Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, March 14, 1919, Image 1
t resident tnisonArrives in trench Capital From Brest Shortly After Noon to Resume Peace ! HARRISBURG 1111111 l TELEGRAPH M ' flflje Star-independent \ X XVIII— NO. 62 ?H PAGES SST?t , 5.?Sg?rf u " HARRISBURG. PA. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 14,1919. {HtWSESBvSS?" "iTSf HOME EDITION FOOD NEEDED TO MOLD UP FLOOD OF BOLSHEVISM Germany's Plight Told by Commander of Yankee Force in Berlin MANY NARROW ESCAPES Machine Gun Battle in Streets Crowded With Women and Children HOED 600,000 PRISONERS No One Wants Russian Sol diers Taken in War; Afraid to Go Home GERMANY FACES STARVATION By Associated Press. I.niulou. March 14.—"1f Ger many docs not pet quite large food supplies during April, literal starvation will result." says a Heuter's dispatch from Berlin. "The government was forced to raise the bread ration weeks ago to its present status to keep the people even relatively quiet," the dispatch adds. "With this ration, grain supplies will be absolutely exhausted by May. Cultivation is backward and only half a har vest is expected this year." Paris, March 14.—Brigadier Gen eral George 11. Harries, commander of the American military force at Berlin, has been here several days to report to the Supreme War Coun cil on the military and economic situation throughout Germany. He has given a dramatic recital of crcnts in Berlin during the past three months, culminating in the serious street fighting of the last fortnight. When the American party left Berlin, the government forces un der Gustavo Noske. the German war minister, had the upper hand and, in General Harries' opinion, the gov ernment wilt control the situation, particular if food is sent to aid in holding back the Bolshevik menace from the eastern border. > f The American forces in Germany consist of eighty officers' and 600 men. a considerable part of the con tingent being stationed at twenty camps at various places in Germany, where 600,000 Russian prisoners are being cared for by the Americans. The headquarters in Berlin are on the second floor of tHe hotel Adlon, in the heart of the city, where much righting has been going on. During the early stages of the lighting. Gen oral Harries had a narrow escape, lie was standing in a window of the American headquarters, watching a clash between opposing factions, when a sniper's bullet grazed his breast and buried itself in a window casing by his sido. Public Not Excited During the most recent disorders in Berlin, the electric lights have been extinguished, street cars stop ped. telephone and telegraph wires cut, newspaper presses left ide and stores closed: yet the public, ac -1 ording to General Harries, shows little evidence of panic. The streets have been crowded with people, in • luding women and children, but the military forces have kept the crowds constantly moving. The rat tle of rifles and machine guns echoes throughout the city both day and night, but tile t-partacan bands have been gradually driven back and have lost control of strategic centers. Thousands of Russian prisoners. General Harries says, are clamor ing to return home. but this would mean the sending of 600.000 Russians into tlie hands of the Bol sheviki. The latter are threatening the Polish front and have a power ful organization at Vilna. with un limited funds for propaganda work, which is under direction of Adolph Joffe, former Bolshevik ambassador at Berlin. It is believed that a strong mili tary zone in Poland, between Russia and Germany, together with food relief, otters the surest means of holding back the Bolshevik advance t-nder American care, the Russian prisoners are in resasonably good condition with adequate food and little sickness. Steps will nrobably be taken to return them to Russia byway of the Black Sea or bv other routes so as to avoid forcing them into the Bolshevik ranks. STRIKE HEARING GOES OVER By Associated Press. t\ ashlngton, March 14.—Hearings herore the War Labor board in the New Jersey street ear strike con troversy were postponed today until Monday to await the outcome of a conference at Newark tomorrow be tween representatives of the Public Service Corporation and the strikers with an examiner on the board pres ent. THE WEATHER] For llarrlsburg and vlelnltyi < loudy, probably anon- this aft ernoon! rnln to-night and Sat urday, with rising temperature; lowest temperature to-night about 35 degrees. For Eastern Pennsylvania t Rain lute to-night and on Saturday! rising temperature Saturday and In north and west portions to-night; fresh east winds. River The Susquehanna rlvce and nil Its hrnnehea will continue to fnll slowly to-night. A general rain. Indicated for the water shed, will likely enuse a gen eral rise In nil streams begin ning Snturdny or Saturday night.. A stage of ahont .l feet is indi cated for Unrrishurg Safurdnv mornlng. "Spite Fence" Raised in Court to Hide Her Pretty Ankles Court. Tence" hid pretiy &nkles " /E An innovation was sprung: in preparation made for the trial of Mrs. Betty Inch, on trial for alleged extortion in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court. New York. It was a partition about the base of the witness stand, preventing: any view by the jury of the witness' feet. At a previous trial the prosecuting: attorney complained that the jury's attention had been dis tracted by the defendant's pretty ankles. In the photograph is shown Mrs. Betty Inch and the fence they have built around her in court to screen her ankles from the jury. The attractive defendant, however, scoffs at the board screen and says she is not resting on her feet in this case, but on legal lagic. $14,000,000 FOR ; STATE HIGHWAYS | MADE AVAILABLE ["iovernor Sproul Signs Ap propriation Bill; Depart ment Can Go Ahead The first big appropriation bills to be approved by ("lovernor William C. Sproul were to-day announced as ( signed and make available over $14,000,000 tor purposes of the State highway program. The bills are in a ; sense supplemental to that signed a few days ago reorganizing the de-, partment and centralizing authority so as to meet the demands of the j highway development project. One bill carries $3,026,000 for the' payment of salaries and the expen- { ses of the administration of the de- j partment and the other J10.562.- ' 040..1S divided as follows: Permanent highway construction $3,000,0ou; re pair of State highways within bor oughs. $800,000: maintenance State aid highways. $400,000; State share construction State aid highways. $3,000,000; turnpike condemnation. $500,000: second class township; road bonus for 1013 and 1914. $l,-1 142,049.38 and damages, etc.. $20,-'; 000. Other bils signed included: House bill transferring part of: funds appropriated to quarantine physician of Philadelphia to boat! maintenance. Senate bill conferring on judge advocates of the I'nited States armyl the powers of notaries public and! validating acts. Senate bill making $3OO instead of [ $250 the limit for bridge work-that • need not be advertised by counties { Judge McCarrell's Farm, Untilled For Five Years, Worth Less Than $9OO Assessors who were present yes- j terday at the session of the County, Commissioners at Halifax to receive J appeals and revise valuations of! properties in that district, declared. that the farm owned by Judge S. .T. M. M.cCarrell, consisting of a tract! of 97 acres, assessed at $9OO is not! even worth that figure, according to; an official who was present at the. meeting. County officials who were at the! session said assessors told them the farm to which Judge McCarrell j holds title, has not been tilled for at, least five years, and that some of the ! buildings are in'such condition that: they would have to be entirely re-i constructed or replaced. One of the assessors declared he • would not be willing to pay anything for the tract in its present state, j According to a statement published} this morning, farms of similar s izo' in the vicinity in Wayne township' are valued as high as $4,000. It was* pointed out that these tracts are j being used constantly and that the! buildings on them are in tlyj best of: condition. Another farm, about the same size! consisting of 101 acres and assessed at SI,SOO, was sold by the sheriff yes terday for $1,030. <'oniniissioners C. j P. Humbler and Henry M. Stlnc this morning authorized lowering the! valuation to $l,OOO. To-day the commissioners revised 1 some of the property valuations in' the Twelfth and Thirteenth wards. I To-morrow they expect to confer again with T. Ellsworth Davies, mtn-1 ing engineer, on coal land assess ments. and on Monday they will i meet at Dauphin to hear appeals. J BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. BAND OF 100 j PIECESJS COMING Will Be Here For Kotary Club Conference to Be Held at Penn-Harris. Apr. 10-11 Tlie Bethlehem Steel Company Banil, of Bethlehem, will come to Har risburg for the district conference of the Rotary Clubs to be held in the Bonn-Harris April 10 and 11. The : band will be brought here by the AI -1 lentown Club which will have a del egation of seventy-two. The band 1 will number one hundred pieces and . will come to Harrisburg by special , train the morning of April 11 and re turn home late that night, giving | Concerts in the lobby of the hotel and l during the dinner which will bring • the conference to an end that eve- I ning. 1 This news was received today by Howard C. . Fry. district governor, who will preside over the conference, j The meeting will be the largest |in the history of the district. Al ready every available room has been ! taken at the Penn-Harris for the hight of April 10 and many of the other hotels have made reservations, i The final arrangements for the con ference will be made at a luncheon i of the club in the ball room of the Penn-Harris Monday, at which the , ladies of the club will be guests. WARNING ISSUED i AGAINST RAISED ' FEDERAL NOTES Police Asked to Be on Look- I out For Clever Counter feiters of Bills ___ j A note of warning was sounded at the Harrisburg police station to day for Harrisburg people to beware 'of counterfeit and "raised" federal ! reserve notes which have- been muk | ing their appearance in the Central ' Pennsylvania district. ' Professional handlers of money i ir> bands and mercantile establlsh ' ments of the city are cautioned to ! handle each bill singly rather than |to resort to the easy method of | "thumbing" or "snapping" in doing j the counting, to aid in meeting the situation. j A number of different but clever i methods are used by the makers of 1 the raised notes. Those being cir j culated in the district are chiefly j the one and two dollar federal re serve notes which have been raised ! to ten rfind twenty dollar denomina ! tions. The working on the back is ! particularly deceptive, a larger "$10" i cleverly pasted on. The working on j the face is not so good, the cipher ; appearing to be rather lighter than i the remainder of the lettering. The twenty dollar notes are also of good | workmanship. Five dollar federal reserve notes have In some instances I been raised to twenty and fifty dol | lar denominations, the numerals i both on the face and back have been carefully placed in position and the I bills in consequence are particularly i dangerous. WILSON BACK IN FRENCH CAPITAL | | AT NOON TODAY .Great Crowd at lnvalides Sta tion to Greet Yank President 'STATION IS DECORATED jTrain Rearing Americans Dc-; laved on Way From Brest to Paris POUT'S READY TO HONOR Left Brest at 11 O'clock Thurs-j day Night For Peace Board ! By Associated Press. Paris, March 14.—President Wil- ! ; son. returning to the Peace Confer- j | once after his trip to the United j I States, arrived in Paris shortly af- j j ter noon today. The President's i train coming front Hrest was ox- ! j pected to arrive at 11 o'clock. At-I i though the time of arrival had not t j been made public a great crowd i [ had gathered at the lnvalides sta- | | tion at 11 o'clock. The station was I decorated with flowers and flags ! and the Twenty-tirst French Regi | inent was on hand to do military | honors to the American President. Tlte President's train, which had ' 1 been delayed on the way from Brest. I | reached the lnvalides station at 12.07 I j o'clock. Brest. March 14.—President Wil-! ' son and his party left Brest last l night at 11 o'clock. Though numer ous decorations had been hung out | to welcome the return of Mr. Wil-1 1 son, his reception was entirely with- ' lout ceremony, lie was in excellent | : health, apparently having benefited j ! by his period of rest. Immense crowds of American sol- | diers stationed at Brest endeavored i I to get a view of the President'und ! | the moonlight afforded an excellent ! i chance, aided by extra lights which ; had been installed for the occasion. ! I The soldiers awaited the President I j eagerly, and he raised his hat as he j I observed their anxiety. Rain to Follow in Wake of "Onion Snow" J The snow which gladdened the i hearts of hundreds of Harrisburgj youngsters this morning will be of, short duration. Forecaster E. K. Be-j main, of the United Slates Weather I Bureau says, thus blasting the hopes! that these same youngsters had that! | probably they might get some real: ' coasting after all. i Bain will follow on the heels ofi j the snow. Mr. Deniaih says. Indica-' i lions do not show clearly at what time the drops will start, but it is i practically certain that they will fall ; i before morning. The rain will be a' ; steady one, the local weather man says. * i BE: I .<; r.\ \\s CON VICT COOKKM ANS Brussels, March 14.—M. t'oore- ; ( ntans, principal secretary of the ( ' ministry of arts and sciences, has j i been sentenced to fifteen years at' ! hard labor by a Belgian general j i headquarters court-martial. Coore- ; 1 mans was accused of accepting from ! the Germans tlie post of chief secre- ' tary ot the Flemish eeparaist min | istry. i MOXTAXKS XAMKD GOVKRXOR 1 Madrid, March 14. —Senor Mon- I i tanes lias been appointed governor i of Barcelona, where tliere has been 1 I considerable trouble lately owing to j 1 strikes and Catalonian agitation. ' GOVERNOR FINDS ' NO GOOD REASON FOR COAL BOOST i , With Mines on Short Time He . 1 Fails to See Just Cause For Priee Baise By Associated Press. Philadelphia, March 14. —Anthra- cite coal operators to-day were dis- j inclined to comment upon the action | of Governor Sproul inquiring of At-1 ! torney General W. I. Schaffer wheth er the State had authority to in vestigate the reasons for increasing | the price of the fuel by the prodne [Continued on Pago 18.] TIME WAS WHEN WHISKEY SOLD FOR 35 CENTS A GALLON Now the Thirty-Five Cents Purchases Hut a Small Drink Over the Drying Bar Waynesboro. Pa.. March 15.—Clos-| neighboring distilleries and thus dia log down of all distilleries in this ; poaed of these cereals. sectioh recalls from an aged resident ! '!, e . K"od old days iwnen whisky was "as plenty as a time when ab.out every other farm j water" and almost us free. The old in this region had a distillery and resident remembers when he could made whisky in great quantities. j ''"- v a " " le KOCK ' whisky lie wanted This was in the period before the j TvcZZl i Civil War. when grain markets were the beverage that merchants in those fnr distant and hauling was difficult : days deept a jug of whisky on their i ever the bad roads of that day (when 1 f ounters f '> r fee use by their cus- j , . . : tomers, who only had to go to the wagon roads were in constapt use : jllHr a nd pour out a drink, from Baltimore to Pittsburgh and ; This will seem almost Incredible | from Baltimore to Philadelphia). |to people nowadays, who under the < Farmers found a nearer market Tor I recent revenue act must lay down their corn, rye and barley in the j thirty-five cents for a small drink. J GEO, R, HEISEY, LAWYER, DROPS DEAD IN STORE Specialized in Corporation Law and Was Certi fied Accountant WIDELY KNOWN IN CITY Belonged to Many Clubs, Lodges and Business 'Organizations ■RjK; GEORGE R. HEISEY George 15. lleisey, corporation lawyer, certified accountant and a widely known member of tlie Dau phin county bar, died suddenly this morning at Ensminger's drug store. Second and North streets. It is be lieved that death was caused by angina pectoris. Mr. Heisey was born in Lancaster county. He practiced law in liis home county, moving to Harrisburg where he resumed his legal work. He was a specialist in the practice of cor poration law and was widely known because of his wide and thorough knowledge. He resided at 901 North Front street, in the Elpliinstono apartments, of which lie was the owner. He was actively identified with the city's business lrfo and was a mem ber of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, tlte Dauphin County liar Associa tion. the Country Club of Harrisburg, tlte Masons, and other organizations. Surviving him is his wife, Mrs. Merrimar \V. Heisey. who has been a prominent figure in lted Cross work here and who was actively identified with the Motor Messenger Service and Red Cross Motor Corps. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced later. Strikers Drag Crews From Cars in Jersey By Associated Press. Newark. X. .)., March 14. With hearings on the North Jersey trol ley strike deadlock deferred by the National War Labor Board, until Monday, pending conferences between the Public Service Railway Company and its employes disorder was re newed by crowds of union sympathiz ers here today. Crews were dragged from three cars and attempts made to short circuit wires. OLD CLOTHING NEEDED BADLY BY REFUGEES City Asked to Give Tons of Garments to Red Cross The Harrisburg Chapter, Ameri ican Bed Cross, ' to-day issued a statement saying that this district will he called upon to furnish thirty live tons of old clothing to lie sent to starving people in .Southern Europe made destitute by the world war. A campaign to raise this amount of clothing jvill lie opened (Confined on l'agc 10) PEACE TERMS TO TAKE TSING-TAO; OUT OF HUN GRIP I The Supreme Council Decides I 1 Germany Must Give I p Its Leasehold LOSES SHANTUNG, TOO; Japan and China Are at Odds 1 Over 'JTlie to Insular Property BOTH CLAIM OWNERSHIP j Japs Assert Conquest of Hun I i Forces Gives Over i Neighbor By Associated Press Paris, March 14.—The Supremo j i Council of the Peace Conference has| | J virtually decided to include in the preliminary treaty of peace a re-| j quirement that Germany shall relin j quisli her leasehold of Tsing-tao and j all properties concessions 011 the Shantung peninsula, i No attempt, it is understood, will | be made at present to render a de cision as to ultimate possession of Germany's rights, which is the sub ject of a controversy between the j Japanese and Chinese delegations in I Paris. I . 1 The former holds that Japan ac- j quired the leasehold by right of con-j j quest over the German forces there,; j although she is willing to permit the! i ultimate status of the Shantung | ! , I peninsula to lie determined by thci i Peace Conference. China contends! I the lease was automatically cun-j I eeled by the expulsion of the Get - - j 1 mans, who originally acquired it by; ; force, and that the property reverts j I to China. I It is expected that the final ad-! j justment will be made in the dell- j I nite peace treaty or by the League j of Nations, unless, in the meantime,! : the principals to the controversy j ! reach a mutually satisfactory agree- i | ment. Russian Red Chiefs Say Soviet Army Is On Way to Archangel Loudon. March 14.—The Bolshe-j j vik general staff at Moscok claims J that during January arid February i t lie Bolshevik army occupied terrl i tory the size of France, having 1,- ; 055 miles of rfttlroad under its con trol, 'and declares that the Soviet troops will reach Archangel by May ! 1. according to a Helsinfors dispatch : to the Mail. After the Bolslieviki entered Kiev ! they are said to have executed Pro ! lessor Barunovsky, an economist, whrt was recently appointed to rep | resent Fkraine in Paris. Professor 1 Zabolotij. Professor Elimenko, Gen- I eneral Balbachan, eleven newspa- I pernten and tlie president of the j municipality are also reported to j have ben shot by the Bolshevik. Hears of Father's Death on Arrival at Home Port To hurry home to attend the fu -1 neral of his father, was the first | word Vernon \V. Flora, of Enohi. | 'received yesterday when he landed 'at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va., j after serving for ten months over- Iseas. The father, William W. Flora, I freight conductor, died several days' jago from injuries suffered in tlie big I freight wreck at Heaton last Thurs j day. I Flora made application for a pass Ito return home for the funeral and | left Norfolk. Va., at ti o'clock last evening and arrived in Eriola this I morning to attend the funeral which j is being held this afternoon. Spartacans Continue to Resist Government Forces By Associated Press. liiiuilon. March 14. Spartacan forces still retain part of the Berlin suburb of Liehtenberg. and arc stubbornly resisting the government forces, an Exchange Telegraph dls pateh from Copenhagen says. Fight ing is continuing in Liehtenberg .and also in the Ivarlshorst. scum: m bt i\ crash By Associated Press. AA ilkes'llarrr, Pa., March 14. Twenty persons were injured, eight of them seriously, when a trolley car ran wild down a grade here today and crashed into a standing freight train. Slippery rails caused the car to get beyond control. St SHI EHAX.Vt OX A\ \V OVER By Associated Press. AAaxhlngton, March 14.—Sailing of ' the transport Susquehanna from St. I Nazi re, on March 11 to arrive at New ' York March 114 with fifty-six officers I and 2.323 men, was" announced today I by the War Department. STRIKE SITI A'l'lOX SERVO I S March 14. Although the Cuban general strike has been called off formally, a dispatch to tlie Ktate Department today from Hu vanna, says the situatro" stiu is jiioua and uncertain. AMERICAN MARINES I ASSAULT JAPANESE TSIN-TIEN CONSUL Washington Officials Much Disturbed by Reports of Attack on Orientals by Angry Yankee Sea Force MEN MAY BE PUNISHED AND APOLOGY MADE BY NATION 1! 1/ Associated Press t Pokin, March 14.—American nia-j j rines have raided the Japanese con cession at Tien Tsin, forcing their ! way into the Japanese consulate and j I assaulting tlie consul, according to! | dispatches received here. The trouble is said to have been l i caused by the rough treatment given! I American soldiers who became dis-| orderly in tlie Japanese quarter of; ! the city. Japanese soldiers drove' j out tlie Americans with fixed bayo-j ; nets, it is said, wounding fwo of! ' tlietn finite seriously. Tlte next day 200 angry marines! . who wore off duty paraded through j ! the Japanese concession, and it isi .alleged they attacked every Jitpu-j j nese encountered. When the ma rines reached the consulate they forcibly entered, it is reported, and' assaulted tlte consul, whose injuries! are understood to be serious. Tlte consular body is deliberating! I on measures to be taken to restore j normal conditions. ft is said that ; feeling is running high in Tien Tsin.! Washington. March 14. —A dash ; between American troops, a Jap- ' j anese policeman and some civilians ! I at Tien Tsin was reported to the j j State Department to-day by Minister! , Reinsclf, at Peking. Tlte minister I i said lie ltad sent First Secretary I | Spencer to Tien Tsin to investigate j j and report. Officials were greatly disturbed by i tiie news front Peking. Navy De- I partment officials doubted that two j | hundred marines were involved in i'l ? j'jr 4 i • 1 '2 t 4 ■ ' rv A J ray occupied territory the size of France, h ■ T it 3 % .0 . A > 'f; 4 T 2 4 * 1 J r! ?' 3 1 *1 rg i.v S" 1 N lire. J 4* MORGUES AND HOSPITALS CROWDE ** *** s j T" - - ▼ morgues. There r.rc 196 bodies' in the morgue in Han- 3 4 f overstrassi j£l the Friedrichshain hospital and 39 at the fr b 3 I 4 |4 . 4 ♦ . Germans execute 24 marin 3 ! *4* ,3 jg He it h r:! 'y-fo'.ir m f*t).c m fl pic';; M J as the result of their attempt to make an am ,3 | all on government troops in the building in a <1 • 4 I <-* * J,- 41 ' [ i I it* 1 | I* I * ' i.-'.our • !4 * |4 TREATY MUST BE REVISED i a X Brussels—Prerftter Delacroix announced in \ 14* Chamber of Deputies 10-day that the Supreme Council of •* j * It l * Conference had .decided the treaty ftf April 19. ' . la||Ia|| • Jen Belgium and Holland must be revised. * ' * X J I ▼ "ir * '■ ' /• n • - "r r ; • — *— ——— ; — i: ■ J j J*the Republican MARRIAGE LICENSES :xt H'.-'Usc. 4 . T l-ro tori. HarrUhurg, nn <l Kllrulx-ih Mngaru, yilddlrttwsi T. J 7" J' rank DillcnlinuKk. yiiil<iir(utvn, nml Itln F. tUMi-inli-rfer, Harris- J -i. i| tlie raid, because no marines are stationed at Tien Tsin and the entire contingent at Peking, three or four hours ride away, numbers only a few hundred. Only the presence ot a number of American ships in port, of which the department has not been advised, could account for so many marines being ashore and oft duty at Tien Tsin. The American force stationed at Tien T.in is the Fifteenth regular lnfantrv regiment, which lias been there for several years and is com posed entirely of veteran soldiers. No mention was made of a raid by American murines in the Jtipun ese consulate' and the wounding ol the consul, reported in a Peking dis patch to the Associated Press. The minister's message was brief and gave no details. In the absence of complete in-, formation, oflicials were not willing to discuss the incident for publica tion. Privately, however, it was said, if the Japanese consulate had been violated, of course the guilty would be punished and a propel r.polog.v would be made to Japan. The Japanese consulate is located in a saloon and restaurant section of Tien Tsin. and brawls there in thfl past are said to have been not in frequent. IItMKI.S STARTS* FOR 1H I'.OI'K f.v Associated Press• Washington, March 14.—Secretary Daniels left Washington today foi New York to embark tomorrow on the transport Devlathan for his Ku ropean trip. He will attend tonigli! in New York the dinner to tie gives by the Democratic National Commit tee in honor of Homer Oummings The secretary expects to return fro it Kurope about May 1.