turnout is expected. J COAL ACCUMULATES AS HOUSEHOLDERS SHOP Seasonable Weather Helps in Conservation of Anthra cite, Fuel Administration Finds; Warned to Get Orders in Now While Dealers Have Supply The coal situation in llarrisburg depends entirely upon the weather, Paul Johnston! acting fuel adminis trator, said to-day. The present mild weather has conserved the city's fuel resources, but snappy winter weather would quickly exhaust the supply of prepared anthracite. With seasonable weather, the sup ply of coal now in dealers' yards would last only two weeks, Mr. John ston said. Therefore he urged that all those presons who have not se- CONSUMER IS ~~ URGED TO KEEP • EYE ON SCALES List of "iTbn't For Buyers" Issued by City Sealer To safeguard the interests of llar risburg housewives and other buyers, CSdorge B. Xebinger, city inspector of weights and measures, has issued a list of "don'ts" for buyers to follow. Xo trouble lias as yet been experi enced front unscrupulous dealers in llarrisburg, but Mr. Xebinger be lieves it well to warn Harrisburg purchasers at this time. His list fol lows: Don'ts For the Slibppcrs Don't forget to watch the scales and the measures when you are buy ing commodities. . Don't fail to ask the price per pound or per peck, and then see that you get the quantity vou ordered. Don't buy produce from an un marksd basket. Your rye cannot tell the difference between the fourteen quart and the half-bushel b.-.sket [Continued oil Page 5.] H. R. Palmer Will Be New Head of Light and Power Company Here if. R. Palmer, hn charge of the distribution of power for the Vir ginia Railways and Power Company in the cities of Richmond and Nor folk, will succeed C. M. Kaltwasser as hood of the Harrlsburg Eight and Power Company. He will come here about January 1, at which time Mr. Kaltwasser will leave to assume the management of the Rubber Insulat ed Metal Company and the Century Plolnileld Tire Company in New Jersey. Mr. Kaltwasser resigned some time ago. Mr. Palmer is- a< young man of wide experience in his line and is well known in elec trical circles. cured two-thirds of the amount of coal they ordered, go to their deal ers and arrange for the immediate delivery of the remainder. Two thirds of the amount ordered by the consumers is allowed them before any of the householders receive their entire orders. Situation Not Gloomy Air. Johnston said Ihat*"people are not buying coal, they are doing [Continued 011 Page 5.] MRS. MARY BENT DIES AFTER A LONG ILLNESS Widow of Former Steel Mag nate Was Widely Known Throughout State Mrs. Mary Steurntj' Rent, well known throughout Central Pennsyl vania. widow of Major Luther Stedman Bent, member of families long prominent in steel and railroad corporations and one of the early presidents of the old Pennsylvania Steel Company, at Steelton, died yes terday at hr lute home, 0040 Dr'exel Bond, Overbrook, after a year's ill ness. Her husband, who died on April [Continued on l'ngc 6 ] FEW GOLD COINS AVAILABLE FOR CHRISTMAS PRE ENTS Hanks Have Mobilized Precious Metal For War Reserve, So Crisp New Bills May He Used in Holiday Stockings You lucky individuals who have been accustomed to receive ten and I twenty-dollar gold pieces from fatii- J er as his present on Christmas morn, ! will not fare so well this year, it is almost certain. That you will ad- ' mlt that Sherman characterized war i mildly is almost certain^ Gold coins of every denomination i are an exceedingly scarce article In.' Harrisburg, and you inay rightly j consider yourself lucky to* find one j of the shining bits of metal nestling | in the bottom of your sock us it I hangs by the fireside. And since I father is experiencing such difficulty to procure the much-prized coins, j (he may decide that his bank account' hus been pretty well drained this j year, and force you to be content] with a more humble present. iBUILDING FUND HALF EXPENDED WITHOUT RESULT ! High School Program Is Un touched, With Deep Hole in School Loan MORE MONEY IS NEEDED | Board May Issue Bonds to Get Itself Out of Present Trouble - " , I i Taxpayers of the city declar-; [ ed to-day that in order to com- j ; plete either the original high i school program as outlined and ; j approved in 1916, or the one | | just proposed in the latest re-; port of Drs. J. MI. VanSiekle and j > Henry Snyder, the school board will j j be compelled to use large stints of| | money either front direct taxation or; I from ah additional bond issue. I Of the $1,25(1,000 authorized to be | spent to complete' the program of i 19111, $063,000 has been expended for the Edison school and the addition to j I the Camp Curtin building, while i about SIOO,OOO more will be needed! I to take over the buildings adjoining j i Technical High "school, leaving, I about $490,000, and les& than one-' ! half of the work completed. . In Xcctl of Money I Robert A. Enders, president of the j city school board,, said he was in fa- VOr of the co-educational plan us outlined, in the latest report, jnelud- j ing the remodeling of Technical High school and the erection of an ad tfition so that it can he used for a co-educational junior school, and the erection of a new senior boys' and : girls' high school. That these two projects will cost; much more than $490,000 was ad mitted by officials as no site has been ; purchased for the senior school. This , ; item alone will necessitate a big ex- ] j penditure, lea V 5 tit the most not I more than $400,000 for building pur-! I poses. President Enders said lie has made ja study of the linancial situation of ft+te school dtatiV-t and that he be lieves the loan issue of $1,250,000 au- j thorized by the voters does hot inter fere with the law permitting tnc | district to issue bonds for an In-1 debtedness not to exceed two peri cent., of the assessed valuation at property incite city. Under the new I assessment taxable property in ilar ! risburg Is valued nt $02,000,000, glv | ing the district a borrowing capacity ! without asking for the consent of the j taxpayers of $1,240,000. The net i debt of the district now is about ! SB3 4,000, leaving $406,000 which j could" be secured by a bond issue authorized by the directors, he said. ! This amount, together with the | $490,000 of the $1,250,000 loan, ] would make a total of $896,000 for 'i tile wcrk. . j The report of the two school ex [ perts will be submitted at the boatd ; meeting to-morrow and may be dis cussed, but it is not believed it will | be acte'd upon. Second Collection to Be Made in Nursery Home's Waste Saving Campaign , A second collection *of contribu- I tions foi* the Nursery Home will be [made to-morrow and Saturday in a , renewal of its waste savins' cuni i ptiign. it was announced to-day. The | offlctuis of the home have been ad j vised since the last collection that a ! number of baas in different parts of [ the itj which had been prepared j for the bonte were missed by the ! collectors, because some persons I who intended to donate did not hear ! the bugle cull or were absent when ! the trucks made their rounds. Persons tilling bags for donation • to the home have been requested to j place them on their front door steps, jso that the collectors will be sure 'to get them. The truck will be an | nounced by the bugle call and i donors will learn of its approach in J that way, should they have any ! thing to add to their colections. Soldier Reported Missing , Comes Safely Through War Bruce It. Iloover, son of Mrs. Laurie j A. Hoover. 193!) Rudy street, who was j reported aa missing in action. Is now • safe and well. The cheering news J was brought to his mother in a ci i blegram recently received. ' Young Hoover has seen sixty-one days-of actual fighting, lie was in i five battles, these being fought around the famoin Hill 201. He is widely • known here. . | But then father may not do this. I lie may go to bank and after glanc ! ing about, decide that some of the ! artistically decorated, fresh bills may ; serve the purpose just as well as the gold coins. So don't be surprised ; if. Instead of the usual goid coin, 1 ycr fin'* n nice, smooth bill, Fath er's shopping efforts certainly wiil be less arduous. reason your chances of re ceiving gold pieces this year are small is this: The Federal govern ment lir-t.. Issued an urgent appeal that l.unkH mobilize .their gold and send it to Washington where It is being held in reserve. So Harris burg is pretty well drnlned of the precous metal and about the only plnca to tlnd a gold coin Is "down ] at the bottom of someone's sock," j at cne bank president announces. | PARIS IS IN HOLIDAY GARB FOR KING OF ITALY; WILSON MAY SHORTEN VISIT ABROAD French Capital Has Holiday For Its Latin Guest PRESS HAILS HIM MAN OF HONOR Spain's Premier Is to Visit Paris on Mission By Associated ttress By Associated Vrcss Paris, Dee. Il>.—King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, arrived lieie . to-<lr y and was welcomed by l*i Osideiit PoiiK'arc, I'irmicv ('lcincnceaii and other minis ters. The king was aeeomiiaidcd l,v his son, the Prince of Pied mont. Paris. Dee. I!).—King Victor Em manuel, of Italy, will arrive here to day. 'J'ho city is hung with tings and a general holiday has oecn de clared. Rain was f u.r.'g this ,n..orn tng, hut there was premise of the weather improving. The newspapers hail the Kins as "a man of honor, w in hus been a real leader of his country, both .-t. and oi: the battlefield." Will TeJl of German Cruelty Civilians seized by the Germans in occupied Krenclr territory and sent to a hostage camp at Holzmintlen, Germany, will appoint a delegation to call upon President Wilson to tell lvtm something of what they suffered morally and .physically, while de tamed by the Germans, it is an nounced. The plan was formed at Hje sug gestion of Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of, Princeton University, who recently j mot'sorts of th'e'sa people. Spanish Premier to See Wilson Count RomunOn&c Spanish Pl'O; i ruier, is coining to Paris to intcr ! view President Wilson. He will no 'accompanied by Robert M. Scutum, i secretary of the American embassy, i and Senorcs Palacio end Espinos i, 'high officials of, the foreign office. ' Dining' his absence Aniulic Jiineno, | Minister of the Interior, will act us j Premier. Count Homunones s ex- I peeled to be away from Madrid for iat lei'.st live or s t x da>s. | When it became known that Prcm : dent Wilson was coming to Europe, | King AM'onso and members of the ea'jim.t approached -icspph E Wil li aid, American Ami assa.dor, to ste if t could be arrai'.g'.U for Mr. Wtl i son to visit Spain. This was not so much for a politi ! eal object as it was to show him ! the spot from which Columbus sailed ; to discover the new world. The ro ! .suit of the negotiu'lons was that Mr, Wilson could not visit Spain, b,.t I *.viiula be glad to dtsc.ifes future refa ! tions between Spain and the United i States v*th Count I', manonos. .'jews \ of the l itter's intention to como to I Paris has created .1 most excellent impression throughout Spain and i opiniort is generally expressed that II i will strengthen the ir.h.iidly relations I between the United States and Spain, i Senator Leon I'ourgeois, president ; of the French Society for a League jof Nations, and Count D'Estour- I nelfes De Constant, also a delegate i of the so- lety, gave to The Asso- I elated Press yesterday a brief, ac- I count ot' a conference they had had I with Premier Clcnienceuu. The premier declared tfiat the I principle of a League of Nations ! would not fail to bo inscribed in the j preliminaries of a peace such as I would be decided upon by tile Allies. M. Clemenceau agreed that the Allies must resole upon a common i plan of organization. He invited the delegates of the Society for a League of Nations to confer with the members of similar societies in i ihe Allied countries, with a view to preparing a complete text which could give the governments con j cerned trspiration and ideas. Big Christmas Tree to Be Erected Tomorrow Harrisburg's big Christmas tree will be erected to-morrow, tjie com mittee in charge reported to-duy. A tall tree to be used for the Mu nicipal Chrlstmuß entertainment has been selected and wns cut to-day. It was expected that it would lie brought to the city by night nnd erected in Market Square in tho morning. The municipal Christmas tree committee will meet to-morrow eve ning at 8 o'clock to make llnal plans for the event. Iteporls from all the subcommittee will be received und the program will be announced then. Suits Brought Agaihst Penn-Harris Contractors Suits have been brought against ! Xelson and Hewitt, contractors for I the Penn-Harris hotel, charging | negligence and asking damages be cause of lite collapse of a building in Third street adjoining the hotel site. 'The structure toppled over while excavatioi s were being made for .'the hotel foundations. Plain tiffs in the petfor.e lib d arc Edwin F. Wiawr ur.d M. Martina Keanw, bringitit: separate suits. A total of f 20,0ut) damages is usked in tho lat ter action. , REAL STUFF A hoy went into Bed Cross membership headquarters this morning. Under his arm ho cur ried a small bungalow, built of tiny logs. "My father sent this down," he said, ""lie was going to put it along with our other little houses under the Christmas tree. He made it himself. It's a dandy— ain't it'.'" "All right, old top," said Mer cer !!. Tate, "hut what's it for?" "Well," the boy said, 'we all the old 'tlu' up at our house, and my father he said that it cer tainly run as short. But some Bed Cross girl come up to our house every day for a week and helped us out. So my father he said that if he didn't have a whole lot of money he had this little house he made, and maybe he could sell it and get enough money for him and my mother to .loin the Bed Cross." "Pete,"' said *Mr. Tate, "how many members are there in yor.r family?" "Four." said the boy. "Here's four dollars for your house." said Mr. Tate. "Go ahead and join." Which the boy did. And Tate says that the littlo house will be under the good old Christmas tred just the same. RED CROSS CALL FOR FULL RANKS IGNORED IN CITY Remarkable Work Cited to Impress City With Need For Dollars Despite the fact that two of the Red Cross nurses who served'during the recent influenza epidemic died utter contracting the disease froth their patients—and despite the fact [Continued on Pago IS.] : ®4* 4 "I* 4*4*4' 4*4* %*ir i*4* I- J-* I* 3*4*4*4* it* 4 i* 44*4*4*4*4*® j-* TEACHERS VOTING ON/FUND j ifarrfsburg— Teachers of the Harrisburg schools ire*' jm 4 voting to-day cfi the question of going into the State I < s4i ijj, j T Retirement Fund. The result qf the. vote, will not be 14* known until to-morr©w. M 4 f l4> f j-*> 4 jT Berlin - A he* cond clay''; session, of the Congress X 14* of the Soldiers' at*d Workmen's Councils of Germany V I -•*• I *fcnse of the govern- [T °ment ; s. policy concerning demobilizing and food supply, i . * T* I *S* was- i had attacked the gov- Hfefi •4 it 14* cm nt policy. _ i 4* *6 4* G3.MILLION 3 COST OF HOG ISLAND YARD / £ X* Washim ton— The cost of the great shipbuilding plant s*' 4 £ at Hog 'lsland was estimated ti day at $63.3(10,000 by X d, manager of the Shipping Board's. X 4 Emergency Flefet Corporation.- which has de- X 0 *4 -J be com- afe 12 P''' '* ' w sa '.dd Xi I f tf f KE I SYMPATHY X 4* . —Virtually all of the 23,000-err. T I i A, Electric.-. Company's big manufac ' ; 7 turing plant here walked out to-day in sympathy with j, 14* 14* striking co-workers in the company's'plant at Erie. T X J J BOLO PASI IN PROPAGANDA HEARING f T Washinginc tivities.of 8010 Pasha, executed ds X \f T French traitor in promoting in the States the TO.' jT financing by the German government of the Paris Journal- X JX an,( * ' n w^a<: was. h- .ribcd as an attempt to form a new X [X alliance between the Journal and Hearst papers, were rc 4* IX cited to the Senate Committee investigating German if i <?• 4 propaganda to-day. •T cl' X 4* SYMPATHY STRIKE AT FORT WAYNE - v X iT Fort Wayne—The majority of the employes of trie 4* i T s iX ' rrt a - re hrrnch of the General Electric Company, A U>um{ crlng botw n -1,000 and,5.000 men and women, wqnt X i •-> • IF ' of tin r ie brarich if r ( - e c * § X MARRIAGE LICENSES •Sl I-'rnnk B. WIIIIUIIIN nnd Mnrllin fc. Splinthlrl, MCRUnlo*biirs;i T , Hoily llobrli-nn nnil l(o>lc t'arne". St„ltn| John 1,. Grorge nnd T Bertha K. Melaenheliucr, HnrrUbnrv. i§b44* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4*4*4* 4* 4*4* 4* 4*4*4*4* 4*4"^*^®* Premier and Col. House Call on President WILSON PLANS TRIP TO LONDON Will Be With the i Yankee Troops on Christmas By Associated Press Paris, Dec. 19.—Premier Clemen I ceau and Colonel E. M. House visit ed President Wilson this morning at bis Paris residence. The French [premier and the President were en : gaged for more than an hour ,in an 1 intimate discussion. Colonel House also conferred with the President during the morning. To Stay in France on Christmas | The President'has bctn invited to | visit London at Christmas time, but ; he probably will not accept, as bq j bus planned to dine Christmas day | with the American troops In the ' field. President Wilson to-duv was banded an address of welcome by the Central Union of French Agri cultural Associations, on behalf ,cf its 2.500 affiliated organizations. a Crops Need Protection After pointing out the share that J the rurai" classes had In winning the victory for the Al -es. the ndd'cua (sets forth the peculiar conditions tin - j d;r wh'eh 1 .en:h agriculture '.s op erating and •cadr the attention of ; the peace conference to'the fact that i.p-t tection is necessary for its nor mal development and for the ic -1 [Continued on Pago 5.]
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