Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, March 18, 1919, Image 1
With Wilson Present Supreme Council Adopts Phnto Keep German Army Down to 100,000 Mens RA.RRISBURG TELEGRAPH 0k • ®je XRar-liifcptitfttnl. ' . .XXX\ 111 NO. 65 16 PAGES DA, MAER E T THO'pJ.T IIARRISBURG, PA TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1919 '"KRWJSUS 0 , 4 _ MOCUTI ® '■" 6INQLK COPIES unur cnmnN | ' .NEWSPAPER IN lIARRISBORn TWO CENTS HUIVIt Eil/lIIUIN ROPER WILL ASK LIGHT ON STAND i OF U. S. BREWERS Defendants in Stockholders' Suit Invite Government Co-operation FOOD DOESN'T FIGURE? New York Concern Sends Let-1 ters to Brewers to Go Ahead 7.'t/ Associated Press New Y'ork. Mar. IS. Coincident I with the decision of the Internal j It. venue Bureau to ask the Depart- ; nient of Justice whether it had au- I thority to enforce the regulation j prohibiting production of beer ex- j i opt that of less than one-half of! one per cent, alcoholic de- t fondants in the brewery stookhold-1 crs* suit brought here last week to' test the constitutionality of the war- ! time prohibition act announced that I they had invited the co-operation of j the government in the defense. Washington, Mar. IS. Whether j the Internal Ilevenue Bureau has] authority to enforce its rule against I the sale of beer containing one-half I of one per cent, or more of alcohol, i will be put up to the Department of j Justice. Internal Revenue Commis- j • .nor Roper to-day decided to ask ] for an opinion on the subject. Beer containing one-half of one! per cent., or more of alcohol by vol- j ume is considered intoxicating by l the Internal Revenue Bureau. Of- i ticials explained tljat this standard ; was based on a number of laws and ourt decisions in the past and was I not an arbitrary executive ruling. Appears to Be Violation <~>n the fare of the situation, it : was said unofficially by some bureau | iffieeis, the brewers' action would | constitute a direct violation of a re- | revenue bureau ruling:. This' ruling, issued February 6, after an-1 nouncement• of the lifting of tliei President's ban on manufacture of i near beer, but before it hud actually j gone into effect, follows: "If at any time the President's, proclamation of September 1. 1918, becomes inoperative as to hear beer, i brewers may resume the ntanufac- : ture thereof prior to May 1, 1919. where the alcoholic content during! the process of manufacture exceeds! one-half of one per cent, by volume but does not exceed 2 3-4 per cent. | by weight, on the brewery premises.! provided the alcoholic content at the j lime of removal for sale and con-] sumption does not exceed the limit! of less than one-half of one per cent, j of alcohol by volume. "Within the intent of the act of November 21. 1918, (prohibiting! manufature of beer after May 1. 1919, and its sale after Juno 301, a beverage containing one-half of one j per cent, or more of alcohol by vol - j time will be regarded as intoxicat ing.' Merely a Condition The provision requiring dealeo- ] holization of beer, it was pointed out. was not positively stated in the j ruling, but was a condition of the! permissive clause. Edgar Richard, acting food ad- ! ministrator in the absence cf Her bert Hoover, said last night that the, food administration was no longer i interested in the question of brewing! of beer from a food standpoint, and ! that the alcoholic content of beer j was a matter entirely up to the bureau of internal revenue to de termine. The United States Brewers' Asso ciation. comprising three-fourths of , the industry throughout the country : announced today that copies of the ..pinion of Elihu Root and William D. j Guthrie, advising brewers that they t might proceed legally with the man- j ufacture and distribution of beer ' containing 2 4 per cent of alcohol, j had been mailed to its seven hun- j dred members. While the association has taken no j action on the opinion, officers de- | clared they "expected" many members • would follow the example set by the j Eager Beer Brewers Botyd of Trade | ' f New York and vicinity in deciding I to ignore the government regulation! restricting production of "non-intox- j Seating" malt beverages to those of less than one-half per cent alcoholic ! content. j ARMY TANK RATTLES THROUGH CITY STREETS ' Harrisburgers are becoming quite ! blase these days, seeing everything ! from airplanes. automobile shows! and tanks. This morning people on j Market street ogled a small tank 1 which came nattling down the paved ! highway just as though •it were j crashing its way into Metz. The tank is one of the exhibits ! at the Auto Show this week. ' -•STH TO SAIL A.Y MAY 3 . | Franklin, Pa., March 18.—That the j Twonty-eighth Division will sail for I America on May 3 is the statement | of Colonel George C. Rlckards. com mander of the One ..Hundred and I Twelfth infantry, in a letter to his ' mother in this city. THE WEATHER] For Harrlaburg anil vicinity! Fair to-night and Wrdnrtdaji colder to-night, with lowest tempera tare about 3T> degrees. For Kastrrn Pennsylvania! Fair to-night and Wrdneadayi colder to-night! freah and strong wrat winds. River The main river will rise. The j lower portlona of the North anil Went branches will rise slight ly to-night and begin to fnll Wednesday. All other streams of the system will fall to-night and Wednesday. A sfagr of i nbont 7 feet Is Indicated for | Harrlshnrg Wednesday morn- i lag. | It Don't Seem to Have Taught Us Much —. —. | , ——. —. — CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIALS PLAN i NEW BUILDING Special Conference Called For Friday to Discuss Joint Ofl'Jre Structure City Commissioners are planning ;to hold a joint conference with | county officials on Friday to discuss i further plans for the erection of a j courthouse and municipal office I building. A communication will be j sent to the county commissioners, | asking them to fix any hour which ! will be convenient for them to con | sider the project. ( According to Mayor Daniel L. Keistcr no time should be lost in getting definite plans under way for j the construction of the new build -1 ing. Selection of a site and adoption : of plans will inquire much time he I pointed out. These questions, to ! getlier with other details, must be j worked out so that an estimate can be made of the cost of the improve ! ment. after which a loan ordinance 1 will be passed by council. Action |on this measure approving it must i be taken not less than thirty days | before the general election in Xo- I vernber provided the commissioners | decide to submit the qustion of a ! bond issue to the city voters at that j time. { City officials in discussing the ; situation to-day said that no time j should be lost in completing all nec i essary arrangements since legisla tion which will permit the cjty and 1 county to join in the erection of a I building, has been introduced. John N. Peregoy Dies After a Week's Illness j John Xelson Peregoy, aged thirty ' eight years, died this morning at his late home, 811 North Sixteenth street, following a week's illness j from pneumonia. Funeral services | will be held Saturday afternoon at | 2 o'clock in charge of Perseverance I Lodge. No. 21, F. and A. M. .assist j ed by the Rev. Clayton A. Smucker. pastor of the Stevens Memorial j Methodist Church. Burial will lie j mode in the East Harrisburg ceme j tery. Mf. Peregoy is survived by his wife, Daisy, and two children, Nelson and Irene, his mother. Mrsl Alfred Peregoy, of Waynesboro, a brother and four sisters. Mr. Peregoy was associated with the Equitable Life Insurance Com pany of lowa. He was a pastmaster of Perseverance Lodge, No 21, F. and A. M., and a member of the Harrisburg Consistory and of Per ■ severance Chapter, Royal Arch Ma ; sons. PORT ROYAL TIMES SOLD Port Royal, Pa., March 18.— J. W. I Parsons, owner and editor of the i Port Royal Times, a weekly publica | tion, has sold it to George M. Hinkle, i a former employe, the change to take effect about April 1. Mr. Par | sons, it is understood, will engage iin business at Millereburg. Perry {county. METHODISTS ASK NEW AMENDMENT By Associated Press. Philadelphia. Ma rol? IS. —A resolution providing for an amendment to the Federal Con stitution to include in the instru ment a declaration that "Jesus Christ is the moral ruler of na tions" was today reported by the committee on church and state of the Philadelphia Methodist Conference with the recommen dation that no action be taken on the matter. The committee expressed "sympathy for the spirit of the resolution." The Rev. Charles Roads. Wil liamstown, urged the submission of the question "to the earnest consideration of our pastors and brethren." YOUR NAME IS ON SUCKER LIST, BANKERS WARN Fakirs Offer Worthless Stock and Promises in Return For Liberty Bonds 1 . Your name is on the "sucker list." This is the warning sounded to day by the local Liberty Loan com mittee to the patriotic men and women who subscribed to the four issues of Uncle Sam's war bonds. Whether you get buncoed depends largely upon your own good sense, the committee says. The warning against the flimflam wiles declares that big batches of circulars are be ing prepared to be sent to bond holders. The "sucker list" is compiled of the names of bond purchasers. The test as to the common sense of the men and women listed comes when the fiimflamers present how they will take Uncle Sam's bonds in exchange for their own issues which will pay anything from ten per cent, on up. Worthless gold mine, oil well and irrigation of desert lands are the fa vorites. There is no limit, to the promises, says the committee, that the fakirs are making "Hold on to your bond," is the advice of the committee. Gov. Sproul to Outline Coal Situation Today Governor Sproul will make a state ment in regard to the anthracite coal price situation late to-day. The Governor planned to issue an outline of his plan and to submit a resolu tion to-day to start things moving, but a rush of visitors prevented ac tion. It is probable that something mar be done before the House adjourns to-night. AGREE OX WOODRUFF BILL The school teachers committee has agreed upon the Woodruff bill as the teachers' minimum salary measure. , ROTARY DAY ! SWELLS CROWDS AT AUTO SHOW Big Warerooms at Twenty- Sixth and Dcrry Streets Filled to Capacity | This is Rotary Day at the automo j bile show in the Overland building | at Twenty-sixth and Derry streets. The Harrisburg notary Club yes ! terday heartily endorsed the show | after addresses by George G. Mc i Farland and Andrew S. Redmond I anj voted to attend to-day. j Many of the Kotarians went out this afternoon but by far the larger number will be in attendance to night. To-morrow evening one of the se . lections will be a vocal solo by Miss florence Weiser, of Reading, a pu -1 pil of Miss M. Kvelyn Essick, daugh | ter of W illiarn E. Essick, a former I president of the Rotary Club. The | automobile dealers are adding spe i ... P r °STnis to their exhibit and I visitors are finding the big building attractive not only from the stand , point of cars on display, but lively | and entertaining as well. Crowds Arc Itig Breaking all records for attend ance. the mighty motor show be j gun to draw today from the sur rounding country. One old codger | had come in his mud-covered Ford i all the way from the upper end of ! the county, traveling a good part of ; the night. Before the ticket sellers . arrived there were several hundred country folk waiting, and the "upper j end ' enthusiast seemed to be more | than satisfied after his long trip when the first object his eyes met j was a dossy "flivver." I Say what .ye will," he slammed ; his-rugged hand on J. Clyde Myton's [Continual on Pago 4.] FLIPPANT ANSWER TO COURT PROVES COSTLY Revolver Carried by William Proctor Looked Like Machine Gun to Judge Kunkel, Who Hands Out Severe Sentence "That miniature rifle you were carrying—it looked like a machine gun to me—where did you get it?" president Judge George Kunkel ask ed William E. Proctor, colored, con victed of carrying a re\olver con cealed. "I "told you where I got it," Proc tor answered. He had. been on trial before Judge Kunkel yesterday. "Very well. The sentence of the co.urt is that you pay a tine of 35, costs of this prosecution and serve seven months in the county Jail". Proctor looked surprised at the heavy jail sentence and passed out of the courtroom with a deputy WILSON MAY GET • BACK TO AMERICA WITHINA MONTH Cabinet Officers Believe Con-! gross Will Meet in Extra Session in May j GLASS SENDS MESSAGE j Senator Lodge Asks For Ad-] j dresses of Colleagues as of May 15 . By Associated Press i Washington, March 18. —An extra j | session of Congress before June 1 Is j believed to be a certainty by many I j government officials and members of , ! Congress, although their predictions ) are without the support of evidence j to show that President Wilson has j changed his determination not to | summon Congress before his return ! from France. • Glass Reports Conditions Cabinet officers believe the session ; will begin in May. some expecting j the date to be about the middle of j the month, with others suggesting I an earlier date, probably May 5. As! far as known, none of the cabinet members has specitlcally reeoni- | mended any date to the President, f but Secretary Glass is understood to j have presented certain facts in re- j I gard to the government's financial j situation from which the President ; may make his own deductions. Lodge Sends Isdtcl's Members of Congress remaining in ! Washington, particularly the Repub- | licans, hope the session will be called [ two months before the end of the, current fiscal year, next June 30, so i that ample opportunity will be given • for considering appropriation bills | that failed at the last Congress. Re-| pubiican Leader Lodge, of the Sen-j ate. has sent letters to till Repub- , lican Senators requesting them to j record their address of May la with j his office, but this was said to be j without significance. White House officials said to-day if reports from Paris that the peace | treaty might be completed next j week proved accurate. President, Wilson might return home by the j middle of April. All Boy Scouts of City to Join in Parade After Rally in Grace Church Ail Roy Scout troops of the city will join "in a parade to-night to be | followed by a rally to be hed in; Grace Methodist Church, it was an- j ! nounced to-day by J. Frederick Yir- i 1 gin. Scout Executive for the city. j The scouts will form on Second! ' street at Pine. They will walk j I around the city, and arrive at the j ! Grace Church at JS o'clock. George! i Wirt of the State Department of ! Forestry, will give an illustrated lec ! ture on "Forests." During the week street demon ! strations will be given Jiy scouts as 1 to various practices of scoutcraft. It | is planned to have the scouts cook 1 their supper on the streets and give i illustrations of life in the woods. Next week the scouts will launch | I a drive for the collection of maga-1 | zines to be sent the soldiers in the) camps* and will also help the Red I . SK to collect clothing. It was! I said by Scout Executive Virgin thisi I morning that there has been a great j lac kof interest in the collection of [ magazines and the scouts aim to till j this need. / Cracked Cylinder Stops Air Trip to Pernambuco; i To Start For Dakar Soon By Associated Press London. March 18.—A telegram | received here front Paris say 3 that ! Lieutenant Fontan, who plans a j Hight from •Cape Dakar, to Pernam buco, Mrazil, left Villacoublay for i Dakar on Sunday, but was compelled I to land near Romorantln, southeast of Blois, because of a cracked cyl inder. It is said he is now in Paris and intends to start once more for Dakar in a few days. Approaching Prohibition Cause Contraction of Aldinger's Liquor Store Gontracting their business with j prohibition promised for July 1, the! ,A[dinger liquor store, 21 South I Fourth street, about April 1 will va- - cate the first floor of the three-story j building that it now occupies. The j two upper stories will continue in' use. The first floor will be occupied, ! commencing April 1, by the Dandy line shoes stores, handling the goods of Define Yungel Shoe Company of this city. sheriff without another word. The revolver taken from hini was u long barrel ,38-calibcr one. Proctor a few years ago was sent to Huntingdon Reformatory on a larceny charge. Michael Taswell, colored, on pa role from Huntingdon, pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of shoes from a repair shop conducted in Middietown by H. E. Deimler. He was given five months in jail. In courtroom No. 2, with Judge A. W. Johnson pros ding, Arthur Jackson, colored, was acquitted on a charge of carrying a revolver, al [Continued on Page 6.J WILSON MEETS PREMIERS TO RECONCILE VIEWS ON PEACE TREATY AND NATION LEAGUE GERMANS MUST DEPOSIT GOLD IN BRUSSELS BANK By Associated Press ' Brussels, March 18.—In accordance with agreement which has been reached, the German government has contracted to deposit 4..0,000,000 francs in gold in the Brussels National Bank.' There will be two payments, one of 1T5.000.000 francs within four days and the other of -75,000,000 francs within ten days. These deposits are presumably to be made in connection with the agreement recently reached at the Allied conference with the Ger mans at Brussels for the provisioning of Germany in connection with the shipping arrangements. Earlier dispatches had reported that Germany was to make large gold deposits at Brussels as part of the financing of food shipments to her. POLICE ARE FIRED ON AT LAWRENCE, MASS. Officers Stoned and Persons Clubbed During Parade of Textile Workers, at Lawrence, Mass. Lawrence, Mass., March 18. While the police were trying to break up a parade of textile workers to day shots were tired from tenement houses. Officers were stoned and persons in the crowd clubbed. Many arrests were made. It was the most violent disturbance that had occur red since the strike began six weeks ago. Strikers Picket Mills The strikers had picketed the mills during the opening hours. After they left the mill district when the gates .were closed-they gathered at the corner o£ Union and Common streets and formed a column for a parade. At the head of the line, according to City Marshal T. J. O'Brien, who observed the prepara tions through a heavy fog, were red flags, lie summoned reserves from police headquarters and or dered the crowd to disperse. The gathering held its ground and from the outskirts stones and bottles were thrown. Twenty-two Arrests Made ! Shots were fired from a house in I Elm street, hut no one was lilt. ] officers forced their way through the i crowd and arrested all occupants !of the building. Meantime, other ! policemen and strike sympathizers j mixed in a melee in which many were injured. Officers' clubs struck i down several in the crowd and two j officers were hit by stones or bot- I ties. Twenty-ttyo arrests were made, nearly all on charges of inciting to riot. When those arrested today were arraigned on charge of rioting, twen ty-one men pleaded not guilty, and bonds were set at $5OO for a hearing on March 26. ! Captain J. J. Sullivan, of the po ' life, told the court* red flags' were | waved at the bead of the parade. Outside the court room strike lead ! ers denied red flags were carried, and | said that an Italian flag must have | been mistaken for the revolutionary j banner in the fog. j Most of those arrested appeared in court with battered heads. The con- I dition of one. Salvatore Cuzvardo, was I found to be so serious that he was | removed to a hospital. | Names Suggested For Cargo Ship Should Be Suggestive of Harrisburg District A name of particular significance i to 'this district is desired for the j cargo ship that lias fallen to the ! honor of the district to christen as a result of its work in the Fourth Lib erty Loan Drive, the committee in charge of the drive to-day explained. Thus far people of the district have displayed little originality in making suggestions as to a possible i name for the freighter. ! Thus fur only three names have i sent to J. Clyde Myton, of the ' Liberty Loan Committee, who is re ceiving the suggestions. These three suggestions, "Yankee," "Sammee" and "Echo" are too stereotyped and to. general for adoption, the com mittee says. Some name that will be of par ticular significance lo tlie Dauphin .PerryrJuniata district is desired. The name should be such that the freighter will' lie readily identified ; with the district. Police Tail to Locate Dr. Wiikins, Murder Suspect; Watch For Him io Vain By Associated Press. l.ong Brunch. L. T., Mjreh 18.—All : all night search here and in New Vork, failed to disclose the where- I abouts of Dr. Walter Keene, Wiikins, | the elderly physician for whom a j warrant was issued last night charg | ing him with the murder of bis wife I at their Branch home on Feb i ruary 27. ' ~ r„ *! Europa Gets in From Marseilles With Fighters By Associated Press. !' New York, March 18.—Seventy-' | two officers and 1,588 men who 1 | fought with the tanks arrived here j j on the steamship Europa from ! Masseilles. They comprised the] Three Hundred and Sixth Brigade; Tank Corps complete, sixty-six or- j | flc-ers and 1,306 men, and a detach- j inent of six officers and 282 men ' lof the Three Hundred and Fifth j Brigade. They are assigned to l fourteen camps and barracks! j throughout the country. MINERS WANT FIVE DAYS OF SIX HOURS EACH By Associated Press, Indianapolis, March 18.-—Rec ommendations for a six-hour work day. a five-day week, an increase in wages of miners and nationalization of the coal mines of the country were made today by Frank J. Hayes, president of the United Mine Workers of America, in his address at the opening session of the policy com mittee of the organization hero today. He also recommended that miners have tlie right to or ganize and to bargain collectively with tlie Government in making wage scales in case of nationali zation of mines. Mr " ' * ? i ** •■•■' mt | "• | if* TO .PROBE STATE SCHOOL SYSTEr <6 * efe |4* Harrisburg—A joint resolution providing for the >2 T- appointment of a committee of eight to inveisti rate 4 4j pwbKc-aehool system of Pennsylvania was introdu it .$ the Senate to-day by Senator Frank E. Bafd & jK ter county. • rfi a GREAT BRITAIN T'O GET POTASH 3 c Copenhagen—Under the agreement read t Rpt A 4 terdam, a dispatch from Berlin savs. GreAt Britain \ i T X f* 4* Negotiations with other entente countr 2 x pleted. The proceeds of the. 1 ; 7 r • J® & X REED SCORES LEAGUE r ■ • 2 ' ty, 'Mo.-- 1 2 T * ■! ah add- ' 4= X tor of Missouri, criticising the • * A) T constitution. He reiterated contentions that the league' T would impair Amefttton abrogati the M'om * T Doctrine and violate the Federal Constitute >J A \ > A * J ALEXANDER OUT OF ARMY ' 1A Chicago—"Alexander has left station-en route to 'j J ijy United States;" This cablegram signed by General Perslf * Jing was received by Fred Mitchell, president of the Cubs < ■ to-day. -Alexander, premier pitcher of fjhe N ifi >nal J J League, is expected to land within t\v • ■ a j | Otiif I ■ O MURDER IRAILROA 'J 4j •. -Cumberland Valley Railroad .Detect- J X ive Walter Kettering_was shpt.tvice by 're-covers hv ,1 A tHe yards here to-day. One bullet struck him in the right A breast near the shoulder. Thi .other entered his righ* Ji X arm. He wa6 taken td'the Washington oounty hospital. \ p • * *£ Kettering noticed the men on company ground and or * A '* -$ dered them off. When he turned his back he beard ]i temfnartd, "Hands up n Both men emptied theii pis yds 1 Tr : • *4. at him. • * T , | MARRIAGE LICENSES 1 William Mr(laln and Blla K. Brown, HyHtburg. j* ©AAAA'MHf'AAAAAAAA *l*A AAAAAAAAAAA® Accord of the Powers Sought in Conference of Allied Leaders FINAL TERMS ARE DISCUSSED By Associated Press Paris, Mar. 18. Presi dent \\ ilson will hold an important conference with I 'rentiers Lloyd George, Orlan do and Clemenceau at the Paris "White House" to-day. This gathering of premiers, repre senting the supreme directing force of the Peace Conference, takes the place of the session of the Su preme Council, which hus been post poned until tomorrow to permit, the •meeting. The question to be discussed is that of securing accord between the great powers on all pliuscs of the peace treaty and its early presenta tion to the Germans. It. is expected an agreement will be reached as to the inclusion of the league of na tions as an integral part of the peace treaty, in accordance with the resolution which has been already adopted by the Peace Conference. To Reconcile Views Special interest attaches to to day's conference in view of recent reports of divergences between the powers as to the •inclusion of the league plan in the treaty. The meeting is looked upon as an earn est, decisive effort to reconcile all views into a common understanding for on early peace in a comprehen sive form, including military, naval, economic and financial terms, as [well as the League of Nations. The general 'situation as to the peace treaty has been greatly clari fied during the past twenty-four hours by discussions between the I [Continued on Page 15.]