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LXXXVIII— No. 30 16 PAGES Da, £ a ?t x e c r e 2* WJit Ktetr HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1919. ONL M Y BIK HOME EDITION
WORLD BONDS ARE TO REMAIN
INVIOLATE UNDER LEAGUE OF
NATIONS, BALFOUR PREDICTS
British Leader Is
Sure Ties Are
Not in Peril
HASTE MAKING
IN WIDE PEACE
Settlement of War
Accounts on the
Way at Paris
By Associated Press
Paris, Feb. u.—Alliance between
the various Rations wilt not be af
fected by the existence of the So
ciety of Nations, now in process of
formation, Arthur J. Balfour told
newspaper interviewers here last
night. The British Foreign Secre
tary was asked the direct question as
to whether the formation of the
world society would involve the ab
rogation of alliances.
Treaties to Remain Intact
"The constitution of the Beague
of Nations," he responded, "will in-,
voire no modification of the treaties
of alliance previously concluded. i
"As to the question whether spe- i
rial coalitions of two or several peo
ples could be formed aside from the !
league," Mr. Balfour added, "the 1
conference alone can decide."
Military intervention in Russia on
a large scale is not to be thought of. 1
Mr. Balfour declared. The great
Powers were doing everything they
considered could be done, however,
he said, in dealing with what lie
characterised as a "most disquieting i
situation."
Peacemaking Haste
As to the general work of the.
Peace Conference, he declared the'
peace-making body was making all :
possible haste to settle upon the j
peace terms. He said:
"The fact that the problem of the !
Society of Nations has been taken up !
before that of peace, properly so {
called, in no way signifies that the |
settlement of our accounts with the
enemy will only come afterwards. :
The mechanism of the commissions
we have instituted permits the con-1
current study of several questions."
Burglars Dynamite Safe
in Hanover Postoffice;
Get $15,000 in Big Haul
tnrk, Pa.. Feb. s.—Burglars entered
the Hanover post office early this
morning, dynamited tiie safe and got
away with $13,000 in stamps and reg
istered packages. A large package
of money, the exact value of which
Postmaster K. K. Eichelberger - re
fuses to make known was overlooked.
Three charges of nitro-glycerine. it
is said were used and the safe was
blown to pieces. No clue as to the
identity of the burglars has been
obtained. The post office department
at Washington has been notified .
Republicans Will Name
F. A. Smith For Senate
The executive committee of the
Republican county committee will
meet to-morrow morning at 10
o'clock in the Republican headquar
ters in the Wyeth building to nomi
nate a candidate to succeed Rieu
tenant-Governor E. E. Beidleman
in the State Senate. An hour later
the whole county committee will
meet at the same place to ratify
the nomination.
Frank A. Smith, for many years
prominent in Republican circles, for
mer county chairman and at pres
ent state committeeman front this
district, will be nominated without
opposition. The Democrats will of
fer no more than formal opposition
and Mr. Smith is practically certain
of being chosen to the Senate for
the unexpired term at the special
election set for February 25.
28th Division Now Is
at Colombeyles-Belles
Washington, Feb. 5.—A new table
of locations of unite of the Ameri
can Expeditionary Forces on Janu
ary 16, made putflic late yesterday
by the War Department, showed
that the Twenty-eighth division,
composed of Pennsylvania National
Guardsmen , was at Colombeyles-
Belles, having been transferred since
the last announcement from Heudi
eourt. The division was listed as
the Second Army Reserve.
HAN ON ARMY UNIFORM
AViiNlilngton, Feb. s—Commandants
of all army camps .and posts liave
been instructed by General March to
prevent the sale oi delivery of uni
forms by civilian tailors to officers
and men of tile army about to be
discharged.
I THE WEATHER]
For Harrixburg and vlolnlfv: Fair
nnd voider to-nlghf, with lowest
temperature about 20 detrern
Thursday fair.
For Knstern I'ennsylvnnlai Fair
eolder to-night* Thursday fair*
moderate northwest winds l,e
eomlng variable.
River
The Sasquehsnnn river and all Its
hranehes will fnll slowly or re
main nearly stationary. Flout
ing Ice will probably npprnr to
night In the streams now open,
and lee will Increase In thick
ness where streams nre frosen
A stngr of about 4.3 feet Is Indt-'
rated for llarrlaburg Thursday
morning.
Private Charles B. Archibald, of Chambersburg, who was acting cor
poral in the Three Hundred and Sixteenth Machine Gun Company, Sev
enty-ninth Division, had both legs blown off in September while lighting
in the Argonne forest. He was taken to a field hospital, which German
aiftnen bombed that night; left France Christmas Day for New York on
the ill-fated Northern Pacific, which was stranded off Fire island; was
taken ashore in a lifeboat, which swamped, and finally was brought to
Debarkation Hospital No. 3, New York City. There he is the happiest lad
amongst all the occupants of the 3,.J(>0 beds there. "I'm a lucky guy,"
says Charlie.
ALPINE GUARDS ARE
TO PROTECT WEIMAR
Soldiers Assigned to New Capital of Germany
Where National Assembly Is to Gather
For Transaction of Nation's Work
By Associated Press
Berlin, Feb. 5. —Independent So- j
cialists interrupted telephone com
munication between Weimar and
Eisenach and Erfurt for several |
hours Monday afternoon, according!
to advices received by the Tage- j
blatt from Weimar, where the Na
tional Assembly will meet on Thurs
day.
An Alpine corps of 1,000 men, un
der command of General Merker, 1
has arrived at Weimar and will po- j
lice the city. These are official gov- I
3,703,273 YANKEES
IN RANKS AT END
OF WORLD STRIFE
Figures Show the Allied Rifle
Strength Exceeded That
of Huns on July 1
Washington, Feb. s.—The total
strength of the United States army
on November 11, when the armistice
was signed and when the American
war effort was at its peak, was 3,-
703,273 officers and men, including
tile marine corps on duty with the
army in Europe. A statistical table
made public to-day by the War De
partment gives this figure.
Included in the table is a com
parative statement of the strength
of the Allied and German forces on
the western front, by months be
ginning April .1, 1918, showing that
on July 1 for the first time the Al
lied 'rifle strength" exceeded that
of the Germans.
In rifle strength, which means men
"standing in the trenches ready to
go over the top with the bayonet,"
the Allied total on July 1 was 1,556,-
[Continued on Page 6.]
Father, Bent on Rescue
of Children, Is Fire Victim j
By Associated Press
Pittsburgh, Feb. C.—One man was
burned to death, several persons are
missing, and one hundred children
were rescued by flremeji when the
South Side Public School at Oak
dale, near here, was destroyed by
lire this morning. The deud man is
Edward McKissock, who went into
the burning building to save his two
children and was caught' under u
falling wall. The children liad been
rescued by friends.
| eminent troops, but will be assisted
by the garrison of Weimar, which is
I loyal to the government and pre-
I pared to defend the National Assem
j bly.
Majority Socialist members of the
Soldiers' and Workmen's Council at
j Erfurt have resigned on the grounds
! that they cannot share the respon
sibility for the Council's present ac
tions. Officers in the Erfurt arsenal
J have refused to report for. duty un
til weapons taken from the arsenal
[Continued on Page fi.]
NORSE CABINET
QUITS AS LEADER
LOSES CONTROL
Bryn, Minister at Washing
ton, May Head New
Ruling Body
By Associated Press
Clu-istiaiiia, Feb. s.—The Nor
wegian cabinet headed by Gunnar
Knudsen lias resigned. The reason
given is that Knudsen's party has
ceased to maintain its control of
parliament. The resignation has been
accepted by the king and speculation
as to the new ministry include the
possibility that H. 11. Bryan, Nor
wegian minister at Washington, will
be named foreign minister.
The Norwegian cabtnet headed by
Gunnar Knudsen was formed on
January 29, 1913. It had a rather
stormy career, its personnel being for
the most part, changed since its
formation. The cabinet weathered a
severe storm in November. 1917
when a resolution designed to force
its resignation was brought before
the Norwegian parliament. It charged
blunders in handling the food sit
uation and failure to yield to the
request of the United States to place
the nation on a food allowance The
resolution was defeated but opposi
tion to the cabinet continued. Copen
hagen dispatches announced on Jan
uary 24 that a ministerial crisis was
imminent in Norway.
RICHOMAX, CHINESE BED, SHOT
By Associated Press
Stockholm, Feb. s.—Dianyo Rlch
omun, head of Chinese Bolshevik
propaganda in the Far East and the
president of the Chinese section of
the communist party, lias been as
sassinated by an unidentified per
son, according to a dispatch from
Petrograd. He was shot down as he
begun a public speech.
ABANDON FIRE
APPARATUS IN
: STREET AFTER
LONG SQUABBLE
Camp Hill Fireman Says Cum
bersome Old Apparatus Can
Stand in Highways, a Monu
ment to Borough's Slowness
UP TO THE FIREMEN,
SAY COUNCIL MEMBERS
%
Fires Are Always Burned Out
Betore Chemical Wagon
Can Be Dragged to Blaze,
Retort Volunteers
"Who wants the Camp Hill lire ap
paraus?
That's a problem that is stirring
the bright little town across the
river. The chemical wagon was
taken to a tire in Long street early
| Monday morning itnd since that time
| has been left standing at Market
and Long streets.
I The wagon was left there to "show
the citizens of Camp Hill how in- !
efficient and inadequate is their tire
I apparatus," says Robert E. Cahill, |
| president, of the Camp Hill Fire
| Company.
The Buck Is "Passed
j "It's up to the firemen to take the
• apparatus home," says Ueorgo W.
I Knslng, president of the Borough
1 Council. In the meantime property
j owners are praying that there will I
! be 110 tires until the squabble blows j
, over.
It appears tfiat when the alarm :
' sounded Monday a number of lire- [
men, identity unknown, pulled the!
1 apparatus from the lire Infuse and [
! after a while induced some equally!
unknown autoist to drag it to the',
lire. The blaze had burned itself j
out by the time the volunteers ar- j
j rived. No one volunteered to drag j
• the apparatus back.
Much Too Heavy
| "It's too heavy," say the firemen.:
"Why the last time a barn burned, I
i the structure -was a mass of ruins be- |
for the old engine could be brought!
up: so heavy that when we can
borrow a couple horses to haul it!
about, the team pulled the -shaft out
before the machine moved a foot."
Too Impetuous
According to Fire President Cahill,
it is high time that the borough
provide apparatus that is motor
driven and up-to-date. Horses have!
to be borrowed to move the-present!
chemical wagon. j
j According to Council President En- j
I sign, Cahill is too impetuous. "We
| can't appropriate money for fire ap- 1
; paratus in the middle of the year,!
but Cahill won't wait. - '
Seek Solution in Unrest
of Labor Circles Following
Demobilization of Armies
By .dssocialed Press
lioudon, Feb. D. —The cabinet and
| various government departments
concerned in the labor troubles are
j active to-day seeking a solution of
| the difficulties. There have been nu
[ merous intereviews and conferences
j with representatives of the strike
I movements and trade unions.
In a general way the government
has decided to maintain its policy
of non-intervention in strikes not
authorized by trade unions, but at
the same time directing its' influence
towards inducing the malcontent
workers to see the advisability of
acting through their official trade
representatives.
N'o Big Change
There Is no actual change in the
situation early to-day, nor is a fur
ther extension of the strikes re
ported.
The situation on the Clyde and at
Belfast is improving. An increasing
number of men are remaining at
work in the Glasgow district, while
a hopeful feeling prevails in Belfast,
where Sir Edward Carson has prom
ised to bring the question of a na
tional reduction in hours before
parliament nj the llrst opportunity.
R. R. Clerks to Stick
The threatened strike of railway
clerks has been averted. The em
ployers have conceded the recogni
tion of the railway clerks' union.
The concession recognizing this
union is Important inasmuch as al
though only 75.000 men are affected
they consist of stationmasters. tick
et sellers and qther employes, a
strike on the part of whom would
have tended to disrupt the working
of the railways throughout the king
dom.
The railway clerks' union has
been in existence for twenty-one
years, but never before has "been
recognized as a labor organization.
Scott Nearing Trial
Gets Start in New York
By Associated Press
New York, Feb. s.—Scott Near
ing, one time professor in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and a So
cialist candidate for Congress in this
city last fall, was placed on trial in
the Federal Court here to-day on a
charge of sedition. After one Juror
had been called the case was ad
journed until to-morrow to await
the arrial from Chicago of Seymour
Steadman, chief counsel for the de
fense.
ASKS CONGRESS TO MAKK
1919 WHEAT PRICE CERTAIN
By Associated Press
Washington, Feb. 5. Julius
Barnes, head of the food adminis
tration's grain corporation, asked
Congress to-day through the Hodsc
agriculture committee, to delegate
broad powers to President Wilson
as a means of making effective the
government's guaranteed price for
the 1919 wheat crop.
First Photograph of Peace Delegates in Session in Paris
♦ .- BBBE -—3 - —■
This is the first photograph received in this country of the delegates in session at the Peace Confer
ence in the Quai d'Orsay. President Wilson is seated immediately at the left of the massive fireplace. Jap
anese representatives are seen in the right foreground and the Bnglish delegates at the end of the same
table.
REPEAL OF OLD
BLUE LAW IS !
AGAIN URGED
I
[ Bill Permitting Sunday Movies
; and Concerts Introduced
in Legislature '•
| Sunday orchestral concerts, lee-.
| tures, movie shows "and other en-i
j'tertainments of an educational char-j
| acter" would be legalized on Sundays
I in a measure introduced in the House I
j this morning by Representative Wil-j'
liani F. Rorke, of Philadelphia. |'
• The bill is an amendment to the)
old Blue haws of 1794 which wasi
termed "An act for the prevention!
of vice and immorality, and of un-|
j lawful gaming and lo restrain dis
orderly spoils and dissipation." |
Representative Korke's arnend
j ment provides for educational en
tertainments on the Sabbath provid-j
led there is "no raising or lowering
i of the curtain, 110 appearance or any!
j person in costume and no moving or'
j changing of scenery or furniture I
| upon such stage or platform."
j The bill is expected to receive the I
; backing of the persons in Philadelpha j
who have been lighting for the past I
several years for permission to hold i
Sunday concerts of the Philadelphia!
Orchestra.
Another bill introduced recently in
the House by Representative Powellj
j of Luzerne* provides for the repeal)
jof the Blue Laws. This measure,
j however, is not expected to get out
.of committee, but there is a feeling|
that the Rorke bill may find consid-j
| erable support from members who
I represent Philadelphia, -Pittsburgh
i and the third class cities.
Eggs Sell Down to Fifty
Cents in Local Markets
J With the hens influenced by ttie
mild weather and icreasing their pro
! produetionaccordlngly fresheggs took
i another big drop today and at the
city markets '.bis morning sold at the
fifty cents figure, the lowest that has :
been reached for a number of months.
While Harrisburg is enjoying low
er prices for eggs than it has for
some time, surrounding rural coin
muntties have prices prevailing that
permit the ordinary man to have the
fresh product on his table. The low
est price reported is thirty-seven
cents per dozan, eggs selling for that
figure at Hhepherdstown. three miles
from Meohanicrburg. Grantham and
Bowmansdale, both about ten miles
from the city on the Philadelphia and
Reading railway, report eggs as sell
at fourty-four cents per dozen.
Not much charge was made in the
price of but'.er in the city market
this morning. • The fresh home-made
goods retailed at sixty cents.
HINES AT ODDS
WITHPOMERENE
IN RAIL POLICY
Senator Asserts the Railroad
Question Will Enter Presi
dential Election
By Associated Press
Washington, Feb. s.—Out of a;
colloquy between Director General
H'ines and Senator Pomerene, of
Ohio, at a hearing to-day before the
Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, developed a clarification of
diverging views on the question of
extending Government control of
railroads.
Senator Pomerene, speaking as a
legislator, said he could not under
stand why the director general
should ask Congress to turn over to
him for five years the management
of tremendously valuable properties
In order to permit him to work out
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THOUSANDS, MAD
FROM HUNGER IN
LINZ, RAID SHOPS
London, Feb. 5. —Thousands of
persons in the district of Link,
the capital of upper Austria, have
been plundering the food shops
and committing other depreda
tions, according 'o reports from
Linz transmitted by the Exchange
Telegraph correspondent at Vi
enna. The people, the reports
stated, had become maddened by
hunger. The advices added that
the disorders had not yet been
suppressed.
SOLDIERS HOME
FROM ARMY ARE
HELD AT POLLS
Registration Boards Demand
Tax Receipts of Men
WI14) Saw Service
With the refusal of registrars in a
few of the city districts to enroll re
turned soldiers who had been in
service for two years or more and
for that reason could not present a
county tax receipt when they applied
for registration to-day for the special
election to name a successor to Lieu
tenant-Governor Beldleman in the
State Senate, appeals may be made
by the. men to the County Commis
sioners.
Reports that the army liien who
are home again would not be reg
istered in one or two districts where
they resided and applied were re
ceived by the County Commissioners
to-day. The registrars, it is under
stood, followed the law which re
quires them to register only men
who have paid tuxes within two
years, or can make an affidavit that
they lost their receipts.
The soldiers who were in the army
for t\*o years or more were exoner
ated in most instances, officials say,
and while under an old act they can,
upon payment of a small tax, vote,
it is said the tax should lie paid at
least thirty days preceding the date
for registration.
1 be Commissioners learned of the
question confronting the registrars
when telephone calls were received
at the office. They said that anyone
whom the registrars would not en
roll should appeal to them within
five days and they would then ask
for an opinion on the laws.
The following registrars were ap
pointed to-day to till vacancies:
William F. Lutz, Fourteenth ward;
George W. Hargest, Tenth ward,
First precinct; W. ,T. Earp, Fourth
ward, First precinct; Amos G. Blot
tenberger, Sixth ward, Third pre
cinct.
CITY'S HOUSING
PROBLEMS TO BE
TOLD BY EXPERT
Joseph G. Leland Will Ad
dress Chamber of Commerce
in Penn-Harris February 14
The Harrlsburg Chamber of Com
ftnerce campaign- for better housing
will recblve an impetus Friday noon,
February 14, when Joseph G. De
land, third yic-e-prosident of the
United Stutes Housing Corporation,
will address a membership meeting
in the Penn-Harris ballroom, on the
subject of "The Nation's Part in In
dustrial Housing."
The speaker will be brought here
under the uuspiees of the housing
committee of the Chamber, of which
J. Horace McFarlund is chairman.
The meeting will be held In con-
Junction with the conference of the
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'FAMILIES FLEE
FROM HOMES AS
FLAMES SPREAD
■ Two Houses in Julia Street
Destroyed by Fire Which
Started in Stable
Two families lost their homes and
more than a thousand dollars dam
age was caused to household goods
and properly in a fire which start
ed in the stable of Harry Herman,
[Continued oil Page (!.]
fT
Harrisburg—George W. Coles, Philadelphia, has be;
I <f x
A retained as one of the attorneys to look after the interests oj,
T of the commonwealth in connection with the estates of Si
5- IP
j persons in insane hospitals pay for their supper
T . WILSON.CABLES GRATITUDE
j Washington—President Wilson, in a cablegram rc
jT reived to-day by Representative Padgett, of Tennessee, T
I ji chairman of the House Naval Commttee, reaffirmed his '(i
approval of a second three-year naval building program. ,T
T. I'he President cablied: "May I not express my gratifi- *
3 l¥*
cation and gratitute.apd congratulations at the unanimous ,JB
® * '-port on the three-year naval program?"
500 RAIL MEN MEET T
• ***
X v Chambersburg—The Cumberland Valley Railroad 4*
X Federation of Labor held a meeting here last night with 'X
4 500 men preesnt from all along the line.. N. M. Jones, of ®
A *£
X Harrisburg; C. T. Foster, Columbus. Ohio; W. F. Her
T sbey. Pitcairn, and others spoke "No reduction of wages fl n
T or increase of time was the text." * P:
T
£ 0
T LONDON LINES TIED UP . jj j
|4 .London—There was no improvement to-day in the •'
j T strike situation in London. All the tubes and under-
T rOU " d * ine * exce P t Metropolitan, which has only one J *
line running'into the city, were still tied up. 4®
3 , YANK STRENGTH OVERS r\S ON NOV. 11 T
jfr Washington—On November 11, the American army X
X in Europe was composed of 80,342 officers and 1,868,474 .J
T nen. whil e1j162 officers and 21,072 men were at se.i w
§ en route for Europe.
$ STEELTON MUTUAL IN TROUBLE .4®
<L
X Harrisburg—The attorney general's department to-day
T cite <3 into court the Steelton Mutual Fire Insurance Com *jj[
pany, of which F. E Smith is president and Christian *>&
Hess secretary, <: being in unsafe conditions and tho X
T court gave the c mpany until Feb. 19 to show cause why ,4*
it shculd net be declared insolvent and it- affairs wcur. ! ®f
Up. It .was chart; - 1 March 25, 1903. X
| MARRIAGE LICENSES f
! Henry 1„ Woodlnnd and Cloretla E. Powell, Philadelphia.
INTOXICATING
LIQUOR! WHAT
IS IT? THAT'S
THEQUESTION
"Dry" Leaders Arc Prepared
to Fight Every Beverage
and "Medicine" Which Con
tains a Trace of Alcohol
TWO PER CENT. BEER
NOT TO BE TOLERATED
| No Chance to Be Left For Tip
plers to Drink "Bone Lini
ment" When" Kick" Is Elim
inated From Everything
"What is intoxicating liquor?"
That is the prime question being
asked, high and low, far and wide.
Will it be possible when prohibilion
is in sway, to get some beverage
with just a "teeny" bit of alcohol
in it?'
The question arises because of the
wording of the dry amendment to
the federal constitution. The amend
ment porhibits the manufacture, sale
and importation of "intoxicating
liquors." This wording leaves it up
to Congress and the legislatures of
the several Btates to define what is
meant by "intoxicating."
All Alcohol to Go
This seething discussion was
touched on in Harriaburg to-da>
with no uncertain word by Dr. John
Royal Harris, state superintendent of
the Dry Federation, who directed ths
"dry" campaign in Pennsylvania and
who was interviewed at his apart
ment at the Penn-Hairis.
"All alcohol will be eliminated lu
[Continued on Page 15.]
K. of C. Secretary Dies
in France of Pneumonia
Paris. Feb. s.—William James
Riley, of New York, a secretary in
the Kniglits of Columbus, died Satur
day of pneumonia. Mr. Riley was
buried in the American military cem
etery at Suresnes.