T,\ =*~T*Y>7?s" '.w 1 ■ '?• ™ -■ i " i '!?W:'" ■ ■ 7T' • ' w 3' ; '"sS 37 States Vote Out Booze ; Tico more Assemblies Schedule £ Action During the Bay* HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ■JXXXVIII— No. 14 16 PAGES sTatter'at the Post Office at'llarrisburg *'* HARRISBURG, PA, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1919. OXI \E\VSPAt''ER I S HAnffISBIjnO KSS TWO*''CEST& 3 HOME EDITION rICHON TO WALK WITH PRESIDENT TO PEACE TABLE France's Foreign Minister First to Greet Him POINCARE TO OPEN SESSION After Opening Con gress Frenchman Will Retire i By Associated Press t Paris, Jan. 16.—Tlio Supreme Council to-day after consider ing the matter of tlie relations* between the conference and tlie press, decided to call a meeting at 5 o'clock this afternoon to be attended by the members of the press and representatives of the various nations In the confer ence to Interchange views on publicity methods. Paris. Jan. 16.—The inauguration of the peace congress on Saturday' will be carried out with ceremonies befitting such an occasion. A de- j tachment of troops will pay honors to the arriving delegates, and' Stephen Pichon, the French foreign ' minister, will receive President Wll-| ■on at the head of the steps of the foreign ministry and accompany him to the room where the meeting will begin at 3 o'clock sharp. Yankees at One End The plenipotentiaries will sit! around a horseshoe table, the middle J part of this table being reserved for officers. The delegates will be rep resented by states in alphabetical ; order, but as they appear in the Almanac de Gotha. American dele gates will be at one end, the British empire, France, Italy and Japan in the order named. After them will come representatives of other states, also seated alphabetically. When all are seated. President Poincare will take the presidential armchair to make the opening ad-j dress, after which he will withdraw. I C'lenienceau to Preside Premier Clemenceau will take his place in the chair as chief of thei French delegation, this being hts right, as the congress is meeting in the capital of France. He will re quest the assembly to elect officers., which, besides a president, will in- j elude vice-presidents and a generalj secretary. Regulations for the con- j gress will then be redd. It is ex- j pected they will be ratified as they stand, after which they will be made public. The Supreme Council of the five greater powers resumed its session | at 10.30 o'clock to-day with a full! attendance of the members. There; were present, for France, Premier j Clemenceau and Foreign Minister; Pichon: for the United States. Presi- j dent Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing; for Great Britain, Premier j Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary t Balfour; for Italy, Foreign Minister Sonnino, and for Japan, Viscount! Chinda and Baron Matsui. Italian Premier Ab>eiit Vittorio Orlando, the Italian pre mier, wag the onli - absentee. He is still detained in Rome. President 1 Wilson arrived at the meeting place; accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and her j secretary. Miss Benham. The impression prevailed to-day ■ that, following the protests that have arisen against the decision of the j council restricting all the news of' its sessions to formal communiques, t some explanation or statement on > the subject might appeur in to- j night's communique to the effect hat the restriction will apply only o the actual proceedings of the cur- j ent day and not to any comment by : he delegates on the general question I >efore the council. Foch Advises Huns Marshal Foch, tlie allied com-j nander-in-chief, aruved in T-oves; >n Wednesday morning for the resting with the German armistice ielegates for discussion of the exten ilon of the armistice. The marshal ■eceived Mathias Erzberger andl General von Winterfeldt. the German I •epresentatlves, in his private car. j The discussion over the renewal' >f the armistice began at once and' he first dispatch from Marshal Foch ■eached Paris last night, says Marcel 1 rlutin in the Echv) <ie.Paris but noth- j ng has been made public as to the' ■esult of the conference. It is likely that the pourparlers) sill be continued to-day and com- • Jleted by this evening. Serbia cannot take part in the I >eace conference unless represented n a delegation from the combined ' ! erbo-L'roatian-S!ovene states. the : lugo-Slav committee here declares 1 n a protest issued against the de- j •iaion of the Supreme Council to idmit delegates from the kingdom | >f Serbia but not of the United j kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and ' •lovenes. The committee declares this action hreatens to provoke a conflict which night have serious consequences, nd the refusal to accept the dele rates of the united state would make , t impossible for Serbia herself to >articipat% in the conference. The protest concludes by saying hat the council, in arriving at iis ecision. did not take into account he new situation in Serbia and thus , nil be obliged to examine into the i uestion anew. New Armistice Terms LONDON, Jan. 15.—The aew armistice (eras to be presented to Germany by Marshal Foch are ■nofflclally stated here te In clude the following i First Hetributlon upon the Germans for the murder and Ill treatment of Allied prisoners. Second—The machinery and ■roods stolen by Germany from France and Brlirlum to be at once irlTen up. It la pointed out that France nlone has 500,000 men who will be out of work un til this machinery Is returned. Third—German iceld, amount ing to more than 100,000,000 pounds, to be moved from Berlin to a safe place, probably Frank fort, and protected from Bolshev ism In Germany en route. Cer tain other property to be surren dered. Fourth—Germany to give over her shipping, of which she la be lieved to have fouV million tons, to carry food supplies to coun tries In Europe In need of them. Fifth—Any l'-boats on the ntoeka to be handed to the Allien for their disposal, or to he de stroyed. and no more submarines should be built. CARELESSNESS OF MOTORISTS AIDS THIEVES Police Chief Warns Auto Owners to Put Their Marks on Cars Motorists who would protect them selves against aujomobile thefts [ should mark their cars with signs iof identification, according to the warning of J. Edward Wetzel, chief of police, made necessary by the number of disappearances of motor cars reported to the police depart ment. Not one mark, but a number of distinctive marks scattered on var ious parts of the car, is the proper way of securing it against theft, po : lice say. All parts of the car should j be marked with the same individual ; mark of the owner, so that identi | flcation after it is stolen, and then recovered, would be easy. Hard to Identify With tlie arrest recently of a ] "fence" for stolen cars, it was learn ed that his method was to tear apart automobiles handled by him, and dts ) pose of tlie parts to various dealers ' and motorists, who often would not : know they were handling stolen goods. Thus a motorist whose auto -1 mobile passed into the hands of the "fence" would be unable to identify ) it, as the various parts would not be marked. In court automobile thieves re | sort to the lack of identification : proofs furnished by the owners of ; stolen automobiles, and often secure j acquittals on those grounds. After a . thief had stolen a machine and i changed the license tag, and per i haps painted the body. It was a sini i pie matter to contest the owner's ! proprietorship. That is the principle reason advanced for marking all parts of an automobile with the owner's name, rather than depending i upon the engine, manufacturing and ) license number for proofs of owner ship. The police will enforce a rigid ; campaign against auto thieves, in an ■ effort to break up the growing prac ! tise of "joy-riding" and.automobile ' stealing. New Governor to Speak to State School Workers at the Penn-Harris Hotel Programs for the annual sessions of the Association of School Board Secretaries of Pennsylvania, and the Directors' Department of the Penn sylvania State Education Associa tion. have been announced. The first organization will meet Februarv 5, in the Penn-Harris hotel. D. D. Ham melbaugli, this cttv. a past president, will make the address of welcome. There also will be twenty-minute talks during the morning and after noon sessions, closing with a busi ness session. The directors will meet at the hotel February 6 and 7. Robert A. Enders, president of the city board, will make the address of welcome. Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, will in the morning on "After War Con ditions in Europe." Governor-elect William C. Sproul will speak in the afternoon, after which there will be addresses and discussions of the teachers' salary Increases. Dr. Charles H. Judd, of the University of Chicago, will speak in the evening. At the session Friday morning, February 7. Dr. Samuel Hamilton, superintendent of Allegheny county, will sped k on "Berlin's Efforts to Germanize America." Businr s ses sions will follow. f BRAZIL'S FRESIDBST-BLLCT UIF.S FOLLOWING ILLAE99 By Associated Press HI.. Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 16.—Dr. Rodriguez A Ives. President-elect of Brazil, died to-day. He had been crit ically ill for some time past. Dr. Alves last night received the last rites of the Cs'bolic Church. Fnder the constitution, an election will be held to choose a new Presi dent. MEN WHO ARE MAKING INAUGURAL BALL A GREAT SUCCESS ■fijf' f( - tjr * li | The committee of the Hsrrisburg Republican CJub which has been putting in much work on the arrangements for the Inaugural Hall to be held in Chestnut Street Auditorium next Tuesday evening. Shown In the cut are: Top row—.left to right—llarrv . Morton, William IV. Briggs. Hewitt A. Fry. George B. Nebinger and William 11. Hoffman. Lower row—Frank C. Hoffman, master of ceremonies; Charles E. Pass, chairman, and Ashton D. Peace. . MOUNTED GUARDS GRAB LIEBKNECHT J By ArstK'iattd Press Berlin, Jan. 16. —■ Dr. Karl i Llebknecht, the Spartacan leader, j has been captuced, It was learn- ' ed late last night, by officers and j men of the division of Mounted Guards who arrived in Berlin. The Spartacan leader is said to have been seized and taken to the fashionable Hotel B(}en in the western part of Berlin. Private telephone communication with j the hotel was cut off abruptly j soon after it was reported that' I he had been taken there. MARSHALS FOR INAUGURAL ARE NOW Senator Beidleman to Take! Oath of Office in Sen ate Chamber One portion of the program for the! inaugural parade next Tuesday was | completed to-day. when the staff of' marshals was filled by the acceptance ' cf Mayor W. S. McDowell, of Chester,! to act as marshal of the second or. political and civic division. Xotice of Mayor McDowelljs ac- j ceptance of the tender was received this morning by Colonel Beitler. chief of staff. The names of his aids have not as yet been received by Colonel | Beitler, but they will be announced i within the next several days. Mayor Babcock. of Pittsburgh, will 1 act as grand marshal of the f The marshals of the other two divl- ; Sions will be Brigadier General Cress- i well, who will be in charge of the i military division, and E. Z. Gross. ' who will marshal the third or fire- i men's division. The plan under witose . provisions ; Lieutenant-Governor-elfct E. E. Bei-: dleman was to have taken the oath' of office on the grandstand at the' same time as Governor-elect Sproul js' sworn in has been abandoned. Prece- i dent will be followed in this case and the oath of office will be administered 1 ir the Senate chamber by Judge 8. J. j M. McCarrell. of Daophin county. 1 Chief Justice J. ITay Brown, of the j Supreme Court, will administer the oath to the Governor-elect on the 1 grandstand in front of the Capitol. J The Lieutenant-Governor's inaug- i ural address will be delivered in the j Senate chamber following the ad- i ministering of the oath, after which j he will pasa to the outside and take , a position on the grandstand. An interesting feature of the j event will be a concert by the Pcnn State Band of eighty-five pieces. Thia i will be given in the afternoon between i 3 and 4.30 o'clock in the corridor of • the Capitol. The students, ail of whom were' enrolled in the S. A. T. C. at the Center 'bounty institution dur ing the first term, are expected to be in uniform. Senate Committee to Push Famine Relief By Atsoiiatrd Prrts \V Bskingtun. Jan. 16. With little i opposition a favorable report was or-I dered to-day by the Senate Appropri ations Committee on the House bill to appropriate $100,000,000 requested by President WiltOn for food relief in JECurope. ( CHARGED WITH TAPPING PIPES OF GASCOMPANY Grand Jury Discharges Mid-! dletown Man Who Shot His Neighbor William D. Marklev. 446 South' I Thirteenth street, charged with un- ' j lawfully tapping pipes of the Har ; risburg Gas Company, using the; l supply unmetered. it is alleged/ for,! : two burners connected to water*i j heaters, was placed on trjai' to-day ] | beforfe President Judge George Kun- ! kel in Courtroom No. 1. I During the morning session wit- | 1 nesses for the company said they I i went to the Markley home and went | lin the basement to conduct an In vestigation. They testiiled they! j found a pipe connected to the sup- | I ply main and not running through | j the meter. The gas from this pipe ' furnished fuel for two burners i which were lighted at the time, they i said, when a valve in this pipe line , was turjied over, the burners .went ' out, according to the testimony given. Later the same afternoon j another visit was made to the hornet ! but by that time the line had been j 1 disconnected; one of the heaters re- ' moved, aud the other connected to ! the metered line. Pickpockets Warned , The defense opened at the after-i i noon session and the case may go : to the jury before adjournment. 1 Gav Newman, formerly of Middle- i • -—— [Continued on Page 11.] J Some of the Keystone Division Men Coming Home Among 10,090 Assigned ; By Associated Press ■ Washington, Jan. 16. —Additional J units comprising a total of more j than three hundred officers und j 1 about ten thousand men have been j . assigned to early convoy home from ' • Prance. j Units included in the. new..list an-[ nounced by the War Department to- i day are: 184 th Infantry Brigade and I Headquarters; 367t1i Infantry Brl- i ! gade Headquarters and First Bat- i talion; 370 th Infantry'. Headquar- ( j ters. Second and Third Battalions; ; , 367 th Infantry, Headquarters Com : pany, Supply Company and Third; Battalion; 372 d Infantry, less Bec -1 ond Battalion; 369 th Infantry, | Headquarters, Supply Company, Sec ond Battalions and Sanitary Detach j ment; 56th -Engineers. Regimental Headquarters, Companies A, B and jC, and Medical Detachment; 102 d Balloon Company; v 41st Ambulance i I Company; 107 th, 110 th, 112 th and) ; 310 th Trench Mortar Batteries. j , ( Two Lose Hands in Industrial Accidents Two men suffered such injuries to their left hands in accidents at in- i duatrial plants near the city jester- j day that It was necessary to aynpu- ! tate at the hospital this morning, i Mile Uich. aged 38 yeaia, .232 Fred-j I erlck street. Steelton. employed as a'i j gasmaker at the Bethlehem Steel j I Company plant, caught his hand in some machinery and it wae so badly 'mangled that amputation was ncees j sary. Jacob FaanScbt, 24 North Fff: j teenth Street.-in a similar accident aL'i the Jfarrisburg Manufacturing and! Boiler Company plant, loaf three' fln- • g era .'of his left hand, CITYHOTELMEN WILL APPLY FOR NEWLICENSES jW'ant Time Limit to Dispose; of Stocks Now on Hand With the adoption to-day of the amendment to the federal constitu tion prohibiting the sale as well as j the manufacture of intoxicants of t all kinds,' the hotelmen of the city i had nothing to" say of their plans j for the futire. < ( j Apparently there has been a J change of feeling among most of the hotelmen and to-day It was said | that virtually all of them will ap-! , ply-fot- license renewals next month, : notwithstanding the fact that the j emergency war measure makes the) I country "bone dry" after July 1.. j j The majority of the men are will- ( j ing to take a chance and pay the S3OO fee for the four months in which the saloons may remain open.' Many of the saloonnien also have , large stocks of whisky and in some | instances cheap grades of California ; wine on hand. They want the extra j | time in which to dispose of their; stocks. ' It was the consensus of' opinion I j that the price of beer will go' up! I considerably within a short time.' I There is much uncertainty as to the! price of whisky. Suloonmen are un- > | able to tell whether the stocks to-' 1 ! ward July 1 will be so largo that it i i will be sold cheap or so depleted j 1 that exorbitant prices may oe'de manded. i. >! Five Thousand Troops I Arrive Here in Three, j Transports From France j New Vork, Jan. 16. The British! | steamer lielglc arrived to-dac .from Brest with more than 3.0(>0 soldiers .from the American expeditionary | forces. 107 of whom were sick. I i .Newport News. Vg., Jan. 16. The I I battleships Virginia and Rhode Is-| jland arrived here to-dav with' 2,000 I troops from France. Army Aviator Flys Over City on His Way North j An American Army airplane, fly:'! : ing at low altitude, passed over the West Shore on its way to Williams- j post from Washington to-day. The, aviator was Lieutenant Alva Sny- j der, U. S. A., and lie is bound .to. the I up-river town on a secret mission, j Hewas first cited as he flew offer the western outskirts of Steelton; [about 12.30, flying so low that he hardly lopped the trees and tele- i ; phone poles. The-aviator struck for' p the Susquehanna Valley, and follow ed the river uji its west branbh to' i his destination. PROBERS EXONERATE COL. DEEDS j Washington. Jan. 16.—Complete ex- '■ j onet-atlon of Colonel E. A. Deeds, of ; the Signal Corps, w)ioso trial 'by ! i court-martial was recommended by i j Charles E. Hughes in his report on ! aircraft production, has resulted from ad investigation by a special War De , partment board of inquiry. \ SENATE HONORS RUOSKt EI.T W ashlngton, Jan. 16.—The bill des- ; i ignaltng the. California giant red- ' I wood district as Roosevelt National I j Park was passed unanimously to-day! ■ by .the Senate and now goes to the I | House. j HUNS TURN U-139 OVER TO ALLIES By- Associated Press • Paris, Jan. IG.—German sub marine U-139 has arrived atßrest a fortnight liter than other U-boats turned over to France, j owing to her damaged condition. • She Is the world's largest suhma j rtne, being 331 feet long and hav ing a displacement of 2,90 tons. i She made-oniy cne cruise before j. the armistice wis signed. GERMAN GIRLS PUNISHED FOR BEING FRIENDLY 'Pershing Determined Lasses May Not Make Up With Yanks By Associated Press CoWeni, Jan. 16. —Twenty Ger- I man girls who were engaged in sweeping streets at Andernach. near I here, have been arrested charged with a violation of General Per i ahtng's order forbidding them to talk j with American soldiers. The arrests i have served to emphasize the de termination of the American, coni i rnund not to permit fraternization in Jtlie occupied regions. Approximately j the same number have been proven • guilty of violating the order and ! have been deported to points within the German lines. There has been a siiglit relaxation in the enforcement of the order in t certain remote centers, but here and ! in larger towns It Is rigidly observed. ' Tlye provost guard or military, po lice are certain to Interfere should an officer or soldier attempt to talk j lo a woman in the street or \n a | I cafe. AGREE OY BEVERAGE TAX I ' By Associated Br ess Washington. Jan. 16. Tax rates lof beverages in the War Revenue i bill were agreed to by Senate and 'House conferences to-dav, the latter accepting substantially all of the Senate's rates, estimated to yield about 8450,000,Q00 in revenue, | [THE WEATHER] For Harris burg and viclnityl Fair and slightly nararr to-night | i lowest temperature aboat frees. I Ingl Friday unsettled, prob ably rala ar snow. For Eastern Pennsylvania! Fair ' and somewhat warmer to-alghtl i Friday unsettled, probably rain or aaowt fresh southwest winds. River The Susqnehannu river and all Its branches will fall slowly or re... | main nearly stationary to night and probably Friday, ex cept local rlsra may occur doe to lee. A, atage of about 4.8 i 'eet la Indicated for Harritburg Friday morning. General Conditions 1 As n re.Bit of n disturbance scar the Texas coast, aubataatlal rala* have fallen In the West Unit region and aabw la North | west Texas. Another disturb ance. central north of North Dakota, Is moving soatkrabt ward: under Its Indneaee there baa been n general rise of a to 22 degrees is tempera I are over ! , the grrnttV part of the coun- I try. except la .the Atlantic J States, from Florida northward, where temperatures are 5 to 14 degrees lower than on Wednes i day morals fc. NEBRASKA CASTS DECIDING BALLOT FOR <DRY' NATION Prohibition Leaders Declare Accomplish ment Greatest Piece of Moral Legis tion in History of World UNITED STATES TO BE WITHOUT INTOXICANTS AFTER JULY FIRST By Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 16.—The Wyoming Legislature to-day unanimously ratified the pro hibition amendment to the Federal Constitution, both houses acting before noon. Chicago, Jan. 10. —The United States to-day com pleted the legislative process of voting itself dry. When word was flashed over the wires that tlie thirty-sixth state. Nebraska, had ratified the prohibition amendment, prohibition leaders declared that the accomplishment was the greatest piece of moral legislation in the history of the world. The amendment to the federal constitution prohibiting the manu facture and .sale of intoxicating beverages becomes effective one year after the date of its iinal ratifica tion. Meanwhile the nation goes dry July 1 next, by Presidential procla mation as a war measure unless the President rescinds it before that date. Lincoln. Jan. 16—The Nebras ka Stato Legislature at 10.33 a. m. to-day completed tlie ratiiicticn off the federal amendment when the Senate voted to concur in a House amendment to a Senate joint resolu tion providing for ratification. Amendment Passed in 191" Congress passed the resolution submitting the amendment to the various state legislatures in the midst of the seething preparations for war in 1917. The Senate adopt ed. the resolution August 1,- by a vote of 65 to 20, and the lower House on December 17 by 252 to 128. 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Fourteen other stales took similar action during that year, the last of tliem being Loutsl-; ana, which ratified on August 8. : j In the full elections the wet dr dry question was paramount in most of the remaining states, but the vote left no doubt that the United States was destined to be the first great na tion to veto liquor. The ban on vodka in Russia was never complete ly effective, nor did it interfere ma terially with the consumption Of more expensive liquors by those who could afford it. Russia advices now state that the Bolshevists have re stored the vodka'traffic. Michigan First in 1910 Michigan, having by a stale law made itself dry in 1918, was the first state to ratify in 1919, the Leg islature voting on the second day of the new year. From that date to to-day, legislatures have acted rap idly. Five states ratified yesterday, bringing the number up to thlrty [ Continued on Page 11.]
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