■ Peace With Austria Is to Be Made Only After Pact With Germany Has Been Determined Upon HARRISBURG WmSm TELEGRAPH * mit £tar-3n&cpcn&ent. LXXXVIII— NO. 58 16 PAGES Dal £ a erTt £: d & t HARRISBURG, PA. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1919. "VMBBBK T O E C C S9 HOME EDITION JAIL CROWDED WITH GIRLS, VICTIMS OF TRADERS IN DRUGS Women Crazed With Narcotics Sold Them by Unscrupulous Dealers Always on the Lookout For New Customers WARDEN HARGEST CALLS FOR POLICE TO SUPPRESS CRIME "I have been smoking" opium in Ilarrisburg for fifteen years, and have been using morphine for five years." The speaker was a wan, but rather attractive colored girl, who writhed in tortures this morning in the "dope ward" of the Dau phin county jail, where Warden Hargest is now accommodating so many "dope" fiends that he felt it necessary to-day to ac quaint Ilarrisburg with the facts. "The whisky victims are dimin ishing," said he briefly, "but the drug victims are getting so numer ous that it is a serious proposition, and I think that the Common wealth should know just what is go ing on. If measures are not taken immediately to stop the sale of drugs in Harrisburg, this jail will be swamped with people who are no less than maniacs. Come up here and look at this bunch." Calls For Narcotics The Telegraph representative fol lowed the warden through the well lighted and clean corridors. It must be said for this county prison that it is as clean as a hound's tooth. As the party ascended iron steps, the sun brightly shining down through the high glass roof over head, groans and yells and calls for "Give me 'dope' " echoed in the sun lighted bastille. "Talk with this girl," offered the warden, as he pointed to a small booth where this "dope" fiend lay, almost nude and careless of any thing but the insatiable desire for a ■ "shot." "Just One Shot" "I'm a Harrisburg girl," she moaned. "Sure, 1 have been living on drugs a long time. For God's sake. Warden, can't you get me just one shot'."' "This is a type," observed the| warden. "There fifteen, more here to see, andfhwpe white girls, too." I-ater he opehed the: ward of white girls and pointed out I several, one a good-looking young) girl from Carlisle, who said she had j never indulged in drugs until visit- j ing Harrisburg last week. "I fell) in with an pttractiye man," she nar- j rated, lying on her narrow butj white and clean cot "and he intro-j duced me to a place where they hit j the pipe and use drugs. The hypo-j dermic is very popular. In a short, time I forgot where I was; morphine makes you dream. But now I am! sick, so sick. Please do not put any-] thing about this in the paper. I ; don't believe 1 ever could become a, drug iierid." A Chance For One "There's a chance for her," re marked the warden, "but it shows what danger there is in this city, the way drugs are being sold, for out-of town girls. I never, personally, had much experience with this drug habit, although 1 have been asso ciated with the Dauphin county jail for five years . But I see now that! a girl, white or black, absolutely loses all sense of morality under the{ influence of smoking hop or using; any drug." He called attention to the fact that every one of the eight- j een or nineteen victims now in the] "dope" ward lay about with prac-, tically no clothing on. One mulatto] girl appeared to be conscious only] of a gay and ornamented garter with which she toyed as she ram bled in her talk and yet. although brain weak, had enough command not to tell exactly where she secured the drugs which are so prolific in I Harrisburg. Always ail "Angel" The Dauphin county jail officials are one in asking for help to put an immediate stop to this drug de bauch which is, right now, bringing in twice as many prisoners as booze, j Every official to-day expressed the I belief that Robert Chenoweth was | responsible for much of the sale of dope, declaring that he always car ries a roll of $1,600 to $1,700. Wheth er it is he or some power "higher up" which pays the fines of a myriad of white girls who have been taken into the toils, the jail folk do not know. But they are doing their best to discover the 'angel" who goes bond for these victims of drug. Nearly every white girl arrested suc ceeds in getting bond quickly; some body or some association of men are footing the bills. Chenoweth has been arrested sev eral times but always manages to ( elude a jail sentence. Covered With Scars Lying in the dope ward to-day were mostly colored girls, helpless from the effects of various drugs, of which morphine seems to be the most readily secured. As a rule, their bodies were tatooed with hun dreds of hypodermic punctures so that some of them had the appear ance of being marked with small pox. "Is is a fact," declared Warden Hargest, "that we are not having so many drunks as 'hopes,' due, no doubt to the high prices for booze. But I will say that Perry county is furnishing Its full quota. It seems that Perry county sends down here a myriad of drinkers who come to Harrisburg for booze, and get tan gled up before they can start for home." It should be a duty of the taxpay er in Harrisburg to visit Dauphin THE WEATHER] For llnrrlsburg and vicinity! Fair to-nlgbt nnd Tuesday) not much change In temperature, lowest to-night about freezing. IS UP TO FEDERAL OFFICERS TO STOP TRAFFIC IN DRUGS '•As Chief of Police of Harris burg, 1 assert that the stopping of 'dope' selling ill this city is lip to the Federal Government," stated Chief of Police Wetzel to day. "We arc re inly to give to the Federal authorities the names of persons who are selling [ 'dope' in Harrisburg to-day. My advice for stopping this traffic is to put a Federal tax on the manu facturing of all kinds of 'dope,' making it so high that it will work like booze. .My depart ment is doing its best to liiul out where the 'dope' conies in. 1 find that Haltiniore and Philadelphia are the prime sources. "If they put such n tax on the mnnufaeture of 'dope' 'that it is as hard to get as booze, the trade will decrease." Chief Wetzel confessed that "dope" is common here. "I am willing," said he, "to give the Federal authorities all informa tion regarding the avenues through which these drugs ar rived here. 1 want to get to the root of the evil. The local peddlers buy it from Philadel phia mid Baltimore. A 'dope 1 llend spends $1 a day to supply himself. The police department will do all in its power to stop this evil if the Federal Govern ment helps us." county jail and see, personally, what the situation is and what the fu ture should be. As for a safe and sane spot for criminals, it would be hard to find fault. They have it mighty easy. Breakfast consists of coffee and bread; lunch, bread and soup, soup contains meat; supper is bread and coffee. Each prisoner is entitled to a can of molasses each week. The Dauphin county Jail offi cials, as a body, today suggested that the local police department could help greatly in making a stricter sen tence for men who continually of fend, namely, a sentence of bread and water for, say ten days. At pres ent the diet is so good that regular offenders come to jail with the hope of benig better fed then when they are free. Jail in Country The jail officials are by no means opposed to the placing of a prison outside of the city, the understand ing being that a fast motor service would enable the witnesses to be sent in to quarter sessions court. At present there is not one of the 190 prisoners doing any constructive work. When farmed out several years ago, two prisoners escaped, and since then they do no work for the Commonwealth. CO-OPERATION WITH RETURNED YANK PLANNED Institute to Open Tonight Under the Direction of the Y. M. C. A. Plans for community co-operation with returned soldiers, sailors and marines will be formulated at an in stitute to be opened here to-night with a fellowship supper to be held in the Board of Trade Auditorium. The institute is scheduled to continue until Friday evening. Sessions will be held in Fahnestock hall. T. M. C. A. secretaries in civilian ,and army ser vice and laymen will'be in attend ance, in addition to community wel fare workers and others interested. The institute is the first of a series. Others will be held In Johnstown and Pittsburgh, March 17-21; Scran ton and Philadelphia, March 24-28. The institute has been arranged by the State Y. M. C. A., the programs being under the direction of the Eastern Department of the War Work Department of the War Work Council, and national guidance being supplied by the training secretaries of the War Personnel Board. Among the speakers scheduled are William F. Ilirsh, executive secretary of the Department of the East. Fred B. Hhipp, Pittsburgh; Dr. Robert B. iieuttie, camp secretary at Camp Merrltt; William Knowles Cooper, Wsshlnrton; K. Graham Wilson, New York City; Walter M. Wood, Philadelphia; J. B. Carruthers, of the State Y. M. C. A. and other well known leaders in association work. WORLD PEACE TO GET PRELIMINARY j START MARCH 20 Germany's Foreign Minister Arranges to Take Com pany to Versailles BRITAIN CHANGES MIND Reported Willing France and Italy Shall Keep Share of Ships COMMISSION FOR LAIBAGII jClemenceau Sends Letter to | Inter-Allied Body Sit ting at Trieste By Associated Press. Berlin, March 10. Preliminary j peace negotiations may begin at Ver sailles about March 20, according to reports here. Count Von Brockdorff- Rantzau, foreign minister is arrang ing for a small party of businessmen to accompany German commission ers as experts. These men have been instructed to hold themselves in read iness for possible departure on March 17 or ID. I'arix, March 10.—A change in the attitude of the British government ■ regarding the plan to sink interned ■ German warships has been observed j since Premier Lloyd George's return to Paris. It now appears probable Great Britain will be willing to per mit France and Italy to keep some of the ships, but will consent to sink her own allotment. Thus Great Britain would relieve the United States from carrying out her projected naval program, which, it is understood, was intended to pre vent any nation from having such a predominant navy as would give con trol of the seas against the powers of the League of Nations. The addition of a limited number of German warships to France and Italy would not sensibly disturb the j present balance of naval flower, ex- i eluding Austria and" derniany. | Mnnl* Ships Kliminated The desire of American naval ex perts that the German ships be elim inated completely, it is said, is based on consideration of economy, as they hold that, if the German ships were given to Great Britain in the pro portion proposed. th e United States would be compelled to spend one bil lion dollars to maintain her place in the naval world. Premier Clemenceau, as president of the Peace Conference, has sent a letter to the head of the Inter-Allied Commission at Triest advising him that the military commission ap pointed by the Supreme Council to investigate the Italo-Jugo-Slav in cidents, which caused the recent acute feeling between the two peo ples, will proceed at once to I.aibach. The Matin prints the text of the letter, which says that after the facts have been verified the commission will take all necessary action, in cluding orders for punishment of the guilty, and any compensation or sat isfaction which it may be decided, is due to the Italian government. Warns Against Future Breach The commission will give notice, the letter adds, that any similar in cidents in the future will cause inter allied military occupation of the lo calities where such incidents arise, under the terms of the Austrian arm istice and that such action will not exclude the taking of any more se vere measures, the commission might deem to be warranted. SUPPLY OF FINK'S BEER WILL LAST ONLY TO MAR. 31 Brewery Sends Warning No tice of Coming Drought to Its Customers While the war-time prohibition amendment does rtot become effective until July 1, some brands of beers and whiskys will not last that long. The supply of Fink's beer is now Hearing exhaustion and on April 1, or shortly thereafter, llarrisburg peo ple will be unable to procure this brand unless they have stocked up their cellars. Notices have been cir culated by the Fink Brewing Com pany within the past several days that they will be unable to fill any orders for their goods after the last of March. Several months ngo all manufac ture was discontinued in a number of breweries of this vic'nity and at that time forecast was made that the supply would be exhausted before th e - measure became effective. The Kink Company, however, is the first local concern to announce the dis continuance of delivery. The supply of drinks In other brew eries, In view of the regulations placed on them, has been steadily dropping. .lust how soon they may lie compelled to discontinue deliver ies cannot lie said Just now. In quiries of the manager of the Graup ner Brewery elicited the information that they did "not care for any free advertising," and "that the iengtli of time which the suupiy will Inst would not iterst the Darrisburg Telegraph." Grandma Worry Waits For the Bus 'TFaW~T"3UsT B-T THAT BLAMED /f THINQ Ai:r7: ; ArE VOU DON'T CATCH NE' -— i —,, ~ I BlJS^\ | TAKIM' AMY ! ©E SIDES, WHAT GUARANTEE , —' UMl\l | |>ij . | HAVE I THAT IT'LL EVER. -"X <<e sent for a week or more. It was planned to hold a confer ence late to-day with County Con troller Henry W. Gough on the em ployment of 11. c. Reynolds, of touuP a ' A° assist County Solicitor Philip S. Moyer In the county trials of the coal land appeals. Mr. Rey nolds ussisted countv i officials in a similar fight in 1916 In that county. To-morrow the Dauphin county | commissioners will hear appeals j from property owners in Washington township and Elizubethville bor ou*h - meeting at Snyder's hotel, Ell zabethville. May Go Back to Old Election System Here The proposed bill to repeal the non-partisan elective feature of the third class city code of 1913 will probably be Introduced In the House of Representatives tonight. }t was discussed today by a number of Leg islators from third class cities, who outlined the situation In their home communities and will be considered as a separate proposition from the Wallace bill which makes a number of amendments to the administrative features of the code. When this bill is in hand measures will be before the Legislature for repeal of the non-partisan election of Judges nnd officers on the second and third class cities, ull being separate proposals. $ There is much dissatisfaction with the third class city code In a number of cities and in Harrisburg some rjt of have been heard. REBELS SLAY 60 IN LICHTENBERG j POLICE STATION Spurlacuns Hoist Imperial Standard Over Berlin Pal ace; Troops Lower It DUSSELDORF IS GUARDED, Munich Soviets Issue Decree Forbidding Speculation in Real Estate ONLY ENOUGH FOR NEEDS "Preventative Censorship" Is Proclaimed For Press of Rhincland By Associated Press, Amsterdam, March 10.—Sparta can forces on Sunday occupied the Berlin suburb of Lichtenberg and murdered sixty officers and soldiers in the police station there, accord ing to the Zeitung Am Mittag. Tho Lichtenberg police station had with stood Spartacan attacks since Tues day. Copenhagen, March 10.—On Sat urday night Spartacans hoisted the imperial standard over the palace at Berlin, according to advices re ceived here from the German capi ta). The flag was immediately re moved by government troops. Mar tial law has not yet been evoked in Berlin and hus been proclaimed at Dusseldorf. Munich, March 10.—The Central Council of Soviets here has issued a decree forbidding speculation in real estate. Nobody will be allowed to buy more rciU estate than lie needs for his personal use. The council also decreed a "pre ventive censorship" for the press of the Rhineland. sNowsuni: STRIKES TRAIN Denver, March 10.—The engine of Denver and Rio Grande train No. 315, westbound, was swept from the rails near Sapinero, Col., when struck by a snowslide. The engine fell upon the ice of Gunnison river, where it remains. No one was Injured. I l ' . _ J J APPEALS GO OVER UNTIL FALIJ 4 1 ** * • ■ cf the 4 J (brought ir the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmeh \ € < * * < EERSBURG SOLDIER DIES IN FRANCE * i I Millcrsburg—Steever R. Day, of Millersburg, died in J if France on February 28 from pneumonia, the first death * of a Millersburg lad overseas. He was a son of Charles s e adnf d--e-vi * rj 1 J TO CALL OFF GERMAN STRIKE Amsterdam—.The Berlin workmen's council has de | ean order officially calling off the general ■ X strike in the German capital, says a Berlin message which. J T • <■ ■ fori J - . cen o-d.* v.'' - * < j * 4 DYNAMITE WRECKS SALOON AND HOMES T' Mount Carmel—The saloon and home of James X Schivoni at Atlas* Pa, and the home of Ralph Coloran /; X were v.Tecked by dynamite early to day. The detcTta- T ticn was felt two miles away. Twelve members of an ] alleged Black Hand organization are under arrest. ; * HEAR FARES COMPLAINT X Harrisburg—The Public Service Commissioner, j X listened for two hours this afternoon to arguments on ▼ the Quinn complaints against the Harrisburg Railways j 2 Company in the course of which Charles L. Bailey, Jr . | * •••st! for th • y, said that this year the incre. 1 X rests of operation would go up to $400,000. A. R Rupley, ▼attorney mtplaintant, reviewed everything that J ►! ' >:d against 'he company. X WABASH PP ESI DENT DIES ; X ' 1 • : v■-E !r Kearney, president of the Wa J 'i'i."d ne-re to-day, of pnctimonia. 2 MARRIAGE UCENSES buricr Albcr! K. Sullivan and Harj >l. Hank, MlUrllrtown) Klmrr C. JMe |rk"Jl. n " rMur *> lUrr * W "• WORK OF SURVEY OF SUSQUEHANNA TO START SOON Colonel J. P. Gervcy lo Be As signed lo Duty; Appro priation Bill Signed NO TIME IS TO BE LOST Congressman Kreidcr Notifies Kli X. Hershey Project Is Well Under Way MANY TOWNS CONCERNED Text of Letter Sent to Presi dent of the Rotary Club Colonel J. P. Gervcy will be as signed to make a survey of the Sus jquehanna river with a view of ascer | tuining the cost of making tha | stream navigable. Xo time will be lost in getting tha j work under way. Kli X. Hershey, president of tha | Harrisburg ltotary Club and chair man of the Keeper Susquehanna 'committee representing every com j inunity in the Susquehanna Valley, I was so informed to-day by Congress i man Aaron S. Kreider, who with | Congressman W. W. Greist, of Lan- I caster, is responsible for getting the I appropriation bill which was signed I a week ago by President Wilson through Congress. The movement is the result of art address by Major William D. Gray before the Harrisburg Rotary Club, [Continued 011 Page 7.] New York Officials Stop German Opera. • York, March. 10. At tha instance of Mayor Hylan and Police Commissioner Knrlght who declared that the projected preformances might provoke disorder, the manage ment of the I,exington Theater to day cancelled arrangements for a sea son of German operas, the first of which was to be presented to-night.