Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, February 07, 1919, Image 1
■ . . . - * ' T--7- ■- ' ■ Bfemen in Throes of Insurgent Uprising; Civilians to Be Disarmed For Safety of Weimar 4:I.:Mly : - HARRISBURG Ill Spill TELEGRAPH M . , ®lje 81ar-3n&cjJcn&cnl. r . 1 T- •■■■• a- LXXXVIII — No. 32 22 PAGES Dal £a?t x . e r'S* T.*£Z.t HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1919. HOME EDITION TERRITORIAL TANGLES IN PEACE PROGRAM PRECEDE FORMING OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS; EBERT SINGS HUN SWAN SONG AT WEIMAR Powers May Merge to Control Acts of the Peace Conference COMMITTEE SITS TO HEAR CLAIMS Russian Puzzle Now Before Body at Paris By Associated Press Paris, Feb. 7.—The Al lied premiers, who will meet this afternoon as the Supreme-allied War Council, probably new terms to be imposed upon Germany- whose tactics of obstruction and ic c.rimination are said to have reached a climax in a threat made at Weimar by Chancelloi Kbcrt that Germany wou'ld break off negotiations With the Allies. The feeling in peace confer ence circles is that the Germans arc more and more forgetting their position, and it is expected that the Supreme War Council will take measures to bring them to a sense of the realities. It is understood that the coun cil will fix a brief time within which the Germans must carry out the conditions they have ful filled only in part. In this re spect it is noted that none of the German merchant ships which were to have been % sent to cer tain Allied ports have yet been handed over. Paris, Feb. 7.— Substantially one-half of tlic draft of the con stitution for the Society of Na tions has been covered by the chief conference commission dealing with this question it was olliclally announced to-day. In approving a number of addi tional articles of the draft the _ commission reached an accord, it is stated, on certain questions of tlie greatest importance con cerning the positive functions of the league. The acceptance of these ad ditional articles was provisional. The commission lias appoint ed a general secretariat, con sisting of M. Cluscl, Lord Eustace Percy, of the British foreign office, and Mr. Shcp herdson. Premier Venizelos, of Greece; Premier Kramars, of Jugo slavia; M. IJmowskl, of Poland, and M. Diamond)', of Ruinaitlu, sut as members of flic league of nations commission representing their respective nations. William Allen White, of Kin poriu, Kan., nnd Prof. George Davis Hcrron have been appoint ed the American' delegates to the Marmora conference with the Russian factions. Paris, Feb. 7.—The number of territorial conflicts now making their appearance in peace con ference circles is attributed in some quarters to the prospects of an early realization of a So ciety of Nations plan which will in volve the examination of all such claims by a legal tribunal of the society for adjudication with due regard to the wishes and welfare of the inhabitants of the districts in dispute. Combine May Rule Conference The community of interest of some nations in certain questions has led to hints of co-operation between those nations to make up a majority in the conference. Gossip in the corridors even mentions threats of resistance to any decisions adverse to those interests. The special com mission working on the Society of Nations plan is not moved by these rumors, and is going about its work quietly but rapidly. Hears Claims Patiently At the same time the Supreme Council, in short daily session, con tinues its policy of hearing patiently [Continued on Page 10.] I THE WEATHER. / Fop HnrrUburn and vicinity t Fair to-nlKht nnd Saturdny; not much chnnKc In temperature. lowcNt to-night ahout 28 <Jc- Krceffi. For Hantcrn Pcnnnylvanln t Fair 10-nl|(ht "nd Saturday, little chanter In temperature; moder ate west wind, becumlnir vxiri nlilc. Itlver The Susquehanna river and all Ita branches will fall slowly except local rlsra may occur, dnr to Ire A singe of about 4.H frrt fa In dicated to* lie rrtsburg Saturday morning Something Tells Us That We'll Never See Our Little Arabella Again jj || | ' jj I 50,000 MEN TO BE RELEASED FROM PENNSY EMPLOY Only Sixteen Crews in Local | Yards Laid Off by the New Order Just how many men of the Phil- j adelphia division in- general and i Harrisburg in particular will be in cluded in the order for a wholesale layoff of 50,000 employes of the Pennsylvania lines cast of Pitts burgh, officials at the local offices were unable to say this morning. The date the number indefinitely suspended has been rather incon- I siderable, the officials affirm. But a total of approximately 300 men have been released. It will be sev eral weeks until it will be known exactly how many men are to go and I before the greater number of them I will be released. Few railroaders from Harrisburg have been thrown out of employ ment as yet in the extensive re trenchment order that is anticipat ed. While sixteen crews in the sev eral yards in this territory have been taken off, the men have been placed on the extra list, where they [Continued on Pago 21.] Sea Planes Drop Edict on Monarchist Stronghold T.ishon, Feb. 7;-—Two sea planes of J the Portuguese republican . forces | have dropped proclamation on: Oporto, the monarchist stronghold,! and returned safely to Aveiro. They' bombarded and damaged the rail - • way from Kspinho to Granja. A battalion of volunteers, com posed mostly of students and em ployes of business houses has left Insbon to fight the royalists in 1 lie north. Several warships left the capital to-day for northern waters. All wagons and horses in Usbon are being mobilized. BIG HOT 18 SOI.l) Sale of a plot of ground 180x159 feet in Green street north of Wood bine from John E. Fox, president of the Mechanics' Trust Company, to William J. Sohland. realty dealer, was made public to-day when the deed was filed to he recorded. No consideration was given. The city assessed valuation of the ground is $B,lBO. MINIMUM SCHOOL l YEAR OF EIGHT ! MONTHS URGED ! Governor Sproul Pledges His Aid io State's Educa tional Forces j Consolidation of rural schools j i was endorsed, the Legislature was! requested to raise the minimum! school term to at least eight months, approval was given to ah amend-1 ment to the Sqhool Code providing! for education of mentally deficient I children and.a special appropriation! of $10,000,000 for increase In! I teachers salaries was backed In reso- | lutions passed at the closing ses-1 sions of the twenty-fourth annual convention of the Directors Depart [Contiiiucd on Page 11.] WHAT WILL HARRISBURG SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SALOON? Younger Men W ill Never Miss the In toxicants, but Will Take to Other Amusements, Say Men Who Have Studied Problem in Dry States What will Harrisburg substitute for the saloon? With the passing of what is gen erally termed the greatest evil civili zation has ever known nearly at hand this question has come to the front in the minds of millions of per sons throughout the country. Wheth er supporters for or battlers against the rum traffic, it is generally con ceded here that not even the war it self will have the far-reaching effects that the prohibition is to meet with. The substitution must bo more of an abstract problem than the con crete changing from one thing to an other, it was generally agreed. Thus the home was suggested most fre quently as the best place for the drinking man to spend his evenings. Jt was pointed out that the money ! DEMOCRATS IN OLD-TIME ROW NOMINATE FRITZ Holstein Works in Vain to Name Aldingcr For Senate | The Democratic county commit ! tee had an old time row this ! afternoon at the Central Derno- I cratlc Club over the nomina | tion of a candidate for the Senate | to oppose Frank A. Smith, who was I yesterday unanimously chosen by | the Republicans as their candidate. I L. Vernon Fritz, secretary and treas urer of the llarrlsburg Boot and , Shoe Manufacturing Company, was finally named. Howard Holstein nominated Fred D. Aldingcr and made a hard light for him but the vote stood 28 to 10 in fuvor of Fritz and was then made unanimous. 7 WHAT? Witli the closing of the sa loons, probably July 1. the qucs j tion as to what Harrisburg will J substitute for them now is upper- I most in the minds of thousands. What will take the place of the , brightly-lighted place of congre gation frequented by thousands? That the drinking man will substitute the home for the ho tel is the opinion of many. The 1 man who formerly spent his* | evenings in front of the bar now will stay at home with his fam ily and the problem will solve itself, many believe. Younger men and youths who have not formed the habit will never miss the doubtful pleasure. For these the Y. M. C. A., the church, tli? decent club, the I theaters and community centers : are suggested. The Telegraph would be glad j to hear from any reader on the i question. ! spent by many a man for intoxicants I if placed with a building ard loan I association would in a remarkably | short time give liim a home of his i own. The Y. M. C. A., the movies, "Old Order Gone," Says Premier j a t National Assembly GREETING NEW TO DELEGATES Pleads For Unity and Order at Beginning Weimar, Feb. 7.—The old order in Germany has gone be yond recall and the people are determined to rule themselves, declared Friedrich Ebcrt, the chancellor, calling the National Assembly to order here yesterday afternoon. "We will call on the old German spirit of Weimar," he said. "We will be an empire of justice and truth." The chancellor opened the pro ceedings of the assembly at 3.15 o'clock. He was received with ap plause as he advanced for the cere monial. In,opening he addressed the assemblage as "ladies and gentle men" —a form of address never be fore heard in a German legislative body. The chancellor's speech was an earnest appeal for unity and un tiring labor. The assembly, 397 members of which were present, adopted the old standing orders of the Reichstag as temporary rules of procedure. The assembly will meet again to-morrow. Basle, Feb. 7.—Chancellor Ebert in his address to the German Na tional Assembly at Weimar yester day said: "The conditions of the armistice have been of unheard of severity and were carried out without shame. We warn our adversaries not to push us too far. "Like General Winterfeldt (who resigned from the armistice com mission), the whole German gov ernment might also eventually bo forced to renounce from collaborat ing in the peace pourparlers and throw upon our adversaries all the weight of responsibility for the new world organization. "Confident in the promises of President Wilson, Germany laid down her arms, .and now we await the peace of President Wilson, to which we have a right." Guilty Germans Held to Public View to Stop Minor Offenses of Troops Coblonz, Feb. 7. —The names of all Germans convicted of violations of army regulations in territory oc cupied by American forces are being published in German newspapers, together with the address of each, the offense charged and the fine or sentence imposed. Publicity was de cided upon as being likely to pre vent s an increase of minor offenses such as selling liquor, or Imitation liquor to soldiers. ARRESTED AS NUISANCE Antonio Bartello was given a hearing in police court to-day up on the charge of insulting women while he was under the influence of liquor. lie was arrested by Walter Thompson, driver for the Washing ton Fire Company, at Chestnut and Second streets last night. DUKE OF ST. MACRO DIES By Associated Press Madrid. Feb. 7. The Duke of" Santo Mauro, master of the queen's household, is dead, it is announced here to-day. The Home Is Most Fre quently Mentioned as Best Place For Drink ing Men to Go With the Closing of the Rum Traffic J the theaters, decent clubs, commun ity centers and gymnasiums all were i suggested. ■ Tlit Home Suggested i The Rev. B. 11. Niebel, In a letter ] to .the Harrisburg Telegraph, writes: j "Now that the saloon is ncaring | the end of its history, some people jare dismissing the question of a sub j stitute for that dying institution. We J suggest THE HOME as the best sub stitute. The saloon has been the I enemy of the homo and thousands ; of homes have been robbed of peace ; and happiness by the work of the i saloon. Should not the first thought jbe to restore this great loss? Why i must we conclude that nowthe hus band. the father or the son must have some other rendezvous as a substitute for the saloon? Bhall the mother, with perhaps a flock of lit -I.Continued on Pace 10.J OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS IS LABOR'S PLEA Great Brotherhoods Recom mend That Government Take Over All Lines SEEK TO SHARE PROFITS Cheaper Financing Possible Under Federal Plan, the Union Men Declare OPPOSES POLITICS RAN Intimates Opposition Will Cease With Leave to Partici pate in Campaigns By Associated Press Washington, Feb. 7. Railroad labor interests to-day proposed gov ernmentownership and private opei - ation by one large corporation, co operatively organized and sharing profits with employes as their so u tion of the railway problem. j Testifying before the Senate In terstate Commerce ' Commission on behalf of the four leading trainmen s , brotherhoods and othy employes organizations, Glenn E. Plumb, of Chicago recommended that the go ernment acquire all railroad prop erty at a price fairly representing the physical valuation and the operation to a corporation to be ■ directed jointly by e, " plo y cers and the government. Earnings 1 would be divided equally among ero j ployes and the government and rate , would automatically he reu Hf®" i I when prolits amounted to more than ' a This P*an it was argued .would | 1 provide cheaper flnanctng.givest j btlity of income to securlty ojvncra i promote efficiency of i railroad operation "from' partisan Si rates at a minimum, eliminate com plications in rate schedules and pro vide a means of making communi ties benefiting by extensions pay for them. The corporation would be | subject to regulation by the state Commerce Commission which would retain its present regulating '"The brotherhoods objected to the railway executives' proposal for es tablishing a secretary of transpor tation, saying this would constitute 1 "regulating the people in the in terests of capital. They also pro tested against the railroad adminis tration's order forbidding railway employes from taking part in poli tics. arguing that the solution of the railroad problem is a political issue and that employes are entitled to participate. Mr. Plumb suggested organization of an operating corporation where operating ability constituted its sole capital. President Is to Name Commission to Adjust After-War Price Scale Wasliington, Feb. 7. —President Wilson has been asked to name ■* commission of industrial leaders and government representatives which will have the power to investigate and suggetss a scale of prices for basic commodities at which the gov ernment will buy during the post war period. Secretary of Commerce Redfield announced to-day. The step was taken after confer ences of producers and labor repre sentatives and government officials who were unanimous, the secre tary said, in recommending it. Lieut. George Kunkel, Jr., Recoters From Gassing First Lieutenant George Kunkel, Jr., son of President Judge and Mrs. George Kunkel, 601 North Front street, has recovered fully from be ing gassed in the drive in the Ar gonne forest sector, which began September 26 and lasted eight days. At the time he was attached to the Three Hundred and Eleventh Ma chine Gun Hattalion, in charge of a platoon of forty men. The battal ion was assigned to assist the Three Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment and was located at Dead Man's Hill during the drive. Lieutenant Kunkel was in the hospital for six weeks, but from re ports received here now has been placed in the class for active service again by thp surgeons in charge. STRIKE IS ENDED By Associated Press London, Feb. 7. — The strike of railway workers, which threatened to tie up England's transportation system, is to-day cracking up with the return of thousands of men to their old posts. Government agen cies believe the crisis in the labor unrest, with which they have wrestled during the past several weeks, has passed. SHORT CIRCUIT RINGS ALARM AT BIG STORE An alarm of fire from Box 221, at Fourth and Market streets, at 1.45 o'clock thiß afternoon, which .rung when a wire in the auxiliary box at Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart "short circuited," quickly brought a big crowd to the vicinity. The wire was fixed immediately. BRISTOL WORKERS STRIKE By Associated Brass Philadelphia, Feb. 7.—About five thousand iron workers employed by the Merchant Shipbuilding Company of Bristol, Pa., struck to-day. Prac tically all work at the yard is tied up as a result. An official of the company said the strike Is part of an effort to unionize the plant. DUSSELDORF IN BIG "WALKOUT" Berlin, Feb. 7. —The whole city of Dusseldorf lias "walked out." Officials, clerks and other employes in the service of rail- I ways, posts, telegraph, telephone ; and service lines; bankers, law- ' yers, physicians, school teachers | and ther people engaged in pro- ■ l'essions have quit work. The 1 employes on all public service i lines are striking in keeping I with the threat to the executive council of the communistic gov ernment to call a general strike of all Bourgeois classes if their demands were not granted. Theaters and restaurants are forced to close, as they are with out service. Big industrial plants have shut down, as office forces everywhere have joined in the walkout. This unique pr?i M t is the first of Its kind to be applied on a big scale as a retaliation against Spartacan terrorism. SLAYER OF CHILD WIFE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER Jury Would Have Let Hus band Off With Light Sentence Chumlirrsburg, p a ., Feb. 7. After deliberating for seventeen hours the jury in the trial of Rus sell Potter, of Waynesboro, charged with the murder of his girl wife, fourteen years old, this morning brought in a verdict of manslaughter at 10.30 o'clock. The tragedy which occurred on [Continued on Page 16.] WIFE CHARGES CRCEETY In divorce court to-day, the case of Edith Mullen vs. Daniel Mullen was heard. It was alleged that the husband treated his wife almost in humanly, kicking her out of bed with a ten-month-old baby and abus ing her while she was mourning at her mother's funeral. The couple were married in March, 1909. The case of Mamie Brooks vs. Nelson Brooks was also heard. ;j NEW SCHOOL V J J 4 ' risburg—Dr. F .E. Downes, city acho< * * <* t ► , , idcnt, made important recommendations to , * * board this afternoon concerning changes m the super J* 4 n visory plan to become effective in Sfcptembcr whe ► 1 * new junior high schools are opened. tj * 4 * BRETZ DISBARRED BY COURT ! * ► , Harrisburg—The Dauphin County Court this after- * —U M | e I ® oon disbarred Harry M. Bretz and filed opinion | t taining two of the four convictions. • ► 4* * * n JOHNSON'S EFFORT VOTED DOWN IN SENATE [ < Washington—Another effort to-day by Senator John * * < II son of California, to secure Senate consideration of his ♦ > |l resolution favoring immediate withdrawal of American , 3 4, from Russia ended in failure by a vote of 37 I 1 " I* * Paris Secretary of State Lansing In a statement i* 1 < ,ued to-day says that the government of th I ' t * States welcomes the union of the Serbian, Croatian and * * | t 4* Sloevnian peoples. <4 dm ALL SEATTLE<WALKS TO WORK . Seattle, Wash.—Seattle to-dajr started its se J jj 4> f a geenral srtike by walking to work, no attempt h * * IX > T been made yesterday or last to operate tht tre > 4 irs, which have been idle since the union en. i S X icm to the barns yesterday and joined the fho * ' T other workmen who walked out yesterday. * ■ 1* X 4 . CLARK'S MINERS WALK OUT X X Butte, Mont.—The entire day shift of the IrOr i i t T mine, owned by former United States Senator Cl ir mini- S bering about 250 men, walked out this morning jT m X of he reduction cf one dollar a day in wages th.it vent .H 1 ! Tjj. into effect in the Butte district to-dav. \ju X REDS SHELL AMERICAN POSITIONS -Jj T Archangel—The American positions on the rivar Vaga, tjR 4* at which an infantry attack by the Bolshveiici on my 3 •jot mi T was repulsed, were under heavy shell fire from X shevik artillery to-day. The other sections cn the n hern T| front were quiet 23 I MARRIAGE LICENSES | 4* ("Mite W. KkciMle and Ida Oerlarh, Altonaa. h DUI, T gi i nil i mm >•>•♦♦♦♦ HJMiK lai SPEED UP WORK ON CAPITOL PARK, SAYS GOVERNOR Memorial Bridge and Office i Buildings to Be Erected at Once IMPRESSED WITH PLAN'S No Time Wasted; Will Ask Legislature For Money at Once WILL WIDEN STREETS Landscaping of Park Exten sion Also to Be Undertaken Without Delay Pennsylvania's Legislature wilt be ; asked to make early appropriations for starting not only the improve | ments In Capitol Park contemplated |in the Brunner plans, hut for the j Memorial bridge to the soldiers and j satlors of the Keystone state in the war for two office buildings in the land acquired the last four years for extension of the park. Governor William C. Sprout last everi j ing announced that he approved the comprehensive plans, but that he ' wanted to start work. ( The Governor said that he was I impressed with the plans, and con [ Continued on Page 16.1 Traffic Blocked When Trolley Car Jumps Track Traffic on the Third street and State street lines was blocked near ly half an hour shortly after noon to-day when Third street car No. Sin going cast in Third at Walnut street, "picked the switch," the front truck turning into Walnut toward Second, and the rear wheels, continuing on down Third street. Policeman Brine and a pedestrian were knocked down by the car as it swung across the traffic at the corner, blocking all the tracks. A Penbrook Square ear was attached to the derailed Third street car and after much work pulled it back onto the rails.