Spartc.ca.ns Renew Their Activities; Hun Rebels Overpower Military and Police and Take One City HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Mk ... (fte olac-Jnsepcnscnt. ' LXXXVIII No. 40 14 PAGES !K a & t SKTJtia^EKSrf 1 "" HARRISBURG, PA.MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY'I7, 1919. tf HOME EDITION RAILWAY SHOPS CUT DOWN TO A 40-HOUR WEEK Several Thousand Men Arc Affected by Retrenchment on Pennsylvania Lines MEANS FIVE DAYS A WEEK Considerable Reduction in Payrolls Will Follow Cut in Time Forty-liour weeks for all shop employes, exclusive of those working in the engine houses, were to-day instituted on the Philadelphia di vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad. j Approximately 2,000 employes of the division, most of them residing in ' this city, at Luck now, Enola and j Marysville, arc affected by this rill- ; ing. The ruling is issued as part of the general retrenchment policy of the Pennsylvania Railroad now in oper ation. Shop employes, exclusive of those doing engine house duty, of all of the transportation company's lines cast of Pittsburgh, are affect- : ed by this ruling. The new order reduces the amount ! of time worked by these 2,000 shop- ' men from six to five eight-hour days, ■ and will produce a proportional re- | duction in the wages of the men. j This plan has been decided on as preferable to a reduction in the j number of employes at such a time when a considerable surplus of labor | already exists. With the reduction in the amount I of freight shipped over the rail- I roads,, the wear and tear on the ! rolling stock has been considerably j lessened. In consequence, a reduc- I tion in the number of shot l em ployes will not work to the disad- | vantage of the railroad and its stock. Rail Ownership by U. S. Not to Be Considered at Present Congress Session Washington. Fob. 17. All plans; for considering railroad legislation I at this session of f'ongress werej abandoned to-day by the Mouse in-i terstate commerce committee. An appropriation of $750.000,0001 for the operation of railroads under government conlrol was approved by the House appropriations commit tee. Former Dii'ectoi* General McAdoo j asked for that amount to be added I to the $500,000,000 revolving fundi provided for in the original railroad control act. Captain Parfet and Son Killed in Auto Crash Captain R. Walter Parfet and liis < small son, R. Walter Parfet, ,lr„ were killed yesterday in an auto mobile accident in Massachusetts avenue near Forty-eighth street in AVashington, while returning from church services. Airs. Parfet and a daughter, Mabel Parfet, wero seri ously injured. Mrs. Parfet is a daughter of Colo-j nel G. W. Simmers, formerly a resi dent of this city, but now an expert accountant in AVashington. A broth- ! or of Mrs. Parfet, H. AT. Simmers,; lives at 814 North Third street, liar-! risburg. She was formerly Miss! Mary Simmers and is widely known j In this city. Colonel Simmers is ill at his apartment. Wilson to Be Back at Peace Board by March 13 flv Associated Press Paris, Feb. 17.—The Temps - to day gives the date on which Presi dent AVilson is expected to arrive in France after his visit to the United I States. It is March 13, the news-I paper says. HOUSING COMMITTEE: MEETS ) The .housing committee of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce j was scheduled to meet in the cham- ] ber offlces at 4 o'clock this after- I noon, to effect a permanent organi zation for the future, ar\d outline its plan of action. The committee, of which J. Horace McFarland is chairman, plans to make an active campaign for better housing during the year. MONARCHISTS LOSE OPOHTO fly Associated Press, Lisbon, Feb. 17.—An official state ment issued by the Government to day announces the re-establishment of the authority of the republic in Oporto, which had been tlie center of the monarchist movement. The members of the monarchist govern ment have been nrrested anj their troops have either surrendered or been dispersed. I THE WEATHER] For llarriMtiurit nnd vicinity! Cloudy. probably light snow or rain to-night and Tucxdny. Con tinued cold to-night nltb lowrit temperature about !SO degree*. Slightly warmer Tuesday. For Etaatern I'ennaylvanla: Cloudy, prohnhly anuw or ruin to-night nnd TueadHy. Slightly wanner Tuesday. Gentle 10 modern ahlftlng winds. Hlvcr Tlie ninln river will continue (o rise slowly. The lower portion of the North branch will rise slowly to-night nnd full slow ly Tuesday. All other streams of the system will foil slowly or remain stationary. A stage of nhont 4.8 feet la Indicated for Hnrriaburg, Tuesday morning. Another Sweet Young Thing Disillusioned ' . _ ' t r WEEK OF MAY 5 SET FOR HEARING PARK APPEALS Disposition to He Made of Hardscrabble Cases Early in the Spring I With the approval of the court ; after City Solicitor John E. Fox and counsel for property owners had agreed, the week of May 5 was fixed to try the remaining Hardscrabble cases in which the city claims the right to assess benefits against prop erties on the east side of Front street because of the plan to re ! move the structures on the west side. At the last session of civil court, and for the session next week a num ber of these benefit cases were listed but it was agreed to continue them until the special session in May. It is likely the jurors for the Com mon rioas court of April 14 will be retained for the Hardscrabble trials. Upon motion of counsel for some of the property owners appealing from viewers awards of damages which resulted with street changes at the foot of Third street and the construction of the Second and Front street subways, it was decided to include probably four or more of those cases fob trial also during the week of May 5, so that questions of law can be argued after verdicts are returned, and the .court can then rule on the contested points. Thieves Break Into New Store Not Yet Open For Business; Loss Unknown Thieves broke into a rear window of the Ambu Electrical Service Sta tion. 239 South Cameron street, last night, and made away with a quanti ty of electrical supplies, which had been fthipped Into the new store in readiness for'the opening of business within a couple of weeks. C. E. St. Clair, manager, could not determine the amount of goods stolen today, but will await the making out of an inventory. The police have been notified. Entrance was gained through a window in the rear, which was broken open. The door between the rear room and the .office, which is In the front of the building, also was broken open, and the contents of the desk ransacked. There was no money in the ofTice, and the l°ss was confined to automobile accessories. Supreme Court Ruling Allows Register of Wills Sheehan to Keep $175,000 Philadelphia. Feb. 17. —The Su preme Court of Pennsylvania to-day sustained the Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia which decided that the act abolishing tecs in the office of the Register of Wilis of Phila delphia, is unconstitutional because it is class legislation. This means that James E. Rltee- i han. register of wills, will retain I about $1700.000 in salary and fcesl received during his two terms in tlio 1 office. J GERMANS ACCEPT ; NEW TRUCE PACT j fl.v Associated Press Copenhagen, Feb. ,17. Tlie German government on Sunday ! night accepted the Allied terms j for the extension of the armis- j tice, according to a dispatch to the Politiken from Weimar. The i meeting at which the acceptance ' was decided upon, the Politiken's I correspondent says, was attended | by leaders of the various parties, i —— PONTIFICAL MASS TO BE HELD FOR LATE BISHOP | Priests of Diocese to Assist! Bishop McDevitt Conduct Impressive Service Officials and priests prominent in. the Harrisburg Diocese of the Cath- | alio Church will officials at the , Solemn Pontifical High Requiem j Mass to be held in St. Patrick's' Cathedral to-morrow morning at 1 9.30 o'clock, in memory of tbe late ! Rt. Rev. J. AV. Shanalian, bishop of the Harrisburg Diocese, whose death 1 occurred three years ago. The Right Reverend Phillip R. McDevitt, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. will be celebrant at the mass. Others who will have charge are Fathers Peter S. Huegel and Joseph R. Murpliy, as deacons of honor; Fath er Daniel Carey, as deacon of the mass; Father AVilliam V. Dai ley, as subdeacon of the mass; Father Francis X. Feeser, master of cere monies, and Father Thompson, as assistant priest. The newly-organized choir, un der tlie direction of Joseph D. Brodeur, organist and choir leader, will render a program of special music. TEUTON PEOPLE FAIL TO REALIZE BURDEN Staggering Cost of War Has Not Yet Been Brought Home to Defeated Nation—Nation Askfed to Raise Greatest Loan Yet Attempted by Empire By Associated Press Weimar, Feb. 17.—The German people grencrally ilo not yet under stand clearly the financial situation in which the war has left them and they are too optimistic, declared Dr. Schiffer, the minister of finance, in an address to the German National Assembly to-day. He apparently us tonlshed the house when he grave the statistics to show that the war had cost 161,000,000,000 marks. Dr. Schiffer then asked the As WETS WILL MAKE ! LAST STAND FOR CAUSE TOMORROW j Labor Representatives Will Protest Before Law and Order Committee The liquor interests arc going to j make another stand against the | ratification of the national prohibi- I tion amendment in Pennsylvania to- I morrow when some liflior reprcsen | tatives will appear before tbe law I and order committee of the Senate and protest against tlie adoption by the Senate of the A'ickerman resolu tion ratifying tbe amendment. This effort will prove without avail be cause Senate leaders predict that tlie A'ickerman resolution will be re ported favorably by the Senate com mittee and passed by the Senate sometime next week finally. The House already lias passed tbe resolution—the vote being 110 to 93. Pennsylvania's action has no actual hearing on the ratification because that has already been accomplished in the nation and will become ef fective January 16. 1920, carrying (Continued on Page 13) REMONSTRANCES WITHHELD Until a late hour this afternoon no objections bad been filed "against petitions for liquor licenses which Will be heard by the court on Wed nesday and if 110 remonstrances are entered it will be the first time in the last few years that tlie court will not be required to conduct bearings. Only one new applicant is listed ap plying for a license for a place which last year the court refused to grant permission to sell intoxi cants. COUNCIL TO HEAR BIHL Following the regular council meeting to-morrow morning the hearing of charges against Victor If. Bilil, city patrolman, will be re sumed. Last Thursday when the case was started counsel for Bill! ! secured permission to have the hear- j ing continued until to-morrow so] that lie could get additional witness- | es for the defense. sembly to vote'll credit in the form or a loan for 25,300,000,000 marks, the greatest loan the German peo ple ever have been asked to raise. Ho explained that last October the government stood on the verge of financial exhaustion. It asked for a credit of 15,000,000,000 marks but when this was refused raised it by means of bank note Issues. The speaker was applauded when he re marked that truth and openness should be the basis of all - politics and finance. , CHURCHILL WANTS STING TAKEN FROM NEW INVITATION TO REDS TO MEET ALLIES IN CONFERENCE SPARTACANS SEIZE GELSENKIRCEN • By Associated Press licrlln. E\?b. 17.—Spartacan 1 troops from nearby towns march ed into Gclsenkirchcn. in Westphalia, early tills morning and overpowered tlie local military and police forcer, a portion of which went over to the Spartacnns. Tlie plundering of tlie city followed. The doors of houses were blown in with hand grenades and much booty was secured by tlie Spartucans, Tbe Gclscnkirelien banks and the city treasury had been warn ed in time und saved their funds. Tlie raiding Spartacnns came from Knttuiigcn and Wnttenscheid. Gclsenkirchcn is in tlie Westplialian mining region, six miles northwest of Bodmin. It lias a imputation or about 40,000. The telephone, telegraph and newspaper offices at Xurcmburg, Ravaria, have been occupicdby ,S|Mirtacuns, according to reports received here. POILUS WANT TEUTON CRUSHED BEFORE WAR IS ENDED BY TREATY French Realism Threatening Ties of Friendship Between Overseas Republic and United States; Deputy Damour Pleads That Babble Cease fly Associated Press ■ Paris, Feb. 17.—Under the caption, '•'Let Us Be Just to America," Dep-' uty Maurice Damour makes in Lej Journal a strong protest against "the! nationalism, as exasperating as it is' ridiculous, of certain of my fellow, Countrymen, which, if allowed to go! unchecked, is likely to aleniate our most devoted and most trusty friends. ETencli Are Skeptical "There are," he continues, "French i people who keep repeating to our' friends that if the armistice is eon-i eluded on bad terms, if the German | troops return with colors flying, if their defeat is not sufficiently brought! YANKS YEARN FOR HOME, OWEN SAYS ON RETURN HOME i "Brest Not Fit For Cattle to Live in," the Senator Declares , By .-lsjiociatcii Prrss New York, Feb. I".—United States I Senator Robert 1.. Owen, of Okla ' homs, wbo for the past two years I has been studying the reconstruction I program of the American army in ! France, upon his arrival here to-day lon the*steamship Rotterdam said: j "Brest is not lit for cattle to live in." Many of the soldiers there are suffering from melancholia, lie said, adding that, lie would recommend to the Senate Military Affairs Commit tee that they be brought home as soon as possible and that every care be given them when they return. Not Knotigli Sitips I There are "too many men and too few ships," at the debarkation camp, according to Senator Owen, who said that "despondency and homesick ness arc evident wherever one goes. Officers are doing their best, lie add ed, "to cope with the many difficul ties. one major committed • suicide while I was there. The government i must organize employment bureaus land get these soldiers back into civil I life as quickly as possible." Climatic Conditions Had, Senator Owen, who is chairman of i the Senate Committee on Banking i and Currency, and liis wife, who ac companied him attributed much of [the trouble to "bad climatic condi : tioivs," in Brest. They said they saw ! American soldiers standing in rain | and niud for hours waiting to get j their food. Personally they could not | themselves find a place to sleep. French Aviation Mission Coming Here to Exhibit Country's Flying Machines Paris. Feb. 18. On March 8 | a French aviation mission will leave - * j for the United States with the object | of demonstrating the degree of ef l ficiency the French airplanes have ! attained. The mission will take with i it five of the fastest machines that have been turned out. of various makes. One of the planes Is fitted with a closed cabin for the use of the Americans who have invited to accompany the mission, which will have fise of the noted French aces as pilots for the machines. The itinerary of the mission cov ers New York, San Francisco, Bos Angeles and New Orleans, with A re turn to Now York, the various stages being covered by air. The mission will take with it a collection of paintings and photographs, illustrat ing air episodes of the war. These pictures will be put on exhibition. nupni-Kw rr,iß wii.i. ENTERTAIN FRANK A. SMITH Frank A. Smith, Republican nomi nee for State Senator, will be the guest of the Harrisburg Republican j Club at a reception to be held Thurs day in the club rooms, 25 North Sec-I ond street. Mr. Smith, Bieutenant ' Governor Edward E. Bcidelman and i Auditor General Charles A. Snyder 1 will be the principal . speakers. | Buncheon will be served. I home to tlie Germans, it is because our practical, resolute realism clash , es with American idealism. They dc jclare that ttiis is the same idealism 1 which is preventing f.enine and < Trotzfty and the Bolshevik! generally ' from being crushed, which makes .the work of the eminent diplomats i assembled in the Qll.ll d'Orsa.v so in coherent and which is keeping in the background the question's of indemn | ities, reparations and territory. E'cars Misunderstanding "It is time," adds M. Damour. "to put a stop to this babble, which is I creating a serious misunderstanding 1 between America and France —two countries which have everything to I gain' by a closer and closer union." FAIR INCREASE i! IN BUILDING ! IS REPORTED ) J City Ranks With State Lead ers in New Work Begun by Contractors j Harrisburg, Alientown and Plrie the first of the third class cities -1 of Pennsylvania to show fair in s i creases in building operations dur ii I ing the first month of this year as i! compared with figures for January, V J 1918, according to a building rec | ord compiled by the American Con e J tractor. ;, j While other cities of similar size 0 in the state show big percentage in ~j creases in building operations the c j total value of the structures started -last month ranges below $12,000. j Jn Harrisburg during January 3 j there were thirteen permits issued j! for work costing $32,000, as • com pared with eight in 1918, for $17,- i. J 450. In Alientown last month nine -j permits were issued for structures costing $43,345, and in Erie there 3 j were sixty-three permits for work 'I to cost $117,034. Scranton, Wilkes -9jßarre-and Reading have records far lj below these for the first month of I the new year. . Situation Reviewed f| Significant facts are given in the ; .-review of conditions by the Anicr - jean Contractor which says in part: [j Tlte total value of building permits - j for January, 1910, as officially re r, ported from 152 of the principal i; cities of the United States is $23,- t. 869,215. As compared with previous 1 I years tlio total value shows a de i dine of 12 per cent, for the same l cities front Januury, 1918, and a decline of over 50 per cent, for about two-thirds as many cities re | porting in 1917 and 1916. Com j pared with normal years before the war one-half as many cities reported I j nearly twice u.4 much building in January. To these facts should be added the consideration that at pres ■•! 011 1 prices, total values rejyresent i only from one-half to ttvo-thirds the ! same amount of building as before . j *he war. If all of these factors ! are given due weight, it may be I safely assumed that actual build- ! ling during January, 1919, is only I I about one-quarter normal. | "Again, comparative analysis of; j the total value and the total num- | ber of permits granted in January i shows a decided change in the char- 1 acter of construction. From an i average value of about $4,000 in i January, 1910, and 1917, the ave- I rage value of permits in January, I 1919, declined to about $1,700. it is evident that for tho greater part construction is still confined to com paratlveiy small projects. There is Home encourugement, however, in the fact that building ( during January showed an improve j ment over December. Usually the ; reverse is true. The gain is only | a small one, but anything which may j tie taken us an indication of improve- 1 ! mcnt cannot be wholly disregarded i in these times." I Contractors and reality men in I , Harrisburg arc anticipating that tills ■ will establish a good record during I the spring months for new opera ! tions. Already a number of -per j mlts for dwellings have been issued I this month, and the usual amount of remodeling has been started. Russian Question Again on Paris Peace Table; Borden Scores Delay HUNS MUST REALIZE THEY . AHE BEATEN PIC HON S<4 YS fly Associated Press Earls, Feb. 17.—-Attention of tlie! delegates to the Peace Conference j will l'ocus 011 Russia to-day, the Su- | preme Council having decided that, ' as the time allowed for acceptance! of the invitation to the Prinkipo con- | ference bus expired, something else ! must be done. Suggests Invitation lie Renewed ! Winston Spencer Churchill, of Great Britain, has proposed that tlie invitation be renewed and that some I of the conditions that made the first invitation unacceptable to most of | the different Russian factions be I omitted, if the Supreme Council ae- | eepts this proposition, as seems pos-! sible, it probably will not insist thut : the conference be held at Prinkipo I Island. Instead of a general meeting of the representatives of Russian j factions, direct negotiations may he ' initiated, as commissions may be I appointed to get into touch with the opposing elements there. • It is scarcely expected that special commissions of the Peace Confer- i encfi which arc studying questions ; confined to tliem will he able lo sub- j mit reports to tlie full conference' this week, lint it is hoped that some I of tliesa reports will be ready for revision by the Supreme Council, which is still acting as a medium ; between the commissions and the 1 conference. Promises Women Recognition i The committee of the lnter-Al-< lied -Women's Suffrage Congress. 1 which has been Interviewing states men in search of support for Pres ident AVilson's plan to give women | representation in the conference 4* ■"sr❖4- *4- "M-M-M •^ M 4"Jr4"4 M 2"4"i-'3'^ jf*' 2! J GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER QUITS J # Basle.—Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the Germ .4* 4 foreign minister, has resigned, according to a Weir b 7 dispatch to the Vossiche Zeitung, of Berlin. There is i j p no confirmation from other sources. of® It ♦ |T BRITISH PEACE DELEGATE DIES |X Paris.—Lieut.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes, who came here .t &• ** T| with the Br.tish delegation to the peace conference, is dead following an attack of influenza. T X some American, while the British ! are not indifferent )o the demands lof their territorial eontingcnis, ! which are supported by the labor ! elements of England. Stephen Pichon, in discussing oh (Continued oil Page 13) HAMBt m; STOKI-: WOKKKBS POST PLAINT AMI QIIT Hy Associated Press Berlin. Feb. 17. —The strike of ilc | partment store workers in Berlin j has spread to Hamburg, where live j thousand em-ployes of shops and stores are on strike. The Hamburg j workers left their posts after placing • placards in the show windows de claring: "Our employers earn a mil- I lion a year; we are paid seventy-flvq, marks monthly."