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eague of Nations Has First Place tn'Congress Paris Today; British Plan Made Known
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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
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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
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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
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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 . '•
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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.'
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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
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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
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* 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