Germans Subdue Spartacans Only to Confront New Danger From Military and Monarchists
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LXXXVIII— NO. 64 14 PAGES Dal &tKt 8??*?* 3HARRISBURG, PA MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 191' V " , 6 TWO 3 CENTS 3 HOME EDITION
WILSON'S STAND
ON LEAGUE GETS
SENATORIAL RAP
Brundcgec and Calder Out
Against Incorporation
in Peace Treaty
•HE SHALL NOT PASS"
Former Makes Position Clear
in Statement Given Public
ity at Washington
NEW YORKER OUTSPOKEN
Jpposes Making Covenant of
League Law of United
States by Merger
Washington, March 17.—"1t the
President submits the proposed
l.eague of Nations plan in anything
like its present form, so linked with
any treaty that the two cannot be
separted by amendment in the Sen
ate, then I shall unhesitatingly vote
10 reject both treaties," said United
States Senator Frank D. Brandegee |
lust night. "I shall never bo im
posed upon by such an apparent
trick; 1 shall never be intimidated
by such an outrageous attempt at
coercion. I think a majority of the
Senators will take that view, al
though I can speak positively for no
one except myself.
"If the President desires to ad- !
vise with the Senate as to the treat
ies,he can do so at any time by con
vening that body. If, however, he
prefers to ignore it and can make i
the Allies believe that a just peace
can be more quickly obtained by i
that course of procedure, both he
and they ought to have timely warn
ing that they are sadly mistaken.
'He shall not pass. "
Now York, March 17. —United
Slates Senator Calder, of New York,
said in a statement last night that
"if the plan for the League of Na
tions is so tied up with the peace
treaty that the peace treaty cannot
be separately considered," as an
nounced in Paris yesterday, by Pres
ident Wilson, he would do all in his
power "to reject the entire propo
sition."
The Senator said that, even
though the President had not called
an extra session of Congress, he ]
thought Senators and Kepregenta
tives "should return to Washington
at once and go into session." He
added that "to deny that Congress
can meet whensoever a majority of
i'ongress sees lit. is to deny that
the people can meet," since all the
power of the people is vested in
Congress.
Asking if "we are ready to make
the proposed constitution of the
l.eague of Nations a law of our
land.' the Senator continued:
"The people must decide after be
ing fully informed in justice to our
gallant Allies, who held the tide of
barbarism while our slower con
science awoke, their representatives
tit Paris should know just what we
in America believe. This can only
be dune in open discussion in the
people's forum, the Congress of the
United States."
Paris,. March 17. President
Wilson, somewhat fatigued by his sea
journey and the busy days spent since
his arrival here, remained in bed un
til noon yesterday. He received *Col.
K. M. House in the afternoon and
with him discussed the military and
naval terms of peace, as well as the
result of the Brussels conference rel
ative to shipping and the supplying
of food to Germany. Later he drove
to St. Germain with Mrs. Wilson, re
turning to the White House about
seven o'clock. >
Red Cross Issues Appeal
For Women Workers to
Aid Refugees of War
That Harrisbtirg women have dis
played lack of interest in Red Cross
work during the past few weeks is
the charge made by Red Cross of
ficials. It is emphasized by these of
ficials that the services of Red Cross
volunteer workers are urgently and
imperatively needed for work on
refugee garments to be sent to Euro
pean war sufferers.
According to the officials only
three workers were present at the
last working day of the chapter.
They were emphatic in their appeal
for Workers.
A call for a large quantity of gar
ments for the war refugees, children
made destitute by the world conflict,
and women who are virtually starv
ing, has been received by the Har
risburg chapter and they have been
urged to speed up production as
much as possible in order to allevi
ate the misery among these people.
The garments are to be sent to the
people of Southern Europe, includ
ing the Czechs, the Slavs, Ruman
ians and others in dire distress. "If
people could only realize the suffer
ing among these sufferers," reads a
letter from the national headquar
ters, "they would not withhold their
contributions and services. We must
have help and we must have it
quickly."
THE WEATHER
For Harrlaburg and vicinity: Con
tinue! unsettled weather, with
rnln to-night nnd prohnbly
Tuesday) warmer to-night,
lowest temperature about 32 de
grees.
For Eastern Pennsylvania: Hnln
to-night nnd probably Tuesday;
warmer to-night; fresh south
winds.
Itfver
The Susquehnnnn river nnrl all Its
branches will prohnbly rise, ex
cept the lower portion ot the
rnntii river, which will fall slow
ly or remain nenrly stationary
to-night. A stage of about (i.a
feet Is Indicated for llarrlsburK
Tuesday morning.
Another Case of "Three Thousand Miles Away"
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ERZBERGER SAYS !
WILSON'S IDEAS
MUST BE IN PACT
Says National Assembly Will
Refuse Assent lo Treaty
If II Is Objectionable
Copcnhnvcn. March 17. if the
allies loaded the peace treaty with
conditions going beyond President
Wilson's fourteen points the German
national assembly would have to re
fuse its assent to the treaty, Mathias
Erzberger, head of the German ar
mistice commission, declared in an
address 'at a Berlin meeting in fa
voring the formation of a "real Lea
gue of Nations," according to a dis
patch front the German capital to
day. The matter then would be left
to a referendum of the German na
tion, he said.
Herr Erzberger disclaimed any
obligations upon Germany to give
compensation for acts she commit
ted after her first peace offer in De
cember, 1916. lie declared the only
means of checking Bolshevism was
the abandonment of the "mailed list
policy of the allies."
Have Confidence in Wilson
The German people, he said, had
almost unlimited confidence in Pres
ident Wilson and he hoped that the
League of Nations covenant as pro
mulgated on February 14 would not
be finally adopted, as, he declared,
it was a compromise of the ideals
of President Wilson with the im
perialistic aspirations of some of the
allies. The American President, Herr
Erzberger insisted, was under obli
gations to advocate the immediate
admission of Germany to the lea
gue.
Points to French "Crimes'*
Herr Erzberger asserted that Ger
many was prepared to accept the
vote of Alsace-Lorraine as to its
future, but he referred to the re
ported aspirations of France re
specting the Rhineland and to Po
land's claims to Danzig as "crimes,"
adding:
"What is German will remain Ger
man."
As far as the demands for com
pensation were concerned, Herr
Erzberger declared that Germany
would reject any demand that ap
plied to acts committed after Decem
ber, 1916, when Germany made her
first peace offer. There was no moral
obligations upon Germany regard
ing compensation aside from the
case of Belgium, the speaker argued.
In that case Germany would act hon
estly, he said.
DIVORCE FOlt KAISER'S SOX
Amsterdam, March 17. Eitel
Friedrich, second son of the former
German Emperor, and Kleine Jour
nal, of Berlin says, lias begun di
vorce proceedings against his wife
charging infidelity before the war!
The paper adds that when the for
mer prince attempted to begin pro
ceedings before the war his father
vetoed the plan.
ASSESSMENT OF
PROPERTY BASED
ON SALES VALUE
j Commissioner Stine Brands
as False Charges Made ;
by Politician
County Commissioners C. C. j
|Cumbler and Henry M. Stine to-day
[said that when ever any revisions of!
| assessments of properties in the city
|or county are made, such changes'
[are only authorized when they are!
I convinced the valuations as fixed arej
| either too low or too high,
i "Intimations that we are attempt-!
jing to evade our duty because we are
in the majority, are faljse," Commis
isioner Stine declared. "In every in-1
I stance where a complaint has been
made about the assessment of any!
j property we investigated fully before!
; deciding and we will continue to do
Iso until all the revision work is
' finished. We have found some prop
[ ci ties assessed at figures higher than
the sale prices paid recently for
| these same tracts and buildings, in
j such instances there was only one
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COLORED SOLDIERS TO HEAR
FAMOUS HELL FIGHTERS' BAND
Men Who Saw Service Willi
Uncle Sam's Overseas Army
to Be Guesls of Telegraph
at Orplieum Theater To
morrow Afternoon
"Europe's Jazz Hand is a hig
society event. Manhattan Opera
House crowded to capacity, liotii
of us present and witnessed
sensational hit."
This was the telegram Man
ager Hopkins, of the Orplieum
theater, received from Sidney
Wilmer anil Walter Vincent,
who heard the "Hell Fighters"
hand in New York Saturday
evening. The hand appears here
to-morrow afternoon and even
ing, and Manager Hopkins says
it will lie one of the big society
events of Harrisliurg as well.
The' colored heroes of the 368 th
Infantry and the 351 st Artillery, just
returned from the fighting front in
France, are going to have a regular
reunion at the Orpheum Theater to
morrow afternoon as the guests of
the Harrisburg Telegraph when the
famous 'Hell Fighters" band plays
there. The colored soldiers, whosa
BLAME FOR FATAL
(RAILROAD WRECK
FIXED IN REPORT
; Engineman, Flagman and the
Signal System All *
Found at Fault
| Blame for the fatal Pennsylvania
j freight accident which last week re
sulted in the deatli of five men was
| placed to-day by John P. Donohey, in
| vestigator of accidents for the Public
j Service Commission, on the conduct of
the engineman. and the flagman and
j the signal system controlling the op
, eration of trains in the district where
I the wreck occurred.
| Mr. Dohoney's report made to Chair
man W. D. B. Ainey follows:
"A rear-end collision, involving two
eastbound freight trains, engines 156ti
and 327,"|, occurred on March 6, 1919,
I at 3 :29 a. m„ one mile east of Heaton
on the Trenton cut-off of the Pennsyl
vania railroad.
"As a result of the collision, four
employes who had been relieved from
duty were killed, and one other died
subsequently front ttje effect of his in
juries. These men occupied the cabin
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INSTRUCTORS TO
MEN OF 368T11 AND
351 ST REGIMENTS
Cj OLORED soldiers of the
I 368 th Infantry and the
351 st Artillery will be the
guests of the Harrisburg Tele
graph at the matinee concert of
the "Hell Fighters" band at the
Orpheum tomorrow afternoon.
All that is necessary to gain
admission to the theatre to pre
sent yourself at the Box Otlice
tomorrow afternoon, tell the
manager you are a member of
the 368 th or the 351 st and get
aticket free. There will be no
charge whatsoever and a block
of good seats have been set aside
so that all the men may sit to
gether.
Only men who saw overseas
service will be admitted.
Every man must be uni
form.
uniform will art as a ticket- of ad
mission, will have reserved seats so
that they may sit together and act
JS a reception committee to the vis
iting musicians.
The band has made a wonderful
AUTO SHOW IS
SUCCESS FROM
OPENING HOUR
Every Type of Pleasure Car
Is on Exhibition in Big
Warerooms
MANY SALES REPORTED
Dealers Pleased at Attitude of
Public Toward Their
Efforts
I By Alfred P. Davies
Considering the inclemency of the
weather Saturday evening and tlio gen
eral commotion incident to the opening
of an automobile show, the concensus
of opinion is that the grand opening
of the Ninth Annual Harrisbtirg Auto
mobile show was one of the most suc
cessful in the history of the or
ganization.
Never in the history of automobile
shows in Harrisbtirg has a show been so
elaborately staged. The settings, the
background, the display of cars and the
enthusiasm of the dealers are all of the
highest calibre. And nowhere in the
U. S. A. with the possible exception
of New York City (and that only in
magnitude) will anyone be able to find
a better automobile show. Nothing has
been left undone—wait a minute—they
forgot a cloak checking room, and that
will no doubt be very much in evidence
beginning today; an out of town man
calling J. Clyde Myton's attention to its
absence. The decorations from the floor
to the ceiling, from the East side of the
room to the West side and from tlio
North side to the South side are with
out flaw.
Coming to the display of cars, ohlihhh !
it sure is a sight for weak eyes. Every
thing in the way of an automobile from
little 'Ole Henry" up through the Isles
to the gorgeous Packard is one sensa
tion after another. The man without
the price of a car or without 'the I'd
like-to-have-one-feeiing' had better stay
away from this show or he'll be in seri
ous trouble before ho gets away for if
ever an arsny of motor cars made you
feel like wanting one. that one is now in
the Overland Warerooms. Arranged to
the Queens taste, with beauty and ar
tistry .the main thought, there is never
a reason in the world for any one going
away without being sure of the car
they want to own.
Unlike other shows held in Harris
burg, this one affords ample opportu
nity for viewing any part of the car
on display without crawling under a
fender or over the top to get a squint
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Instantly Killed When He
Steps in Front of Train;
Girl Saved From Injury
Ralph D. Gettier, -108 Briggs
street, an employe of Stouffer's
restaurant, 4 North Court street,
was instantly killed late Saturday
night when he stepped in front of
an eaetbound freight train. Miss
Setlla Urich, of New Cumberland,
who accompanied him, narrowly,
escaped death.
Gettier, Miss Urich and a number
| of other persons had gone to the
Cove for a week-end house party.
One youth who witnessed the acci
dent, says that there was consider
able steam about the scene of the
accident and that he believes that
this had blinded Gettier. He saved
Miss Urich by grabbing her just as
she was about to step on the tracks.
Colored Men Apply to Get
Back Into U. S. Service
Colored men who have seen serv
ince in France are anxious to go
back into the service. At least some
of them are, for while applications
for the enlistment of returned col
ored soldiers were opened at the lo
cal recruiting office in Market street,
only on Saturday, already a number
of men have been to see Colonel
Kemper about re-enlistment.*
"The colored soldier who has been
in the service even for a very short,
period may re-enlist for one year,"
said Colonel Kemper to-day. "Oth
ers may go in for three years. The
French people have a very high re
gard for colored American warriors
and the men who go abroad as re
placements will be sure of a warm
reception. Some of them will be as
signed, no doubt, to the army of oc
cupation."
Jazz Music Made Big Hit on
Broadway After Lieutenant
"Jim" Europes Bogs Re
turned From Honorable
Service in France
hit on Broadway and will play nil
of the big cities in the countrv.
The indications are that it will have
a crowded house afternoon and eve
ning here.
"You got here just in time", said
Manager Hopkins when the Tele
graph man appeared to have seats
reserved for the veterans. "It sure
looks like a big house, and the boys
are certainly going to see a line
show. This band of colored war
riors is more than a mere musical
organization. Its a regular show,
from what I sec in Hie New York
papers and if we aren't sold out
...sa; y nigra
I'll be greatly mistaken.
A Wonderful Band
This band is the one of which
Irving Cobb wrote in his great arti
cle in the Saturday Evening Cost
entitled "Young Black Joe." Cobb
on I'agc _I3.J
HARD TASK TO
FIND NAME FOR
NEW FREIGHTER
Up to llarrisburg to Find Suit
able Appellation For
Cargo Carrier
SUGGEST NAME
FOR FREIGHTER
(Date)
To J. Clyde Myton,
Liberty Loan Committee,
Chamber of Commerce,
llarrisburg, Pa.
Name Suggested
Reason For Such Name
(Signed)
Address
It was announced to-day that the
person who suggests the name even
tually chosen by the committee will be
awarded a prize of $lO, to be credited
on the purchase of a Victory bond in
the next Liberty J.oan. This credit will
be made by any bank in the district;
and the prize is open to any resident of
llarrisburg or Dauphin, or
Juniata counties. j
Who will name the cargo boat?
And what will that name be?
llarrisburg, as has already been told
in the Telegraph, is permitted to name
one of the big freighters which will aid
in regaining sea supremacy for the
United States. This privilege comes
from the splendid showing made by the
city in the last Liberty Loan campaign.
Quite a number of names have been
suggested. One of them was "The Har
risburg," and another "The Susque
hanna," but both are barred because
there are already ships bearing those
.names.
Mifflin county naming a ship and
has decided upon Kishacoquillas as the
proper thing.
But what is llarrisburg to call its
pet freighter?
Citizens of the district are urged to
suggest something. And for their con
venience a coupon is being published to
day—this to be forwarded to J. Clyde
Myton, secretary of the Liberty Loan
committee. Mr. Myton is not the judge
—all names being submitted to a special
committee of three selected by Donald
McCormick. The coupons will be pub
lished only once and should bo for
warded immediately.
Crnovich Loses His
Shoes on R. R. Train;
Wouldn't Be Wheeled
His name is Crnovich and his
home is in South Bethlehem. At
least this is the record wired Phil
adelphia division headquarters of
the Pennsylvania railroad here in
an effort to locate the culprit who
stole his shoes on a Pennsylvania
railroad train on Friday night.
Vrnovich tokl the conductor a sailor
stole the shoes.
He says he took passage here for
Pittsburgh, after leaving a Philadel
phia and Reading train, and that
while he dozed his shoes dis-
I appeared. He made search but in
[vain; furthermore, lie says, when
he arrived in Pittsburgh he was
hustled into an invalid's chair be
cause the trainmen, who thought
he might be affected mentally or,
more likely, ill, were not willing he
should walk in the streets of
Pittsburgh in his socks. He says
he was for leaving the train with
the remainder of the passengers, but
[ that the conductor talked omintms
:ly about pneumonia. lie advised
I Crnovich to sit tight for a bit.
When two negro porters appeared
with the invalid's chair Crnovich
stoutly resisted their efforts to
wheel him around and broke away.
He sayS the theft occurred while
the train was on the Middle Divi
| sion.
Supreme Court Gives
Kansas Permission to Go
Ahead Against Burleson
Washington. March 17. Author
ity of Postmaster Burleson to in
crease telephone rates throughout the
j country is to be determined by the
[ Supreme Court which today granted
the State of Kansas permission to
Institute original proceedings against
the postmaster general, questioning
the validity of his order of Decem
ber 13 last, establishing new toil
rates.
The court ordered that a return
be made in the case at the next term
in October.
The Flag of
Ireland
They formed the flag of Ireland
full many a year ago.
And made it green because God
made the little island so!
They cut it neither long nor
round, but made its angles
square
To represent the hearts and lives
of people living there!
They made the emblem on it
golden yellow as the sun,
Which kissed Killarney's ripples
'ere the world was halt'
begun!
And the harp? Whist! that's a
secret. 'Tis for ringing
• out the air
Rejojcing when the big things
come to dear auld Ireland
there!
—ANNA HAMILTON WOOD
Written for the llarrisburg
Telegraph.
LOCAL BREWERIES
TURN EFFORTS TO
MAKING NEAR BEER
Saloonmen Not Enthusiastic Over the
Prospect of Keeping Bars Going
Without Alcohols "Authority"
PURVEYORS OF THE BREW
ADMIT WATER IS BETTER
Near-beer had its general introduc
tion to Harrisbtirg to-day, but there
was no perceptible exultation on the
part of saloonkeepers. A round-robin
distributed by certain breweries, among
them the Fink Company, announced
that on April 1 the initial product of
near-beer, containing 1-1! per cent, al
cohol would be ready, and orders could
be sent in now. But llarrisburg saloon
men failed to get enthusiastic, and. in
deed, they were conlident that near
beer is a long way off from regular
beer, and that water, pure, cold water,
will be a better substitute.
For several months brewers in var
ious parts of the country have had a
near-beer for sale and ono saloon in
Harrißburg has been handling it, with
no success. Several cities are making
brands, but it does not appear to cap
tivate patrons of the bar.
Stu A' "Approved"
According to notice sent out by the
brewers, the new stuff is to be made on
a formula approved by, the government
and the brewers alone are the authority
that "it is pretty good."
It is admitted that the brewers are
hoping that they will be able to sell
enougli of the stuff to keep a sufficient
number of bars in operation to permit
them to keep running. As yet not one
local hotelman has made up his mind to
fight prohibition with the substitute.
Not Enthusiastic
•"Looks like beer; tastes like beer,
but ain't got no authority," was the
decision to-day made by an epicure in
a Market street cafe.
"I can't see how near-beer will ever
be popular," explained a saloon pro
prietor, with no bitterness or desire for
argument but simply as one stating a
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DOLES TO ADVANCE ON GERMANS "J
7 Berlin. Dispatches to Berlin newspapers from '£
4 Graudenr allege that the Poles are preparing for a gen> <JL
\7 eral advance a. ainst the Germans and ha- no* the
4* German outposts that the armistice is no longer in effect. m
iTh h says the
4| violations of the armistice. ?
4 TORNADO KILLS IN MISSISSIPPI £
;J Vicksburg, Miss. Searchers have found nine .J
!I bodies, victims of a tornado which yesterday swept eight |£
▼ miles from a point near Grace. . r >s miles north of thi\. ,7,
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4 place. Two white persons and several negroes were kill- '
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J FAMOUS CANADIAN TROOPS HOME *'■] J
4 lifax, N. S. The famous "Princess Pats,""CanT *
efr
f" >n French soil, returned home
7 *
4 to-day, arriving here on the steamship Carmania from 'J
X The 49th Battalion and the 40th and 50tV j*
T*. Canadian mounted rifles also were abroad, J
£ CHINESE GOVERNMENT ALARMED
Peking. The Chinese government is alarmed over i*
4> a report from Petrograd relative to the formation of a 1
X -.mnise workingmen s organization,' with sixty thou ►,
4* -rs. to carry on revolutionary propagand *
£
7 measures to check such activities !•
7 STEAMSHIP PATRIA ARRIVES J
5 New York.—With 2,11(1 troops, the steamship Patria i 1
7 arrived here to-day from Marseilles. Units included the >
4* ■
J Tank Corps complete, 65 officers and |
Y distribution among thirteen camps throughout • j
4* .....intrj ; and "six casual companies. .
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i MARRIAGE LICENSES \ ]
Joorith 11. TrontU'. \rwport \cn, Vn., nml Slrlln E. l.f- I I
± ■■■<>> ii.-i I:'o l-'rmik llolhi'ckrr nnil I'milinc A. Kempf, Oberllnj I'lnr- ,
!'. ShlpTc) ami lirnt-r E. Ilcj, llnltimorr.
tt.ItHIIIII'IHtM t"g"I II 1 ! 1 I'M* •
fact. "The near-beer is too heavy; just
like water. A man can easily drink a
couple of quarts of regular beer but lie
cannot do the same with water or near
beer. The alcohol makes beer light."
The regular beer being sold now con
tains only two and three-quarters per
cent, alcohol; at least four per cent, be
ing needed, according to the saloon
keeper, to give beer any substance. He
is of the opinion that with only 1-2 pyr
cent, tile beverage hardly has an ex
cuse for associating its title with beer.
WILHELM CUTS HIS
THOUSANDTH LOG
By Associated Press.
Amorongcn, Holland, March 17.
—Former Entperor William to
day completed sawing into logs
his thousandth tree since he
took refuge at Count von Ben
tinck's custie tiere last fall. From
the thousandth tree a few logs
were converted into souvenirs of
tlie achievement and marked in
red ink with the inscription,
"W. 2. ' These were presented to s
members of the Bentinck family*
and to those who have assisted
the ex-Emperor in liis work dur
ing the past ten weeks.
Expert sawyers of the neigh
borhood computed the value of
the wages which Herr Hohenzol
lern would have earned if he had
been paid the trade union rate at
about S3O for the whole period,
or an average of 50 cents per
working day, which usually con
sists of three hours.