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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
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: PfiUp^K
ILOCKED UP BABY'S
CLOTHES AND HID
MILK IS CHARGE
; Woman Asks Court to Release
Her by Means of a
Divorce
1 Locked his wife in a second-floor
room, locked her and a small baby
out of the house, turned off the gas
while a meal was being prepared,
took milk from the front porch
while his wife and baby were next
door for three days, neighbor buying
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U.S. RECRUITING
STATION OPENED
AFTER 7 MONTHS
Col. Kemper Seeks Men of
(loot! Character For the
Regular Army
j After being closed for a period of
seven months, the Harrisburg re
; eruiting station was reopened to-day
jand will again accept men for en
' listment in every branch of the ser
i vice. Colonel J. 11. Kemper is m
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GAMBLERS MAY DEDUCT
LOSSES FROM INCOME
Bootleggers and Moonshiners Who Run Afoul of the. Law
May Count in Their Losses
By Associated Press
Washington. March 10.—Business
losses of gamblers, moonshiners,
bootleggers and other participants in
Illegal practices are deductable from
gross incomes in determining net
income subject lo taxation. The In
ternal revenue bureau decided the
question to-day in passing upon in
quiries from professional gamblers
in New York. Chicago. Boston and
from other cities and from a lone
inquiry of a southern ex-moonshiner.
The bureau decision is that income
even from an illegul business is
taxable and that losses In connection
with this business are deductable j
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5,000 RUSSIANS
ESCAPE PRISON
By Associated Press,
Berlin, March 10.—While sol- J
diers who had been called to sup
press rioting in Spandau w r ere
absent from the Ruhleben camp
about 0,000 Russian prisoners of
war in that camp made their es
cape. The Russians are now
wandering about the country, to
the terror of the country folk.
PRINCE BLAMES
FORMER KAISER
FOR WORLD WAR
Says Willielm Conceived the
Strife and Conducted It
With Brutality
By Associated Press.
I.ondoti, March 10—"There is no
doubt that the former German em
peror was the first and responsible
author of the war. Re absolutely
wished for it and conducted it him
self in all its ruthlessness and bar
barity." This is a stateihent attribut
ed to the Prince or Monaco by the
Mail's Paris correspondent who inter
viewed the prince there.
The correspondent recalls that the
Prince of Monaco was formerly aj
personal friend of Emperor William,!
but that friendship was severed byl
the prince in a telegram sent to thci
former emperor in September, 1914,
but not to an extent exceeding earn
ings from the business. Tax collec
tors, according to this attitude, are
concerned with collecting revenue
and not prosecuting illegal busi
nesses. Consequently they will re
gard as confidential any disclosures
of illegal source of income.
Poker players must include win
nings in their income, but may de
duct losses only If they do not ex
: eeed winnings.
Taxpayers of these classes may
I report their earnings as "other In
i come" or under some other classifi
cation not disclosing illegal source
I of the earnings.
MAY FIX DATE FOR
! HEARING ON COAL
LAND ASSESSMENT
County Commissioners to Get
I'igurcs of Operators From
Mining Engineers
County commissioners this after
noon may tlx a special date to hear
the appeals of the coal companies
owning lands in this county on which
the valuation for taxation is to be
fixedat more than $100,000,000.
The officials said to-day that much
time will be needed to hear the vari
ous representatives of the Susque
hanna Collieries Company and the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company, including a number
of mining engineer which it is ex
pected they will send to this city.
As much of tiie time during the
present mmth the commissioners
will hear appeals from other prop
erty owners throughout the entire
J city and county, it is not believed
that the coal land valuations will
jbe gone over at. n special session
before early in April. In case a date
is fixed for that purpose notices to
the companies of the valuations plac
ed on the various tracts may not l>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.
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EERSBURG SOLDIER DIES IN FRANCE
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France on February 28 from pneumonia, the first death
* of a Millersburg lad overseas. He was a son of Charles
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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
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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.