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LXXXVII- No. 284 16 PAGES nriK/.ri,'i,Sar HARRISBURG. pa.. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1918. ° V 'n kws p a per iN SS ii\Hrjsmi'" ISS HOME EDITION
WILSON AND LLOYD GEORGE
HOLD INITIAL CONFERENCE
ON WORLD PEACE PROBLEMS
Big Crowd Ahead
of Premier in
Early Visit
LEADERS SEE
U. S. CHIEF
Former Leader Is:
Among Callers [
on President
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 2 7.—Premier Lloyd ,
George, accompanied by Sir Maurice,
Hankey, secretary to the Committee j
on Imperial Defense, arrived at ;
Buckingham Palace at 10.30 this,
morning for a conference witn Pres- j
ident Wilson. The day was dark !
and rainy, but a big crowd had ar- j
rPrd before the premier.
Mr. Wilson was astir early this!
morning and was busy with his see-;
retary. There weie a number of j
American callers and the Duke of|
Connaught and Sir Richard Her-1
schell visited the palace before the'
arrival of the premier. A. J. Bal-!
four, secretary of state for foreign I
affairs, walked over from the For-1
. ign Office to attend tlie conference |
between Mr. Lloyd George and the j
President.
Rider Statesmen Greet
The company invited to meet Pres
ident Wilson for the luncheon ar-l
ranged to be held to-day at Premier
Lloyd George's residence comprised
a small gathering of elder states
men, the personnel inc'uding the
leaders in the last and tlie present
government and the head of three
of the political parties, "Conservative,
Liberal and Labor.
Asq tilth Calls at George Residence
The luncheon gave occasion for,
tile first visit by former Premier As- |
uuith. to the premie.r's official resi
dence since the Liberal leader re
signed his office.
Crowds Greet Wilson
It was 1.40 o'clock when the
President drove up to No. 10 Down
ing street, lie was the tenth of the;
guests for the prime minister's i
luncheon to arrive there. He was j
given an enthusiastic greeting from I
the crowd.
Of the luncheon guests, including j
representatives of all parties, the I
Karl of Reading was the first to ar- j
rive. He was followed by former
Premier Asquith, the Marquis of
Crewe, John W. Davis, the American
Ambassador, Earl Curzon and Vis
count Bryee.
The premier himself, who as de
tained at llie conference in Buck
ingham Palace, came next, and aft
er him Arthur Henderson, the labor
leader. Andrew Bonar Law, chancel
lor of the exchequer, and William
Adamson, labor member of Parlia
ment.
Premier Lloyd George and Secre
tary Balfour were cheered by the
crowd, 'but it was evident that it was
President Wilson they were waiting
for. Rear Admiral Grayson, who
escorted the President, stepped out
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Wounded Academy Athlete
Returns Home With Five
Bits ol Shrapnel in Arm
Harry J. Finley, 21 years old, for
mer Harrisburg Academy football
player, who was wounded In the
severe fighting about Soissons on
August 2, while fighting with the
Headquarters Company of the 112 th
Infantry, is spending a short time
with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Finley, 1725 North Third street.
In some of the thickest fighting
about the French city, Private Fin
ley was struck by shrapnel five times
in his right arm, one piece breaking
entirely off two and one-half
inches of bone, all of which had to
be removed from his upper right
arm. Since that time he has been
confined to French base hospitals and
at Base Hospital No. 3, near Rail
way, N. J., having arrived in this
country on October 5. Three opera
lions have already been made on the
arm and another will be performed
shortly after he returns to the New
Jersey Institute. He will never re
cover the full use of the arm, sur
geons affirm.
Enlisting in June, 1917, with Com
pany C, of the old Eighth Regiment,
recruited at Chainbersburg, lie went
to Camp Hancock. Oa., and arrived
in France in May. 1918. , Less than
two months later he entered the fir
ing line and participated in some
of the heaviest fighting of the war
from then until the time that he was
removed because of injury, having
taken part. In the fighting about Cha
teau Thierry and other important
regions.
I THE WEATHER]
For Hnrrlsliurg anil vicinity i
i.cncrnlly cloudy to-night und
Wuturduy, prohnhl) urcnxlonal
light miiiiti not much change In
tcmpcrnturci lowest to-night
ti ho lit as degree*.
For Knatern l*enn*yM nnlu i Gen
erally rlauily to-night and Mnt
urdn). probably light loeal
*no o * i gentle to moderate whirl
ing Mind*.
lllver
The *n*itnchnnnn rtvrr nnd all tta
hrnnrbr* Mill full loMly ar re
main nrnrlr *tntlonnry. A *tngr
nl about <1.4 fret la ladlratrd for
llarrlabnrg Saturday morning.
Kaiser's Death Rumored
By Associated Press
Paris, Dec. 27. (4.25 a. m.) —Rumors that the former
emperor of Germany had been assassinated became current
in Paris, notably in the Chamber of Deputies, last evening.
There is not the slightest confirmation of the report up to
the present.
HINDENBURG SCURRIED
DEEP INTO THE GROUND
Hero of Song and Story Shared Wilhelm's Dislike For
Shells and Airplane Raids; Elaborate Shelters
Used to Protect the Men who Drove
Armies to Their Destruction
By Associated Press
; Spa, Belgium, Dec. 2 7.—The for
liner headquarters of the Kaiser und
' his general staff is disclosing some
.'extraordinarily queer facts these
•days about the men who engineered
I the world war. Take, for one, Hln
jdenburg, Germany's superman,
! around whom reams of poetry have
I been written disclosing him as a
'fearless Napoleon leading ltis troops
|to victory. As a matter of fact, lie
I spent a great deal of time in a won
derfully < onstructed "funk-hole." or
dugout underneath the grounds of
ids villa itcrc.
j Spa. it may be noted, is almost on
'tile German border and so far from
where battle lines used to be that it
was almost a day's journey In a fast
motorcar to get within sound of the
big guns. The Kaiser, too, had a sim
•ilar hiding place at Xeubois, near a
comic cpera trench system about
which he is said to have paraded for
the benefit of motion pictures.
Warned of Hanger
At each of their villas there were
delicate electrical instruments which
would set up furious buzzing when
ever an airplane approached. At the
first souna from this contrivance
llindenburg and the K.vcer used to
run t. shelter, it is; reported. People
who worked about Llndenburg's es
itablisliment said he. was continually
! running for cover.
| America's representatives on the
| international armistice commission
{now are occupying Hindenburg's
|headquarters and they were amazed
• Our Two Food Problems
DEA"R 1 DEAR, I f OH , I XKDjqV CARE
WHAT SHALL WE HAVE ROAST BEEF, HAM-N-ECiQS,
PGR, DINNER,,HENRY ? TURKEY—'R —ANYTHING
j j**iLLrNCiLLrNC
AFTER DECIDING WHAT YOU 1,1, HAVE YOURSELVES. WHY NOT TAKE A MINUTE TO
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CONSIDER WHAT VOI'LL GIVE TO THESE?
I when they discovered this under
ground refugee of the "great war
rior." The entrance was through the
Jdtriing room. From there a flight of
I steps led down to a tiled anteroom,
{which now serves as a very good
pantry for tho Americans.
From the tiled room another flight
:of steps led down to the real dugout.
This was ' locked by u huge iron
|door about cne in"h thick wnich
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Former Czar of Russia
and Family Still Live,
Says Ukraine Fugitive
By Associated Press
Warsaw, Dec. 27. —"There is no
i doubt that the Czar and his entire
'family are alive. 1 am positive of
| this," was the declaration made to
the correspondent here by Michael
de Tchihatchef, a nephew of Gen
eral Skoropadski, and who has just
escaped from the Ukraine after a
recent trip to Petrograd, Dvinsk,
Vllna and Renovo.
"1 cannot reveal where the Czar is
because he does not wish It," he add
ed. "He does not care to be bothered
and lie wants to be left alone. His
whereabouts is known to an allied
government, it is in a neutral coun
try. Accounts of his murder at
| Ekaterinburg were manufactured by
Trotzkj and Lenine for propaganda
purposes."
COAL GOES A
BEGGING FIRST
TIME IN MONTHS
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i
i Dealers Have More Fuel on
Hand Than Orders
to Fill
DELIVERY HANDS IDLE
Extraordinarily Cold
Weather Can Upset the
Stiuation in City
CONSERVATION IN ORDER
Six Thousand Tons of Anthra
cite Now in Local Yards
Awaiting Purchasers
The advent to-day of cold weather
need not cause anxiety over the coai
situation here, was the information
received from dealers this morning.
With 160,000 tons ordered by Har
risburg householders and 90,000 to
100,000 tons delivered, the prospects
! at present arc that not more than
j 30,000 additional tons will need to be
I put in tho consumers' bins to tide over
! the winter.
I'lenty on It unit
I There are approximately 5,000 tons
| of prepared sizes of anthracite in the
! city now. Consumers, however, nro
| making no efforts to acquire their
share of this tonnage, it was the
' policy of the Fuel Administration.
I through the Central Coal Exchange.
; to give every consumer two-thirds of
; the amount he ordered, but the weath
. or lias been so mild that many eori
-1 sumers now find they will not require
' the remaining one-third of coal.
For the first time since the begin
ning- of the war, coal is not iu tmrne
-1 diate demand as soon as it arrives in
i the city. Half the delivery forces of
j the dealers arc idle. One of the larg
; est coal-seiling establishments an
i nounced it had filled its stendiug or
: dors and the delivery equipment was
| idle at 9.30 o'clock this morning.
Conserving Supply
i The present snappy wnther woull,
j if it continued, cause an increased de
j mand for coal. The dealers, liow
j rvr, were not unduly rushed by or
{ ders this morning.
t The cost of coal is working a great
J saving in its consumption. Numerous
families are living around their kltcli
; en ranges and. because of the com
paratively mild weather, are not using
their furnaces. Many consumers
| seem to he waiting for a. decreased
; price scale, but this is unlikely, it is
said.
' Only extraordinarily severe weather
| would cause complications in the pres-
I c-nt favorable fuel conditions, was trie
I summary of the sltuntion expressed
! by a dealer this morning.
COMMUNITY SING
i FOR SOLDIERS AT
I CAPITOLSUNDAY
Christinas and Patriotic Songs
Will Be Sung; Municipal
Orchestra Will Lead
DR. BAGNELL TO PRESIDE
(combined Church Choirs to
Have Scats on Steps of
Rotunda
I YANKS RAPIDLY
i PASSING BACK
TO CIVIL LIFE
By Associated Press
\Yuftliington. Dee, 27. Sixty-
I eight thousand American soldiers
have been returned from overseas
r up to December 21, and slightly
! more than 500,000 In this country
; had been mustered out of service,
I members of the House Militaiy
j Committee weie told to-day at
their weekly conference at the War
! Department. •
Officers nre being discharged at
a rapid rate, Chairman Dent said,
explaining that 32.000 had been re
leased since the armistice was
signed.
Troop movements from abroad
on ships now controlled by ' the
United States 'are limited to 160,-
000 men a month, but the depart-
I ment hopes to increase this to 200,-
! 000 or 300,000.
! A Community Sing will be held In
lllie rotunda of the new Capitol Sun-
Iday evening at 9 o'clock, Mrs. J. G.
, Sanders of the Community Song
| Committee announced to-day. The
affair will be ill honor of visiting
;soldiers and Christmas and patriotic
songs will be sung under the leader
ship of Abner Hartman. An orches
jlra made up from the Municipal
band, with Frank Blumenstein as di
• rector, will accompany the singers.
[The Pennsylvania Railroad Glee
Club, Ira Behney conductor, .and the
{Pine Street quartet, will sing.
The gathering will be under the
direction of the Commission of
Training Camp Activities, and the
Rev. Dr. Robert Bagneli, pastor of
Grace Church, will preside. The
Rev. Henry \Y. A. Hanson, pastor
of Messiah Lutheiyin Church, will of
jfer prayer. Members of church
j choirs will have seats on the broad
'staircase and ail such have been
urged to take their places there with
{out special invitation.
' HEAD OF RKICHSUAXK HAS <ll IT
| I .nnil,>n. Dec. 27.—Dr. Rudolf Hav-
I enstein, president of the Imperial
IBank of Germany (the Relphsbank),
j has resigned, according to a dispatch
from Copenhagen. He was a ! an
j German.
SEEK NAMES OF
EVERY SOLDIER
FOR HISTORY
Relatives ol' Keystone Fight
ing Men Asked to Aid
Movement
That a complete history may be
prepared of the part Pennsylvania
soldiers played in the war witli no
repetition of the incomplete war ser
vice records of the civil War, the
Pennsylvania Council of National
Defense and Committee of Public
Safety has opened a campaign to
Continued on l*agc 2
24,712 Pennsy Employes
Furloughed For War to
Get Positions Again
By Associated Press
Philadelphia, Dec. 27. —'Arrange
ments have been made whereby all
employes of the Pennsylvania railroad
who were furloughed for military
service will bo given their former po
sitions, or positions equally as good,
when they return to duty after having
been honorably discharged by the
Government. Announcement to this
effect was made to-day by the com
pany. It was stutfM that 24,712 em
ployes of the compuny had been fur
loughed for military service up to
November 1.
MAIDEN ASKS CITY EDITOR
TO PROVIDE PHOTOGRAPHS
Maiden With Brown Hair and Eyes Attracted by Widower's
Plea For Helpmeet Seeks Ocular Proof
The impending scarcity of males
eligible for life companions is now
standing in good stead, the man who
lias applied to the Telegraph's City
Editor for aid in finding a lady will
ing to sail her bark on the sea of
matrimony with him.
With some 50,000 Tanks finding
bonnle, wee French lasses to travel
through life's paths "for better or
worse," and many more youths vic
tims of Hun bullets, the scarcity
promises to be a critical one, and
the ladies of this vicinity are taking
no chances and are wasting no time.
So the labors of the City Editor
,ln aiding the Lebanon man In his
WOMEN PERSECUTED
BY BOLSHEVIKI IN
REIGN OF ANARCHY
Landlords Forced
Naked Into the
i
Streets
GERMAN TROOPS
ARE DISARMED
By Associated Press .
\\ arson. Dec. 27.—Forces com
j inanded by Tetlura, the Ukrainian |
{•leader drove General Skoropadskij
; from Kiev on Sunday, December 15.
j Petlura himself entered the city last
i Thursday. Prince Rndziwill, a
j wealthy Polish land owner, escaped
! and has reached here with other refu
gees, which include four hundred
l Russian officers driven out of the
1 district of Dubno by peasants. Prince
Itadzlwill said to .The Associated
■ Press upon his arrival here:
"Kiev is calm again. The siiops
are open and it Is still occupied by
ten thousand German troops under
General Kirbach. The horrors of
anarchy in that country, especially
in the Volhynla district, cannot be
realized. 1 have seen how landlords
I and their managers have been cruelly
| assaulted and beaten by peasants and
j naked in the bitter cold. • They have
] begun to ill-treat women, which is
' something new to Bolshevism. For
( instance, if they cannot find the hus
j band or father tliey wish to arrest,
l Ihev take the wife, mother or duitgh
' ter.
j "I escaped, dressed as a railroad
employe, on a train currying a nunt
' her of German soldiers, a few women
i and some civilian passengers. At
j every station, it was a fight to get
| by. The peasants nre robbing and
| disarming German soldiers every
| where, being infuriated because of
| German thefts of grain and food,
j It is stated that the defeat of Gen
j eral Skoropadski may be attributed
;to the fact that two months ago
| under allied advice, he proclaimed
! Ukraine a part of Russia whereas
i the peasants want that country to
jbe independent. It is declared that
he thus played into the hands of
Petlura who promised land to the
peasants and has Issued land grants
to every man who has served as a
soldier under hint.
A message from Danzig says the
I Germans are dismantling the port and
| carrying off all the dock machinery.
1 fearing the arrival of allied forces.
llt is also rumored that the peace
conference may give that port to
Poland.
Odessa is reported to be again in
Bolshevist hands, after the defeat of
Polish troops near that city.
DANCING WILL
FOLLOW DINNER
AT PENN-HARRIS
Reservations For Tables at
Stockholders' Banquet
Must Be in Early
These are strenuous days for the
management of the new l'enn-Hur
rls Hotel. Hectic is tho better word
in any description of tho rush to
ward the finish for the opening night
next Tuesday.
Acceptances of stockholders and
their Invited guests are to be In
hand to-morrow and as the dinner
will be served in the main lounge
and dining room all who cannot
be accommodated in this splendid
room will be seated at tables in
the large ballroom which will later
be cleared for dancing. Those who
desire to he seated with their guests
at round tubles must have their ac
ceptances in the hands of Warwick
M. Ogelsby, secretary of the Hotel
Company, not later than 10 o'clock
Saturday morning. This is necessary
In order t tat the seating arrange
ments mcy be completed by Man
ager Wiggins..
It Is expected that all attending
the reception and dinner will enter
on Walnut street, nnd take the elfe
vatort to the cloakrooms on the
second floor. While there are cer
tain to be some missing details of
decoration here and there, tho hotel
in the mu'n will he ready Tuesday.
i matrimonial Intentions are becoming
r | more strenuous. Applicants who are
willing to consider the matter favor
'ubly in case they llnd further details
satisfactory, ure sending tentative
. ; acceptances, und unless the widower
j 1 of Lebanon is over-fastidious, he
should not have the least trouble in
finding a helpmafe for the remainder
' of his dnys.
1 One lady who should please the
. Lebanon countian who would a-mar
rled tie, writes In part:
"I am a single girl, 30 years old.
1 have brown lialr, blue eyes and
I have a fair complexion. T would like
; to have you send your photo."
| The City Editor Is asked to serve
''as an Intermediary in the exchange
it of photographs.
FOCH PUTS GUARD
ON GERMAN CAMP
Zurich, Dec. 27. —A battalion I
Of infantry has occupied Mann
heim by order of .Marshal Focli
In order to watch the prison
camp near there, where ten thou
sand Allied prisoners await lib-
Oration, the Badische Landeszei
tung says. This step, it is added,
was taken because of the had
treatment of tho prisoneis, sev
eral of whom were murdered.
Mannheim is on tho east bank
of the Rhine, south of Mayenp.
•It is within tli© neutral zone east
of the Rhine out'hied by the
terms of the armistice.
SANTA CLAUS AND
CLOWNS TO MAKE
MERRY AT DINNER
Rotarians Arc All Ready For
"Rig Brother" Entertain
ment; Zcnibo Gives Hall
Santa Claus will make a speech
and distribute gifts to the boys and
girls In attendance at tho Rotary
t'lub's annual Big Brother dinner in
t'hestnut street hall Tuesday noon,
January 31, and a, delegation of cir
cus clowns will lie on hand to make
fun for the diners. There will be
one clown for oacli table and they
will compete witli each other. Each
Is going to try to he funnier than
the other, and as each, as a prom
inent businessman of Harrisburg
said, has a reputation to maintain,
the fun promises to be fast and fu
rious.
"Yott can say for the committee,"
said John H. Nixon, to-day, "that
this Is going to bo the biggest and
best Big Brother dinner that the Ro
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. ... T -r. ;v .- THE Y. M. C. Ai
T Paris—Genera! Pershing has sent following mes
y sage to E. C..Carter, secretary of the American expedi-
X tionary forces of the Y. M. C.-A.: "With a deep feeling
T* gratitude for'the enormous contribution which the
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I of athe American army, all ranks join rne in sending you
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T WANTS LEAGUE OF NATIONS
T
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X pfcifj. for'a League of Nations,* Representative ]Brittcn. of .
TJ Illinois, Republican, said unless such a league is estah
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At contention that Amerk
X make the world safe for democracy."
▼ OJean. N. • Y.—Mrs. James Dempsey and her five '
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X stroyed their home In Prestissvale, near here.
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It COAL MEN REFUND $83127
X - -Re; v t 4l •'
T coal men of Pennsylvania to the State's Federal Fufel
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£ Philadelphia—Announcement was 'made to day that
X Wilk 3rn A. Patton, assistant to the President of the Penn*
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"•4 clelphia and Norfolk railroad will be retired on December
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iT 3! from active service under the provision of the pension
♦ plan. He will have served continuously for fifty three
J'yej" nd eleven months.
J O'BRIEN TO FLY OVER ATLANTIC
♦ Kankakee, lll*.—Lieut. Patrick O'Brien. American
X aviator in' British service whpse escape from German ■
!T r - ecl r.'.-tl' '• • <u- .• : p the • r .f the
A wan, announced tc>-(Hy that he will attempt to he the first"
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h Smith, (nradra, A. J„ and Jrnn'Hn I*. I'latlo. Sew Vork Clt> t
t( Thomaa 11. Moriran and Kmmn K. Sowplirr, l.nociiatrr | t'harlr* *V.
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w muter, I'hllailrlpbln.
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NO PEACE UNTIL
ALLIES SUBDUE
BERLIN RIOTERS
"Don't Let Them Send the
French," Warns Sailor to
the Allied Powers
WANT TOMMY AND YANK
Attack on Sailors Ordered by
Fbcrt, Schcidemann and
Lansberg, Barth Says
MAY LEAVE GOVERNMENT
Disquieting Feature Seen in
Part Played by Women
Who Join Riot
By Associated Press
London Dec. 27. —"We shan't have
peace here until the English and
American troops come to keep or
der," is a statement attributed to one
of the riotous German sailors in Ber
lin by the correspondent of the Dally
Express at the German capital. The
correspondent says he talked with a
dozen other men who expressed
themselves siriiilarly, some of them
adding:
"Don't let them send the French,
or there will be more fighting."
: The correspondent adds that all
the lower classes of Berlin are will
ing to sec foreign troops in the
capital, feeling that they have noth
ing to lose and perhaps something to
gain by the presence of outsiders.
Richard Barth is quoted by the
correspondent as saying that he and
his fellow cabinet members, Hugo
ilaase and Willielm Dittmann, would
not accept tho responsibility of or
dering an attack on the sailors. The
instructions for the attack, he added,
•wore given by Premier Ebert, Philipp
Scheidemann and Herr Landsborg.
'Barth said he intended to consult his
Icollcagues and might leave the gov
ernment immediately.
The correspondent considers one
lof the most disquieting factors of
{the situation the part played by the
•sailors' wives and sweethearts, some
of whom participated in the fight
ing.