J p ■ i ■ ' . 1 • • '.. T" • ' etniers Are Called in Conference; Military Decisions of First Importance Expected To £LL HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M * . ©g Slac-3tit>cpen&rnl. •_ LXXXVIII— NO. 70 iff PAGES a,*!i2!Ba4"" .lAKKISBURG. PA MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1919. "SSo SeSS* HOME EDITION SUPREME WAR COUNCIL TO ACT QUICKLY AS HUNGARIAN REDS SEIZE POWER AND THREATEN TO WAGE WAR ON THE ALLIES Teutons May Be Behind Alliance PREMIERS MEET TO QUELL REDS Polish Troops to Be 1 Dispatched to Danzig By Associated Press question of the bar-j rier which the Peace Conference intended to meet against the spread of Bolshevism into the former Central Powers has come sharp ly to the front as a result of the situation in Hungary, where Bolshevik elements have seized the power and declared that a state of war exists between ilunhary and the Entente powers. 1 'rentiers Culled to Confer Premiers of tlie allied states -were railed to meet in special session in Paris at 3 o'clock this afternoon and it was reported tnat important mil itary differences might be taken at the meeting: of the Supreme Council in Hungary and Poland. Premier I'lemenceau and Foreign Minister I'lchon had a long conference Sun rlay regarding Hungary and Paris newspapers indicate that action look ing to military movements was taken. Hermany May Bo Instigator Paris newspaper writers sec the situation as calling for military ac tion. They express tlie belief that Germany may be behind the move ment for the purpose of defeating the work of tlie Peace Conference. Some commentators in London sec iho Hungarian situation as partly tlie result of the delay of the Peace conference in bringing about pre liminary peace. Courier Hoes to Moscow A report through Switzerland to I'aris says that Karl Kautsky, an in lopendent Socialist, lias been sent to Moscow by Count Von Brockdorff- Kantzau, the German foreign min ster, to inquire into the question it' closer relations between Ger many and the Soviet government. Rioting is reported to have occur "ed in Budapest, but there is no re iable information regarding the cn • nte troops which have been in Hungary for several months. Two Krench divisions are at Budapest and Serbian and Rumanian troops are ivailable for use in Hungary should heir services be needed. Tlie ex romist element in Hungary is said to ie in absolute control and has been n wireless communication with 'remier Lenine at Moscow. In addi ion it has called on the workers of I'ljoining countries to rise against heir governments. Poles to Go to Danzig It is understood in Paris, accord ng to one report that the three Pol sh divisions in France will be sliip •t at once to Danzig. The allied liroposal to use Danzig as the port if debarkation for these troops was >ne of the main causes for the i leaking off by the Germans of ne gotiations with the allied commis [ Continued oil Page B.] WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME If you have a boy or husband in the Twenty-eighth or Seventy ninth Divisions or other unit of tlie Army, in the Marine Corps or the Navy, if at home or "over there," we want you to join the Home Folks Victory Association to take part in the Welcome Home Reception and Parade that will be held in the near future. Benefit to defray expenses, t'hestnut Street Auditorium. Mon day, April 28. Fill In and mail this coupon. Name Street Sue K. Long, Secretary, 1113 North Front St. Harrisburg, Pa. I THE WEATHER For lfnrrlbur£ nml vicinity: Fnlr to-nlixht nml Tuc.sdayi not ntuHi chtinicc In temperature: lowent to-niplit about 3N ilcfcrcoM. For FuMtera Peaa>lvanl i Fnlr io-nlulit and Tuesday: not much din aire in temperature; ffre*h # north%\c*t winds. Itlver The *uquchiinnn river and all MM triliiiturlcM will eontlaae to fall slowly. A Mtaue of about 5.7 feet IM Indicated for lliirrl*turic I ntvsday morning; The Russian Excursion Into Utopia "when Do we ) PUT ON THE \ MOTHER LEAVES | BABY AT HOTEL AND GOES AWAY ' j Returns After Five Hours to ' Find Police Looking For Her j After leaving her five-nionth-old ! | baby girl at the St. James' Hotel : ! at 0.30 this morning while she went to York, a woman who registered j j fheie as Mrs. Leon Huinmei, of j : Harrisburg, returning about 11 | | o'clock to claim the child, did not ■ I succeed until mid-afternoon in huv- ! \ ing tlie infant returned to her by j | the Associated Aid Society who bail I been given custody of it. j The woman came to tlie hotel and ' registered there last night. This j i morning she went out for breakfast I | tlie employes thought, and when I i she had not returned until tlie mid- | | die of the morning it was thought. I ! she hail deserted the child and tlie I i Harrisburg police department was i | notified. ! When she left the hotel this morn ' ing. she said that she expected to go to York, but did not say anything j about leaving the child alone. So, ! when she returned this morning she was notified at the hotel that the child had been turned over to the I police and in turn been given into I the hands of the Associated Aid j | Society. TO INITIATE "CEDARS" Harrisburg Forest, No. 43, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, will be organ ized to-morrow evening in the Chestnut Street Auditorium at 7.30 o'clock. Initiation ceremonies will be conducted by members of the i Lancaster Lodge of the organisa tion. A. S. PAYNE FINDS FIRST ARBUTUS OF THE SPRING Local Naturalist Who Specializes in Hepaticas Sets Up New Mark For Rivals to Shoot At A. S. Payne, 1709 Market street, is the claimant of the honor of being the first man i" Harrlsburg to fiml a perfect specimen of arbutus in the mountains north of the city. Air. Payne returned Saturday from a long toui- of the ranges and valleys north of Hockville with the bloom. • To Payne also belongs the rather di vided honor of finding the first hepu i AUSTRIA GLAD TO SEE HUNGARY JOIN BOLSHEVISTS By Associated Press. Copenhagen, March 24.—The communists of Vienna held a meeting of sympathy with the proletariat dictatorship in Hun gary on Sunday morning, accord ing to a Vienna dispatch to-day. Tlie demonstration developed into a manifestation against the En tente. There was no disturbance of tlie peace, the dispatch de clares. DRIVE TO CLOTHE REFUGEES BEGUN BY RED CROSS No Garment Too Old For! Thousands Left Desti tute by the War The Red Cross campaign for tlie col lection of clothing for the destitute sufferers in the allied countries of Eu rope, and also for Palestine, began this morning when a receiving station was opened in the Donaldson building. "Bundle up your bundle" is the slogan. The rooms formerly occupied by tlie automobile division of the State High way Department will be used through | the courtesy of George A. Shreiner, su [ Continued on Page 5.] j tica, several other local naturalists ' taking care that he did not got all I the credit by putting in rival claims. According to Mr./Payne this is ' the earliest tlie wild arbutus has I been found there. He partic.ualrly asks that southern shipped and hot house grown flowers be eliminated.' 1 Hast year he found a perfect speci ; men April 1. MIGHTY TRUCKS TAKE PLACE OF ; PLEASURE CARS Hif Auto Show Now Devoletl to Machines Designed FOP Industry Tlie immensity ol' the auto truck | activity in America is vividly illus | trated in the magnilicent exhibit at j the Overland ware-rooms, Twcnty | sixth and Dcrry streets, which open ! Ed at 10 o'clock sharp, this morn- | ing, us a continuation of the pas senger ear show which concluded Saturday evening with its record un- j • preccdented lor sales and attend- j I ance. Some of the glitter was lack- I | ing to-day when twenty-three , brands of trucks, representing the ! last word in American ingenuity, ] were steered in cautiously and ac ! c.irately, each taking its allotted po ! sition on the spacious floor. But, ' such is their important mission and ! so attractively were they painted land festooned that the gay, luxuri- 1 oi s passenger car seemed trilling to ! these who want a motor for busi j ness. The last cars to get in were Den- I by ti ucks, three of them, which ar j rived after a fast trip from Detroit. ! The manager in charge breathed a [Continned on Page 15.] 5 to 7 Years For Thugs Who Shot Highspire Man I Hammond Gregory, convicted on ! a charge of shooting it. W. Lerch, a ! liquor dealer of Highspire, with tlie , j intent to rob him, was given a peni | tentiary sentence of front live to i seven years by President Judge George Ivunkel to-day. Lawrence Brown, also convicted in this case, is being held for trial in connection with the Lacob murder in Steelton. Charles C. Stroh, who with several other men is in the river coal busi ness here, was ordered to pay $22 a week for the support of his wife and daughter, Helen. Mrs. Stroh testified on the witness stand that her husband had provided for her until a few months ago, when ho be ! gan paying attentions to another j woman. Stroh denied the charge and | accused his wife of being 100 sus ! picious. Late Saturday afternoon the jury in the libel suit against Adeline Knode acquitted her and divided the costs between her and the prose i cutrix Bertha Bretz. Czech-Slovak Army Sent to Battle MASARYK QUITS AS PRESIDENT Delay in Making Peace Given As Cause of Revolt By Associated Press Copenhagen. Mar. 24. A Czecho-Slovak army has been sent against Hungary, accord ing to an official report re ceived in Vienna and for warded here. T. G. Masaryk. the presi • dent of Czecho-Slovakia, has ! resigned, according to a re ! port received from Berlin. London, Mar. 24.—A Bol i shevik army of seventy thou sand men has crossed the ( river Dniester south of Lem ! berg, according to a Zurich dispatch received in Paris and forwarded by the Exchange j Telegraph Company. The | army is said to be command ed by Major Georgy and to | be composed mainly of Hun garians and Bulgarians who were prisoners of war in Rus sia. 5 London, Mar. 24. The Hungarian revolution and the reported alliance of the new government with the Russian | Soviet, which is considered s here as a grave menace to i Europe, has given rise to new j criticisms here of delays in : the Peace Conference pro • ceedings. The Globe re-fer | ring to the situation in Hun ! Gary, says: "That is tlie natural conse quence ol' the tlelay of the peace conference in making i peace and If the delay contin ues we will have worse conse quences still. Making this (lis cussion of the league covenant before even a preliminary pence has lieen reached simply en courages the spread or the Bol shevik: disease and gives our chief enemy opisirtuiUties for intrigues" Berlin, March 2 4.—A special dis patch to tlie Frelheit announces tlie disarmament of Entente troops at Budapest, it is unconfirmed, how ever, anil appears questionable. Recent events at Budapest were not the result of the Entente note outlining tiic new bou tdury l". tweon Hungary anil Ruiranla,, ac cording Hj the Vossisoho Zeitung, wl;ich says Hie situation Hiere v.as hopeless 1-trove t • note was iloliv j crcd. ' "f-mmunlf-ls were unemploy | ed and have been ignored by the socialist ministers, according to the I newspapers. Mass demonstrations began last ! Wednesday, when demands were j made that every employed person i received live hundred crowns for re i lief, besides payment of house rent [Continued on Page B.] Child Eats Bichloride I of Mercury Tablet Catherine Brbwnman, 1 -year-old daughter of Randolph Brownman, i 121 Dock street, is in the Harris -1 burg Hospital, as a result of swal- I lowing a bichloride of mercury tab j lets on Saturday. Her condition is I reported us being good, it is not known how she secured tlie tablet. BUYS NEW BAKERY j The West Shore Bakery ,of I.c moyne, has purchased the Wieder • recht Bakery, of South Plum street, ! Lancaster, a Lancaster paper an i nounces. Possession will be given Jon April 1. HUNDREDS SEE CONVERTS BAPTIZED IN SUSQUEHANNA Half Dozen Men and Women Immersed in Riling Cold Water by Head of Gospel Mission Hundreds of people lined the shore of the Susquehanna, river at the foot of verbeke street yesterday afternoon to witness the ceremony of baptizing a half dozen converts of the Gospel Herald Mission So ciety, which has its headquarters in the hall over the Rroad street mar kethouse. There was a sharp wind and the water was cold. One of the converts, a man, save way to his emotion in the water and MANY HOMES ARE ENDANGERED BY i MOUNTAIN FIRE Ten Thousand Acres and, Much Valuable Timber Is Burned HUNDREDS FIGHT FIRE High Wind Drives Flames Rapidly Towards Small Town Winds, snitching front the southwest to the north, will save the village of Tolnnd, which lias ltccn threatened by the big forest lire burning a j several mile-wide path in the | South mountains.- Lite latest j theory advanced as to the i>rol>- i able cause of the lire is that it I was caused by lighted matches j carelessly thrown about by arbutus hunters. Ten thousands acres of timber- j land, much valuable cut lumber and j a few outbuildings have been con-/ sumed on the South Mountains, be- j tween Mount Holly Springs and Red j Tank, about eight miles from Car- 1 lisle, in one of Hie fiercest fires Cen tral Pennsylvania has known for J years. The lire, which started on Satur- j day afternoon, is advancing rapidly | over some of the best tiniberland of j the section and tho destruction of Tolund, a thirty-house village, occu- | pied by employes of the Pbiladel- j pliia clay works, and of Gardner's | Farm, a. hamlet of six dwelling \ houses, is threatened. Fire lighters. I to the number of almost a half- j thousand, ure hard at work lo slay j the advances of tlie conflagration. | Itlazc Started Saturday Hundreds of men have fought the i flames almost continuously since j Saturday afternoon when they were first discovered. The main lire broke I out between 1 and 2 o'clock and since | then two smaller blazes have been | discovered, but thus far the damage I caused by the fires has been incon- j sequential. All day yesterday and until early . this morning an army of fire fighters J were hard at work to stop the on- ] slaughts of the blaze. At 2 o'clock i this morning it was believed to lie j under control and most of tlie j wearied men were permitted to go j J to their homes. Winds Stirs Flames This morning, however, us the ; wind freshened, the llanies not en- j tireiy extinguished, grew, and the smoldering embers again broke into j flames, and a call was again issued i for every person available to assist, in tlie work. Fire Warden J. It. Williams, of Pine Grove, lias been on the scene almost continuously di recting the men in their work and is in active charge to-day. The cause of the tire at this time has not. been definitely determined. The most plausible theory advanced l and one that is receiving general ac ceptance is that sparks from a pass ing engine on the Pennsylvania Rail road line, formerly tlie old Phila delphia and Reading line, tired the rapidly drying leaves and other ma terial which cover the tiniberland. Loss Is Heavy' Residents of the section declare that the ravages of this fire are greater than any that lias occurred within the past score of years. The estimate that ten thousand acres had been burned by 10.30 (his morning, is believed lo be quite conservative, jin this territory much valuable j timber lias been felled and much of i this lias already been consumed. .D W. Sunday, of Middlesex, was ' one of tlie heaviest losers thus far. , He has thus far been able to make | no accurate estimate of his loss. As yet none of tlie State timber j land in the section has been touched i by tlie blaze, but unless tlie Humes | are speedily checked, it is prac ' tically certain ihat some of it will | be reached within the next several i Hours. One of the smaller tires is I burning near Hunter's Run, but this i is on timberland that was burned over about five years ago and little ! "eal damage bus resulted, although a considerable area lias been cov- I ertd. Good Will Retreats in Good Order When Called to See Street Accident j Harrisburg firemen are orten call led upon to do startling tilings but [the tloo dWill Hose Company claims j the belt for things unique. This j morning a trolley car hit a delivery ! truck of th Atlantic Refining Com pany at Sixth and Harris streets. Im ! mediately some excited spectator summoned the fire laddies to lend a ! hand. Finding their chemical truck ! of no avail, the fire fighters retreat jed in good order. I Oil from the truck covered the |.street and boys with buckets saved i large quantities. a reclaimed woman found the chilly river almost too much for her strength. There was bright sunshine over head, but a touch of frost in the air clearly made the immersions less comfortable than the spectators thought they should be. The cere mony occupied the geater, part of an hour and scores of peoplex stop ped in their walk in the River Park to witness the baptisms. ■ CHEAPER FOOD IS PREDICTED ! By Associated Press. Washington, March 24.—Cheap ! er food in the near future was predicted to-day by Chairman Peek, of the Department of Com merce industrial board, as a re ' suit of a conference with food ! administration officials in New [ York. | Mr. Peek said there had been ! general misunderstanding of a recent statement by Mr. Hoover thut wheat might go to $3.50 a bushel, and added that the bil | lion-dollar grain appropriation was made by Congress to enable ; the public to get wheat prod ucts at reasonable prices, as well I as to make good the guarantee to . the producer. With wheat prices reasonable. ' Mr. Peek said, reasonable prices of other products could be ex i pected, because wheat was the barometer of the food trade. ASSESSMENTS IN LOWER PAXTON I SAID EQUITABLE Majority Commissioners Sat isfied of Fairness of He turns After Hearing j After more tliun two hours of dis j cussion of assessments in Lower Pa x ton township in the presence of John K. linger, the assessor, and a | number of property owners. County I Commissioners C. ('. (tumbler and ! 11. M. -Stine.declared they were con j vinced the valuations as fixed for I the district were fair and equitable, and passed a resolution approving them, Commissioner 11. i'. Wells I voting against it. | The special session to-day was | called as a result of the appeal from | the assessment of the lletrick farm j along the State highway. It had | been reported that this farm was j only assessed for SO,OOO, but the [Continued on Page 15.] t a ? I i ■ 3 T■ : 3 fc £ .4 T • JJ £ *f j * 3 t • 4 4 <° % ! 1" * I ft i t j T * I I ! t p * 4* *. J I PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS ON MANCHURIA J 4* 4 X 4* ■ * 4* | 4* * 4 * j Berlin—Bela Kun (or Kuhn) probably was the rr.an } X nation' T v b ' • be- | | f X |t i Trotzky * x ' J tin Germany, but instead went to Hungary. ,• J FORMER EMPEROR GOES TO SWITZERLAND . j* peror Charles, of Austri ' 4 * * MARRIAGE LICENSES rd, a dispatch 3 | iiußh, York county, nnd Plnn A. Hrcnnrman, M J. Itcd I.lon. I T-.f gy y y ■t"i | xy 11 tttttiufy" SPORTSMEN JOIN TO KEEP HUNTING GROUNDS OPEN Slate-Wide - Movement Begun to Prevent Closing of Mountain Lands I BLAME FOR BIG HOLDERS* | Would Bar Public From Ben | efits of Streams Stocked by the State I A State-wide movement to prevent I large individual landowners from I closing woods and streams that have i been stocked by the State to hunters and fishermen, has been started by the Uykens and Williams Valley Game and Fish Protective Associa tion, Lykens. In a letter mailed to-day to- sports men's associations throughout Penn sylvania, J. Allen Barrett, secretary of the upper-end club, calls atten tion to growing tendencies to close the fine hunting and ttshinft grounds adjoining game preserves and culls attention to the effort now being made by a big corporation to I close the famous Clark's Valley road I between Dauphin and Tower City | which runs through one of the best : hunting and fishing places in this section of the State. Mr. Barrett is a sportsman who , has taken an active part in the tight ito prevent the closing of this big | tract and in many other activities ■ of the big upper-end organization. Associated with him in tlte present I campaign is it. K. Butiington, an^ [Continued on Page 12.| Settlement Likely in British R. R. Dispute By Associated Press Ignition, March 2 4.—-Another long i conference was held at the Board j of Trade yesterday in an endeavor to | arrive sit a solution of the dispute of (the railway men. It failed of its object und was adjourned until to- I day. ! it is understood that the negotia- I lions are proceeding smoothly and that there is a prospect of a settle ment of the matter.