f-- . • r • 1 V. • gp • • - v.""' v ; eague of Nations Has First Place tn'Congress Paris Today; British Plan Made Known HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M LxXXVIII— Xo. 22 16 PAGES ' HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1919. HOME EDITION 3REA T PEACE PROBLEMS IN CONGRESS OF PARIS HOLD WORLD A TTEN TION D remier Lloyd George to Make Opening Presentation of Plan For a League of Nations at Meeting of Body; Is Not to Deal With Detail YRIA LOOKS TO FRANCE FOR GUIDANCE; RUSSIANS WANT THE BOLSHEVIK BARRED By Associated Press Pari3, Jan. 25.—The second plenary session of the Peace Conference at 3 o'clock lis afternoon is having the League of Nations as its foremost topic. This will be illowed by four other questions—labor, indemnities, punishments and highways, avid Lloyd George, the British premier, will make'the opening presentation of a lan for a league of nations in a brief speech, dealing largely with principles and leaving the etails for the commission. ' J The part President Wilson will take in today's session of the conference had not been definitely 1 inounced early to-day. While the solemn warning of the council yesterday with regard to the gaining of territory bv >rce specified no countries, it covered broadly thewarring elements in the Ukraine and those around ilna and Leniberg. where bombardments have occurred, and also in the Caucasus, where the e\v Georgian republic is fighting the new Armenian republic; also Serbian -inroads on Monte ?gro, as well as territorial occupation along the eastern Adriatic, in Thrace and in Poland. Some of these situations already have brought protests, and other protests are expected, so that ic great powers decided to enunciate the principle that possession by force places a cloud on J lie creation of a military commission for proportioning the : oops on the western front brings the vigorous figure of Winston pencer Churchill into the conference. The sentiment of the mncil was strongly for demobilization with the least possible :lay. There is reason to believe also that the commission will irry out the plans already before the War Department in Wash gton for the return of American troops homeward as rapidly transportation permits and that there wfll be increase in the merican proportion of troops in the occupied regions. While the hearing on the German colonies was confined to the ritish dominions, Japan was represented on the' council and cx :cts to be heard in due time concerning some of the German icifie groups and Kiau Gliow. tt is understood that the British: ntemolate an important proposal J which such problems as the Ger iti colonics, Mesopotamia and lestine, will be submitted to the ague of Nations, in order to avoid s of time and territorial demands :ompatible with the principles of 3 league. Russian Protest Is Heard The Council of the National and mocratic bloc of Russian politi organizations abroad has sent a ong protest to Premier Clemen- IU against the decision of the Bu ;me Council to call a conference the Russian factions. 'We would be men without honor d courage if we accepted for a gle moment a truce such as pro sed to us while all that are dear s in danger of death violent ith by execution or assassination slow death through hunger," the stest says in part. 'Wants Rule by People 'The interest of humanity In gen .l and democracy in particular," protest adds, "requires the es- | lishment in Russia of a regime | led or\ the sovereignty of the peo- j freely expressed. An improvis- ! meeting at the Princes Island mot be an expression of this sort, ssia has long clamored for the r e election of a constituent assem- The attempt was stifled by the ' sheviki by force of "arms, and y are to-day asked to make the ce of Russia heard." Syria's Future Peace Topic 'he future status of Syria is one. the most delicate to be settled by peace conference. It is expect that a commission will be ap nted soon to report on conditions Syria and suggest a course to be owed there. 'ierre Ramell, a member of the nch chamber of deputies, inforrn the Associated Press that in view the advanced civllizalion of the lans. the idea of a protectorate x colony such as exist In certain er parts of the world cannot ob i in Syria. He added: Owing to difference of race, re >n and language the Syrians at sent are unable to govern them- ■ es. Some of the great* European ntries must exercise guardianship guidance over Syrian afTairs. .can on France For Guidance France, from time immemorial, ing had the greatest interest of country in Europe in Syria and ajority of the population speak the French language, French of ls feel that such guardianship guidance developes upon France [Continued on Page 15.] HE WEATHER] r Harrlsburg and vlelalfyi Fair this afternoon i lachrr aalag rloadinesß to-night, probably Tallowed by rain or anow la ■rlj- morning and on Sandaxi isaewkat warmer to-night, •went tern pern tare a boat n r Enter* Peaaay Iranla la nreaalng cloadlaeao to-alnbt. probably followed by rain or >aow In early moralag and. on landnyi ooaeahat warmer to ■lfhti moderate north went atada. beeomlag east Honday ■ad Inerenalng. Rleer e Haaqnehanna rleer and all Ifa tranche* will fall a lowly or re naln nearly atattoaary to-night tad probably Sander, except be lower portion of tho mala Ivr wfU rlae allghtly to-night. I atage of abo at u feet In adleated for Harrfabarg Man lay maralag. ARCHANGEL REDS OVERCOME YANKS AND RUSS FOES Americans Lose 10 Killed; 17 Wounded; 11 Arc Miss ing in Action SOVIET REPULSED LATER General March Explains Inter- Allied Command in France Directs Operations By Associated Press Washington, Jan. 25. —Retirement of the allied forces holding advanced positions in the Archangel sector be fore attacks by superior forces of Bolsheviki, is reported in an official dispatch dated January 23, the sub stance of which was made public to day by General March. Yanks Drive Them Back The message reported the Ameri can losses in one of the actions at Ust Pedenga as ten enlisted men killed, seventen wounded and eleven missing. A later dispatch said pub sequent attacks were-repulsed when delivered on the positions taken up by the Americart troops. An inter-allied force engaged &t Shenkurst consisted of British de tachments, two companies-of Amer icans and two companies of Rus sians. These were attacked on three sides and compelled to evacuate their position as were also the allied pa trols holding Ust Pedenga. The American troops falling back took a position midway between this point and Shenkurst. In one of the attacks reported, one thousand enemy troops were in action against the small al lied force. High Command in Charge The points attacked by the enemy lay generally abo&t 190 miles from Archangel. General March Baid the ir.ter-allled commander there had adequate troops to reinforce the ad vance elements and to handle the situation. The general pointed out again that the whole military situation at Arch angel was under the control of the inter-allied high command in France. He intimated that should reinforcements be deemed necessary any action to supply them would have to come from the*high com mand and after recommendation from the British commander-in-chief of the forces in Siheria. War Punishment Lightens General March announced that punishments of war-time severity for military olfenders in the United States have been stopped by the War Department. From now on military offenses at home will be punished in accordance with an order Issued by the President before the war, which set out the maximum sentences which woud be approved for mili tary offenses in time of peace. Thd new order does not apply to troops; in Slberta or Italy, and does not mean commutation of sentences j already Imposed, at home- PROMPT ACTION PROMISED FOR LOAN TRANSFER Lieutenant Governor Bcidle man to Direct Measure Aid ing Park Program | OFFICES TO BE CENTRAL Sproul Working on Plans to Be of Lasting Benefit to the City Very prompt action is expected by Lieutenant Governor Edward E. Beidlcman on the bill introduced into the Senate on Wednesday to provide for special elections by third class cities on the question of devoting to a new use money voted in a loan whose purposes were found imprac ticable. This is the measure to per mit Harrisburg to use $300,000 voted for a bridge some years ago as a part of the city's share for the Me morial bridge to be constructed by the Commonwealth in honor of its soldiers and sailors as part of the Capitol park extension program. Owing to the fact that the lieutenant governor wits the Dauphin senator until last Monday there was no one to introduce it and Senator T. L. Eyre, of .Chester, acted as sponsor. The bill went to the municipal cor porations committee. This bill is one of the big matters of interest to people in Harrisburg now and its progress is being await ed with Interest to people in Harris burg now and its progress is being awaited with interest because It is the Idea to have the special election for voting on the question of the change at the same time that the special election is held to elect a suc cessor to the lieutenant governor as senator from Dauphin county. Origi nally, it was planned to have the sen atorial election on the twenty-fifth of next month, but the desire to have the Harrisburg loan question sub mitted at that time and also to en able a loan election to be held In Delaware county, which also elects a senator to succeed Governor Sproul, caused a delay In issuing thd writ for the special election In the two counties. To Give Notices The law requires certain an nouncements and advertisements cov ering specified periods for special Continued on 1 Prgc 8 1 EASTER BUNNIES AND CANDY EGGS PLENTIFUL WITH PEACE Confectioners Predict" Thriving Business in Easter Dainties For Youngsters After Year of Neglect That Easter bunnlea, candy eggs and "Jelly beana," dear to the hearts of youngsters, will be plenUful around Easter time, is the. confident prediction of confectioners and candy manufacturers. The abolition of the restrictions which prevailed on sngar during the war has lifted the oppression v from the dandy market and for the first time in almost twe years conditions are nearly normal./ Last year con fectioners were limited to fifty per cent of their sugar consumption of the previous year. The restrictions were not lifted on sugar and sweeta soon enough to relieve the market at Christmas time. , Chocolate cream eggs wtth chocolate coating, jelly eggs and camdy atlrks were scarce last year. There's a Man at the Door With a Package FIRST ARREST IS MADE IN PUZZLING STEELTON-CRIME Police Believe Killing Came as Result of Argument Over Yiddish Receipts J>an Johnson, colored," was arrested to-day In' the !<teel works, on suspicion of know ing how Lacoh met his death. Johnson is said to have had an argument with the dead man over 'a lank receipt written in Yiddish. The entire police force of the bor ough of Steelton, was concentrated to-day in a manhunt for the murder er of S. Wolffe LacOb, a Hebrew storekeeper, at 222 North Harris i burg street, a' remote s.ection of ! Stecltoh inhabited mostly by colored folks. The merchant's body lay in Wilt's undertaking establishment to day showing that he had been shot directly in the right eye by a bullet from a 38-caliber revolver with the weapon held against his face, for powder remnants dotted his counten ance all about. At noon Chief of Police Longneck er thought he had a very likely clue, for a 16-year-old colored girl told how she saw three colored men fleeing front the spot at a little after 7 o'clock, just after she heard a shot. Sleuths were dispatched In all di rections to get the man she describ ed and said that sh ecould Identify. The supositlon is that he had an al tercation with the Hebrew store keeper who did an amateur banking business on the Bide. It was his cus tom to. receive money and give a [Continued "on Page 15.] and at this time dealers in delicacies were predicting that the market would be devoid of these much-de sired Easter commodities. That was war time, and youngsters, and grown-ups gave up the reminders of the Easter season for the sake of winning the war. with a real advent of peace this Easter time, however, dealers ex poet to make up for.lost time In : the sale of Easter goods. They al i ready are receiving good-sized ship ; ments of candles molded In the form , of eggs, rabbits and "downy" chicks. | Candy Easter eggs have made their appearance In all the candy shop i windows, and dealers have their or ders placed for more than they ever attempted to sell tn previous Easter [seasons. j . '• . ' - ?/*. . gtoc-flnfteptnfrfttt MONARCHISTS GIVE WAY IN PORTUGAL By Associated I'rcsf Lisbon. Portugal, Jan. 25. — Fighting between the republicans and the monarchists was in prog ress to-day in various parts of the city. The monarchists ap peared to be giving way'. Later dispatches state the lighting in Lisbon between the republicans and monarchists has ended in a victory for the republica'n forces. CONSTABLES TO SHOOT CANINES IF UNLICENSED Only a Thousand Licenses Have Been Issued For Entire County Owners of dogs in the city and county who have not paid the 1919 tax have been warned by county of flclals that Instructions will be is sued soon to constables to shoot, all unlicensed canines. Returns will soon be received from each district showing the number of dogs and giving the names of the ownets. When these lists are re ceived by the County Commissioners they will be compared with the du plicate tax sheets in the office of County Treasurer Mark Mumma, aft er which the names of owners of dog's who have- not taken out li censes will be compiled and fur nished_ to the constables. Mumma reported to-day that about 1,000 dog licenses have been issued for 1919. The last day, according to law, that owners have to pay this tax is January 15. The total number issued this year is far below the 1918 figure, he said. Last year constables in the various districts shot hundreds of dogs which were not licensed. They are paid a fee for killing the animals for which no taxes have been paid. Officials also called attention to- the change in the dog license laws., which now require owners to pay the tax Into the county treasury, whether they live In the city or county districts. Berlin Hears Wilhelm Is Coming Back to Germany By AmcigtrxS Brest London. Jan. 25.—A Berlin dis patch to the Dally Mail under Fri day a* date says: • "A sensational special edition sell ■nß rapidly on the streets here main tains that the ex-kaiser and his fam ily. intend to return to Germany as soon as the national assembly has ' IVM \ thfc country a Segal eonstftu tjpn.' /ST" . ... ' COUNTY WATCHES RESULTS OF COAL | INVESTIGATIONS i ' [Same Experts Probing Dau phin and Schuylkill County Fields County officials and taxpayers arfi watching with increased interest the developments in the hearings be fore the United States Senate in vestigating committee in session In Pottsville to examine the coal situa tion. Some of the experts who are now working on coal land valuations In Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lebanon, Schuylkill and Dauphin counties are being called to testify, among them W. F. Sekol and T Ellsworth Davies, both expert mining engineers. The latter has been retained by the Dau phin county commissioners to make a study of coal lands here and re port their accurate accesfeable valu ation. Startling figures of the extent of the coal fields of Schuylkill county were introduced at the session yes terday, and the taxpayers are now anxiously awaiting the report which is to be made to the Dauphin com- i missioners, giving the extent and [Continued on Pngc 15.] Joseph W., Ibach Helps Convict Woman With His Old Police Court Records Joseph W. Ibach, chief clerk In the City Highway Department and for- | merly a city detective for a number of years, has just returped from New Haven, Conn., where he was called to testify against Bertha "Peaches" Richardson, colored, formerly of this city. She had been called for trial on a chrage of cutting and robbing a New Haven resident. When the woman saw Ex-Detec tive Ibach. a Lebanon county author ity, a deputy from the Eastern Peni tentiary and a Phtladelpha officer, she pleaded guilty to the charge. It was shown that she had served six months in the Dauphin county prison on a charge of robbing an old man here, two years In a Philadelphia prison and one year In the Peniten tiary. A detainer has been lodged against her by Qoston authorities on a robbery charge. Mr. Ibach took with htm a number of police records and the Bertlflon measurements of the woman which he made while a city detcctiTe. p. H. CIPMI Birrs , U BRICK DWELLINGS P. H. Car lan. a Market street jew eler. purchased from C. W. Lynch and William Jennings twelve brick prop erties. The deed was filed to-day to ;be recorded. The dwellings are 539, I 541 and 543 South Fifteenth street; 527. 529 and 531 South Sixteenth etreret; 535, 537 and 589 South Six teenth street- and 538. 540 and 543 South Seventeenth - attest. No, eon- PROHIBITION HABIT IS SIMPLE MATTER SAY HOTEL OWNERS Cafeterias With "Soft" Drinks and Light Lunches to Take Place of Whisky, Now Left Without a Friend MOVIE MEN ARE JUBILANT, BUT BONIFACES ARE UN DA UNTED ' Get the prohibition habit; that's all the public needs to do'," exclaimed the manager of one of Harrisburg's hotels to-day when asked how eliminating drinks would affect the restaurants and hotel business. "It will be just as easy as shaking off the dritfk habit. No, sir, prohibition will not hurt the llarrisburg hostelries one little bit. Sonic establishments are getting ready to celan dot the bar now and put in a dossy cafeteria with soda" fountains, soft drinks, tea andome eats. .Watch how popular they becomqi" Every manager In the city is alert9 ls tt hurden of the most difficult sort tp the change and reports from oth er places arc eagerly sought, many df them being most amazingly prom ising. Ono from Portland, Oregon, from the owner of the biggest hotel there gave Harrlsburg hosts great satisfaction, saying: "Before the state went dry the receipts of the bar were $125 a day. When the order to close down came along he decided that he'd try the experiment of turning the bar into a soft drink counter. Instead of the men who used to stand behind it he employed two girls. On the first daj' the receipts were $l4O. They kept rising steadily, until to-day he counts that day lost which doesn't bring in S4OO. That was in addition to the rise in prices of rooms, whiqh | he thought at the beginning would be necessary to make him meet his ' expenses." Without exception, every Harris- ' burg hotelfnah interviewed gave it ' his opinion that whisky was the ! cause of the mighty landslide in fa vor of prohibition and the usual ' phrase heard was "The saloon-keep ers brought it on themselves." One proprietor had printed a bundle of slips bearing an editorial remark to tho effect: "Whisky does not pay. It has no virtues. It has many vices, and entails terrible cost. Whisky is going to leave us because It has ho useful functions In society, and fr 'f* f~fr '|i 'f"fr'f.H. * REDS PLAN MOSCOW CONGRESS ! * # „ Zurich—According to. reports received here .from j I Moscow the "international communist congress" there * has decided to convoke the first congress of "a new revo- ! , lutionary internationale. The communist congress, it is 1 stated, has drafted a manifesto setting forth a program ' A based upon the programs of the German Spartacan party '< * and the Russian communist and Bolshevik parties, ! < • BILL PROVIDES SALARY BOOSTS • < , 1 Washington—Besides recommending salary increases' '< * for virtually all postal service employes, the annual post < . i office appropriation bill as revised and reported out to- ! day by the Senate post office committee, proposes appro- f I priations of $200,000,000 during the next three years for '< * • construction and maintenance of roads, ' i . Washington—Passed by the Senate after a week's 1 | * debate.the bill appropriating $100,000,000 for food relief , I fn Euretyan and Near Ecst countries went to a con- } * fence ro-day y , 1 * BUTTER PRICE DROPS IN NEW YORK J e . York—A decline of more than 13 cents in the wholesale jprice of creamery butter, from 70 cents on Jan- < * i uary 11 to 56 J4 cents to-day, was taken as the fore- | . runner of local general food prices in local market circles ' ♦ here. Eggs were selling at 61 cents a dozen for fresh < • y i gathered, as compared with 76 cents a year ago. • , ... J J DESTROYER BOMBARDS OPORTQ J * . Lisbon—Oporto, the Monarchist stronghold, has been * I bombarded by a government destroyer. Travelers arriv- ' ft I J, ing here from Oporto says a military airplane flew over Ih r da> Snd dropped proclamations warning jj , g cnacna to leave tl® city unless they wished to !* * 1 a hectaeuidb." : •SEIZE ST. EN DA'S COLLEGE ! a Dublin—The military authorities have seized St. t * Enda's College, in Dublin county, founded by' Patrick £ Pearse, who was executed in connection with the Easter a rebellion in 1916. ■; y] ; MARRIAGE LICENSES t Sate eel C. WbUlrr ■< Hail. B. rottaaa, Hanrlaktrci Aatbra* * ■ MavUk. at—lt—. aa Katie Kalteeh, Harrlabarn Peter M. Rata. [ ;*.f<Maa A, UtatK, atecltoe i Kraek J. lUtaaerle ait Tkena J R Tre lac, atcclteai tddlaee is. Haakrldil aid Jtaale J. Uak, Hatrla- * £ *■*. Geer*. T. Wlld.aalth, 3UHereh.ni, amd Edith St. H-lae" * ■■ tea. i'lum luiiißiiwitini i u to carry," Old and famous establishments like the Bolton House are not the least perturbed by the change. One of the men in charge there explain ed: "This is primarily a home for travelers, a place to get good food: the saloon was only a small part of our activity and it will go out with out causing any excitement or re gret. The space occupied by it will probably be turned into a tearoom, where soft ond hot drinks will be served and the traveler can Ufe en tertained. There Is no hardship about the shift: it is ordered and it will be obeyed." There seems to bo no doubt thai, Continued on Page 8 Costs County $4,178.33 to Keep Boys in Reformatory J Officials of the Huntingdon Re j formator.v have submitted their bill to the County Commissioners for maintenance of boys in that institu tion during the last three months. There are at present, forty-three bofs from Dauphin county at tho Reform atory. One youth who was there was transferred to the Penitentiary. The total cost charged to the county for the last quarter' is $4,1
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