Spartc.ca.ns Renew Their Activities; Hun Rebels Overpower Military and Police and Take One City
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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 '
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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
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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
<F MATTHEWSON RETURNS HOME
jju New York.—Captain "Christy" Matthewson, former 4*
f -"d l|
j| manager of the Cincinnati baseball club, returned horn "5*
|m to-day cn the transport Rotterdam.
| J MAGEE TO PRACTICE HERE X
X Harrisburg.—' William A. Magee, former public serv-
I ice commissioner, and former mayor of Pittsburgh, ir
14, tends to resume the practice of law and will open mm
IX y
! X - ier e to specialize in cases before the commission of whic ***
I he was a member for several years.
I* . • X
|4 VACCINATION DISPUTE BOBS UP f
Chambersburg.—Directors of Montgomery township,
|4 Hml lui county, to-day brought suit against thirty 4 s
IX parents cn the charges they have kept their children T
|X of school. The suits were the outcome of fines imposed *r
4 upon two teachers last week for permitting the children-
to be in school without bping vaccinated. The parent
refuse to have the children vaccinated.
£
GREETS NEGRO TROOPS IN GOTHAM
X New.York.—Three thousand negro soldiers, compris- 4*
g ht _6 th ii.fantry, known as New York's own "black t
e| it *}■
i watch, marched through streets packed with cheering *t
t| citizens to-day to receive the citys' first official welcome
4 to returning soldiers. 4*
4 I it
e5 SIR WILFRID LAURIER DIES £
14* Ottawa.—-Sir Wilfrid Laurier, former premier of 4*
T f
!4 i. he his afternoon. *
! 7 4*
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*s?
it MARRIAGE LICENSES t
x X
and in the League of Nations, has
i achieved a great success, in the esti
j mation of its members. Satisfactory
I assurances have been given by Pres
ident Poincaire and Jules Cambon.
| one of the French delegates to tin
j Peace Conference, and by Foreign
: Minister llymans, of Belgium. l'rc
| niter Clemenceau, in addition, has
i promised to support a bill giving
| women the right of municipal suff
[ rage which is now- pending in the
j French Chamber of Deputies,
j Borden Scores Peace Ddaj
Premier Borden's speech here 011
I Saturday night, in which lie eriti
j cised the delay in consummating
i peace while the troops arc anxious
i to return to their homes, has made
jan undoubted impression here. Tim
same view is said to bo taken b>
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
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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."