Official Figures Place Staggering Cost of Biropean War at $179,000,000,000; Britain Pays Most , • • 4 I • I HARRISBURG frffigsll. TELEGRAPH' I.XXXVIII- No. 39 16 PAGES D * ,, S,?.7K; a K., HARRISBURG. PA. SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1919. •"SWSSBB fSaKWS EM Wffl 1 HOME EDITION WILSONS START ON VOYAGE HOMEWARD; TO LAND AT BOSTON Transport George Washington Starts on Trip to United States From Brest at 11.15 O'clock Today DEPARTURE FROM PARIS MADE IN DRIVING RAIN AT NIGHT By Associated Press Brest, Feb. 15. —President Wilson left on his return to the united States on board the U. S. S. George Washington shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. The George Washington weighed anchor at 11.15 o'clock. The President arrived at Bresi went direct to the dock, where h which took him and his party to Received by Naval Chief The President was received at the* Brest arsenal by Admiral Moreau, of the French army. General Hel mick, the military commander of Brest. Charles M. Swab, and civil officials. There was no ceremony except for handshaking and a sa lute of 21 guns which thundered forth as the President embarked on the gunboat. From the railroad siding to the dock were drawn up a battalion of American soldiers, and a French marine band played the "Star Span gled Banner" as the gunboat left its moorings. All the ships in the harbor displayed the American flag and all traffic was suspended while the President's party was transfer red to the George Washington, l'rcncli lTovlde Naval Escort A French naval, escort consisting of the cruiser Conde and several tor pedoboats acted as a guard of honor for the George Washington. This escort, with the American battleship New Mexico, will escort the Presi dent out to sea and then return. The New Mexico was accompanied by four American torpedoboats. Georges l.eygues. the French minister of ma rine and Andre Tardieu. French high commissioner to the t'nited States, accompanied the President on board the George Washington to bid hint good-by. Franklin 1). Koosevelt. American , assistant secretary of the navy, ar rived in Brest shortly before the ' President boarded the George Wash ington, and was taken aboard the , liner on special naval craft. The i weather was misty and cloudy with a moderate temperature. When the President alighted from the train he was smiling. He shook hands with Admiral Moreau, Gen eral Helmick, Admiral Ilalstead and Mr. Schwab. The President talked for a few minutes with Mr. Schwab. Mrs. Wilson smiled as she followed the President and received from a M. l.eygues a handsome bouquet of flowers. M.s. Josephine Lewis, of Cincinnati, presented the President with a bonquet of violets which he i accepted with a bow. \\ sit cs to Crowds After exchanging greetings, the President stood on the gunboat and waved to the crowds on the dock and those assembled on the em bankments high above the quay. The mistiness of the weather hid the gunboat from sight soon after it left the dock, but the President con tinued to wave his hat and smile as the boat headed toward the George Washington. The President was ac companied on board the gunboat by Ambassador and Madame Jusserand and by Representatives Helvering. White and Norton, who have been in France for several months. David It. Francis, the American ambassa dor to Russia, and his son and daughter also were members of the party. The President spent just fifteen minutes at the quay. He passed along the line of those assembled to greet him and shook hands with each one. Reaching the end of the line, he descended the stairs to the deck of the gunboat and then as sisted Mrs. Wilson to descend. Sea Calm at Start On the arrival of the presidential party on board the George Wash ington there was little formality ex cept for handshaking with M. Ley gues and M. Tarlieu, the orders be ing for the George Washington to get under way as soon as the party and its baggage had been received. The sea was calm as the gunboat made its way to the George Wash ington. Grateful for Hospitality In a farewell message to the French people before leaving Brest to-day. President Wilson said he had been received and treated as a friend as he had most desired to be treated. He added that he would be happy to return to France to as sist in completing the just settle ments of the Peace Conference. The President's statement reads: "I cannot leave France without expressing my profound sense of the great hospitality of the French peo ple and the French government. [Continued on Page 2.] THE WEATHER For Ilarrlsburg and vicinity) Snow this afternoon and to night; Sunday fairs roldrr to night and Sundnyt loncat tem perature to-night about 30 de gree*. For Knntrrn Pennsylvania) Snow In north and west; snow or rain In southwest portion to-night) colder) Sunday colder and fnlr, rteept light snow in north por tion) west and northwest winds becoming fresh to strong. , Stiver The main river and the lower por tions of the North and West branches will rise) the Jnnlntu and the upper portions of the North and West brnnhrs will ,hU or to-night. The lee in the tkr mung river, at Corning, has TH V t. "."'l °f "hoot 4.3 In Indicated to p Harrtn burg Sunday morning. from Paris at 10.30 o'clock and : embarked on a French gunboat the George Washington. WARNS ENTENTE AGAINST UNJUST TERMS OF PEACE By Associated Press Weimar, Feb. 13. Philipp Scheidemann, the Chancellor in the new German government, showed himself able to handle conflicting demonstrations in the new National Assembly with no sign of being intimidated hy thd wildest opposition. No speaker since the meeting of tlio Nation al Assembly was opened has been so outspoken toward his oppon ents. One of the incidents of Ills speech was Ilia reference to Aus tria's desire to Join Ocniany. Ho sain "We desire no reluctant ad herents. and by the same token nobody wishing to join us should be prevented." There was almost a threat in his warning: "The Entente is able to force any kind of peace on Germany, but if it is an unjust peace, seventy piillion people in their hearts will never forgive or forget." WORLD'S MONEY AND TRADE BIG PEACE PROBLEMS Financial and Economic Re lations Torn by War Are (letting Attention SUPREME BODY ACTIVE Includes the Ablest Minds of America and Europe in * Membership By Associated Press Paris, Feb. 15.—With the subject of the League of Nations now out of the way for some time to come, the biggest problem before the Peace Conference at present is be lieved to be the readjustment of the world's financial and economic relations, which have been torn to pieces by more than four vears of war. Three different organizations have been created to deal with these sub jects. and they have been so hard at work while the conference has been struggling with the central idea of the League of Nations that already some of their conclusions are ready for considerations as soon as the conference is willing to re ceive the reports, although the last body created in this connection dates back only to February 8. Work of Great Importance This body is the supreme economic council. and its work is of the great est immediate importance. It has been charged temporarily, during the armistice period, to handle only such pressing questions as the dis position to be made by shipping; the abatement of the blockade, which has been holding back not only the enemy's industry but that of' neu trals: the distribution of raw ma terials, and, finally, those financial questions that require instant at tention. This council, which includes in its membership some of the ablest fi nancial and business minds of Amer ice and Europe, has been supplant ing the military officials who had been dealing with the same subjects. The Supreme War Council caused the economic council to be created because it was felt that these ques tions should be dealt with on the safe and sound lines of civilian ex perience. Expert Financiers at Hand Of more permanent value is ex pected to be the work of two other organizations created by the Peace Conference. These are the econo mic drafting commission and the financial drafting commission. They also include in their membership distinguished financiers from all the Entente countries. The economic drafting commission already has its report before the Peace Conferenc awaiting action by that body. It has undertaken to make practical application of the third of Presi dent Wilson's fourteen points, name ly that declaring for the removal as far as possible of all economic bar riers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all of the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. The problem involves the right of nations to discriminate between friends and foes in their trade rela tions and the property of continu ing the many special trade treaties [Continued on 2.J i;T ' M • WHISKY PILLS ON BOOTLEGGERS ! PUZZLE POLICEj A Pollet. a Bottle and Water Onlv Needs Savs Encr getic Salesman Tnternal revenue officials . and; I heads of the local police department are very much perturbed to-day over the question involved in the' sale of ""whisky" and '"beer" tab i lets. The problem is whether the , sale of such tablets is controlled by the internal revenue laws, the Brooks high license measure, or oth-; or legislative enactments whose pur- j pose is to control the sale of alco-; 1' holic beverages. "A pill is not a beverage." says the i energetic salesman who handled a ; few here this week "to see how 1 they'd go." "But 'booze is booze," ; say the authorities. With prohibition promised the country on July 1, the question is of ; considerable weight and the decision i | as to the control of the sale prom ' ises to have important bearing on | the happiness of many Harrisburg • ; ers. If the sale is permitted, Har j risburgers may experience little real 'hardship by what is a "threatening : j menace" to many of them, according! I to some of their effusive outbursts ] j on the matter. 1 [ As explained by the promoter of the sales of these little "joy-givers," j j the substitute will produce a quite | "satisfactory feeling." The sales j man put one of his pellets in a bot | tie, corked it up and shook it well. I Whatever the result was, it .looked , ! and tasted like a miserable grade of ' \ poor whisky. The beer tablet is an old one and j was extensively advertised before the i | Government stopped them. Local ! revenue men are ef the opinion that j | their sale will be prohibited by laws [ I with teeth in them. Baker Says Best Minds Wrestle With Question of Yanks in Russia Washington, Feb. 15.—Detroit clt \ izens, headed by Representative Dor- I emus of Michigan, who appealed to , Secretary Baker today to withdraw , American troepi from Xortnerp Rus . sii, were told that the best military i minds were dealing with thy quea . ! tion of reinforcing the expedition, if :! netci.wry, that there was no danger 1 | of the force being cut off from rglief, • I and that the question of withdrawal i could be worked out only in agree i . men: with the associated powers. CARGO CAHRIER'I/AIJiCHEI) Wilmington, Del., Feb. 15.—- The \ 4,300 ton steel cargo carrier Rock Island, was launced at 11.45 at the , Pusey and Jones shipyard here to day. This is the eighth of a Govern- ' ment order of fourteen boats. The \ ! Rock Island is 315 feet long forty , I four feet , beam and twenty-five feet i deep. Mrs. H. CJulmby Layman, of j waa the sponsor, . gtac-3nftepcnftfttl. Mis sent SUMAKO, JAPAN'S GREAT ACTRESS, TAKES HER LIFE By Associated Press Tokio. Feb. 15.—A sensation was created in Tokio when it be came known that Sumako, who had been regarded as Japan's greatest actress, had committed suicide on the last day of the new year holidays. The day and hour of her death marked exact ly two months from the death of Professor Shimamura, of Waseda University, who had given tip all —his wife, children, friends and his chair in the university—for love of the brilliant actress. Sumako had appeared as us ual the night before at the Yura kuza Theater. It is said she hanged herself with a scarlet silk sash. HIGHER SALARIES FORTECAHERSIS GIVEN BOOST County Directors Approve l Draft of Bill to Go Be fore Legislature . j Resolutions advocating a liberal . increase in the state appropriation i for teachers' salaries, favoring bills 1 i to pay expenses qf directors attend ' ing state and county association ses j sions, and advocating a law provid [ConUnued on Page 15.] BRETZ RESIGNS ! DIRECTORSHIP IN i SCHOOL BOARD j Former Vice President Severs; His Last Connection in Public Life Harry At. Bretz, disbarred attor ney. now serving a sentence in the I county jail on a charge of cmbezzlc i ment, has resigned as a city school i director. The resignation, dated ,| February 11, was received this , morning by Secretary D. D. Hammel j baugli. It reads: "I herewith tender my resigna , tion as a member of the Board ,of i Directors of the Harrisburg school district, effective at once." The resignation will be submitted at the Board meeting next Friday afternoon for action. A successor may be named at> that time. Mr. Bretz during much of the time that, he was under bail for court trial attended practically every School Board meeting or other sessions in j which directors were present. Un-J til December, at the annual election i of officers, he was vice-president of! Board, SUSPECT FACES FINGER PRINTS ON SAFE DOOR jMan Hold For Robbery Says Ho Found Candy in Alloy j The Bertillon finger print system , is expected to play a large part in determining the guilt or innocence j of William Knisely, aged 24, arrest | ed at a Washington street rooming , house by George Shuler. city detec | tive, on the charge of breaking into ; the wholesale confectionery estab ! lishment of N. Friedberg, 126 South | Second street, and rifling the safe j for fifteen gold watches valued at j S3OO, besides taking a number of I boxes of candy. Knisely was arrested through the j story of the robbery as recounted > in the newspapers, which declared I that the candy was missing. The ! proprietor of the boardinghouse in I which he had been staying for only i two days, saw a quantity of candy | in his room, informed the police anil I the arrest was made. Knisely admitted hiding the candy 1 at the rear of 304 River street, but | said he had previously found it. He j denied breaking into the store. De j tective Shuler has developed some ' finger prints on pieces of the glass | broken out of the door of the store, , through which entrance was gained ! and hopes to prove the guilt of his ■ prisoner with tbem. According to the police, the pa ! trolman on duty in Market Square saw Knisely a few minutes before the door of the Prack jewelry store. 23 South Second street, was broken in, and has identified him as the same man. WAVE OF CRIME HAS BIG CITY'S POLICE ACTIVE Four Holdups and Two Bur glaries in Gotham Added to Felonies By Associated Press. Xcw York, Feb. 15.—Four holdups and two safe burglaries were added to-day to tlie growing list of crimes which have kept the police of this city busy recently. Following upon the daylight robbery of the United States Shipping Board paymaster yesterday of $12,000 and the raid of two robbers on a Madison avenue jewelry store, a Brooklyn drug store and a saloon held up by robbers during the early morning hours to-day and several hundred dollars in cash taken. Two pedestrians were beaten and robbed. Burglars also operated during the night below the famous Fulton street ' deadline for crooks" and jimmied | the front door of a Broadway totiuc cocJst, robbing bis cash regUter. MILK PRICES ARE | DUE TO TUMBLE,! SAY DEALERS Market Nearly (Hutted Willi j Oversupply, According lo Retailers j DEMAND IS LESSENED j __ Tons of Skimmed Milk Is' Poured in Sewers by Manufacturers AFFECTS BUTTER COSTSj Reduction in Charge Would Mean Greater Consump tion by Public .Milk prices in Harrisburg are due to take u tumble soon as a result of the llrst surplus of milk in Harris burg for several years, milk ilea lets believe. Producers are receiving continually growing quantities of! milk from their cows for shipment! here and the product is now becorn- j ins a glut on the market, they say. j Just how soon a drop in the prices may be natlcipated it cannot he said, but city dealers feel certain that a' reduction may be expected within a [ short time. Altoona is preparing for: lowered prices before the end of this: month and it is an accepted rule I that llarrisburg milk prices tumble much earlier than they do in the Mountain City, one dealer told to day. Demand Is Doss The greatly lessened demand for] condensed milk is held to be respon-j sible for some of the surplus among milk dealers, fill X. Hershey, of] the Hershey Creamery Company re-' ] ports that there is but slight de-; tnand for this product at this time, either for domestic or foreign; trade. Much skim milk lias been utilized here for such manufacture,! but with the falling off of the de mand, one dealer is said to be daily! running five tons of skim milk down the sewers. The lowered prices, it is believed, will do much lo eliminate the sur plus product, for with milk retail ing at tliriteen and fourteen cents per quart, the amount consumed.in Harrisburg and the surrounding territory, has been greatly reduced. Butter, too, will likely be affected by the milk surplus. Already starting to fall in price, other big declines may be expected soon, was the belief to-day. "With present prices prevallnig, consumers are using the substitutes, and not until still further lowered prices come cfn the amount consumed be expected to be increased, dealers affirm. Greet Mrs. Roosevelt on Arrival in France Havre, Feb. 15.—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt arrived here yesterday on the French steamer La Lorraine. She was met by Lieutenant Verdier, of the stag of Andre Tardieu, French high commissioner to the United States, who placed at her disposal on behalf of the French government all civil *md military facilities for visiting the grave of her son, Lieu tenant Quentin Roosevelt. After visiting the grave, Mrs. Roosevelt will go to Italy to visit her sister. Miss Emily Carew. Mrs. Roosevelt was quite tired after a stormy voyage. ARMY DISCHARGES GROW Wosliington. Feb. 15. —Army dis charges in demobilization in the United States had reached a total yesterday of 1,174,545 officers and men and the total number assigned for demobilization was 1,501,000. Of those discharged, 71,235 were offi cers. TWO YANKS WOUNDED London, Feb. 15. —In a shooting affray between American naval men and negroes in Cardiff, two of the Americans were wounded, according to a dispatch to the Evening News from Cardiff. MOORISH I'RIXCE AFIRE London, Feb. 15.—The British steamship Moorish Prince, of 6,000 tons, is afire and making for the Azores Islands, according to a re port received by Llqpds to-day. SEEK MILLION OF DOLLARS TO AID STATE MOTHERS Much Legislation Proposed at Closing Session of the Welfare Conference Proposed legislation providing a Mothers' Assistance Fund of $1,000,- 000 was endorsed by speakers at a morning session of the State Confer ence on Social Welfare held in the Pertn-Harris Hotel this morning, it is proposed to introduce a bill to this effect in the State legislature. It will provide a fund for the aid of mothers who have dependent chil dren on their hands and who need assistance because their husbands have died In the influenza epidemic and at other times.. Cheny C. Jones, director of the Pennsylvania Division. American Red t'ross, was the chairman of the meeeting. He spoke on "Home Serv ice Practice." Miss Mary F. Boguc, state supervisor of the Mothers' As sistance Fund, Harrisburg, spoke. John v ates, general secretary of the {Continued on Pace 2.] j SWALLOWTAILS ! HAVE NO PLACE AT RECEPTION! LieuU'imnl - Governor Beitllc- ; man to Welcome Legisla- ! tors in City's Behalf | PROGRAM IS "VARIKD" L, „ i t.ol. (.overt Prepares Many! J "Stunts" For Chamber of Commerce Reception sSSHIH 1 W r / C. K. COVERT | • | Orders for "swallowtail suits" to t be left at home and the "glad hand" ; brought around have been issued to | the members of the Harrisburg i Chamber of Commerce by Colonel Charles E. Covert, chairman of the j committee of .the Chamber in charge I of the reception to be given at the Penn-Harris next Tuesday night to the state officials and members of the Legislature. The reception has been a biennial affair for more than [Continued on Page 2.] ' a2< iAb lAa •£( fe2* ift?.*(\fta n^ftinr/f.m aSf*imff m - icy* i *&*&"&* *4rTrTr^r*srnr TTTJT TjrT nr rff^nrTrTininirrTrTrV^nr^^ j *Bs*-v *Vr f SQUADRON AT CHERBOURG J, *2 X | A r hrrb urg. France—A Brazilian squadron consisting \P V IX OF THE cruiser Bahia and four destroyers arrived here fror- 4 assist in an-advisory capacity in the re-formation of ti J * X country's eelction law, it was announced to-day ► T ITALY PLANS AMNESTY DECREE */ T I * V Rome—On the occasion of the proclamation of tin 4 ► V * f constn uvion of the Society ol Nations, King VIT to. F.m. ;i T 1 military and politi ! ! * i v i+ —. t MARRIAGE LICENSES , At * * X Alfred C. S. Wnutk, Sn Cnmbc-rlaad. nml Aaaa 11. Dkklr, i , T* HnrrUburk! Kulwh S. (>atr tind l-'dnn A. M. l.lrkrf, Summrrdalr; X Trank H. Krltta, iHlllrmburß, and I.lllian f, I'rrkln*, Wllllatna- * * | ;; PLAIN HAUSFRAU IS FIRST WOMAN OF NEW GERMANY Wife of New President Is Ac customed to Performing Her Household Duties NOW LIVES IN PALACE Shift From Splendor of the Hohenzollern Dynasty Worries Some PROTEST AGAINST 'SHOW' Only Daughter of Chief Ex ecutive Recently Clerked in Berlin Shops Brrlln, Feb. 13.—The mistress of the German presidential residence is a comely, slender "hausfrau," who up to the present has always attend ed to her own household duties, done the family cooking and has even been her own dressmaker. Frau I-uise Kbert, wife of the pres ident of the new German republic, was born forty-five years ago in a workingman's home In Bremen. She views her new social environment with resignation. "I know we must be prepared for attacks from the right and the left," she said to-day in discussing the new position in which the Ebert family finds itself. "Those coming from the left probably will be the worst. They will charge us with at tempting to extricate ourselves from [Continued on Page 4.] Fehrenbach Chosen President of German National Asembly I.omlon, Feb. 15. —Konstantine Feh renbach. centrist, former president of the German Reichstag, has been elected president of the German Na tional Assembly, according to a Reuter's dispatch from Basle, quot ing Wetmer advices.