_ -V - • • * " , , ■ : - < " , • ***' % 1 """ * ( ... "The Private Life of the Kaiser Opening Chapters of Great New Serial Today HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • ffljc otac-3ndc|icn&enl. . LXXXVIII NO. 53 16 PAGES ""kSSTt K?%t HARRISBURG. PA. TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1919. tfESSSKWK"" ' HOME EDITION BOOZE LOBBY TRIES TO KILL PROHIBITION Bills to Complicate Liquor Question Arc Presented by Representative Ramsey 'SHOOTING AT THE STARS' So Says Vickerman, "Dry" Leader, Who Predicts Attempt Will Fail dills that can have no other ef fect except to complicate the liquor question are scheduled for intro duction in the House possibly this week and likely by Representative AN illiam T. Ramsey, of Delaware county. The bills provide for the sale of beer and light wines. The alcoholic strength of the beer will be designed at five per cent, which pro vides considerable "kick" while the framers of the wine bill say it will contain 10 per cent, of alcohol, which would effectually restore the "sing ing" feature to that fluid. What is hard to understand in connection with the bills is that the J license to sell the beer and light j wines will be given under a law similar to the present Brooks high "cense law. That would be con tradictory to national prohibition which specifically prohibits the manufacture and sale of liquors. How the State could pass a law that i would l.e contrary to the national mandate is difficult to see but the liquor men say that they will be able to overcome that feature. They talk of the law and opinions and mysterious things yet to happen as substantiation for their activity. "Not Intoxicating" Mr. Ramsey says that nothing will he done to throw the privilege to sell beer and wines wide open, lie was told that where no right to sell liquor was given to designated per sons that every person would be sell ing it under the law that he hoped to see passed. Mr. Ramsey demur red strongly on that and declared hat only those given the "license to sell would be permitted to do so. He was then asked how any person could sell when the nation specifi cally prohibits that and countered with the remark that beer and wines would not be intoxicating. The reve nue service reeggflizea. as intoxicat ing any beverage in it and so the ramitieationshrthis pro posed legislation, from a legal stand point, begin to appear. Representative John W. Yicker man. leader of the dry forces in the General Assembly, professes not to take the proposed Ramsey bills seri ously. He says that Congress will pass enforcement acts for national prohibition and that those acts will be the laws under which the several States will operate. A recent com mittee action at Washington for one halt' of one per cent, of alcohol in beverages seems indicative of one trend of thought there and that would be counted to the contemplat < d action in Pennsylvania. The anti liquor forces claim that if the beer and wines that could be sold under the provisions of the proposed bills are not intoxicating, as the liquor in terests claim, that no license is need ed to sell them and the originally point recurs—why could not every person, if they so desired, sell these beers and light wines? "Shooting at the Stars" "Liquor men are shooting at the stars," said Representative Vieker man. "This proposition is a closed book and the manufacture and sale of liquor, from a licensed standpoint, is doomed. Those who break that law naturally will have to answer to Uncle Sam. Congress will pass enforcement acts for prohibition in the near future and those acts will he the law of the several States. I do not see how* the liquor men can figure where they can adopt laws in a few states that would be different from the general law on the subject adopted for the nation. Thev na- turally are looking for a way out of prohibition but the amendment to the constitution has been effected by the people's votes and is the law of the land effective next January 16. War-time prohibition is due to start July 1. The wiser liquor men know that it is almost here because many of the breweries are beginning their Plans to turn out other and lawful products. This agitation to destroy the effect of prohibition will likely last for a time but it will be without avail." TO ITI/1, RIVER BANK WITH CITY'S ASHES Eeginuing to-morrow teams used by the city to collect ashes will dump them along the river bank above Front street, officials said to-dav. Waste paper and other rubbish will be gathered and burned after the ashes are unloaded it was explained so that the streets will not be lit tered with any refuse. FAKE MAJOR \I1 • Si^^Rlll^^a^B^BGSHHl^BßSlßffin^teSSNßS^ This etching is from an official photograph of the model of the memorial bridge to he erected over the railroad at State street by the state and the city jointly. The tower-like elevations at the top of the approach are the pylons in which will be placed, in bronze that will endure for all time, the names of all Pennsylvania soldiers, sailors and marines in the service during the Great War. The model, viewed from this angle, shows the type of construction to be used on the western approach. A detailed v iew of the side elevation is published elsewhere in the Telegraph to-day. HARRISBURG IS READY TO CARRY OUT PARK WORK Can Go Ahead at Once Wid ening Third Street, Com missioner Lynch Says CITY IS NOT DELAYING Appropriation Made For Its Share of First Develop ment Projects "Harrisburg is ready to go ahead at once with the parts of the Capi tol Park extension program the city is expected to complete," Commis sioner W. H. Lynch, superintendent of the highway department, declar ed at the session of city council to day after a letter had been read, in which was incuded a resolution passed by the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, urging the city of ficials to co-operate in every way possible to bring about the comple tion of the park development. "The State Superintendent of grounds and buildings never ac knowledged the receipt of a letter and plans in which 1 said that we are ready to begin at any time to widen Third street and have the money appropriated to do the work," Mr. Lynch continued. "We will not delay any move on the part of the state to get this improvement finish ed, but it has been weeks now since the plans for the Third street work were submitted and no reply of any kind has been received. 1 do not want the city blamed for any delay, for the city is not causing it and will not. I feel sure the superin tendent received our plans and let ter because they have not been re turned in the mail, but we have re ceived no acknowledgment from him." Xo l.ack of Interest Commissioner E. Z. Gross cor roborated Mr. Lynch in his state ment that Harrisburg is ready to go ahead at once. "There is no lack of interest on the part of the city," he commented. Petitions signed by 137 residents in the vicinity of Sixteenth and Elm streets, protesting against the sale of a small triangular plot at that in tersection to a laundry company, and against the closing of Elm street from Sixteenth to Juniper, were pre sented for the residents by Commis sioner Gross. Further action on the ordinances which provide for the sale, and clos ing of the street, was postponed in definitely. The petitions to council stated that the smoke from the laun dry plant has decreased property values and is a nuisance, rind that the ordinances are intended to give ground to the company so that the plant can be enlarged thus added to the smoke trouble. An ordinance was ofTere ] by Com missioner S. F. Hassler authorizing construction of six-inch water mains in Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, from Derry street to the Philadelphia & Reading Railway. Dues of the city officials as mem bers of the League of Third Class Cities were ordered to 'he paid. Commissioner C. W. Burtnett pre sided as Mayor Keister is 1n Wash ington conferring with officials on labor problems. Building Permits Issued For Many New Dwellings Ruilding permits for construction work to cost more than $27,000 have been issued to-day at the office of Building Inspector James H. Grove, as follows: Secured investments, in corporated. six two-story frame and stucco houses, north side of Puxton at Seventeenth street. $20,000: two story frame, north side of Twenty seventh. 160 feet south of Derry street, $2,200; contractor for Louis B. Cohen, two-story brick, southeast corner Twenty-sixth and Derrv. $4,000; Mrs. Joseph Rudy, K. n] Bomgurdncr, contractor one-story brick garage rear of northwest cor ner Seventeenth and Swatara. $400: Samuel H. Stormfeilz, Reuben Mor rett. contractor, addition 1603 Derry. $200: John Sansom. H. W. Black' contractor, one-stof-y brick, rear 136E* Vernon, S4OO. 29,932,328 PASSENGERS CARRIED IN YEAR ON CITY TROLLEY CARS I Hurrisburg Railways Company Reports Net Income of Only $12,721, Because of High Operating Costs; J. William Bowman Elected to Directing Board J The llarrisburg Railways Corn-] I pany carried 29,932,328 passengers! j during 1918, an Increase of 1,450,-1 165 over the year precious, accord-; 1 ing to the annual report of the cor- 1 i poration submitted to-day at the an-! , nual meeting of the stockholders. Despite this increase and an inereas-i ed fare for part of the year the com pany's net income was only $12,721 as compared witli $92,399 for 1917. I J. William Bowman was elected toj the board of directors, succeeding | the late Charles A. Kunkel. Other ■ directors elected are E. C. Felton. E. j S. Herman and F. B. Musser. The board will meet next week for the; election of officers. Xo Dividend Declared With the low net income of the! company for 1918—512,721 —n0 divi-i COUNCIL ASKED TO GET BEHIND IMPROVEMENTS Chamber of Commerce Backs Plans For Proposed Civic and Stale Work The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce in a resolution adopted by the i | board of directors last night called! ; upon the Mayor and members of city | (council to co-operate with the state) authorities in beginning as soon as i possible the construction of needed : public improvements, and thereby ( give employment to returned soldiers, j A copy of the resolutions was sent to j each member of city council. The resolutions follow: "The Chamber of Commerce refers to you for your consideration the fol- j lowing resolution which was unani- | mously adopted at a meeting last I night of the board of directors: "Resolved, It is the sense of the j Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce j that the City Commissioners be urged ' to co-operate with the state author!- ! ties in making effective as soon as i possible the public work contemplated in this city including the widening of Walnut and Third streets and other projects, to the end that every means of employment of returned soldiers and others may be provided without unnecessary delay." Nearly $1,500 Is Made For Children's Homes at Big Dance and Card Party It is estimated that more than 2,000 j people were present at the hig benefit dance held in chestnut .Street Audi torium last night. Because the entire ticket sale result has not yet been totaled it was impossible to make an j accurate statement of the grand total of moneys received, but Miss Helen! Snodgrass, treasurer, said this morn-j ing the amount would probably be | somewhere bet ween SI,OOO and $1,500. i More than 3.000 tickets were sold for the big event by the co-operating organizations which gave the dance. These organizations were the Harris burg Operatic Society, the local Coun cil of lCnights of Columbus and the tmploycs of Bowman and Company. The proceeds will be turned over to the Sylvan Heights Orphanage, the Children's Industrial Home and the Day Nursery. The Banjo Saxo and Updegrove's orchestras played for the dancing last night. The hall was beautifully decorated in the national colors of red, white and blue and innumerable sparkling lights lent a festive ap pearance to the occasion. FAESE FIRE AI AIOI A false alarm of fire called the fire companies to Nineteenth and Derry street, where Box 71 is located, at 10.30 o'clock this morning. The i glass in the box was not broken,! leading firemen to believe that the! alarm was rung when a heavy jolt | near the auxiliary coaf In tile East! End boiler works disturbed (he me- j chanism . j ' ] dends could be paid and the reports' ; indicates, too, that if the operating | expenses and wages at the beginning of the year had been as high as the | expenses at the close, there would | have been a deficit instead of a slight ! surplus. As it was. the company's , non-operating income, the revenue! received from investments in prop-! ] erties other than traction properties, , saved the company from a deficit for] the income from this source was ] $22,068.42. Without the non-operpt i ing income there would have been a ] deficit of J9.246.43. j Because of the scarcity of labor j during the year, the report says that much work had to be put oft' and this | necessarily will have to be dqne dur-' ] ing the coming year or two along j with the regular work. This will [Continued on Page 12.] CHAS. E. LANDIS i DIES AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS Was Friend of Col. Roosevelt and Delegate to Bull Moose Convention Charles K. Landis. a friend of the i late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and | cashier and paymaster at the local i plant of the Lalance and Grosjean | Manufacturing Company, died at 12.15 o'clock this morning at his j home, 1030 Green street. He was | 50 years old. The death of Mr. Tgindis followed I less than six days' illness from in- I fluenza which developed into double | pneumonia. He began his business career as a [Continued on Page 9.] BILL CREATING PUBLIC WELFARE BODY GOES IN j First Step Taken to Prevent ' Bolsheviki Uprising in Pennsylvania S A bill creating a Commission of 1 Public Welfare of the Oommon j wealth of Pennsylvania, composed of j the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, I State Treasurer,. Auditor General I and Adjutant General, and carrying an appropriation of $I,00(t,000, was ' introduced in the Senate to-day by ] Senator Eyre, of Chester county, j The Commission shall whenever it 1 may deem it necessary, prepare for i the defense and security of the Com i monwealth, the safety of its people and the protection and preservation of their property. It shall, if the necessity arises, aid the Federal Government in defending the gov ernment and 'the property of its people. "fn the interests of the welfare of the state and nation," the bill provides, "the Commission r.iay undertake measures for the Amer icanization of foreign-born residents and for the interpretation to the American born of the life and Ideals jof the allies of the United States." i The Commission Is authorized to j investigate and to aid and assist any I activity having for its purpose the I betterment of social, educational, ! agricultural or Industrial conditions. ior the securing and preserving to j the citizens of the Commonwealth , the rights and liberties guaranteed J under the Constitutions of the state! and naUon HEROIC DEEDS OF HARRISBURG MEN ARE TOLD Speaker tit Chamber of Com-| mercc Praises Work of i I Lewis Heck in Turkey j WAS THERE DURING WAR lias Since Been Honored by State Department Appointment The silent but heroic achieve ments of a former Harrisburger whose deeds never were heralded at home during the war, was told by Charles Lyon Chandler, manager of the Foreign Trade Department of the Corn Exchange National Bank and former United States Am. , bassador. at the Harrisburg Chafn- I ber of Commerce luncheon in the Penn-Harris hotel at noon to-day. This Hsrrisburger's name is Lewis Heck, formerly first Turkish secre tary of the American embassy at Constantinople. The luncheon was served cafaterla style, and the members helped thern [Continued on Page .] Sec. Daniels Commends Harrisburg Man For His Work in Naval Hospital Washington. March 4.—Secretary ; Daniels announced to-day he had j commended 52 enlisted men of the navy who during the recent influenza | epidemic voluntarily submitted to ex ' periments at the naval hospital at ! Chelsea, Mass., to aid naval doctors |in the attempt to determine the cause and method of transmission of I the disease and a preventative. Among them were: John 11. McAnneny, 834 Slate street. New Haven, Conn.; Arthur R. Anderson, 359 Albany avenue, Hart ford, Conn.; Joseph R. Boldue, Law rence. Mass.; Edward M. Gibson, East Dutnam, Conn.; Charles Colton, Providence, R. I.; Bertram Crist, Harrisburg, Pa.; James E. Felton, Chelms Ford, Mass.; John Nester, | Philadelphia: Warren A. Hill, Jersey j Shore. Pa.; John W. Vander Meer, • Worcester, Mass. FOCH TELLS HUN TO GIVE SHIPS By .Associated Press. Copenhagen. March 4. —Mar- shal Foeh has demanded the im mediate delivery of the German mercantile fleet without Regard to the question of food supply, ac cording to a dispatch from Wei mar, where the German National Assembly is in session. STATE OF SIEGE IS DECLARED IN BERLIN SUBURBS Minister of War Noske As sumes Executive Powers in Crisis Copenhagen, March 4.—The Prus sian government has declared a state of siege In the police districts of Berlin, Spundau and other suburbs of Berlin in order "to protect the bulk of the working people from fa mine and the terror of the minor-*' ity." Minister of War Noske, a dis patch from Berlin says, has assumed executive powers. Paris, March 4. —Bavarian troops opposed the Radical government in Munich are marching on that city, according to a dispatch from Zurich to the Petit Parisien. This announce ment was made at the Soldiers and Workmen's Congress in Munich by- Ministers Jaffe and Unterleitner. It was confirmed by several other delegates. It is known that strong detachments of, troops already have left Nuremberg. News of the re ported advance on Munich caused the congress to adoura at once. FILIBUSTERING CONGRESS ENDS SESSION WITH WAR WORK YET TO BE DONE SENATORS BLOCK PEACEPROGRAM, PRESIDENT SAYS Wilson Issues Statement As serting Presence Plainly Is Needed at Paris flv Associated rress. Washington, March 4.—Upon tlic adjournment of Congress to-day with important legislation killed by a Re publican Senate filibuster. President Wilson issued a statement declaring that "a group of men in the Senate have deliberately chosen to embar rass the administration of the gov ernment to imperil the financial in terests of the railway systems of the country." After Congress adjourned, Presi dent Wilson remained in his room twenty minutes, greeting visitors. It was announced he would make recess appointments at lloboken to-night of nominees who failed of confirmation. Instead of going from the Capitol to his train, the President drove back to the White House for lunch. Jt was understood he wouid leave for New I York before 2 p. m. | The President's statement follows: ! "A group of men in the Senate have deliberately chosen to embar rass the administration of the gov ernment. to imperil the financial in terests of the railway systems of the country and to make arbitrary use of powers intended to be employed in the interest of the people. "It is plainly my present duty to attend the Peace Conference in Paris. It is also my duty to be in close contact with the public business dur ing a session of the. Congress. I must make my choice between these two duties and 1 confidently hope that the people of the country will think that I ant making the right choice. "It is not in the interest of the right conduct of public affairs that I | should call the Congress in special 1 session while it is impossible for me | to be in Washington because of a i more pressing duty elsewhere, to co j operate with the Houses. "I take it for granted that the men | who have obstructed and have pre j vented the passage of necessary leg ! islation have taken all of this into I consideration and are willing to as j sume the responsibility of tlio im ' paired efficiency of the government | and the embarrassed finances of the j country during the time of my en forced absence." Republican Leader declined to comment on the President's state ment. He declared, however, that three-fourths of the Republicans sincerely deplored failure of the railroad appropriation. The few Republicans who insisted on filibus tering- to defeat the bill, it was said were "beyond control," telling their leaders that their action was per sonal and not a party affair. Walter Shaffer Flies Over City in Military Plane Walter Shaffer, Dauphin aviator who served with the Lafayette Ksca drille during the war, yesterday was a passenger in one of the flights of a Middletown government aeroplane. Lieutenant Fred Nelson was in charge of the aeroplane. TWOSTEELTON SOLDIERS WIN WAR CROSSES Privates Thomas and Wrenn Cited For Bravery Under Fire i Two Sleelton lads have been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery under fire, ac cording to word just received here from France. Hotli enlisted in the old Eighth Regiment of the National Guard, and are widely known in Steelton and Harrisburg. Private Roy H. Thomas and Pri vate George G. Wrenn are the lads who have been commended for the bravery In action. Both are in the One Hundred and Twelfth Regi ment of the Twenty-eighth division, members of the Sanitary Detach ment, Third Battalion. They are mentioned in their commander's recommendation as having shown unusual heroism and devotion to duty at "Death Valley," southwest of St. Gillcs, August 20 and 21. Pri [ Continued on Page 9.] SLASHES WHISTS WHILE TEMPORARILY DERANGED Harry Sheaffer. 647 Woodbine street. Is in the Harrisburg Hospital with a slash in each wrist, inflicted j by himself during a temporary per-! tod of insanity. He is aged 50 years. It is the second case of the kind I brought to the hospital in less thnn a ' week. , . Democrats Helpless as Big Measures Are Let Slide Into Discard PRESIDENT UNMOVED AS HIS RAILROAD BILL IS LEFT DIE By Associated Press Q Washington, March 4.—Con gress adjourned at noon to-day in the midst of a Republican! filibuster in the Senate that kill ed a long list of important meas ures. Among the bills that failed was one appropriating $7.~0,000,- 000 for the railroad administra tion, without which some ad ministration leaders say the railroads must be returned to their owners before the middle of April. There was no turning back of I clocks. Democratic leaders realized 1 the situation was hopeless, and the gavels ending the long, great war session and the Sixty-fifth Congress tapped at noon. \o Marly Session Just halo re adjournment Presi dent Wilson in his capitol office au thorized final notice to the Repub licans that their efforts to force an immediate session had failed; that hp was unshaken in his determina tion not to call Congress until his work at the Peace Conference was done. Adjournment, marks the passing of Democratic control at the capitol. j The Congress that passed at noon began in April, 1917, passed the [Continued on Page 5.] if I jX STOCKS BREAK SHARPLY J ' '■ Ycrk—Stocks broke sharply to-day when it be- Ha * * 4> * • in Wall Street at midday that , * < • T € ' < * 4^ * TRAN rTO SAIL AT 8.15 A. M. ROW T * York—The time appointed for t par-turf Jj * * xirt George Washir. X :cn aboard 8.15 A M 4* X J -CROWDS DISARM BERLIN > j 41 H M| J 4 # ous police stations in Berlin Monday night, disarmed Ha ** '• /. to * ■ € . '.lf j - „ *T > • f STEAMER DRIVEN ASHORE _> r I X St. Johns, N. F.—The Furness Line steamer Ap J j x nine, bound from Liverpool for this port, was -driver * j IX ashore at Witless point by the ice pack early to day. ' * |fr M |j DR. PAUL DIES j I j Guatemala City, Guatemala—When the national as- 'i ■ fsembly opened yesterday, President Cabrera read a mes- £ | life stating that Dr. Jose De J. Paul, Venezuelan foreigr. * j 4 minister under President Castro, was dea * j jjpliving for some tifne in Guatemala, being in bu | • | hm ii y SHIPPING AT STANDSTILL 1 f New York--The strike of sixteen thousand boatmen 9 ] lin New York harbor, halted last January at the cabled L | of President Wilsorf, was resumed at 6A. M. to- pr and at that hour shipping virtually was at a stand- 1 4 still, according to a statement made by union officials, £ I j A Only one: •' rry line wa6 operating on the Nor* it river -J | 1 • !; ; 4 MARTIAL LAW. RAISED IN GUATEMALA > i X Guatemala City, Guatemala—Martial law, which has J I fwbeen i nfore'e since April, 1917, before Guatemala entered *|j T. * ~ n TT tr-t- . "" ' ■ > MARRIAGE LICENSES V * * r f ,a. °*° r * r ®- and Violet K. dribble, Mceltoa; Jacob H. ■ Jubnaon and \crdella