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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( -
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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
• -——
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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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the first to ratify, taking this action
on January 8, 1918. 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
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